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Chapter 521 The Magical Desert Plant - Potbellied Tree

Wang Yong has been hiding in Uncle Bater's pasture, running around with two little girls every day, picking up mushrooms, hunting, fishing, and playing games, just not doing serious business, which made Lao Li, who was busy in Hohhot, angry.

So, Lao Li came alone, claiming that he was here to settle the score with Wang Yong, but after he got here...

"Well, this steak is really good, but I still like the stewed mushrooms with pheasant, it's so fresh!"

After saying that, Old Li picked up the bowl and drank the remaining soup in it. After that, he still slapped his mouth with unfulfilled satisfaction and looked at Wenwen and Qiqige with his eyes.

To be precise, I looked at the big bowl of chicken and mushrooms in front of them, as well as the chicken soup that emitted a strong and delicious taste, and my eyes were red, which was very scary.

"mine!"

When Qiqige saw this uncle staring at the meat in his bowl with strange eyes, he immediately refused and protected the bowl in front of him.

Wenwen frowned, looking at Uncle Li, and then looking at the edible Uncle Li, there were a lot of meat and delicious mushrooms in her bowl. After thinking about it, she felt that although Uncle Li had eaten a lot of meat, he must have eaten more than he could, probably because he was not full.

"That's all I can give you!"

After saying that, Wenwen stretched out her chopsticks to pick up a large piece of chicken leg meat from her own bowl, and was about to put it into Uncle Li's bowl.

Suddenly, a pair of chopsticks stretched out like lightning next to her. Before she could react, she had already put the piece of meat she picked up in her own bowl.

"Be good at Wenwen, eat it yourself, don't worry about him. Look at how much meat there is, enough for him to eat!"

Of course, Wang Yong did this. After saying these words to Wenwen, he turned his head and glared fiercely at Lao Li, who was so shameless that he had not taken off the line, who was fighting for meat with the children.

"You said that if your general manager doesn't go to work, it's okay if you go here to play for two days, you're really embarrassed to compete with a child for meat?"

"You dare to talk about me?"

When Lao Li heard Wang Yong say this, he immediately got angry. Is this company yours? How many shares do I have? As a major shareholder, the chairman has almost never been in charge of the company's affairs, and he is idle every day.

Especially this time, you originally took on the job, but after staying here for less than a day, you can't see you.

OK, we are busy with exhaustion over there, but you are here to eat and drink to gain weight! Don’t this gap be too big, okay?

"You guys, I'll go back soon, and I'll go back to the Mid-mountain village immediately. You can handle the matter here yourself! Will I be fine if I don't serve you?"

"Calm, calm! Do you need to be kind to be a person?"

...

When Wenwen and Qiqige saw that they started arguing again, the two little guys looked at each other, rolled their eyes and showed a bitter smile, then picked up a big bowl full of meat, quietly left the place, and ran outside to eat.

Since Lao Li came yesterday, every time it was time to eat, the two of them would always have a quarrel that was "debate and reasoned" when they had eaten. Everyone has become accustomed to the beginning of persuasion.

Humans are truly such a powerful race!

When Wenwen and the others finished eating the meat in the bowl and returned here with one puppy, Wang Yong and Lao Li were already discussing the matter.

"Have you thought of a solution? If you start the treatment after the water diversion canal and seawater desalination site are built, I'm afraid the area of ​​desertification will increase by at least tens of thousands of acres!"

"I have thought about it. On the one hand, we will recruit some migrant workers first, build a sand-proof wall to prevent the desert from spreading and continuing to embezzle the grassland. On the other hand, I will think of ways to improve the soil of that grassland. At least we must allow more vegetation to grow there to curb the increasingly serious trend of desertification."

Wang Yong frowned and said, while thinking about something. In fact, he had already prepared a magical plant in the small world, but the number of seedlings currently reproduced has not met his requirements.

In fact, there are many drought-resistant plants in the world, such as cactus and cactus that can grow in the desert. There are also bottle trees native to South America, which are also a very magical plant.

Bottle trees are also called spindle trees, radish trees, Buddha belly trees, etc. They mainly grow on the Brazilian plateau of South America. From a distance, they look like giant spindles inserted on the ground.

This kind of tree can grow up to thirty meters high, with sharp ends at both ends and thick in the middle. The diameter of the thickest place can reach four or five meters. It can store two or three tons of water inside.

This tree root system is very developed, allowing it to store as much water as possible in the body after the short rainy season, just like a natural water tower.

At the same time, sparse branches and heart-shaped leaves on the top of the tree usually germinate during the rainy season, while in the dry season, many leaves will dry and fall to reduce the evaporation and loss of water in the body.

In the local area, when people are short of water or thirsty, as long as they dig a small hole in the tree, cool and quench thirst, there will be a steady stream of cool and clean water that will quench thirst, eliminating people's water shortage problem.

Currently, this kind of tree species has been introduced in many places in southern my country, but most of them exist as an ornamental plant.

