In my days as a farmer

"Xiao Xia, don't be too busy, sit down." Seeing that Xia Dongli had found a snack bag and put it on the table, Assistant Li hurriedly pulled him.

"It's okay, it's okay." Academician Chen was observing with a freshly pulled pasture stalk in his hand. Seeing that Xia Dongli had prepared snacks, he immediately laughed, "Xiaoxia, right, come quickly, I'll wait." I have to interview you about how your grass is growing."

Xia Dongli hurriedly responded and sat down, because he had to take care of himself a little today because he was going to entertain guests. The hair he had styled before was now long and a little messy.The young man in a shirt and vest pushed his rimless glasses. His waist was thin and his legs were long, full of elite spirit. He looked very inconsistent with this place.

——He should appear in a high-rise office building, not in this pastoral scenery.Chen Li, who met face to face for the first time, couldn't help feeling this subtle feeling.

But this young man with the temperament of a corporate white-collar is sitting here. A blue merle-colored border collie with fluffy and soft hair is lying on his feet. There is a group of ducks paddling in the small pond with his back. You can see two turtles basking on the sunken logs protruding from the water in the pond.

A sheep's head staring at them sullenly was stuffed between the gaps in the isolation door, and a little fat pig was lying on the tiles with a carefree attitude.Probably because he was afraid of disturbing the guests, Mr. Xia locked up the chickens at home, but the faintly audible cooing sound was announcing their presence.

There are dogs, chickens, ducks, pigs, and sheep. It's really a happy life!

"So, everyone, let's start?" Xia Dongli, who was the owner of the room and didn't know other people's slander, started with a smile.

The negotiation process went smoothly. One party really wanted to buy, but the other party had no intention of raising the price. It only took more than half an hour for the two parties to establish the buying and selling price.

Judging from Pegasus's attitude, he is quite satisfied with the price given by Academician Chen, and he readily bears the transportation costs of the goods. Of course, Academician Chen also needs to be responsible for domestic inspection and quarantine. and the cost of export documents.

There are many factors involved in the export of seeds, but the exporting country is relatively more relaxed than the importing country, after all, they have no worries about species invasion.Academician Chen also has relevant experience here, so he readily agreed.

Pegasus paid a deposit on the spot to show his sincerity, and the formal purchase contract needs to be completed after he has seen the seed situation.

After agreeing on the time to go to the research institute, Pegasus said that he had something to say goodbye to, but Academician Chen and Chen Li walked into the farmland accompanied by Xia Dongli and Assistant Xiao Li.

The moment they stepped into the farmland, the two researchers immediately entered the working mode. Before Xia Dongli could react, the two of them immediately became shorter—they took out a small ruler from their pockets, squatted down and pinched it. The roots of pastures are measured.

That's right, unlike laymen like Xia Dongli, professionals mainly observe the roots when studying crops. Compared with leaves and plant height, they care more about the plant's tillering and reproduction ability and the soil-fixing ability of the roots.

Xia Dongli watched them take out a box to collect samples on the spot, even the land samples, and couldn't help but be in awe.

Seeing that Academician Chen was squatting hard, he hurriedly donated his own small bench. Unexpectedly, Academician Chen changed hands and put the samples on the small stool after thanking him. Xia Dongli had no choice but to move a few more small stools. He sits down.

"I'm sorry." After working for a long time, the two came out of the farmland, with smiles on their faces: "Xiao Xia, your grass is good, but it's a bit early to top it now, this variety is very tillering, When you plant next time, you can plant them in early autumn."

Xia Dongli's eyes drifted a little, and he didn't have the nerve to explain that it wasn't him who promoted the birth, but a certain horse.

Forget it, let Pegasus take the blame.

At this moment, Xia Dongli, who was standing next to the two researchers, felt as if he was facing the teacher's test. Fortunately, the two teachers scored very loosely, and gave Comrade Xiao Xia a score of 80.

