Spring begins in January, when the southeast wind blows, and the water in the Wulong River has not yet risen significantly. In addition to the cold water in the river, the speed of sailing with the wind is not slow.
Xu Chen led the people on rafts to go upstream with the wind, and the rest of the people took rafts to the other side of the river to go to the Gonghuo Tribe, and took all the horses back to the tribes by land.
More than a hundred miles upstream from the Yu Gong clan is the Wu clan.
Two days later, the raft arrived near the Uzu. Everyone abandoned the raft and went ashore, asking the accompanying Uzbek people to go back and fetch a few fast horses. Then Xu Chen rode straight to the Ba tribe with the cane.
It has been more than ten days since this came and went.
After Xu Chen returned to the Ba tribe at full speed, he had no time to cheer and celebrate with the tribe, but hurriedly led Gu and Ju straight to the mountainside holding the flowering canes.
The branches and leaves of the large crooked-necked tree, several meters in diameter, were now covered with flowers.
Densely packed rattans hang down from the big tree, covered with red flowers.
When he stood on the edge of the cliff under the big tree, Xu Chen let out a long breath.
Because the speed was fast enough and the temperature was relatively suitable, the flowers on the canes he brought back were still relatively fresh, but nearly half of them were knocked off along the way, but he did not throw away even the dropped flowers.
For things like fertilization...pollination, organs are not important, but vitality is important.
Some men can still get women pregnant when they reach eighty, while some become infertile at a young age.
Some men think they are extremely brave, but they have been raising children for the old man next door.
Gu and Ju carefully put down the rattan basket filled with flowers and vines, their faces full of confusion.
Xu Chen picked up a few red flowers that had fallen on the ground and compared them with the flowers on the rattan brought back from the Mongolian people. He found that the shapes were still very similar, but there were some differences in color and size.
The vine fruit flowers of the Ba people are red, and each one is as big as a fist.
The flowers on the Mongolian rattan are yellow and obviously smaller, only about the size of an egg.
As for the deconstruction of flowers, Xu Chen naturally didn't know much about it. He only remembered what he learned in junior high school biology class. Flowers have stamens and pistils, and most flowering plants rely on pollen for fertilization.
But in front of us is a hundred-meter cliff, and densely packed flowers and vines hang on large trees twenty or thirty meters high.
He has the ability to inseminate, but he has more than enough ambition but not enough power.
Now that everything was ready and both men and women had taken off their clothes, Xu Chen was dumbfounded and didn't know what to do.
This is not the same as picking vine fruits.
After all, when picking, you can use wooden poles and net bags to work from a distance, but if you want to artificially pollinate, you must bring the two flowers close together to contact each other.
"Chen Ga, Mosi Ga Ga?"
Seeing Xu Chen looking up at the big tree in a daze, Gu couldn't help but ask in a low voice.
"I'm wondering how to get two flowers to mate!"
Xu Chen sighed somewhat depressedly.
"Wow!"
Gu Heju looked at Xu Chen as if they were aliens.
"Don't look at me like that, what I said is true!" Xu Chen looked back faintly.
At this time, dense footsteps were heard on the stone path up the mountain, and then Ye and the little witch were seen hurriedly approaching surrounded by a large group of young men and women, all of them extremely nervous.
Behind them, there are a group of children and five half-sized puppies following them.
Finally, there was a group of women, children, old and weak, including Mother and Mother, supporting each other and carrying the baby who was still sucking milk on their backs. They were all panting, with nervous and worried expressions on their faces.
"Your Majesty the Witch King, what happened?"
The little witch's face was full of excitement and nervousness, and she grabbed Xu Chen's arm with a look of anxiety on her face.
Just now, Xu Chen and the others ran back to the valley on horseback. Instead of going to the compound, they went straight to the intersection up the mountain, abandoned the three horses and ran up the mountain.
If someone hadn't seen the three of them, no one would have known Xu Chen was back.
When the news spread, all men, women, and children were extremely nervous, and then they went up the mountain in groups, thinking that something big had happened.
