The matter that Yun Duo and Xiao Jiu discussed went very smoothly because He Xiangu was the specific 'executor'. As a result, for a long time, Yun Dazheng's family of three, including Yun Duo, were not disturbed at all. As time went on, Yun Dazheng and Yun Qishi were in a better mood and looked much younger.
Yun Duo was also happy; even time seemed to pass much faster, as if in the blink of an eye, it was time for rice pollination. All the bees and ants trained by Xiao Jiu mobilized in an orderly fashion, both openly and covertly, to 'pollinate' the rice plants in her yard.
Some villagers from Lujia Village pointed at Yun Dazheng's paddy field and exclaimed in surprise, "Oh my, Uncle Yun's bees are really something else! They not only make money for Uncle Yun's family, but they also seem to know their fields. Look how lively this field is... so many bees buzzing around collecting nectar. Uncle Yun, I'm afraid he'll harvest a lot of rice this year!"
Yun Duo chuckled as she casually pulled up any weeds she could find along the edge of the rice paddy, saying, "Uncle, it's not that our bees know our fields; they just happen to be collecting nectar from the flowers and happened to come across the fields around here. If you don't believe me, look around; aren't there lots of bees in the fields next door too?"
Of course, those bees were actually sent by Xiao Jiu from the clouds to deliberately confuse people and prevent them from becoming suspicious.
After all, rice is a wind-pollinated flower that is self-pollinating, producing only pollen and no nectar, so it shouldn't attract bees. Logically, there shouldn't be such a large number of bees coming to collect nectar. Yun Duo and her team used the bees to 'artificially' create the effect of hybrid rice.
Fortunately, no one in Qingping County or the surrounding counties had ever kept bees before; Yun Duo and her family were the first. Most people didn't know that bees don't collect nectar from rice flowers, so no one questioned it. They just couldn't help but say a few words.
That's normal. When people see something unusual, they'll always make a comment.
However, because Xiao Jiu would also let the bees deliberately fly around other fields in a few 'busy' ways, it didn't attract the attention of other people.
Everyone else looked on with curiosity and amusement, but Yun Dazheng couldn't help but worry. Looking at the swarms of bees flying around in the rice paddies, he couldn't help but ask Yun Duo when no one was around, "Duo'er, do you think our rice will have a harvest this year?"
As a farmer who has spent decades cultivating crops, Yun Dazheng has a deep affection for the land. Even though his family no longer relies on the harvest from the land for food, he still can't help but care about and worry about the harvest.
Because not all hybrids have advantages, and Yunduo and Xiaojiu are doing things based on a little bit of barely plausible 'theoretical basis', Yunduo doesn't know what the rice produced in this way will be like.
Actually, she was initially reluctant to tell Yun Dazheng, but after thinking it over, she decided to tell him just in case, so that if they failed and the crops didn't yield a good harvest, it would make her grandfather anxious and angry. So she simply picked out what she could tell Yun Dazheng.
Hearing Yun Dazheng ask, Yun Duo honestly shook her head and said, "I don't know either. It depends on luck, I guess?"
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