Chapter 25 Grafting Grapes
"Don't worry, it's like this anyway, you might as well trust me completely. Gan Guyu saw Pei Pei's face turn blue, and knew that this girl should have endured to the limit, so she hurriedly comforted her. But as soon as Peipei heard something like "it's like this anyway", she was immediately half angry, if it weren't for her reluctance to let Heath and others see the joke, she would definitely have been pinched with Gangu Yu at this time.
However, Gangu Yu really only comforted him, and then looked at the pruned vines again, and his expression became serious and focused again. When Pei Pei saw his expression, he swallowed back the words in his throat, and he looked a little at a loss for a while.
Ganguyu glanced at the vine for a moment, and soon locked onto a branch. Under the gaze of Pei Pei and the Heath women, a short grape branch appeared in Gangu Yu's hand out of thin air. Pei Pei naturally knew that this was the grape branch that Gangu Yu had cut off on his own vine before.
The short branches have no leaves and have buds between the nodes, and Gangu Yu took it and used a blade to cut its lower part into a wedge, and the bevel on both sides was about an inch long. Then he found a freshly pruned cut in the vine and made a longitudinal cut from the center, still an inch long. Gangu Yu inserted the wedge-shaped part of the short branch into the slit of the vine, carefully aligned the cut surface, and then tied it with the plastic film that he had bought in advance. In the end, except for the buds, the rest of the grape branches were bandaged by Gangu rain.
After doing this series of actions in one go, Gangu Yu exhaled lightly and stopped. That's right, in order to make Peipei's vines produce a good harvest, Ganguyu's chosen method is grafting. In the Celestial Empire, grafting techniques have long been promoted in order to make grapes produce high yields. As the son of an agronomist and a well-known ruffian in the Department of Biology, Gangu Yu has also personally operated how to graft.
He carefully observed the new graft for a while, nodded in satisfaction, and then turned his head to look at Peipei. Pei Pei saw that he had finally stopped, and couldn't help but be ready to ask a question, but it turned out that Heath laughed first: "I said, you are a good family when you grow fruit? Do you think that if you cut it and then pick it up, it can grow together again?"
Gangu Yu smiled slightly: "Congratulations on your right answer." β
Heath was stunned for a moment, looked back at her two best friends, and then burst out laughing.
Gangu Yu ignored them and turned around to continue grafting the grapes. The grafting method he currently chooses is called the splitting method, which is relatively low in difficulty and has a higher success rate in grafting. For hard branch splitting like Ganguyu, the upper branches need to be cut off, which will affect the disadvantages of hanging fruit in the year, so it is generally used in spring grafting. Of course, there is the magic of the growth of all things, and this small problem is gorgeously ignored by Gangu Yu.
He was quick and in a few moments all the pruned cuts on the vine were grafted with short shoots. Pei Pei looked at the grape scion of the tree, and after a long time, he held back a sentence: "I finally know what you used to do." β
"Huh?" Gan Guyu looked at her curiously.
"Jianghu Langzhong. Pei Pei gritted his teeth.
"Huh, how do you see it?" said Ganguyu, pretending to be surprised.
"Are you really?" Pei Pei was about to cry when he heard this, pointing to the grafted grape branches, "Look what you have made of these grapes!"
Gangu Yujing was reminded like this, and looked back. Oh, this grafted scion of the tree really has a sense of immediate appearance of bandaging the wound. But jokes aside, he still hurriedly advised: "Don't be in a hurry, my brother promises to return you a lush vine in a few days." But only if you water your vines twice, remember to water them thoroughly. β
"It's all like this, is it still useful to water?" said Heath teased.
Pei Pei wanted to say the same thing, but he didn't want to show the same attitude as Heath at this time, so he didn't say anything. However, Gangu Yu still saw what she was thinking, and said with a smile: "If you don't water enough, don't blame me if the vine doesn't survive by then!"
"Why don't you water yourself?" Pei Pei pouted, "Aren't you also a water mage?"
"Big beauty, whose vine is this?, do you still need me to do such unskilled work?" Brother's mana is so scarce, how can it be wasted on water?
"Where are you going?" Seeing that Gangu Yu was leaving, Pei Pei said urgently.
"Go back and rest. Gangu Yu said as a matter of course, waving his hand and leaving, "Come back in seven days, by then those short branches should have sprouted, and those who did not survive can start again." β
The success rate of grafting Gan Guyu naturally also took into account, and at this time, he still had some scion in his warehouse for backup, which was used to replace the branches that failed to graft. Just after seven days, all things can be cast to grow, and Gangu Yu feels that this is the most appropriate way to arrange the time.
Seeing Gangu Yu leave in such a dashing manner, Pei Pei was angry, but he didn't want to make her look down on her in front of Heath, so he gritted his teeth and began to water her vines. For taking care of his own vines, Pei Pei is very careful and careful, especially now with this bruised appearance, it is simply sad to see and cry when you hear it!
At this moment, two figures slowly approached from a distance. Pei Pei concentrated on watering and didn't see it, but the three of them saluted at the first time: "High priest, precept elder!"
Pei Pei turned around and found that it was the High Priest and the Elder of the Precepts who had come together, and he secretly exclaimed in his heart. How could these two be here at this time? She saw the smug look on the faces of the three of Heath, and immediately understood the reason.
Sure enough, Heath's next sentence was a complaint: "High priest, Elder of the Precepts, you see, that Gangu rain has plagued the vine like this, and he will not live when he sees it!"
The high priest and the precept elder did not speak, but went under the trellis. The two of them carefully looked at the abundant vines for a while, the high priest's expression became solemn, and the face of the precept elder sank like water. Seeing this, the three of Heath had an irrepressible sneer on their faces, while Pei Pei was weak in his heart, thinking about something.
"Is this really what Gangu Yu did?" the Discipline Elder asked in a deep voice.
"Yes!"
"Not really!"
Two diametrically opposed voices came from the mouths of Heath and Pei Pei, respectively.
The High Priest glanced at Heath and then turned to look at Pei Pei, "Is it or isn't?"
Pei Pei wanted to explain a few words for Gan Guyu, but if he couldn't do it, he took the blame himself. But now that the high priestess Grandma, whom she respected the most, stared at her and asked, she couldn't lie anymore, so she had to whisper, "It's him...... But Grandma High Priestess, listen to me and explain that guy he wants my vineβ"
"No need to explain. The High Priest interrupted her and said, "He really did it......
β...... Be. Pei Pei replied in a daze.
The High Priest looked at the freshly grafted vine, then at the Precept Elder and nodded. A high-pitched incantation emanates from the mouth of the Precept Elder. Soon, the buds on the grafted short branches of the grapes cracked one after another, and the tender green grape leaves grew rapidly.