Chapter 1812

Liu Baoni, who made a mistake, had to admit it.

Otherwise, what else could she do?

On one side is the clear-headed official, on the other side is her own precious granddaughter.

She muttered: "That, that I didn't expect this baby could walk so far..."

But her granddaughter was still staring at her with big eyes and a serious face, obviously having no doubts about the Big official's words.

Liu Baoni had to open her mouth: "That, Song Tan, you this... I this... cough cough! I was wrong!"

The last three words were especially sonorous.

And the baby's injury, because neither side was wrong, and she was the only one wrong, then she would cut a handful of good grass to compensate when she went back!

"Wait!" Song Tan called her, then squatted down to look at her:

"Baby's mother, although our Dabai is not wrong in this matter, your baby is indeed not very resistant to beating—how about this! We have good goose forage here, I'll give you a basin!"

This is really available; although Dabai is self-reliant in daily life, Yanran and the others have also arranged scientific nutritional ratios.

It's just that it needs to be mixed on the spot.

She sent a message to Chen Xi on the spot, and then said:

"Alright, you take your baby to the river beach, find Uncle Chen Xi there and get a basin of forage, and by the way, tell Dabai to see it, and not to bite so hard next time."

Chen Xi, who received the message, was amused: Qiaoqiao is not here, Boss Song still has to act as a parent to apologize for the child.

He was cleaning the sheep pen at this moment; two big rams didn't like him, and every time he cleaned, they would sneak attack from behind.

If he hadn't been well-trained and had a very stable lower body, and had raised his vigilance, he would have been butted away long ago.

But facing Chen Chi, this group of sheep was obedient.

Humph!

He is a dignified seven-foot man, naturally becoming braver with each setback; the more the sheep wanted to be bad, the more Chen Xi wouldn't leave.

At this moment, he subcontracted the task:

"Chen Chi, a little girl will bring a little goose over later, you take a basin and mix a basin of goose feed for her to take back."

"Okay."

Doing farming, Chen Chi is now also an expert.

He doesn't understand scientific ratios, but he executes the ordered portions meticulously (a handful, a pinch, a pile).

Grab a handful of rye grass that was harvested last night and spread to dry to prepare for the cattle and sheep, and chop it up.

Grab a handful of water hyacinth collected from the river surface.

A big handful of rice bran, a small handful of dried small shrimp, a handful of soybean meal asked from Aunt Zhang Hong, add the bone meal stored at home, add a little salt, and pinch a small pinch of sand...

Finally, add a handful of dried corn kernels—this was purely bought from outside; what was harvested last year wasn't enough for their own consumption, and this year's was even less harvested.

In short, when Liu Baoni brought her granddaughter over, the little girl had long forgotten the previous unpleasantness, and instead looked at the lotus flowers and leaves swaying in the rain, and the green river beach pasture surrounded by small fences, and opened her mouth:

"Wow! So beautiful."

She asked again: "Grandma, such a beautiful place, why doesn't our family contract it? I want to contract it too."

Liu Baoni subconsciously wanted to say: "You want to? Then you go think about it!"

But she came to her senses and found that this wasn't her son, but her granddaughter, so she pinched her voice again:

"Oh my, others contracted it first, Grandma was a step slow and didn't contract it."

The little girl sighed: playing on the slide in kindergarten, it's also whoever queues up first gets to play first.

She asked again: "Is that goose feed especially delicious? Their family's fierce goose grew so big, so big... will our baby grow that big too??"

She reached out and gestured.

Liu Baoni really didn't dare to guarantee it.

Because Dabai's size is obviously top-notch among geese; with this weight and physique, if it were to be sold, one would top two.

But these words can't be said in front of Qiaoqiao; he would be angry if you joke.

Looking at her granddaughter calling herself Baby's mother again, she groped to learn the new generation's parenting concepts, and at this moment answered:

"That's hard to say, their goose feed is also very expensive, if our goose eats it all the time, maybe it can grow big. But if it only eats this little bit, maybe it can't grow that big."

The granddaughter immediately shook her hand and whispered: "Grandma, I have money! You remember to buy feed for the baby."

Liu Baoni:...

Good granddaughter, Grandma occupies the bulk of those lucky money of yours, you are willing to buy me a candy to sweeten my mouth!

She said depressedly: "They don't sell it, their own geese aren't enough to eat."

In fact, the pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, and ducks in their house sell so expensively that people in the village have inquired about the feed, but Song Tan's reply is that good materials are added, and one jin is a sky-high price.

