The booming era begins with the director of the Propaganda Department!

Chapter 353 Soul, come back!
Before he finished speaking,

Qin Huairu had two lines of tears sliding down her cheeks again. Jia Zhang's legs went limp and she collapsed to the ground, holding onto the edge of the kang with her hands, and she was about to faint from crying again.

Their Jia family has always been the only family in the vast land, and by the time of Jia Dongxu, it has been a single-line family for three generations.

If Dongxu hadn't died, how happy would he be to know that he was going to have another child, maybe a son? ? ! ! !

Dongxu, why did you die?

When everyone in the courtyard heard Qin Huairu's words, they looked at each other with complicated eyes and all kinds of thoughts in their minds.

Life is hard these days. One more child means one more mouth to feed and one more thing to chew.

Not to mention that Jia Dongxu is gone now. The remaining men in the Jia family are old or young, and there is not a single useful person left.

Although Jia Zhang can continue to work at the steel mill, without Jia Dongxu, he will lose his temporary job income at the steel mill. Qin Huairu, a pregnant woman, can no longer work at the processing plant.

All I can say is that the Jia family will have a hard time in the future! ! After everyone's thoughts were scattered, only this thought remained in their minds! ! !
In the past few years, since Jia Zhang entered the steel mill, she has always looked down on people in the courtyard. Especially when she meets aunts and aunts of the same age, she suppresses and PUAs these housewives.

Although Auntie No. 1, Auntie No. 2, Auntie Yan, and Auntie Chen didn't say it, they were very dissatisfied in their hearts.

So when he saw that Jia Dongxu was gone and the good days of the Jia family were over, in addition to feeling sorry for Jia Dongxu, the child he had watched grow up, he actually felt a sense of pleasure.

You are so arrogant! You deserve it! Let's see how you can bully us in the courtyard in the future!

Especially an aunt.

At the beginning, Jia Zhang often told her to her face that she was an old hen that could not lay eggs.

What now? ?

Their Yi Weihong grew up day by day, but Jia Dongxu, whom Jia Zhang was proud of, died.

All I can say is, God has his way, no one can escape it!!! The aunt thought to herself.

But in a second,

Jia Zhang turned her head and saw that half of Jia Dongxu's face had been flattened, with only the other half of his face left, and some liquid suddenly overflowed from his nostrils.

Suddenly he went crazy, rushed to Bang Geng, grabbed his shoulders tightly, and his eyes flashed with a devilish gleam:

"Bang Geng, go to the roof! Go to the roof and call your dad towards the west, then he will be reluctant to leave..."

When she was a child in the countryside, she heard the elders say that if a person is not dead, using this method to call back the soul, the soul that has been hooked by the Black and White Impermanence can be called back! !
"Great! That's your biological father!!! He's still having a runny nose, he must still be alive!! Go quickly!! Go and call his soul back!! It will be too late if you're late!!"

After saying this, he pulled the stick and rushed out through the crowd.

The seven-year-old Banggeng had never seen his grandmother so crazy before. He seemed frightened. His legs went weak and he fell to the ground.

"Grandma, my father is dead..."

How can you live without half of your head???

Jia Zhang slapped him in the face: "Asshole! Your father is not dead, can't you see he is still running a nose? Hurry up and go upstairs, now!!"

Banggeng covered his face and cried, while Qin Huairu just shed tears on the kang, watching her mother-in-law beating her son like crazy, but she did nothing.

"Sister-in-law Zhang, Dongxu is indeed gone, and that snot is just... just a normal physiological phenomenon..." Yi Zhonghai rescued the stick from Jia Zhang's hand and stuffed it to Lao Qin.

"Banggeng, you go. You are Dongxu's biological son! You have to call back his soul, no one else can..." Jia Zhang's voice was hoarse, and every word was tearful, "Dongxu, my Dongxu!!! Son!!"

The joy in the hearts of Auntie One, Auntie Two, and Auntie Yan suddenly disappeared, and they all wiped away their tears.

How could it be said that Shazhu actually still has a compassionate heart? ?

After finally settling Qin Huairu down, she saw Jia Zhang, who had fainted from crying and then woke up, and couldn't help but step forward to persuade her: "Aunt Zhang, don't be too sad. You are the pillar of the old Jia family. If you fall, what will happen to Aimin and Banggeng???"

"What to do? Just leave it alone!" Xu Damao said coldly, with a hint of gloating in his tone, "Hey, Jia Dongxu is also a bit stupid. If he had stayed at home and taken care of the children, he might not have reported to the hell king at such a young age!

But it is also true, if Aunt Zhang hadn't always been in the courtyard and complained that Jia Dongxu was useless and could only take care of the children, cook and wash dishes at home, he wouldn't have rushed to work as a temporary worker in the steel mill. "

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone glared at him angrily.