"Chen Ga wants flowers to mate with Ga Ga!"
Before Xu Chen had time to answer, Gu stood beside him and shouted loudly.
The group of people who were shouting and panting fell silent instantly, and there was a strange dead silence on the edge of the cliff.
Everyone looked at Xu Chen as if he were an idiot.
The little witch and Ye Ben were holding his arms, one on the left and the other on the back. At this time, their eyes were wide open and their faces were dull.
After a long time, Ye gently poked Xu Chen's waist with his hand and said, "Flowers can't mate!"
"Neng!" Xu Chen shook his head.
"No way!" More people came to their senses and shook their heads together.
The little witch stretched out her little hand and gently touched Xu Chen's forehead. She breathed a sigh of relief and looked down at the yellow rattan flowers in the rattan basket the three of them had brought back.
Xu Chen turned around, gently held the little witch's hand, and said seriously: "You have to believe me!"
The little witch blushed instantly, looked into Xu Chen's eyes, hesitated for a moment and then nodded gently: "I believe you!"
Hundreds of people, men, women, old and young, were dumbfounded and turned to stone.
Xu Chen was just joking around and talking nonsense, but the great witch actually believed his nonsense.
I have only heard of men and women mating, and male animals and females mating. I have never heard of flowers and plants mating.
Xu Chen felt very relieved to receive the support of the little witch. He looked at a group of dull-looking tribesmen and said loudly: "The vine fruit is delicious, and the vine fruit wine is even more delicious, but do you know why this vine fruit cannot be planted and survive?"
"I don't know?" someone replied in a low voice.
"That's because this vine fruit is female and only produces fruit but no seeds, so it cannot germinate and survive."
"Wow, there are also male and female trees?"
Amidst the exclamations, some people were so excited that they almost fell to the ground.
"Yes, not only humans and beasts have male and female species, but many flowers, plants and trees also have male and female species. Only when male and female humans and beasts mate can they give birth to cubs. The same is true for vines and fruits, because this one is female and only bears flowers and fruits, but
There is no mating with male flowers, so no seeds can be produced to grow small trees..."
As Xu Chen spoke, he pointed to the rattan basket on the ground.
"Every year, many vine fruits fall into the Wild Wolf Valley, but I have never found a new vine fruit tree growing. In the past few years, I have tried many methods without success, but a few days ago I saw a tree among the Mongolian people.
There is a giant vine that is almost identical to the vine fruit. The flower vines I brought back now were cut from that tree vine!"
Everyone's eyes were immediately focused on the dozens of densely packed flowering canes planted in the two cane baskets.
The little witch knelt down and carefully observed the cane for a moment, raised a puzzled face and said: "The flowers are not like Ga, and the color is different."
Xu Chen smiled and said: "Men and women are different, and there are some differences between male and female animals. This is normal."
The little witch nodded with eyes: "Yes!"
Many of the onlookers also nodded, indicating that what Xu Chen said made some sense, and then they all looked up to look at the rattan hanging diagonally above the cliff, and they all looked at each other in bewilderment.
"Chen Ga, the flowers are so tall, how do you get them to mate?" Ju asked the question that everyone wanted to ask.
For them, there is no need to use their brains too much. After all, using their brains is not the forte of these guys. Apart from working, eating and drinking, they only have two hobbies: driving piles and sleeping.
Since Xu Chen and Da Wu both said that flowers can mate, then how to make them mate is the key. It may also be an eye-opener, because everyone has never seen flowers mate, and they have never been able to distinguish male flowers from female flowers.
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At this time, Xu Chen had rushed back to the Ba tribe with relatively fresh flowers. Xu Chen was not in a hurry. While giving science education to a group of tribesmen, he was also trying to figure out how to complete the three hundred flowers this time.
Riga urgently undertakes the arduous task of fertilizing vine fruits.
As long as you succeed this time, there will be endless vine fruits to eat and endless vine fruit wine to drink.
You must know that in this barbaric era, it is not easy to find a delicious fruit that can be planted and harvested in large quantities. Otherwise, he would not be so dedicated to a kind of wild fruit, cutting and cultivating it every year.
