novelaction Chapter 111 Experiment
Chapter 111 Experiment
Zhou Dajiang immediately perked up and held his wife's shoulders. "Tell me, what kind of glue is it?"
Chen Xiuying, "Have you heard of Eucommia ulmoides glue?"
Zhou Dajiang asked uncertainly, "Isn't Eucommia ulmoides a traditional Chinese medicine? Does it produce glue?"
"Yes, it's documented in books, and I've also seen it in videos before. The bark, leaves, and fruit peel of Eucommia ulmoides all contain gum, especially the fruit peel, which is said to contain up to 17%."
Zhou Dajiang: "What are we waiting for? Let's go to the pharmacy and buy it!"
Chen Xiuying said with a rare sense of embarrassment, "Well, I swiped away from that video before it was finished. I only know the first half, not the second half..."
If I had known I would be traveling to ancient times, I would have at least watched that video!
Zhou Dajiang was dumbfounded, and his voice inevitably became a little anxious. "Then what you said is just for nothing! You made me so happy for nothing."
Chen Xiuying was not one to be bullied. She immediately retorted, "I said maybe, I didn't say I could definitely do it!"
Seeing his wife getting angry, Zhou Dajiang backed off and apologized immediately: "I was a little impatient just now. I apologize. So, how do we deal with that? You only know the first half, how do you solve the second half?"
"I'm just about to go find my senior brother to ask him to mix the medicine for killing aphids. Maybe he can find a way." Chen Xiuying replied.
Given her senior brother's obsession with medicinal herbs, he might actually be able to find a solution. Thinking of this, she couldn't sit still any longer. She took out her bag, filled it with the snacks that Yu Pozi had made for Sisi this morning, and headed to Yangliu Village with Qing'er's bag.
When she arrived, her master Doctor Qian and her senior brother Qian Chuanbai were both at home.
Chen Xiuying stepped forward to pay her respects to her master, and then told him the purpose of her visit today.
"My peach trees are infested with aphids. I read in a book that Sophora flavescens, Melia azedarach, and Derris can cure aphids. So, I wanted to ask my master and senior brother about the mixing ratios of these herbs. By the way, I also want my senior brother to do me a favor and see if they can extract Eucommia gum."
Doctor Qian was so angry after hearing this that he pointed at his son and Chen Xiuying and said, "Tell me, which of you two is doing your job properly?
I taught you to heal illnesses and save lives, but you two are so different: one is obsessed with making medicine, and the other is researching how to kill insects with Chinese medicine! What sin did I commit in my previous life to teach you two?
Chen Xiuying relied on the fact that her master was nice to her and whispered stubbornly, "I'm still learning theoretical knowledge. I have to learn it thoroughly before I can learn from you. Didn't you say to proceed step by step? I'm putting my pharmacology knowledge into practice and I'm not wasting my time." By the end, her voice was almost inaudible.
Qing'er couldn't help but curl the corners of her mouth when she saw her mistress like this.
Doctor Qian was scolded by his little apprentice and remembered what he had said before. He was no longer angry and pointed at Chen Xiuying from a distance, "Just make me angry. Since you sent me some delicious food, I won't bother with you."
The three herbs you mentioned can indeed kill insects, but the last two are hard to find. So use Sophora flavescens! It's readily available in the mountains and doesn't cost a fortune. As for the proportions, you two can experiment! Your senior brother has a prepared potion; you can use that to make several different batches, mixing them in varying proportions. Just control the toxicity and kill the insects.
As for picking herbs, I'll ask your senior brother to take your farmhands to the mountains later." He then took the cakes, patted his butt and left.
Since you can't change the current situation, just walk away. At least this way you won't have to see it and won't be bothered by it.
After seeing his father leave, Qian Chuanbai whispered, "It's you. If I said that, he would have jumped up and down a long time ago."
Qian Chuanbai took out a bag of Sophora flavescens from his medicine box, "Look, it's all here. There is a small scale and a medicine jar over there. You can weigh it yourself and add water to boil the medicine. I'll ask the old man for some Eucommia ulmoides peel." After saying that, he went into the old man's room.
