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

Chapter 309, Episode 0331: Life is getting better and better.

Later generations' imagination of village battles is either hand-to-hand combat or wielding sticks, or at most, kitchen knives or cleavers.

After lunch, Li Dayou took Lin Yuexi to the west end of the village.

Not far from the village, Lin Yuexi saw a large mountain that had never existed before. It was now covered with pear trees, and it was harvest season. The branches were all drooping and laden with fruit.

Li Dayou showed no joy at all when he saw this; instead, he looked worried. "Back then, the two villages were fighting right here, which angered Commander Ning. He not only confiscated all our equipment but also made us build this mountain out of thin air."

Not only that, because of that battle, the entire Northeast was banned from using firearms. In other words, they offended the entire Northeast.

Lin Yuexi looked at him with a half-smile, "I remember, our village only seems to have a few hunting rifles."

There's nothing that can't be said now that things have come to this point. Besides, isn't this an open secret in Northeast China?

However, facing his savior, Li Dayou was still a little embarrassed to talk about such things, and his tone was as weak as a student who hadn't done his holiday homework, "Well, well, we were just being thrifty."

This is outdated.

During the War of Resistance Against Japan, the entire Northeast was a large battlefield, with large-scale and small-scale battles almost constantly taking place. The people gradually learned a set of survival skills from this experience.

They dug caves in the mountains, and if a small notebook came, they would hide in the cave beforehand.

But simply hiding is too passive, so they try to find ways to protect themselves.

When two sides are engaged in battle, the battlefield is usually cleaned up afterward. However, there are occasional special circumstances where one side has just finished fighting while the other side needs support, and there is no time to clean up the battlefield.

After the soldiers leave, the local people, once they confirm that it is safe, will come to help clean up the battlefield.

They cleaned the battlefield much more thoroughly than the soldiers did; if it weren't for Kuchazi's dislike of the filth, the soldiers' corpses would have been completely naked.

It's fair to say that every village in Northeast China has tried to find something worthwhile; the only difference is the amount of stuff they find.

After liberation, although the authorities did not ban guns, no one dared to bring those weapons out into the open, since their origins were dishonest, and everyone was afraid of being discovered and getting into trouble.

Therefore, the only hunting rifles displayed in each village were those left by the older generation. As for any other weapons found by scavenging, they were either kept by the brigade or entrusted to respected members of the clan for safekeeping.

After such a long war, although it seems peaceful on the surface now, those who have experienced it find it hard to truly feel at ease. They always feel they need to have something to protect themselves, so that if anything happens, more people in their village can survive.

Lin Yuexi: "..."

How to put it? I understand, yet I don't.

Putting ourselves in their shoes, it's not hard to understand Li Dayou and his group's thoughts. Even after liberation, the Northeast was never truly stable. There were still many bandits and robbers hiding in the mountains. Even now, the various armies in the Northeast still have the task of suppressing bandits.

However, her perspective differed from theirs; she viewed the people from the perspective of the entire nation, and Li Dayou and his group's actions were nothing short of destabilizing. Look at that—a fight between two villages, and it's acting like an international war.

No wonder Ning Yuanqun was so angry that he made them build an artificial mountain.

All I can say is that we have different perspectives. Lin Yuexi felt she had no right to comment. Ordinary people just want to live a safer life, which is not wrong.

The fact that most ordinary people are unwilling to hand over their weapons only shows that the country has not yet made them feel safe. This is not the people's fault; it is because these researchers have not worked hard enough.

Lin Yuexi didn't speak, and Li Dayou was unsure whether she minded or not, so he felt awkward and didn't know what to say.

If it's a leader coming to inspect, he has one, two, three, four, five, six ways to deal with it. Whether it's being sincere, perfunctory, needing flattery, or telling the truth, having served as the brigade leader for more than ten years and then continuing as the village head, he can handle it all quite smoothly.

But the person in front of him was different. Besides being the benefactor of everyone in their village, he was also one of the people he admired most.

As more and more people in the cowshed were exonerated, familiar faces often appeared among those who came to pick them up. Some were from the military, and some were provincial leaders.

After spending more time with them, they were willing to share some information with him. From this, he learned that Comrade Lin had made an outstanding contribution to the battle against India, which he had read about in the newspaper.

Those people wouldn't explain it to him in too much detail, or perhaps they didn't know everything. They only said that a very capable scientist came from their village, and that the advanced equipment used in the fight with the Indians was developed by this scientist.

As for the name and age of that remarkable scientist, he tried to inquire, but the other party seemed unwilling to tell him. However, Li Dayou could tell that those people looked even more confused than he did.

Li Dayou had initially suspected that the people imprisoned in the cowshed were involved, but the timing didn't add up. Li Dayou had a detailed record of the backgrounds of everyone imprisoned in the cowshed, and there were only two related to weapons research. One had been exonerated less than a month ago, and the other hadn't been exonerated yet.

He didn't understand anything about research, but he did know one thing: research definitely takes time. The people in the cowshed had to work every day and were exhausted by the end of the night, so how could they have any energy left?

It's not entirely impossible; I've heard that researchers tend to go crazy.

However, compared to the people in the cowshed, Li Dayou thought of Comrade Lin, who had already received special treatment even before he came to their village.

He didn't know that Lin Yuexi had already participated in several projects while she was in the village, but he did know that Comrade Lin had always had people protecting her, and not just one or two.

In addition, there's the time since Comrade Lin left...

It was also a kind of intuition, but Li Dayou felt that the person they were talking about was most likely Comrade Lin.

He was once a soldier himself. If our side has good equipment and effective command, the casualty rate of our soldiers will be greatly reduced. Therefore, he holds the highest respect for anyone who can help soldiers have a greater chance of winning on the battlefield.

After Lin Yuexi arrived, Li Dayou and Lu Guihua didn't mince words and went on to tell her all about the good and bad things that had happened in the village over the past few years, and showed her the changes that had taken place in the village.

I just wanted to tell her through these things that what you did was not in vain, that your efforts have yielded results, and that under your protection, although there are still setbacks in our lives, those are normal, and our lives are getting better and better.