"Well, I know a merchant who has a batch of grain in his hand, which is said to have been shipped back from overseas. This batch of grain varieties is cold and drought tolerant, and not only is the yield not low, but it is also said that it can be planted in two crops a year. Shangguan Wei'an said.

"Really, really?" The village chief and the village elders were stunned when they heard this, "Is there really such a good grain seed?" ”

"I don't know, I listened to the businessman, the specific effect has to be planted to know. I've already ordered a batch from a merchant and want to try it out in my own field. Would you like to try to grow one? Don't plant too much first, a family plants a few points of land and an acre of land. Even if these two are not as good as the businessmen say, at least they are better than the inferior and good varieties issued by the government. Shangguan Wei'an said.

"This ......" The village chief and the village elders were moved.

But—

"We don't have money, we don't have new food." The village chief was extremely embarrassed.

Shangguan Wei'an said: "In this way, I will distribute a part of the new grain to everyone." ”

"No, how can I get you to pay." The village chief was busy waving his hand, and the village elders did not approve of this kind of taking advantage.

The village chief thought for a while and said, "In this way, even if we owe you, after the harvest in the second half of the year, let everyone return the grain you borrowed to you." “

"Don't be so troublesome, just let everyone exchange the grain issued by the government with me, one-to-one exchange, and none of us will take advantage of anyone." Shangguan Wei'an said with a smile.

The village chief and the village officials were moved by Shangguan Wei'an's kindness, and if the grain was really good, they would take advantage of it. Shangguan Wei'an is trying to help them in every possible way.

The village chief still wanted to use the method of borrowing grain seeds, but was finally persuaded by Shangguan Wei'an to adopt the method of exchanging grain seeds.

When the banquet was over, Shangguan Wei'an asked his tenants to send a small half of the grain they had been allocated to their homes in exchange for new grain. The news of the new grain seed spread quickly, and after the feast, the villagers heard about the new grain seed. Everyone is skeptical about the new grain varieties, but more of them are looking forward to it, and they expect that the new grain varieties can really be planted twice a year as Shangguan Wei'an said. They are not afraid of hard farming, as long as they can have more food, so that they will not starve to death without food in the green season.

Hearing that Shangguan Wei'an asked them to use the grain seeds of the government to go to her to exchange the grain seeds, the tenants were very active in packing up the grain seeds and carrying them to Shangguan's house. Shangguan Wei'an accepted the grain seeds and asked these people to go back and wait.

"Two days later the merchant will bring in new grain, and you will come again to get it." Shangguan Wei'an used this sentence to send the tenants away, and asked Gu Gao to carry the grain sent by the tenants to the carriage, and drove the carriage away.

Leaving the village, Shangguan Wei'an first went to the grain store in the county, bought a large number of seeds of average quality, and then left the county seat, drove the carriage to a hidden place, made sure that no one passed here, and began to transport the ability. She's a wood-based ability, and in addition to letting plants find out the news, she can use her abilities to help people heal their bodies, and she can also transform plants and seeds.

The ability flowed in the grain seeds, and the grain seeds were optimized, and the originally shriveled rice swelled up and became excellent grain seeds, but this was not enough, Shangguan Wei'an continued to optimize the grain seeds, and the quality of the seeds became better and better. When the energy of the alien energy is exhausted, Shangguan Wei'an will immediately cultivate, and then optimize it after the ability is restored, and in the end, all these grains are optimized into grain varieties comparable to modern hybrid rice, and the yield is twice as much as the original normal grain yield, and it is not like hybrid rice or cannot be kept or will be degraded after two or three years, this kind of optimized grain is very stable, and there will be no problem of yield reduction.

It took two full days for Shangguan Wei'an to finally optimize all of these grains, and her abilities were upgraded in this continuous cultivation and use.

Shangguan Wei'an drove the carriage back to the village, and when the villagers saw the carriage, they all knew that Shangguan Wei'an had returned with the new grain seeds, and they all followed the carriage to Shangguan Wei'an, wanting to see what the new grain seeds looked like.

Shangguan Wei'an opened one of the bags, took out a handful of grain seeds and handed it to the villagers. The eyes of the villagers widened, such a full and good seed, even if it is not planted twice a year as Shangguan Wei'an said, even if it can only be planted for one season, it is better than the grain seeds issued by the government, no, no, more than that, even the good seeds they kept for themselves in previous years are not so good. If you plant this seed, you won't have to worry about this year's yield.

The villagers immediately wanted to exchange seeds with Shangguan Wei'an, and Shangguan Wei'an smiled: "Don't worry, everyone, the merchant is in a hurry to go to sea, and sold me all his new grain seeds, the quantity is enough, everyone can exchange as much as they want." ”

The villagers were overjoyed when they heard this, and they all decided to replace all the grain issued to them by the government with new ones. They knew that Shangguan Wei'an was subsidizing them in disguise by asking them to exchange the inferior and improved seeds issued by the government for new grain varieties, and they were not ignorant people, so they decided to wait for the grain harvest in the second half of the year to return the grain they had collected to Shangguan Wei'an. Shangguan Wei'an gave them as much grain as they wanted.

Originally, Shangguan Wei'an was afraid that they would not accept the new grain, so he only let each family plant one mu of new grain, but the tenants carried the grain on their backs to exchange for new grain, and decided to replace all the apprentices with new grain.

Now, the whole village was planted with new grains. Fortunately, Shangguan Wei'an bought a lot of grain, which was enough for the whole village. In this way, the whole village planted the new and optimized grain seeds. By the time Shangguan Wei'an set off for Fucheng to participate in the government test, the new grain varieties had already grown seedlings, were full of vitality, and looked extremely healthy.

Experienced villagers are very happy to see the seedlings, and just by looking at these seedlings, they know that this year's harvest will definitely be good.

When Shangguan Wei'an arrived in Fucheng, Ji Yongchun and the four of them had already arrived, dragging a small inn, but there were no vacant rooms in the inn, and Shangguan Wei'an didn't want to stay in the inn, so he rented a small courtyard early in the morning.

Shangguan Wei'an had experience in rushing for the exam, and knew that the inn was not only overcrowded during the exam, and people who came late could not stay, but also the inn was too noisy, which made people unable to read and rest, so he sent Gu Gao to Fucheng in advance and rented a courtyard not far from the examination room. Although the rent is much more expensive than other places, it is generally very affordable.

After a few days of adjustment in the small courtyard, Shangguan Wei'an entered the examination room, took out thirty percent of his strength, and Shangguan Wei'an easily passed the government examination and was still the first place. And Ji Yongchun and the four of them also passed the government exam, and their rankings were relatively low, but this already made the four of them very happy, especially the eldest Chai Zhiming, who had taken the exam many times, and this time he finally passed the government exam.