Generally speaking, they are still very satisfied with the current situation of the goat beans, and the eyes they looked at Xia Dongli were full of kindness.

What agronomists like most are farmers who can take good care of their crops, especially Comrade Xiao Xia, who also drew an order for them because of the crops he took good care of.

The number of seeds ordered by Pegasus is really quite a lot. With this capital injection, they will not be suspended for a period of time because of the funds.

Doing research is really expensive.

For this reason, Academician Chen waved his hand and said that he would invite Xia Dongli to dinner—of course, he used his own salary. How could Xia Dongli let the old academician treat him? The man was taken to a hotel in Xiaojin Village.

The north in May is the season to eat fresh vegetables.

At this time, vegetables are in the vigorous growth period after sowing, and the advantage of being located in a large agricultural province is that they can eat the freshest vegetables.Even the owners of some restaurants have their own vegetable fields or suppliers behind them, and the vegetables eaten by the guests are likely to be hanging on the branches just a moment ago.

The flavor of vegetables that can grow in the ground until they are ripe enough to be picked is not at the same level as the flavor of artificially ripened vegetables picked in advance for transportation in the farmer's market.

The wild vegetables in the field are also at the end of the seasonal vegetables. In a few days when the sunshine increases, their leaves will become more flexible under photosynthesis to survive the summer, but for humans, the taste will be greatly reduced.

It happened that the group of people arrived, the restaurant owner’s field had just been thinned out, and the discarded vegetable seedlings were slender and could not be sold for a price, but after being fried, they were crispy, tender and juicy, very delicious, and paired with Xiaojincun, which is rare in the whole north Bamboo shoots, a plate of assorted stir-fry just need to add thin salt seasoning can make people taste the best taste of spring.

These kinds of dishes are not written in the recipes, and are "fate dishes" that only acquaintances or experts can eat.

They are all foreigners, but there is an assistant Xiao Li with MAX communicative ability. As soon as he sat down, he reported a bunch of dishes that Xia Dongli had never heard of. The boss complained about him. Duo burst into laughter, and gave a jar of homemade rice wine as a gift. As soon as the jar was opened, the sweet smell burrowed into people's noses.

But unfortunately, Xia Dongli and Chen Li both had to drive, and Xun Ao was still injured and couldn't drink, so the three obediently held their drinks and watched Assistant Xiao Li and Academician Chen drink one after another. The atmosphere quickly heated up.

After adding rice for the second time, Chen Li stopped his teacher from adding the third bowl, and persuaded him in a low voice: "Teacher, you have taken too much starch."

The mature and reliable Academician Chen looked a little stiff. He hesitated and glanced at the empty rice bowl in his hand, then at the fragrant Northeast rice brought up in the steamer, and looked at the students eagerly.

"Teacher, I really can't do it anymore." The student was determined, he took the small rice bowl lightly, and said helplessly, "You should eat more vegetables."

Academician Chen's expression drooped to the naked eye, and he was extremely depressed.He waved his hands at Xia Dongli and the others who were a little surprised, "It's okay, I'm diabetic, and I should try to avoid starch."

"My ancestral home is in the Northeast, and I can't miss this kind of food wherever I eat, but I got this disease. Other things are fine, but it's too uncomfortable to control the food."

"Xiao Chen usually feeds me indica rice, which has a high amylose content, but the taste is not as good as our Northeast rice! So people, you can't get sick. Once you get sick, it's too uncomfortable to eat." He said Then he felt wronged.

Assistant Xiao Li nodded with deep feeling: "I understand. This is the same as when I used to dislike pheasant feathers and was too lazy to eat them, but now the regulations do not allow them to be eaten. What I can't get is always the best."

Hello!It's not the same thing is it?Pheasant is a protected wild animal, it is illegal to eat it.

Xia Dongli turned his head in horror, and then saw Assistant Xiao Li's face flushed with the wine glass in his hand, he was shocked. It was the first time he saw someone who could get drunk from drinking homemade rice wine, a primary school student?

