So, after three days, six cobs on three corns were ripe.

Yang Xiaotao then collected, carefully selected, and then planted as homozygous of the parents, and crossed according to the previous experimental protocol.

Only this time, Yang Xiaotao has more expectations.

"Lady Luck, Sister Chang'e's favor, you can do it this time!"

Fast forward to the end of June.

In the yard, there are four ridges of hybrid corn that have grown.

Among these four ridges, it looks like the corn looks the same, but in Yang Xiaotao's notebook, it represents four possible chromosomal permutations and combinations.

These were experimented with from the parent book obtained after the initial use of lucky charms.

In the subsequent experiment, Yang Xiaotao also revealed that the energy contained in these parents is not the most, and according to Xiaowei's standard, it is at a medium level.

But, perhaps, this is why the experiment failed in the first place.

The strongest is not necessarily the most suitable.

Hybrid advantages, do not necessarily choose the best, only make up for each other, in order to give full play to the heterosis.

That's the key to success.

"Now, just wait for a wind!"

Yang Xiaotao closed the notebook, and Xiaowei also slowed down the energy ripening, allowing these corns to grow naturally.

Just when Yang Xiaotao was waiting for the wind to come, Xu Damao, who had been silent for a while, became active again.

Recently, the countryside began to clean up crops, and Xu Damao took advantage of the movie to go to the countryside to fish for local products.

Also bring back news from the countryside.

Yang Xiaotao also heard that life in the countryside is more difficult now, and many villages have gone hungry together in the end in order to complete the surplus grain, and some people in the village have handed over the grain in order to complete the task.

In spring and summer, the whole village goes to dig wild vegetables and make paste.

The so-called huhu is to grind corn cobs, corn stalks, cotton husks, sweet potato seedlings, elm bark, elm leaves, etc. into powder and boil into a paste.

That's it, that is, eat sixty percent full.

What is the living situation in the countryside, Yang Xiaotao can't imagine.

In the memory of my previous life, there will be a famine in the next few years, coupled with the disadvantages of big pot rice, some villages can level the bowl of water, and some villages can't.

The village cadres and cooks eat more, and their children, wives, and parents are stained with light, how much food can be left?

The people in the village did not have enough to eat, and the people were swollen and tired of work, and even the livestock were so thin that they could be blown down by the wind.

In this way, who will plant the land? Where does the food come from?

Yang Xiaotao was worried about Yangjiazhuang again, but at this time, everyone in the village was busy, no one came up, and he didn't know the specific news.

Time passed day by day in this waiting, entering July, the weather is still hot, there is no sign of the slightest wind, and people can't help but be anxious.

On this day, Yang Xiaotao rested at home.

When I woke up at noon, the sky became gloomy, and my heart suddenly became urgent.

"Come on, come on."

Yesterday, the weather forecast of the factory said that there was a strong wind, which is what Yang Xiaotao has been waiting for.

In the yard, Uncle Chen shook the pu fan to enjoy the coolness, and Wangcai was lying in the shade, chewing on bones from nowhere.

A little kid with a watermelon head, wearing open crotch pants, walked crookedly in the yard with his buttocks, and from time to time there were cheers from Jia Zhang's family.

Next to her, an aunt was smiling, and her eyes were full of envy.

Farther away, the three mothers hugged Yan Jiedi, watching Yan Jiefang lead Yan Jiekang to play with the mud, and the smile on her face did not fall.

In the front yard, Xu Damao walked in with a bag in a chic manner, followed by the smile of the third master, and there was also a bag in his hand.

The two of them talked and laughed one after the other, and there was a certain tacit understanding in their words.

In the middle courtyard, Silly Zhu was washing vegetables in the pool, and Qin Huairu was washing clothes in half-sleeved brushes, and the two said from time to time, and Silly Zhu's action of washing vegetables was even slower.

On the other side, Jia Dongxu walked in, looking like he had drunk a lot of wine.

Yi Zhonghai held the water cup and talked to the bangs beside him.

The whole courtyard is a peaceful scene.

"Here we are."

In the afternoon, Yang Xiaotao leaned against the door frame, and suddenly felt a hint of coolness, and then the sound of the wind began to sound.

"Uncle Chen, eat hot pot tonight."

Yang Xiaotao got up, and Uncle Chen squinted his eyes, "Xiaotao, this wind is coming, why don't you hurry up and harvest the corn?" ”

Saying that, Aunt Chen had already come over, and she was about to come up to help when she saw the ripe corn.

"Auntie, it's okay."

Of course, Yang Xiaotao won't clean it up, and now he wants to see if this hybrid corn can withstand it.

Uncle Chen didn't seem to be joking when he saw Yang Xiaotao's expression, and the corn was almost ripe, even if it was blown down, it wouldn't hinder the harvest, so he didn't say much.

After a while, the sky was overcast and the wind rose.

The people in the yard returned to their homes and waited for the wind and rain to come.

Yang Xiaotao sat at the door, holding an apple in his hand and nibbling on it, leaning on Wangcai beside him, the soft fur with warmth, and Xiaowei drilling around in it.

Click

The red apple bites open, revealing the white flesh inside, and the plump juice flows to the ground.

