small tech farmer

Chapter 9 Interviews with American Journalists
Soon more villagers gathered around and looked at them curiously.

A beautiful foreign woman in the lead asked in pure English: "Who is the owner of this melon and fruit base? We want to find the owner of this base."

Everyone in the village couldn't understand English, and they all looked dumbfounded when they heard the words.

Xiao Yuan naturally understood, so he stepped forward after hearing the words, and said with a smile: "I am the owner of this base, Xiao Yuan, what can I do for you?"

"You are the owner of this base?" The foreign woman looked at Xiao Yuan with a look of surprise, and said, "I didn't expect you to be so young?"

"What's wrong? Who told you that I'm very old?" Xiao Yuan smiled.

"No, I just think that the one who can grow four-color melons must be a very experienced old farmer!" The foreign woman laughed.

"Oh? Do you know the four-color melon?" Xiao Yuan was taken aback for a moment. He didn't expect the four-color melon to be so famous that it had spread to foreign countries?
"Of course." The woman nodded and said, "Let me introduce myself first. I'm Linda, a reporter from the "Nature" magazine. We heard something about your four-color melon, so I came here for an interview today. your."

"Are you from "Nature" magazine?" Hearing this, Xiao Yuan was taken aback, and Lin Lan beside him was also surprised.

Because both of them know that this "Nature" magazine is an American media, and it is famous all over the world.

"Nature" magazine specializes in reporting some things in the field of biotechnology. Generally speaking, those who can be interviewed by "Nature" magazine are those who have made major breakthroughs and major contributions in the field of biotechnology.

So far, those who were able to appear in the "Nature" magazine were all scientists with world-renowned reputations, so Xiao Yuan was naturally very surprised when these reporters said they wanted to interview him.

But despite being surprised, Xiao Yuan still didn't forget to extend his hand to Linda, and said with a smile, "Nice to meet you."

"Mr. Xiao Yuan, I wonder if you have time to accept our interview now?" Linda asked with a smile.

"Of course I have time." Xiao Yuan smiled and said, "Since you are interested in my four-color melons, I will show you my planting base now."

At that moment, Xiao Yuan led these foreign reporters into his melon planting base.

After entering the base, these foreigners looked around curiously, and after obtaining Xiao Yuan's permission, they also took out their cameras and started filming.

These foreigners originally thought that they would be able to see a lot of cutting-edge equipment in this plantation base, but after they came in and took a look, they found that it was quite different from what they expected.

"Mr. Xiao Yuan, it seems that the equipment in your base is some ordinary equipment, which makes me very curious, how did you use such simple equipment to grow such a miraculous fruit like four-color melon? "Linda looked at Xiao Yuan curiously and said.

Xiao Yuan smiled lightly and said: "The equipment is not the most important thing, the most important thing is the technology. Although I use ordinary equipment, I have mastered the core technology, so I can grow four-color melons."

"Mr. Xiao Yuan, you are able to master such core technology at such a young age. You must have graduated from an agricultural university?" Linda continued to ask.

Seeing that Xiao Yuan speaks English so fluently, she was sure that Xiao Yuan was at least a college student, maybe even a Ph.D., and that he was able to make such a big breakthrough in the field of agriculture at a young age, in all likelihood, he graduated from an agricultural university up.

But Xiao Yuan's answer made her feel a little surprised: "No, I graduated from East China University of Science and Technology. My major is not agriculture, but information engineering."

Linda chatted with Xiao Yuan while visiting the base.

After visiting the base, several people sat down in one place.

The photographer set up the equipment, aimed at Xiao Yuan, and began to conduct a formal interview with Xiao Yuan.

"Mr. Xiao Yuan, can you talk about your mental journey? As a graduate of a university of science and technology, how did you decide to take this path?" Linda asked.

"It's not surprising that I took this path, because my parents are both farmers, and my family has been managing a tea mountain. Although I graduated from a university of science and technology, I have a special emotion for agriculture due to the environment in which I grew up. , so after I graduated, I chose to go home and take over my parents' Chashan." Xiao Yuan said.