He hurriedly snatched assistant Xiao Li's wine glass and stuffed it with a glass of juice to prevent him from making too many mistakes.Seeing Assistant Xiao Li sipping his drink obediently, he explained with difficulty against the sharp eyes of the two guests: "Assistant Li is from Yunnan, and that was in the past, in the past... Now he is very good, he is a good person, really of."

Xia Dongli was about to break out in cold sweat, because he was afraid that these two big bosses would send Assistant Xiao Li to the police station with a single report call.

"Pfft," Chen Li smiled and waved his hands: "It's okay, we know that the situation is special in Junior Brother's place, and it happened several years ago."

Xia Dongli was stunned for a moment, wait, did he hear some strange name?

Chen Li smiled: "Ah, so you don't know, your Assistant Li used to be a student of the teacher, but later he resigned and became a village official."

Xia Dongli was a little speechless, so why do you have the expression of hearing it for the first time!And this is the time to eat a meal, why does it feel like this is a copy of some shocking secret love and hatred, can he not listen?I feel like I'll regret it.

Although he thought so, his body was so honest that he filled up Coke for Researcher Chen, hinting him to continue talking with actions.

"It's not a secret." Chen Li glanced at the young man drinking the drink: "The younger brother was very strong back then, he was a Shaomin, but even if he didn't get extra points, he exceeded the score line. In his 20s, he is definitely a genius among geniuses."

"Gululu~" Assistant Genius Xiao Li spit out bubbles in the drink.

So why did he resign?Isn't it good to do research... Could it be!

Xia Dongli opened his mouth, and at this moment, he filled his head with a dozen stories of grievances and entanglements. After he finished his brains, he was abused by his own fantasies. He was not sure if he could ask this question.

"Hey, there's actually nothing you can't say." Assistant Xiao Li raised his head after spitting out bubbles. He rubbed his hair and said seriously, "I just suddenly discovered that Xuenong can't save the Chinese."

"Snapped!"

As if nothing had happened, Researcher Chen replaced Academician Chen with a new pair of chopsticks, and put the pair of chopsticks he just knocked on the student aside.

Assistant Li grinned, rubbed the back of his hand under Xia Dongli's sympathetic eyes, rubbed his hair helplessly and said, "How should I put this... My hometown is very poor, and I was the only college student in our place back then , so I chose agronomy at that time because I wanted to bring good food back to my hometown, so that my family could grow high-yield food to get rid of poverty and become rich."

His eyes were lowered, and a trace of helplessness flashed in his black eyes: "But then I found out that this is almost impossible..."

"Why?" Xia Dongli looked at this division with some puzzlement, and the three of them were silent for a while, and Assistant Li, who was already drunk, said, "Because the problem is not with the seeds."

"Xiao Xia, do you know which generation of Gale orientalis you planted?"

Xia Dongli was taken aback for a moment, then shook his head reflexively.

"It's the fourth generation." Assistant Xiao Li's face was very calm: "The products of the first three generations have not been able to be planted and promoted."

Xia Dongli heard from Assistant Li and Researcher Chen a field that he had never paid attention to before and was completely unfamiliar.

The goat bean planted by Assistant Xiao Li for him is a product of one of the project teams in the Academy of Agricultural Sciences and one of the subjects of Academician Chen. It has been more than ten years since introduction to improvement.This sounds lofty, but in fact, across the country, such project teams can be described as a lot of cars.

In the past two years, the country has made rapid progress in science and technology, and there are many supportive policies. Agriculture-related projects are relatively easy to be approved. All of this has resulted in the emergence of dozens of new varieties that can be matured and marketed almost every year during the harvest season.

Of course, although these new species have brought together the painstaking efforts of researchers, it is unknown whether they can be accepted by the market.As far as the current situation is concerned, most of them just left papers and seed materials, and those that can flow into the market are no less than one in a thousand.

