Chapter 116 No Looking Back

These days when Lin Ze came, he saw the homely side of his sister.

All the meals he had here were cooked by Cheng Jinghao. As long as he is at home, he is the one who takes care of the children and feeds them.

No wonder Lin's mother praised her son-in-law highly when she returned. In her eyes, the men of the Lin family, under the influence of Lin's father and mother, already loved their wives very much. She didn't expect Cheng Jinghao to be even worse.

"Brother, do you want to go to the plateau for a look?" This time, Cheng Jinghao was going to the plateau to deliver something, thinking that Lin Ze had not been to the plateau yet.

"Is it possible?" Lin Ze's eyes were shining. He had to go back in two days. It turned out that he had no chance to go and see it this time.

"Of course, I'm going to deliver some seeds, you can come with me and keep me company."

"Okay." He nodded.

Lin Momo prepared some dry food for them and took two military coats.

"Be careful." She knew that.

"Don't worry." He reached out and touched her hair.

Sitting in the co-pilot seat of the military vehicle, Lin Ze was nervous and excited. He had heard Cheng Jinghao talk about this in the past few days, but experiencing it himself was a different experience.

"Are those drivers who deliver supplies taking this road?" He sighed as he looked at the white snow outside the window.

If it were him, he would have fallen to the bottom long ago.

"This is the road to the Corps. This is not the most dangerous section. The section ahead is."

Hearing Cheng Jinghao's words, Lin Ze was silent. He turned his head to look at him, "You seem to be very familiar with this road."

"Well, I go there several times every year." I have to clear the way for the drivers and go there several times a year if there are any urgent items to be delivered.

"Aren't you afraid?" If you fall down here, you will fall into the abyss, and your body won't be found.

"There's nothing to be afraid of. Those drivers are afraid, but they still go ahead without hesitation."

"No turning back." Lin Ze didn't feel much about this sentence until they reached the 깊 Plateau.

Cheng Jinghao first took Lin Ze to find Cao Kai who was at home and gave him the seeds.

"This batch of seeds was collected from the military zone greenhouse. My wife meant that you should try to plant some of them first and keep the others." He conveyed Lin Momo's meaning.

"Okay, we will definitely keep it properly." Cao Kai nodded solemnly.

This batch of vegetable seeds is the first attempt at greenhouse cultivation on the plateau.

Lin Ze looked at the soldiers in military uniforms in the field, and the herdsmen on the plateau were sweating and cultivating new land in the field.

"Is the yield on the plateau high?" His incoherent question attracted Cao Kai's attention.

"Who is this?"

"Oh, this is my uncle, Momo's older brother." Cheng Jinghao introduced.

"Hello, Brother Lin, my name is Cao Kai, and I'm the leader of this construction corps." Cao Kai stretched out his hand.

"Hello, excuse me, I came over to take a look."

"Did you just say the output on the plateau? It's not high. Even if we use the method of raising barley with rice, the barley we produce can't support the consumption on the plateau." Cao Kai said.

Someone over there called Cao Kai over there for something.

"You guys stay here for dinner and go down tomorrow morning. I'll go over first and come back later." Cao Kai said goodbye hurriedly and left.

"Before, we couldn't grow anything except barley. It was only after Momo suggested it that we started growing broad beans."

"All the supplies here are transported up from below." Cheng Jinghao explained to Lin Ze.

"Captain Cao is the son of our military region's political commissar Cao. He was actually transferred to our military region to serve as the regiment commander. He applied to be here on his own. These officers and soldiers of the Construction Corps all applied on their own." He looked at the soldiers in the army.

At dinner time, Cao Kai's wife served steamed buns to entertain the guests instead of the tsampa they usually ate.

"Sister-in-law, please give the steamed buns to the children." Cheng Jinghao said while looking at the steamed buns in the basin.

Several children at the door looked at the steamed buns on the table and drooled, but they just stood at the door and didn't dare to go forward.

"No, you guys eat it." Cao Kai waved his hand. In fact, there were only a few steamed buns, and he prepared them only for Cheng Jinghao and Lin Ze.

There were two bowls of dried meat on the table, but the seasoning was limited and the taste was bland.

"Come." Cheng Jinghao waved to the children and handed the bowl of steamed buns to the leading child, "Take it and share it."

The leading child looked at Cao Kai first before taking the steamed bun.

“Thank you, uncle!”

"Go." Cheng Jinghao touched his head.

“It will be fine once rice is fully planted in southern Tibet.” At least it can alleviate the food shortage on the plateau.

He handed a tsampa to Lin Ze and took one for himself.

Lin Ze took the tsampa, took a bite, and felt that it was different from what he had eaten at Cheng Jinghao's house.

Due to the lack of water on the plateau and the need to endure hunger, tsampa is made harder.

During the meal, Lin Ze spoke very little, but he was listening attentively to the conversation between Cao Kai and Cheng Jinghao, listening to them talking about life on the plateau.

At night, lying in bed, Lin Ze couldn't fall asleep.

"Brother?"

"Jinghao, tell me, how can we help these people on the plateau?"

"Brother, what we can do now is just a drop in the bucket." These problems cannot be solved overnight.

Even in later times, the dangerous roads still exist, and transportation is still full of difficulties.

“You’re right.” Only by becoming stronger can we help more people.

Lin Ze then understood why those transport drivers would embark on this difficult and dangerous transportation road without hesitation. It was nothing more than to ensure that these people on the plateau could have warm clothes and enough food.

Early the next morning, the two went down from the plateau.

The day Lin Ze returned, Cheng Jinghao sent him to the station. When leaving, Lin Ze glanced in the direction of the plateau.

When Lin Momo went to the village to check on the rice, the villagers had already started planting highland barley.

Looking at the working people sweating in their fields, she felt full of energy.

"Sister Momo." Outside, He Yu was doing farm work. When he saw her coming, he quickly ran to her.

"Sister Momo, here you go." She took out a few cinnamon oil candies from her pocket.

"Huh?" She looked at the cinnamon oil candy in He Yu's hand with some curiosity. He Yu usually bought White Rabbit milk candy or fruit candy.

"Oh, this is what Captain Xu gave me when I met him at the supply and marketing cooperative."

"Captain Xu~" Lin Momo knew she was talking about Xu Zhengqing.

"Sister Momo, what's your reaction? It's not what you think." He Yuxiao blushed.

"What do I mean?"

"Oh, I gave him a few candies before, and he said it was to pay me back. But Captain Xu was really generous. I gave him a few, and he gave me half a pound of cinnamon oil candies and half a pound of White Rabbit milk candies in return."

Lin Momo looked at her. Was this really not what she thought? Is she overthinking? Or does this girl just not think enough?