Rebirth Space Farming

Chapter 420

~Happy New Year~
"Is this considered an abandoned farm?" Xiao Xian found that working with Locke had the advantage of not having to go to the research center from nine to five like normal exchange students.

In Locke's research center, the operation has basically been computerized, and there is a special drip sprinkler system that sprinkles water once a day.As for pruning, after Xiao Xian's overhaul, the plants in the research center don't need to be taken care of in a short time.

Now the focus of their work is on that swarm of bees.Locke even patted his chest and promised that as long as Xiaoxian could find any clues, he would definitely give her the highest evaluation in the final personal assessment.For someone like Locke, such a guarantee is rare and tight.

It was Xiao Xian's suggestion to take the beehive directly to the old man's farm.

Although Locke didn't agree very much, although the nest of queen bees did not produce suitable honey as expected, it was the only box of bees successfully cultivated in Locke's hand.

Xiaoxian's impression of the farm is still in the concept of Yanqing Farm.

She still remembered that when she first arrived in Yanqing, it took Zhuo Feng and his wife more than a month to repair the weeds and dilapidated fences outside the farm.

And Locke also said that after the farm burned down, the original owner had abandoned the farm for nearly two years due to traffic and land prices.Most of the farms in China maintain the image of old-fashioned farms with rough wood and rotten soil. Although the construction of new rural areas has achieved some results in the past few years, even the Chinese farms that have been sorted out are not as good as this one in Locke's mouth. Abandoned farm.

The farm was built on a small raised grass knoll, and the only cement-painted buildings were Mediterranean-style white bungalows.Mixed in the well-proportioned flowering shrubs, it looks small and chic.There are no barrier fences around the perimeter, and the house is well integrated with the environment.

This season coincides with the alternation of spring and summer, when the flowers bloom the most gorgeously.On the ground, there were layers of yellow daffodil carpets, and unknown purple flowers bloomed in the bushes.

On the top is a pink magnolia shaped like the mouth of a bowl, the flower color is pink and tender, and a refreshing floral fragrance is swaying in the air.

From low to medium to high, three different colors and types of flowers, like many excellent dancers, scrambled to present a visual feast in front of Xiaoxian's eyes.

The so-called abandoned means uninhabited.After all, plants are different from people, they will still grow lush and lush if left alone for a while.

"The environment here is pretty good, why is there no one living here?" Xiao Xian didn't understand, in such a place in China, she couldn't even find it.

"It's not that no one lives there, but that this area is adjacent to the bay," Locke pointed back. After passing the hill, and walking half a kilometer forward, there is a natural bay.

"I may not feel it during the day, but at night, especially in winter, the retrograde wind in the bay is very loud, and it is basically impossible to sleep in the house. Only old people like Hu's father will not be greatly affected. Not only that, The house on this side is facing the sun, and it is easy to rot due to the sea wind and sunlight. So, little girl, you can’t just look at the surface of everything," Locke said meaningfully. Hu Song bought this place before. When it came to the place, all members of the Hu family objected, but the old man's stubborn temper came up, and he insisted on buying it no matter what, and it was his own money, so the children had nothing to say.

Xiaoxian walked to the back of the house, and sure enough, as Hu Song said, the front was still covered with green grass and clusters of flowers, but once she got to the back, it gradually turned into a sparse muddy land, or even a whole abandoned land. tidal flats.

"Actually, there's no need to look specifically. To be honest, I once raised bees in this area, and the nectar produced was worse than those raised in the research center." Locke specializes in research. He has tried all the options available, so he doesn't think Xiaoxian can gain anything from his career.

"Let the bees out first," Xiao Xian walked to the lush grass and opened the bee box.

The queen bees flew out, probably in an unfamiliar environment, they didn't fly away for a while, they just flew around Xiaoxian.

"Although it's not the same batch of bees, the reaction is similar to the last time I brought the bees here. They are not interested in these flowers." Locke was not surprised when he saw the queen bee. It turned out that he had already experimented.

"Something's wrong," Xiaoxian looked around at the flowers and trees, feeling that something was missing.

"What's wrong? What's wrong? Is it something wrong with my queen bee? Or this farm?" Locke hasn't been here for a while, but as far as he sees it hasn't changed much from before, and there are only "humans" in the world. This kind of creature can be deeply hurt by the word "abandoned". For plants and animals, "abandoned" and "freedom" are equivalent.

"Why are there no pine trees?" Xiaoxian finally thought of something wrong after checking it repeatedly.

