Great Power Technology.

Chapter 374 A Good Seed
On December 12th, Hailan, the experimental field of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

Xu Lei stood on the ridge in high spirits, with a wanton smile on her face, dancing and shouting to the brothers who were still struggling to harvest in front of them:
"Hurry up, you guys! Why are all the girls chirping, my mission has been completed, and I'm just waiting for you!"

Hearing her words, a boy in the rice field in front of him raised his head with a look of lovelessness, and replied helplessly:

"I said, Leilei, don't act like a good boy just because you got a bargain there. Today's lottery is the field you got the best to harvest. You don't know how to help after harvesting. Stand there like a landlord and overseer. What are you doing?" !"

Xu Lei smiled, and replied with a natural face:

"I won't collect it for you. Each person has two fields. Who made you unlucky to get to the corner? Besides, you have poor terrain, which delays your work? Food is the original sin, don't make excuses !"

"What's the difference in the terrain! Sister, I'm a terraced field, and yours is a flat field. Can it be the same? Okay, leave me alone, go and gather the harvested rice, it's time to thresh later."

"Be careful first, don't drop too many ears of rice, or you will have to pick them up one by one later, which will be extremely troublesome!"

Hearing this, Xu Lei pursed her lips disapprovingly, and said:
"Then what is there to pick up, isn't it just a few ears of rice? How heavy can it be? Our mu yield is about [-] kilograms. Is it still a little bit worse?"

The boy who was still bowing his head and trying to cut the rice straightened up slightly, and replied:

"Rigorous, rigorous, understand! This is serious agricultural science, why are you saying that it's like settling accounts. Okay, okay, you go find someone to bring the thresher over, and then go and bring the sacks over. "

"Sooner or later, I will connect this broken field into one piece, and I will harvest it with a harvester in the future!"

"I've already said that I'm going to buy a small harvester. Who told you to object? Now you know it's uncomfortable? Bah, you're going to be uncomfortable. I'm going to move the sack!"

While talking, Xu Lei briskly ran to the edge of the experimental field in the distance. Since she is not a professional rice farmer, she is not skilled in harvesting, and her face and hands were accidentally scratched by the leaves Some of the wounds were even oozing blood, but she didn't seem to care about it.

On the other hand, the mentor who was threshing at the edge of the experimental field couldn't see her indifferent appearance, and after complaining to her a few words, he forced her back to the infirmary to treat the wound, but she just went back and simply slapped her face , After disinfecting the wound with the boric acid he brought, he ran back clamorously.

Looking at her expression, the instructor couldn't say anything more. After all, he had been busy for several months. When the harvest came, he couldn't bear to let her miss this most important moment, so he just told her to cover her face with a mask , then let her run around busy.

Xu Lei first helped to carry the rice to one place, and after confirming that she really couldn't do the threshing work, she ran behind the thresher to help open the sacks, but she was not strong enough to move the sacks into sacks. In the end, I could only stand by and help weigh the bags of rice, recording the weight of each bag of rice.

"Well, this bag is not full enough. 56 kg. Next, next, fill it up, our sack is almost gone!"

"This is too much! Be careful, if it spills out later, you can pick it up yourself! 65 kilograms! Next!"

"Okay, this 60 kg, just pack it like this, see clearly?"

Every time a number was reported, Xu Lei used a marker to record a number on the bag. When the sacks under her feet were almost used up, the thresher finally stopped.

At this time, her side was already full of bales of rice.

"This one is for one mu of land, the one over there is for one mu of land, and the one in the middle is for three points, and the one farther away is for six points."

"Be more careful, if you make a mistake, I will kill you!"

Hearing her words, the little junior brother who was bending over to calculate carefully glanced at her amusedly, and then said:

"Sister Lei, don't be so fierce, or you can do the math yourself, I guarantee you won't be wrong!"

Xu Lei snorted angrily, and carefully checked the notebook in her hand. After a while, she and her younger brother got the result at the same time.

"1836 kilograms."

"How many??"

The instructor on the side came over in surprise and looked at the numbers in Xu Lei's book.

"It's not wrong, is it? Are you sure it's over [-] kilograms?"

Xu Lei nodded solemnly, and directly stuffed the notebook into the instructor's hand.

"It's definitely true! I've done the math several times!"

"Great, great, [-] kilograms. This is still a single season. Even if the water, heat and fertilizer conditions in other areas are not as good as ours, the average yield per mu can reach at least [-] kilograms."

"[-] kilograms, two crops per year, calculated as [-] kilograms of early rice, and the annual output has exceeded [-]."

"I remember that the highest annual output is only 40, right? A [-]% increase in production!"

Hearing this, all the people present had unconcealable smiles on their faces, because they knew that the significance of this number was far greater than it seemed.

