It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

Chapter 339

The chat that night ended in a failed gossip. Jiang He not only withstood Jiang Ying's tickling and torture, but also successfully shifted the topic to Jiang Yuan and Jiang Ying.

Everyone laughed, but most of the people present were of similar age and could get into trouble at any time, so they quickly dispersed and went home.

After the wheat harvest holiday, people returned to the city and went up the mountain, and the whole Dongshan Village became a little deserted again.

After a few days, Jiang Yan's No. 1 plant finally produced two small flowers in the early morning.

It should be due to precocious malnutrition. The flower buds are very small, and the flowers that bloom are also small and exquisite bell-shaped. The petals are milky white and the center of the flower is tender yellow.

Jiang Yan looked at the two seedlings again and again, but still couldn't match the flower shape with the crop variety.

When I went to water the field again in the evening, the two small flowers had already closed. Looking through the cracks, the white petals seemed to have turned pink.

Jiang Yan observed for another day and found that the flowers opened in the morning, deepened in color at noon, closed in the afternoon, and showed signs of shrinkage.

This flowering process... is somewhat familiar.

Jiang Yan thought and thought, and the only thing that popped up in his mind was "golden grassland"... the dandelions that appeared randomly, and the unmistakable dandelions.

From then on, flowers began to bloom in Plot A one after another. Because the flowers bloomed at different times, white, pink and purple all appeared, adding some bright colors to the heavy land.

The elders of Dongshan Village also developed a desire for entertainment and would stop to watch for a while in the morning and evening.

Along with the flowers bursting out, there are also aphids dotted on the plants.

These aphids appeared in the seedling stage of No. 1. Jiang Yan was particularly worried that it would have a serious impact on its subsequent growth. But before she could find a solution, a few days later, as the weather warmed up, the sudden appearance of the pests slowly disappeared.

But now the weather is obviously hotter... Jiang Yan tried the method she had thought of earlier.

She picked a plant on the edge and sprinkled water on its surface, but before the pests were effectively reduced, the plant could not withstand the phenomenon of slightly yellowing and curling leaves.

If flooding doesn’t work, use fumigation.

She lit a small branch and placed it under the leaf. A thin wisp of smoke slowly spread out and hit the back of the leaf.

When I looked again after a few hours, the leaves that had been smoked had wilted and looked like they were about to fall off... This was no longer feasible.

Then Jiang Yan endured the discomfort and crushed the insects with his hands. Sometimes he couldn't control the strength of his fingers, and the leaves were broken or torn off, but the number of insects did decrease.

Jiang Yan: ...Since we haven't come up with any targeted means of killing insects, we can only continue to use the old method.

Dongshan Village has two old methods: one is to spray wood ash water, which is not only a universal pesticide in the village, but also a universal remedy for treating diseases. As long as the problem is difficult to solve, it must be sprayed as a last resort; the second is the manual method of catching insects, which depends entirely on eyesight and perseverance.

Jiang Yan immediately made a small grass brush, swept it over the leaves one by one, and then coated them with wood ash water. After a few days, the number of aphids on the leaves had indeed decreased significantly.

The old method that has been passed down from generation to generation is indeed unique.

After removing the aphids, weeds sprouted out of the ground again.

Jiang Yan was exhausted both physically and mentally. For the first time, she thought of hiring someone to help her farm for a few days. After all, she had quite a bit of savings.

But after struggling for a few moments, he gave up. It was not safe to invite outsiders in now. Dongshan Village was a group of old and weak people, not to mention that they had to defend more than just Dongshan Village.