"One of you go down and get the safety rope!"
Xu Chen thought about it and felt that to complete the task of pollination, he would have to take some risks.
"I'm going to Ga!"
There was a young long-legged man in the crowd who turned around and ran straight down the mountain. A group of people gathered under the tree to discuss and wait excitedly. Xu Chen began to teach Gu and Ju how to complete the pollination of flowers.
About twenty minutes later, the young hunter came back panting, carrying a large bundle of hemp rope as thick as an egg, and then threw it heavily on the ground with a thud.
This bundle of hemp rope is specially used to pick vine fruits in autumn. It is placed in the warehouse after each use and is well preserved.
Seeing the hemp rope being brought in, the two personal tool men Gu and Ju knew it was time for them to come on stage.
The two took off their leather boots, wore thin linen clothes and barefooted, then hugged the giant vine around their waists and began to climb up the tree. After more than ten minutes of squeaking, the two climbed up the tall branch one after the other.
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After the two people went up, they put down a thin rope and someone tied the safety rope. After the two people lifted it up, the rest was similar to the steps when picking vine fruits. They found a thick branch to fix the safety rope.
, one end was tied to a person's waist. After the preparations were completed, the string was put down again. Xu Chen tied all the cane flowers brought back with his own hands and was pulled up.
The tree is very tall, and a large number of vines and fruit flowers hang down dozens of meters in the air. It looks like there are so many from below, but in fact, when you go up, you are far away from the vines and fruit flowers, and it is not easy to get close to them.
However, both of them are experienced vine fruit pickers. They hung on the safety rope very skillfully and slowly descended to a place above the cliff where the vine fruit flowers were very dense. Then they pulled a bunch of golden cane flowers and placed them there.
Among the densely packed hanging flowers, they waved up and down, left and right, and gently collided with each other.
Xu Chen kept giving instructions loudly under the tree.
Hundreds of people looked on in confusion. The little witch clung to Xu Chen's leather armor with a nervous expression on her face.
I don’t know if this kind of pollination is effective, but working at high altitudes is too dangerous and troublesome right now. It is impossible to slowly brush one by one with a pollinator brush like in the agricultural pollination in the high-tech era in later generations.
It is even less possible to rely on bees and butterflies to collect nectar for pollination.
At the moment we can only rely on this simplest and crudest way to deal with it.
But this is not the only way, because the probability of success of this large-area dusting technique is very small. Xu Chen also doesn’t know whether the flower is suitable for wind pollutants, so after the two of them waved and brushed on the tree, the two
The person moved to another place and found a few flower vines that were easier to reach. He picked off the golden flowers he brought back one by one, and gently touched the stamens of the flowers on the tree and rubbed them a few times.
However, this method of artificial contact pollination proceeds very slowly.
And when the two were pollinating, a large number of flowers were touched and fell. Suddenly, the sky was filled with gold and red petals falling down, which looked very beautiful and spectacular.
Half an hour later, hundreds of people under the tree looked up with sore necks, but in the end they did not see the exciting scene of flowers mating that they wanted to see. Then Gu and Ju dropped two bundles of flowers that had been plucked off.
Rattan, pack up the safety rope and prepare to come down.
"Wow, is this all?"
Many men looked confused.
"Yes, the mating is over!" Xu Chen rubbed his sore neck and nodded.
"Fuck, that's boring!" Feng and a group of tough hunters looked disappointed.
"Kukukuku..." Many women laughed from ear to ear.
Ye even pinched Xu Chen's butt in dissatisfaction, with a lot of regret on his face.
Even the little witch couldn't help but roll her eyes gently at Xu Chen.
"Come on, the male and female flowers have finished mating!"
The mother smiled and drove a group of men, women and children down the mountain, with an uncontrollable smile on her face.
Everyone was passionately attracted by Xu Chen's flower mating, but they didn't expect that the process and results would be so confusing.
I didn't see the imaginary mating pornographic film, but my neck was almost sprained.