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

Chapter 239, Episode 0248: Poor Ye Changshan

Well, although having overseas connections can be troublesome—if you're not careful, you might end up with cattle and horses, endangering your family and even your life—there are very few people like Lin Yuexi in the scientific research community who have only studied in China and have never been abroad. There's no way around it; the premise of our technological backwardness is that our scientific knowledge is inferior to others. If you don't learn from abroad, you can learn what you don't have in China, okay?

So, a rather contradictory situation has emerged: having overseas connections is dangerous, but there are quite a few people in various research institutes who have been abroad, and it doesn't mean that these people have to remain invisible in the projects they can participate in.
Leng Zhi paused for a moment, then said, "Back then, a total of one hundred people went to Country E. Of those one hundred, sixty-two chose to stay in Country E when they were able to return. People of this race have their own ambitions, and we have nothing to say about that. However, during the process of picking up the thirty-eight people, there was a traitor. Moreover, we cannot determine whether the traitor was one person or several people. We can only confirm that the traitor was among the scientists who returned."

Things can be very simple in some ways, and very complex in others.

At the time, we knew that E would not willingly let those thirty-eight people return, so there were multiple plans for the return trip. We didn't just foolishly take everyone on the ship and leave immediately. Instead, we split up and set up a lot of deception, a mix of truth and falsehood.

Strangely enough, every real team ran into trouble, while the fake teams were completely unscathed.

At first, everyone thought there was a problem with the person who went to pick them up, but later they found out that someone had been leaving marks along the way, and those marks were a short equation.

Each real team had someone leave a mark on the E side, so each real team was almost constantly being intercepted and pursued by the E side. Of the thirty-eight scientists, fourteen were killed along the way, and the number of soldiers who died was even more staggering, reaching more than two thousand.

It was those two thousand soldiers who risked their lives to save the twenty-four scientists. So even though they knew that the people who left the mark on the E side were still among those twenty-four, the higher-ups would not take action against them without solid evidence, otherwise they would be letting down the more than two thousand martyrs.

Similarly, if it cannot be proven that these people are innocent, their glory will be gone; otherwise, it would be a disservice to the more than two thousand martyrs.

Zhang Hongying and Lin Yuexi both gasped simultaneously.

This sudden death was astonishing, and the sacrifice was immense!
"Haven't they found out who the traitor is yet?" Zhang Hongying asked.

It's been so many years. What if those people get involved in some major project and something goes wrong?

Leng Zhi rolled his eyes at his silly wife. "That's a matter for the National Security Bureau. How could I possibly know?"

After a moment of silence, he added, "However, those allowed into the research institute should all be those who have already been confirmed to be safe. It's just that the matter hasn't been fully investigated yet, so..."

He shrugged and raised his shoulders.

Lin Yuexi and Zhang Hongying stopped dwelling on it. This was a matter for higher-ups, and they didn't understand these political matters. Being too curious wasn't a good thing.

We had just talked about Researcher Ye, and Lin Yuexi didn't expect to meet her the very next day.

Qiu Suo personally led a woman who looked like a middle-aged woman to knock on the door of Lin Yuexi's office.

"Academician Lin, come here, let me introduce you. This is Academician Ye. She will be in your group from now on. You can decide how to arrange things for her. I have other things to attend to, so I'll be leaving now."

As soon as he finished speaking, the door slammed shut, and the bald-headed Qiu Suo had vanished without a trace.

Lin Yuexi: "..."

What's the point?
"Hello, Academician Ye."

He could only get up to greet her, walk up to Academician Ye, and raise his hand to shake hers.

Academician Ye was very reserved, as if he was afraid of something. From the moment he entered the room, he did not dare to make direct eye contact with Lin Yuexi. After stopping, he kept his head slightly lowered and his eyes were only on the black leather shoes on Lin Yuexi's feet.

Seeing a fair, delicate hand extended in front of her, she quickly wiped her hand on her clothes before shaking hands with Lin Yuexi, her voice soft and stammering. "Academician Lin, hello."

You touched it and immediately let go, clutching the hem of your clothes as if you had done something wrong.

Lin Yuexi's eyes flickered slightly, and she smiled as she naturally withdrew her hand.

The moment she shook hands with Academician Ye, she felt that his hands were covered in calluses. Those were not the hands of a scientific researcher; only someone who had been doing manual labor would have such hands.

Looking at her current state of fear, she could roughly guess what kind of situation Academician Ye had been in, probably the same as Old Chen and the others from the Red Star Brigade.

The fact that he's here now probably means he's been exonerated.

Although she had guessed it in her heart, Lin Yuexi had no intention of exposing her, and she wouldn't even offer her sympathy. All she could do was treat her as a normal colleague.

After returning to my desk and sitting down again, I began to ask her about her professional knowledge in a businesslike manner. Only after understanding her situation did I realize which group would be the most suitable for her to be assigned to.

Academician Ye was very reserved at first, only daring to sit on the side of the table. She answered Lin Yuexi's questions one by one, not daring to say anything extra, and not daring to mention anything beyond the knowledge that Lin Yuexi asked.

Perhaps knowledge really can empower people. As Lin Yuexi's conversation became more in-depth and argumentative, it was as if she had broken free of some kind of constraint. She became noticeably more talkative, her voice louder, and she gradually dared to speak up and refute.

Lin Yuexi's title of academician was directly given to her by higher authorities.

After the YX001 sniper rifle went into mass production and achieved impressive results, the higher-ups were probably too pleased and generously awarded her three rewards: first, her military rank was promoted by one level, and she is now a colonel; second, she received a bonus and a detached house in Beijing; and third, she was directly promoted to academician.

After chatting for a while, Lin Yuexi found that Academician Ye and she got along quite well, as they both had imaginative ideas.

As the two discussed, they started with the principles of the engine and gradually moved to materials analysis. As they continued their analysis, the topic veered off course, making it seem as if they could easily build a spaceship.

Suddenly, the two stopped talking in unison, looked at each other, and then burst into laughter, clutching their stomachs.

After laughing for a full two minutes, Academician Ye suddenly covered his face and burst into tears. Tears welled up between his fingers, gradually sliding down his thin, bony wrists and disappearing into his washed, faded sleeves.

Lin Yuexi smiled and didn't disturb her, just quietly stayed with her.

It took Academician Ye a while to calm down and realize where he was. He quickly wiped away his tears, stood up, and bowed ninety degrees to apologize.

The skill in those movements was so practiced it was heartbreaking.

Lin Yuexi quickly helped her up and asked her some questions about her life. When she learned that she had come here alone and was now living in the dormitory, having just arrived that morning and with her luggage just lying around, she told her to go back and settle in first, and then come to work tomorrow.

Academician Ye bowed deeply in gratitude at a 90-degree angle, which Lin Yuexi couldn't stop him from doing.

After she left, Lin Yuexi sat there alone and sighed for a while.

What is all this nonsense? Her dad is really ruining his child's life.

Just as I was getting ready to continue working, there was another knock on the door. It was poor Ye Changchun coming to see me.