Chapter 163 The Best Medicine

There are many people with the surname Niu in this village, so Li Banfeng thought it was Niujia Village.

Later, he learned that this village was called Laobing Village, with more than 100 households and more than 500 people.

In Sandaoling, they were one of the few villages that still had food to eat.

The insect plague had reached this point, and there were still food to eat, which mainly depended on three conditions.

The first condition was to be able to grow crops.

Li Banfeng saw their farming and cultivation, a man in his forties, named Niu Jingchuan, who cultivated many special seeds. If you sow seeds in the dead of winter, you can harvest grain in the same month.

Li Banfeng was very surprised: "According to your method of planting, wouldn't you be able to produce twelve crops a year?"

"That won't work!" Niu Jingchuan shook his head and said, "This is fast planting. After planting a few times, the soil will be useless.

Fast planting usually only plants two crops, and you have to raise the soil for a year (let the land rest for a year).

The soil in Sandaoling is fertile, and you can produce at most three crops a year, and you have to raise the soil for a year next year."

Niu Jingchuan said nothing more, he entered the field and checked each crop one by one.

This farming and repair is the capital that has allowed the pancake village to persist until now.

But with the capital, you still have to be able to defend it.

The second condition is to be able to defend it, and the people of the pancake village can really defend it!

The grain harvested in autumn was directly looted by mosquitoes, so the farming and repair immediately planted quickly.

From the beginning of the grain heading, mosquitoes invaded. In the first quick planting, less than 20% of the grain was harvested.

When it came to the second quick planting, the villagers had experience. They set off smoke and sprayed pesticides. After the grain heading, the whole village, men, women, and children, watched day and night and guarded half of the grain.

After the grain was harvested, it was sent directly to the cellar. People were sent to guard the entrance of the cellar in turns. Every hour, they went down to the cellar to check once. If they saw mosquitoes, they would kill them. If they didn’t kill all the mosquitoes, people would not come out!

This is the attitude of life!

The third condition is to know how to distribute food.

The method of distributing food is very simple. Go door to door, calculate according to the population, and only give two days of food to each person. Don’t keep it at home, otherwise it will all be fed to mosquitoes.

The method is simple, but it is not so simple to implement.

If you know someone who distributes grain, you will definitely want to get more.

If one person gets more, others will also want to get more.

If there are too many people like this, someone will suffer.

If there are too many people who suffer, some people may not wait for the grain to be distributed, and will grab the grain.

The pancake village has put a lot of effort in distributing grain. Each family has one person responsible for bagging.

After the bags are filled, they are not allowed to take them away, and people are not allowed to leave the granary. All the grain is piled at the door of the granary for another person in the family to take.

If there are several people in the family, they will take several bags of rice. If there are food repairs in the family, there will be extra distribution.

These rice bags are made by the village together, and they all look the same. No one can tell which bag belongs to which family. The one that is picked is the one that belongs to that family.

There are still ways to cheat, such as making a mark on the grain.

But cheating is difficult and the consequences are serious. Once caught, you will be expelled from the village.

The grain was distributed fairly and the people were united. Logically, Laobing Village should be able to survive this insect plague.

But an accident happened a few days ago.

There was a thief outside the village who came to steal grain. He was very skilled and deceived the village guards.

It would have been fine if he had stolen some grain, but this thief was unethical and did not close the door of the granary. Mosquitoes got in and destroyed most of the grain.

Geng Xiu had no choice but to plant the third crop quickly.

There were still five days before the harvest, and the ears were about to emerge.

There were more and more mosquitoes nearby, and the effects of various poisons were getting worse and worse.

Niu Jingchuan was very nervous. He had already seen mosquitoes near the crops.

As long as a mosquito appeared, it might mean a total loss of harvest, and everything done before would be in vain.

If this crop of grain could not be kept, Laobing Village would starve, and the villagers would starve to death, or turn into evil ghosts that feed on people, and eventually become like other deserted villages.

Li Banfeng looked at the colorful smoke floating in the farmland, the mosquitoes hovering in the smoke, and listened to Niu Fuzhi telling about the village.

"These medicines were delivered by the peddler. We know the peddler, but we don't know you, so we had a fight with you at the entrance of the village.

