When Zhou Fuliu went to Qunfang Building to redeem Youlan, He Zhiyuan was sitting in a warm room like spring to review the admission exam questions of the Vocational and Technical College..141biz.

The students he wants to recruit are not those nerds who read to death, so it is impossible for He Zhiyuan to take the Bagu article. The test questions he put out are mainly to test students' adaptability and thinking judgment, so these questions are a bit strange, similar to the questions of the civil service examination in later generations. If a candidate sees these test questions and encounters a bad brain, he must be in a hurry to grab it.

Originally, He Zhiyuan planned to open the vocational college in the fall, but it backfired, and he encountered embarrassment when enrolling students, and few young students were willing to come to the college. Fortunately, the emperor checked his pen and approved Liang Wensheng's performance, and this academy came back to life. But the next block of the Huai'an grain ship case delayed the affairs of the college. Now that the New Year is less than two months away, the opening of the academy can only be postponed after the beginning of spring next year. In this way, the entrance exam is not so urgent.

Today is the day when Yan Jihai replied to him, so He Zhiyuan didn't go out, waiting for his reply at home.

After a while, Yan Jihai was led by his family to the room. Although He Zhiyuan told him that the apprenticeship of science does not have the Confucian cliché of binding the six rites, and the apprenticeship of three bows and nine bows. Yan Jihai still followed his father's instructions and brought lotus seeds, longan, dates, celery, red beans and pork strips, and then knelt down to finish the apprenticeship ceremony, and offered tea for He Zhiyuan to drink before he would stop.

Looking at the six salutes brought by Yan Jihai, one of the bundles of celery caught his attention, and it was not easy to find celery in winter. Although the celery neutrons are a little yellow, the stems are still moist and have not dried up. He Zhiyuan was puzzled, so he asked Yan Jihai: "Where did you find this bundle of celery in the winter?" ”

Yan Jihai replied respectfully: "This is from my family's vegetable cellar. ”

He Zhiyuan only heard that Chinese cabbage can be stored in the vegetable cellar in winter, but he has never heard that celery can be stored, and asked Yan Jihai with doubts on his face: "Celery can also be stored in the vegetable cellar?" ”

Yan Jihai replied respectfully: "Yes, dig out the celery by the roots, and then transfer it to the cellar to fill the soil and bury it deeply, as long as the soil on the roots is kept moist, it can be preserved for the whole winter." ”

After hearing Yan Jihai say this, He Zhiyuan nodded thoughtfully, and remembered the winter warming greenhouses in the experimental field in the north of the city, since the last time he went there, He Zhiyuan had never been there. Take advantage of some time today, why not go out of the city to inspect the situation over there.

Then he asked Yan Jihai again: "Xiao Yan, have all the messengers over there in the workshop been explained?" ”

"I've already explained it, and I haven't been there for long. I heard that the priest came here to do things because he worshipped you as a teacher. I was also very happy, and encouraged me before leaving, and said that if I developed in the future, don't forget over there. Yan Jihai said in a respectful voice.

"Okay, just explain it. Today, the teacher will take you to open your eyes and see the places where you can grow vegetables in winter. ”

"Where you can grow vegetables in winter? Wouldn't that be as warm as the master's room? Yan Jihai said in surprise.

"Well, almost, you'll know when you go."

Subsequently, He Zhiyuan asked the housekeeper to arrange the room for Yan Jihai and put the salutes he brought

Later, he asked the coachman to set up the car and took the apprentice out of the city.

Today the sky has completely cleared, but the weather is still cold, the fields outside the city are still covered with deep snow, and the wheat seedlings are pressed by the snow, and there is no green in sight. The snow on the road was slippery and slippery from the pedestrians and carriages, so the carriages were extra cautious and did not go very fast.

It took nearly half an hour to arrive at the journey of more than ten miles, and the two of them just got off the carriage and looked north, and the bright and shining, facing the sun, was simply a blinding rhythm. Yan Jihai asked in surprise: "Master, what is that in front?" Why is it so bright? ”

"That's the winter warming greenhouse in the experimental field, which is the place where I said you can grow vegetables in winter, let's go in and have a look." He Zhiyuan said with a little pride.

The two came to the front of the nearest greenhouse, Yan Jihai curiously touched the glittering object with his hand, and suddenly stammered loudly and exclaimed: "Master, this, this, this is actually glass?" ”

"What are you screaming about, making a fuss. Look at you, you look like my apprentice! He Zhiyuan reprimanded: "Let the old farmers inside laugh at you when they hear it!" ”

Yan Jihai heard the master's reprimand, and then said in a low voice: "Master, such a glass conservatory costs tens of thousands of taels of silver, right?" Lord Liang is really willing to spend money. Can anyone afford the vegetables grown in this field? ”

He Zhiyuan pursed his lips and said, "You pull it down, can Lord Liang be willing to spend money to build such a greenhouse?" You just let him guard a mountain of gold, and he is reluctant. This is built for the teacher to give them! ”

Yan Jihai was so shocked that he could stuff an egg into his mouth, stuck out his tongue and didn't speak, thinking in his heart, how much money does the master have to have, such a greenhouse, just the glass money is worth more than 100,000 taels of silver. What kind of vegetables does the master want to grow in it? Are you willing to invest such a large amount of money?

