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Chapter 143 0142 Top-Quality Lettuce! (Subscription Requested)

"Top-quality vegetables?"

"You've cultivated results so quickly?"

Chen Jue was stunned, noticing that the old farmer was holding up 'lettuce,' a very common ingredient in the catering industry!

You should know that after recruiting the [Breeding Expert], Chen Jue instructed the big-nosed old farmer to develop several directional cultivation tasks.

Besides the most important breeding idea of 'desert soybeans,' it had to be put on hold due to the temporary lack of excellent drought-resistant soybeans as a hybrid parent.

A 'hydroponic vegetable' that could be launched on a large scale to curb rising vegetable prices and suitable for large-scale industrial planting became one of the breeding directions Chen Jue decided on.

After all, there are many types of vegetables suitable for hydroponics, such as Shanghai greens, cabbage, Chinese cabbage, celery, garlic, water spinach, etc., and there are already mature commercial cases on the market.

Moreover, hydroponic vegetables do not have high requirements for soil or planting land; they only need a qualified nutrient solution and sufficient light to grow quickly, which is very suitable for Chen Jue's earliest envisioned high-tech 'vegetable factory' for large-scale cultivation.

Just imagine, if rapid infrastructure construction + hydroponic vegetables are combined, how much energy would be unleashed?

However, he never expected that the big-nosed old farmer would choose lettuce as the object of his efforts after tinkering in the underground base for so long.

This was completely beyond Chen Jue's expectations!

Taking the bright green lettuce and looking at it carefully, a line of MC subtitles began to appear.

[Lettuce (New Unnamed Variety): Lactuca sativa var. crispa of the Asteraceae family, an excellent lettuce produced by sexual hybridization, with excellent raw taste and vigorous vitality. (Note: Steve can immediately restore Red Heart × 1 after eating)]

"Unnamed variety?"

Chen Jue muttered upon seeing this.

Taking a closer look at the pixel-style lettuce in his hand, he found that its shape was indeed very different from the common 'loose-leaf lettuce' sold on the market.

In addition to the large size and weight of the entire plant,

its leaves are very lush, looking like a heavy layer of wax from a distance, the stems are upright and white, without any yellowing creases, and the leaves are emerald green and bright, with MC dewdrops, bringing a bit of crystal clear strong visual impact.

Judging from the nearly perfect single-plant appearance alone, this new variety of lettuce is no less inferior than the jade cabbage carved from jade material in Chen Jue's office!

At this time, the big-nosed old farmer slowly explained: "This new variety of lettuce is the best variety I have bred using cross-sexual hybridization technology according to your requirements, boss. Its parents come from four types of lettuce: romaine lettuce, head lettuce, butter lettuce, and loose-leaf lettuce. It not only takes into account the advantages of these four types of lettuce, but also completely eliminates the original bitter taste of lettuce. Believe it or not, try it!"

Chen Jue was immediately interested when he heard this: "Lettuce without a bitter taste?"

You should know that compared to common domestic seasonal vegetables such as Shanghai greens and Chinese cabbage, lettuce is not common on domestic family tables.

Because lettuce has a crisp taste and is famous for being eaten raw, it will produce an unpalatable bitter taste once heated and stir-fried.

From the point of bitterness alone, it clashes with the daily fried, boiled, steamed, and stewed flavors of Chinese hot dishes.

In addition, lettuce is also a foreign product in China, a foreign vegetable.

It originated in the Mediterranean region of Europe, grows in a cool environment, and is not resistant to cold or heat.

It only began to be slowly introduced into China with the rise of the Age of Discovery hundreds of years ago, and it was first cultivated more in the southeast coastal areas, especially in Guangdong and Guangxi.

For example, oyster sauce lettuce in Cantonese cuisine is a classic Chinese lettuce dish.

Although lettuce is inherently not very compatible with Chinese food, in fact, in the entire catering industry at home and abroad, lettuce is a top vegetable with a very large consumption.

Western fast food hamburgers, salads, fried chicken shops, barbecue shops, including cold dish displays in Chinese restaurants, cannot do without lettuce.

Such a wide range of application scenarios has also made lettuce one of the crops with the largest hydroponic vegetable planting area in the world.

Chen Jue tried fitness and weightlifting in college and ate light meals and vegetable salads for a long time to control body fat, which contained a lot of chopped lettuce.

If a large amount of sweet and greasy salad dressing is not squeezed on to suppress it, it is difficult to cover up the bitter taste of lettuce.

So when he heard that this new variety of lettuce cultivated by MC technology could optimize the biggest defect of lettuce, Chen Jue's eyes naturally filled with strong anticipation.

Picking up the bright green lettuce with dewdrops, he stuffed it into his mouth, and with a gentle chew, a clear and sweet taste of lettuce naturally bloomed in his mouth.

"Such a big one, it looks like overripe old lettuce, but it really doesn't have any bitter taste!" Chen Jue's eyes widened, and the more he chewed, the more addicted he became.

The crisp taste, mixed with a faint sweetness, made him feel like he was not eating vegetables, but tasting some newly launched fruit.

Crunching and chewing, in a few strokes, half of this large lettuce, which weighed at least 2 kilograms, went into Chen Jue's stomach.

You should know that the weight of a single lettuce is about 250 ~ 500 grams, and although the late-maturing varieties with a longer growing period can reach more than 1000 grams, they must taste very bitter, and it is impossible to have this incredible sweetness.

"Cool!"

"Even if this lettuce is used as a vegetable salad and eaten dry, the flavor is top-notch!"

"Is this the power of top-quality agricultural products?"

Chen Jue thought of the top-quality seeds on the [Breeding Expert] transaction bar that could only be exchanged for emeralds, and his heart began to heat up.

However, before he finished eating the lettuce in front of him, Chen Jue suddenly thought of a brand new way to eat it.

He took out a piece of hot MC [cooked chicken] from his backpack and tore it into small pieces by hand.

Then he tore off a leaf of this new variety of lettuce and held it in his palm, rolled the fragrant hot chicken into the lettuce leaf, and sent it to his mouth.

With just a gentle bite, Chen Jue felt that the taste buds on his tongue were almost overwhelmed by this mixed delicious impact!

The fresh, hot juice flowing from the chicken, harmonized by the lettuce, burst out with an amazing flavor of 1+1 \u003e 2.

The tender and sweet lettuce taste, paired with this C roasted chicken, is like a match made in heaven.

It directly made up for the last 0.1 shortcoming of 9.9 points!

"Good... delicious!"

"Too damn delicious!"

"The ancestor who invented the lettuce wrap meat eating method is definitely a talent!" Chen Jue couldn't help but admire.

The mixed stimulation of one cold and one hot is more fascinating than simply eating MC roast chicken.

In a short while, a whole roast chicken and the remaining half of the lettuce leaves were wiped out by Chen Jue.

After eating more than 3 kilograms of food before and after, Chen Jue's belly was almost bursting!

He moved a grand master chair made of golden nanmu and lay down, facing the ceiling of the underground base, and after hiccuping a satisfied burp.

Chen Jue looked at the large lettuce that the big-nosed old farmer handed over again, and immediately realized that this thing might become a new side dish in Chen Ji's restaurant that perfectly matches the secret roast chicken.

"Let's name it 'Emerald Lettuce'!"

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