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

Chapter 462, Episode 0506: A Bit Troublesome
The fact that Wei Man and his 'adopted sister' were already married was leaked by someone.

This caused quite a stir; the entire town was in an uproar, and everyone demanded that Wei Man's father-in-law and wife be punished to set things right.

No matter how Wei Man's father-in-law explained that Wei Man was not his adopted son but just a student, it was useless. He hadn't changed his surname, nor was he on the same household registration. He didn't know why those people insisted on making Wei Man an adopted son.

Zhang Hongying raised her hand: "Uncle Wei, could it be that Wei Man's father-in-law's family is the same one that wrote the surrender document?"

A rare, twisted crack appeared on Uncle Wei's usually upright and incorruptible face: "...Yes."

The father-in-law and daughter-in-law both fell silent.

understood.

That family, it seems, isn't entirely incomprehensible.

"A family that had already signed a surrender document before the enemy even reached them—those shameless traitors! What right do they have to talk about propriety, righteousness, and shame?"

Uncle Wei dared not accept this. Of course, he also despised those people, but since the higher-ups had not punished that family for that incident, it was not appropriate for them to say anything.

Only the old man present knew the whole story.

It's the same reason: a problem left over from history.

That family may lack backbone, but they have their reasons. They claim it's about preserving their strength and cultural heritage, and indeed, they possess many treasures passed down from their ancestors.

Those decades were terrible. Not only were human lives taken by those inhuman creatures, but the treasures left to us by our ancestors were also almost completely robbed.

Traditional Chinese medicine belongs to us, but our lineage is about to be severed; the prescriptions have been stolen and divided up.

The Yongle Encyclopedia—whoever possessed it gained a head start in technology, and it was subsequently divided up.

A bunch of uncivilized people who only know how to use perfume to cover up the smell of excrement and urine, and they think they can make light bulbs after being hit on the head by an apple? What a load of bull!
Why are they ganging up on us to block our technology?

They'd feel guilty if we didn't blockade them, since they'd taken everything from our ancestors.

Young people might not understand, but the old folks are well aware of all this. Are they frustrated? Yes, they are!
Every time I think about how we are lagging behind others, my liver aches. I wish I could wipe out the last dynasty's origins. I wish I could have been born a few hundred years earlier so I could fight for my descendants sooner.

No matter how aggrieved they felt, they could only endure it. When our nation was founded, we were penniless. We had no money and almost no cultural heritage. Everyone gritted their teeth, endured hunger and grievances, and walked step by step to get to where we are today.

That wasn't easy!!!

A country is not just about having a name and establishing a nation. We cannot let our thousands of years of cultural heritage be broken. It is our backbone and the foundation of our national confidence.

Look at our neighbor, India. Can that messy, chaotic country even be considered their own? They were subjected to a caste system by other countries. Good heavens, not only were their resources taken away, but their culture was also disrupted, and they don't even have their own writing system anymore.

We cannot follow their old path, so inheritance is very important, extremely important.

Unfortunately, at that time, everything was taken away from us. It's not that we didn't leave behind any treasures, but they were all in private hands. The descendants of the one who said Confucius was the family that preserved the most treasures, according to what they knew at the time.

In order to protect themselves, they donated a batch of ancient books before the establishment of the nation, and after the establishment of the nation, they donated several medical books, which are all needed and urgently required by us. Later, they donated antiques and incomplete copies of the Book of Songs, etc.

Therefore, after the person who wrote the petition to apologize to the ancestors in person, the family was not punished for the petition.

Many people felt uneasy about this, but the situation at the time was very complicated. It involved not only cultural heritage issues, but also families with profound cultural backgrounds. If a blanket ban were implemented, the country would fall into chaos again, so this was the only option.

Just then, footsteps came from the stairwell. Everyone looked over and saw Lin Yuexi walking ahead in rabbit fur slippers, followed not far behind by Xu Shan carrying a silver combination lock suitcase.

"Who offended your mother? Why are you so angry?"
Seeing that her daughter wasn't in a hurry, Zhang Hongying pulled her to sit down beside her and quickly relayed what had happened.

Lin Yuexi: "Deputy Battalion Commander Wei? I remember him. His emergency mission that time was to deliver some documents to Jiuquan."

She looked at the old man: "Grandpa, it seems like we encountered some trouble that time?"

Security matters rarely bother Lin Yuexi, so unless she specifically asks about them, others won't come to her to bring them up.

The old man nodded: "Back then, the people went out in three teams. The real information was in the hands of Deputy Battalion Commander Wei, and he took the most difficult route."

There was a suspected traitor inside the base at the time, and the suspect even had some kind of status.

The project has been running for almost twenty years, and it has been stuck for five or six years. While the progress from one to nine wasn't smooth, it was still manageable, albeit with some stumbles. But it completely stalled at nine, unable to even reach the threshold of ten.

Because of the lack of progress, the project was once halted.

The project was restarted after Lin Yuexi became pregnant.

To put it bluntly, Old Zhou just wanted to help resolve this issue during Lin Yuexi's pregnancy and recovery period.

Because a lot of money has already been spent, no one can bear to keep stopping.

Just as Deputy Battalion Commander Wei arrived, the favor that Jiu Quan had asked Lin Yuexi to do came to fruition. Jiu Quan's entire team had been waiting for the results. It would have been fine if there hadn't been any results, but now that there were, wouldn't they all go crazy?

They called several times a day, urging me to come and pick it up myself.

They are all national treasures, who would be willing to let them take risks?

I'm even more afraid that they might go crazy and cause danger.

The sooner the information is sent, the better.

Just in case, they split into three teams to deliver the documents. One team took fake documents and went out openly. Another team took fake documents and took a train, then transferred to another train, and then took another train, leaving in a semi-covert manner. The last team took the real documents and left quietly, disguised as ordinary people.

Despite being extremely careful, things still went wrong. All three routes were attacked halfway through, resulting in the loss of several soldiers.

Wei Man led his men into the mountains and dared not contact anyone. The dozen or so soldiers stayed in the mountains for more than half a year. When they appeared in front of the leaders of the Northwest Military Region, the leaders almost thought that wild men had come down from the mountains.

This is a secret, and Zhang Hongying knows she shouldn't ask, but she's incredibly curious, as if she's being scratched by a dog's paw.

She wasn't curious about the mission itself; that wasn't something she should or could be curious about. She was curious about the matter concerning the melon-wielding comrade Weiman.

Sensing that her daughter had something to ask, Zhang Hongying tactfully made up an excuse to "go check if the baby is awake" and quickly left.

Uncle Wei didn't leave; he was in the know, and he was the one in charge of that mission.

Lin Yuexi glanced at the old man and then at Uncle Wei. Neither of them looked too good. It seemed that the person involved in that mission was in some trouble.

"Uncle Wei, tell me, what happened back then?"

Uncle Wei nodded, not hiding anything, "The people with problems aren't from our base, they're the people in charge of liaison from Jiuquan. And there's more than one of them. They've all been lying low for a long time. We can trace their ancestors back three generations and still not find anything wrong. In fact, the people in charge have been involved in smuggling for three generations."