Chapter 78 How to Sing the Poems from the Desert

Chapter 78 How to Sing the Poems from the Desert

But Ms. Alice is really casual. She just used their real names to rank them?

At least change a few words, like changing Kaia to "Kaiya", Harold muttered to himself.

Hmm? Of course it was done by Ms. Alice. No one would really think it was me, right?

How dare a small Harold like me offend so many great Buddhas at once? Only Ms. Alice, a powerful witch who travels around the world, has the ability to get to know so many people and name the slime princes and princesses after them.

Harold checked the condition of the sea rice he had planted on the mudflats near the port of Ormos. Thanks to the blessing of the gods and the power of the earth veins, there are very few barren saline-alkali lands on the continent of Teyvat.

This is good news for coastal residents, who can sometimes dig up edible wild vegetables on the mudflats, but it makes it more difficult for Harold to grow sea rice.

First of all, it was difficult for him to find a suitable experimental field. Currently, only desert areas and a small number of tidal flats in Xumi have land salinization.

In the flower-growing countries of Blue Star, there are 1.5 billion mu of saline-alkali land, and different sea rice experimental fields are often far apart. The team studying sea rice goes to Hainan in winter and returns to Qingdao in summer, spending the whole year in busy research work.

There is a lack of transportation on the continent of Teyvat, and he has other research to do in the city of Hua, so it is impossible for him to abandon his research and go into the desert. So for now, he can only conduct research on a small piece of land by the sea in Port Ormos.

Secondly, even if the distance from Huacheng to Omos Port was not very far, it was impossible for him to spend seven hours every day traveling back and forth between the two places. He could only hire an experienced farmer, pay him 1,500 Mora a day, and ask him to help take care of the rice.

Furthermore, there are elemental creatures living by the water in the continent of Teyvat, such as lightning fireflies, ice fireflies, water slimes, etc. He had to hire the Gilded Brigade to help him clean up these monsters.

Haroldt inspected the experimental field. He had planted 300 seeds in May. Now it was June, and there was a small patch of green on the original beach. The color of life was very conspicuous in the barrenness.

Harold did not plant all the seeds. He still had 534 seeds that Setare gave him after she came back, and he planned to plant them again in April next year.

In fact, it was beyond his expectation that Setale could actually find wild sea rice, especially that she could find two plants at a time and harvest more than a thousand seeds. She was simply blessed by the god of luck.

You have to know that on Blue Star, Mr. Chen discovered wild sea rice by accident, and he couldn't find a second one after running all over the mudflats. It was precisely because there were too few rice seeds that it took him a full 28 years to cultivate sea rice to a scale that could be produced commercially.

While sighing at Mr. Chen's arduous work, Harold thought that he had a lot of seeds in his hands, and the land of Teyvat was blessed by the earth veins, so the yield and growth rate of sea rice should be faster.

As long as he can find a few experimental fields where rice can be grown in different seasons, his research progress should be much faster. If all goes well, he may be able to complete the cultivation of sea rice within five years, and then start studying sea rice hybridization to make them more productive.

Harold looked around and saw that his employees were surprised when they saw him and came over to talk to him.

When Harold approached them and asked them to look after the experimental fields by the sea, they all thought that this scholar was crazy. How could crops be grown on the mudflats?

The Xumi rainforest area has frequent rainfall, so even on ordinary land, if you want to grow crops you must first build stone walls to slow down soil erosion. During the growth process of the crops, you also need to apply fertilizer multiple times to ensure a good harvest. Therefore, there are only a small amount of farmland in the rainforest, such as the suburbs of Xumi City and Huachengguo.

At first, they were reluctant to accept Harold's employment and repeatedly advised him to give up. However, Harold's attitude was firm and sincere. He paid them twice the average salary and signed a labor contract with them. Only then did they reluctantly accept the commission.

Even so, they were still worried that Harold would go back on his word, especially that the scholar would want to recover his wages after discovering that his efforts had been in vain, which was a common occurrence.

Whenever conflicts arose between the Gilded Brigade and scholars, the inspectors of the Decree House always sided with the scholars. Even with a pre-signed labor contract and mediation by the leaders of the Thirty-Man Corps, their efforts would not be properly rewarded.

