I have to say that Mr. Qiu was very efficient in handling employee transfer procedures.
At noon the next day after they packed their luggage, which was also the day after the copy, Song Yue and She Wen received the official documents.
"That's great, Senior Sister Song! We can really join Elder Qiu's team!"
Although She Wen expressed her joy in her dormitory last night, she couldn't help but feel excited again after receiving the official notice today.
Song Yue smiled knowingly at her, feeling genuinely happy for her.
But on the other hand, Song Yue couldn't help but complain in her heart.
Mr. Qiu has not appeared in the public eye for a long time. Industry rumors say that he withdrew from the field of agronomy after his team disbanded 30 years ago. Even her professional teacher in college said so.
If that’s the case, why did Mr. Qiu, who had retired from the front line, rush to recruit them into the team?
Based on her intuition, she believed that Mr. Qiu had no bad intentions.
There are just some things she needs to confirm with the other party.
Mr. Qiu’s laboratory is located on a sparsely populated farm next to the forest where they collected plants.
From a distance, the mountaintops looked grayish white. When I got closer, I found that these were experimental greenhouses built by Mr. Qiu alone.
They had taken another mountain road when they went out to collect before, but they didn't notice it. Now, under the guidance of Mr. Qiu, they took another winding road and could see these greenhouses clearly.
"Wow, Mr. Qiu, you are so amazing! You can keep these greenhouses clean by yourself!" She Wen admired from the bottom of her heart while watching.
Qiu Rongyao waved his hand: "It's nothing. I've been working on it year after year, and it's slowly getting established."
"But Mr. Qiu, excuse me for asking, how did you manage to set up so many experimental projects without a sustainable source of funding?" Song Yue was a little curious.
Seeds cost money, experimental soil costs money, water costs money, fertilizer also costs money...
The smell of money was everywhere. She did a quick calculation last night and found that based on the funds Mr. Qiu had obtained 30 years ago, it could only support his personal experiments for five years at most.
Hearing Song Yue's blunt question, She Wen's whole body tensed up. She looked at Old Qiu quietly, fearing that the latter would get angry.
However, Qiu Rongyao did not mind as much as she imagined. On the contrary, he was even much kinder than the rumors said.
He looked at the vast expanse of land on the hilltop and said slowly, "There's not enough funding, so besides doing research, I also teach part-time and do some small money-making projects. However."
He paused for a moment, his gaze growing serious. "Those projects are all about making quick bucks, and they're not good for the long-term development of agriculture. If possible, I hope to see changes in Star Country within my lifetime."
She Wen nodded continuously like a good student listening to a lecture.
Song Yue fell into deep thought and did not respond to what Mr. Qiu said.
She was just a passer-by in the dungeon, leaving after completing her mission.
She doesn't want to get involved in too many rules unless necessary.
So I remained silent.
After following Mr. Qiu around the greenhouse halfway up the hill, Song Yue asked, "Mr. Qiu, what do you want to develop this time?"
The theme of this copy is high temperature. After she raised the question, she actually already had a rough idea in her heart.
Sure enough, Mr. Qiu's answer confirmed her guess.
"A new batch of high-temperature resistant grains has been cultivated."
"What?!" She Wen's glasses widened in disbelief. "High temperature resistance... why cultivate this?"
The temperature in Singapore isn't that high, except for this year's slightly abnormal temperature. In previous years, the highest temperature was only about 31 or 32 degrees Celsius. Why is Mr. Qiu...
Seeing She Wen's surprise, Elder Qiu put his hands behind his back and led them to the back mountain. He pointed to a canyon below the mountain and said, "Do you know what was here before?"
She Wen was very positive: "Waterfall!"
Qiu Lao: "No, guess again."
She Wen tried again: "...the river?"
“Not really.”
"lake?"
"No," Elder Qiu looked down solemnly, "it's a glacier."
"Ah?!" She Wen was at a loss. "Ice, glacier..."
You must be kidding.
I just said that the temperature in Xingguo is not high in summer, but the winter is not cold enough to form glaciers.
She Wen was confused and didn't know whether she was in reality or dreaming.
Song Yue walked over to her, patted her shoulder, and said, half explaining and half guessing, "These glaciers may not have formed here. I guess there must be snow-capped mountains or icebergs upstream. Due to the high altitude, they are covered with snow and glaciers all year round. Every summer, the heat melts some of them, and finally flows to this area with the water. I wonder if my idea is correct, Elder Qiu?"
"As expected, he's a top student from the First Agricultural College. He figured it out at a glance." Old Qiu nodded with satisfaction, "It's just as Xiaoyue said. The glaciers here weren't formed naturally, but drifted down from upstream.
I have lived here for more than 20 years. In the first 10 years, glaciers came every summer and I was deeply shocked when I first saw them. But from the second 10 years on, I found that the glaciers were getting smaller and smaller and the water level of the rivers were getting lower and lower.
