Chapter 137 - Chapter 137: Chapter 132: Make Some Extra Money_i (1/2)

Chapter 137: Chapter 132: Make Some Extra Money_i

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Of course, the actual situation was definitely not as it seemed.

Generally, if a farmer’s rank could reach intermediate, all of his planting skills should also improve.

Even with poor skills, one could reach the proficiency level.

He was certain that among the Yan Family’s twelve superior farmers, it was very likely that some had not truly reached the level of an intermediate farmer.

It was probably that only one of their planting skills had reached the level expected of an intermediate farmer.

Otherwise, the Yan Family wouldn’t have paid a high price for his fertilizer.

After all, his current level of mixing fertilizer was merely at the standard of a high-level farmer.

“Let’s upgrade the pest control skill by one grade first,” he said.

With the rank of an intermediate farmer, Qin Niu couldn’t wait to upgrade his pest control skill.

At the moment, locusts were rampant, posing a serious threat to the local crops.

If he could find an effective method of pest control, he would not only make a tidy sum of Silver Money, but he could also become a distinguished contributor to the Black Tiger Gang.

He would also bring honor to the Insect Master Association.

It was a win-win situation.

Now, with plenty of laboring points at his disposal, he was not stingy with them.

Using termites for pest control, weeding, and loosening the soil all added laboring points for him—it was like they cost nothing at all.

Essentially, this meant that as long as his farmer rank could rise, he could easily enhance his various planting skills.

He already possessed seven planting skills.

Pest control and harvesting were both added later.

After spending 172 laboring points on the spot, his pest control skill was successfully advanced to the small achievement level.

Various pest control techniques, as if applied a thousand times, became incredibly familiar and appeared in his mind.

The feeling was truly fantastic.

His approach to dealing with locusts also saw significant improvement.

The initial strategies he could think of were limited, mainly to light luring for killing locusts or raising a flock of ducks to create a buffer zone to stop them from entering the village.

These methods of pest control were not only greatly limited but were also of a passive defensive nature.

After Qin Niu’s pest control skill improved to the small achievement level, his thought process became wider and bolder, and his technical means became more abundant.

“We need to find their source and eradicate them completely—that’s the best solution,” he thought.

He pondered the methods to exterminate the locusts in his mind.

Unfortunately, his Termite Army was not yet sizable enough; otherwise, dealing with these locusts would be like a game.

Once the locusts matured, they would soon lay a large number of eggs in the ground.

Just half a month to twenty days later, they would hatch into nymphs and then start eating plants’ tender leaves along with the adults, rapidly growing bigger.

Therefore, to eradicate them, one had to find a way to destroy the eggs and pupae.

That was the real solution.

“I’ll take some time tomorrow to look for the source, there might be more methods,” he thought.

Qin Niu packed the harvested corn into baskets, then glanced at Xiao Nui, who still lay on the ground refusing to get up.

“You lazy thing, all you do is eat without working. Wait until I fatten you up, I’ll slaughter you for meat!” he scolded.

Spurred by Qin Niu’s scolding, Xiao Nui quickly rolled over and stood up, obediently walking over to his side.

“Carry these two baskets back!” he commanded.

With the two baskets on the ox’s back, he also lifted a load on his own.

This year promised a great harvest, and he estimated that just the output from the first half of the year would not be less than nine hundred pounds.

Especially the small area where he had piled cow dung, the corn cobs were notably heavy in hand.

Each one was full of plump kernels.

This indicated that the effect of cow dung was even better than his self-made mountain fertilizer.

Qin Niu thus reevaluated the value of Xiao Niu.

Despite being lazy and eating excessively, the manure it produced daily was equally significant.