I Got Rich in Period Fiction-Chapter 122 Mobei Prairie

The vegetable seeds Qiao Qingyu requested were not taken back to the Qiao Family Team but were temporarily stored at the county seed station.

Qiao Qingyu took a look and found these seeds to be of excellent quality. Although she wasn’t actually very knowledgeable about them, the color and plumpness of the seeds suggested they were of the highest quality. Yet, they still fell short compared to those in the laboratory.

Qiao Qingyu hesitated. Did she really need to replace all these seeds?

Was it a bit too wasteful?

Where should she put the replaced seeds?

Particularly the cabbage and radish seeds, which were not edible either.

Qiao Qingyu pondered for a long time but couldn’t come up with a reliable solution, so she decided to set the matter aside for now.

Because apart from the thousands of kilograms of vegetable seeds she handled for Mr. Qian of Xiaxi Commune, she would next focus on figuring out the Barley Grass Seeds for the base.

North City was close to the prairie, and she had also made contact for Barley Grass Seeds.

However, there were no Poplar trees here.

Nor were there any sea buckthorn.

Some people hadn’t even heard of it.

After Qiao Qingyu returned home, she sat at her desk, picked up some paper and a pen, and began to calculate.

Xiaxi Commune, cabbage and radish seeds weighed one thousand kilograms each.

These two were also the main types of vegetables stored for winter.

As for potato shoots, they were rare in North City.

It was well past the potato planting season, and potatoes were tubers, different from seeds.

The potatoes from Qiao Qingyu’s laboratory would only cover four mu of land.

Qiao Qingyu frowned.

Actually, it would be quite appropriate to plant potatoes on a plot of land at the base.

Thus, she put three question marks after the word "potato".

Even if she could get potato seeds, a minimum of three hundred kilograms per mu was needed. The one thousand kilograms of potato seeds in the laboratory occupied an entire wall.

If she were to get potato seeds from the Qiao Family Team, planting now would still be feasible, as the laboratory’s potato seeds were not only suitable for sandy soil, but also had high yields, short growth periods, and high nutritional value.

Their capacity for disease and drought resistance was also several times higher than ordinary potatoes.

Getting more was unlikely; six to seven hundred kilograms were more feasible.

With a bit of effort, they could suffice for planting on four mu of land.

The laboratory’s potato seeds had a yield of six to nine thousand kilograms per mu.

At the lowest estimate, they could harvest tens of thousands of kilograms of potatoes, saving the rest after personal consumption for replanting.

Otherwise, they would have to wait another two years.

That being said, if they wanted to expand cultivation, preliminary estimates indicated that it wouldn’t be until three years later.

Qiao Qingyu put a check mark after "potato."

Sorted!

These could be packed in sacks and transported well in trucks.

As for the vegetation needed for the greening of the base, they would choose Barley Grass and sea buckthorn.

Poplar could be planted on the periphery.

Qiao Qingyu thought carefully again, realizing she hadn’t missed anything.

She rushed to the team headquarters again.

The team leader and her own uncle were not there, so Qiao Qingyu headed to the experimental fields, where indeed both were present.

The Qiao Family Team had many experienced personnel, with corn grown on the five hundred acres of experimental fields looking even more robust and healthy than she had imagined.

These elderly farmers were experienced, some even able to analyze how many ears of corn could grow on a single plant.

Qiao Qingyu waved her hands and called out to Qiao Zhiyuan, "Uncle, come here, I need to speak with you."

At that moment, Qiao Zhiyuan and Sun Dazhang were squatting in the furrow. These past few days, during this growth stage aphids could appear, but they found almost none in the experimental fields.

Even so, they couldn’t be careless, as regular corn was planted nearby.

It would be a disaster if it got infected.

Hearing his name called, Qiao Zhiyuan turned and saw it was his niece, hurriedly put down what he was doing, and ran toward the edge of the field.

"Qingyu, why aren’t you at home? What brings you to the field?"

He then added, "Don’t worry about your mom yet, I plan to sneak you in to see them tomorrow."

Qiao Qingyu waved her hands, "Uncle, let’s not talk about my parents right now, I want to go to the Northern Desert Prairie, and have my third brother accompany me."

"You want the Barley Grass Seeds, eh? Well, funny you should mention it, I’ve actually contacted someone. We don’t have those seeds here, who plants grass these days? The grass in these fields is meant to be removed."

"We might not have them here, but the Northern Desert does, I’ve already called and checked."

Qiao Qingyu contacted them through the seed station’s director in the county town.

Qiao Zhiyuan thought for a moment, there was a public bus service from the county town, and it would take about six hours to reach the Northern Desert.

He then nodded, "Since this is an official matter, Uncle can’t object. Wait for me to go discuss with your Uncle Sun, to see if he can have the county transport team dispatch a truck. It’d be best if your eldest brother could drive you two there, then I’d feel completely at ease."

Without waiting for Qiao Qingyu to respond, he hurriedly turned around and went to find Sun Dazhang in the field.

Sun Dazhang had no objections, though he still had to contact the transport team.

With a letter of introduction, and considering that Qiao Qingyu was still the head of the Tenghai Research Base Breeding Laboratory, arranging this matter went smoothly.

Thus, the next morning, Qiao Tianbao drove her and Qiao Shengbao toward the Northern Desert Prairie.

The north in May also featured blue skies and warm waters, everywhere lush with greenery.

This place was indeed different from Xichuan, without a single uneven mountain slope; it was a plain, and further north extended into the vast prairie, offering a broad view that seemed to widen one’s heart infinitely, as if all troubles were gone.

Not to mention the fields full of green, which was refreshingly pleasing to view.

Initially, in the early days of Huaxia, North City was desolate, but after thirty years of development, it had become one of the most important granaries in the country.

The environment in North City hadn’t changed much even decades later, mainly because it still had a low population density, yet many areas had returned farmland to forests.

Thus, even such places emphasized environmental development decades later.

But this problem was nonexistent now.

Xichuan was the complete opposite of this area.

This contrast became even more apparent upon entering the prairie.

This time, they were headed to the Northern Desert seed station, which had Barley Grass Seeds for sale—up to one thousand catties to Qiao Qingyu.

The only downside here was the poor road conditions, but the scenery was breathtakingly beautiful.

When they took a break from driving, a young herdsman rode past on a horse, herding a group of cattle and sheep right in front of them.

Seeing Qiao Qingyu, the young man’s eyes lit up, and he even whistled at her.

Angered, Qiao Tianbao and Qiao Shengbao both stood in front of Qiao Qingyu, eyes bulging.

The young man threw back his head in hearty laughter, speaking rapidly in his ethnic tongue, then rode off fast on his reddish-brown horse, soon disappearing into the depths of the prairie.

Qiao Qingyu stretched her back, pushing away the two "bodyguards."

It had been nearly two months since she had "entered the book," and it was the first time she felt so delighted.