Yun Feiyang spent the New Year with Shen Shi'an, and stayed until January 31, ready to leave for home. If he doesn't go back, he can't do it. February 5th is the Spring Festival. If he doesn't go back, he will run into the peak of the Spring Festival travel season. It's not sure whether he can get home before New Year's Eve.
Pushing the suitcase to the door, Yun Feiyang reluctantly said, "You really don't want to go home with me for the New Year? My parents are looking forward to it, saying that they have specially prepared a lot of delicious food for you. It's warm on the island right now." , when the time comes, we will go swimming and surfing in the sea together, catch fish and shells, what a joy, bro."
Shen Shi'an handed him a cloth bag filled with preserved tomato sauce and freshly squeezed tomato juice. Hearing this, he shook his head: "Thank you uncles and aunts for me. I wish them a happy new year and all the best. I won't go there this year." Don't worry, I'm not alone, Shen Xun is with me. Besides, Mr. Gu is coming over on New Year's Eve."
Yun Feiyang was surprised: "Mr. Gu came to celebrate New Year's Eve with you?"
"Hmm." Shen Shi'an nodded, his expression was so calm that no emotion could be seen. In the past years, Mr. Gu, as the first successor of the eldest line of the family, would accompany the elders of the family to watch the year and worship the ancestors on important festivals such as New Year's Eve. Usually, he could only make a quick trip to City H when he was young. I don't know why this year, but I called Shen Shi'an more than a week ago and agreed to come and have dinner together on New Year's Eve.
His relatives are coming to accompany him for the festival, of course Yun Feiyang can't bother to lure him to the island. Swallowing it back full of persuasion, he raised his hand and hugged Shen Shi'an: "Okay, then let's meet again next year. Enjoy the New Year. When I come back, I will bring you an authentic green coconut that is bigger than a basketball. It is delicious and sweet. Keep it after you finish drinking it." I still want to drink."
He looked down at the child next to Shen Shi'an's lap again: "Xun Xun, come, say goodbye to Uncle Yun."
Shen Xun didn't want to talk to him, and bared two rows of fangs at him: "Woo..."
Standing on Yunfeiyang's shoulder, Ruibao immediately flapped its wings and screamed: "Goodbye! Goodbye! Goodbye, baby!"
"Okay, okay, okay," Yun Feiyang quickly comforted him: "He's not Xiao Hei, and he won't threaten you to peel melon seeds. What are you afraid of? Tsk, he's getting more and more cowardly."
Shen Shi'an hid the child behind him calmly, and said to Yun Feiyang, "Are you sure you can bring the parrot home? Otherwise, you can leave it with me, and it won't be troublesome to raise it."
"Don't worry, there's no problem." Yun Feiyang unzipped the down jacket a little, and put Ruibao into the inner pocket with only his head exposed: "I'm on a train and not an airplane, and the inspection is not so strict. Tuck it in and put a scarf around your neck, as long as it doesn't get out of sight, I've rehearsed with it last night, the little one is smart."
Then he said to Shen Shi'an: "Okay, it's very cold outside, you don't need to bring your children, I just have a suitcase and a cloth bag, and I can take a taxi when I go downstairs by the elevator."
Shen Shi'an was not polite, and nodded: "Tell me when you get in the car and when you arrive."
"No problem, let's go brother, happy new year!"
Shen Shi'an waved: "Happy New Year, have a good trip."
After watching Yun Feiyang get on the elevator, the two of them returned home and closed the door. Shen Shi'an looked down at the child: "I want to enter the space, you watch TV alone..."
Before the words fell, Shen Xun quickly hugged his calf, his hands and feet entangled in a brown candy posture that could not be torn off: "...no...to be with An An..."
"I have an important job, what if you make trouble."
Shen Xun immediately shook his head like a rattle, "...No...don't make trouble...be obedient..." After speaking, he stretched out three white and tender paws: "...guaranteed..."
Shen Shi'an thought about it and decided to trust him once.
Entering the space together with Shen Xun, who looked like a brown candy, Shen Shi'an put a glass bowl full of cherries into his arms, and let him sit on the green grass next to the black soil: "Stay here and don't move around. I."
The child blinked his eyes and nodded obediently. As soon as Shen Shi'an left, his fiery gaze immediately turned to the Lingquan not far away. At this time, there seemed to be nothing around the Lingquan, but he couldn't get close without Shen Shi'an's permission. Recalling the severe pain of his paw being scorched by the thunder last time, Shen Xun pursed his mouth and looked back reluctantly.
Shen Shi'an walked into the tomato grove, and a large lush "tomato tree" looked the same as before. The basketball-sized tomatoes were still red like fire, and the plump flesh was almost transparent, which looked very attractive. Most importantly, there was no sign of being overripe and about to rot.
It seems that the freshness period of the fruits grown in the space is longer than he expected, which is good news, but this is not the purpose of Shen Shi'an's coming in this time.