"If you are lucky, you can serve as the mother parent for the next generation, and if you are unlucky, you will go into the warehouse." Assistant Xiao Li's expression was very calm when he said this. He pushed the cup of juice in his hand, and said with downcast eyes: " We can write good papers about genetics, traits, cells, and disease resistance, but it is difficult to convince farmers and farms to plant new varieties."

Xia Dongli understood what he meant. Farmers cared more about safety than high income.

It's not that they are not bold enough, but that for farmers, a wrong decision can lead to the destruction of the whole family's income for a whole year, and if it goes wrong, it may even damage the land.

They don't have the capital or the guts to join the gamble, not to mention that new varieties represent uncertainty, just like the fact that the first generation of technological products has a high probability of overturning.

However, if no one is willing to plant a new variety, it is almost impossible to survive until there are two or even three generations.Agronomists don't have enough research funding to last, so their only option is to sell unsatisfactory or intermediate products to seed companies and use the money to fund other projects.

The first, second and third generations of goat bean are all sold in this way, but even if they are sold to seed companies, not all varieties can be promoted.

Seed companies are not charitable companies. After buying scientific research results, their biggest purpose is to make money. In order to maximize profits, they will control the speed at which new varieties are launched. If there is no commercial competition, the profits of the previous generation products will not be lost. Squeeze clean, new products will not be launched.

"So even if we have cultivated grain seeds, it is almost impossible to promote them without the support of the state, so we can only sell them to seed companies. Then we have no say in how they plan to sell them," Assistant Xiao Li clenched his fists angrily: "The problem with this matter is not whether there are good seeds, but the wrong industry chain, so I am going to go another way."

Assistant Xiao Li stood up and stepped on the chair domineeringly: "Isn't there a saying: If you don't understand the world, you can change the world yourself! So I'm going to change it!"

Xia Dongli was dumbfounded, what's going on when the temperament of the middle school is over the top?Assistant Xiao Li, do you know that you are OOC?You're completely OOC after getting drunk!

"...Actually, there was a senior who graduated a few years ago and was elected as the village head of their village. Because he wanted to develop new ecological agriculture, he came to our research institute to recruit people. The junior brother was deceived by the big cake drawn by that person. Yes." Researcher Chen ruthlessly exposed the truth: "That guy tricked my junior brother to start as a village official, take the route of being a village official to gain the trust of the people, and then try to encourage the villagers to plant new varieties. He believed it, that's right. , that person is the village head of your Xiaojin Village."

Xia Dongli: "..."

Why is this plan somewhat visual? By the way, isn’t he also growing goat beans...

"Yes, you are the only one who has successfully developed a new variety from his work so far." Researcher Chen confirmed his guess, and he patted Xia Dongli on the shoulder reassuringly: "But please rest assured, the younger brother's major There is no doubt about its ability, and your land conditions are also very suitable for planting this."

Xia Dongli was stunned for a moment, knowing that he was afraid that he and Assistant Xiao Li would have a quarrel, so he couldn't help laughing: "I know, I believe in Assistant Li's professionalism as a village committee cadre, and I also believe that as a friend, he will not cheat me. .And I did my homework before planting this variety, and it was my own independent decision. But..." He said with some doubts: "Is this method really effective? The effect is too slow!"

"It doesn't matter." Academician Chen, who had been chopping vegetables in silence, said suddenly at this moment: "I still encourage young people to try when they are most bloody. No one can be sure that this is correct before the road becomes the road. "

"And now the country is also working hard to train the younger generation to carry the banner, just like his senior, he was elected as the head of Xiaojin Village at the age of 22. He was still in college at that time, and many people questioned it at that time. Now he He is 25 years old, Xiaojincun is not very good, he was re-elected in the last election."

25 years old! !Just a little older than him!

He suddenly realized that when he and Assistant Xiao Li first met, he had such a strange expression when he said thank you to the village chief, because at that time he thought the village chief was at least at the level of an uncle, so he called him old, man, family.

But Assistant Xiao Li didn't correct him at that time, and even smiled...

Are the current seniors really that stupid?

Pupil earthquake.