However, because it is a tropical plant itself, and most of the deserts in our country are temperate or cold climate areas, it is impossible to plant this kind of plant that is of great use in the desert on a large scale.

There is also a canna that is produced in the island of Madagascar in Africa and is known as the "national tree" of Madagascar. It is another plant that can also store water.

Traveler cannabis, also known as Traveler Tree, Fan Banana and Peacock Tree, is a tropical tourist plant. At first glance, it looks like a tree, but in fact it is a herb. The leaves are extremely large and very similar to banana. Its leaves are arranged left and right, very symmetrical.

Although it is a herb, it can grow to twenty meters high and fifty or sixty centimeters thick, and the leaves are thick and strong, and ordinary ones can grow to three or four meters. The huge leaves can shelter people from wind and rain, and the fruit is very similar to bananas and has similar taste.

At the bottom of each petiole of each traveling canna, there is a "water storage device" that looks like a large spoon. One can store several kilograms of clean water that can be directly referenced. As long as someone makes a hole in this part, it will pour out a cool and sweet spring like an open faucet, for people to drink happily and relieve heat and quench thirst.

At the same time, the reason why the traveling cannabis is called this is because it has a very special ability. It is said that in the place of origin, the growth direction of this plant always points in a direction. On the one hand, it can guide people and provide water sources for people. This may be the reason why people affectionately call it traveling cannabis.

However, this plant cannot adapt to the climate in the desert areas of our country. Its growth environment is also in tropical deserts. It likes light and has high temperature and humid climates. The minimum temperature cannot be lower than 8 degrees Celsius. The soil is required to be loose, fertile, and good drainage. The most avoids low-lying water accumulation.

It is obvious that this crop is not suitable for growing on the temperate grassland that Wang Yong is about to contract. However, this is not a problem for Wang Yong. He released purchase information through the space trading system, and soon more than a dozen desert plants lit up his eyes.

After comparative screening, he finally chose a strange plant from a desert planet named Big Belly Tree.

Eighty percent of the places on this planet are desert Gobi, only about fifteen percent are suitable for human survival, while water sources occupy less than three percent.

On this planet, water sources are the most precious survival resources. A plant similar to the bottle tree on Earth produced here has become the most important supplier of clean water sources for local races to survive and reproduce.

Because of this, on this planet, local natives have deified this tree. They are regarded as a divine object similar to the worship of species on the earth, and worshipped as gods.

Wang Yong obtained tens of thousands of seedlings and big trees of these trees through an interstellar traveler and planted them in the small world, hoping that they could reproduce more seedlings as soon as possible. At the same time, they also allowed them to absorb some spiritual energy, so that they could adapt to the climate here on the earth in the future and lay a solid foundation for Wang Yong's transformation plan.

The reason why I say this is because of the characteristics of this tree itself. It looks very much like a bottle tree, with both tips and thick middle.

But unlike the bottle trees on Earth, its growth height is not high, at most it is only more than four meters high, and most of it is only about two meters away and no longer grows taller. However, it is very thick and the tree with the largest diameter can exceed two meters, which looks like a round radish.

This body shape is very suitable for this cold and windy climate on the grassland. If it grows too tall, a strong wind may cause its bones to break and its tendons to die.

At the same time, its leaves are not heart-shaped leaves like bottle trees, but are large leaves similar to those of banana trees, but there are very few leaves, usually more than a dozen leaves.

This leaf has a long petiole and a huge tumor at the bottom of the petiole, where it can also store one or two kilograms of water with a cool aromatic scent similar to bananas.

The most common "belly" of the whole big belly tree is said to be able to store four or five tons of pure water that can be directly drunk, and it is extremely cool and quenches thirst.

The water in the belly of these trees also contains a lot of trace elements and minerals, which is very suitable for human consumption. This is also the ultimate reason why Wang Yong finally chose this plant to introduce it to the earth.

At the same time, this tree has a good adaptability to the environment. It can not only grow in tropical areas, but also adapt to cold and low-temperature climates. However, once the temperature reaches below zero, its leaves will fall off and begin to hibernate. It will only wake up again after the temperature rises above zero and ten degrees Celsius.

Corresponding to its powerful vitality, this plant is not easy to reproduce. Its trees can only produce up to four or five fruits a year, and each fruit only has one seed.

If the climate drought lasts too long and they don’t store enough water, the fruit will not be able to form, and in the end there will be no seed.

However, in the small world, under the superior environment and rich spiritual energy there, these newly transplanted big-bellied trees grow very well. Through the acceleration of time, there are already tens of thousands of big and tens of thousands of saplings of all sizes in their area.

Moreover, after these saplings arrived in the small world, some trees actually happened, which surprised Wang Yong and mutated. Their huge root system actually produced a lot of nutrients through photosynthesis to improve the underground soil and enable them to turn from barren to become a fertile soil. (To be continued, please search Piao Tianwen, the novel is better and faster!

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