Chapter 176 White Rice in the Paddy Field Does Kagawa crave white rice? The answer is though his hometown is known as a rice noodle producing province, Kagawa still maintains the habit of eating at least one bowl of rice every day. Moreover, the food in his hometown tends to be heavy in flavor and is especially suitable for eating with rice. She believes that even northerners who love noodles cannot refuse a bowl of fragrant white rice. The quality of modern agricultural products is excellent. Even the beans that have been stored in the botanical garden's warehouse for a long time have full grains. So even without this visit, Kagawa can be 100% sure that modern rice is no less than the excellent varieties harvested from the black soil in Northeast China. The reason why she never mentioned white rice was because of soy sauce. In ancient times, rice was just a food to fill the stomach, and people were thankful to have a mouthful of white rice. But when she was born, white rice had to be paired with various dishes. Even if there were only two bowls at home, at least one of them would be used to make a steamed meat pie with salted egg or steamed egg with lotus root. Only with the presence of side dishes can the charm of rice be fully unleashed. An important condiment that is indispensable to most of these dishes is soy sauce. The soy sauce made by Tongue Tip Club has just handed over the formula to Yuexiang Group. If they want to mass-produce it, it will take at least a year. Even if they buy all the beans in the botanical garden, how much soy sauce can they make? Moreover, a considerable part of these beans have to be cultivated for agricultural purposes, and even less can be used for brewing. Be it family members or the gluttons in Class 8 of Grade 1 who often raid the kitchen, after tasting the soy sauce, they all stared at the jars of soy sauce in the Tongue Tip Club with red eyes. Kagawa and other people in the Tongue Tip Club had to guard against these guys whose noses were more sensitive than their ears. If she used rice, a powerful weapon, at this time, Kagawa was 100% sure that the members of the Information Club in her class would try their best to crack the password of the Tongue Club's warehouse and take the beef she had braised these days for themselves.
So, you can’t say it, you must never let go at this time! Kagawa's sudden silence actually aroused great interest among the students in Class 8 of Grade 1 and Manager Wu who was standing on the periphery, but no matter how much they begged her, Kagawa would never utter a word. Everyone in Class 8 of Grade 1 knew that no matter how much they begged, it would be useless since Kagawa had made up his mind not to tell them. So they returned empty-handed and began to turn their attention back to the Hehua fish. But Chief Wu is not easy to fool. As the director of the staple crops department, Wu Hongchang is not only familiar with the cultivation techniques of rice and wheat, the staple crops, but also knows the existing historical records about the staple crops. In the existing materials of the Institute of History, there are countless records mentioning "rice". Combined with the commonly used words such as "meal" and "breakfast" in modern terms, the staple crop department believes that this is derived from this word. But there is no definitive answer to what this "rice" is. After all, what is "rice"? Based on the word "rice", they speculated that it was related to rice, which has the nickname of rice, but how to cook it became a mystery. Over time, this issue was shelved for a long time. Until recently, the Yuexiang Group suddenly opened a restaurant and put a dazzling array of wheat flour products on the shelves, which made Manager Wu very excited. His intuition told him that the day when the mystery of "rice" would be solved was not far away! It turned out that Manager Wu's intuition was very accurate. The word "rice" that the little girl standing in front of him with a serious expression just blurted out almost made Manager Wu jump with excitement. Seeing Kagawa like this, Chief Steward Wu naturally knew that she had some unspeakable secrets. Don't be impatient, don't be impatient. This little girl doesn't seem to be able to resist the temptation of delicious food. Who knows, she might let it slip at any time. Chief Wu calmed his overly fast heartbeat, happily returned to the front of the team, and led the high school students to continue to visit the rice fields. He felt that their fourth production of escort ships, no, all the staple crop departments that produced escort ships, would usher in a new era - Next, Manager Wu took the first-year high school students to a smaller field. This field is specially prepared for tourists and students who visit the fields. Visitors can pick a few ripe rice seeds for observation. The squad leaders who were responsible for taking the lead in picking rice were naturally not polite. After a while, half of the rice in the small field was gone. Although the number of first-year high school students at the Agricultural University Affiliated High School was not large compared to the situation in the 21st century where there were sixty or seventy students in a class, each person was only given three or four ears of rice. There is no doubt that the class leaders did this intentionally after calculating the average number of grains in the rice ears, because this was just an observation activity, and the rice ears after the observation would be collected and left for the livestock in the animal husbandry industry to use as feed. Giving human staple food as feed to livestock is a wasteful act for students whose families are mostly engaged in agriculture and food-related work.
Even after 30,000 years of high productivity, the good habit of cherishing food is still engraved in everyone's bones. There are not many opportunities to touch mature rice, so everyone was excited to take photos or videos with their mobile phones. Kagawa looked at the four ears of rice in her hand, picked up one of them, and rubbed it. The outer husk quickly fell off under her skillful rubbing, revealing the plump and crystal clear white rice underneath the husk. Just as she had guessed, thanks to the advanced modern planting techniques, the quality and color of the rice were also top-notch. The rice grains were crystal clear and white and transparent. If she was not mistaken, this was most likely Wuchang rice from the major rice-producing province in the Northeast. This made her admire the agriculturist who preserved the rice varieties back then: he actually chose the most famous rice at that time. But at the same time, she also felt a little disappointed, because the rice grown in her hometown used to be basically silk rice, and this kind of rice has not been passed down. Kagawa rubbed off the husks of the remaining three rice ears in annoyance. Looking at the four grains of rice lying in the palm of his hand, Kagawa was reminded of his longing for rice again. I can’t eat rice, but I can chew some rice grains! Xiangchuan directly threw four grains of rice into her mouth, which scared Ouyang Yating and others who had been watching her little movements. They are not worried about problems such as pesticides. Modern advanced planting technology has long ceased to rely on backward drugs such as pesticides. The agricultural sector has improved water quality, soil, fertilizer and other technologies, which are directly converted by material conversion technology. There will be no insects and unnecessary bacteria in the soil. In addition, insects and animals are strictly controlled in nature reserves and will not appear in farmland, so pesticides are naturally not needed. Therefore, modern fruits, vegetables and rice can achieve what is advertised in those green farms in the 21st century: "Pesticide-free green cultivation, just wipe it and you can eat it." The three were frightened because no one had ever thought of eating unprocessed rice ears directly! Kagawa: This rice has a nice texture when you chew it. If I had known earlier, I would have asked the squad leader to pick a few more handfuls.