December 30, Hailan, experimental field of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

Xu Lei stood on the ridge of the field with a free smile on her face and shouted to the brothers who were still trying to harvest:

"You guys are moving quickly! Why are all the girls whining? My mission has been completed, I'm waiting for you!"

Hearing her words, a boy in the rice field ahead raised his head with a desperate look on his face and answered helplessly:

"I said Leilei, don't behave like you when you get cheap. Today, the lot you draw is the best place to collect the fields you draw. After you collect them, you don't know how to help. You stand there like a landlord supervisor, what are you doing!"

Xu Lei smiled and replied with a look of course:

"I won't help you collect it. Each person has two pieces of land. Who made you lose your luck and get it to the corner? Besides, your terrain is a bit bad, which delays your work? Vegetables are original sin, don't make excuses!"

"What kind of terrain is a bit bad! Sister, I'm a terraced field, you're a flat field, can this be the same? OK OK, don't worry about me, go and gather the harvested rice, it's time to thresh later."

"You should be careful first, don't get rid of too many ears of rice, or you will have to pick them up one ear after another later, and it will be in terrible trouble!"

Hearing this, Xu Lei pursed her lips a little disapprovingly and said:

"Then what's there to pick up? Isn't it just a few ears of rice? How heavy can it be? Our yield per mu is just about 2,000 kilograms. Is it still a little short of that?"

The boy who was still lowering his head and trying to cut the rice was straightened up slightly and replied:

"Rank, do you understand? We are serious agricultural science, but you say it's like you settle the accounts... OK OK, you go find someone to bring the thresher over first, and then bring the sack over."

"This broken field... I will connect it into a piece sooner or later, and then use a harvester to harvest it in the future!"

"I've long said I'm going to buy a small harvester. Who told you to object in a slight way? Now I know it's uncomfortable? Bah, you're just uncomfortable, I'll go carry the sack!"

While speaking, Xu Lei ran to the edge of the experimental field in the distance. Since she was not a professional rice farmer and was not very skilled in harvesting, there were tiny wounds cut by the leaves on her face and hands, and some of them were even bloodshot, but she seemed to be not concerned about it.

However, the tutor who was threshing at the edge of the experimental field couldn't bear to see her indifferent appearance. After complaining to her with a few words of distress, she forced her back to the infirm to deal with the wound. However, she just went back and simply rushed to the face, disinfected the wound with her own boric acid, and ran back again.

Looking at her expression, the instructor couldn't say anything else. After all, he had been busy for several months. When it was a good harvest, he really couldn't bear to let her miss this most important moment, so he just told her to cover her face with a mask and let her run around and work hard.

Xu Lei first helped transport the rice to one place. After confirming that she really couldn't do the threshing work, she ran to the back of the threshing machine to help open the sack. However, she was not strong enough to move the rice into bags. In the end, she could only stand aside and help weigh each bag of rice and record the weight of each bag of rice.

"Well, this bag is not full enough...56 kilograms. Next one, fill it a little, our sack is almost gone!"

"This one is too much! Be careful, and you will pick it up after it is sprinkled! 65 kilograms! Next!"

"Okay, this is 60 kilograms, just press this to install, can you see clearly?"

Every time a number was reported, Xu Lei recorded a number on the bag with a marker. After almost all the sacks under her feet were used up, the threshing machine next to her finally stopped.

At this time, her side was filled with buns of rice.

"This piece is one acre of land, the other one is one acre, and the middle one is three-point, and the farthest one is six..."

"You should be careful, if you make a mistake, I will beat you to death!"

Hearing her words, the junior brother who was bent down to calculate carefully glanced at her with a funny look, and then said:

"Sister Lei, don't be so fierce, otherwise you can do it yourself and you can guarantee that you won't be wrong!"

Xu Lei snorted angrily and carefully checked the notebook in her hand. After a while, she and her junior brother came up with the result at the same time.

“1836 kg.”

"How many??"

The instructor beside him came over in surprise and looked at the numbers on Xu Lei's book.

"Isn't it wrong? Is it sure that it's over 1,800 kilograms?"

Xu Lei nodded solemnly and stuffed the notebook directly into the tutor's hand.

"It's definitely true! I've forgotten it several times!"

"It's great, it's great... 1,800 kilograms. This is a single season. Even if the water, heat and fertilizer and medicine conditions in other areas are not as good as us, the average yield per mu can reach at least 1,200 kilograms."

"One,200 kilograms, two seasons a year, early rice is calculated at 800 kilograms, and the annual output has exceeded 2,000."

"I remember the highest annual output is only 1,500, right? There is a 40% increase in production!"

