Great Power Technology

December 30, Hailan, Experimental Field of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

Xu Lei stood on the ridge of the field in high spirits, with a wanton smile on her face. She danced and shouted to her brothers who were still working hard to harvest:

"You guys should move faster! Why are all the girls chirping? My mission has been completed and I'm just waiting for you!"

After hearing her words, a boy in the rice field in front of him raised his head with a look of despair, and replied helplessly:

"I said, Leilei, don't get an advantage over there and act like a good boy. Today's draw is that the field you drew is the best for harvesting. After harvesting, you don't know how to help. You stand there like a landowner and overseer. What are you doing? !”

Xu Lei chuckled and replied matter-of-factly:

"I won't help you harvest. Each person has two fields. Who told you that you were so unlucky that you picked the corner? Besides, it's just that the terrain is a bit bad, which delays your work? Vegetables are the original sin, don't make excuses !”

"What's wrong with the terrain! Sister, this is a terraced field, and yours is a flat field. Can it be the same? Okay, okay, don't worry about me. Go and gather the harvested rice. It's time to thresh it soon."

"Be careful first and don't drop too many ears of rice, otherwise you will have to pick them up one by one later, which will be very troublesome!"

Hearing this, Xu Lei pursed her lips in disapproval and said:

"Then what's there to pick up? Isn't it just a few ears of rice? How heavy can it be? Our yield per acre is already reaching 2,000 kilograms. Is it still a little short of that?"

The boy who was still lowering his head and working hard to cut the rice straightened up slightly and replied:

"Rigorous, rigorous, you know! We are serious agricultural science, why do you think it's like settling accounts? Okay, okay, you first go find someone to move the threshing machine, and then go and bring the sacks. "

"Sooner or later I will connect this broken field into one piece, and then use a harvester to harvest it!"

"I have already said that I would buy a small harvester. Who made you object to it in the first place? Now you know how uncomfortable it is? Bah, just feel uncomfortable. I'll move the sacks!"

As she spoke, Xu Lei ran briskly to the edge of the experimental field in the distance. Since she was not a professional rice farmer, she was not very skilled at harvesting. Her face and hands were accidentally scratched by the grass leaves. There were small wounds, some of which even had some blood oozing from them, but she didn't seem to care.

On the contrary, the instructor who was threshing grains at the edge of the experimental field couldn't see her indifferent appearance. After complaining about her for a few words, he forcibly rushed her back to the infirmary to treat the wound, but she just went back and simply washed her face. , after using the self-prepared boric acid to disinfect the wound, he ran back in a hurry.

Looking at her expression, the instructor couldn't say anything else. After all, he had been busy for several months and when the harvest came, he really couldn't bear to let her miss this most important moment, so he just told her to cover her face with a mask. , and let her run around busy.

Xu Lei first helped move the rice to one place. After confirming that she really couldn't do the threshing work, Xu Lei ran behind the thresher and helped open the sacks, but she was not strong enough to move the sacks. In the end, I could only stand aside to help weigh the rice bags and record the weight of each bag of rice.

"Well, this bag is not full enough. 56 kilograms. Next, next, fill it up, our sack is almost out!"

"This is packed with too much! Be careful, pick it up yourself if it spills out later! 65 kilograms! Next one!"

"Okay, this is 60 kilograms, just load it like this, do you see it clearly?"

Every time a number was reported, Xu Lei recorded a number on the bag with a marker. After almost all the sacks under her feet were used up, the threshing machine beside her finally stopped.

At this time, she was surrounded by bags of rice.

"This piece of land is one acre, that piece over there is one acre, then the one in the middle is three points, and the one far away is six points."

"Be more careful. If you make a mistake, I'll beat you to death!"

After hearing her words, the junior brother who was bending down to calculate carefully glanced at her funny, and then said:

"Sister Lei, don't be so fierce. How about you calculate it yourself? I guarantee you won't be wrong!"

Xu Lei snorted angrily and carefully checked the notebook in her hand. After a while, she and her junior brother got the results at the same time.

"1836 kilograms."

"How many??"

The instructor on the side came over in surprise and looked at the numbers on Xu Lei's notebook.

"Is the calculation correct? Are you sure it's over 1,800 kilograms?"

Xu Lei nodded solemnly and put the notebook directly into the instructor's hand.

"It must be right! I've calculated it several times!"

"Great, great, 1,800 kilograms. This is still a single season. Even if the water, heat and fertilizer conditions in other areas are not as good as ours, the average yield per mu will be at least 1,200 kilograms."

"One thousand, two hundred kilograms, two crops per year. If early rice is calculated as eight hundred kilograms, the annual output will exceed two thousand."

"I remember that the current highest annual production is only 1,500, right? A 40% increase in production!"

