vstars Chapter 476: Conditions of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Chapter 476: Conditions of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Yan Feng realized that he had let something slip and slapped himself: "Just pretend I didn't say that!"
Seeing Meng Ke staring at him unkindly, he spread his hands and said, "It's what I just said. My sons-in-law are too powerful. I don't even need to do anything. The matter has been settled."
Meng Ke looked away, feeling extremely upset and not wanting to talk.
Yan Feng touched his nose and didn't dare to bring bad luck at this time.
Yan Feng felt that the planet number was inconvenient to remember, so he changed the name to Egg Star.
When Meng Ke heard the name, she was furious: "You're not borrowing Brother Tiedan's name, are you?"
Yan Feng was surprised: "How did you know?"
Okay, no need for it, it’s another useless name.
"Does Tiedan know?"
"I need his approval to change my name?"
"as long as you are happy!"
"The robots are already here. When are you going to get the seeds?"
Meng Ke glanced at him and said, "Are you really planning to get something for nothing?"
"Eh? I'm not just making money out of nothing. I signed all the agreements you sent me."
He is now burdened with huge debts, and he is really afraid that one day when he dies, this adopted daughter will turn against him and drive all the people on his planet out.
"The other seeds are almost ready. I mainly want to get some seasoning seedlings from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences."
"Academy of Agricultural Sciences?"
Yan Feng stroked his chin and began to think.
After a moment, he snapped his fingers and said, "Wait, I'll ask."
Meng Ke had no interest in eavesdropping on other people's conversations. Yan Feng deliberately walked a few steps away, and she walked towards the garden farther away.
The Star Lord's Mansion was originally very simple. It was only after Meng Ke came that the open space in the Star Lord's Mansion was planted with flowers, plants and trees.
Yan Feng thought the flowers and plants took up too much space and wanted to dig them up and plant fruit trees instead. However, Meng Ke told him that the flowers and plants could be eaten, so he gave up the idea.
When Meng Ke was chatting with Luo Tian, Yan Feng came over with a frown, sat down opposite him, and dismounted to signal Meng Ke to hang up.
After Meng Ke simply concluded and hung up the video call, Yan Feng spoke again, "He said the Academy of Agricultural Sciences wants ginseng, but you guys didn't agree."
Meng Ke really didn't know about this, but he didn't need to ask Ouyang Kong to know that the value of interstellar ginseng was too different from that of several spice trees. Unless you were stupid, you would not agree to it.
"Ouyang Kong has been discussing this matter. I won't interfere."
Yan Feng was very disappointed: "How could you give such an important thing to someone else?"
Meng Ke was a little puzzled: "Ouyang Kong is my husband, is there anything wrong with me handing this matter over to him?"
"What husband?! Apart from me, everyone else is an outsider. You can be silly, but you can't be naive, understand?"
Meng Ke raised an eyebrow: "Oh! After all this talk, you want me to know that you are you and I am me?"
"Why don't you understand me?! I'm telling you, if you don't have any power, when you really encounter a disagreement, you'll know what it means to cry out to the heavens and the earth for help, but nothing will work! If you don't hold something in your hands, and if something unexpected happens and it loses its value, the Ouyang family won't have to worry about you being killed."
Yan Feng was so anxious that he tapped the table with his index finger, and Meng Ke felt pain just looking at it.
"Don't your fingers hurt?"
Meng Ke stared at her cheap dad's fingers without blinking.
Yan Feng waved his hand like he was shooing away a fly: "Stop talking nonsense. I'm telling you, if you don't learn your lesson, if the Ouyang family really attacks you one day, I might not be able to get you out even if I pay with my whole hand."
"You, please be more careful!"
Yan Feng didn't expect that his adopted daughter looked smart but was actually so simple-minded.
Meng Ke knew that her cheap father was doing this for her own good, so she took out a bamboo tea tray and made tea for him, asking him to drink more tea to avoid getting anxious and angry.
"Don't worry! I have a plan in mind. If nothing unexpected happens, I am confident that ginseng can become a common medicinal plant in the interstellar space."