Although everyone had some thoughts in their mind, at least no one said it out loud, unlike Xu Damao, who always stabbed people in the heart!!!
Upon hearing this, the remaining color on Jia Zhang's face quickly faded away, and she was on the verge of collapse.
Yi Zhonghai couldn't help but was about to speak, but heard Zhang Shenfei coldly say: "Xu Damao, can you be more polite? What time is it now, and you are still talking nonsense!!!"

Over the years, although Jia Dongxu always seemed to regard him as a rival, trying to compete with him openly or covertly, and always clamoring to become a writer, he often peeked through the window when the five gentlemen in the courtyard had dinner.

But Zhang Shenfei didn't take him seriously, and never considered him a competitor. He didn't like him, but he didn't hate him, he just didn't feel anything for him.

But at this time,
Looking at the person he had been with for several years, and seeing a young life disappear just like that, Zhang Shenfei still felt mixed emotions.

If the person who spoke was Yi Zhonghai, Xu Damao, who had become an official, would naturally not be afraid, and would even say a few words to him.

But the one who spoke was Zhang Shenfei, who was also the noble man who promoted him. Xu Damao was silent. After rolling his eyes, he judged the situation and slapped himself lightly: "Brother Dafei, don't mind. I'm still young and I don't know how to control my mouth."

Zhang Shenfei glanced at him and said, "It's Aunt Zhang you should apologize to."

"Aunt Zhang, I'm sorry." Xu Damao said it but didn't mean it. Jia Zhang wiped her tears and looked at Zhang Shenfei with gratitude.

……

Zhang Shenfei remembered that in the original drama, Jia Dongxu died at the turn of spring and summer in the year 1961, and he was not spared this time either.

Because there are elderly people living above, according to the rules, Jia Dongxu's body cannot be kept at home for three days, but must be taken away as soon as possible.

the next day,
A mourning shed was set up in the central courtyard of the quadrangle. A white thin wooden coffin was bought and supported by two benches and placed in the center of the shed.

In front of the coffin, there is a big word "甸" in black letters on a white background. Below it is the spirit platform with a perpetual lamp lit in the middle and seasonal fruits and fried fruits placed around it.

Qin Huairu was dressed in linen mourning clothes, hugging Xiaodang who was also in mourning clothes.

The Jia family has few members, and Qin Aimin and Jia Dongxu are of the same generation and do not wear mourning.

Therefore, outside the huge mourning shed, Qin Huairu and three others were the only ones wearing white.

Mourners arrived one after another. At the entrance to the central courtyard, Yan Bugui set up a table with writing brush, ink, paper and inkstone on it.

After everyone paid their respects, they walked to the central courtyard, lit a stick of incense, bowed, and then called on the family members to return the greeting.

Bang Geng, who was standing aside with a grief-stricken look on his face, knelt down and kowtowed to the other party numbly.

After all the relatives and friends had gathered, the funeral procession began. Jia Dongxu's peers in the courtyard carried the coffin, and he left Nanluoguxiang, turned onto Gulou East Street, and went through Dongzhimen all the way to the outside of the city. This road also led to the steel rolling mill. Jia Dongxu had walked this road countless times in his life, but this was the last time.

Food was still in short supply, and the Jia family did not have the ability to provide food and drink for all the people attending the funeral, so after talking for a while, everyone dispersed.

Because Jia Dongxu was a temporary worker, the death compensation was not much. Someone suggested that Jia Zhang go to the gate of the steel mill to hang sausages, but she, as a member of the working class, rejected it.

The days passed, the first seven days, the second seven days, the third seven days... The pain that Jia Dongxu might still be forgotten by everyone in the Jia family, but the traces of it in the courtyard were soon erased.

Finally having time, Zhang Shenfei was invited to visit Old Wang's home in Luoquaner Hutong again.

Also invited this time was Yuan Longping’s mentor, Mr. Jin.

room,

Teacher Jin asked Zhang Shenfei about his last trip to Nanhu Province, and Zhang Shenfei told him about Yuan Longping's current research results on hybrid rice and their previous conversation.

It can be said,
After getting the rice seedlings from Zhang Shenfei, Yuan Longping, after the first round of trial planting, completely abandoned Li Ske's previous acquired genetics of organisms.

He turned to the broad road of genetics and began to study gene separation, free combination and linkage exchange proposed by Mendel, Morgan and their followers.

At this point, he moved beyond the "asexual hybridization" of rice and began to move towards "sexual hybridization experiments."

With the right direction, you can get twice the result with half the effort.

Although these are only a few words, they seem to be easily covered.

But only Zhang Shenfei knew that with these dozen rice seedlings, Yuan Longping saved seven or eight years of detours.

And these seven or eight years, in this era and this country, are like a mountain.

