I Got Rich in Period Fiction-Chapter 356: Pleasant Cooperation

Qiao Qingyu made four dishes using pig’s head meat: braised, steamed, stir-fried with red chili peppers, and also made a soup. Of course, this kind of soup is a Southern practice; people from the North don’t make pig’s head soup.

Qiao Qingyu gave Rongrong the tastiest part, the bird’s tongue.

She generously cooked rice and made two plates of vegetarian dishes.

There were still some vegetables in the base’s greenhouse; Fang Xiaomei had brought over cucumbers and bok choy.

She mixed the cucumber with dried tofu to make a cold dish.

The bok choy was made into a soup with eggs.

With both meat and vegetables, the birthday celebration was indeed wonderful.

After the birthday, He Xiuyu took Qiao Qingyu to the experimental fields in Jiangbei.

These were set up by Professor Feng and Professor Wang.

They mainly focused on experiments with rice and other crops.

Directly managed by the higher authorities, the experimental fields were large, and the staff was well-equipped, currently the best-conditioned experimental base in Huaxia.

In this timeline, no mutant rice varieties had appeared, so they had to improve the strains using laboratory rice. frёewebηovel.cѳm

Starting this year, original space rice was planted in the experimental fields, this time covering five hundred acres.

He Xiuyu drove a truck there, loaded with more than a dozen types of seeds from the space laboratory.

Over a thousand pounds of rice, as well as fifty pounds each of peanuts, sweet potatoes, canola, and sesame were brought along.

All were handed over to Professor Wang and his team.

On the way back, they loaded a truck full of alfalfa seeds.

Two days before school started, the two of them cultivated nearly eight thousand pounds of alfalfa seeds.

Then Qiao Qingyu went off to school, and when Saturday came, they hurried to the station; Professor Wang had arranged for fifty thousand pounds of rice seeds to be delivered to Qiao Qingyu’s Original Seed Laboratory’s large warehouse within a day.

This was prepared for the Harvest Commune in North City.

Since the Qiao Family Team was a seed base, they planted rice, wheat, soy, and potatoes from the space lab.

This year, the Harvest Commune mainly promoted rice and soybeans.

The Harvest Commune had over one hundred thousand acres of arable land.

Vice Director Sun had contacted Qiao Qingyu before the Spring Festival.

And right after the Spring Festival, the application submitted by Qiao Zhiyuan was quickly approved.

The Qiao Family Team, located by mountains and rivers with fertile soil, was well-suited as a seed base.

The Qiao Family Team’s farmland area was nearly ten thousand acres, larger than Hejia Village.

It had the most land in the Harvest Commune.

Unable to replicate a high-tech seed cultivation machine like the Space Device, all fifty thousand pounds of rice seeds had to be transported to the space laboratory for cultivation.

With He Xiuyu around, many things were easily solved.

Qiao Qingyu was responsible for bringing the shipments into the Space Device, while He Xiuyu handled the operations; the two cooperated very well, yet it was also quite exhausting.

The seed cultivator could cultivate up to three thousand pounds of seeds at a time, and within three days, they had fully cultivated fifty thousand pounds of rice.

Having already called the Harvest Commune in advance, as soon as the cultivation was complete, Vice Director Sun and uncle Qiao Zhiyuan arrived at the Tenghai Research Base driving ten new Jiefang brand trucks.

Vice Director Sun, along with an accountant and cashier, settled the accounts with Fang Xiaomei, who prepared all the necessary documents and bills.

Then Fang Xiaomei transferred the funds untouched to the Jiangbei Seed Breeding Center.

Qiao Qingyu smuggled some goods for her uncle—1,000 pounds each of wheat, soybeans, potatoes, and rice.

Qiao Qingyu didn’t charge for these seeds; they would settle up after the harvest.

As for how that would work or whether it would work, it was hard to say at the moment.

"Experimenting with experimentation is actually about these two words."

"Vice Director Sun and Qiao Zhiyuan happily agreed to it."

"Harvest Commune originally had paddy fields too, though only a small amount cultivated in some low-lying areas, but the farmers in North City also had rich experience in cultivating rice."

"It’s just that the yield per acre was a bit low."

"From the mid-1970s to the present, the yield per acre was only over 300 kilograms, a figure not even as high as what a great literati’s relative in Suzhou’s Weaving Institute during the 54th year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty had achieved."

"This must also be an issue with the seeds."

"Vice Director Sun had arranged the matter of planting rice even before the Spring Festival."

"Harvest Commune could plant rice on an area of about 10,000 acres."

"The rice variety cultivated by Qiao Qingyu needed only five kilograms of seeds per acre."

"Therefore, all these rice varieties could be completely absorbed solely by Harvest Commune."

"However, it still required a lot of technical support, and at this time, contacts had already been made with the seed and agricultural stations in the county town, including their technicians and experts."

"They would be stationed permanently at Harvest Commune."

"Especially this year’s corn seeds, which were already starting to be cultivated."

"Besides being planted throughout the province and North City, a portion was transported to the area south of North City in Jiangbei."

"The main cultivation units were North City Seed Breeding Center and its subordinate county towns."

"So Qiao Qingyu could basically let go of cultivating corn seeds."

"There was no need to keep working in the laboratory anymore."

"The remaining tasks, such as how to remodel, how to optimize, how to increase output, etc., were left to the agricultural technicians to handle."

"It was said that the seed stations and agricultural stations in Ning’an County were vigorously developing new types of corn seeds on this basis."

"This was wonderful news."

"Qiao Qingyu planned to take leave to return to Qiao Family Team in a month’s time."

"Of course, that could only happen after reforestation."

"Other than the land she contracted, this was one of the major things Qiao Qingyu planned to do this year."

"It was Qiao Zhiyuan’s first time coming to Tenghai, and there wasn’t much to enjoy this season, so they drove around the desert, looking at the dry yellow grass and undulating hillsides, visited a few scenic spots, and then returned to the base."

"Qiao Qingyu prepared a big table of dishes, and after everyone had eaten their fill, they rested for a night in the guest house before the group, driving a big truck, hurriedly and grandly departed from Tenghai Research Base."

"But before leaving, Qiao Qingyu had privately asked her uncle about the family’s situation back home. Her uncle didn’t tell the whole truth, but it seemed not to be very good. Since she couldn’t get clear answers, she decided to go back and see for herself."

"After the convoy disappeared, Qiao Qingyu and He Xiuyu standing at the doorway exchanged a glance and couldn’t help but reach out to high-five in celebration."

"The first item on their jointly formulated plan was completed."

"Qiao Qingyu, smiling happily, said, ’It’s a pleasure working together!’"

"He Xiuyu, ever so serious, replied, ’Looking forward to our continued collaboration.’"

"Qiao Qingyu laughed heartily, and He Xiuyu also seemed in a good mood as he took his wife’s hand and they headed home."

"Their plan for this year’s second project involved popularizing and planting sea buckthorn, alfalfa, barley grass, and willow wood."

"Qiao Qingyu’s large warehouse was full of seeds that had already been cultivated."

"This year was the third year for her cultivated sea buckthorn fruits."

"The sea buckthorn trees planted around the vegetable garden were now two meters tall, it seemed like they would start producing flowers and fruits from this year."

"Professor Feng, who was responsible for the breeding base, catered mainly to crops and plants that could survive in the desert regions of Xichuan."

"The reasons for situating the seed base in Xichuan were to prepare for the nearby area and entire Xichuan as well as the cities bordering Xichuan, spanning thousands of miles of sandy belts."

"The area of flowing sand there reached more than ten thousand square kilometers."

"Therefore, the task of sand control was significant and long-term."