Old Yuan really didn't dare.

After Gu Guanhai was sent home to be with his wife, he didn't dare go back to Baishan Town.

There's nothing we can do about that.

He was really afraid of being beaten again.

Since they were both in Beijing, Xuancao knew that Lao Yuan had been beaten by her own father, Gu. There was nothing she could do; after her godmother left, her godfather had made her his only support and would talk to her about everything.

She even visited Lao Yuan once after he was beaten.

but.

This doesn't stop her from disliking Lao Yuan.

"How cowardly!"

She rolled her eyes at Lao Yuan and said, "Are you really going to abandon Aunt Mei just because you're afraid of getting beaten up?"

Winter is just around the corner.

Meryl Streep's due date is in the first month of the lunar calendar after the new year.

Although Xuancao is still a young woman, she feels uneasy when she thinks about getting married and pregnant in the future, only to have her husband ignore her.

Upon hearing this, Old Yuan immediately glared.

"Don't you have your parents?"

He said with an air of self-righteousness, "With your parents around, what could possibly happen to Mei Fang?"

Upon hearing this, Xuancao chuckled.

She gave a cold laugh and couldn't be bothered to pay him any more attention.

Ji Zichen's disappearance has had a significant impact on Xuan Cao.

She thought...

She had always believed that her relationship with Ji Zichen was merely a desperate act of exploitation while she was imprisoned, but now she realized...

It doesn't seem so.

During her time at the foreign affairs office, Ji Zichen sent her many letters.

She read them all, but was too lazy to reply.

She would occasionally reply to one letter, and then she would receive more letters from him, along with gifts and border specialties. She thought...

She thought that her relationship with Ji Zichen was over.

Liao Shengjun's relationship was as indifferent as water, but far less intimate than that of a lover.

But.

Knowing that Ji Zichen had gone missing during the mission, Xuan Cao's heart was still in turmoil.

"Don't we have a location system?"

"I saw in the documents that the United States started a positioning system project as early as last year. Why don't we have one?"

"Ji Zichen has gone missing! He went missing during a mission! If we also had a location tracking system, we could know his location immediately and ascertain his safety?"

It was Wang Qingshu who conveyed this message to Xuancao.

Upon hearing the news, Xuan Cao bombarded Wang Qingshu with a series of questions.

Wang Qingshu: "?!!"

He looked ashamed when asked the question.

His wife, Qing Ningcui, is the most authoritative researcher at the Xia Academy of Sciences. He knows a little about technological development, but the positioning system…

"Daughter, you know we are far behind the West."

He sighed and said to Xuan Cao, "We are all very sorry about Ji Zichen's disappearance, but as for the positioning system you mentioned, even the United States is just starting out. We haven't even touched the threshold, how could we possibly have it..."

Upon hearing this, Xuancao immediately replied, "If you don't have one, then go research it! Go invent it!"

"Is a global positioning system based on satellites really that difficult to develop?"

"Is it difficult to achieve this function once we successfully launch the satellite and apply the positioning template to it?"

Wang Qingshu: "..."

He looked at her with a complicated expression.

It's a good thing that my goddaughter, who's only nineteen, can already comment on these high-tech gadgets, but at the same time...

That's not a good thing either.

"You make it sound so easy."

He sighed and said, "But in reality, it's not that easy. It involves massive scientific and technological support, and we are facing the predicament of external blockade in our technological development. We can't even build a slightly better engine..."

These words were spoken.

Daylily: ...

They fell silent immediately.

This is the current predicament of their Xia Kingdom.