Song Ziyu was stunned when he heard this: "In this way, Old Chen, you still have something to hide." ”

Chen Youping nodded and said: "This matter is very important, and I don't dare to tell anyone casually, but it seems that I can't hide it this time...... It all started many years ago. ”

"It seems that the story is a bit long, so let's talk while drinking."

Song Ziyu ordered someone to serve the food, then took out a bottle of good wine, and waited for Professor Chen Youping's next words.

After three glasses and two glasses of Wenjun wine, Professor Chen said: "I told you before that the development of Liangshu No. 1 was all due to the credit of my teacher, do you remember this?" ”

Song Ziyu nodded.

Professor Chen's teacher, the old man who opened peace for all generations, was still thinking about the world when he was fighting in the cowshed...... He is a sage who deserves a lot of respect.

Song Ziyu once remembered that someone had such an evaluation of Chen Lao's teacher: If this person was born in ancient times, he should be ranked with Fuxi and Shennong, and he should be named a god on the list.

It's just a pity that I was born at the wrong time and had a bad fate, and there was a way that Feng Tangyi and Lao Ruan cried when they were lying on the road, and they were all not with me.

In this era when animals are not allowed to become sperm, what can people do?

Chen Lao remembered the late teacher for a moment, and then continued: "I also told you before that Liangshu No. 1 has a mother seed, and all the Liangshu first-generation and second-generation varieties and the secondary seeds developed later are bred and cultivated on the basis of the mother seed. ”

Song Ziyu continued to nod.

"Iteratively and the next secondary seed reaches the market, which generally only lasts for three seasons, and the potency of the seed will disappear, eventually leading to a failed harvest...... This is the characteristics of Liangshu 1 that I told you about earlier. ”

Chen Lao said.

Song Ziyu finally interjected: "I remember that it is precisely because of this characteristic of the seed that Monsanto very much wants to master this technology, so that it will help them to grasp the global seed market and thus control food security." ”

Song Ziyu understands that this thing that has reached the national level, at least at the strategic level, is a big deal.

"By mastering this kind of patent, Monsanto can easily subvert the ...... of some countries"

Song Ziyu said.

"Not really." Chen Lao waved his hand and said: "Monsanto has a lot of excellent varieties of sterilized genetically modified seeds, and even developed corresponding pesticides, in fact, whether there is a mother seed of Liangshu No. 1 is not so important for their strategic layout." ”

"Then why is Monsanto targeting you?" Song Ziyu was curious, but also remembered the previous conversation with Marcus, and the "meaning" of Marcus's exposition about Monsan's existence.

Really!

Chen Lao said with the strength of wine: "The reason why they want the mother seed of Liangshu No. 1 is the teacher's research in the final analysis!" ”

Then Chen Lao said: "The existence of life has its own greatness. ”

"There were natural disasters in the land of Yuxia that year, and it was unbearable to see starvation and floating."

"Tens of millions of people die every year because of famine."

"Hundreds of millions of people are struggling to get under the food and clothing line."

"Those of us who had just come out of the agricultural school were all so hungry that we were swollen."

"In order to save the people, the teacher is committed to researching crops with high yields and stability."

"Agricultural research is based on crops, so we have to select better seeds from the best crops in the country and the world to cultivate."

"It's a very long process, and it often takes dozens, if not hundreds, of generations to cross and cultivate a crop, which takes a lot of time."

Chen Youping looked at Song Ziyu and said: "The domestication of a crop often takes thousands of years or even longer. Moreover, this domestication relationship is mutually restrictive. ”

"At the same time that humans are domesticating wheat, wheat has also completed the domestication of humans."

"According to the progress of our work, when the crops are improved, I am afraid that people will starve to death."

Speaking of this, Chen Lao looked directly at Song Ziyu and said: "For us, there is only one way to achieve rapid progress. ”

"What way?" Song Ziyu sat up straight.

Chen Lao said slowly: "That is to find extremely superior seeds, seeds that can change the pattern of crops." ”

Seeing this, Chen Lao sighed and said, "The teacher is lucky...... His luck lies in the fact that although he is engaged in the research of biological sciences, he is a scholar with extremely profound literary skills. ”

"When he encountered a dead end in a scientific research project, he thought of mythological texts that had been passed down from ancient times." "The teacher turned to an allusion in the "Northern Wilderness Classic", which recorded: 'The mountains in the north of Xinjiang are full of grass and trees. There is a wood on it, its name is Emperor Xiu, the leaves are like poplars, its branches are five, the yellow flowers are black and solid, and the servant is not angry. ’”

"Look at this...... Grass and trees. ”

Chen Lao explained: "This is the first time that there is a record of crops in classical texts. ”

Song Ziyu listened intently, feeling as if he was about to come into contact with some great secret.

Sure enough, Chen Lao whispered: "The teacher went through many classics and found a few records about the plant 'Emperor Xiu', and gradually, the teacher discovered a great secret!" ”

"What's the secret?"

Song Ziyu approached Chen Lao, looked at Chen Lao and asked.

"The teacher found that the plant of Dixiu is often associated with another kind of sacred tree, and the plant called 'dragon's blood wood' was forbidden by the gods in ancient times."

The teacher got a glimpse of its secrets from the fragments of ancient books...... The dragon's blood wood is the main germination, breaking the reincarnation, leading to the heavens, and asking for immortality. ”

"What do you mean?" Song Ziyu was stunned.

Chen Lao said simply: "You can simply understand that after eating the fruit of the dragon's blood wood, you can be immortal and immortal, and you will have to grow and live." ”

Song Ziyu smiled: "It's not a joke!" If there really are people who can live forever, then what else is there to talk about? ”

Chen Youping smiled bitterly: "Originally, the teacher and I didn't think it was true, but the teacher still decided to go to Northern Xinjiang to find out, and then after a three-month trek, we came to the vicinity of the Empty Corpse Mountain in Northern Xinjiang, and then ......."

Speaking of this, Chen Youping's breathing suddenly became rapid.

He took a sip of wine and said, "We saw a strange plant on the Empty Corpse Mountain, where eagles and poisonous snakes competed! ”

"At an altitude of 5,700 meters, there are poisonous snakes!"

"That's an anomaly in itself!"

"The teacher and I paid attention for a long time, and then the sky suddenly cracked and a thunderbolt fell, and a thunderbolt fell from the sky, bombarding the ancient tree, directly blasting the poisonous snake and the eagle falcon together with the ancient wood into powder."

"At that time, we didn't think of the word 'blood sacrifice', but we saw that among the ancient wood powder that was struck by lightning, a blood-red plant was sprouting."