Sunday, January 16, 1994.

Cao Chunyuan arrived at Dazhangzi Agricultural Research Center early in the morning and was going to call Cen Shuhong to welcome Wang Manni who came to Dazhangzi to help.

These two are Cao Chunyuan's right-hand men now, and Cao Chunyuan plans to introduce them to each other so that they can better hand over work in the future.

But Cen Shuhong insisted on dragging Cao Chunyuan to the experimental field of the laboratory to check the three groups of experimental rice grown by the experimental group. Cao Chunyuan saw that there was still time, so she followed Cen Shuhong to the planting area.

The rice project of Cen Shuhong's experimental group is divided into three groups: rice cultivated under normal conditions, rice cultivated under cold conditions, and rice cultivated under drought conditions.

The first place the two came to was the normally cultivated rice planting area.

At this time, the rice in the planting area has basically matured. The rice fields that were green two months ago have turned yellow and green. Strings of golden rice ears hang from the top of each rice plant.

Judging by how much the ears of rice droop, you know the harvest must be good.

Cao Chunyuan nodded lightly and said: "It looks pretty good, and the rice ears are quite plump. But I remember that our experimental field was sown in early October, and it is barely 100 days old today. The growth period of ordinary 'Zhengzhou rice'

It’s around 125 days, so there’s a lot of time difference, right?”

Cao Chunyuan has been instilled with professional knowledge by Cen Shuhong many times, and now she has a certain understanding of rice cultivation.

Cen Shuhong blinked and said, Boss, you have finally grown up and learned to answer questions quickly. I was about to tell you this.

"Mr. Cao, this is why I called you here. The rice we cultivate normally is almost as expected. The growth cycle of rice has been shortened by about 20 days. This is a breakthrough!"

"Just mature quickly?"

Uh~

Cen Shuhong's tone paused, and the planting cycle was shortened by 20 days. This breakthrough development was enough for me to write several international papers for SCI.

You just said something lightly, that's all?

If you were not my boss, you would be fine just to see if I fuck you or not!

"Mr. Cao, the rice has not been harvested yet, and the only sure result that can be obtained is that the growth cycle is shortened.

As for data such as seed setting rate, yield per mu, and rice grain quality, we need to wait until the rice is officially harvested before we can provide more accurate data. We are not yet at that stage!"

"It's not that far, why are you calling me over in such a hurry?"

Cao Chunyuan turned around and was about to leave, but Cen Shuhong grabbed her. She hugged Cao Chunyuan's arm tightly and said, "Mr. Cao, don't leave in a hurry. There will be surprises behind!"

"Oh, are they the other two sets of experimental fields?"

"Yeah." Cen Shuhong nodded vigorously.

"Okay, let go of me first. What's the point of pulling and tugging?"

"Hehe~"

Although Cen Shuhong let go of Cao Chunyuan, she still held on to Cao Chunyuan's sleeves for fear that Cao Chunyuan would suddenly escape.

Soon, the two people arrived at the second rice experimental field.

As soon as she entered the greenhouse, Cao Chunyuan felt a gust of cold wind blowing towards her. The temperature in this greenhouse was completely different from the temperature in the ordinary planting area just now.

Without Cen Shuhong's prompting, Cao Chunyuan knew that this greenhouse must be an experimental field under cold conditions.

She personally proposed the idea of ​​cold-resistant and drought-resistant rice. Now seeing the experimental field that is almost mature, Cao Chunyuan is inevitably a little excited.

"This rice is growing quite well. It seems to be no different from rice under normal conditions, which is a bit beyond my expectation."

Cen Shuhong smiled slightly and said: "Mr. Cao, please come up and take a closer look and see if you can find the difference between these cold-resistant rice and ordinary rice."

When Cen Shuhong said this, Cao Chunyuan really became interested. She walked quickly to the edge of the experimental field, squatted beside the field ridge and looked up and down at a rice plant close to the field ridge.

She found that the biggest difference between this rice plant and the rice in the greenhouse just now is that this rice plant is still green overall, with only a small part of the leaves turning yellow.

However, the ears of rice have turned yellow and are falling heavily, as if they are mature.

Secondly, the rice plants in this experimental field are slightly taller and thicker than ordinary rice. Apart from these, Cao Chunyuan really can't find any other differences.

Cao Chunyuan observed it for a while and finally stood up after finding no other differences.

"The rice plants here grow thicker and the growth cycle seems to be slower, but there is nothing else."

Cen Shuhong blinked and looked at Cao Chunyuan with a wicked smile, "Mr. Cao, do you want to add anything?"

Cao Chunyuan: I really want to give you a hammer. Are you going to give me a test?

Cao Chunyuan rolled up her sleeves and said, "Hurry up, I have something serious to do."

"Okay, okay!"

Seeing Cao Chunyuan's anxious look, Cen Shuhong stopped playing riddles with her and pointed out the biggest gap between the two.

"Mr. Cao, you are still looking too superficially.

Although the rice plants in this greenhouse are still green, it does not mean that the rice is not mature. You can pinch the rice ears. Immature rice seeds have a high moisture content, but the rice seeds in this greenhouse have begun to harden. This is maturity.

sign. In one week, it will be ready for harvesting.

Also, you have noticed that the rice plants are thicker, but haven’t you noticed that the rice ears are larger and have more forks?”

"Oh, that's it!"

Cao Chunyuan just discovered the difference between the ears of rice, but most of her attention was attracted by the green plants of rice. She actually ignored the most important ears of rice. This was indeed her negligence.

“As the rice ears get bigger, doesn’t that mean the harvest is higher?”

Cen Shuhong nodded vigorously, with a very proud smile on her face.

Cao Chunyuan also became happy when she thought that her experiment was successful. After all, it was she who came up with the idea of ​​cultivating cold-resistant and drought-resistant rice.

Now that the experiment is successful, she feels very accomplished.

"In this situation, can we estimate its yield per mu?"

"Hey, Mr. Cao, please take a guess!"

Cao Chunyuan frowned, and the sample even played word games with me, right? Although I'm not as professional as you in this aspect, but don't forget who gave you these rice seeds.

The yield of ordinary 'Zhengzhou rice' per mu is about 300 kilograms. After secondary cultivation in Space Lingquan, the yield can be increased by about one-third.

The seeds Cao Chunyuan gave to Cen Shuhong were all cultivated using the space spirit spring, so the basic yield of these rice per mu is about 400 kilograms.

Observing the size of the cold-resistant rice panicles, it seems that there is not much change, and it is estimated that the yield can only increase by about one-fifth at most.

"The yield per mu is about 450 kilograms?"

"ah?"

Cen Shuhong, who had laughed so hard just now that her teeth were leaking, was stunned on the spot and looked at Cao Chunyuan with a surprised face. In her opinion, a layman like Cao Chunyuan should not be able to judge the yield per acre of newly cultivated rice.

However, Cao Chunyuan's prediction result is exactly the same as Cen Shuhong's prediction result, which is a bit outrageous.

"Mr. Cao, how did you guess it?"

Cao Chunyuan thought to herself that I am not a professional, so I am just being blind. The difference is only 180 kilograms, so it shouldn’t be too much.

"Can you just tell me if it's accurate?"

"Haha~"

Cen Shuhong smiled slightly awkwardly and whispered: "The specific data will not be known until after the harvest, but the data you gave is similar to the data I estimated."

"Oh, then the yield per mu is pretty good. Oh, no, why is the yield per mu of cold-resistant rice higher than the yield per mu of normally grown rice?"
Chapter completed!