The 79th solar day.
Early in the morning, Mark came to ring Rosen’s doorbell, preparing to invite him warmly to witness the historical moment of harvesting potatoes. By the way, he also planned to treat Rosen to a potato feast to express his gratitude to Rosen. Sen's gratitude for inviting him to dinner from time to time.
But before he stood in front of the door, he saw Rosen through the glass of the greenhouse, who was digging sweet potatoes with a shovel.
Mark is a botanist. Even if he has never done much farm work before, he can still imagine that if Rosen peels sweet potatoes with wild movements, he will definitely damage the sweet potatoes and not be able to dig them clean.
Originally, he wanted to persuade Rosen to prove that he, a botanist, was not just for nothing.
But when he walked into the glass greenhouse and saw the piles of sweet potatoes that had been dug out before, he was stunned.
Because he didn't see the sweet potato being injured and cut in half by the shovel as he was worried about.
What's going on? How did Rosen do it? Mark's mind was filled with questions for a moment.
He stood aside and watched for a while, then saw Rosen walking to a sweet potato seedling, cleaning up the vines, and then casually inserting the shovel into the soil.
The shovel was immediately submerged into the soil. Then Rosen exerted a little force, the soil was opened, and the sweet potatoes hidden inside emerged.
The whole process is just like playing, the main thing is to be relaxed and casual.
But Mark always felt that something was wrong.
Why couldn't Rosen just insert a shovel into the soil and not hurt the sweet potatoes? Does he know what's going on underground?
How is this possible? !
Mark was puzzled, but couldn't help but want to try it with his own hands, so he casually inserted a shovel into the ground like Rosen did.
With a click, the handle of the shovel was not broken, but he killed two or three pieces of sweet potatoes in the soil.
"Why is this?" Mark's face turned red and he asked with confusion, "Why can't I be like you?"
"This is needless to say. , This is China's land, China's sweet potatoes, it is afraid of being exposed to you, an American," Rosen said nonsense.
In fact, there are many reasons why he can hit the target with a shovel.
Gui Valley Secret Technique lv3 and Earth Works lv3 count as one, and of course the poisonous flower vine that has been lurking underneath also counts as one.
It is worth mentioning that the secret technique of Guigu can be used to see the growth trend of sweet potatoes underground, which he also just discovered.
Standing in the sweet potato field, he was shocked when he saw that the Guigu secret technique was in a triggerable state.
For a moment, he thought that the place he just found was an alien tomb.
The result...
Surprisingly, a bunch of sweet potatoes were dug out.
Well, because the groundbreaking point given to him by Guigu Secret Technique is very precise, so from the beginningIn the end, the skin of a sweet potato was not scratched, and all the sweet potatoes were dug out without leaving anything behind.
This is good.
However, Rosen was very disappointed.
He really wanted to know what the ancestors of Guigu were thinking at the time, so that the usefulness of Guigu's secret technique was still so down-to-earth.
The problem is, there were no sweet potatoes at that time.
Whether sweet potatoes or potatoes are exotic species, or they happened in the past few hundred years, Gui Guzi would have never thought of them, let alone heard of them in his time.
Complaints are complaints, and you have to continue to do the work you should do.
With Mark helping me, the work of digging sweet potatoes became easier.
"Rosen, I have a question."
"Speak." Rosen said, "I'm not blocking your mouth."
"As far as I know, although the growth cycle of sweet potatoes is different due to different planting times, they are not short. The growth cycle of spring sweet potatoes is about 160 days to 200 days, while the summer sweet potatoes are generally 110 days to 120 days. "
When Mark said this, he pointed to the sweet potatoes on the ground and said: "But why did your sweet potatoes only grow in fifty or sixty days? This is unscientific!"
The sweet potatoes grow quickly mainly because of two things. First, Rosen uses magic fresh water for watering, which should change the growth cycle.
The second is that there are always oak wise men flying around in the greenhouse to bless various states of the crops he grows. Not only do they have stronger vitality, but they also grow faster.
"Oak Wise Man: lv3, HP 100, HP +40%, cold resistance +20%, fire resistance +20%, electricity resistance +20%, poison resistance +20%, make your belongings Growth speed +1, range 30 meters, consumption 15 mana.”
But he can’t tell the truth, even if he told him, Mark would probably not believe it.
Of course Rosen could make up some random reasons to fool him, such as climate reasons, sunshine duration, temperature changes, soil reasons, etc.
But he felt that these were not enough to convince Mark, so he simply didn’t bother to make up excuses and said: "In this hellish place where even Newton has never been, science is useless. "Use, let me tell you, this is my racial talent, it is so unscientific."
Mark was speechless immediately.
Soon he witnessed another less scientific fact: the corn planted by Rosen was also ripe.
The growth cycle of corn is also not short, usually 100 to 130 days. In Rosen's glass greenhouse, it can still be eaten in 50 or 60 days.
With the hard facts in front of him, Mark felt that it was a bit ridiculous to talk about science anymore. At least the growth patterns of these two plants in his mind were not very reliable. At least on Mars.
So much so that a few years later, when Mark finally became a professor at the university, he would occasionally mentionRosen's magical racial talent.
He always has a complex look on his face, and is full of emotion: "I have heard of many miraculous racial talents, but the one that can really shock me so much that my jaw almost drops to the ground, maybe mine is the only one. My friend Rosen has a talent for farming, which can greatly shorten the growth cycle of plants. It is very suitable for growing crops in interstellar exploration. It is really amazing."
"By the way, why did you come to me? ?" Rosen asked casually as he tossed the corn cobs, "You're not here to help me, are you? Do you, Americans, have a fine tradition of helping each other during the busy farming season?"
"Me? I came here to witness my potato harvest." Mark remembered the business at this time, but looking at the piles of corn and the sweet potatoes next to him, he couldn't help but sigh and said, "But seeing your yield, I suddenly I don’t think there’s any need to show you the potatoes I planted.”
“Don’t say that, after all, you’re the one who got up early, so how can you dislike it?” Rosen said with a smile: “Wait for me. After finishing the work at the side, I’ll help you dig potatoes.”
Mark’s potatoes don’t need to be dug because the soil is relatively shallow and the roots are not deep, so they can be easily pulled up.
The process is very simple and the rewards are not bad.