[Pride and Prejudice] Rich Lady

"This is so good!" said Elizabeth. "Nate's wrinkled peas dominated the dinner table, and people loved the juicy, delicious beans!"

"Why don't we spread some of these peas in the garden? It's so popular," she suggested.

Mr. Bennet was quite concerned about the crops on the farm. He shook his head and said with a smile: "Dear Lizzie, do you know how much land we have on our farm for peas? I admit that the beloved wrinkled peas Tastier, but less suitable for farms, the old field pea varieties are more suitable for mass production - dried field peas can be kept for almost indefinite time. This way we have plenty of time to trade them out. If you like That succulent variety, we can ask Mrs. Bennet to take a little more space in the garden garden."

When Mrs. Bennet heard this, she hurriedly interjected and said, "Nate's peas are juicy and delicious, but the vegetable garden peas are of nobler origin. It is a good thing that fascinated the French emperor! I think the vegetable garden peas are more suitable for our garden. Dear Lizzie, if you must have those wrinkled beans, I can ask Mrs. Georgia to get some back from the store in Meryton."

The breakfast at the Bennet’s family, because of a dish of boiled beans, triggered a heated discussion on pea varieties: Mr. Bennet taught earnestly, Mrs. Bennet was stubborn, and Elizabeth mostly considered popular new varieties.

Even Jane and Kitty got in on the act, Jane favoring soft boiled garden peas and Kitty favoring a puree of wrinkled peas.

Although it goes on and on, in fact, since the pea was put on the table of Europeans in the Middle Ages, only three large varieties of pea have been cultivated for a long time (of course, there will be many small varieties with little difference) : The so-called field pea is the oldest variety, it is as hard as a stone after drying, and it tastes bland but will not go bad. It has been a fixed dish on people's table for a long time; later, vegetable garden pea was cultivated Come out and blow the extravagant wind all over France, Louis XIV loved this green tender pea crazily, so much that even the king's mistress wrote a letter to complain about it, and it once became a delicacy for the upper-class diners-these royal anecdotes It has spread so far that even Mrs. Bennet has heard of it, so she insists that garden peas are 'nobly born'; and in recent decades, Mr. Knight, owner of Downton Castle in Herefordshire, has only grown from garden peas Peas with wrinkled seeds were picked out and crossed to breed a "Nate's wrinkled pea". This kind of Nate pea is more tender and juicy. People moved into their vegetable gardens.

In fact, Elizabeth had never paid attention to the president of the London Horticultural Society who bred wrinkled peas, nor was she interested in the pea soup and young pods that often appeared on the table.It wasn't until Miss Daisy, who loved to enjoy herself, mentioned "Nate's wrinkled peas" by chance, that Elizabeth, who had been abused by the father of genetics countless times in the middle school biology class in her previous life, looked sideways: Why is it Nate's wrinkled peas? Mendel's wrinkled peas?

Purple flowers, white flowers, tall stems, short stems, green wrinkled grains, and yellow round grains were once difficult exams for Elisa in her previous life. But I deliberately chose the major of horticulture-"General Genetics" became a professional basic course, and then I worked hard to study it.The name of Mr. Gregor Mendel was thus firmly etched in her mind.

However, after inquiring about Mr. Thomas Knight, Elizabeth put aside her doubts: thank God, Mr. Knight is not a time and space stray like herself, but just an ordinary, wealthy manor owner who loves plant science.

Because the time spent on this trivial matter was not in vain, Elizabeth, who had carefully recalled her professional knowledge, suddenly realized that the courtyard and back garden belonged to women in this era, and gardening flowers and plants is an elegant thing, and she can apply what she has learned , Trying to cultivate and harvest good seeds - her purpose is not to prove scientific laws, but just to obtain more and better agricultural products utilitarianly than others.

This made things much simpler, and Elizabeth stood on the shoulders of giants, ready to quietly apply what she had learned: heterosis can manifest itself in economically meaningful traits, and this economic advantage has been proved to be most obvious in the offspring.The Bennet family's farm can use only the first generation of hybrids, and the price paid is only to take out a small piece of land every year to cultivate the next year's seeds.

This also made Elizabeth suddenly realize that the importance of seeds is beyond doubt.

Therefore, in Elizabeth's suitcase, there was a pack of rapeseed from the lady of Taolisi College. Lincolnshire has the largest rapeseed production area in England, and the variety is better than other places.Elizabeth falsely professes to love the bright yellow flowers of rapeseed, and under the other eyes of the ladies, gets good seed from Miss Maria from Lincolnshire—ladies and ladies mostly never cared about the produce on the farm, Miss Maria It was only mentioned briefly in the letters home, and her mother sent a large package of good seeds with the letter.Elizabeth returned Miss Maria with a piece of lace she had woven herself, which was enough for the lady to like.

Elizabeth learned that rapeseeds in Lincolnshire rarely spread to other places, because the farmers there unite to firmly control the dominance of oilseed crops in Britain: the annual market price of bulk rapeseed depends on Lincolnshire.She had no intention of doing bad business, and the farm at Longbourne was too small to be worth mentioning compared with the great enclosures of Lincolnshire.This bag of rapeseed was just Elizabeth's whim, and it was a trivial matter for the two ladies.