But as time passed, they watched the rice in the fields grow taller day by day, and the experimental fields on the tidal flats became as lovely as an oasis in the desert. The shock in their hearts was difficult to describe in words.

After asking the owner of the experimental field the reason, Harold patiently explained the content of his research. However, the old man who had spent half his life in farmland and the uneducated members of the Gilded Brigade, even though they listened and thought carefully, still could not understand how rice was grown by the sea.

However, Haroldt's attitude and the results he had achieved made them look after the experimental fields more carefully. Every time Haroldt came to check on the situation, he could not find a single weed in the field, and there was no sign of elemental life activity near the experimental fields.

Haroldt thanked several employees with a smile and paid them the wages for the next two months. They were very happy to receive the money and invited Haroldt to have a drink with them. Haroldt declined the invitation on the grounds that he was busy with research work and was a minor.

In the next few days, all eight seeds of the planted lily of the valley grew into lily of the valley. Currently, the germination rate of the lily of the valley seeds is 100%, but because the number is too small, Haroldt cannot assert that the germination rate of the lily of the valley seeds is very high.

The five-member society's activities were about to come to an end. Considering that the five people had been hindered by other work in the past few weeks, after discussing with others, Kavi reduced each person's weekly tasks by half and postponed the expected completion date of the society's research by two months.

Kavi's decision gave Setale more free time. She thought of what Harold had told her about the method that could gradually eliminate the rainforest people's prejudice against the desert people. She immediately found the next direction, so she went to the Palace of Wisdom to borrow many poems and novels written in desert language, and began to translate literary works.

After the society's activities ended, she took out several poems and a short story she had translated and asked others to read them.

"This is a poem about begging for a good harvest and praising human reproduction," Setale said as she handed her translated work to several people. When choosing the content to translate, she deliberately avoided themes such as praising the Red King, praising killing, and promoting plunder and war. She believed that translating these at this stage would only deepen the rainforest people's stereotypes about desert people.

"The translation is very good. The style is completely different from the recent literature of the Sumeru rainforest area. I think this style will attract many rainforest people." Harold gave his evaluation after reading it.

"The poetry of the desert people, like their art, focuses on contemplation, advocates vitality, and is always connected with philosophy and faith." Based on Harold's analysis, Kavi analyzed the reasons for the uniqueness of the poetry works from an artistic perspective.

Sino: "I seldom read poetry, but I like the ones you translated."

"There's no logical error," Elhaisen said.

After receiving everyone's approval, Setale smiled happily: "Thank you, thank you. This is my first time translating poetry and novels. I have been worried about making mistakes. I feel relieved to hear you say this.

But... I don’t know how to present these works to everyone. Is it feasible to print a booklet? "

Setale looked embarrassed, and then she thought of the recently popular "The Bizarre Adventure of Slime Continent". The novel was printed in a booklet, and the booklet and the novel had been widely circulated in Xumi City, but the Church Council turned a blind eye to it, which was simply unbelievable.

"No, the Church allowed the novel to become popular because the business behind it could bring the Church a lot of money, and it is a fantastic adventure novel. If the Church intentionally targets it, it would be tantamount to admitting that it is equivalent to other book knowledge.

So the House of the Decrees cannot and does not want to intervene, but if you want to print poems and novels from the desert, you will definitely be accused of "spreading knowledge."

Harold immediately objected, and then he said with a smile:

“To spread knowledge, we don’t have to use paper. We can cooperate with the theater troupes and folk artists that the Faithful Council despises the most, and bring these poems to everyone through performances.”

Although the Council of the Church has begun to crack down on art, these folk art activities cannot be completely banned just because they want to. No matter how domineering and unreasonable they are, they cannot go too far considering their prestige in the hearts of the people. Therefore, even at the time point of the Xumi main line, many artists can still be seen in the city of Xumi where the power of the Council of the Church is most concentrated.

In several rainforest settlements outside Xumi City, such as Kawanyi, Huachengguo, and Vimalakirti Village, the influence of the Teachings Court is relatively weak, and they have no control over what performances the residents there usually watch.