Chapter 3 Small Family Meetings
In the living room, Chen Mingren, who had been in the field before, had returned, and he was sitting on the main seat, next to a pot of local Maojian tea. At this moment, accompanied by the fragrance of tea rising from the teapot, Chen Mingren held a cup of tea but stared at the rice in the rice basket in the center of the living room with his deep eyes, and his deep eyes revealed a touch of excitement from time to time.
"This grain is indeed auspicious...... next to the rice basket, there is a man about twenty-seven or eighteen years old who stretches out his hand to feel the full grains in the rice basket. The man looks ordinary, but his eyes are shrewd, and he can see that he is not an ordinary person.
Chen Liqun, Chen Liqing's second brother, is 28 years old this year. Although he was young, he already controlled most of the Chen family's business and shops, in addition, he was also influenced by the Qing policy, and opened a flour mill in the last year or two, the flour mill business was okay, and the flour produced was enough to supply the consumption of Pingyue and several surrounding counties, in addition, he also recently opened a store in Guiyang to sell flour, and he was the head of the family.
At this moment, Chen Liqun looked at the newly baked rice carefully, and looking at this basket of grains, he couldn't help but exclaim.
"Dad, is this thing really made by the fifth brother? By his strange experiments? After being amazed, he suddenly thought of the origin of this grain, Chen Liqun looked at Chen Mingren again, as if he wanted to get a negative answer from the latter.
Although he didn't understand Chen Liqing's experiments, he vaguely felt that those strange waters were not so magical.
However, Chen Mingren nodded lightly under his gaze.
"It's really a little brother, he ...... He didn't know if he could get these seeds again, if such some rice was brought to the market, I'm afraid it would ......" Looking at his father and nodding, Chen Liqun turned his head to look at these grains again, but he had a little plan in his heart.
"I don't know how Xiaoqing made this kind of seed, maybe he made it out of randomness, if it is mass-produced......" Listening to the words from the second son's mouth, Chen Mingren's eyes lit up, but when he saw that there were only so many grains in the basket, his voice was lowered again.
Such a good seed was made by the younger son, so is it okay to get the younger son again?
Chen Mingren also has no bottom.
However, just when his voice was low, Chen Liqing's voice came from outside: "Dad, what's the matter with me?" ”
"Huh? Second brother, you also came back from the ground? ”
Walking into the living room, Chen Liqing saw his second brother at a glance.
"Whew...... Younger brother. Turning his head and looking at Chen Liqing who came in, Chen Liqun said with a touch of expectation and curiosity: "I heard that the younger brother has grown good things, how can the second brother miss this meeting, those tenants in the field have already spread the word that you have planted auspicious rui......
"Xiangrui, of course the second brother wants to take a look."
"Has it all spread? So fast? ”
Touching his head, Chen Liqing was also a little surprised that the news spread so quickly.
"Of course it's that fast." Chen Liqun nodded firmly, but his eyes stared straight at Chen Liqing, as if he wanted to see something in the eyes of this fifth brother.
However, how could Chen Liqing let the second brother see anything, he ignored the second brother's eyes, and looked up at Chen Mingren on the main seat: "Dad, what's the matter with me?" ”
Chen Liqing was naturally not stupid, and he had vaguely guessed what Chen Mingren had asked him to come here, but he pretended to be stupid.
"Of course it's okay to call you here, let's sit down first."
"Liqun, you also sit......" Chen Mingren asked the two to sit down separately.
Chen Liqing and Chen Liqun naturally sat down obediently, the two of them had just finished their jobs, and their eyes were on Chen Mingren.
Although Chen Mingren is no longer an official, and the things he manages are all handed over to Chen Liqun to take care of, he will still ask about any major events in the family.
Today, the rice given by Chen Liqing grows such a good quality millet, and he naturally needs to ask about it.
Sure enough, he glanced at Chen Liqing, and then said directly to Chen Liqing: "Xiaoqing, you said before that the seeds that planted this rice were blistered by the water you did the experiment, I don't know if you remember what kind of water you used to soak it in the beginning?" ”
Chen Liqun also decisively set his sights on Chen Liqing.
The gazes of the two made Chen Liqing feel a little pressure, but he had long expected this to happen, and without hesitation, he nodded and said, "Remember." ”
"Oh!"
"Little brother, do you really remember?"
