The entire press conference ended with a complete victory for Chen Cheng.

Of course, except for a few Chinese cheers on the tweet, most foreign netizens are silent.

Chen Cheng said he didn't care at all.

Whether they were silent or jealous, it didn't matter much to him. At least his goal was met.

Freman fell completely, and with it the controversy over the world's first discoverer of the boiling plant mineral operanic that he single-handedly promoted.

Freman used his reputation to sacrifice Chen Cheng's prestige, and he could be regarded as "deservedly dead".

After dinner, Chen Cheng, who returned to the guest house room, found that in one day, he had more than two million more prestige points.

Compared with the spread effect of this incident abroad, this prestige value is not much.

It is unrealistic to expect a foreigner to be completely convinced by the discovery of a new plant auxin.

Chen Cheng is not in a hurry.

One is that his reputation is enough for now, and the other is that he is confident that he will come up with more super farming technology in the future to convince them.

It's Zeng Lao, who has been so excited since the press conference. It's an interview with the news media and a commentary in a newspaper.

Anyway, he praised Chen Cheng and said that he was the successor of hybrid rice.

Coupled with the wide dissemination of the day's video in the domestic media, Chen Cheng became the most prestigious agricultural technologist in the country overnight.

Then, he gained more than four million reputation points.

Of course, these are all contributions from those involved in the domestic agricultural and biological industries. Ordinary people still don't pay enough attention to agricultural technology, everyone is just looking at the excitement on the Internet, and then following a post when the mood comes up.

This matter was resolved, and Chen Cheng finally had two days of leisure.

Zeng Lao personally organized the institute to hold a dam banquet, and more than 100 researchers were eating hot pot and singing in the small courtyard in front of the office building, and they were very happy.

After eating the dam feast, Zeng Lao still took Chen Cheng for a walk.

"Elder Zeng, I'll be ready to go back tomorrow." Chen Cheng said.

Zeng Lao nodded and said, "When this batch of hybrid seawater rice is harvested in a few days, I will ask you to send the research report and experimental data to the Agricultural University." ”

Chen Cheng suddenly thought that this new variety had not yet been named, so he asked, "Zeng Lao, if this hybrid can form a new variety, what are you going to name it?" ”

Zeng Lao smiled and said: "Your research results, where am I embarrassed to name them?" ”

Chen Cheng said: "The entire seawater rice technology was researched by you and the team, and I only joined halfway, and I was entrusted by you." This new breed deserves to be named by you. ”

Zeng Lao waved his hand and said seriously: "I am already in my eighties, and the improvement of seawater rice will not be carried out for a few years, you have to give it a name, so that seawater rice technology can develop vigorously like you." ”

"But Zeng Lao, you have a great reputation, you named it, so that you can better promote seawater rice technology in the future!"

Zeng Lao smiled and said: "Xiao Chen, in less than three years, you will be a more radiant hybrid rice expert than me." Don't shirk it, I'd like to hear your name for it. ”

Chen Cheng thought for a while and said, "Then let's call it 'Seawater Rice No. 2'." ”

He named the new generation of seawater rice 'Seawater Rice No. 2' because it contains the meaning of inheriting 'Seawater Rice No. 1'.

There is not only a difference in name from the first generation, but also a continuation in meaning.

Zeng Lao smiled faintly and raised his head to meet the slight cold wind in the forest.

Chen Cheng shocked him too much, too big, so that he always felt like a world away.

Agricultural technology research is a long-term investment, and it is difficult to produce results without ten years or more. He spent half his life to make a special grade rice worthy of the admiration of 10,000 people.

But Chen Cheng is different, agricultural technology is in his hands, just like a hen laying eggs, one a day.

Zeng Lao knew that in addition to his flexible mind and the ability to collide many wonderful ideas into different sparks, the lights in the guest house that were bright until late at night every night were also one of the factors of his success.

Hard work is the best nourishment for watering the flower of genius.

"Xiao Chen, if the seawater rice technology is successful, then I will be content in this life." Zeng Lao said with emotion.

Chen Cheng was in a trance, thinking of Academician Zhou Kai.

He said the same thing.

And he, like Zeng Lao, set lofty goals for himself when he should have enjoyed his old age, so as to motivate himself to never stop fighting.

Their will to fight is stronger than that of many young people.

"Elder Zeng, you've been researching for most of your life, it's time to take a good rest." Chen Cheng said seriously.

Zeng Lao smiled: "Yes." With a genius like you, I can rest assured. ”

"It's just..."

He paused and said, "I have one more wish. ”

"What wish?" Chen Cheng asked.

Zeng Lao smiled a little shyly, his eyes became wandering, and his expression was as innocent as a child looking forward to the future.

"I once had a dream, a wonderful dream. I dreamed that I was sitting in the starry sky, under a seedling taller than a man and stronger than a sapling.

The ears of rice bigger than a broom hung over my head, and I could reach out and touch the rice grains bigger than corn kernels..."

Zeng Lao muttered, his face full of satisfied smiles.

Chen Cheng followed his words, and his thoughts also drifted to the rice field, looking at the rice seedlings the size of sorghum, and under the gust of breeze, the rolling rice waves.

What a beautiful dream!

After a while, Zeng Lao came back to his senses from his imagination.

"Xiao Chen, if one day, we can grow such rice on our land of China, how good it would be!" Zeng Lao said with emotion.

"Then we Huaxia people will never have to worry about food again." Chen Cheng also sighed.

"I have tried to research, but I have searched all over the land of China, and I have not found any grasses higher than 1.5 meters, and I have no goal of hybridization. I'm afraid it will always be just a pipe dream of mine. Zeng Lao retracted his eyes and continued to walk forward.

Although the hybridization technology can achieve distant hybridization of rice of the same family, it must be at least a genus of grasses, and it is impossible to achieve the hybridization of rice and wheat.

Looking at Zeng Lao's somewhat lonely figure, Chen Cheng was stunned and followed.

"Zeng Lao, can you use rice and sorghum to hybridize?" Chen Cheng asked.

Zeng Lao smiled slightly and said, "You kid really likes to be whimsical. However, there have been experiments with cross-breeding rice and sorghum before. But in the end it failed. ”

"Rice and sorghum are in the same family and genus, and their characteristics are very different. Rice is a paddy field crop, which is neither resistant to high temperature nor low temperature, with shallow roots, thin stalks, and weak lodging resistance. Sorghum, on the other hand, is a dryland crop that is highly adaptable and can grow in both remote and alpine regions. The two belong to ultra-distant hybridization. ”

"The difficulty of achieving distant hybridization is not trivial. It is difficult to match, fertilize, fruit, survive, and stabilize delivery. The greater the difference in traits, the more obvious the trait separation of the offspring, and if a certain generation encounters a sudden trait separation, it will be a complete failure. ”

"So, this road basically doesn't work." Zeng Lao said gloomily.

"Elder Zeng, I will take time to study and study in the future, and if there is progress, I will contact you again."

"Good! Xiao Chen, with your words, I think I may be able to see the day when the dream of enjoying the shade under the seedlings comes true in my lifetime. ”

"Don't worry, there will be a day." Chen Cheng said secretly.

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