Peas were still being talked about in the Bennets' dining room.

"Noble birth?" Mr. Bennet sneered at his wife's words. "The grandson of the great French king was sent to the guillotine by the citizens. People didn't treat him a little bit leniently because of the king's nobility. The king himself is like this, let alone the dining table." How about a dish?"

Mr. Bennet is categorical: "The nobility of food lies in its taste, nutrition and value, not whose table it is on!"

"Of course not only that, my dear Mr. Bennet, why do you think so? Don't size and color matter?" Mrs. Bennet exclaimed: "Even if you, my good sir, like big heads and color red There are more tomatoes than small yellow tomatoes. And we can't deny that the food on the king's table must be carefully selected, no matter in taste or appearance, so according to your argument, the food on the king's table is indeed more noble!"

Elizabeth was amazed to see Mrs. Bennet, who abruptly won the debate with a strange way of thinking, and once again felt the change in the family: even Mrs. Bennet's brain can turn around, what a great improvement.

Even though this nondescript remark can be regarded as sophistry, it still managed to choke Mr. Bennet.

The girls all laughed. Usually, Dad always teases Mom with words, and Mom doesn't talk back often.

Jane said cheerfully, "Can't we divide the vegetable garden into two, and half grow what Mom likes, and the other half grow what Lizzie likes to eat?"

Elizabeth's original intention was not this, she just used this topic to raise it: "We can ask the seed merchants to come, maybe they have 'noble and delicious' varieties in their hands?"

After breakfast, Mr. Bennet invited his second daughter to the study again.

In the study, Elizabeth was still trying to convince her father: "The choice of crops on the farm is very important, but isn't the seed of the crop equally important? Good seeds can increase the yield and the products obtained will be better. Why is Dad unwilling to try new and better ones?" What about the breed?"

Mr. Bennet had his reasons. He said: "My little Lizzie, you can think of these, which shows that you have indeed increased your knowledge and mind. But you have overlooked the most important point: God can't guarantee that we bought Seeds can indeed produce delicious and high-yield crops as the merchants boast. If you are cheated, this season or even a whole year of land will be wasted!"

"So, we would rather sow our own seeds, at least it is guaranteed." Mr. Bennet comforted his daughter again: "I very much support your attempt. New advanced methods can be applied to our farm; but new seeds, only Limited to you. Mother's vegetable garden. At most we can get some varieties from the neighbors that don't have it, but Lizzie, you have to be prepared, there will definitely not be many, even the small area near the stables of the farm is not enough to grow."

Elizabeth once again realized Longborn's isolation and old-fashionedness. She wanted to continue, but she knew that Mr. Bennet had made up his mind: the farm was related to the income of the Bennet family for a whole year, and it was reasonable for his father not to take risks. among.

Even though Elizabeth repeatedly talked about the benefits of good breeds, Mr. Bennet would not be tempted.

That being the case, Elizabeth had to suspend the subject, and tell her father something else: "Mr. Jared will be in Meryton over Easter, and I think papa may agree to his visit to Longbourne?"

"Of course!" Mr. Bennet was very happy. He definitely wanted to meet the agent. If he couldn't personally affirm the character of the agent, Mr. Bennet could never rest assured.

Therefore, Elizabeth decided to go back to her room and write back to Mr. Jared, telling him the news, so that the two parties could agree on a time.

Mr. Bennet can enjoy the quiet time in the study again. Compared with the restlessness of last night, he feels in a good mood at this time: he doesn't know that Mr. Jared is not just here for a social visit, His good daughter, there are more things waiting for him.

And in the living room of the girls on the second floor, Elizabeth asked Mr. Jared in a letter not only to bring the seeds she had asked for before, but also to ask him to invite the seed dealer to be a guest.The seed dealer was a friend of Mr. Jared, and he was honest. Elizabeth wanted to ask Mr. Bennet to see him. Maybe he changed his mind?

As the sun rose overhead, Elizabeth handed the letter to the servant to drop it at the post office in Meryton, so that it could be dispatched as soon as possible.Seeing that she was done with work, Jane came to invite her to spread it together.

The two closest sisters longed for alone time, and Elizabeth readily granted it.

When they walked hand in hand in the lush green forest of Longbourne, they unexpectedly met Miss Lucas, the eldest daughter of the Lucas family and Elizabeth's former best friend.

Across the hedge, both Elizabeth and Miss Lucas had complex expressions in their eyes.

The author has something to say: I saw a little angel in the comments saying that some names or backgrounds in the article are not clear. In future updates, if I have time, Yu will try to make some explanations and notes.

Note: Knight wrinkled peas were indeed popular in the vegetable gardens of Britain and the United States. Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, liked this kind of peas very much. He would plant two crops in Monticello every year.

And garden pea (gardenpea), in the court of Louis XIV, eating this kind of green pea became a fashion. It is said that the king once suffered from indigestion, and the king's favorite dish was peas and boiled eggs.His lover, Mrs. Maintenon, once complained in a letter that "the topic of peas can be described as endless: the eagerness to eat them, the pleasure of eating them, and the desire to eat them again-our The monarch talked about these three points over and over again for four days."

These anecdotes can be found in "The Past and Present of Peas"

The conclusions of heterosis and economic hybridization refer to hybrid breeding.

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