Chapter 521 The Magical Desert Plant - The Big-bellied Tree

Wang Yong has been hiding in Uncle Battle's ranch, running around the grassland with two little girls every day, picking mushrooms, hunting, fishing, and playing games, but he just doesn't do his job, which makes the dark old Li who is busy in the city angry.

So, Lao Li came over alone, claiming that he was here to settle accounts with Wang Yong, but after arriving here......

"Well, this steak is really good, but I still like that little pheasant stew with mushrooms, it's so fresh!"

After speaking, Lao Li picked up the bowl and drank the remaining little soup inside, and then clicked his lips unsatisfied, and looked at Wenwen and Qiqige with his eyes.

To be exact, they all looked at the big bowl of chicken and mushrooms in front of the two of them, as well as the chicken soup that exuded a thick and delicious flavor, and his eyes glowed red, which was very scary.

"Mine!"

As soon as Kikige saw this uncle staring at the meat in his bowl with strange eyes, he immediately reluctant, and protected the bowl in front of him.

Wenwen frowned slightly, looked at this edible Uncle Li, and looked at the lot of meat and delicious mushrooms in his bowl, thought about it for a while, and felt that although Uncle Li had already eaten a lot of meat, he was definitely more than he could eat as an adult, probably because he was not full yet.

"That's just a little bit for you!"

After speaking, Wenwen stretched out her chopsticks and took out a large piece of chicken thigh meat from her own bowl, and just wanted to put it in Uncle Li's bowl.

Suddenly, a pair of chopsticks reached out like lightning next to her, and before she could react, she had already put the piece of meat she picked up back into her own bowl.

"Wenwen is good, eat it yourself, don't worry about him. You see there's so much meat there, enough for him to eat! ”

This was naturally done by Wang Yong, after saying these words to Wenwen, he turned his head and glared fiercely at Lao Li, who was so shameless that he didn't go offline and grabbed meat with children.

"You said that you are not busy with work, and you can just go here to play for two days, are you really embarrassed to grab meat with a child?"

"Do you dare to talk about me?"

Lao Li heard Wang Yong say this about him. Immediately furious. Is this company your good, how many shares do I have? You, the major shareholder, the chairman has almost never taken care of the company's affairs, and it is good to be idle every day.

Especially this time, it was originally a job you gave me, but I couldn't see you after coming here for less than a day.

Okay, we're tired and busy over there, but you're here to eat and drink to nourish your fat! It's not too big, okay?

"You'll go back in a while, I'll go back to Mid-Levels Village right away. You can do it yourself! Lao Tzu doesn't serve it, is it? ”

"Calm, calm! Do you have to be kind? ”

……

Wenwen and Qiqige saw that the two of them were arguing again, the two little ones looked at each other, Qi Qi rolled his eyes and showed a wry smile, and then took the big bowl full of meat with a heart, quietly left here, and ran outside to eat.

Since Lao Li came over yesterday, every time it was time to eat, the two always had to have such a quarrel that they called "debate and reasoning" when they were almost eating. Everyone has been used to persuasion since the beginning.

Humanity is truly such a powerful race!

When Wenwen and the two of them finished eating the meat in the bowl and returned here with a small puppy in their arms, Wang Yong and Lao Li were already discussing business.

"Have you come up with a solution? If the aqueduct and desalination plant are built, the treatment will begin. I'm afraid that the area of desertification will increase by at least tens of thousands of acres! ”

"I've thought about it, on the one hand, let's recruit some migrant workers and build a sand wall to stop the desert from spreading and continuing to encroach on the grassland. On the other hand, I wanted to figure out how to improve the soil in that meadow. At the very least, we have to allow more vegetation to grow there and curb the trend of desertification, which is becoming more and more severe. ”

Wang Yong furrowed his brows and said. While still thinking about something. In fact, he had already prepared a magical plant in his small world, but the number of seedlings he had propagated had not yet reached his requirements.

In fact, there are many drought-resistant plants in the world, such as cacti and cacti that can grow in the desert. There is also the bottle tree, which is native to South America, which is also a very amazing plant.

The bottle tree is also called the spindle tree, the radish tree, the Buddha belly tree, etc., mainly growing in the Brazilian plateau of South America, looking from a distance, it is like a giant spindle inserted in the ground.

This tree can grow up to 30 meters tall, with thin tips at both ends, thick in the middle, and up to four or five meters in diameter at the thickest point, and can store two or three tons of clean water inside.

The tree's well-developed root system allows it to store as much water as possible in its body after the short rainy season, like a natural water tower.

At the same time, the sparse branches and heart-shaped leaves that grow at the top of the tree usually germinate during the rainy season, and many of the leaves dry up and fall off during the dry season, so as to reduce the evaporation and loss of water from the body.

In the local area, when people encounter water shortage or thirst, as long as they dig a small hole in the tree, there will be a cool and thirst-quenching clean water source flowing out continuously, relieving people's water shortage problem.