The master and apprentice, one in front of the other, entered a greenhouse. As soon as I entered the shed, a warm and humid air flow came to my face. Yan Jihai didn't dare to shout this time, because he saw a few old farmers in this shed bending over to work.

Yan Jihai looked down at the field, the ground was planted with cucumbers, some of the tender green cucumber seedlings were just more than two feet high, and some were three or four feet tall and had already bloomed small yellow flowers, and the melon vines began to climb up the melon stand that had been erected. The old farmer was planting branches in the field to build a frame for the gherkin seedlings.

When the old farmer saw someone coming in, he straightened his waist and looked at it, and he was very surprised. Hurriedly stopped what he was doing and walked over. He rubbed his hands a little embarrassed and said, "It turned out that He Gongzi was here, and on such a cold day, you don't even have a decent place for you to sit." ”

It wasn't until he got closer that He Zhiyuan saw that he was the one who talked to him last time. It was He Zhiyuan who said kindly: "Uncle is not polite, I happen to be free today, so I will take my apprentice to take a look." ”

Then He Zhiyuan asked again: "Uncle, how about growing vegetables in this winter greenhouse?" ”

The old farmer praised: "Well, not bad! As long as there is sun outside, it is very warm inside, and at noon, it is warmer than summer, and it is better than the conservatory of rich people. ”

Then, he was embarrassed for a long time before he said: "I don't know why, the cucumbers planted only bloom, but they don't bear much, or they bear a deflated calf (Note: The meaning of deformity in Juzhou dialect. I heard the people in the village say that growing vegetables in winter is against the harmony of the sky

To only bloom and not bear fruit. ”

He Zhiyuan listened, and was amused for a while, readers in this era encounter things they don't understand, and they don't know how to pretend to understand, no matter what they do, they have something to do with the heavens and ghosts.

In later generations, there were many out-of-season vegetables in the countryside, didn't they all grow well? What does this have to do with ghosts and gods. If there is only flowering and not fruiting, the most likely reason is that the flowers are not pollinated or the same plant is pollinated. Because cucumbers are monoecious unisexual flowers, they must be cross-pollinated by bees and butterflies to produce beautiful cucumbers.

He Zhiyuan understands this too well. In his previous life, he planted vegetables in greenhouses, and every flowering season, he had to put a box of bees in the greenhouse to let the bees collect nectar and pollinate, so that melons and fruits could grow well.

So, He Zhiyuan told the old farmer: "Don't listen to the nonsense of the people in the village, this flowering and not bearing fruit has nothing to do with Tianhe, which contains some scientific truths." ”

At this time, Yan Jihai interjected: "Master, I think the environment in this winter greenhouse is very different from the environment in the spring field, you see that except for cucumbers, there are no butterflies, bees, birds and other animals, not even wind." Do you think this doesn't have anything to do with this? ”

When He Zhiyuan heard him say this, he couldn't help but praise: "You are not wrong at all, it has something to do with the environment here." ”

Then, He Zhiyuan asked the old farmer to call everyone else to come to the greenhouse, and began to explain to them how to distinguish the male and female flowers of cucumber flowers, how to pollinate and other knowledge.

He Zhiyuan found the two cucumber flowers and said, "Everyone, please take a closer look at what is the difference between these two flowers?" ”

Those old farmers looked at it for a long time, and they couldn't tell the difference between the two flowers, only Yan Jihai said: "Master, the flower & core in one of these two flowers is relatively large, and the other flower & core is relatively small. There is also something like a gherkin underneath the one with the big flower, and the other one does not. ”

As soon as Yan Jihai said this, the old farmers around him discovered the difference between the two flowers, He Zhiyuan nodded again and again, and thought to himself, it seems that Xiao Yan's apprentice has received the right thing, this kid is not a nerd who reads death, and is very good at observing.

So He Zhiyuan continued: "Xiao Yan is very right, these two flowers with thick flowers & cores are female flowers, and the other is male flowers. ”

Then he broke a small twig, tore a little cotton from an old farmer's shabby padded jacket, and wrapped it around the branch. Take this branch and gently dip the end of the cotton in the male flower core a few times, and then lightly in the female flower core a few times.

Then he told everyone: "Then the female flower has been pollinated successfully, and it can produce normal cucumbers in the future." ”

The old farmers exclaimed: "It turns out that there is still so much knowledge here, and after planting for half a lifetime, it is the first time I heard that cucumbers are divided into female and male flowers." ”

At this time, He Zhiyuan also slowly realized that this experimental field could not only hire experienced old farmers to grope around, they were all uneducated, and it was impossible to talk about learning things. It seems like a fool's dream to let him breed, and this agricultural production needs to be guided by scientific methods.

The people live on food, and without food, everything is nonsense. With the advent of the Xiaoice River season and the temperature getting lower and lower, how to increase grain production seems to be a more urgent issue......

(End of chapter)

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