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

Chapter 377, Episode 407: Old Master Cheng's Purpose (Part 1)

Previously, Cheng Siyu did not fully understand. She only knew that Academician Lin was smart, capable, and strong, a genius, but she never imagined that her abilities could be so exaggerated, let alone that someone who was only in his early twenties could be so important to a country.

Cheng Siyu has the spoiled and pampered nature of a young girl who has been pampered. Sometimes, people want to give her a good beating to teach her a lesson about the dangers of the world. But she is never lacking in patriotism and a sense of national duty. Between the country and herself, she understands what is more important.

So what she was afraid of wasn't being shot, but rather whether her actions had affected Academician Lin's mood, and whether that mood would directly or indirectly affect the speed of breakthroughs in a certain technology under his control, and so on.

In short, I was afraid of becoming a sinner for all time.

Seeing that Academician Lin could still chat peacefully with her grandfather, Cheng Siyu finally felt a little relieved. Someone like Academician Lin didn't need to hide her emotions in any situation or in front of anyone. Her apparent indifference must mean she really didn't mind.

Neither Lin Yuexi nor Old Cheng noticed Cheng Siyu's emotional fluctuations. After a few casual words, the conversation somehow turned to Old Cheng's professional knowledge.

The area where Panzhou and Zhangzhou meet in the south is surrounded by mountains. Panzhou, which is further out, is better off, with more plains. Although there are still many mountains, making road construction difficult, it is still much better than Zhangzhou, which is full of mountains.

Zhangzhou's geographical environment is the most suitable place to grow fruit, but due to inconvenient transportation, most of the fruit grown in Zhangzhou rots directly on the ground every year because it cannot be transported out.

This has resulted in a situation where, despite the fact that a place is ideally suited for growing fruit and many farmers have indeed planted fruit trees, almost no one cares about the fate of those fruit trees anymore.

Four years ago, during the national agricultural census, the state discovered this major problem in Zhangzhou. When a place encounters development problems, we will find a way to solve them; this has always been our family's principle.

The problem of unsold goods in the water is that they cannot be transported out, and the reason they cannot be transported out is because the roads are difficult to travel.

Solving this problem can be easy in some ways—building roads—but it can also be difficult. As mentioned earlier, Zhangzhou is surrounded by mountains, and many towns are nestled among them. In such an environment, building roads is not a simple matter.

Especially the area where Panzhou and Zhangzhou meet, not only has mountains, but also wide and deep rivers and bottomless rift valleys. What's more, there is more than one rift valley.

To put it simply, Zhangzhou was almost completely cut off from the outside world, because they had to rely on a suspension bridge to travel to and from their only neighbor, Panzhou.

Previously, no one paid attention to Zhangzhou, so it was as if it had been abandoned. Even during the War of Resistance against Japan, when the Japanese army had already reached Panzhou, they did not take a single step towards Zhangzhou, which was a good place to take refuge at the time.

But once peace was restored, Zhangzhou became a despised place due to its transportation problems.

Four years ago, during the agricultural census, the group assigned to Zhangzhou consisted of just a few interns.

Fortunately, the interns were not perfunctory. Even though they went to Zhangzhou, a poor and hopeless place that no one wanted to go to, they conducted a serious on-site investigation. It is said that they collected hundreds of soil samples alone.

They spent nearly two years making an astonishing discovery in the soil of many places in Zhangzhou: a special substance that is not found anywhere else in my country. This substance has no effect on the growth of grains and is neither harmful, but it is beneficial to many fruit trees.

What's amazing is that this place is different from others.

For example, the mango is particularly large, the apple is particularly sweet, and so on.

If it's just that the land in Zhangzhou is relatively fertile, the country won't vigorously develop Zhangzhou for the time being. After all, there are too many places that need development. Zhangzhou has been neglected since its existence and has never been a place that the higher-ups would pay attention to first.

It was those interns who persistently submitted reports and relentlessly stopped people, which finally attracted the attention of higher authorities. After much verification, the decision to develop Zhangzhou was finally approved at the beginning of this year.

To develop Zhangzhou, the first step is to break its 'secluded' state. Therefore, the first task is to build bridges and roads at the intersection of Panzhou and Zhangzhou.

But the environment there was really terrible, especially for building bridges and roads, it was a hellish level of difficulty.

As a result, many retired experts have been invited back to the field, including Mr. Cheng, a civil engineering expert who is over 100 years old.

Before long, the old man and the young man went from verbal discussion to sitting cross-legged by the coffee table, each holding a pencil, sketching on the paper on the coffee table while discussing.

In a professional field, if you don't understand something, you simply don't understand it. At first, Cheng Siyu and Xu Shan could understand words like "bridge" and "earth," but gradually, all they could hear were symbols and data, and they couldn't understand them at all.

Xu Shan and the others were fine; they were used to it and would remain quiet and vigilant in such situations.

This was the first time Cheng Siyu had encountered such a situation, and she was at a loss, feeling embarrassed and helpless, unsure of what to do with her hands and feet.

Fortunately, Aunt Yang in the kitchen noticed her and tiptoed over to take Cheng Siyu to the kitchen.

"I'm sorry, our leader tends to overlook his surroundings when he gets busy." Aunt Yang poured her a glass of water, trying to make amends for her leader.

Aunt Yang wouldn't have cared about anyone else's opinion, but this person was Old Cheng's granddaughter. Aunt Yang often helped Lin Yuexi deliver things to Old Cheng and the courtyard house. She knew that Old Cheng held the same position in Lin Yuexi's heart as the other elderly people in the courtyard house, so she didn't want any unnecessary reasons to cause any misunderstandings between them and affect their relationship.

I came here to apologize, but now I'm the one who has to apologize to Academician Lin's people. What kind of talk is that?

Cheng Siyu was so frightened that she waved her hands repeatedly, "I understand, I understand. My grandfather is often like that too. When he gets busy, he even forgets to eat."

Oh dear, Aunt Yang has so much to say about this.

She slapped her thigh, her eyes looking at him like she was seeing a family member. "You're absolutely right. That's how our leader is. When he's busy, he doesn't seem to get hungry. Sometimes he only eats a bowl of rice porridge all day. A few times he went into the lab and didn't come out for days. He really didn't eat, drink, or sleep. When he came out of the lab, he was dizzy."

Aunt Yang felt a pang of pain in her heart, but she didn't show it on her face at all, as if she were joking.

She was rummaging through the kitchen cabinets, looking very busy, but you couldn't tell what she was doing.

She didn't understand any science or technological breakthroughs, nor did she understand the specific significance of what the leader was doing. All she knew was that the leader was risking his life to work.

All I know is that the leader, who is only in his early twenties, has already developed a stomach ailment.

But her job was to take care of the leader, and that was all. She had no right to, and could not, interfere in, the leader's other affairs.

Even the heartache had to be kept hidden, because Captain Xu said that the condition of those around the leader could reveal the leader's condition.