Yan Feng's eyes widened: "Ordinary medicinal plant?"
He just heard from the person at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences that Ouyang Kong, his cheap son-in-law, was asking for an exorbitant price, and heard that some forces had already agreed.
If this becomes an ordinary medicinal plant in the future, those forces will be furious.
Meng Ke saw the water boiling, and she skillfully brewed tea. After placing a cup of tea in front of her cheap father, she spoke:
"Those who can afford the price now are not short of money. It will be good for them to use the medicine earlier. If they want to wait until ginseng becomes more popular, it depends on whether they can wait until then."
There are too many uncertainties in the future. Why not use the longevity medicine that is available now as soon as possible?
Yan Feng could certainly think of this: "It seems that popularizing it is not easy!"
The dream didn’t say it was actually quite easy.
However, the storm in the Insect Sea Star Region was about to begin, and without the seeds she had purified, Xiaohong planted them, but the seeds did not germinate. This was the result of his experiment after she shared the results with Yunhe.
With Ouyang Kong arranging people to watch over her, Meng was not worried that Yunhe had other intentions.
As for the saying "don't employ people you doubt, and don't doubt people you employ", it doesn't exist in Meng Ke's case.
She admires Yunhe's abilities, but will not let go and challenge human nature. The people arranged by Ouyang Kong can help her do this.
"From what I've heard from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, if you don't give in, it'll be hard to get the seedlings."
Meng Ke tapped the table with her index finger. She had just asked Ouyang Kong that the Academy of Agricultural Sciences not only wanted ginseng seedlings, but also the planting technology, otherwise they would not give in.
How can this be? !
Meng Ke is not stupid, so he naturally wouldn't agree.
"Don't you have connections? If you can get those saplings, you can pay off your debt in a few years. Wouldn't it be great to then lead your people to become rich?"
Yan Feng had just finished sipping a cup of tea.
"Hmm! Smells good! Good tea! Do you have any more tea? Give me a pack."
He took out a packet and handed it over. Yan Feng happily took it and put it away, with a smile on his face. However, his hands were not honest. He took the packet that Meng Ke had just opened and put it away as well.
Meng Ke looked at the tea leaves in his hand, and Yan Feng smiled apologetically: "You love to drink it, but you must dislike it if it's touched. I'll help you drink it."
"I don't mind what I touched myself."
"Oh no! How can you let your precious daughter drink the leftover tea I drank? I'll help you solve it, I'll help you solve it!"
Before he could finish his words, he had already stowed them away in the folding compartment of the optical computer.
Meng didn't bother with him and continued the previous topic: "Can you get it? One or two will do."
Yan Feng knocked on the empty cup and signaled his adopted daughter to pour tea.
After finishing his second drink, he spoke: "There is a way. A little bit of it is not a problem. But it is illegal. Are you sure you want to do this?"
A trace of determined smile appeared in Meng Ke's eyes: "Have you heard of the theory of results?"
"What is this consequentialism? The kind of consequentialism that results from a tree bearing fruit?"
The dream should feel like playing the lute to a cow, rather than continuing to play riddles.
"What I'm talking about is confirming the research direction based on the other party's research results, and then shortening the research time at all costs to get similar or identical results in the end."
"I see. Isn't it just about seeing what the Agricultural Science Academy grows? If we do some research ourselves, we can always grow something roughly the same. Is that what you mean?"
"Hmm! The words are rough but the truth is there. You've hit the point."
Yan Feng selectively picked out the good ones to listen to.
"The Academy of Agricultural Sciences' research must be registered. If you create something that's too similar, what if they sue you?"
Not only is this a waste of time, but it also gets you into trouble.
Meng Ke had already thought it through: "No matter if the similarity is high or they are exactly the same, as long as we can achieve a technological breakthrough, we will be the one who laughs last."
Yan Feng held out hope: "Do you know how many talented people the Academy of Agricultural Sciences has? They're not short of senior plantation technicians, are they? If a technological breakthrough were really that easy to achieve, it would take centuries or even thousands of years of research."
