Chapter 472 Technology
After disappearing for several months, Dr. D finally appeared in Manbao's mailbox again. Oh, no, he remembered to send an email to Manbao.
She told Manbao the good news that she had studied the method of growing Poria cocos and had successfully cultivated a young Poria cocos plant, and discovered a substance from it that was very important to human health.
The paper has been published, and she has applied for a very considerable research fund, so she was very happy. She specially went to her email to express her gratitude to Manbao and asked her if she had included anything particularly interesting recently.
Manbao said regretfully that there was none.
Dr. D also expressed regret, and then said that they could actually establish a long-term cooperative relationship because she herself is a doctor of biology. If she finds any interesting plants or animals in the future, she can contact her and she might be very interested.
If she has sufficient funds, she will be generous in purchasing points.
Manbao rolled over on the bed with joy. Does this mean that she won’t have to post on the forum when she finds something new in the future?
With the opening of the forum, Manbao felt that the competition was becoming increasingly fierce, and her posts usually sank to the bottom shortly after being published.
So Manbao feels that if he can retain a stable customer, even if there is only one, that would be a very good thing.
Therefore, Manbao is very happy that Dr. D's research has yielded results, especially since what Dr. D has researched is very useful to her!
Manbao happily congratulated her and then asked, "How do you grow your Poria cocos?"
This question not only stunned Dr. D on the other side of the system, but also Keke.
Seeing that there was no response in the email for a long time, Keke couldn't help but tell the host, "Host, this is someone else's secret. They worked hard to research it, so there's no way they'll tell you."
Manbao's eyes widened in surprise, "Farming is also a secret?"
Koko nodded, "Planting technology is also a technology."
"But..." Manbao scratched his head, "Why do my father and the people in the village never keep it a secret?"
In Manbao's opinion, things like farming can be shared.
For example, a family discovered that the bean seeds they planted sparsely last year grew better and harvested more beans than the denser ones next to them. They then spread the word and asked everyone to choose a piece of land to try it out next year.
For example, this year, this family covered one row of crops with thinner soil, and they found that the seeds germinated faster than others. They weren't affected by wind and rain, and they even grew faster...
These can be told to others, and even told to neighbors.
Manbao's family grows yam and ginger. When people in the village see them, they ask them to go back and get seeds. Not only does their family give them the seeds, they also teach them how to grow them.
For some families with whom Xiao Qian had a good relationship, he even went to the vegetable garden to provide guidance in person, so how could he keep it a secret?
There was only one thing her parents had asked them to keep secret, and that was not to tell anyone how much money the family earned.
But the gentleman also said that customs vary every ten miles, so perhaps this is the custom of the future world?
Manbao sighed regretfully and was about to write an email to Dr. D to apologize. She didn't know the customs there and might have broken their rules...
Before she even started writing, an email popped up.
Manbao opened it and saw that Dr. D had rejected her request. He then explained, "If you really want my technology, you'll have to buy it with points. I just estimated the price, and as long as there's no secondary dissemination, I'll give it to you at a discounted price of five million points."
Manbao: ...She sold Poria cocos for two hundred thousand!
"But I don't recommend buying it, because you won't be able to use it even if you buy it," Dr. D said. "From what I understand, your society's technological level is still very primitive. Even if you buy my technology, you won't be able to grow it."
Koko nodded in agreement and asked, "If I give you the technical drawings of an aircraft carrier, can you build it?"
That's of course... impossible.
Manbao breathed a sigh of relief and said to Keke, "That's great! Otherwise, if I could grow it myself and she asked me to buy it, where would I get so many points?"
Koko: "Aren't you sad?"
"I'm not sad," Manbao said, "She didn't tell me, so I let my eldest brother and third brother figure it out slowly."
She said, "Poria cocos grows naturally here. If it can grow, it can be planted. We just don't know how yet."
"The host has asked your brothers to start planting?" Why doesn't it remember this?
"No," Manbao said, "Isn't it because there aren't many of them, and the Poria cocos is expensive? They're reluctant to give it away. Sigh, I was thinking of waiting for Dr. D to figure it out before asking her, but it turns out her method isn't suitable for me, and I have to spend points to buy it."
Manbao, who wanted to get something for nothing, died before he could accomplish his goal. He had to put the matter aside for the time being, but he planned to talk to his eldest and third brothers tomorrow to see if they were willing to pick out a piece of the Poria cocos they found to make seeds.
Of course Zhou Dalang and his brothers were unwilling to do so, and their reasons were very valid. "Didn't you try it last year?"
Zhou Silang said, "I even broke off several pieces, but they all rotted. He did it secretly without letting us know. If I hadn't lived next door and smelled the odor..."
Manbao said sadly, "Then I don't know how to farm. My eldest and third brothers are the best at it."
Zhou Dalang coughed lightly and said, "Manbao, your third brother and I have tried, but we can't grow anything."
Zhou Silang looked at his two brothers in shock. How come he didn’t know about this?
Zhou Dalang explained, "We don't have any freshly broken Poria cocos. We planted all the small pieces that fell off, but they didn't survive."
Zhou Sanlang explained, "Manbao, some things are only suitable for growing in the wild. If we try to plant them in the ground, they may not be willing to grow. We also know that Poria cocos can make money, but farming is not something that can be rushed. We don't have much Poria cocos to begin with, so if we use it to figure out how to plant it, it will all be wasted."
Zhou Silang nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, Poria cocos is very expensive."
Even the eldest and third brothers had no confidence, so Manbao had to let the matter go completely.
But she had no choice but to let it go, because the summer harvest would soon begin and she became very busy.
This time, Mr. Zhuang did not give them a holiday, but simply did not assign them any homework, so that they would have time to deal with things in the farm after school.
But in fact, Baizhuangtou can do all these things well, and they don’t have to worry too much.
After the wheat is harvested, the beans can be harvested. After all the beans in the field are harvested, the rice can be harvested.
It can be said that from the beginning of summer harvest, the people in the village can no longer stop, and the same goes for the Zhou family.
However, everyone was busy and happy this year. Although the entire Qili Village did not have a bumper harvest, there were several rains when the wheat and rice were heading, and then there were more sunny days, so this year's harvest was good.
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(End of this chapter)
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