Hearing this, everyone present had unconcealable smiles on their faces, because they knew that the significance of this number was much greater than it seemed.

This 40% increase in yield is not the previous increase in experimental field yield, but after being promoted to major rice growing areas throughout China, the yield per mu can be increased by 40%!

This also means that from the moment of its birth, this new rice variety has reached the conditions to get out of the laboratory and experimental fields, and it does not even need further improvement to become a pillar rice variety in the entire China. !

It is precisely because of this that the difficulty of promoting new rice varieties will be reduced by more than one order of magnitude. They had previously considered that the goal of comprehensive promotion would be achieved within three years, or even earlier.

The annual average output of 2,000 kilograms is a figure that is easier to understand.

This means that according to the average grain consumption level of Chinese people, the annual output of one acre of rice fields operated by one laborer can feed at least 6 people.

The days of struggling for land and food will be gone forever.

Xu Lei looked at the bulging sacks with emotion, and suddenly felt a strange feeling in her heart.

After a moment of silence, she suddenly turned around and ran towards the experimental field. Everyone didn't know what she was going to do, so they could only stay there and wait. After several minutes, she ran back from the experimental field panting, holding a large bag in her hand. Holding the collected rice that was left on the ground.

She distributed the rice bunches to everyone, and finally kept the strongest one in her hand, and then said to her mentor:

"Boss, I want to take a vacation tomorrow."

The next day, Xu Lei landed in Changsha by plane. The luggage she carried was very simple. Apart from the backpack with a change of clothes on her back, she only had the suitcase in her hand.

She took the subway with her suitcase, changed trains several times, and then transferred to a taxi before finally arriving at her destination.

Tang Dynasty Longevity Cemetery in Changsha.

It was in the afternoon, and the sky was blue. The sunlight filtered through the tall trees in the cemetery, casting mottled shadows on the ground. Xu Lei, who was walking among the shadows, looked solemn, but also had a faint smile. .

She walked forward along the path until she came to the tomb that she had always wanted to come to but never dared to come to.

Xu Lei stood aside carefully and waited until the last group of people who came to worship had left before walking towards the tomb. Her steps were slow and gentle, as if she was worried about disturbing the sleeping old man.

The first thing she saw was the various "gifts" placed in front of the tomb.

There are two small bowls, one with white rice and one with rice.

A violin, the bow and the strings are intertwined, and it seems that it can be played with just a slight exertion.

Two bunches of fresh seedlings still with water droplets on them, I don’t know where they came from in this season.

A pair of hard-soled leather shoes for tap dancing.

A pair of mahjong.

Whole strips of Chinese cigarettes gathered together.

There are several expensive-looking luxury car models.

Xu Lei took a deep breath, carefully moved the gifts away to make a clear space, and then opened her suitcase.

And inside, it was the rice plant covered with rice ears that she had picked up from the Hailan Experimental Field before.

She took the rice out of the suitcase and placed it in front of the tomb. After looking at it quietly for a few seconds, she whispered:

"Mr. Yuan, our Academy of Agricultural Sciences asked me to tell you that our gene-edited rice experiment was successful."

"The results are very good. The experimental field has increased production by more than 60%, and the production capacity of ordinary grain fields is expected to increase by 40%."

"Look, this is the rice I picked up from the field - it's a bit incomplete, because all the good ones were threshed, and it was left behind."

"But you can still tell, right? Look at the number of tillers and the number of grains per ear. They are much better than our previous varieties."

"According to this situation, we estimate that it will be fully promoted starting next year, and preliminary results will be available the year after that."

At this point, she suddenly stopped and continued after a moment:

"Mr. Yuan, I remember that I was still in school when I saw you last time. I saw that you were in good spirits at that time, but I didn't expect that. Forget it, let's not talk about this."

"Last time you told me to study hard, graduate early, and choose seed science. I originally wanted to choose it, but I was too stupid, so I chose facility agriculture in the end."

"But facility agriculture is also very good. Our field management system is amazing. It's even better than what you visited in our school before."

"I still remember what you said about enjoying the shade under the grass. It seems a little difficult now."

"Because our direction is not giant rice. Now it seems that dwarf rice has greater yield potential."

"But, if you can't enjoy the cool air under the grass, you can still do it with a full meal."

"You may not know that there was another food crisis some time ago, but from the beginning to the end, we were not short of food."

"Hey, don't tell me. It's both your credit and ours."

"How's it going? We did a good job, right?"

"I have never dared to come see you before because I felt that I had not accomplished much and I was too embarrassed to come here. The scholarship you gave me was wasted. Now."

Xu Lei paused for a moment, raised her head and looked at the boulder in front of her.

Two lines of gold characters are engraved on the boulder:

People are like seeds, be a good seed.

"Now, I should be considered a good seed, right?"