When he first planted tomatoes, Shen Shi'an only planned a planting area of 3 meters by 3 meters, a total of 9 square meters. Unexpectedly, almost all of the more than 2,000 seeds survived and grew into a large and lush tomato forest. What's even more amazing is that when he observed from the outside of the tomato forest, the original nine-square-meter planting area didn't seem to have changed in any way, but once he stepped on any boundary of the nine-square-meter planting area, the surrounding space suddenly expanded by hundreds Thousands of times, showing the whole picture of the entire tomato forest, as if stepping into a brand new different space.
If his deduction is correct, then there is indeed a spatial fold in this land, and it can freely expand its area as the plants grow on it. The purpose of Shen Shi'an is to test how many times the maximum land in the space can expand through experiments.
He originally planned to carry out this experiment after the exam, and the materials and tools were all ready, but before the experiment started, he unexpectedly discovered the secret of the protective cover of the Lingquan, and then experienced the transformation of a dog into a spirit and into a living person , was temporarily delayed. Right now, there are only him and Shen Xun left in the family, so there is no need to worry about outside interference, this is a good opportunity to continue the experiment.
The space is completely isolated from the outside world, there is no way to receive satellite signals, and ordinary land area measuring instruments cannot be used. Shen Shi'an took out the industrial measuring tape prepared in advance, and after taking several measurements, he successfully obtained the area of the tomato forest: 3,600 square meters—
It was four hundred times larger than the initial area he drew.
Shen Shi'an wrote down this number in his notebook, and based on the total number of tomato trees of 2362, he calculated the default optimum growth area for each tomato tree: 1.524 square meters.
Next to the tomato grove, three experimental fields were set up, 10 cm long and 10 cm wide, with an area of 0.01 square meters.
The reason why the area of the test field is so small is that there are already enough tomatoes in the space. Although the shelf life is considerable enough, what to do if you can't finish it is still a big problem.
Secondly, Shen Shi'an roughly estimated that the original total area of the land in the space was only 100 meters by 50 meters, or about 5,000 square meters, about half the size of a playground. Even if this area can be expanded, every inch of the original area is still very precious. Before the end use is determined, try not to waste as much as possible or not to waste.
After the experimental field was marked and numbered, Shen Shi'an planted three tomato seeds in No. 1 field, five in No. 2 field, and ten in No. 3 field. He scooped a basin of Lingquan water from the creek and completed the irrigation in turn. . All that remains is to wait quietly.
According to the default space, the optimum growth area required for each tomato tree is 1.524 square meters. Ideally, if the space expansion multiple is not limited, the three experimental fields will be expanded to 4.57 square meters, 7.62 square meters, and 15.24 square meters respectively. m, the corresponding expansion multiples are 457 times, 762 times, and 1524 times.
Shen Shi'an wrote down a series of numbers in his notebook. If the expansion of the No. 3 experimental field is successful, it means that 1524 times is not the limit of the expansion of the land area, so he will further increase the number of seeds in the same area of the experimental field until the expansion limit is tested.
Putting the pen in the notebook and closing it, Shen Shi'an sat next to Shen Xun, raised his hand and took a big cherry from the glass bowl. I just bought the cherries yesterday. They are so red that they turn black and purple, and they taste sweet and sweet. The child likes it very much, and insists on holding on to the fruit plate. No one will give it to him except Shen Shi'an. Last night, Yun Feiyang deliberately teased him, and the two almost got into a fight.
After eating, he spat out the core into his palm, Shen Shi'an looked around and asked Shen Xun, "Where are you taking the core?"
Shen Xun's cheeks were bulging, like a little squirrel storing grain for the winter, and pointed to the black soil in front of him: "Okay, it's all gone into the soil." He took the core from Shen Shi'an's palm and buried it, and poured some spiritual spring water: "...delicious..."
Plant a cherry stone today, and grow a tree of cherries tomorrow. It's amazing.
Shen Shi'an couldn't help but rubbed his head with his hand. After a while, he turned his head and glanced at the experimental field. His eyes lit up and he stood up immediately: the seeds had germinated.
The last time Shen Shi'an discovered that the seeds had grown into a tomato forest after one night—if you count the difference in time flow between inside and outside the space, it was actually two nights. He thought it would take at least a few hours to see the changes, but he didn't expect that after watering the spiritual spring, the seeds would grow so fast.
Seeing a mature tomato forest is a completely different experience from witnessing the whole process of a seed growing into a big tree.
As if watching a video of plant growth that has been fast-forwarded by hundreds of thousands of times, the tomato seeds that were planted more than 20 minutes ago are sprouting, pulling, and stretching at an astonishing and breath-taking speed. When he was young, he had already grown to the waist height of Shen Shi'an.
The veins grow along the stalks, fine hairs grow on the skin, and the small buds stretch out into emerald green leaves... When you listen quietly, you can even hear the sound of sap flowing happily in the rhizomes. Static plants erupted with dynamic vitality. Such a carnival and dance of life can only be described by the word miracle.