The peddler is really our benefactor. His medicine was very effective at first, but now it is getting less and less effective, but we can't forget his kindness. He is really a good man.

You were sent by the peddler, right? Speak?

Even if you haven't studied, you have cultivation. The peddler must recognize you, right?"

Li Banfeng was stunned.

The peddler delivered medicine to Laobing Village?

Isn't the peddler a businessman?

Maybe his identity is not that simple?

Li Banfeng was still thinking, and Niu Fuzhi said beside him: "I have been talking for so long, where is your medicine? Take it out and use it quickly!"

Li Banfeng was about to take out two packs of finished medicine, but after looking at the surrounding situation, he shook his head again.

"You can't use medicine here."

"Why?" Niu Fuzhi was very puzzled.

Li Banfeng said: "I'm afraid of attracting mosquitoes."

Niu Fuzhi frowned and said: "We need medicine to kill mosquitoes, why do you make medicine to attract mosquitoes? Otherwise, you can't be said to have never been to school."

Li Banfeng frowned: "You are the one who has never been to school!"

Niu Fuzhi straightened his chest and said: "I have never been to school."

There is no way to explain to him.

Li Banfeng selected the place to put the medicine 300 meters away from the farmland. According to the instructions on the prescription, Li Banfeng asked Niu Fuzhi to prepare a big pot and some firewood.

"Do you want to boil this medicine? Are you going to feed the mosquitoes with medicine? We all use smoke."

"You haven't been to school, and you still have so many things to do. Hurry up and get the things!"

After a while, Niu Fuzhi came with a big pot on his back, and Li Banfeng added water to boil the medicine.

The water boiled, and a packet of medicine was scattered, and the smell of medicine was steaming.

Niu Fuzhi smelled the smell of medicine and joked: "You know what, this smell is quite fresh, can people take this medicine? I'll try it..."

Buzz!

Before he finished speaking, a large group of mosquitoes gathered together, some rushed directly into the soup pot, and some hovered near the pot.

Niu Fuzhi shouted: "You bird man, you really hurt people, you really attracted mosquitoes?"

Niu Fuzhi was cursing, and Niu Jingchuan, who was working in the field, laughed.

The mosquitoes that were originally wandering in the rice field were gone.

Looking in the direction of the mosquitoes' flight, they all flew towards Li Banfeng.

The mosquitoes gathered from all directions gathered together and surrounded Li Banfeng.

Li Banfeng calmly stirred the spoon in the soup pot, watching the mosquitoes fall to the ground one by one around him.

Yao Lao's medicine can attract mosquitoes and kill them.

As long as they smell a little bit of it, mosquitoes will fly over, and when they touch the mist from the medicine pot, they will die immediately.

Niu Jingchuan walked closer and said with a happy face: "This medicine is really effective!"

Niu Fuzhi was a little scared: "This medicine can kill so many mosquitoes, can it also kill people?"

To be honest, Li Banfeng was also a little worried.

But Jiuhulu reminded him: "Before leaving, Lao Yao said that this medicine would not hurt people."

Did Lao Yao say such a thing?

He should have said it.

Yao Lao would not use medicine to harm people.

There was a thick layer of mosquitoes near the medicine pot. A set of finished medicine can last for a day and a night. Li Banfeng lasted for two hours, and Niu Fuzhi asked someone to come and take over from him.

"Benefactor, let's go to my house for a meal first."

Eat again?

Didn't you just eat?

But Li Banfeng was really hungry.

This meal was the most famous pancake in Laobing Village.

After having a meal at Lao Niu's house, the hostess was a little unhappy, but she didn't say it.

After eating, Li Banfeng checked the efficacy of the medicine.

From the place where the medicine was boiled, Li Banfeng could still see a lot of mosquitoes flying towards the medicine pot more than two miles away.

After walking another three miles, there were basically no mosquitoes in this area, and the mosquitoes were attracted away by the smell of medicine.

After walking a distance, mosquitoes appeared again.

The smell of medicine could not reach here.

Li Banfeng used the skill of Baiwei Linglong to carefully distinguish the taste, and there was indeed no smell of medicine in the air.