He had little interest in the things he already knew, but he was quite interested in the Eucommia ulmoides gum that his junior sister mentioned.
So, Chen Xiuying went to her master's house, weighing and boiling the medicine, and finally mixed three potions in different proportions.
As for the efficacy of the medicine, it would have to be tested to know. She ignored her senior brother and only told him the first half of making Eucommia ulmoides glue: grinding it and soaking it in water. As for the rest, she didn't know, so she could only let him figure it out slowly on his own. She then carried the three small bamboo buckets filled with medicine and headed for Xiaomao Mountain.
Seeing this, Qing'er hurriedly reached out to take the medicine bucket from Chen Xiuying's hand. Chen Xiuying was worried that there would be another mix-up, so she turned back and took the incense that her senior brother used to count time, blew out the incense, and used the incense head to draw marks on the bamboo tubes before handing it to Qing'er.
When the two of them arrived at the mountain, Zhou Sisi and the others were just about to go down the mountain, and they ran into them head-on. Tietou and Suotou heard that Second Aunt was going to experiment with spraying pesticides on insects, and they were so excited that they immediately ran up the mountain to catch insects.
Zhou Sisi was dumbfounded, "No, I have to take them back!" As a teacher, she has responsibilities!
Chen Xiuying was at her wit's end. The two children ran so fast that she didn't even finish her words. Luckily, they were all her own children, so she said to Zhou Sisi, "You take the younger ones back first. I'll take these two home." So Zhou Sisi and Xu Wu took the others away first.
As for Chen Xiuying, she was worried when she saw the two children running up the mountain. She turned around and took the bamboo tube from Qing'er's hand, and asked her to go to Dadezi's house and ask Aunt Guo for a small ball of cotton. She needed it, and then followed them up the mountain.
By the time Qing'er brought Mianhua to find Chen Xiuying, the three of them had been standing by the tree for a long time.
Suotou: "Second Aunt, will this medicine work? I see so many aphids on that tree!"
Chen Xiuying was always confident in front of the children. "It works, but the proportion of the medicine Second Aunt wants to mix is different, so the insects will react differently to it."
She divided the cotton that Qing'er brought into three small portions, took down a branch, took out a small portion of cotton and wrapped it around the branch, and let Qing'er hold the remaining two portions.
Then she used a branch to dip the medicine in the bamboo tube, and then stuck it to the branches with aphids.
The first dose of medicine was relatively strong, and the aphids fell off immediately after being touched by it.
Then she changed the branches and tried the potion in the second and third bamboo tubes respectively.
The aphids in the second bamboo tube moved a little and then fell off. The aphids in the third bamboo tube didn't react at all, suggesting the third tube's potency was weaker.
Chen Xiuying thought about it and decided that she had tried the potion. She didn't want to waste the medicine in these bamboo tubes. There wasn't much of it anyway. She used up all the medicine in the second bamboo tube, and then used the empty bamboo tubes to mix the potion in the first and third bamboo tubes, pouring them back and forth a few times. She decided to try her best and kill as many as she could.
Tietou and Suotou thought this was very interesting, so they also took the branches that Chen Xiuying had used before, dipped them in the medicine and carried them up the tree.
After a while, the three of them used up all the medicine. Chen Xiuying made a mark under the tree and waited until tomorrow to check the effect of the insecticide.
Then, she led the two children and Qing'er down the mountain. She first stopped by her master's house to say hello, explained the experimental results, and asked her senior brother how the Eucommia ulmoides gum research was going. When she learned there were no results, she wasn't disappointed. This thing is not easy to make. If everyone could do it, it wouldn't be a big deal.
After Chen Xiuying sent her two children home, she also returned home.
As soon as she walked in, she heard her daughter telling her father, "The hose and the like are easy to fix! I have a trick, do you want to hear it?"
Zhou Dajiang immediately became excited, "What tricks?" It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice, it is a good cat.