When the height of the stalk exceeded the top of Shen Shian's head, light yellow flower buds gradually protruded from the leaves. Shen Shi'an had already turned on his mobile phone to record the growth time of the tomato seedlings. When the flower buds are fully bloomed and the pollination is successful, they should be able to bear fruit...
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Shen Shi'an froze, and suddenly realized a crucial but neglected question: how to pollinate the tomatoes in the space
The space is completely isolated from the outside world, and no objects or creatures can enter unless it passes through it. And he stayed in the space for such a long time, and he never found any traces of bee-like insects. In this case, how did the previous batch of tomato groves succeed in pollination and bear fruit
Before Shen Shi'an could figure it out, the eighteen newly planted tomato trees had already blossomed. As if a certain condition was triggered, a strange buzzing sound suddenly resounded in the entire space.
Shen Shi'an turned his head abruptly, followed the sound and turned his gaze to the two trees in front of the bamboo building—
There are two trees in front of the bamboo building, one is a peach tree, covered with green leaves, the other is unknown to him, it is full of bright yellow translucent flowers, at this time there are dozens of flowers that look like The decomposed light spots generally spread out, turning into countless buzzing flying insects.
Where are the flowers? There are clearly hundreds of bees the size of melon seeds gathered together. These bees are translucent and light yellow all over. When they are standing still on the branches, they look like budding or blooming flowers.
Shen Shi'an hugged Shen Xun and jumped to the opposite side of the creek before the bee swarm rushed over. However, the bee swarm obviously had no interest in the two of them, and flew directly to eighteen tomato trees, dancing among the trees full of flowers .
After about 20 minutes, the bee swarm gathered into a strand and flew back to the branches again, forming a static "flower". When Shen Shi'an entered the space for the first two times, he had vaguely noticed that these "flowers" were somewhat different from the ones he saw the first time, but he couldn't tell where the specific difference was. At this moment, he finally understood:
After collecting pollen, the bees grew slightly in size. It is difficult to detect a single one, but when dozens or hundreds of them gather together, the size of the "flower" changes obviously.
Shen Shi'an waited for a while to make sure that the bee colony returned to a still state without any movement, and then let Shen Xun go. At present, it seems that the bee colony in the space only responds when there are plants blooming, and increases in size as the number of pollen collected. Although it is not sure what species it is, as long as it is not aggressive, the existence of a bee colony is a rare piece of good news for Shen Shi'an. At least there is no need to catch bees from the outside and put them in for pollination.
Shen Xun obviously considered more long-term, staring at the bee tree and swallowing: "... honey... delicious..." Absorbing the flowers that bloom from the spring of life, the honey brewed from the pollen must be very nourishing!
In this short period of time, the flowers on the tomato tree have withered one after another, leaving behind the big green fruits of grapes. Seeing that the tomato trees had almost stopped growing, Shen Shi'an took a tape measure and measured the area of the three experimental fields one by one.
There are three tomato trees in the experimental field No. 1, the initial area is 0.01 square meters, the completed area is 4.57 square meters, and the expansion is 457 times;
There are five tomato trees in the experimental field No. 2, with an initial area of 0.01 square meters and a completed area of 6.66 square meters, an expansion of 666 times;
There are ten tomato trees in the experimental field No. 3, with an initial area of 0.01 square meters and a completed area of 6.66 square meters, an expansion of 666 times.
That is to say, the expansion limit of the land in the space is 666 times. Experimental fields No. 2 and No. 3 have reached the expansion limit, and the average area occupied by each tomato tree is smaller than the default space, which looks a bit crowded.
Calculated according to this figure, multiplying the initial area of 5,000 square meters by 666, the actual planting area owned by Shen Shi'an in the space is about 3.33 square kilometers, which is equivalent to the area covered by 16 bird's nests.
It really became a big landlord once.
On the other hand, the cherry stone buried by the landlord's stupid son has not responded yet. Shen Shi'an believes that this should be due to the difference in growth between herbaceous plants and woody plants.
Shen Shi'an was very satisfied with the successful completion of the experiment goal. Turning around, I saw the child circled around the bee tree, not knowing what to do, and ignored him. He tidied up the seeds and tools, and prepared to soak in the Lingquan Pool for a while. Before Yun Feiyang was there, he couldn't enter the space for a long time, so since Gou Zi became a spirit, he hadn't bathed in Lingquan for two weeks.
However, as soon as he walked to the edge of the Lingquan pool, Shen Shi'an noticed something was wrong. There was a dead silence in the misty Lingquan, and the sound of gurgling water flowing down from the spring eye could not be heard at this time.
With a sudden tightening in his heart, Shen Shi'an walked quickly through the mist to the spring:
The inside of the spring is completely dry, and there is no trace of spring water.