"Brother Yuan said that he found through research that the natural hybrid rice seedlings he brought back from Sijiu City last time grow faster than ordinary rice and have stronger resistance to stress... The yield has also been significantly improved. In addition, there are... and other characteristics.

His main task now is to use genetics to maintain the excellent performance of this natural hybrid rice from generation to generation." Zhang Shenfei stopped to drink water halfway through his speech.

Teacher Jin frowned and said, "If that's the case, is it really necessary for you to go all the way to Nanhu?"

He is not saying that these achievements are not important, but it seems unnecessary to let Zhang Shenfei make a special trip, right?

"Of course it's more than that." Zhang Shenfei put down the glass in his hand, "Brother Yuan asked me to come over this time mainly because he proposed a new concept, the Three-System Method. He wanted to discuss it with me."

"Three series?" Teacher Jin muttered to himself.

"Three-system method?" Old Wangtou beside him also became interested. "What does it mean?"

Realizing that Teacher Jin really had no idea about the success of Yuan Longping's experiment, Zhang Shenfei looked at him strangely.

But I still told them that the three-line method refers to the utilization of rice hybrid advantages through the rational use of three materials: male sterile line, maintenance line and male sterile restorer line.

"Once this method can be successfully applied, it will lay a solid foundation for the development of my country's rice breeding industry," Zhang Shenfei emphasized.

"The 'three-line method' should require a large number of rice seeds to be hybridized and then the appropriate sterile lines to be selected from them, right?" Teacher Jin said after thinking for a while.

"Brother Yuan said that we need to use at least one thousand, and preferably about three thousand, kinds of rice seeds for the experiment." Zhang Shenfei nodded.

Teacher Jin fell into deep thought. Considering the current scale of the agricultural school where Yuan Longping was studying, even a hundred species would be a challenge, let alone five hundred.

In other words, he still had to ask his teacher for help... Teacher Jin's eyes lit up.

Although there had been some unpleasant things between the two of them over the past two years, he understood Yuan Longping's character. If it was for the sake of the experiment and the food problem of the people across the country, it was not impossible for him to bow down to his teacher.

Yuan Longping told Zhang Shenfei that these things were definitely not synchronized with his experiments. Perhaps, he had already experimented with most of the 100 kinds of rice seeds that could be found in Nanhu Province...

Once I leave Nanhu Province, I will have to use my former mentor...

By this calculation, it seems that all I have to do is stay in the city and wait for the other party to come and admit his mistake...

Thinking of this, a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, but the next moment, Zhang Shenfei suddenly threw him a thunderbolt.

“Brother Yuan has conducted experiments on nearly sixty kinds of rice seeds, but there has been no progress at all.

It was just a coincidence that we were drinking and discussing this matter that day, and somehow I suggested that since artificially cultivated rice was not possible, how about doing an experiment using wild rice, which is completely opposite to artificially cultivated rice.

Who knew that when Brother Yuan heard this, he slapped his thigh and said that I had enlightened him. He also said that someone had found a type of male flower sterile plant in the mountains of Nanhu Province, not far from where he worked..."

What??? Teacher Jin sat up suddenly, staring at Zhang Shenfei with wide eyes: "Are you changing your research direction?"

Zhang Shenfei smiled and nodded: "It's not a change, just an additional item. We have to study it anyway, and one more item means more hope."

"That's right..." Teacher Jin calmed down again, looking relaxed.

After all, this wild rice and male flower sterile plants are just a temporary idea and the possibility of success is very small.

As long as Yuan Longping is still conducting genetic hybridization experiments, he will find me sooner or later. Not only do he need 3,000 kinds of rice seedlings, but the various subsequent experiments required are also beyond the ability of a teacher at the Agricultural College like him to carry out.

By the time……

It's not that he is a bad teacher. When Yuan Longping was studying Li Ske's research direction, they were also a good teacher and a good student.

Later, Yuan Longping turned to Mendel's theory, but he insisted on continuing Li Ske, and the two went in different directions.

last year,

He found out that Yuan Longping was right and he wanted to switch sides, but after this time, he could only become a follower from the previous leader.

Is there any teacher in the world who would serve as a student's assistant? ? Who would want to be the second author when they can be the first author of the paper?

What's more, this is a major issue concerning the food problem of the people across the country!!!
If hybrid rice can really be developed, it will solve the food problem for 400 million people!!!

This is a huge honor!!! No one is truly rich and cannot indulge in debauchery.

The so-called treating money and reputation as dirt is just that the temptation is not big enough!!! Teacher Jin hypnotized himself in his heart.

And none of his series of micro-expressions escaped Zhang Shenfei's eyes.

If he had only guessed that Teacher Jin and Yuan Longping had something dirty going on before, it was almost certain based on the other party's performance at the dinner today.

(End of this chapter)