freenovelworld Chapter 365 Hybrid Rice Matures
Chapter 365 Hybrid Rice Matures
"Ms. Shen, we know how valuable these rice grains are. Even if you didn't tell us, we could see that the ears of these rice grains are much larger than the ordinary rice ears we grow. We are just afraid that someone will come to make trouble, so we have been guarding here." Chen Zihao replied.
"It's the cotton harvest now, and the weather is getting colder. Shouldn't you go out and make quilts to earn money? Why are you still wasting your time here?" Shen Wanning was moved again. She had been busy taking care of Lin Jingyou recently, and when she came back, she encountered the opening of Qianweilou, and she had never thought about these issues.
"We are divided into three groups and take turns guarding the rice fields. When we are not guarding the rice fields, we will go out to help make quilts." Chen Zihao replied.
"Thank you. By the way, have you ever thought about settling down in Fuzhou City? If you want to go to Fuzhou, I can make arrangements for you there." Shen Wanning said.
Chen Zihao shook his head. "I think Daqing Town is pretty good. I want to stay here. After Miss Yan gets married, it will be close to her family, so I can go back anytime."
"What about you? Do you want to go to Fuzhou City?" Shen Wanning asked the others.
The others also shook their heads. "We all want to stay in Daqing Town. The good life here is better than we ever could have imagined. Why would we want to move somewhere else?"
Only Xiaoliu rubbed his hands and said, "Miss Shen, can I go to the county town? The girl I like is from the county town, and her family is not willing to let her marry so far away."
Shen Wanning nodded and said, "Of course, we can. We still need people at the farm in the county town. I'll arrange for you to go whenever you want. When you get to the county town, you can help take care of the peppers and make sure no one steals them."
"Okay, thank you Miss Shen. I want to go after the New Year." Xiao Liu was overjoyed.
After checking out the rice in the fields, Shen Wanning returned home and stopped worrying about the rice. She believed Chen Zihao and the others would take care of it.
Finally, half a month later, the rice had turned completely golden. Chen Zihao and his team had already prepared their sickles and were ready to begin harvesting the rice as soon as Shen Wanning gave the order.
In just half a day, all the rice was harvested, and many villagers came to watch the fun.
Whenever they passed by here, they discovered that the rice planted by Shen Wanning was larger than the rice and wheat ears they usually planted.
So they came here specifically to see how much rice was produced.
"The ears of rice here are much larger than the ones we planted before, but we don't know what the yield will be." The villagers were discussing at the door.
"Wan Ning, do you think that after we save the seeds of these rice, we can plant all of them in Daqing Town?" The head of the village was also very concerned about this matter.
"Uncle Village Chief, there isn't much rice here, so we can't plant it widely yet. But when there's more rice, we'll definitely be able to plant it."
Shen Wanning put the rice aside, picked out a few relatively intact rice ears and put them aside. The rest was handed over to Lin Jiang, who threshed them with a thresher.
After Lin Jiang finished threshing all the rice, Lin Dashan took out a scale to weigh it.
The rice covered about a quarter of an acre of land, yielding a total of 227 kilograms, which is double the previous yield.
By this calculation, one acre of hybrid rice produces about 800 kilograms, while the original rice produced about 400 kilograms per acre of land.
Everyone cheered when they heard the yield of hybrid rice.
"Great! The rice yield is twice as much as before!"
"I hope we can plant this kind of rice soon so we won't have to go hungry anymore!"
"What are you talking about? Are there still people starving in Daqing Town?"
"Well, I'm not talking about our Daqing Town, I'm talking about our entire Great Xia Dynasty."
"You're right. Although sweet potato and golden rice yields were high in the past, we're still more accustomed to eating rice. It's great that rice production has doubled!"
"The daughter of the old Lin family is truly remarkable! She looks like a delicate young lady, but I didn't expect she actually knows so much about farming."
"What do you know? I'm not good at farming, I'm just well-read!"
Shen Wanning was also very happy that her efforts were not in vain.
"Wan Ning, if the emperor knew about this rice, would he make you a county lord or a princess?" asked the head of the village.
After all, in their understanding, princess is a title that only the emperor's daughter can have, while princess is a title that only the prince's daughter can have.
If Shen Wanning was conferred the title of a princess or a commandery commander, would they be considered royal relatives?
Shen Wanning shook her head. "I don't know. It depends on what the emperor plans to do."
"Hey, no matter what, this is a good thing, a good thing!" the head of the village shouted again.
After all the rice was collected, the villagers looked at it without any evil thoughts. They knew that they would be able to plant this rice sooner or later.
And because of Shen Wanning, these rice will definitely be trial-planted in Daqing Village first.
After the rice was harvested, Shen Wanning wrapped up the few remaining rice ears and placed them in a brocade box, underneath which she placed a piece of paper with information about the methods of cultivating hybrid rice and the yield of hybrid rice.
Of course, in the letter, she also wrote about Lin Jingyou and County Magistrate He helping to find rice without stamens.
After doing all this, she handed the brocade box to the post station to be sent to the capital, and repeatedly emphasized that it was a gift for the emperor's birthday.
The yamen runners did not dare to delay for a moment and carried the brocade box up layer by layer.
After more than half a month, the brocade box was finally delivered to the palace.
In Daqing Town, people have already celebrated a lively New Year with great joy.
After the New Year, the most exciting event was Chen Zihao's marriage.
The head of the village attached great importance to it. After all, Chen Zihao and his friends had just joined Daqing Town. His marriage meant that he had truly settled down in Daqing Town and could serve as a guide for other new villagers.
Therefore, many days in advance, the village head and Chen Zihao invited everyone to a banquet.
Shen Wanning secretly gave Chen Zihao fifty taels of silver. Chen Zihao only found out about it when he opened the wooden box the next day. He insisted on returning the gift, saying that it was too valuable.
But Shen Wanning still gave it away. Compared with Chen Zihao's kindness, this amount of money was nothing.
Besides, she had originally planned to give him one hundred taels directly, but considering Chen Zihao's character, he would probably not accept it, so she reduced it by half.
She might have to go to Beijing later, and everything about the Lin family would have to be taken care of by Chen Zihao.
After Chen Zihao’s wedding banquet, there was the full moon banquet for Chen Liehu’s child.