It's not easy for rural people to earn money, and most people's thinking is the same as the boss of Dafeng Feed Factory: what kind of cattle do I raise that deserve to eat this kind of feed?

It's not like saying that after eating this kind of medicine, you won't get sick; those furry livestock get sick when they get sick, and have problems when they have problems; the cost is high, and you can't afford to lose.

Finally, it was left unsettled.

The granddaughter's disappointment was visible to the naked eye.

But at this moment, through the dense rain curtain, she had already seen Chen Chi waving from the corridor.

He is so tall and big!

The little girl walked over slowly and hesitantly; Liu Baoni held the umbrella and led her, and pulled her raincoat hat forward again:

"Walk faster, don't get wet."

Looking from afar, he was very big, and looking at close range, he was even bigger; and Chen Chi had been in the village for a long time and rarely saw such a chubby little girl, so he also laughed:

"Here is the goose feed for you, our Dabai likes to eat this very much!"

Looking at the sloppy, patchy little goose beside her again, he thought for a moment, and then suggested seriously:

"If your little goose can't finish eating it in one meal, you can put it in the refrigerator, and just take it out in advance when it's time to eat!"

This way it can be eaten for several meals.

Children can confirm whether it's a big friend or an adult; at this moment, Baby's mother's eyes also lit up:

"Big brother, are you responsible for feeding the fierce goose every day?"

What fierce goose?

Chen Chi thought blankly: "You mean Dabai? Dabai is not fierce, Dabai is very good."

Then he started counting his fingers: "I have to feed Dabai, Dahong, Big Pearl, Big Yellow—Big King is also entrusted to me now! But sometimes it goes to Qiaoqiao's house to eat."

There was too much character content in this sentence, and the little girl couldn't react for a while, but she knew that this big brother in front of her was not an adult!

As everyone knows, children all over the world like to play with older children, so she happily held the big basin in front of her with effort:

"Okay, thank you brother. After our baby is not sad anymore, I will come to find you to play."

It's raining heavily, Liu Baoni wouldn't feel at ease letting her come here to play alone, and Chen Chi also shook his head, especially proudly:

"Only children can play everywhere, I am an adult. I have to work now."

As everyone knows, most older children don't like to bring children who are too young.

In short, Baby's mother was also heartbroken.

But she hadn't made any friends after returning to the village, and at this moment stubbornly said: "I am an adult too, I already have a baby, look! My baby is growing."

Chen Chi looked at the goose beside her.

"Okay. Then let's add each other as friends, after I get off work, you can come to find me to play."

Then he took out his phone.

Liu Baoni was still pondering that she would have to keep an eye on the river beach, or invite Chen Chi to play at her house, but then she saw her granddaughter feeling wronged:

"I don't have a phone..."

She didn't even have a phone watch.

So she couldn't add good friends in class, and couldn't add good friends in the village either.

She is Baby's mother, she is an adult, how come it still doesn't work?

Sending off the Baby family, the Old Song family thought it was quite funny, but Until Wu Lan looked at the rain curtain that still wouldn't stop, and sighed again:

"It's been a few days, it hasn't stopped at all."

If this continues, the vegetables will get sick.

However, in this continuous rain curtain, it's not that there is no good news.

The three of Yanran rushed down the mountain excitedly:

"Boss! We want to invite the teacher over!"

Ah?

Invite Professor Song? He is such a big shot, Song Tan naturally only has the share of being happy, but—

"Didn't you say before that now is the harvest season for various crops, and he has to rush around to track the results, and can't take care of it at all?"

"This time it's different, this time we also have results!"

Yanran's face was slightly red when she said this: strictly speaking, the results aren't theirs, they just happened to have a series of tracking data.

"Those strawberry seedlings given to Tian Tian before are now entering the peak season of stolon development again."

Strawberries, like many crops, use the first generation for propagation and seedling raising, the second generation enters the peak fruiting period, and the third generation begins to have many diseases, reduced production, and low resistance.

After scientific cultivation, the second generation begins to undergo virus-free treatment, and the third generation of virus-free seedlings can maintain the peak period of high production and low maintenance, not only increasing production by 30%-50%, but the fruit will also be large and sweet.

But this peak period still only lasts for one year.

After this period, not only will production decrease, the fruit will become smaller, the taste will decrease, and even under the same conditions, problems such as bacteria and pests will become increasingly serious.