"As you are a graduate of the University of Science and Technology, many people must not understand the choice you made at the time? Maybe you will face some ridicule?" Linda continued to ask.

"Of course, there were indeed many people who laughed at me at that time, including my classmates, my relatives and friends." Xiao Yuan smiled and said, thinking of the ridicule he received before, now thinking about it, he really feels a little emotional.

"So how did you persevere under the ridicule and incomprehension of others?" Linda asked.

"Actually, it's not difficult to persevere, because I don't care about their ridicule at all. How can a wise man care about the gossip of a bunch of idiots?" Xiao Yuan smiled lightly.

Linda smiled when she heard this, she thought the confident man in front of her was very attractive.

In this way, the two talked about many problems from shallow to deep. They talked about the problems Xiao Yuan encountered in planting melons and fruits, and also talked about some of his ideas and his ideals in life... I have to say that Linda is indeed A very good reporter, Xiao Yuan felt very comfortable in the process of communicating with her, as if he was chatting with a good friend of his, he could talk about everything, so many of his ideas were willing to share with her Linda shared.

After about an hour, the interview ended in a pleasant atmosphere.

Linda stood up, stretched out her hand towards Xiao Yuan, and said with a smile: "Mr. Xiao Yuan, thank you for taking the time to accept my interview. This interview made me feel very rewarding."

After a pause, Linda continued: "As an aside, I think you are one of the most attractive men I have ever met. I hope that after this interview, we can become friends."

"Ah?" Xiao Yuan couldn't help being stunned for a moment when he heard the words, he thought to himself that this foreign beauty is straightforward, but he likes such straightforward women.

"Of course, we are already friends, aren't we?" Xiao Yuan smiled.

A few moments later, Linda and her team left.

After seeing off the foreign reporters, Lin Lan looked at Xiao Yuan with a smile and said, "It's terrible, Xiao Yuan, now you're going to be famous."

"Well, I think so too." Xiao Yuan smiled lightly and said, "But I really don't want to be famous, once this person becomes famous, troubles will come."

"At the very least, there will definitely be more reporters coming to interview you in the future." Lin Lan smiled.

"When reporters come in the future, I will have to accept interviews selectively." Xiao Yuan laughed.

Interviews like today's are acceptable once or twice a month, but if there are too many, Xiao Yuan can't bear it.

Half a month later, the American "Nature" magazine published an interview report on Xiao Yuan.

At the same time that this issue of the magazine was released, Xiao Yuan also received the magazine from Linda from the United States.

To Xiao Yuan's surprise, not only did he appear on the "Nature" magazine, but he also became the cover character of the magazine.

On the cover of this issue of the magazine, there is a photo of Xiao Yuan standing outside the melon planting base. In the photo, Xiao Yuan is in good spirits, with a sense of high spirits.

Immediately afterwards, Xiao Yuan received an email from Linda from the United States: "Xiao, in order to surprise you, I didn't tell you that we used you as the cover character. You don't mind, do you?"

Xiao Yuan replied the email with a smile: "Of course not."

Xiao Yuan knew in his heart that "Nature" magazine was able to choose him as the cover character, which showed their high appreciation for him.

Xiao Yuan remembered that the last person on the cover of "Nature" magazine was the father of hybrid rice, Yuan Longping.This also means that "Nature" magazine has placed Xiao Yuan on the same level as Yuan Longping, which is really a very high praise!
Then, Xiao Yuan opened the magazine and looked at it. In that article, Xiao Yuan was introduced like this: "He is the youngest farmer in China. He has developed a new type of melon and fruit. He will be the future of Chinese agriculture. ..."

In that article, apart from objectively mentioning the content of Linda’s interview with Xiao Yuan, the media themselves also gave Xiao Yuan a high evaluation, saying that Xiao Yuan is an existence comparable to Yuan Longping, the father of hybrid rice. Moreover, he is younger than Yuan Longping, and he may become a greater farmer than Yuan Longping in the future!
(End of this chapter)