Chapter 178 177. Equivalent Exchange
The group came to Luo Yihang's field again.

Professor Du stood on the edge of the field and watched for a while.

Suddenly he said, "Actually, what you are best suited for here is breeding. The rich bacterial flora can produce abundant growth materials, and the traits of the plants will be very obvious after they grow."

After explaining, he asked, "Xiao Luo, I wonder if you are interested in setting aside a piece of land for breeding. It may take a long time, but if it is successful, the benefits will be very good, not only economically, but also socially."

Breeding again?

Luo Yihang thought about it, shook his head, and said with a smile: "I don't know how to do it either."

"What about cooperation?" Professor Du asked immediately. "For example, I can rent a piece of your land and pay you rent or you can use the land as a share."

You answered so quickly, you probably wanted to cooperate.

Professor Du has been acting strange since he came in today. He kept asking weird questions and talking incoherently. There must be something wrong.

"I don't need rent." Luo Yihang shook his head. "If I want to invest, I need to know what the project is. Professor Du, please tell me directly. I will also give you a direct answer whether it is successful or not."

"It's my duty." Professor Du nodded and explained to Luo Yihang.

"I have an old classmate whose research interests are plants and pharmacology. He has been cultivating a special type of jujube tree for several years, but he encountered some problems and needs to start over."

"Then what kind of date tree is it?" Luo Yihang asked curiously.

"Iron-rich and lead-removing dates." Professor Du said a strange name.

"Huh?" Luo Yihang was stunned for a moment and shook his head, "I haven't heard of it."

"Because it hasn't been cultivated yet." Professor Du smiled and said, "Let me explain it to you slowly."

"According to statistics, 300 million children suffer from lead poisoning every year in China, and million have high blood lead levels. These numbers are all children. Globally, the number is as high as million children."

"Under the same conditions, the amount of lead that passes through the blood-brain barrier in children is 18 times that of adults."

"Lead poisoning can directly damage the nervous system, manifesting as dementia, mania, hallucinations, etc."

"Many parents always say that their children are naughty, stupid, slow-witted, noisy and disobedient, but in fact, they may have been poisoned."

"What's even more frightening is that lead can pass through the blood-brain barrier and cause serious effects on the fetus, potentially leading to premature birth, miscarriage, or stillbirth."

These figures and the consequences they present are shocking.

Luo Yihang couldn't help but become serious and asked softly, "The iron-rich, lead-removing dates you mentioned are used to treat this disease?"

"Strictly speaking, it is a relief." Professor Du sat down directly on the edge of the field and waved for Luo Yihang to sit down as well.

Then he continued: "Lead in the human body can be excreted through metabolism, but the damage caused is sometimes reversible and sometimes irreversible, and will last a lifetime."

“So the lead needs to be removed as quickly as possible.”

"For acute or sudden lead poisoning, medication or gastric lavage can be used to save lives."

"But when the blood lead concentration is higher than normal but not yet at the stage of poisoning, there is no good way to deal with it."

"My classmate, Wei Changqing, researched iron-rich lead-removing dates to solve the lead-removal problem at this stage."

"Iron ions can absorb lead in the human body and then excrete it. Dates are one of the foods with the highest iron content, and the iron in dates is very easy to absorb."

Professor Du’s story came to an end.

Luo Yihang asked anxiously: "Can eating this kind of dates help excrete lead?"

Professor Du shook his head and laughed, "It's not that easy. The effect won't be too obvious if you eat it directly. Even if this kind of jujube is cultivated, it will only be used as a raw material for medicine."

"It takes time to cultivate dates, promote their cultivation, and develop drugs. This cycle may be very long, five, ten, or fifteen years. But the sooner we start, the sooner we will succeed."

What a great thing.

Luo Yihang was very excited after listening to this, and felt that it was an honor to be able to participate in such a great thing that benefits the country and the people.

No wonder they say this place is suitable for breeding. If they are cultivated in spiritual energy, the traits will be obvious and screening will be simple, and the breeding period may be shortened by more than half.

Making this kind of lead-removing jujube is not better than earning hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars by planting dozens of acres of vegetable fields, nor is it better than hundreds of students being admitted to universities or hundreds of patients being discharged from hospitals early...

blah blah blah

Ruined my moral integrity.

These two do not conflict.

Luo Yihang has already decided to cooperate, and is even enjoying the Li Dao Sutra that he will get after the success...

That would be heaven-shattering!

But, but, I still have to ask: "Professor Du, why does your student want to start over? Has he already started?"

"It's been five years, and everything is ruined." Professor Du shook his head with a bitter face.

"Ruined? Why?" Luo Yihang asked in surprise.

At this time, Qi Ruomu suddenly interrupted, "I know, this matter can make people angry to death."

"Dr. Wei rented land in a place and established an experimental base with a sign. After five years of cultivation, the second generation was bred and they were about to find the direction. There was a local vegetable tyrant, let's call him that, who came to the door and insisted that all the jujubes in the area must be sold to him. Dr. Wei told him that this was an experimental base and that it was not for sale to the outside. The idiot didn't believe it and harassed him several times, so Dr. Wei called the police. He was locked up for a few days, and after he came out, the guy found a group of people, broke through the wall in the middle of the night, and destroyed all the jujube trees in the experimental field."

"Fuck!" Luo Yihang cursed angrily and hammered the ridge of the field hard, causing a large section to collapse.

Qi Ruomu was shocked, "Fuck! You are really strong."

"Never mind that. What happened next?"

"Later, he was sentenced to seven years."

