An Chen rode the sunspot and landed with Luo Qingye to the south of the Emperor's Sky Shield headquarters.

Looking down from above, the area looks like a normal suburban greenery. However, when you get closer, you can see clusters of purple and red grapes between the dense green leaves below, and the rows of conveyor belts below are transporting the fruits picked by the collectors.

Grapes are also domesticated species, they have relatively small flowers, but the fruits are much larger than wild species. The vineyards of Paanca are home to five varieties of grapes, the largest of which can be up to 30 centimeters in diameter and the smallest that is the size of a man's palm. For a complete bunch of grapes, a single large fruit can bear about 10 fruits, a single fruit small can produce more than 20 fruits, and the weight of a whole bunch can reach 50 kilograms, so the vineyard collector has to work hard just to cut the grape bunches and lift them to the conveyor belt, which is really impossible to do without effort.

When there are other passengers, Kuroko is still more personable, and knows that he has to stop on the flat ground and put people down first. After An Chen and Luo Qingye got off the ground, it jumped into the air again and jumped onto a flower in the bee stable, and couldn't wait to get into it and eat it.

"Eat, eat, eat, know to eat!" An Chen shouted at Kuroko's back, and all that responded to her was Kuroko shaking the needle on his tail.

The tail spines of the Black Eagle Hornet are simply frighteningly large, and this species of wasp was bred for aerial combat in the Cold Weapon Age. Skilled riders of ancient times could instruct hornets in the air to turn their bellies upside down and pierce enemy armor with tail spikes. When Kuroko was a child, she accidentally stabbed An Chen several times with her tail, and the most serious one pierced her left forearm. Fortunately, An Chen was still in the palace at that time, and after receiving timely medical treatment, he only left a faint scar on his arm.

When he was a child, Kuroko would fight and play with An Chen, but not anymore. It has long understood that Anchen is a human and not a hornet, and humans do not have an exoskeleton and cannot poke casually like a hornet.

Luo Qingye was still a little afraid of it, and he was even more frightened when he saw its long tail thorns. After entering the gate of the vineyard, he whispered to An Chen, "Your hornet...... You should be pretty obedient, right? ”

"That's it." An Chen said "modestly", "I dare not say how obedient I am, it's just that my face is valuable." ”

An Chen often said that Kuroko listened to her orders because he gave her face. Originally, after she was usurped and fled the palace, Kuroko could no longer be An Chen's special hornet, but it still chose to leave the palace Black Eagle Bee team and came out to find An Chen. An Chen is no longer a prince or a pope, and Kuroko follows her not to submit to human power, but simply out of friendship that grew up together. It's just that this is also troublesome, and it has to go back to visit its queen bee once a week, so that Anchen will never be able to ride the hornet one day.

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The vineyard is built in a similar area to the collection farm in Yuezhao Town, with a row of simple and low-rise houses used as a winery, office building, warehouse, staff living quarters and canteen.

Luo Qingye looked through the specially reserved glass floor-to-ceiling window on the side of the brewery. Even though he could only see the large barrels that filled the room, he looked at it for a long time.

The air is filled with the smell of grapes, mixed with a pleasant wine and a raw smell that looks like undercooked leafy greens. Luo Qingye was a little curious about where the legendary Miss Greco would arrange to meet, but An Chen skipped the row of buildings and walked towards the vineyard.

The height of the vines from above seems to be the same as that of ordinary flowers, but when you walk through the ground, you can really feel the height of the vines. The pergolas they wrap around are made of steel, and the old vines at the bottom are as thick as the mouth of a bowl, climbing up to two meters above the ground, and many bunches of grapes grow from a height of at least one and a half meters above the ground.

The road that An Chen took Luo Qingye took, and the grape varieties planted in the two fields on both sides were different. It can be clearly distinguished from the appearance of the late-maturing "Xinyu" variety that bears blue-purple frosty fruits about 15 centimeters in diameter, while the "Red Night" that bears purple-red fruits of more than 20 centimeters directly and purple-red is currently in the harvest season.

Luo Qingye noticed that some of the grapes that were still hanging on the vine were ripe and slightly shrunken, and couldn't help but ask a little strangely: "Hey, these grapes are already ripe, right?" Why don't you pick it yet? ”

"Red Nights needs to be lightly dried on the trees." An Chen made a tour guide and explained eloquently, "You know, the 'Red Night' variety was produced when the grapes were transmitted from the middle latitudes to the high latitudes. Because of the lack of effective accumulated temperature and the lack of sweetness, the growers who introduced the grapes could not sell the fruits, and they were worried at night when they looked at the grapes on the vines that were drying up and wrinkled. Unexpectedly, the grapes that were overripe and dehydrated naturally developed a wine aroma, so they used to pick these lightly dried grapes to make wine, and found that the wine produced had a pleasant sweet and sour feeling. This was the result of the selection of these grapes, which resulted in the formation of a variety dedicated to the production of low-alcohol red wines, named 'Red Night'. ”

"I understand what you said about this 'night', but why is it called 'red' night?" Luo Qingye asked.

"What color is this grape?" An Chen asked him rhetorically.

"It's red." Luo Qingye replied.

An Chen clapped his hands: "Isn't this over." ”

"Whew." Luo Qingye smiled, frowning at her while laughing, "Is what you said true?" ”

"Do you want to hear it really? The truth is that all grapes are bred by the Institute of Agronomy of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. There were thousands of strains selected in the early days, all of them with any name, but one of the successful ones was called 'Red Night'. An Chen spread his hands and said, "The truth sounds boring, and most people like to listen to stories." ”

However, Luo Qingye said: "But I still like to hear the truth." And breeding is probably a very difficult thing, but the experts at the Institute of Agronomy regard it as a lifelong career, and this story can't be called 'boring', is it? ”

Hearing his words, An Chen was suddenly a little moved. Isn't she doing something that is also difficult and not in the public eye? An Chen firmly believes that aerospace is of great significance to civilization, and she and many comrades regard it as their life's work, but they do not know what they can achieve, and they do not even know whether this path is truly meaningful to human civilization......

It takes a lifetime to do hard things, so people are always worried about whether their career is worth their time. Some people give up and go to work that is relatively easy and can be expected to be successful at a glance, while others are desperate to devote themselves to a career with little hope of success, as if they have embarked on a path from which there is no branch and no turning back.

An Chen sighed, showing a little depth in front of Luo Qingye for the first time: "Of course, successful cultivation is not 'boring', but if thousands of cultivators are cultivated without success, it may be a bit of a tragedy." ”

Fortunately, at least the shield of the sky has built a rocket and launched a satellite, and it can be considered that she has succeeded in a sense, so she no longer has to worry about complete failure.