Fairy Gourd Farm

Chapter 1587 Jiangzhu
Zhao Lei never expected that Wang Chunxue would start to have fun with his college career on his first day at school.If she knew, she would definitely press the little girl face down on her lap and give her a hard "education".

After sending Wang Chunxue to school, Zhao Lei left Suzhou City.However, he did not go back to the village directly, but planned to visit the trial planting base on Chongming Island.

The trial planting of fairy gourd rice this year has been very successful, and it will be officially promoted on a large scale across the country next year.In this case, the experimental planting base will naturally withdraw from the stage of history, so Zhao Lei plans to meet with Xu Zhiming, the person in charge of the Chongming experimental planting base, and ask him what his plans are next.

After all, the cooperation between Zhao Lei and Xu Zhiming has always been very pleasant, and the two can be regarded as friends.Zhao Lei is a nostalgic person. Even if the trial planting base is closed, he will find a way to arrange for Xu Zhiming.

After leaving Su City, Zhao Lei drove along the highway by the river, and he could reach Chongming Island as long as he crossed the cross-river bridge.However, not long after he drove, he noticed that there were many people gathered around the river, as if something had happened.

At first, Zhao Lei thought someone was drowning, so he quickly parked the car on the side of the road, turned on the double jump lights and went down to see what happened.In case the drowning person can be saved, he doesn't mind helping, after all, it's a life.

However, when Zhao Lei ran to the river, he realized that what everyone was watching was not a person, but a big fish.This fish is gray all over, about one meter long, with a round body, the same round head and short and wide snout. It is not the same as the fish Zhao Lei usually sees, but more like a dolphin.

But the fish was dying, stranded on the shore, almost motionless, if it weren't for the occasional slight wagging of the tail, it would be no different from being dead.

Seeing many onlookers showing regretful expressions, Zhao Lei couldn't help asking an old man next to him: "Old man, what kind of fish is this, I've never seen it before."

The old man glanced at Zhao Lei, shook his head lightly and said, "Young man, aren't you from the local area?"

Zhao Lei was a little surprised, what kind of fish this has nothing to do with whether he is a local, but he still answered honestly: "Your old eyesight is really accurate, I am from Xinwu."

The old man nodded lightly and said: "It turns out that you are from Xinwu. Your place is too far away from the Yangtze River. No wonder you don't know this person. This is not a fish, but a river pig!"

Zhao Lei didn't realize it at first, but he soon realized what the old man was talking about. The so-called "jiang pig" is a unique aquatic mammal of the Yangtze River - the finless porpoise. No wonder it looks so dolphin-like!

Although the reputation of the finless porpoise is far from that of the giant panda, and it does not look as cute as a panda that can live a very nourishing life by being cute, it is a rarer animal than a panda.

Zhao Lei has read a report that the number of finless porpoises has decreased sharply due to the pollution of the Yangtze River waters and the disturbance caused by shipping ships. In 2018, relevant departments conducted a census and found that the number of finless porpoises that could be determined was only over 1000.

For a species, this number is extremely small to the point of being extremely dangerous.If this situation is allowed to continue, it won't be long before the finless porpoise will become completely extinct from the planet, just like their former neighbor, the baiji.

These local people obviously also know how precious the finless porpoise is, so they all showed regret, feeling sorry for this dying finless porpoise.

Thinking of this, Zhao Lei was inevitably a little anxious, and quickly said to the old man: "Look, this finless porpoise is not dead yet, hurry up and find a way to save it!"

The old man shook his head helplessly and said: "You don't know, Jiangzhu rarely appears, unless it is dying, it will never float to the shore. This Jiangzhu is almost immobile, it must be hopeless .We have already called the animal protection department, and they will come to take this Jiang pig back to make a specimen."

After hearing what the old man said, Zhao Lei also felt it was a pity.There are only more than 1000 finless porpoises, which is really one dead and one missing.Looking at the finless porpoise that occasionally wagged its tail slightly, as if saying "I think I can rescue it again", Zhao Lei quickly made a decision.

"There's a finless porpoise over there!" Zhao Lei pointed at the river bank next to him and shouted, immediately attracting everyone's attention.

While everyone was looking in that direction, Zhao Lei took the finless porpoise into the gourd space with a thought.

Finless porpoises basically live in the waters of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, near the junction of fresh and salty water at the estuary.And in the calabash space, there is also a large river flowing into the ocean, which happens to be a suitable environment for finless porpoises to live in.

Zhao Lei hopes that the abundant aura in the gourd space can bring the finless porpoise back to life, which can be considered as a contribution to the protection of this rare animal.

As soon as Zhao Lei took the finless porpoise into the calabash space, others turned their heads to look at him. The old man frowned and said, "Young man, where is the finless porpoise?"

Zhao Lei smiled slightly and said, "Ha, I misread it, it turned out to be just a piece of wood."

"Hey, where's the finless porpoise?"

"It was still there just now!"

"Did it swim away?"

At this time, other people found that the finless porpoise was gone, and they looked around in surprise.But the finless porpoise is already in the calabash space, so of course they can't find it.

Taking advantage of the chaotic situation, Zhao Lei quietly left the river and continued to drive towards Chongming Island.

Su City is not far from Chongming Island, and in the evening, Zhao Lei had already arrived at the experimental planting area on the island.

The last season of rice in the trial planting area has been harvested, so Xu Zhiming is also free.When Zhao Lei came to the trial planting area, he was fishing by the river.

Seeing Zhao Lei coming, Xu Zhiming was also very happy, and said to him with a smile on his face: "Mr. Zhao, you came just in time. I caught a wild big turtle today, and I will stew it in a while!"

In fact, to Zhao Lei, wild soft-shelled turtles are not rare at all.In the company's fish ponds, there are soft-shelled turtles cultivated with fairy dew, which have become the flagship product of Xianhu brand aquatic products and are very popular all over the country.As long as Zhao Lei wants to eat, Xing Wenming can get two of them to eat at any time.

But this was Xu Zhiming's wish after all, so Zhao Lei rubbed his hands happily and said, "Then I'm lucky, today is really the right time!"

This day's dinner Zhao Lei ate at the trial planting base. Except for the wild big turtle that Xu Zhiming caught, the rice was cooked with fairy gourd rice, and the other vegetarian dishes were all fairy gourd vegetables that Xu Zhiming himself grew. Better than most big restaurants.

After drinking for three rounds, Zhao Lei asked Xu Zhiming with a smile: "I'm afraid there will be no need to try planting fairy gourd rice next year. What are your plans?"

(End of this chapter)