In the palace, Baili Tang and Liang Qiuyu sat in the pavilion to enjoy the cool breeze. A pile of freshly picked lychees was placed on the table. Liang Qiuyu was responsible for peeling the lychees, while Baili Tang was responsible for eating them.
"Your Majesty, you ate a lot of lychees. Qiuyu will pick up some lychee shells and boil them in water to drink. It will help reduce internal heat."
"Then I'll trouble you, my beloved concubine." Baili Tang sighed, "If I could eat 300 lychees a day, I wouldn't mind living in Lingnan forever."
Liang Qiuyu was happy, and His Majesty also liked the south, but eventually he still had to go north back to the palace.
She did not comment on these two lines of poetry, but changed the subject: "Your Majesty, regarding the hybrid rice issue..."
Still thinking about this? You're so persistent!
"My beloved, have you ever noticed that even though we've planted the same rice in a rice field, when we harvest, there are always a few plants that are taller, have more ears, and mature later?"
This special rice plant is a natural hybrid rice.
Liang Qiuyu nodded vigorously. It was through observing this phenomenon that she cultivated new rice varieties, which increased the yield per mu by more than 100 kilograms.
Baili Tang continued, "If close blood relatives, such as cousins, marry each other, will the children they give birth to be more likely to be deformed?"
In ancient times, cousins could marry, and there was no law prohibiting it. However, first cousins were absolutely not allowed to marry.
Liang Qiuyu was lost in thought, not interrupting. It was true that cousins had married, and the resulting children... but no one could explain why. So the child said it was a punishment from heaven.
In order to help Liang Qiuyu understand better, Baili Tang used a more common example: "If there are two tall and strong bulls and cows, the calf they give birth to can be a big bull; if there is one big bull and one small bull, the calf they give birth to can be big or small; if both bulls are calves, the calf they give birth to can be a small calf. Moreover, if these two bulls are born from the same cow..."
Ha, Baili Tang is taking Liang Qiuyu’s junior high biology class!
"Will their offspring be deformed?!" Liang Qiuyu exclaimed excitedly! The confusion that had been plaguing her mind was finally resolved today. Everyone says His Majesty is a tyrant? How could such a learned man be such a tyrant?
When Baili Tang thinks of biologists in his past life, he first thinks of Darwin. Darwin demonstrated the evolution of species in his book "The Origin of Species," but he didn't address the question of inheritance and variation. It was another biologist, Mendel, who truly answered that question.
From 1856 to 1864, Mendel conducted hybridization experiments with peas, performing statistical analysis on genetic traits such as stem height, wrinkled seeds, and red or white flower color. He ultimately concluded that genetic factors are governed by the laws of segregation and independent assortment. These factors are what we later call genes.
The cattle breeding experiment that Baili Tang told Liang Qiuyu was derived from the pea hybridization experiment. This made it easier for Liang Qiuyu, who had lived in the village since childhood, to understand it.
There is also a father of hybrid rice, but Baili Tang has not told Liang Qiuyu about it because it is more difficult.
Give Liang Qiuyu some inspiration first, and then she can slowly experiment and explore.
If Liang Qiuyu can become the “Mother of Hybrid Rice” because of this… Wow!
As for Liang Qiuyu, Baili Tang liked her more and more the more he saw her, and loved her more and more the more he spent time with her. He must have done good deeds in his past life, otherwise how could he have married such a wife?
Thinking about it, he stole two more kisses.
"Your Majesty..." Liang Qiuyu was naturally embarrassed since this was a pavilion. "Your Majesty, using this method, can you cultivate rice that has a high yield and is not prone to lodging, or even worse than diseased rice?"
Baili Tang stroked Liang Qiuyu's black hair and said, "Of course, but it's not something that happens overnight. Survival of the fittest is the law of nature."
"Survival of the fittest?"
"My beloved, after we return to the palace, I'm afraid I won't be able to be by your side all the time to protect you. The palace is a place where people are eaten without leaving any bones. You must protect yourself at all times and don't trust others easily."
Baili Tang was deeply worried. His beloved concubine wouldn't survive more than two days back in the palace. Sending Liang Qiuyu to the Sino-Agricultural Temple would only put her in even greater danger. So he planned to give Liang Qiuyu a few acres of land in the palace to cultivate.
Liang Qiuyu nodded vigorously, tears welling up in her eyes... In order to control her emotions, she quickly ate two lychees. It must be that the lychees were too sweet: "...Your Majesty, Qiuyu will go and make some lychee shell soup."
"Go ahead."
I don’t believe that I can’t even protect a woman I love!
At this moment, a sarcastic voice came over: "We only see new people laughing, who has ever seen the old people crying? Aunt, you are in heaven, please open your eyes and see clearly, this is the man who always said that he would treat you well for the rest of his life!"
Who else could it be but Chao Man'er?
Who else except her would dare to say such outrageous words?
Back then, she had been to the palace quite often to accompany her aunt. Before that incident, the tyrant emperor hadn't even visited her aunt's bedroom for six months. Chao Man'er could still vividly remember how heartbroken her aunt must have been at that time.
It happened that she saw Liang Qiuyu being favored, so she couldn't help but make sarcastic remarks.
"Please take off my clothes and return them to me," Liang Qiuyu said coldly. She couldn't interfere with what happened back then, but she wouldn't allow anyone to disrespect His Majesty!
It turned out that Chao Man'er had washed herself at Liang Qiuyu's house and changed into Liang Qiuyu's clothes before coming.
Eunuch Yang appeared at some point: "Miss Man'er, this old servant will get you a new set."
"I won't change it. I won't change it. What can you do to me?" Even the tyrant emperor who dotes on you now doesn't dare to do anything to her.
Baili Tang stood up and said, "My dear, forget it. Today, just think of it as a tiger in plain land being bullied by a dog!" If it weren't for the guilty feeling in his heart, Baili Tang would have asked someone to punish Chao Man'er!
After saying this, he returned to his room. Staying here and listening to Chao Man'er scolding him, wouldn't he be unhappy?
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