Chen Mingren's eyes suddenly lit up, and Chen Liqun almost jumped up from his seat in surprise.
What does this yield of seeds mean Chen Liqun knows very well that once his family masters it, then his family's harvest next year will not be a little bit. And once this seed is planted on a large scale and spreads, it will have a great merit, Chen Liqun and Chen Mingren dare not imagine.
But one thing they can be sure of is that once this news is really confirmed, then the Qing court will definitely be shaken, and it must be taken extremely seriously!
Chen Mingren's chest was obviously a little undulating, and the teacup he was holding just now was also trembling, although Chen Liqun was more intense than him, but this news was also shocking to Chen Mingren. However, the subtle caution made him stare at Chen Liqing deadly, as if he wanted to see something different from Chen Liqing's casual expression.
In the face of the performance of his father and second brother, Chen Liqing's face remained unchanged, and the two of them looked at each other. However, after only looking at it for more than ten seconds, Chen Liqing interrupted the quietness.
"Second brother, Dad, I remember, but I can't get the amount of this thing, I can only get some experiments, if you want to plant it on a large scale, I'm afraid it will take a year or two of experiments."
"Huh? How? ”
Chen Mingren and Chen Liqun were breathing a sigh of relief, where did they think that Chen Liqing would give such a sentence again, and their hearts hung almost at the same time.
"Xiaoqing, what's the difficulty?" Chen Mingren frowned slightly, and Chen Liqing's feeling of pausing when he said something made him quite unhappy.
"Dad, it's a little difficult." Turning his head to look at Chen Mingren, Chen Liqing said: "Because I am still in the experimental stage, although I can make this kind of seed again, but I can't grasp the amount well, even if it is planted, the yield may not be very good." I'm going to need to experiment with other seeds, and it will take maybe a year or two for me to master those potions, and then I will be able to make stable seeds. ”
Two years later, the Xinhai Revolution would have begun, and if Chen Liqing had come up with a large-scale supply of high-quality seeds, he could imagine that the traditional father would definitely take this seed and report it to the imperial court. After all, his father can be regarded as a scholar who worries about the country and the people, and he definitely doesn't want to see hungry people everywhere.
You must know that the Qing country is so big, if you really promote his seeds, you can invisibly save many Li people. When the time comes, not to mention saving the people, it may also pull the dying Qing Guo back from the death line, he Chen Liqing is not so noble, and he wants to continue to be a fool of the Qing country.
At the same time, he has just crossed into this era, if he throws out something with such a big impact at once, it will cause a butterfly effect, and the Xinhai Revolution will be postponed or advanced, then the advantage of his traveler will be gone. Therefore, before the revolution was not launched as expected, Chen Liqing was resolute not to let such a perverted thing circulate.
If you want to plant, you can only plant it in a small place like Pingyue, plant it on your own territory, plant it quietly, and after planting, you have to work hard to store it and make a combat reserve after two years.
"Oh, that's right."
Chen Mingren's heart that hung in his heart finally fell, he still thought that Chen Liqing had other difficulties, a year or two, of course he Chen Mingren could afford to wait.
"It's only possible to get a little bit, and the seeds are still unstable?" But compared to Chen Mingren, Chen Liqun still had some hot eyes just now, and after listening to Chen Liqing's words, he was a little cool.
He just thought that if this kind of rice could really be cultivated on a large scale, he might be able to expand the Chen family's business with just such a rice, and expand it several times. However, Chen Liqing's words were like cold water poured down.
Next, after the matter was discussed, Chen Mingren picked up a few key questions and asked Chen Liqing, and after Chen Liqing got his satisfactory answers, he announced that this brief family meeting was over and Chen Liqing could go. However, Chen Liqun was asked by him to stay.
Chen Liqing has always been a child, although he is a little more mature in front of Chen Mingren and Chen Liqun, but the two of them treat Chen Liqing as a child as always, even if he makes hybrid rice that is enough to change the appearance of the countryside of the Qing Dynasty, he is still a child.
Of course, Chen Liqing understood this, so he walked out of the living room with a sense of frustration, but he didn't leave, but waited outside the living room for a few minutes.
"Huh? Fifth brother, why are you still here? ”
Half an hour later, when Chen Liqun came out of the living room, he saw Chen Liqing who had not left.
"Second brother." Looking at the mature and not too old-fashioned second brother, Chen Liqing took a breath: "I have something I want to ask the second brother for help......