Chapter 860: Salt Charge

On the third day after leaving the ruins, Chen Fang hurriedly ran to find his own cutie, after fooling around with his charm to seek the progress of the salt purification, and wanted to ask how the salt-eating plants were doing.

"Uncle, the sprouts have just been done, and they are very successful. They are super plants that can breed seeds."

The little cute Yaya took out a handful of white lotus-like seeds.

"So soon? I thought it would take a month or two."

Chen Fang was very pleasantly surprised when he came here. After all, researching and cultivating a new plant is not so easy, just like Blue Star breeding hybrid rice. That is not counted in years, even if Ya Ya has skills to help, Chen Fang felt that it would take at least a month or two to improve efficiency.

But I didn't expect Yaya to finish it in a few days.

"Ya Ya, you are really amazing, Mu."

Chen Fang excitedly picked up Yaya and kissed her tenderly on the spot.

"cluck"

Yaya likes being so close to her uncle.

"How do we plant this kind of seed, is the yield large, and how long does it take to mature?" Chen Fang suppressed his excitement and asked.

"Just throw it in salt water. If it grows normally, it will mature in three months and bear the first fruit. The higher the salinity, the faster and bigger the fruit will be. The more salt you get, I experimented At that time, one fruit could have a catty of salt."

"Three months, I'm dizzy. Sister Wu told me that there is only three or four days' worth of salt left at most. What should I do?"

In an instant, Chen Fang's face became bitter.

Chen Fang couldn't estimate how much the output would be, but considering that Ya Ya only had a handful of seeds in hand, it probably wouldn't be much higher. There are tens of thousands of people in the new city, and it's the construction period of the new city. One person earns 10 per day. Grams, that is to say, the daily consumption base of 20,000 people is about 400 catties. If the plants mature and bear fruit in three months, that means nearly 40,000 catties, or 20 tons of salt.

It's over, and if I knew it, I wouldn't be so big. If the salt was broken, I would have to be hung up by Meimei.

But Ya Ya said with a smile: "Uncle, I didn't listen to what I said seriously. Ya Ya said that under normal circumstances it only takes three months, and people can make it grow right away."

"However, doing so will consume the vitality of the plant. It will bloom and bear fruit twice at most, and it will die permanently."

Chen Fang was overjoyed at first and then a little worried, "That's all you have seeds? Will you run out of water?"

"No, when I need a lot of seeds, I always do this. Let the first generation of plants mature quickly, and harvest a batch of seeds. In this way, a few generations will be born in succession, and a sufficient amount of seeds will be obtained."

Chen Fang heard that he could still operate in this way, and thought about it. Under repeated operations, it is not impossible to achieve a three-month salt output at a time.

After asking whether doing so would harm Yaya himself, and getting the answer of no, Chen Fang couldn't wait to take Yaya to the saltwater lake.

Arriving at the lake, Ya Ya first closed her eyes, green light glowed from the palm of her hand, she processed the seeds, and then threw the seeds into the saltwater lake, while Chen Fang watched nervously.

After three breaths, there was movement in the lake, and a round green leaf grew out of the water, the size of a table for eight people to sit around. It looked similar to a lotus leaf, but the surface of the leaf and the surface of the stalk in the water were covered. Thumb-sized spikes.

After a while, white buds began to grow from the water on the surface of the round leaf, and soon unfolded into palm-sized white flowers. There were many of them, densely surrounding the round leaf.

Flowering is fast, and withering is also fast. When the petals fall and float on the water, there are only fist-sized salt balls covered with small grains of crystallization on the surface.

In this way, a handful of seeds planted by the sprouts covered a hundred meters of water after growing, and then produced about a thousand fruits in less than three minutes.

Moreover, Chen Fang also found that the lake water in the water area where the plants grow seems to have become a little clearer, and the salty smell in the nearby air has also become a little lighter.

"I'll go, this plant also has the effect of purifying water."

Chen Fang was shocked.

Yaya raised her face proudly, "Of course, uncle, the plants cultivated by Yaya are not greasy."

"It's boring, it's boring." Chen Fang rubbed Yaya's little head and praised fiercely.

Chen Fang couldn't help but be amazed. According to the effect seen now, as long as this kind of plant is planted all over the small lake, then he doesn't have to worry about the salinization of the nearby land. At that time, he will put some fish in the lake water, plant trees and flowers nearby. A lawn, and a villa next to the lake, life is simply not too beautiful.

But this is a matter for the future, Chen Fang's main thing now is to determine whether the salt produced by those fruits can be eaten, and if so, what is the yield.

He quickly picked up a salted fruit. Chen Fang rubbed the fruit lightly, and saw the white crystal particles falling off the surface. He put the salt on his hand and tasted it in his mouth. It was very salty. , there is no other smell, and it also has a hint of grassy fragrance.

After rubbing off the salt grains from the whole salt fruit, there is only one seed wrapped in the salt grains left, which can get half a bag of blue star salt, which is about 200 grams.

Chen Fang looked at the salt fruits growing in the waters, and estimated that there were no less than a thousand of them. If one thousand was used, the harvest would be about 500 catties. If the entire lake is fully planted, well, it seems that at most it will be harvested. It looks like seven or eight tons, but it seems that it still can't reach the output of 20 tons in three months.

"Uncle, don't worry. After this plant blooms and bears fruit, as long as the flower diameter is not damaged, it will bear fruit again every seven days until it dies."

"How long can this plant live?"

"One year."

One year, that's fine, anyway, there are seeds, and it can go round and round.

"That's great, Yaya, you are really my lucky star."

Chen Fang happily held Ya Ya high.

"cluck"

Yaya smiled happily, she was very happy to help her uncle.

Next, Chen Fang went to the construction site in the city to get wood and made a few wooden rafts, and called in a few soldiers to help, collect the salted fruits, rub the salt and pack them into bags, and handed over all the seeds to Yaya. She gave birth again, and after two days of busy picking, she finally got enough salt for the next step, and also planted the whole lake with the plant he named "Salt Lotus".

After getting the salt, it's over. Chen Fang wanted to take the soldiers who had been busy with him for a while to climb a ladder and roast the beef he got in the ruins to celebrate, but Jimo came to him.

"The materials at the ruins have been prepared, and the manpower has been mobilized to establish a breeding farm. Are you free today?"

The original plan was to start the construction of the farm two days ago, but because the manpower could not be allocated for a while, it took some time. Today, the manpower is in place and ready, and Jimo no longer procrastinates.

"Well, it seems that climbing the ladder will have to wait for the next time."

Chen Fang reluctantly asked Ya Ya to write down the names of the soldiers who helped him, planning to make up later, and then followed Jimo.