"He got it easy. He should be shot."

"Yes, he should be shot. He wasted five years. Damn it. He should be strangled to death."

Seeing that the two young men were talking more and more outrageously, Professor Du quickly put his hands down to ask them to stop.

"Someone has destroyed Mr. Yuan's experimental field. Our scientific research is done in the wilderness, and the risks are inherently high. We can just start over. We can't just stop because of a natural disaster or man-made disaster. We have to look forward."

"Okay, let's listen to Professor Du. Let's go ahead. Come with me." After saying that, Luo Yihang stood up, helped Professor Du up, and led the two of them to the ginkgo forest. As they walked, he introduced, "Professor Du, there is a hill over there that also belongs to my family. My family has a ginkgo forest at the foot of the hill, interplanted with Angelica dahurica."

"I have also improved that piece, and it looks good."

"Dr. Wei wants to cultivate jujube trees, so the area at the foot of the mountain should be more suitable."

"By the way, isn't Dr. Wei your classmate? He's not young anymore, right? Why do you call him Doctor?"

Luo Yihang finally asked a light-hearted question.

Professor Du laughed and said, "He doesn't teach students, so naturally he can't be promoted to professor. He doesn't work in a scientific research unit, so he can't be a researcher. He set up an independent research institute and took on projects everywhere. He can do whatever research he wants, just for the sake of freedom."

"He must be rich, then. Research costs a lot of money."

"How can he use all his own money? He needs to attract investment. He has several patents and the annual licensing fees are not small. He won't starve to death anyway."

Introducing them along the way and chatting about some lighter topics, Luo Yihang calmed down his mood, mainly to calm down his passion and let his IQ return to a high level.

Calm down and think about what benefits you can get from this.

It now seems that the questions that Professor Du asked when he came up were all about safety. He said he was looking forward, but in fact he was also afraid of the destruction. At least Dr. Wei, whom he had never met, was very scared.

Here in Ping'angou, there is not only a rare or even the only soil for growing seedlings, but also a rare safe environment.

It’s hard to find any of the normal ones, so I’ve put together two of them here.

It means it’s scarce.

With Professor Du's research "theory" backing him up, Luo Yihang is no longer afraid of being watched on the stage.

Therefore, things have to be done and benefits have to be taken, otherwise it would be a waste of the spiritual energy that I have gathered by running around the mountain in the middle of the night.
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The ginkgo forest at Luo Yihang's home is not big.

There are more than thirty ginkgo trees covering an area of ​​1,500 to 1,600 square meters.

But it was a long strip. Luo Yihang first placed a spirit gathering array, and later added two more.

Therefore, in addition to the ginkgo forest, the area covered by spiritual energy is a little more than one thousand square meters.

About one and a half acres.

Although the area is not large, it is enough in the early stage.

Besides, the soil can be improved (by setting up a few more spirit gathering arrays). With planning, the fields with rich microbial communities will expand.

Luo Yihang agreed to set aside an area as a backup zone, and the problem was solved.

Now it's time to discuss terms.

"Xiao Luo, whether you want to lease or cooperate, how many shares you want, whether you want to invest, I won't get involved, wait for Lao Wei to come and talk to him. Let's talk about our business, what do you need?"

Professor Du is an experienced man, so he naturally understands that people cannot work for nothing, and he pointed this out directly in his words.

Luo Yihang thought about it.

As for money, the old man definitely doesn’t have much.

Power, very big.

What Luo Yihang himself lacks now is not money.

It's an endorsement.

"Professor Du, do you think it's possible for me to put up a sign saying that it's a cooperative unit of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences?" Luo Yihang directly asked for an endorsement.

Professor Du smiled and pointed at Luo Yihang. "Smart kid. I'll give you a sign of a cooperative unit of the Institute of Resources and Planning. Do you want a sign of a cooperative unit of the Evergreen Biological Research Institute? Do you want a sign of a cooperative unit of the Northeast Agricultural University?"

Luo Yihang was very thick-skinned at this time, and nodded directly, "I want both."

"Okay, I'll give them all to you." Professor Du agreed readily.

And there are giveaways.

"You want to build a greenhouse, right? I'll give you another spot for smart agriculture laboratory results authorization, but it costs money, and it's quite expensive. You can consider it."

"Smart agriculture?" What is that? Luo Yihang didn't know.

He glanced and saw Qi Ruomu winking at him from behind and nodding his head vigorously.

Luo Yihang immediately realized that this must be a good thing and quickly agreed.

"Finally, you want to get into mushroom farming, right? I'll help you with that too."

and also!

Luo Yihang was very surprised. He asked for one benefit but was given five.

Professor Du is really generous to bargain on the contrary.

Luo Yihang even suspected that this Professor Du was his long-lost great uncle...

The terms were agreed upon.

Professor Du briefly asked about the planning. After listening to Luo Yihang's retelling, he knew that Qi Rumu had explained it very clearly, so he nodded at him.

He waved his hand and said, "Go back."

After returning home, Professor Du went into the house to drink some water, rest for a while, looked at the watch, and said to Luo Yihang: "Xiao Luo, I should leave soon. I have something else to do later."

Then he pointed at Qi Ruomu and said, "Xiao Qi, I'll leave you here. Don't you want to put up a sign? Ask him to help you write the paperwork. You have to go through the process."

Finally, "I'll notify Wei Changqing and ask him to come visit you in a few days. If you have any questions, talk to him directly."

See Professor Du off.

Qi Ruomu grinned.

He ate two more meals...

(End of this chapter)