The clouds are accumulating and getting heavier.

It was dark.

Splitting

A flash of lightning rang out in the sky, and the darkness was as black as nightfall.

Whew

Then the wind raged.

Yang Xiaotao looked at the swaying corn with a little expectation in his eyes.

Close the door and prepare the hot pot.

At seven o'clock in the evening, Uncle Chen and Aunt Chen sat at the table, the three of them surrounded the hot pot, all kinds of vegetables were boiled up and down, and the dishes in front of them were filled with special seasonings, and the three of them ate like this.

The sound of wind and rain was everywhere.

"It's a. I don't know how to clean up after such a heavy rain. ”

Yi Zhonghai looked at the blown down corn in Yang Xiaotao's yard through the glass, and said to his aunt with emotion.

"Who's to say it's not, there's nothing like waste."

"If you waste food, you will be damned."

An aunt held the bowl and looked outside with the same displeasure.

"He's just too full to eat, and he doesn't know what his last name is."

Yi Zhonghai stopped looking, closed the doors and windows, and prepared to rest.

"Look, sooner or later, you'll suffer."

Jia's family, Jia Zhang's looked at the falling rain, and the continuous splashing of rain at the door made the house quiet.

It's just a noisy stick terrier, and I don't have the heart to go out to play when I look at the rain outside the window.

Looking at Jia Dongxu and Qin Huairu again, the two of them had nothing to do, just lying on the bed.

"No, this day can't be lived like this."

Ever since the last time a bold idea came to me, it's been nourishing in my heart.

More than half a month has passed, and Jia Zhang feels that it is time to implement it.

In the backyard, Liu Haizhong's house, Xu Damao sat at the table, Liu Guangqi led Liu Guangtian to sit opposite, and the three of them played a pair of pokers in front of them.

The second aunt took the mushrooms sent by Xu Damao and tinkered in the kitchen, as for the bangs, he went out in the morning and hasn't come back yet.

When night fell, Yang Xiaotao helped Uncle Chen home, and the two of them drank some wine, not much, but they were extremely sleepy in this wind and rain.

When he went home, he turned on the lights in the yard and looked at the corn bent over by the wind, Yang Xiaotao only hoped that after the wind and rain would pass tomorrow, it would still be upright.

Of course, if it all falls, he will not be discouraged.

How do you say that sentence, if you fail, you should see your mother.

Unafraid.

He has Xiaowei, and he still has time.

Lying on the bed, listening to the sound of wind and rain, Yang Xiaotao soon fell into a deep sleep.

The next day, when I opened my eyes, there was no sound of wind and rain in my ears, and the gentle sunlight shone in through the window, and Wangcai, who was lying on the ground, was already shaking his head and wandering around the room.

This sleep, I slept directly until noon.

Yang Xiaotao sat up excitedly, didn't care about washing his face and putting on his shoes, ran directly to the door, pushed open the door, and looked at the corn in the yard.

Hahaha

Hahaha

Yang Xiaotao laughed suddenly, the louder he laughed, the more he laughed, the more rampant he became, and tears flowed out of the corners of his eyes.

Stepping on the muddy ground, Yang Xiaotao came to the middle of the yard, only to see a row of corn standing straight in a piece of fallen corn.

"Found it, found it!"

Yang Xiaotao said excitedly, not noticing Uncle Chen's puzzled expression.

"Xiao Tao, what are you doing?"

Uncle Chen's voice interrupted Yang Xiaotao's excitement, and then became a sharer of Yang Xiaotao's joy.

"Uncle Chen, I succeeded, I succeeded."

"This corn, it didn't fall, it didn't fall, you see, it didn't fall, hybrid corn."

"Success, success!"

Yang Xiaotao was barefoot, unparalleled excitement, no matter who has experienced dozens of failures, he can't help the joy in his heart at the moment of success.

Uncle Chen was confused when he heard it, but he also gave a rough idea.

"You mean, research corn?"

"Yes. Uncle, look! ”

Yang Xiaotao pointed to a ridge of corn that had not fallen, walked to one and broke off the corn cob, weighing it in his hand, which was twice as large as the corn in Yangjia Village.

"This corn is not only wind-resistant, but the corn kernels inside are bigger than now!"

It's not that Uncle Chen has never seen corn, and he has seen big corn in the fields before, but it is not as big as what he is looking at.

However, Uncle Chen didn't feel anything about this hybrid corn thing.

I just thought that Yang Xiaotao picked out the big corn and planted it in the yard.

"Isn't it just bigger? Thou hast been in the city for a long time, and thou hast many things to do with the crops. ”

Yang Xiaotao was speechless when he heard this, and he had the heart to popularize Mendel with his old man, and analyze the homozygotes and heterozygotes, what is heterosis.

But thinking of the current level of education, the word mongrel is scolding.

What's more, genetics is still unpopular, that is, not many people in the country know about it.

It's all in vain.

Soon, Uncle Chen ignored Yang Xiaotao and went out with Wangcai to breathe fresh air.

Yang Xiaotao was left standing in the dirt by himself, feeling the power of the earth.

(End of chapter)