Botanical name: Vallisneria vulgaris
Plants need: Cyanide
Plant survival rate: high
Lu Lingxi had been staring at the clump of bitter grass for a long time. After returning from the Lingshui River, he found a clean bucket and kept the bitter grass in it. The panel showed that although the bitter grass had not reached its peak state, it had a high survival rate and was not as extinct as other plants in the river. But this was not the focus of Lu Lingxi's attention. His attention was focused on the needs of the plants.
Cyanide, Lu Lingxi has already checked it out. It specifically refers to chemicals with cyanide groups, which are also highly toxic substances. People who come into contact with a certain amount of cyanide will experience poisoning reactions, and in severe cases, they will die directly. In daily life, the sources of cyanide are very wide. Some industrial activities produce a large amount of cyanide, such as rubber, plastic, paint, gold mining, etc., but at the same time, there are also a lot of cyanide naturally existing in nature, especially in the biological world, such as peaches, plums, apricots, loquats and other fruits, among which bitter almonds have the highest content.
Lu Lingxi could never have imagined that the mutant bitter grass would need such a highly toxic substance. He guessed that the toxic substance in the Lingshui River should be the cyanide discharged by the plastic processing factory upstream. So, did the bitter grass mutate because it had lived in an environment polluted by cyanide for a long time in order to adapt to the environment and survive? Thinking of this, Lu Lingxi had another idea. The mutant bitter grass's demand for cyanide is actually a process of plant absorption. If the mutant bitter grass evolves, can it increase its absorption of cyanide and solve the pollution problem of the Lingshui River in disguise? It would be even better if the mutant bitter grass evolved to absorb cyanide, which would kill two birds with one stone.
He was so absorbed in his thoughts that he didn't even know when Yan Yue would come back. When Yan Yue entered the room, he saw Lu Lingxi staring at a clump of water plants, and his heart softened for no reason. "Xiaoxi, it's time to eat." Yan Yue heated up the buns from yesterday and made a cup of milk for Lu Lingxi. The eighteen-year-old Lu Lingxi was still growing up, and every time Yan Yue urged Lu Lingxi to eat, he would feel like "raising a son."
Lu Lingxi agreed, washed his hands, and sat down obediently opposite Yan Yue.
Yan Yue thought of the water plants in the bucket and asked casually, "Where did it come from?" Then he realized something, "Xiao Xi, did you go to the river?"
Lu Lingxi nodded, and in order to prevent Yan Yue from saying that he was running around alone, he quickly expressed his thoughts. Yan Yue agreed at first, but when he heard Lu Lingxi talking about his plan to find some cyanide to grow Vallisneria for experiments, he suddenly lost his composure. What is cyanide? Yan Yue knew much more about it than Lu Lingxi. This substance is extremely toxic. In addition to oral administration, it can also be absorbed through the respiratory tract. Even at high concentrations, it can be absorbed through the skin and penetrate into the body, causing human poisoning. Where on earth did Lu Lingxi get the courage to say that he was going to find some cyanide to grow Vallisneria for experiments?
Yan Yue's face darkened, and he said flatly, "No. You can grow bitter grass, but you absolutely cannot touch cyanide. Don't you know that it is a highly toxic chemical?"
Lu Lingxi was stunned by his harshness. He blinked and looked at Yan Yue and argued in a low voice: "Brother Yan, you still smoke. The smoke produced by smoking also contains cyanide, which is very toxic."
When he said that, Yan Yue almost laughed out of anger. In the past, due to insomnia and other reasons, Yan Yue developed the habit of smoking. But since he met Lu Lingxi, he has been smoking less and less frequently, and tries to avoid smoking in front of teenagers to avoid setting a bad example. That is, the last time Ye Kang came over, Yan Yue smoked a few cigarettes, and he didn't expect that Lu Lingxi saw it, and he still remembered it in his heart. He looked at the boy's expression, which was a slight accusation, but also a bit of a trick. Yan Yue's heart was sunken, and he glared at Lu Lingxi with a smile, and said without blushing: "I have quit smoking."
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Lu Lingxi couldn't argue with Yan Yue, so he groaned. Yan Yue looked at him and wondered if he was too harsh. He softened his heart and compromised, saying, "High-purity cyanide must not be touched, but we can go to the river to get some water and bring it back to feed these bitter grasses."
Lu Lingxi's eyes lit up and he nodded quickly. In fact, he couldn't find cyanide even if he really wanted to. He couldn't let Yan Yue keep smoking at this bunch of bitter grass to generate cyanide. The picture in his mind was too funny, and Lu Lingxi couldn't help laughing. When he looked at Yan Yue, there was a hint of a strange smile in his eyes. He looked different from his usual obedient appearance, and faintly revealed the mischievousness unique to this age. Yan Yue looked moved and couldn't help but stretched out his hand to rub the boy's hair. He thought to himself that although the boy's previous obedience was good, it was a bit too suppressive to think about it. He still preferred to spoil the boy to be more lively, just like now.
The two of them finished their breakfast slowly, and endured the stench to get a bucket of water from Lingshui River, which they put in the trunk and brought back to Fengcheng. Lu Lingxi couldn't keep the bitter grass in the micro-gardening store, so he kept it in the backyard like the Victoria amazonica. He took good care of the bitter grass every day and carefully recorded its changes.
As long as Lu Lingxi didn't mess with cyanide, Yan Yue wouldn't interfere with his behavior. He could understand Lu Lingxi's thoughts. While accompanying Lu Lingxi to take care of the clump of bitter grass, Yan Yue found Xue Yongtong and proposed that Xue Yongtong take the lead and the two companies cooperate to establish a private plant research institute. It is used to study the genetic evolution and variation of plants, develop new plant varieties, and convert research results into tangible economic benefits. Research institutes like the one Yan Yue mentioned are basically available in general large flower companies. A more down-to-earth way of saying it is a breeding institute that studies plant hybrid breeding and screens new varieties. In the past, similar institutions were led by the state, but with the development of economy and technology, more and more institutions have turned to private research.
Yan Yue had been thinking about this idea for a long time, but he had not found a suitable entry point to talk to Xue Yongtong. The large-scale planting of begonias was his original entry point, but after acquiring Qiutian Horticulture, Yan Yue weighed the pros and cons and changed his mind. This time, the mutation of Vallisneria allowed him to find a new entry point, and he immediately found Xue Yongtong. In Yan Yue's opinion, micro-horticulture has no foundation in the horticultural circle of Fengcheng, and it is really not suitable to be too conspicuous. He is willing to sacrifice certain economic interests in exchange for Lvxuan Horticulture to take the lead, which can not only realize the boy's wish, but also win space for the development of micro-horticulture.
Xue Yongtong was very surprised by Yan Yue's proposal. It's not that he looked down on Micro Gardening. On the contrary, Xue Yongtong felt that Micro Gardening was fully capable of setting up such a research institute on its own. To put it bluntly, this kind of institution is just one word - money. Not to mention Lu Lingxi, Yan Yue had the money to buy Qiutian Gardening, so investing in such a small research institute was not a problem at all. But Yan Yue actually proposed to cooperate with him, and Xue Yongtong couldn't help but think about it in his heart. But he thought about it again and again, and couldn't think of any harm to him from the cooperation between the two companies. After seriously considering it for a few days, Xue Yongtong decisively agreed out of some kind of businessman's intuition.
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