Chapter 649 645. Shock
Luo Yihang cast a contemptuous look, "How can you be so careless and still laugh?"

"Nothing." Shi Juan smiled bitterly. "A few scoldings are considered light. I've really seen someone who was beaten by his family for studying agriculture and couldn't get out of bed. He came to report by himself and was admitted to the infirmary immediately after enrollment."

"Alas." Luo Yihang sighed, this is the reality. Everyone thinks that studying agriculture is hard, and they try their best to study and pass the exams, isn't it just to get out of the mountains and stop farming?

Let’s not talk about places far away, just take Ping’angou as an example, it’s also a poor village. Generation after generation of people went out to take exams, and only Luo Yihang came back.

Or because of special circumstances.

"Forget it, let's not talk about this." Luo Yihang changed the subject and gossiped, "Why did you study agriculture?"

"I've never seen farming before, I'm just curious. Anyway, my family doesn't rely on me to make money, so I can do whatever I want. It's quite interesting to learn."

This is called a siege...

After chatting for a while, Tong Yan and the others came back with the big potatoes.

It seems that Deputy Director Tong couldn't help himself and dug one out himself.

Look at these big potatoes. The smallest one is as big as two fists, and the biggest one is even bigger than the one that Old Man Qin dug out just now.

The director of COFCO Technology was holding the baby like a volleyball. He couldn't even hold it up with both hands and had to use his big belly to support it.

I was out of breath after walking a hundred meters.

Lack of exercise.

Luo Yihang came over with a basket and asked them to put all the potatoes in it.

He smiled and said, "Everyone has made a great harvest. We will test it immediately. There is equipment in the laboratory opposite."

As he said this, he picked up a basket of potatoes and led the way.

As a result, the person from COFCO Technology took two quick steps and caught up with Luo Yihang and said, "Mr. Luo, you see, I don't quite understand it either. Can we send a video so that I can ask the technicians in the unit to refer to it. Maybe there are some special requirements in the process, and the items needed are different from the ordinary ones."

Understood.

It's better to be careful and cautious.

Luo Yihang stopped and turned to look at other corporate representatives.

“Do you have similar needs?”

Some of the people were polite, some were serious, and they all nodded in agreement.

"Then let's have a video conference. I have the equipment ready. Let's take a look together."

Luo Yihang's frankness received a lot of praise.

Mr. Luo is a very honest person.

Shi Juan and Qin Qiuyan carried potatoes into the laboratory.

A researcher from the Institute of Process Engineering also followed suit and found that what the COFCO researcher said before was not all excuses. There are indeed special requirements for industrial raw materials.

The others were waiting in the control room outside, which was also the conference room.

Luo Yihang turned on the camera in the laboratory, moved it closer to the operating equipment area, and then started the video conferencing function.

Soon, technical personnel from various companies connected.

There are quite a few people in each family, all led by gray-haired old experts and a few middle-aged backbones.

After showing up, Lao Zhang and Lao Li greeted them.

It seems that he knows them all.

We are in the same industry, and we have met at various seminars and academic conferences.

After a while of noise, it gradually quieted down.

Everyone was watching intently as Shi Juan and Qin Qiuyan took samples, processed them, and put them on the machines for testing.

During the period, we chatted for a few minutes at most. This equipment is the same model as the one we use at home; we use another one, the principle is similar; the girl has good skills, whose student is she; this girl is used to turning around twice when taking samples, this is the way of Huazhong Agricultural University, and so on.

No wonder people say that scientific research is a circle. You can recognize who is in the same group at a glance. It turns out that all the small details are different in each school.

Testing the basic ingredients of crops is very simple. Soon, the data of the first batch of samples came out and were shared synchronously in the video conference.

Experts from various companies were silent.

Luo Yihang looked at one of them, leaned forward to stare at him several times, as if he couldn't believe it. He wiped his glasses, put them back on and looked at him several more times.

When he raised his head, his eyebrows were wrinkled, and he was stroking his beard. Suddenly, he bared his teeth and pulled out a few strands of his beard.

"That doesn't make sense. These are fresh potatoes. I see they're still muddy. The starch content is 31.06%. Is the machine broken? No way. The total amount data is correct. Is the sample contaminated? No way. I did it just by looking at it. It's correct."

He thought of several possibilities, then rejected them himself.

Luo Yihang smiled and said, "Grandpa, is it possible that the starch content is 31%?"

The white-bearded old man glared and said, "Impossible. Potatoes are not cassava. Even fresh cassava only has 25 to 27% starch content. How can it be more than 30? Absolutely impossible."

"Ah, I see. The water, the water content is wrong. It's only 56. It must have been dried... It doesn't look dry at all."

Then he suddenly realized it, but then he denied it.

The old man is quite impatient.

Fortunately, I didn’t pull out his beard this time.

The vice president of his company was at a loss for words and quickly explained to the old man, "Mr. Qian, we just dug these samples out of the soil ten minutes ago, and they were still attached to the roots when we dug them out."

"Huh? Ah?" This confused the old man.

Luo Yihang also explained: "The low water content is due to the high starch content. Starch releases water molecules. The density of starch is lower than that of water. In fact, Qiuyan No. 9 is larger than potatoes of the same weight, but it is hard to tell without comparison."

The old man suddenly reacted, "Qiuyan No. 9?"

"Yes, it's a new variety, just bred. Don't be in a hurry, just wait and see..."
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Soon, the second report came out, with a starch content of 31.9%; the third, 30.2%; and the fourth, 30.76%.

The following ones are similar, with the starch content in fresh state being around 31%.

At this point, experts from various companies were silent.

On the video conference screen, all the veteran experts in the split screens had the same expression: shock.

Our own representative dug the samples on site and watched the entire testing process, which was completely flawless.

But potatoes contain 31% starch. Why does it look so weird to put these two things together?

Normal potatoes, depending on their varieties, have a starch content of 12% to 17%.

Common high-starch crops.

Fresh corn, about 20%.

Wheat, 56%, but that's after drying.

Cassava, the king of starch, is the crop with the highest starch content in the world, but its fresh content is only 25% to 27%.

How could it be surpassed by a potato?

"Detailed testing, look at crude starch, soluble sugar, and carbohydrate-water ratio."

It was the same impatient old man with a white beard who was the first to shout.

"Stop making noise." Professor Du appeared on the laboratory surveillance screen, pressed the call button and shouted.

"Lao Du? Why are you here?" asked the white-bearded old man in surprise.

"Old Qian, you're the only one with a loud voice. Why can't I be here? The species cultivated by my students and apprentices is my due."

Wow, Professor Du is so arrogant, showing off, and complacent.

It seems that he had a good chat with Wenying, and even Qin Qiuyan accepted him.

However, Professor Feng outside suddenly coughed, and he felt a little uncomfortable...

(End of this chapter)