Yao Lao's medicine is indeed powerful. Within a radius of five miles, all mosquitoes will be attracted to the vicinity of the medicine pot and be poisoned.

This is equivalent to forming a protective shield, which can protect the grain of Laobing Village.

The ears will be in five days, the harvest will be completed within three days, and the threshing and storage will take several days. Leaving them a dozen packets of medicine powder should be enough.

The Pancake Village is saved now.

Li Banfeng also wants to see if there are other villages that are still surviving, living like humans.

There must be some.

As long as they can get there earlier, perhaps one more village can survive.

He was about to give the finished medicine to Niu Fuzhi, but then he thought it was wrong.

We survived this time, but what about next time?

As long as the mosquitoes are not extinct, the Pancake Village will always struggle on the line of life and death.

There is only one way to save the Pancake Village, and that is to give them the prescription.

But the prescription is for Pan Dehai.

Wouldn't it be against Yao Lao's original intention to give it to this group of villagers?

Besides, the prescription is so toxic. If it is given to ordinary people and the prescription is changed, will they use it to do evil?

While he was thinking, Niu Fuzhi chased him: "Benefactor, where are you going? It's time for dinner, hurry to our house for dinner!"

It's time for dinner again?

Li Banfeng followed Niu Fuzhi into the house.

Niu Fuzhi's wife was counting the rice grains before putting them into the pot. She grabbed a handful more and hesitated for a moment before taking some back.

A family only had two days' worth of food. This was the third meal that Li Banfeng had eaten here. The hostess felt distressed.

"What are you doing!" Niu Fuzhi scolded his wife, "The benefactor is here, why are you so stingy!"

The wife bit her lip and put two more handfuls of rice into the pot.

Niu Fuzhi went into the cellar, fumbled for a long time, and took out a jar of wine.

"Benefactor, don't despise us. We don't have any good wine here. We brewed it ourselves.

We suffered a disaster this year, so we brewed this jar of wine. I wanted to drink it during the New Year. Benefactor, let me give you a taste today."

Li Banfeng felt a pain in his chest.

It hurt a lot.

He was not poisoned or injured. He felt guilty.

He wanted to hand over the prescription, and he wanted to hand it over now.

Niu Fuzhi poured the wine: "My benefactor, what's wrong? Why don't you drink?

If you don't like this wine, I'll go out to find good wine tomorrow. I heard that there is still wine in Mitang Village. My wife has a bracelet. I'll pawn it and exchange it for wine for you, my benefactor!"

Li Banfeng felt a pain in his heart again.

"Drink a bowl first, you try it first!" Niu Fuzhi raised the wine bowl.

Li Banfeng picked up the wine bowl and took a big sip.

The wine was mellow and spicy, and Li Banfeng felt hot all over.

Niu Fuzhi called his wife again: "Stew the pickled pork for you, my benefactor!"

The hostess couldn't help but reply: "There is only this piece left, and the kids don't want to eat it."

Niu Fuzhi said angrily: "What are you talking about? Just stew it when I tell you to!"

The hostess didn't dare to say anything.

Li Banfeng was speechless.

Niu Fuzhi took another sip of wine and said to Li Banfeng; "My benefactor, I know that your medicine is not ordinary. Can you give us two more packs?

We don't want it for free. We pay for it. We... we will give you everything we can.

My benefactor, I beg you. I kowtow to you!"

As he spoke, Niu Fuzhi was about to kneel down.

Li Banfeng took a deep breath and said, "Stand up, don't kneel!"

Niu Fuzhi said, "I'm sincere."

Li Banfeng frowned and said, "You are not allowed to kneel even if you are sincere. Lao Pan, come out and don't waste this honest man."

Niu Fuzhi was stunned and said, "What are you talking about? Who is Lao Pan?"

Li Banfeng said, "Niu Fuzhi, you are lucky and ambitious. Such a person should not kneel. This time it was Lao Pan who forced you to kneel. Don't kneel again in the future.

Lao Pan has come. Ask your wife to keep the pickled pork and don't give it to him. Find a place to hide for a while. I will talk to Mr. Pan."

PS: Pan Dehai is here.