Hearing this, everyone present had an unconcealable smile on their faces, because they knew that the meaning of this number was much greater than what it seemed.

The 40% increase in yield this time is not the previous experimental fields increase, but after being promoted to the major rice cultivation areas in China, the yield per mu can be increased by 40%!

This means that from the moment it was born, this new rice variety has reached the conditions for leaving the laboratory and the experimental field. It does not even require further improvement to become the pillar rice variety of the entire China!

It is precisely because of this that the difficulty of promoting new rice varieties will be reduced by more than one order of magnitude. Their previous considerations expected to achieve the goal of full promotion within three years, and it may even be ahead of schedule.

The annual average output of 2,000 kilograms has a more understandable interpretation.

This means that according to the average grain consumption level of Chinese people, the annual output of a mu of rice fields run by one labor can feed at least 6 people.

Gone are the days of struggling for land and food.

Xu Lei looked at the bulging sacks with emotion, and a strange feeling suddenly arose in her heart.

After a moment of silence, she suddenly turned her head and ran towards the experimental field. Everyone didn't know what she was going to do, so they could only stay where they were waiting. After several minutes, she ran back from the experimental field panting, holding a large handful of rice left on the ground.

She distributed the rice bunches into everyone's hands, and finally left the most vigorous one in her hands, and then spoke to the instructor:

"Boss, tomorrow, I want to take a vacation..."

......

The next day, Xu Lei landed on the ground in Changsha on a plane. The luggage she carried was very simple. Apart from the backpack on her back to change clothes, she only had the suitcase she was carrying.

She took her suitcase to the subway, took several trains, and then took a taxi before finally reaching the destination of her trip.

Changsha Tangren Wanshou Cemetery.

It was afternoon, and the sky was as clear as the sky was washed away. The sunlight shone through the tall trees in the cemetery and cast mottled shadows on the ground. Xu Lei, who was walking among those shadows, looked solemn, but with a faint smile.

She walked along the path until she reached the tomb where she had always wanted to come but never dared to come.

Xu Lei stood aside and waited carefully. He walked towards the tomb until the last group of people who came to worship left. His steps were slow and gentle, as if he was worried and disturbing the sleeping old man.

The first thing she saw was the various "gifts" placed in front of the tomb.

Two small bowls, one with white rice and the other with rice.

A violin, the bow and strings intertwined, as if it could be sounded with just a gentle force.

Two bunches of fresh seedlings with water droplets were found in this season.

A pair of hard-soled leather shoes for tap dancing.

A pair of mahjong.

The whole Chinese smoke that was gathered together.

Several luxury car models that look expensive.

Xu Lei took a deep breath, carefully moved the gifts and made a clearing space, and opened her suitcase.

And inside, it was the rice plant full of rice ears she picked up from the Hailan Experimental Field before.

She took the rice out of her suitcase and placed it in front of the grave. After watching quietly for a few seconds, she whispered:

"Old Yuan, our Academy of Agricultural Sciences asks me to tell you that our gene editing rice experiment has been successful."

"The results are very good. The experimental fields have increased production by more than 60%, and it is expected that the production capacity of ordinary grain fields will increase by 40%.

"Look, this is the rice I picked up from the field--it's a little incomplete, because all the good ones were threshed, and this was falling."

"But you should still see it? Look at the number of tillers and the number of ears and grains, which is much better than our previous varieties."

"According to this situation, we estimate that it will be fully promoted starting next year and there will be preliminary results in the following year."

Speaking of this, she suddenly stopped and continued after a while:

"Old Yuan, I remember when I saw you last time, I was still in school. At that time, I saw that you were in good spirits, but I didn't expect it... Alas, forget it, I won't talk about this."

"Last time you told me to study hard, graduate early, and choose the seed science direction. I originally wanted to choose, but I was too stupid, so I finally chose facility agriculture."

"But facility agriculture is also good, our field management system is so awesome, better than what you visited at our school before."

"I still remember what you said about the cooldown under the grass. Now it seems a bit difficult."

"Because we are not in the direction of giant rice... Now it seems that the yield potential of short rice is relatively large."

"But, I can't do it when I enjoy the cool down under the wheat, and I can still do it after eating a full meal."

"You may not know that there was another food crisis some time ago, but we have never lacked any food from beginning to end."

"Hey, don't say, there are your contributions and our contributions."

"How is it, we did a good job?"

"I haven't dared to see you before, because I felt that I had not achieved any results and had no shame to come over, so I wasted the scholarship you gave me. Now..."

Xu Lei paused for a moment, raised her head and looked at the huge rock in front of her.

Two lines of golden characters are carved on the huge stone:

People are like seeds, they need to be a good seed.
Chapter completed!