Chapter 11

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

From Li Jing’s point of view, he naturally had his doubts.

Didn’t his daughter know that he was an expert in biology? How could there be a plant that he hadn’t seen before?

Not to mention a plant that could shock him.

Li Jing didn’t pay much attention to it, which was why he placed this potted plant on his table. When he ate breakfast every day, he would water it.

At first, he didn’t care too much about it, but after only a week, he was shocked to see that the potted plant on the table kept on growing and had flowers blossoming.

“Strange. This plant looks like a vine-type plant. Why does its flower look like that of a tomato?”

Seeing this, Li Jing was immediately shocked.

Moreover, his curiosity towards this plant grew.

He immediately took out the soil that was placed in the potted plant and brushed his hands against it.

“This looks like the most ordinary southern soil.”

“Moreover, the soil is extremely infertile.”

However, the fact that this seed could successfully grow in such barren soil was what shocked Li Jing the most.

It was also because of this that he paid more attention to top-tier Tomato No. 1. Every day, he took care of it diligently. Unknowingly, the vines also climbed onto the wall.

After another week, the light yellow flowers that were originally blooming gradually turned into fruits.

Green vines and red fruits appeared on the wall.

“This kind of tomato seedling is indeed a little strange.”

In Li Jing’s opinion, nowadays, what genetic engineering could achieve to the greatest extent was to improve the resistance of ordinary plants to pests.

However, he was completely baffled by this strange tomato seedling.

“Could it be a newly developed breed?”

Li Jing brought the ripe fruit to the research laboratory in the school.

After the analysis by the machine, he was surprised to find that there was only a tomato gene in it.

Could it be that the tomato seedlings in the pot were only a plant breed developed through hybridization?

“Could it be that China now has a botany expert of the same level as academician Yuan Longping?”

As he was uncertain about this seedling, Li Jing used his expertise as a specialist in this area and carefully studied this top-tier Tomato No. 1.

However, he was surprised to find that not only could the tomato seed grow rapidly, but it also had anti-infertile characteristics and could grow in the shade.

“It’s quite perfect,” Li Jing said with bated breath while looking through the research report.

In his opinion, he wanted to know who could make such a powerful plant.

If such plants could become a commodity to people, every family in China could eat naturally produced, pollution-free vegetables grown by themselves.

In addition, he discovered something after tasting the tomato fruit.

The taste of this tomato was even better than those green vegetables.

“Why don’t I ask Tian Tian?”

Li Jing immediately turned on his phone and dialled his daughter’s number.

As for his daughter, she was studying at another top university in China.

“What’s wrong? Dad? I’m in class right now.” Tian Tian’s voice came from the phone.

“Daughter, tell Dad, the potted tomato plant at home, how did you get it?” Li Jing was clearly still anxious.

“Hehe, Dad, you didn’t expect it, right? You were shocked by this plant. This top-tier Tomato No. 1 is very powerful right?” Tian Tian immediately laughed.

“That’s right. This is the first time I’ve seen such a powerful plant. Who’s the expert who made this? Do you know? I want to communicate with him,” Li Jing immediately said.

“Okay, Dad, honestly speaking, I’m not very sure either.”

“A good friend of mine told me about this plant, then he sent me the link to the online store. I’ll forward the link to you later.”

Then came the tone of the phone being hung up.

Not long after, a little red dot appeared on the chat tool.

Li Jing opened the chatbox and clicked on the Taobao Shop link sent by his daughter.

After Li Jing opened it, he saw top-tier Tomato No. 1 that was only sold in this shop.

As for the sales below, they were even more shocking.

The top-tier Tomato No. 1 was now a product that appeared on the front page of the entire online shop.

It had been over a month and the daily order volume of the shop had reached 50,000.

By this time, the top-tier Tomato No. 1 had already sold nearly two million. As for the revenue, it was even more shocking.

“I didn’t expect it to cost 50 yuan for one. Although this kind of potted plant isn’t very expensive, he has such a powerful scientific research talent, yet he only knows about money! Doesn’t he know that science is to serve the people?”

When Li Jing saw this scene, he was instantly furious.

He specifically took a look at the reviews.

He was very surprised to find that there wasn’t a single bad review in it. Words and photos were praising the excellence of top-tier Tomato No. 1.

These buyers were very satisfied with the top-tier Tomato No. 1.

As for Cosmic Planting’s Weibo, the official account and the public account had many people subscribing to it and had close to a million fans.

Looking at the shop’s webpage, Li Jing fell into silence.

“Our latest new product will be coming to the store in one week. Customers are welcome to make their reservations.”

A huge announcement appeared in front of him.

“Oh, there’s a new product being launched.”

Seeing the advertising slogans, Li Jing was immediately surprised.

If a new product could be launched, it meant that the development of top-tier Tomato No. 1 was not a coincidence.

In other words, the researcher behind the store could develop new products.

Moreover, such a researcher must have a good understanding of botany.

“It seems like I have to ask this e-commerce platform who’s the boss of this flagship store!”

“I have to find time to meet him. If he can help us with our research, our country’s research and development in the field of plants will be able to improve by several levels,” this thought appeared in Li Jing’s mind.

After all, Grandfather Yuan Longping was able to guarantee that the people of China would not starve to death again.

He could even use the results of his research and development to benefit the people of China and even the people of the world.

If this mysterious scholar joined them, they would not have to worry about China’s food in the future.

Not to mention the ridiculous act of importing food from foreign countries as well.

Such a foolish act would never happen in China..