Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 382 Pest and Disease Prevention

After two or three days, you will get a large amount of charcoal.

Uncle Fu took the blueprint Hualei had drawn and went out. Hualei continued to lie down in her study.

In just two weeks, the charcoal stove had dried and was ready for use, and the trees on the North Mountain had been cleared. I picked some wood suitable for making charcoal and started making charcoal.

However, Hua Lei did not want to waste the first half of the wood firepower, so he first sent the wood to the workshops that needed to be fired. When the wood was burned to a certain degree, he took it out and sealed it in the furnace for making charcoal, and it would be ready by the next afternoon.

The wood that was not suitable for making charcoal was directly burned as firewood, and the wood that was suitable for making charcoal was all made into charcoal. The charcoal of relatively poor quality was sent to Qingyun Lane, Baihua Manor, and Yuanying Manor for use in the workshops, while the best charcoal was temporarily placed in the warehouse, ready to be stored for their own use in winter.

However, because Uncle Fu was diligent and thought that making charcoal from the wood was a no-cost business, he brought a large number of people to the ownerless mountains to regularly collect wood.

When the weather got a little colder, there was a lot of high-quality charcoal in the warehouse. Hualei couldn't use it all for her own use, so she sold a large number of them secretly and received a lot of money.

Hualei was spending her days leisurely in the study. Uncle Zhao came to discuss something with Hualei and said that he felt that there were not many peaches, pears and other fruits in Baihua Farm this year. On the one hand, it might be because the heavy rain this year knocked down a lot of small fruits, and on the other hand, it might be because there were too few bees and natural pollination was not good enough, so he wanted to expand the number of bees raised.

There were originally two boxes of beehives in Baihua Manor, which were left by the previous owner. Hualei had not taken care of them for such a long time, so there are still only two boxes of beehives.

Now, when Uncle Zhao said he wanted to increase the number of bees he raised, he had no objection. Besides, he had planted a hillside of peonies on his barren mountain, so he might need bees, too. So, he readily agreed.

Anyway, Uncle Zhao would do all these things, and she only needed to talk. She found that the people under her were very good. There was no need to say anything about Uncle Fu.

Uncle Zhao is very hardworking and willing to use his brain. Although he is very busy taking care of the fruit trees in Baihua Manor, he is very good at carpentry. In his spare time, he helps make various wooden and bamboo products. Many objects in the manor are made by him. He is also willing to teach people in the manor to make these objects, which has created a lot of wealth for Hualei.

Uncle Zheng, although he is not very good at manual work and doesn't talk much, is very serious about his work. He has been taking care of the corn planting in Baihua Village with all his heart.

When Hualei was busy at the Agriculture Bureau and couldn't take care of her own cornfield, Uncle Zheng automatically followed Hualei's footsteps and took care of the corn in Baihua Farm without Hualei's reminder.

When Hualei was draining the corn fields in Guantian to prevent waterlogging, although his own corn fields were not flooded, Uncle Zheng also took a group of people to dig ditches and clear the drainage ditches in the corn fields.

While Hualei was straightening up the fallen corn plants in the official field, Uncle Zheng also took a group of people to his own corn field to check if there were any fallen corn plants.

While Hualei was applying fertilizer to Guantian's corn field to prevent pests and diseases, Uncle Zheng also ordered a boatload of chicken and duck manure to apply fertilizer to his own corn field to prevent pests and diseases.

It now seems that the yield per mu of corn planted in this year's farm should be better than last year, and will also grow better than the corn in the official fields. Hualei is very satisfied.

The other people in the village were also very conscientious. After Hua Lei carefully reviewed it, she decided to increase the monthly salary for those who performed well.

Hualei has never been a stingy person, and her past life experience has taught her that as a qualified boss, no matter how nice the words she says to her subordinates are, they are not as good as substantial rewards. Money is the best way to boost people's enthusiasm.

Therefore, Hualei compiled a list of names and gave them extra monthly salaries. The reasons for the extra monthly salaries were also public, because they had done very well in certain aspects or things.

In this way, those who didn't get the extra monthly salary can be convinced, and at the same time, they can know where they didn't do well and have a direction to work hard. A good boss never chases employees from behind, but walks in front and leads them.

In addition to the monthly salary, Hualei asked Yuanying Manor to kill a few pigs, as well as some chickens, ducks and geese, and distributed them to the people in the manor to take home. This was considered as high temperature compensation.

In this way, the people in the several villages became more active in their work, and the cooperation between them was also strengthened. The village showed a new and prosperous atmosphere.

Of course, even though those people who helped her to open up the land for free were not her own, Hualei was not stingy and killed a few pigs, as well as a lot of chickens, ducks and fish. She cooked a few big pots of braised pork and various dishes to improve their meals. She herself stayed at home and continued to rest.

However, a few days later, Uncle Miao from Huaying Village came to look for Hualei and said that the cotton planted in the village had a very serious aphid disease. In fact, in early May, after the cotton seedlings emerged from the soil, a small number of cotton plants with aphid disease were found.

At that time, the diseased plants were removed from the fields. However, recently, with the change in the temperature environment of the cotton fields, the cotton aphids have reproduced very quickly. Many cotton plants have developed cotton aphid disease.

There was no other choice, so Hualei hurried to the cotton field in Huaying Village to check. As expected, she saw that the back of the cotton leaves or the tender heads of many cotton plants were crowded with aphids, which made Hualei feel a little scared.

Many of the affected leaves have curled up to the back, and there is honeydew excreted by aphids on the leaf surface. This honeydew often hinders the normal breathing of cotton, breeds a lot of mold, affects photosynthesis, and interferes with the normal metabolism of cotton.

When cotton is damaged, many problems will occur. The plants will become shorter, the leaves will become smaller, the number of leaves will decrease, the buds will be delayed, and the number of buds and bolls will decrease, directly reducing the yield of cotton.

So, Hualei immediately asked someone to go to the pond and riverbank to pick willow leaves to make willow leaf medicine. In just half a day, a lot of willow leaves were collected on the farm. According to the ratio of one to five, all the willow leaves were soaked for one night.

Filter out the willow leaves and spray the soaked willow leaf juice directly onto the cotton plants.