Chapter 302 298. Jigsaw Puzzle Theory

This bowl of noodles was well received at the dinner table. The pea noodles were crispy, smooth, tender and delicious.

Mrs. Du gulped down her big bowl of food and took several pieces of food from Professor Du's bowl.

"The people of Sichuan and Chongqing really know how to eat. How come we don't have such delicious dishes here?"

"Yes." Qi Ruomu replied.

"No, I go to the market every day and I've never seen it."

“They don’t sell it in the vegetable market, but they are available on the grocery shopping app. But they are expensive.”

Qi Ruomu took out his phone and looked for it. "Six dollars and ninety-nine cents per serving."

"Oh, it's a bit expensive. It's the same price as the chives I bought today. Chives are seven dollars and fifty cents."

"Your portion is one pound, right? This is one portion, 150 grams."

"Seven dollars for three taels? Twenty-four per pound, almost as expensive as Chinese toon. So expensive!" Mrs. Du calculated the bill very quickly and was really shocked.

He turned around and asked Luo Yihang, "Xiao Luo, are you selling it so expensively?"

Luo Yihang thought for a moment, "It was cheaper before New Year's Day, about five or six yuan per pound. It's more expensive now, eight or nine yuan. It will be the most expensive before the New Year, maybe eleven or twelve yuan. It's almost gone in March and April."

"Xiao Luo, you know a lot."

"It's not like I know a lot, but if I want to do this, I must understand it. I never bought vegetables before."

Now that he had come to this point, Qi Ruomu started again, "If the pea tips cultivated by Senior Sister Wenying were put on the market, how much would they sell for?"

Luo Yihang thought about it, a little hesitant, and replied: "If it is planted on a large scale, when it is put on the market in large quantities, wouldn't it be a bit unscrupulous to sell it for two yuan per kilogram..."

After saying that, he quickly added, "I'm talking about the price after a lot of promotion."

There is no way, the output is too large.

Moreover, after the conditions have been relaxed, less fertilizer is needed, there is no need to be picky about the soil, and there is no need to rush the farming season, so planting becomes easier and the investment in manpower and material resources is much lower.

This is too important.

Mrs. Du didn't pay attention to the additional words, but she heard the previous price very clearly.

Twenty-something dollars and two dollars, wow, one is in the sky, the other is in the ground.

One is Chinese toon and the other is Chinese cabbage.

If Chinese toon is sold at a very low price, how can the feeling be the same?

"Then you guys should promote it as soon as possible." Mrs. Du was worried about Luo Yihang.

Luo Yihang smiled and shook his head. "It's too early. Now the results of the experiment have just come out. No, the results of the last experiment will come out after the new year. It will be slower later. We will have to try planting it later to see how it grows under natural conditions. This range needs to be continuously expanded. It will take several years to see."

"It feels like there are no problems, but we still have to do the variety approval, which will take another year or two."

"It can only be promoted on a large scale after approval. We have just taken the first step."

Mrs. Du immediately lost her temper. A bowl of pea noodles had conquered her. She even thought about "making a mistake" and asked her husband, "Hey, can you help them get it done faster? The review will take another year or two. What's there to review?"

Professor Du smiled bitterly and said, "Crops grown in the laboratory are different from those grown in nature. The growth conditions in different places are also different, so field experiments are essential. The same goes for audits. Who knows if your experimental results are fake? Who knows if other people have also come up with the same results? Who came first or later? All of these need to be audited. One or two years is not a short time."

Mrs. Du curled her lips, "What a mess, I think it's just your bureaucracy. Xiao Luo has already made this thing, so what can't be planted?"

She doesn't care about that. She has a clear stance and stands on the side of her family.

Alas, it’s impossible to communicate this to the old lady.

Professor Du continued with a wry smile, "I don't really understand either. Let's eat first, and then I'll ask someone who knows."

"That's pretty much it."
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After meal.

Professor Du took Luo Yihang and Qi Ruomu to the study.

Made a video call.

He really needs to find someone who understands to ask.

After the video was connected, Luo Yihang took a look and thought, hey, I know him. Dr. Wei appeared on the other end of the video.

By the way, these two are old classmates.

When old classmates meet, they show off first.

Professor Du took the box brought by Luo Yihang, took out a handful of peas from it and showed it in front of the camera.

"Look, what is this? Xiao Luo just made it."

Dr. Wei recognized him at a glance and did not respond to Professor Du's show-off.

He said calmly, "I know about this. You told me. It's unimaginable. Unimaginable."

Then he got a little excited and said, "Xiao Luo's work is amazing. The sexual orientation of the crops is very obvious. This is very important. It greatly shortens the cultivation time."

Luo Yihang was still a little embarrassed.

But I have to say, it feels great to be praised by others.

Then, Dr. Wei shook his head again, sighed, and said with emotion: "Old Du, you taught a good student."

Professor Du was stunned, pointed at Luo Yihang and said, "Xiao Luo is not my student."

Dr. Wei nodded and greeted the smiling Luo Yihang, then looked at Professor Du, "I'm not talking about Xiao Luo, I'm talking about Wenying."

"What's wrong with Wenying?" The old man knew the answer but pretended to be confused.

"The breeding 4.0 she researched is extremely useful in crop improvement."

Professor Du was very happy, but he didn't show it on the surface. "What is Dafa? Tell me about it."

Dr. Wei fell into the trap this time.

"It is a genotype-phenotype-environment model that has been established and verified based on data algorithms and simulations through genotype big data, phenotype big data, and environmental big data..."

At this point, he stopped and said impatiently: "You won't understand even if I tell you."

Professor Du was anxious. "I don't understand anything. It's you who doesn't understand. You can't explain it clearly."

"I don't understand. That's what I do."

"Why don't you talk about this?"

"I'm afraid you, a dirt thrower, won't understand."

The two old men were about to start arguing.

Luo Yihang quickly tried to smooth things over, "Dr. Wei, Dr. Wei, I don't understand. Can you describe it to me in a simple way, as simple as possible so that I can understand it?"

"Uh……"

Dr. Wei looked very embarrassed.

I thought about it for a long time.

Then he slowly said: "Let me give you an example."

Well, you feel like you can’t even understand simple things, right?

Luo Yihang said, you look down on me, just wait, I have to research this thing.

Luo Yihang made up his mind secretly.

Dr. Wei spoke slowly, "Let's say you are a breeder, and you are blindfolded and can't see anything. You are asked to find a cardboard box in a large playground. Inside the box is a 1.0-piece puzzle. After you find the box, you can't open it, you can only shake it. You will be considered successful only if you shake it until the -piece puzzle is complete. This is breeding ."

...My goodness, what kind of odds are these? You have to look for it with your eyes blindfolded and you can only shake it to piece together a puzzle of a thousand pieces. The odds are probably hundreds of millions, maybe one in several billion. There's absolutely no chance of succeeding in your lifetime.

“Breeding 2.0 means putting the carton directly in your hand, with all other conditions unchanged.”

"Breeding 3.0 means you can put your hand into the box and feel it. What we are using now at Changqing Bio is breeding 3.0, which is much easier than breeding 2.0. This is also the general position of the domestic breeding industry now. There are differences in technology and main directions, but they are all at this stage."

"Breeding 4.0 is about taking off the blindfold."

(End of this chapter)