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

Chapter 420, Episode 0456: Sometimes it's a matter of having the will but not the power.

“Yesterday afternoon, Chunhua and I came to the beach to play. There were even more people on the beach then than before, so we thought we would go further away and not squeeze with them.”

The military dependents also gathered around, and everyone listened quietly.

"When we got to a place where there weren't many people, we saw a girl who seemed a bit off. She looked like she had no hope of survival, and she seemed very desperate. We were afraid she might do something rash, so we followed her."

"Follow them to this vicinity..."

Zhang Hongying pointed to a coconut tree by the roadside where they had come from, "Right there, when we got there, the girl disappeared. We searched for her for a long time but couldn't find her."

Zhang Hongying was unaware that this place was very close to Moon Bay and already considered a dangerous area; Yang Chunhua, although she had been on the island for quite some time, rarely went out and had few visitors. Initially, she was forced to stay at home, but later she voluntarily stayed at home whenever she had the chance, so she was also unaware of the situation here.

So neither of them thought much of it, assuming there was a village nearby and the girl had gone home.

The two decided to search for seafood by turning over the rocks. Perhaps because there weren't many people around, they had a good haul: crabs the size of a palm, abalone three fingers wide, and an octopus with a head the size of a fist, and so on.

The two were having a good time when Yang Chunhua glanced up and saw a piece of cloth that looked somewhat familiar floating on the sea, rising and falling with the waves.

Yang Chunhua pondered for a while, and then realized, "Good heavens, the girl they had been following all the way was wearing clothes with the same pattern as that piece of cloth."

Yang Chunhua could swim, so she jumped into the sea and swam out to save the person while shouting to tell Zhang Hongying what had happened.

By then, the girl had already floated to the opposite rock, sticking to the edge and swaying as if she were stuck.

Zhang Hongying can't swim and doesn't know what happened on the other side of the rock, but Yang Chunhua was there.

"The girl's clothes got stuck in a piece of wood that was wedged in a crack in the rocks."

Many military wives looked worried. One of them asked, "Could she really have jumped into the sea because she couldn't stand it anymore?"

Yang Chunhua shook her head, "She didn't jump into the sea. At the time, I also thought she had jumped into the sea. After rescuing her, I scolded her. She cried and told me that she didn't want to commit suicide. Her father was injured, her mother was sick, and her family was in dire straits. She heard that people had seen moonfish at Moon Bay, and she wanted to go catch moonfish..."

Moonfish, a specialty of Moon Bay, exists only in underwater caves. It is photophobic, boneless, and emits a faint sheen. Its flesh is delicious, highly nutritious, and quite expensive.

Before she could finish speaking, a military wife gasped and retorted, "Even water monsters dare not go down to Moon Bay, how could she not kill herself?"

"Water Ghost" is a nickname used on the island for people who are good swimmers.

Yang Chunhua: "She was probably really desperate, but she overestimated her swimming ability. She couldn't swim for long. Fortunately, she knew how to save herself. Then she was pushed by the waves to the rocks and her clothes got caught on the wood."

Everyone felt a pang of sadness.

Although life has improved a lot for most people on the island, there are still quite a few people struggling.

There are over thirty villages on the island, and the villagers all have their own beliefs. Although the military's efforts have helped most of them come to believe in the country, it is still a long way from getting them to wholeheartedly follow the country.

Take healthcare for example. We know that when you are sick, you should see a doctor; when you are injured, you should see a doctor. But many villages on the island do not share this concept. Some people pray to gods when they are sick or injured, some believe in the village's shaman, and some perform rituals around the injured or sick.

It's no use telling them they're sick or injured and need to see a doctor; they won't believe you.

Another reason is that medical care costs money, which they didn't have. They didn't need money before. It was only after the army collected ramie from the villages that they had the concept of money, but even then, it was limited to having money to exchange for daily necessities with the army. In other words, the people who came to Chongyang Island after the army and the original inhabitants are still in a contradictory state of integration.

The island's indigenous people are gradually accepting the world outside, but this acceptance is taking a while because many of their beliefs are deeply ingrained and changing them is not an easy task.

Furthermore, the island's native inhabitants were actually quite hostile to those who came to the island later. If the military hadn't been helping them, they would have even rejected the military.

Take what happened to Zhang Hongying and the others yesterday, for example. Yang Chunhua saved the girl and expressed her desire to help her, but the girl was very wary of Yang Chunhua and Zhang Hongying the whole time. After returning to the shore, she ran away without saying a word.

The soldiers and their families who had lived on the island for quite some time understood this situation, so after a moment of sighing, they stopped talking about it.

Sometimes it's not a matter of whether you have compassion or not, but rather that you want to help but don't know where to start.

Upon hearing Yang Chunhua's description of seeing countless abalone on the rocks over there, several soldiers immediately stripped themselves down to their bare skin and jumped into the sea.

The soldiers' families were used to this and dispersed to turn over stones.

Lin Yuexi also wanted to go, but under the old man's disapproving gaze that gradually turned into a warning, she and the old man formed an old and weak group, with Xu Shan following along. The two of them squatted on a relatively flat pile of small stones and turned them over one by one.

From the side came shouts: "I caught a big crab! Goodness, this one is huge, it must weigh over a pound!" and "I found a sea cucumber and a snail, both are huge!" Everyone else had something to show for it, but the grandfather and grandson searched for ages and found nothing.

I don't know what kind of luck they had, but Xu Shanzhui behind them found several clams the size of half a palm and an octopus weighing at least half a pound.

The grandfather and grandson were not discouraged. They continued to flip through the pages while chatting, emphasizing that participation was the most important thing.

The old man asked, "Did Xiao Huo call you yesterday?"

Lin Yuexi: "Yes, we chatted for a while."

The old man asked, "Is his work going well?"

Lin Yuexi laughed out loud: "Grandpa, you want to ask if he did his best in the things you were in charge of, right?"

The old man raised his hand and lightly tapped her forehead, annoyed. "You dare to laugh at your grandfather? Who is he doing this for? Shouldn't he give your husband a little more training?"

Lin Yuexi: "..."

That's a really good excuse.

"Grandpa, you can be lazy if you want, I won't laugh at you."

The old man showed no embarrassment at being exposed; instead, he was full of self-satisfaction: "You don't know this, do you? At my age, I take everything lightly. If I have the chance, I'll naturally enjoy myself. Holding too much in my hands means I can't take it with me when I die, and it will only affect you."

Lin Yuexi agreed with the old man's words. "Only you, Grandpa, can understand and let go of this kind of thing."

How many people, after holding power for so long, find it increasingly difficult to let go as they grow older?

"Others are others, and I am me. Grandpa just hopes that you can be well. Grandpa doesn't ask you to achieve great things or expect you to do anything special. Grandpa just hopes that you can live freely."

So he had ulterior motives; even if he were to let go, he would put the grandson in the hands of someone who could protect him.