This wasn't a good sign, so I started investigating.
Finally, last year, it was discovered that everything was related to global warming.”
"Global warming..." She Wen muttered, standing there, as if a switch had suddenly switched on in her head. "I get it! Master Qiu, what you're saying is that global temperatures will continue to rise. If Xingguo doesn't speed up its research on heat-resistant food, the country will face a food crisis!"
"Yes, Xiaowen has also come to her senses." Old Qiu looked at her with relief.
It was the first time that She Wen was praised by a big shot, and she smiled shyly.
Song Yue pondered secretly, wondering when Mr. Qiu's project would be launched.
She still had the necessary task of rescuing the original owner's sister. After thinking about it, she decided to tell Mr. Qiu first that she would go abroad temporarily, and start participating in the training when she came back.
Unexpectedly, the other party spoke first: "You two may have to go to Ethiopia with me."
She Wen: “Ah?”
"The desert soil there is most suitable for research and cultivation."
Song Yue raised her eyebrows slightly and thought, what a coincidence.
The plane ticket was purchased immediately. The nearest flight took off at 8 pm that day, and the flight time was 4 hours in total. Taking into account the 1-hour time difference, the landing time was 11 pm local time.
There was still more than half a day before takeoff, and Song Yue planned to use this time to replenish some supplies.
Her space has expanded a lot and she can put more things in it.
The first stop is definitely the supermarket. The original owner had more than 300,000 yuan in his card, of which 100,000 yuan was the salary he received from working in Zhou Shuhan's team last year, and 200,000 yuan was earned by the original owner through working hard and receiving high scholarships during his four years in college.
Due to the limited production of grain and vegetables in Star Country, Song Yue discovered that the price of an ordinary plate of cooked food was much more expensive than in her native world, with the unit price basically above 180 yuan!
She only bought about 50kg of cooked food, exactly 100 servings, and spent 20,000 yuan!
It’s too expensive!
Can’t afford to stock up!
Song Yue decided to stop cooking.
Anyway, she still has more than 300 takeout orders in her space, and with the 100 orders this time, it should be enough for her and her parents to eat for several months.
And this is just cooked food. She hasn't included pasta like noodles, rice vermicelli, rice noodles, dumplings, steamed buns, steamed buns, and flower rolls. A family of three cannot finish all of them in a year.
Song Yue decisively changed to stockpiling water. Due to limited time, she did not go to the wholesale market, but directly bought 100 boxes of 10L drinking water in the supermarket. One box contained 4 barrels and the price was 200 yuan. 100 boxes cost 20,000 yuan, which was not expensive!
After putting it in the space, she went to the mall again.
She found that food was expensive in Singapore, but clothing was cheap.
She had looked at the label on the clothes and found that the main material was fluorescent fiber, a chemical material she had never seen in real life.
I guess this thing is easy to make, so the price of the costume is ridiculously low!
Song Yue didn't hesitate and rushed into major shopping malls to start a shopping spree. No matter which season it was, spring, summer, autumn or winter, she would go into every store and buy everything.
The shopping guide was grinning from ear to ear the whole time, and looked at her as if she were a gold ingot.
However, even after such a shopping spree, when she checked out, her card only reported a mere 50,000 yuan in spending!
It’s so cheap!
It’s so cheap that she wants to book out the entire mall!
Of course she couldn't do that because she had to use her money to buy thermal insulation clothing.
The purchasing channel for the thermal insulation clothing was introduced by Mr. Qiu. In consideration of Mr. Qiu's face, the other party gave her an internal price of 40,000 yuan per set. The material is lightweight and of better quality and more resistant to high temperatures than the commonly used thermal insulation clothing on the market. More importantly, this clothing can block the sunspot radiation and even most of the nuclear radiation released by the sun!
Not only is it not available on the market in Singapore, but even in her country Z, this black technology is not available!
Seeing that the price was far lower than his psychological expectations, Song Yue bought 5 sets at once, spending 200,000 yuan.
There was still more than 40,000 yuan left in the card. After thinking about it, she decided not to touch this part for the time being.
If you need money when you arrive in Ethiopia, don't be surprised when you get to Ethiopia and see an empty card.
At 6 o'clock in the evening, the group arrived at the airport on time.
Seeing that there was still some time, Song Yue called the original owner's sister Song Wei for the umpteenth time.
Unfortunately, it still prompts that the other party is out of service area.
She sighed, turned off her phone and boarded the plane.
At this moment, a global news was pushed to the big screen at the airport.
#Ethiopia is experiencing a sunspot storm that is rare in a million years, and all flights will be delayed#
The airport was in an uproar!
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The extra chapter is here, it almost cost me my life...
In response to the comments section asking about the update rules: Today, two people voted for 11 bottles, so I added 2,700 words~ (side-eyed smile)
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