There are no pine trees. In this open farm, all the surrounding plants are lower shrubs and herbaceous plants. Before Hu Song gave up studying at the South Gate, he could be regarded as "love pine and become crazy." According to Mao Dazhu, There was once a war of words between the brothers and sisters of the "Five Gentlemen" in Nanmen.

"Pine trees? You have such doubts because you saw Papa Hu's current residence," Locke was reminded by her, and then looked around, but there was no trace of pine trees.

Locke is very familiar with the topography of the Americas. There are not many conifers on the east coast of the United States, but on the other side of the United States, that is, the northwest coast of the Pacific Ocean. From that side to the Alaska area, the world-famous Canadian American red grows. Cedar is one of the top materials for making furniture.Not enough On the east coast of the United States, there are not many types of pines and cypresses.

"Most of the pine trees in Father Hu's yard were brought over by his fellow villagers. Pine trees are easier to take care of, and it doesn't take much time. In addition, they can be used as spare tree species for Christmas every year, so you will see There are pine trees all over the yard." After Locke analyzed the reason clearly, the suspicion in Xiaoxian's eyes not only did not dissipate, but intensified.

"Do you have any detailed information about North American red cedar?" Locke took out a laptop from the car and called up the information about pine trees.

Locke deserves to be known as the leader of international plant research, and his statement is almost the same as the information.

"Red cedar, also known as big arborvitae, giant thuja." When reading this part, Xiao Xian stopped and looked up at Locke: "You said there is a bay behind the house?"

After walking about half a mile, Xiaoxian saw the bay that Locke mentioned.

It is a medium-sized bay, facing hills on three sides, in a U-shaped distribution, and there are broken walls and cliffs below the mouth of the bay.The messy rocks around the cliff and the seagulls flapping their wings non-stop form a delicate seaside delicacy.

Xiao Xian approached the cliff and walked a few steps forward. The gravel under his feet rolled down, and there was no response for a long time. According to visual inspection, the cliff was at least a hundred meters high.

"Don't you think that Papa Hu would be interested in planting pine trees in this area? Besides, even if he planted pine trees, it has nothing to do with our trip. Our focus is to find the honey that is related to the Queen Mother's bee." Clue" Locke was a little afraid of heights, looked under the broken wall, and the waves were beating against the shore.

"I used to do a small experiment in the campus. I asked the bees to collect different flowers and try out the difference in the honey produced by different flowers. Can you guess which flower's honey is the most highly rated?" Blowing in the face The coming sea breeze made the faces of the two of them rosy.

"There are many types of flowers that can produce honey." Locke pondered, not daring to make a judgment.

"It's pine cone honey." Xiao Xian smiled, but not everyone is so lucky to taste this kind of honey.

"Pine cones? Bees still collect that kind of thing," Locke really hadn't eaten that kind of honey.

"Ordinary honey cannot collect pine cone honey, because the shell is hard, and the pollen particles are much larger than ordinary ones. Bees are also picky. But the honey from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the bees cultivated by Professor Quinn can collect it. , "Xiaoxian kicked away the rocks under his feet.

There is not a little bit of green on this rocky beach by the sea, but at the bottom of the gravel, I saw some withered pine needles.

"What you mean is that there are pine trees under this cliff. Such a growing environment is too harsh," Locke still denied Xiaoxian's opinion as a botanist.

Even though he saw those pine needles, he was a little suspicious.

"The vitality of plants in nature is very tenacious. The last time I went to Northeast China, there were many cliffs in the mountains of Northeast China, and there were many roots and trunks of Thuja cypress trees that had died for hundreds of years. After many years of rotting, it can come back to life when it meets the right climate." Xiao Xian is 100% sure that there must be cedar growing underneath, and the latter must have grown at least once.

Locke hesitated for a while, thinking about whether to find some climbing tools, but Xiao Xian gently picked him up, and the whole cliff echoed with screams.

Professor Locke really had the experience of jumping from a high-altitude building.

After Professor Locke calmed down his heartbeat and regained feeling in his legs, Xiaoxian had already walked forward.Locke was dumbfounded at the scene in front of him, and Xiaoxian really guessed it by mistake.

"It really made you guess right, there is really a pine tree under the cliff," Professor Locke pointed to the luxuriant Cliff pine in front of him.

To be precise, it was a Cliff pine that used to have dense branches and leaves. The word "once" was used because this mutant Cliff pine had died.

(End of this chapter)