So those who engage in herbaceous and gramineous planting nowadays basically buy seedlings themselves every year, and the seedlings they buy are also second-generation seedlings or third-generation virus-free seedlings, which are eliminated after one year of high production, so that they can maximize profits.

The Zhenhong Meiling and Saga Snow Rabbit that Song Tan planted before were standard third-generation virus-free seedlings.

These seedlings were processed and given to Tian Tian after a growth cycle; because they left the water and soil environment of Yunqiao Village, plus the original high production and high quality, even if they decreased by 30%, they still had profits to look at.

Therefore, Yanran and the others supported it very much, and originally said it to Tian Tian—after all, there is no free lunch in the world, right?

After getting the consent, the three of them arranged the tracking work for various data.

To be honest, the funding applied for wasn't much; if they couldn't see results this year, they would have to pay out of their own pockets if they wanted to continue tracking.

And now, heaven rewards those who work hard!

The third-generation virus-free seedlings passed the winter in Song Tan's greenhouse and successfully completed the mission of flowering, fruiting, high production, and high quality.

In the spring of the second year, the fourth-generation stolons (one stolon propagation of strawberries counts as one generation) were transferred to Tian Tian; after various scientific maintenance, the harvest in May and June had a reduced production, and the fruit quality also declined, but the feedback from customers who came to buy said they were still tastier than ordinary ones on the market.

Most importantly, the laboratory data also seemed to be of higher quality!

This is the fourth generation without virus-free treatment!

And now it's midsummer, in the rainy season, the temperature isn't that high, and the growth of stolons will accelerate again.

Propagating again, that's the fifth generation of seedlings.

If the fifth-generation seedlings don't continue to decrease in quality, or only slightly decline, this is undoubtedly a major breakthrough in strawberry cultivation!

Song Tan was a bit confused: "If there is such a breakthrough—that is to say, there is still a possibility of reduced production. That's not cost-effective, it's better to directly change to new seedlings."

This time it was Qi Lin's turn to speak, and Tang Xiaodong also took out his tablet to show her:

"Look, our greenhouses before were all like this, single-ridge double-row planting.

"Calculating this way, one mu of land needs at least 7,000-9,000 seedlings."

And agricultural production has a most cruel reality: that is, high-quality seedlings, such as formed plug virus-free seedlings, must be more expensive than bare-root seedlings, with a price difference of three or four times.

What is the specific price?

"In bulk, cheap bare-root seedlings might be 40 cents per plant.

More expensive ones might be one or two yuan. Your Zhenhong Meiling and Saga Snow Rabbit, because they are high-quality virus-free seedlings of precious varieties, are three yuan and five per plant."

This is specially cultivated by the laboratory and supplied to high-end green farms; it is truly a sky-high price. Ordinary people have no way, and don't know where to buy them even with money.

But not counting these high-end ones, just calculating by conventional ones, the seedling cost per mu is between 4,000 and 10,000.

This doesn't count the labor for planting.

The price of strawberries fluctuates according to variety and quality, but for the most conventional profits, the net profit per mu is only between 10,000 and 50,000.

The latter must have invested higher effort and cost.

And calculating this way, if strawberry seedlings can be perennial economic crops, even if production decreases by 10%-20% every year, calculating back and forth, it can still save a lot of effort and money!

As long as there is profit to be made, farmers have demand.

And what they study agriculture to solve is the demand that is always developing with the weather and environment.

Song Tan understood.

Not talking about merits in the present and benefits for the future, just saying that the spiritual energy she mobilized urged these strawberries to fight desperately to grow and develop, and the results brought are also beneficial to people, right?

Strawberries are beneficial, then the chestnut trees, tea trees, and peach trees on the mountain, is it possible that they are also evolving themselves?

It's just that they are woody plants, and the changes won't be highlighted so quickly.

After all, agricultural research, starting from 10 years, is the norm.

Without the test of a long time, they wouldn't dare to launch it to the market at all, otherwise, it would affect thousands of households.

Tang Xiaodong said excitedly:

"The most critical point is that they have clearly left the environment of Yunqiao Village. But the quality of the strawberries still remains at the peak of the market's conventional quality."

"We want to invite the teacher over, just to have him preside over this project. If possible, propagate more of the fifth-generation stolons this year, and then send them to experimental fields across the country to track the results."

If it can be promoted, if the traits and results can be stabilized...

The three of them looked at Song Tan together, their eyes full of surging fighting spirit and shining brilliance.

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