"Since we're destined to be extraordinary, why don't we do something more to make ourselves more dazzling, so that no one dares to mess with us? What do you think?" Yun Duo clapped her hands and said to Xiao Jiu in her heart.
"Huh?" Xiao Jiu felt like she couldn't keep up with her master's train of thought. After letting out an "Ah" instinctively, she asked, "Master, what do you want to do?"
Yun Duo chuckled and asked, "Xiao Jiu, do you know who I was in my past life, the person countless netizens called the closest to a god?"
"Huh? Who is it?" Xiao Jiu asked.
"Yuan Longping—Old Yuan, a man who, through his own efforts and by farming, solved the problem of feeding the vast majority of humanity, a man who could grow rice in the desert using seawater. A... truly selfless man..." Yun Duo said with admiration and emotion.
"Uh..." Xiao Jiu was speechless. She thought, "Master, you're neither a scientist nor an agronomist, you can't even say you know how to farm. You can only do the simplest things like throwing seeds and pulling weeds. And you actually want to solve other people's eating habits? That's... way too audacious..."
Despite her thoughts, Xiao Jiu didn't voice them. Instead, she asked, "What does Master intend to do?"
"Haha..." Yun Duo understood the hidden meaning in Xiao Jiu's "uh" and couldn't help but laugh. In her heart, she said to Xiao Jiu, "Silly Xiao Jiu, do you think I don't know my own limitations?"
"You know the grain yield of this world. Before, Grandpa put in just as much effort as anyone else in our family's rice fields, and you also helped us keep the rice paddies free of pests. But think about it, how much did we get? Just a mere 500-odd catties of rice per mu. And what about other families? The whole village, no matter how carefully they managed their fields, the yield per mu of paddy fields was only a little over 400-odd catties, less than 500 catties."
"Do you know that in the last world, rice yields could reach thousands of kilograms!"
"If we can improve our weight by just a little bit, not too much, six or seven hundred pounds, that will be enough for people to know us, remember us, and even... be grateful to us."
“I haven’t studied agriculture, I’ve never even farmed, so of course I don’t think I can solve the world’s food problem. But I don’t need to be as amazing as Professor Yuan. He was a modern-day Shennong, a top scientist devoted to agriculture, which I’m not. But I have you!”
"Hmm..." Xiao Jiu hummed for a long time before saying to Yun Duo, "Master, Xiao Jiu will do her best to help you. But... Xiao Jiu really doesn't know how to farm... At most, I can make ants remove the grass roots so that weeds won't grow in the ground, or release pheromones to keep insects away, or help bees pollinate the crops better. Other than that, Xiao Jiu can't do anything else."
"That's enough," Yun Duo said with a smile.
"Uh... Master, I really don't understand," Xiao Jiu said, somewhat dejected.
“You have no idea how amazing you are.” Yun Duo stretched out her finger and flicked Xiao Jiu’s antennae twice, saying, “You can control ants and bees. I vaguely remember that there is a kind of ant that has the ability to secrete a substance on the pistil of a flower, which will prevent that flower from bearing fruit. In other words, ants are creatures that can secrete substances that make plants infertile.”
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