The 40% increase in production this time is not the increase in the output of the previous experimental fields, but after being extended to the major rice planting areas in China, the yield per mu can be increased by 40%!

This also means that from the moment it was born, this new rice variety has reached the conditions for stepping out of the laboratory and out of the experimental field, and it can become the pillar type of rice variety in the whole of China without further improvement. !

It is precisely because of this that the difficulty of promoting new varieties of rice will be reduced by more than an order of magnitude. They have previously considered that the goal of comprehensive promotion will be achieved within three years, and it may even be ahead of schedule.

The figure of annual average output of 2000 kg has a more understandable interpretation.

This means that, according to the average grain consumption level of Chinese people, the annual output of one mu of paddy fields managed by one labor force can feed at least six people.

The days of struggling for land and food will be gone forever.

Xu Lei looked at the bulging sacks with emotion, and suddenly felt a strange feeling in her heart.

After a moment of silence, she suddenly turned around and ran towards the experimental field. Everyone didn't know what she was going to do, so they could only stay there and wait. After several minutes, she came back from the experimental field panting, holding a large Holding the collected rice that was left on the ground.

She distributed the rice bunches to everyone, and finally kept the strongest one in her own hand, and then said to the teacher:

"Boss, tomorrow, I want to take a vacation."

The next day, Xu Lei landed in Changsha by plane. The luggage she carried was very simple, except for the backpack with a change of clothes on her back, there was only a suitcase in her hand.

She took the suitcase on the subway, changed several trains, and changed to a taxi before finally arriving at the destination of her trip.

Longevity Mausoleum of Tang People in Changsha.

It was mid-afternoon, the sky was clear, and the sun shone through the tall trees in the cemetery, casting mottled shadows on the ground. Xu Lei walked among the shadows with a solemn expression, but with a faint smile .

She walked along the path until she reached the tomb that she always wanted to come to, but never dared to.

Xu Lei carefully stood aside and waited until the last group of people who came to worship left before walking towards the tomb. Her steps were slow and gentle, as if she was worried about disturbing the sleeping old man.

The first thing she saw were all kinds of "gifts" placed in front of the tomb.

Two small bowls, one with white rice and the other with rice.

A violin, the bow and the strings are intertwined, it seems that it can be played with a little force.

Two bunches of fresh seedlings with water droplets, I don't know where I got them in this season.

A pair of hard sole shoes for tap dancing.

A set of mahjong.

A whole bar of Chinese cigarettes that is bundled together.

There are several luxury car models that look expensive.

Xu Lei took a deep breath, carefully moved the gifts away to make a space, and opened her suitcase.

And inside, it was the rice plant covered with ears that she had picked up from the Hailan experimental field before.

She took the rice out of the suitcase and put it in front of the tomb. After watching it silently for a few seconds, she said in a low voice:
"Old Yuan, the Academy of Agricultural Sciences asked me to tell you that our gene-edited rice experiment was successful."

"The results are very good. The experimental field increased production by more than 60%, and it is expected that the ordinary grain field will increase production by 40%."

"You see, this is the rice I picked up from the field—a bit incomplete, because the good ones were threshed, and this is what fell."

"But you should still be able to see it? Look at the number of tillers and the number of grains per ear, which are much better than our previous varieties."

"According to this situation, we estimate that it will be fully promoted next year, and we will have preliminary results in the year after next."

Having said this, she stopped suddenly, and continued after a moment:

"Old Yuan, I remember that I was still in school when I saw you last time. At that time, I saw that you were in good spirits, but I didn't expect it. Forget it, let's not talk about this."

"Last time you told me to study hard, graduate early, and choose the direction of seed science. I originally wanted to choose it, but I was too stupid, so I chose facility agriculture in the end."

"However, protected agriculture is also very good. Our field management system is amazing, even better than what you visited in our school before."

"I still remember what you said about going under the grass to enjoy the shade. Now it seems that it is a bit difficult."

"Because our direction is not giant rice. Now it seems that the yield potential of dwarf rice is relatively large."

"However, you can't do it while enjoying the cool under the grass, but you can still do it if you have enough food."

"You may not know that there was a food crisis some time ago. As a result, we have no shortage of food from the beginning to the end."

"Hey, don't tell me, it's both yours and ours."

"Well, are we doing well?"

"I didn't dare to come to see you before, because I felt that I didn't make any achievements, so I didn't have the face to come here, and I was blinded by the bursary you gave me. Now."

Xu Lei paused for a moment, then raised her head to look at the boulder in front of her.

Two lines of gold characters are engraved on the boulder:

People are like seeds, to be a good seed.

"Now, I should be considered a good seed, right?"

(End of this chapter)