Chapter 517: The Most Precious Rice
Zheng Xudong also had a headache when he heard La Nina mention the matter of farming again.
His headache is not that there is no land, no water, but that there are too few seeds, and now there is too much land, and scattering 3,000 tons of seeds in 300 square kilometers (200 square kilometers in Abu Dhabi, 100 square kilometers in Dubai) is like sprinkling a small spoonful of stir-fried peppercorn noodles into a standard swimming pool, and he can't even adjust the flavor. But now the premise of the company's business is that fresh pasture grass must grow on the desert or the Gobi, otherwise even cowboys will not be able to recruit, and what is there to talk about raising cattle!
Lan Nina saw Zheng Xudong's frowning brows and asked, "Adong, are you worried about the number of seeds?"
"Yes, my dear, what I'm worried about now is that there is too much land, and there are too few seeds, Nevada and my country have 3,500 square kilometers of land to plant, and these seeds are not even enough to plant a piece of land, alas! There is no grass growing on the ground, and no work can be carried out!" Zheng Xudong said with some worry.
"Why don't you use my 3,000 tons of grass seeds first! Lanina said as she leaned on his chest.
"My dear, I'm too embarrassed to tell you if you don't say it yourself. I really have the idea to take some of your seeds here first. But I really don't know how to speak!"
"Adong, I'm your person, everything about me is yours, as long as you don't abandon me and think about me. Lanina said with some sadness.
"Rest assured, my dear, I will not abandon my woman. In this case, I will first plant 50 square kilometers of pasture grass for you, and you will first recruit cowboys, buy cows, and build some infrastructure, such as cowsheds, houses, roads, and so on. When you're done with all of this, I hope to be able to raise a fair portion of the seeds or plant some economic trees in this time. You can ask an engineer from a forestry design institute to make a design for the land. ”
"Okay, as you said, I'll first prepare for cattle raising according to the area of fifty square kilometers of pasture, and then I will continue to harvest the seeds during this time, and you can take those seeds first. ”
"Where's your seed? I'll contact the freight to pull them away, you can sleep first!"
"Are you going to go so late, can't I deliver the goods tomorrow?" Lan Nina didn't want Zheng Xudong to leave her.
But how could Zheng Xudong let La Nina contact him, he wanted to receive the seeds into the space, and then use the biological genetic modification instrument to transform all these seeds, "My dear, I'm leaving tomorrow, I'll finish all the hard work today, and you won't have to bother anymore tomorrow, don't worry, I'll be back in two hours at most." ”
Seeing that he had made up her mind, Lanina told him the location of the seed storehouse, took out a bunch of keys in her bag, and told him that this was the key to the storehouse.
Zheng Xudong got up and quickly put on his clothes, then lay on the side of the bed and kissed La Nina on the forehead, "I'll be back in two hours, wait for me and let's continue to fight!" After speaking, Zheng Xudong hurriedly got out of the hotel and took a taxi and drove towards the place La Nina said.
The taxi driver saw that he had come out of the Palace Hotel, and kindly reminded: "Sir, the edge of the city there, next to the desert, is already so late, I'm afraid it's not safe." ”
"It's okay, I'll go get something from my warehouse, soon. Gives you double the price of the car. Zheng Xudong said.
As soon as the driver heard that there was double the car price, he couldn't care so much, and stepped on the accelerator and drove towards the warehouse.
Mercedes-Benz taxis drove for nearly an hour to arrive, and Zheng Xudong estimated that the warehouse was more than 100 kilometers away from the city center.
After coming to the warehouse, he told the driver to wait for him for ten minutes, he took out the key to open the warehouse and entered, and then closed the warehouse door, let Xiao Ai freeze the nearby surveillance, and then began to collect these seeds into the space.
After harvesting the 3,000 tons of seeds for ten minutes, I came out of the warehouse, locked the door, and got into a taxi back to the city.
When I got back to my hotel room, I saw that Lanina was already asleep.
The next morning, Zheng Xudong received a call from Rashid and had important work to deal with, so he didn't come to see him off, but said that he could rest assured that he would remember the matter of preparing for the shooting club. At the airport, I kissed Lanina goodbye reluctantly, boarded the plane and embarked on the road home.
Thousands of miles in the sky, Zheng Xudong said to Xiao Ai in his mind: "Xiao Ai, are you there?"
"Master, I'm here. What's the indication?"
"Hasn't the spaceship been upgraded since it absorbed energy last time?" asked Zheng Xudong.
"A few days ago, the owner exchanged energy for a bottle of genetic modification liquid to heal the hands of the second son of the Russian gangster, so the content of this upgrade has just been announced. ”
"Oh, tell me what it is, and have you added some new toys to me?" ”
"Nope. This ship upgrade unlocks two things. One is to add one square meter to your aircraft space. ”
Zheng Xudong was a little disappointed when he heard that the plane of the Gamma planet in his space added one square meter of space, although he could only sit in the pilot's chair when he was on the plane and couldn't go anywhere. "Xiao Ai, you can't do anything in a square meter of space!"
"At least it's better than nothing, it allows you to get up and move your muscles. And the size of this space can be upgraded later. ”
"Well, it's better than nothing. And what's that other thing?"
"Seeds!"
"Seeds? What seeds? It can't be grass seeds, I just lack that. It's great that the ship understands me so well!"
"It's not grass seeds. ”
"Ah!" Zheng Xudong was obviously a little disappointed when he heard that it was not a grass seed, and asked a little frustratedly, "What kind of seed is that?"
