After the frail beauty went to the countryside, she went crazy with scientific research.

Chapter 220, Episode 0228 (Difficult)

Many fathers and daughters don't have much in common.

Especially for a father like Leng Zhi, who already holds a high position of power, his vision, perspective, and overall situation are different. If he encounters a daughter who only cares about food, drink, and clothing, he can only spoil the one he cares about, while the one he doesn't care about is easily ignored.

Lin Yuexi is different. Her ideas and thinking even surpass Leng Zhi's in some aspects. When it comes to military affairs, she can keep up with the conversation. When it comes to the future, her fantasies are something that even Leng Zhi dares not think about, yet he finds them incredibly enjoyable to listen to.

"Is the future really as you say?" Leng Zhi gazed into the distance, his distant eyes gleaming with anticipation.

With skyscrapers reaching ten or even dozens of stories high and roads truly connecting all directions, the main combat is no longer about soldiers going to the field, but about information warfare.

These things sound wonderful, but hearing about them feels like a dream.

If someone else said that, Leng Zhi would either think they were talking nonsense or he would have to doubt their true identity, and a dark interrogation would definitely be inevitable.

But this person is his daughter, his awesome daughter who just developed a revolutionary sniper rifle.

With someone she had watched grow up since childhood and the physical object right there, Leng Zhi not only had no doubts, but also started to have wild fantasies about the future because of her.

He grinned and pointed in one direction, "Sweetie, if we can really make something that generates electricity from the wind, we'll put it over there."

"There is a severe water shortage here, and you have no idea how difficult it is to get electricity. Just the cost of laying the power lines from hundreds of miles away is a huge expense, not to mention the subsequent maintenance."

"If we had a power plant right here, we could save that money, and those soldiers could have a better diet."

Yes, it's embarrassing to admit, but that's the reality. He couldn't even ensure that all his soldiers were well-fed.

Military spending is limited, resources are limited, and the environment here makes it difficult to grow crops...
In other places, if they don't have enough money or can't buy supplies elsewhere, they can at least grow their own food. But in the Northwest, even that is difficult.

God doesn't give us food.

If there were a power station nearby, they wouldn't have to worry about electricity shortages and could do more. If the electricity could also be distributed to various places, oh my, if all the money from that were used for military expenses, wow!

Leng Zhi was so beautiful that tears almost streamed down her face.

"Honey, what's this wind power generation? Can you even build one?" I stared at him, my eyes gleaming with greed.

Lin Yuexi smiled and nodded, "Yes."

Seeing her father about to jump up, Lin Yuexi quickly grabbed him and reminded him, "But Dad, this is no small project. Putting aside whether the higher-ups believe I can do it, even if they do, we may not be able to afford the initial investment, and there's no return on investment in the short term."

Her father has big ambitions. She only mentioned wind power generation, but her father has already thought about using it to earn military funding. So what he needs to do is no small project.

Leng Zhi wasn't discouraged at all. Once he confirmed with his daughter that she could do it, everything else was no longer a problem.

“We also have a research institute. Let’s build a small one ourselves first. As long as it can generate electricity successfully, we can leave everything else to Dad.”

They'll definitely have to do it secretly in their own research institute first. If everyone finds out, the Northwest Corps won't have the initiative anymore, and then the military spending will be wasted!
On second thought, she guessed her father's plan.

He chuckled and shook his head.

Lin Yuexi finally understood. They just wanted her to make the 'model' first. With the physical object there, there was no need for further explanation; it would prove that her abilities were not just talk.

With the physical object in hand, the only difference later was replacing the smaller one with a larger one. This not only made it easier to persuade those above, but also prevented her father from causing trouble within the military corps.

She had already realized that her father was somewhat inclined to keep everything for himself, which meant the Northwest Production and Construction Corps would have to invest its own resources, and that was no small expense. But... "Dad, I'm an educated youth, and this time I'm on secondment to Jiuquan. If I'm not in Jiuquan, I'll have to go back to the Red Star Brigade."

Leng Zhi didn't care anymore. "Besides being an educated youth, you're also a lieutenant colonel. Dad can also temporarily transfer you."

He still has the status of being the father of the person in question. If Jiuquan can be transferred, he can find a reason, and the higher-ups should at least give him some face, right?
The military industry mainly focuses on equipment research, and his daughter just happened to have developed a sniper rifle. He could say that his research institute needed her for a certain project.

I believe they would all be happy for his daughter to stay.

With things on his mind, Leng Zhi strolled around with his daughter for about half an hour before taking Lin Yuexi back home and leaving in a hurry without stopping.

After talking with Zhang Hongying for a while, Lin Yuexi washed up and went back to her room to lie down, taking out the thick book on quantum mechanics that could be used to wash someone.

There's not much entertainment here. Although the residential area has electricity, as Leng Zhi said, it wasn't easy to get this electricity, so the electricity bill isn't cheap at all.

Even if a family has a TV, no one would be willing to pay the electricity bill to turn it on. As for the lights in the house, they would only turn them on if it was absolutely necessary.

Everyone lives inside the mountain, so the houses are very dark during the day. Even in Leng Zhi's house, the lights are not turned on during the day.

The kitchen and living room are located on the outside, so they are bright during the day and do not require artificial lighting.

According to Zhang Hongying, the layout of the houses here is pretty much the same; they make use of natural resources wherever possible and save money wherever they can.

Up in the mountains behind, many families have electricity, but at night they only use oil lamps, or simply go to bed early.

Therefore, people here generally go to bed early. At night, the residential area is so quiet that you can only hear the chirping of insects and birds.

Lin Yuexi held a book in her hand, but her thoughts were no longer on the book; they had returned to the time she had just taken a walk with Leng Zhi.

She had only been chatting with Leng Zhi when the conversation drifted to wind power generation.

It was already dark when they arrived. From where they were, they could see the mountainsides of other residential areas. Leng Zhi pointed to a completely dark area and said in a low voice:

There's a phrase, "ten thousand lights," used to describe peacetime and also to describe the prosperity of a place. Look over there, there are more than two hundred households, but can you tell from that that anyone lives there?

He asked, "Sweetie, do you think Dad is a very incompetent parent?"

The situation wasn't as exaggerated as her father described. It was getting dark, and it was right after get off work. There were many soldiers going home and children rushing home on the road. The background noise was the sound of family members calling the children home for dinner. Apart from the lack of light, it was quite lively.

However, it was indeed a far cry from the "lights of ten thousand homes" her father had described.

Perhaps influenced by her father's mood, she blurted out, "There's no water here, but we can generate electricity; there's wind, though."

Then her dad grabbed her and asked, "How does wind generate electricity?"

This wasn't a problem for Lin Yuexi, so she explained the simple principle to her father.

When her father heard this, his eyes lit up so much that she didn't dare look directly at him, afraid of going blind.

"Pfft~"

Lin Yuexi smiled, her hair turning into a small pear shape, then shook her head and turned her gaze back to the book.

This time, she was not disturbed at all.