At present, this tree species has been introduced in many places in southern China, but most of them exist as an ornamental plant.

However, because it is a tropical plant, and most of China's deserts belong to temperate or cold climate zones, it is simply impossible to grow this plant that is very useful in the desert on a large scale.

Another plant, the traveler's banana, which is native to the African island of Madagascar and is known as the "national tree" of Madagascar, is another plant that can also store water.

Traveler's banana, also known as traveler's tree, fan plantain, peacock tree, is a tropical sightseeing plant. At first glance, it looks like a tree, but it is actually a herbaceous plant. The leaves are very large, and they are very similar to plantains. Its leaves are arranged on the left and right, and are very symmetrical.

Although it is a herbaceous plant, it can grow to twenty meters tall, fifty or sixty centimeters thick, and the leaves are thick and strong, and ordinary ones can grow to three or four meters. The huge leaves provide shelter from the elements, and the fruit is very similar to bananas and tastes similar.

At the bottom of each petiole of each traveler's banana is a "water reservoir" that resembles a large spoon, and one can store several pounds of clean and directly quoted water. As long as someone makes a hole in this area, it will be like an open faucet, gushing out a cool and sweet spring for people to drink happily. Quench your thirst in the heat.

At the same time, the reason why the traveler's banana is called this name is also because it has a very special ability. It is said that in the place of origin, the direction of growth of this plant always points in one direction. On the one hand, it can give people directions, and it can also provide people with water, which is probably why people affectionately call it Traveler's Banana.

However, this plant can not adapt to the climate of China's desert area, and its growth environment is also in the tropical desert, which is very light-loving, and likes high temperature and humid climate. The minimum temperature must not be lower than eight degrees Celsius. The soil is required to be loose, fertile, well drained, and low-lying water is avoided.

Obviously, this crop is also not suitable for growing on the temperate grassland that Wang Yong is about to contract. However, this was difficult for Wang Yong, who released the purchase information through the guò space trading system, and soon there were more than a dozen desert plants that made his eyes shine.

After a comparative selection, he finally chose a strange plant from a desert planet that he named the Big-bellied Tree.

Eighty percent of the planet is desert Gobi, only about 15 percent is suitable for human survival, and less than 3 percent of the water source is located.

on the planet. Water is the most valuable resource for survival. A plant that resembles the bottle tree on the earth has become the most important source of clean water for the local race to survive and thrive.

Because of this, the local natives on this planet have deified the tree. It is regarded as a kind of sacred object similar to the worship of species on the earth, and is worshiped as a god.

An interstellar traveler has obtained tens of thousands of seedlings and large trees of these trees and planted them in a small world, hoping that they will reproduce as many seedlings as possible. At the same time, it also allows them to absorb some aura, so that they can better adapt to the climate here on earth in the future, so as to lay a solid foundation for Wang Yong's transformation plan.

That's why I say that. It is because of the characteristics of the tree itself. It resembles a bottle tree, with the same thin tips at the ends and thick in the middle.

It's just that unlike the bottle tree on the earth, it doesn't grow very tall, at most more than four meters tall, and most of them are only about two meters tall and no longer grow tall. However, it grows very thick, and the largest tree in diameter can exceed two meters, and it is exactly the shape of a round radish.

This body size is very suitable for the cold and windy sandy climate of the grassland, if it grows too tall, a gust of wind may break its bones and tendons, and it will die.

At the same time, its leaves are not heart-shaped leaves like the bottle tree, but large leaves similar to those of the plantain tree, but the leaves are few, usually a dozen leaves.

The leaves have long petioles with a large nodule at the base of the petiole, where a kilogram or two of water with a cool banana-like aromatic flavor can be stored.

The "belly" of the whole pot-bellied tree is said to be able to store four or five tons of purified water that can be directly drunk, and it is extremely cool and thirst-quenching.

The water in the belly of these trees also contains a lot of trace elements and minerals, which is very suitable for human drinking, which is the ultimate reason why Wang Yong finally chose this plant to introduce to the earth.

At the same time, this tree is very adaptable to the environment, not only can grow in tropical areas, but also can adapt well to the cold low temperature climate, but once the temperature is below zero, its leaves will fall off and begin to count in the hibernation state. It will not wake up again until the temperature rises to minus 10 degrees Celsius.

Corresponding to its strong vitality, this plant is not easy to reproduce. Its trees can only produce a maximum of four or five fruits per year, and each fruit contains only one seed.

If the drought lasts too long, they don't store enough water, the fruit won't be able to take shape, and eventually not a single seed will be left.

However, in the small world, where the superior environment and strong aura nourish, these newly transplanted pot-bellied trees grow very well. Time accelerated, and there were already tens of thousands of large trees and tens of thousands of large and small saplings in their area.

Moreover, after these saplings arrived in the small world, some trees even mutated in a way that surprised Wang Yong. Their huge root system produces nutrients through photosynthesis that improve the subsoil, allowing them to go from barren soil to fertile soil. (To be continued......)

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