"The spacecraft unlocked a kilogram of rice seeds this time. ”
"Isn't rice just rice? Alas, Xiao Ai, this is very dampening my enthusiasm every time I upgrade!"
"This is no ordinary rice seed. It is a rouge rice that has been extinct in the 70s of the last century. ”
"Rouge rice, rouge rice, I seem to have heard someone say this rouge rice, but why can't I remember it!" Zheng Xudong gently knocked on the door of his head with his hand, and after a while, he suddenly said: "I remember!"
He came coldly and startled Sean, who was sitting across from him, and Sean asked a little unhappily, "What do you think of when you say this?"
"I'm sorry!" Zheng Xudong said with some embarrassment: "I accidentally got a kilogram of rice seeds, and I never knew what variety it was, but I just remembered it in a flash of inspiration." Sorry to disturb your rest, you continue to rest. ”
Sean got up from his seat, "I'll go to sleep in the back, or I'll be scared out of your illness sooner or later." After saying that, he took a thin blanket from the stewardess Oville's hand and walked to the back of the plane.
Zheng Xudong saw that Sean was a little pale, and hurriedly asked Xiao Ai in his mind, "Xiao Ai, is the seed unlocked by the spaceship the most famous rouge rice in the Kang, Yong, and Qian periods that my father told me back then?"
"Yes and no. Xiao Ai said in his mind: "This kind of rouge rice should be the ancestor of rouge rice during the Qing Dynasty, it is the first generation of rice seeds collected by the spaceship back then, and these rice seeds have also been strengthened by gamma galaxy technology, which is better than the rouge rice you know now!"
OH MY GOD! Zheng Xudong had heard his father, who studied ancient Chinese, say that this rice was first seen in the Qing Dynasty's HB local "County Records" in the Qing Dynasty, which recorded the attributes of this rice, this rice because of its flavor, aroma, reddish, long grains, red as rouge after cooking, "reddish color and long grains, fragrant and flavorful" is called Otian rouge rice, folk called red rice, in the past because it was the palace tribute rice famous.
The folk are familiar with this rice because of one of the famous four famous novels "Dream of Red Mansions", which records that this kind of rice will only be used to cook a bowl of porridge for Jia's mother to eat on her birthday, and Jia's mother herself only ate half a bowl, and the remaining half bowl was reluctant to eat, and gave it to Wang Xifeng, who was sick. In the fifty-third episode of "Dream of the Red Mansion", "Ningguo Mansion Chinese New Year's Eve Sacrifice Ancestral Hall", it is described that Wuzhuang Tou in Heishan Village paid rent, and the bills paid included a large number of firewood, rice, meat and eggs, and rice alone was divided into four grades, commonly used rice 1,000 stones, and "Yutian rouge rice two stones"; in the seventy-fifth episode, "Jia Muyin asked: 'There is porridge to eat.'" You Shi had already held a bowl and said that it was red rice porridge. Mother Jia took it and ate half a bowl, and then ordered: 'Give this porridge to Brother Feng to eat.' The red rice here is the Ota rouge rice, and judging from the amount sent by Wuzhuangtou, it only takes two stones a year, which shows that it is extremely precious. In the seventy times, when Jia's mother had a meal during the Mid-Autumn Festival, she wrote: "Jia's mother saw that her own few colored dishes had been arranged, and there were two large boxes with a few colored dishes, so she knew that it was the old rule of filial piety in each room." Later, when it came to eating porridge, You Shi hurriedly held the red rice porridge, which shows that this rice is only available in Ning Guofu, because it is extremely rare, only a bowl of porridge is made to honor Jia's mother during the solar term. This rice was not mentioned in the banquets held during the various festivals in Rongguo Mansion, but it can be known that the grange in Rongguo Mansion does not produce this rice, and Jia's mother only ate half a bowl because she knew it was precious, and the remaining half bowl was sent to the sick Feng girl.
By the time of Qianlong, this kind of rouge rice was designated as tribute rice, and later it was loved by Cixi Lafayette and ate this kind of rice.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he learned about this kind of rice from "Dream of Red Mansions" and wrote a letter to the HB Tangshan Prefectural Committee, asking to find this kind of rice and have the opportunity to entertain international friends. After receiving the "holy decree," the Tangshan Prefectural Committee lived up to expectations, found this kind of rice that had disappeared for many years, and then "paid tribute" to the central government, where it entertained then US President Nixon and Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.
At that time, Zheng Xudong's father told him that there was an "interesting" anecdote between Rouge Rice and Kakuei Tanaka. When Prime Minister Tanaka visited China the day before yesterday, he tasted this rice in the VIP seat, and he actually knew this rice, thought of it, cried loudly, and asked for this rice. Prime Minister Tanaka said that his troops were stationed in Tangshan during the invasion of China and that they had eaten this "red rice." Prime Minister Tanaka, who later returned to Japan, suffered from the defeat of the Japanese and Benese, and often had a situation where he could not eat enough, and every time he chewed rice balls that could be as plain as a stomach, Tanaka sighed to his colleagues: "In China, in Tangshan, China, there is a kind of red rice, which is the most delicious thing I have ever eaten in my life!" It can be said that eating rouge rice again is Tanaka's only long-cherished wish in this life. History made Tanaka the first prime minister to normalize Sino-Japanese relations, and in order to fulfill his long-cherished wish, during his visit to China, he insisted on exchanging three Mitsubishi off-road vehicles with HB Province for the seeds of rouge rice! Cochineal rice played a pivotal role in the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan, and witnessed the friendship between the two peoples.
Since then, Chinese mainland, including Greater China, has become extinct in the world, just in the seventies of the last century!