“The boundless horizon is my love~”
The phone rang.
Wen Ji Chun stopped what he was doing and pressed the answer button.
“Hello, Professor!”
The call had just connected.
Su Xiaoqiang’s voice was urgent.
“Professor, look at this seedling!”
“The leaves, and the whole branch...”
“I just compared it to the seedlings in the book...”
“It’s completely different!!!”
Su Xiaoqiang’s voice came from the phone’s speaker.
Wen Ji Chun’s brow furrowed upon hearing this.
“What are you talking about.”
As he spoke, Wen Ji Chun looked at the seedling that Su Xiaoqiang was holding up to the camera.
“It’s normal to have slight differences...”
Wen Ji Chun’s words stopped halfway through.
His eyes widened, and his expression instantly turned serious.
Even his breathing stopped.
“This seedling...”
“It’s not right!”
Wen Ji Chun pointed at the seedling in front of him, staring blankly.
“How come this seedling...”
“Is more than twice as big?!”
“Su Xiaoqiang, what’s going on with this seedling!”
After hearing the professor’s question, Su Xiaoqiang explained what happened.
Wen Ji Chun was stunned, “You’re saying that this seedling was cultivated three days ago by your brother?”
Su Xiaoqiang nodded, “That’s right.”
“After all, my brother didn’t know anything about cultivating seedlings three days ago.”
It was Wen Ji Chun who told Su Ze about cultivating seedlings.
“You wait, I’ll be right there!” Wen Ji Chun grabbed his coat from the table and headed out.
Su Xiaoqiang was startled, “Now?”
Wen Ji Chun nodded and said:
“Now!”
...
“Zzz——”
The sound of brakes echoed. Wen Ji Chun’s old-fashioned bicycle and Su Ze’s pickup truck arrived at the gate of the courtyard almost simultaneously.
Su Ze got out of the car with Xiao Huang and Xiao Bai.
He immediately saw Wen Ji Chun standing next to his bicycle.
“Professor Wen, you’re here!”
Su Ze was a little puzzled.
Wen Ji Chun’s frantic appearance didn’t seem like he was coming over for a meal.
“Su Ze, come on, let’s go see your seedlings!”
Wen Ji Chun pulled Su Ze towards the courtyard.
“Xiaoqiang, Su Xiaoqiang?!”
As soon as they entered the courtyard, Wen Ji Chun called out for Su Xiaoqiang.
“Professor, I’m here!”
“Hey, brother, you’re back too?”
Su Ze nodded and asked, “What’s going on?”
Before the question could be answered,
Wen Ji Chun had already taken Su Ze into the warehouse.
Upon entering the warehouse, Wen Ji Chun only had to take one glance to see the peculiar seedling.
As if to verify his thoughts, Wen Ji Chun asked:
“Su Ze.”
“When did you start cultivating this seedling?”
Su Ze looked at the seedling not far away and said, “Three days ago.”
“The day after you told me to cultivate seedlings, I bought them and started cultivating them.”
Upon hearing this, Wen Ji Chun’s expression changed.
“Three days ago, really three days ago!”
“A mutant!”
“It’s really a mutant.”
“Unfortunately, there’s only one...”
Wen Ji Chun looked at the seedling in front of him as if he were looking at a stunning beauty. His eyes shone with a strange light.
As he said there was only one left,
His expression was filled with unspeakable regret.
Su Ze heard him and asked, “Professor Wen...”
“Is this seedling not simple?”
Su Ze knew about this seedling.
It was one of the first few seedlings he cultivated with the spiritual water.
Perhaps the spiritual water’s effect was too strong, out of about ten seedlings, only this one survived.
Of course, it wasn’t that only this one seedling survived from those cultivated with spiritual water, but there was only this one left in the warehouse.
Because of light considerations, most of the seedlings were placed on the second floor.
There was another batch there!
“It’s more than just not simple.”
“It’s just that from the current observations, this seedling has already developed differences from the other seedlings.”
“First, the growth speed.”
“Second, the size of the leaves and plant.”
“These two data determine the yield and disease resistance of the seedling.”
“Although there hasn’t been any professional measurement.”
“But this seedling has already surpassed most ordinary seedlings.”
“Unfortunately, there’s only this one.”
“If only there were a few more... Even one more would be good!”
Wen Ji Chun looked at the ‘lone seedling’ in front of him, feeling an indescribable sense of regret.
Because there was only one, he didn’t even dare to speak loudly.
He was afraid that this seedling would spontaneously commit suicide on the spot.
Hearing Wen Ji Chun’s regret, Su Ze said, “Professor Wen.”
“Actually, there’s another batch of these seedlings on the second floor.”
Wen Ji Chun was stunned.
“There’s...”
“A batch???”
Su Ze nodded, “I haven’t counted the exact number, but there should be about seventy or eighty.”
“I’m not an expert, so I thought it was just growing faster and taller than the other seedlings, and I didn’t do anything special...”
Su Ze was telling the truth.
He wasn’t a professional agricultural student.
Although this batch of seedlings was cultivated with spiritual water, before they yielded results, Su Ze only felt that they were growing faster and taller.
That’s all.
“Sev...”
“Seventy or eighty?!!!”
Wen Ji Chun was dumbfounded.
Su Ze nodded, “Yeah.”
“I haven’t counted the exact number, but it should be about that.”
Wen Ji Chun and Su Xiaoqiang exchanged glances.
They both saw disbelief in the other’s eyes.
One mutant seedling was already amazing.
But Su Ze had...
Seventy or eighty???
Wen Ji Chun took a deep breath and suppressed the excitement in his heart.
As the saying goes, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.
Before he saw those seedlings for himself, anything could happen.
The most likely thing was that Su Ze had mistaken them.
After all, it was impossible to only plant one type of crop on 300 acres of farmland.
So, it was also normal to mix up the seedlings.
“Inhale—exhale—”
He took a deep breath.
Wen Ji Chun’s emotions calmed down a bit.
“If that’s the case, Su Ze, take us to see them.”
Su Ze nodded.
“Then, Professor, please.”
As soon as the words left his mouth,
Su Ze led the way, followed by Wen Ji Chun and Su Xiaoqiang, as they headed towards the second floor.
It took no more than two minutes to go from the warehouse to the second floor.
But these two minutes felt like two hours to Wen Ji Chun.
This batch of seedlings was too important.
Everyone knows that the country is developing agriculture vigorously, but most people don’t know.
The country spends more than 3 billion yuan every year just importing seeds.
That’s more than 3 billion yuan!
And those seeds, bought with so much money, are still ‘sterilized’ seeds.
What does ‘sterilized’ seeds mean?
They can only be planted for one season!
You buy them once, and you have to buy them again, and keep buying them.
The great nation of China, was actually having its neck choked in terms of agricultural seeds.
Wen Ji Chun, who knew this, had always been committed to developing high-quality seeds for China.
But the path to cultivating seeds was not so simple.
He had been researching for ten or twenty years, but the progress was like a snail.
He thought that he would never be able to develop new seeds in his lifetime.
But now.
Su Ze’s appearance had brought him light.
Mutants!
High-yielding, highly disease-resistant mutants.
This was hope!
As long as what Su Ze said was true, he had a batch of these seedlings.
Then...
There was hope!
“Professor Wen, we’re here.”
As Wen Ji Chun was lost in thought, Su Ze’s voice rang out.
They had finally reached the second floor.
Wen Ji Chun gathered his thoughts, took a deep breath, and pushed open the door.
As the ‘creaking’ sound echoed, the door opened.
The scene inside the second floor had just come into view.
Wen Ji Chun froze.