Through the troubled times and famine, I just want to farm peacefully

Yun Mo suddenly thought of Lin Yinan’s treasure space and her efficiency in taking over the Lu family’s granary in Nanzhou Prefecture.

He looked at her suspiciously, "Anan, have you collected the silver treasures that we haven't moved yet in Luochu City?"

Lin Yinan did not answer, nor did he even raise his head, as if he did not hear anything and was concentrating on recording.

Yun Mo retracted his gaze, pinched his chin and said nonchalantly, "Even if I go back now, I guess there will be nothing left. What a pity. That golden throne should be made of pure gold."

"No rush, let's gain a foothold in Longtan first." Lin Yinan said.

"Well, we went to Yongqing City and learned that there are many bandit dens of all sizes in the south."

Speaking of the bandit's lair, Yun Mo's eyes flickered and his face was full of excitement.

In the past at Yanmen Pass, leading troops to rob bandit dens was the fastest way to make money.

Lin Yinan's lips curled up into a smile, Yun Mo's idea coincided with hers.

After the meeting that night, everyone went to the fields except the secret guards on security patrols and the young children.

With the clan leader and Lin Shuo watching over him, Lin Yinan felt relieved and stopped running to the fields.

That morning, Lin Yinan, who had gotten up late, was sitting in the yard outside the dining hall eating breakfast when he heard a group of people coming noisily from outside the county government office.

"Doctor Lu, Doctor Lin, please come out and take a look!" some villagers shouted as they walked.

"The man working in the fields was bitten by a leech and his legs were bleeding profusely."

His tone was full of panic.

Lin Yinan finished the food in his bowl in two bites and stood up. He saw several villagers with their trouser legs rolled up, with blood oozing from several cuts on their legs.

"Why was he bitten so badly?"

A villager raised his hand to show her that his fingers and the back of his hand were also bleeding. "The field we dug this morning seemed to have been pierced by a leech nest. There were leeches swimming around on it, and several of their legs got stuck to it as soon as we dug into it."

"It's so scary! We've never seen it in our fields." Another villager wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"That's right. This thing has two suction cups. The more you pull it, the tighter it sticks. Fortunately, Ding Gui and Chen San were there. They burned them with fire and finally burned them off."

Doctor Lu came out with a medicine box and helped them deal with the leech bites.

"You have to wash the wound first." Doctor Lu frowned.

A villager was about to go to the well to fetch water, and Lin Yinan hurriedly said, "You have to use wine to clean the wound to avoid infection."

The villager turned and went to the storehouse to get the wine.

Just as Doctor Lu finished applying medicine to a few people, the clan leader came in with six villagers.

"Anan, do you have any idea to deal with the blood-sucking creatures in the field?" The tribe leader pointed at the six people beside him and said, "Look, their legs are bitten badly."

The six people who came back were just like the previous ones, with their legs and hands bitten by leeches and bleeding profusely.

"Have you asked Ding Gui and Chen San how they handled the situation before?" Lin Yinan asked.

The clan leader frowned and said, "They said to roll up your trouser legs, put on shoes and socks and go to the fields."

Everyone was wearing coarse linen clothes, and the leeches' suction cups were so powerful that I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to have any effect on them.

"I'll go back and look through some books." Lin Yinan looked at Doctor Lu and asked, "Doctor Lu, is there any way to get rid of the parasites?"

Doctor Lu kept moving his hands, thinking for a while and then said, "Yes, there is, but there are too many herbs needed, and we don't have them here."

"Chief, please let them plant the washed seedlings and don't pull them away yet. I will go back and see if there is any solution."

After saying this, Lin Yinan walked towards the backyard with her bulging belly.

After returning to the room, Lin Yinan sat at the desk and took out several books on modern agricultural planting techniques from the space and started reading.

Before Qianxia walked in, she heard Lin Yinan slam his hand on the table in the room. She thought something had happened and hurriedly walked into the room.

"Girl, it's time to eat."

Hearing this, Lin Yinan suddenly stood up from the chair, turned back and said to her with excitement, "Qianxia, ​​I found a way."

"What method?" Qianxia asked her as she brought out the food in the lunch box.

"lime."

When she saw the book mentioning the use of lime, her mind flashed back to her childhood when her uncle would always sprinkle lime on the fields when it was almost time to plant rice seedlings. After that, many dead earthworms as thick as fingers would float in the fields.

She also found several other methods, such as applying wind oil or cooling oil, or garlic juice on the legs, which was effective in repelling leeches.

However, the preparation methods of Fengyoujing and Qingliangyou are complicated, and they are unable to make them for the time being.

Garlic juice is not practical either. First, the dosage required is large, and second, the effect is limited.

Chinatsu handed her the bowl of chicken soup and asked, "Will lime work? Will it hurt the seedlings?"

"No, if you use lime water to spray, leeches and other insects will have their acid-base balance on their bodies destroyed by the lime water, and they will die quickly. At the same time, the lime water can also sterilize and whiten the fields."

"In addition, spreading lime in rice fields can effectively adjust the pH value of the soil, improve soil fertility and promote rice growth."

Lin Yinan said so much, but Qianxia only understood that lime can kill leeches that suck human blood. As for fertility, she only had a vague understanding.

This is really a way to kill two birds with one stone. After finding the solution, Lin Yinan was in a very good mood. He picked up the soup in the bowl and drank it all.

"Hey, why did they kill the chicken?" After drinking it, she realized that it was chicken soup.

Qianxia covered her mouth with a smile and picked up the external line next to her and started working, "There are a few chickens at the farm that refuse to eat. Madam was afraid that they would lose weight, so she killed them and made a pot of chicken soup for the weak people in the village to nourish."

"Have you eaten?" Lin Yinan picked up a chicken leg and started chewing it.

"I have already eaten."

Hearing that she had eaten, Lin Yinan said, "Qianxia, ​​can you help me ask my brother how much lime is left from the last time we brought back?"

"Well, I'll go right away."

Chinatsu put down the half-sewn clothes in her hand, stood up neatly and walked out.

After a while, Lin Yiheng, Lin Yizhang and Lin Yuanzhi followed Qianxia into the yard where Lin Yinan lived.

Qianxia led them to sit in the corridor, and after a while Lin Yinan came out after finishing his meal.

"Anan, you said that spreading lime on the fields will be effective against blood-sucking worms?" Lin Yizhang asked anxiously. He was also bitten two or three times by the worms in the morning.

"can!"

Hearing Lin Yinan's affirmative answer, Lin Yiheng stood up excitedly and asked, "How much should be sown in a paddy field?"

"Is there a lot of lime in stock?"

There were too many fields, and Lin Yinan was a little worried that they might not be enough.

Lin Yuanzhi said, "Anan, don't worry! Liu Yu found a limestone site on the mountain not long ago. We can get as much as you want."

Lin Yinan handed Lin Yiheng the piece of paper with the calculation of the lime ratio required for each acre of land.

"In that case, let's send someone to spread it now."

There were too many leeches in the fields. After planting and pulling out the seedlings in the morning, everyone stopped working. Now, after lunch, they were sitting in the corridor of the county government office in groups of three or four chatting.

Lin Yuanzhi came out and told the clan leader and village chief who were sitting in the lobby about the method of killing leeches. Upon hearing this, the villagers nearby stood up one after another, put on their straw hats and went to the shed where construction materials were stored to move lime without saying a word.