The foundation of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences has been accumulated since the establishment of the alliance. It is almost impossible to make a breakthrough based on their foundation.
Meng Ke never expected that this cheap dad was so good at boosting others' ambitions and destroying his own prestige.
"Haven't I already achieved a breakthrough? If I have the first one, I can achieve the second one. If I don't have it, it doesn't matter. There's no loss anyway."
Yan Feng frowned. Because of his relationship with Meng Ke, it was almost impossible for him to get the seedlings from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences openly.
Seeing Mengke's behavior, he is definitely unwilling to give in on the ginseng seedlings, which means he is in a dead end.
But he wants the seedlings from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
"Alright! I'll get the stuff in the next two days. It's up to you how to arrange it. If the Agricultural Science Academy finds out, remember to take the blame alone and don't betray me. I don't want to spend decades in prison."
Yan Feng acted quickly and got the seedlings from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences that night. He got almost all the varieties that Meng Ke wanted, two of each, no more.
Meng Ke squatted in the study of the Star Lord's Mansion, touching the seedlings on the ground with caressing eyes: "Your speed is quite good!"
"of course!"
Being praised by his daughter, Yan Feng held his head high, chest out, and hands on his hips, feeling that he was so powerful that he had no one else to compare to.
Meng Ke squatted on the ground and couldn't even see the man's nostrils when he looked up, because his nostrils were already pointing upwards.
"I want to try it in your study, is that okay?"
This study room covers an area of several hundred square meters and has a very high ceiling. Even if the saplings from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences have genetic mutations and can grow several meters tall, it will not be a problem to fit them in.
"Try it!"
It just so happened that he also wanted to see if these seedlings were real.
What Meng Ke didn't expect was that problems arose when the first sapling was grown.
"The room isn't big enough. Let's go out."
Yan Feng also noticed it, but the sapling was not obtained in a legitimate way and could not be seen by others.
"Wait a minute, I'll have someone build a plantation quickly. It should be finished by tomorrow. I'll put this tree here for now."
"Ok!"
The next afternoon, after Meng Ke processed several batches of seeds, the plantation that Yan Feng mentioned was finally built.
The first thing he said when he saw Meng Ke was to cry poor: "If you keep owing me like this, I won't be able to pay you back even if you sell me by the pound."
Meng Ke pretended to be kind and comforted: "If you really can't pay it back, we can auction the planet."
Speaking of this, Yan Feng felt even more bitter in his mouth and he couldn't help but speak out.
"The problem is that I now owe more than I paid for the planet."
"If you develop the planet and sell it again, it definitely won't be the original price."
"This is true."
Now I can only think this way to feel a little comforted.
Meng could use the storage device to move the saplings planted last night. The planting robot had already dug a large hole in advance, so he just had to use mental power to control the hole and put the saplings in. It was quite convenient.
I didn’t expect that the tree that I was worried about poking through the roof yesterday didn’t grow any taller today. It started to bloom after I input a little mental power into it.
"The nutrient solution you bought for planting is not good. The leaves are turning yellow."
The corner of Yan Feng's mouth twitched. If he wasn't poor, he would never have been willing to treat his tree ancestor harshly.
Meng Ke took out a few buckets of nutrient solution and gave them to the planting robot, asking it to pour it on the roots according to her requirements. Then the yellow leaves fell and new leaves grew out at a speed visible to the naked eye.
This tree is a Sichuan pepper tree. After experiencing interstellar radiation and being carefully cultivated by the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, it has long lost any trace of the ancient Blue Star species.
"If a tree this big mutates, I'll have to use a mecha to cut it down."
Yan Feng had investigated spice trees before, and they were all very small, so he wasn't afraid even if they mutated. But the tree before him completely overturned his understanding.
“How many purifiers did you hire?”
As long as there is daily maintenance by the purifier, the Egg Star should not mutate even if the radiation is heavy.
Unexpectedly, what Yan Feng said made her vomit blood.
"no!"
"What do you mean?"
"I just don't mean to ask for a purifier."
Yan Feng said with a desperate look: "No money!"
What a simple answer!