"Okay, I understand." Chen Feng nodded, tilted his head back, and drank the wine in one gulp.
That night, Chen Feng had a video call with Xia Yingying in his tent.
"What are you doing? Did you miss me?" Chen Feng asked, leaning against the blanket.
"What's the use of missing you? You're not coming back. You're now contributing to the country, how could we dare to bother you?" Xia Yingying said softly, her eyes full of longing.
"Oh dear, this is so sarcastic. I'm just a man in the martial world, I have no choice but to follow the crowd," Chen Feng laughed.
"Yes, I have no choice. What can I say? I have important national affairs to attend to, and I have beautiful women by my side. I'm so happy that I don't want to leave home."
Do you remember you had a wife back in your hometown?
Xia Yingying chuckled and said.
"Stop messing around. You're so happy you don't want to leave. If I had a choice, I wouldn't stay here."
“We’re about to move to another location; this place is finished,” Chen Feng said.
"Have you found a mine in the new location?" Xia Yingying asked.
"We found them, quite a few, but not enough for the country. We need to keep searching," Chen Feng said with a sigh.
To be honest, he thought finding one mine would be enough, especially since this mine was so big.
Unexpectedly, although the mine was large, it was still far from enough for a country.
I still have to keep searching for a few more, even if it's tough.
"Others have been searching for almost two years and haven't found any rare earth mines, but you found some in such a short time. That's quite impressive," Xia Yingying praised.
"Of course! You don't even know who your husband is. It's a good thing they didn't contact me before. If they had contacted me earlier, they would have found him long ago," Chen Feng boasted.
"Tsk tsk, you're getting all worked up over me. If you're so capable, why don't you keep searching for a few more mines and come back quickly?" Xia Yingying smiled.
At this point, Chen Feng immediately deflated.
"The place is too big, it's not easy to find. You have no idea how many times I walk around the mine every day, my legs are so thin from all that walking," Chen Feng complained.
"It's okay if your legs are thin, as long as some of your legs aren't thin," Xia Yingying said, covering her mouth and laughing.
Chen Feng: "???"
"You wait until I get back, I'll show you how thin my legs are," Chen Feng said viciously.
"Tsk, I'm not afraid of you. I wonder who chickened out last time," Xia Yingying said fearlessly.
"That was an accident, just like you've never backed down," Chen Feng retorted.
"Bullshit, who keeps going like that? I had trouble getting out of bed the next day, how could I not be scared?" Xia Yingying snorted.
"What can I do if I'm healthy?" Chen Feng said proudly, raising his head.
"Really? I bet you're only good for the first three days, then you wilted on the fourth day, humph." Xia Yingying rolled her eyes.
"That's a cannon. You can't keep firing it all the time. You have to change the ammunition and maintain it. How can you be like this, never letting anyone rest?"
"Do you know that's called wasting things?"
To be honest, if Chen Feng hadn't drawn the "strong and robust" entry, he might not have been able to control Xia Yingying.
"It either works or it doesn't. What do you mean by wasting things?" Xia Yingying scoffed.
As the two were talking, Xia Yingying heard shouts coming from downstairs.
"Yingying, I steamed some red bean buns, do you want some?" Liu Ping's voice came from inside.
"Eat, I'll go down in a bit," Xia Yingying called out, standing up from her seat.
"You can look for the mine yourself, I'm going to eat some steamed buns, I'll make you drool!" Xia Yingying made a face at him.
"Don't forget to leave some for me, don't eat it all," Chen Feng said with a smile.
"I won't leave any for you, not a single one. I'll eat them all," Xia Yingying said as she walked downstairs.
"Hehe, mwah, you go eat first then," Chen Feng said, giving her a kiss.
"Mmm, mwah." Xia Yingying kissed the screen before the two hung up the phone.
"Is that Xiaofeng?" Liu Ping asked upon hearing Xia Yingying's voice.
"Yes, they just found the mine and are resting now," Xia Yingying said, tying her hair up and picking up her chopsticks.
"When are you coming back? You've already found the mine, what are you still doing there?" Liu Ping asked, puzzled.
“Not enough,” he said. “Although the output is large, it is still not enough compared to the whole country.”
"They're moving to a different place soon," Xia Yingying said, pouring some sugar into the bowl.
"Oh, I see. How long would it take to find enough minerals for a country? Wouldn't we never be able to come back and end up selling them to the exploration team?" Liu Ping sighed.
"No, what if they get lucky and find a huge mine? Then they'll come back."
"And even if we take a step back and assume that they never find any rare earth mines, Chen Feng won't search for them his whole life."
"I estimate I'll be back in a few months at most, and I'll rest for a while before going out again."
“He doesn’t seem like the kind of person who would dedicate his life to a cause,” Xia Yingying said with a smile.
"That's true." Liu Ping nodded.
How could she not know her own son? Chen Feng's personality was exactly as Xia Yingying described.
He's out there making money, and he comes back every now and then, not to mention anything else.
Chen Feng hung up the phone, a hint of melancholy in his eyes.
How could he not miss Xia Yingying? It's just that he really can't leave right now.
Chen Feng has set a timeframe for himself: if he can't find another rare earth mine within three months, he'll go home and stay for a few months before making any further decisions.
I can't just keep working as an exploration team if I can't find rare earth mines, so I sold them to you.
This continued until the next morning, when Chen Feng woke up to find Qi Minglin and the others gathered together for a meeting.
"Where to go next? I think this place is nice."
“Rare earth deposits have been discovered here before, but the output was too low. Now I think it might be that our detection was inadequate, just like the mine in Pingcun City.”
"I want to go back and take a good look. Maybe I'll find something useful," Qi Minglin said to everyone.
“I don’t think it’s a good idea. Although rare earth elements were found in that mine before, we’ve searched carefully for so long and haven’t found any. I don’t think the chances of finding them again are very slim.”
"After all, it's impossible for every place to be like Hiramura City."
“I still want to go to the Kari Mountains. Now that this rare earth mine has been found, we have time, so we should definitely choose a place with a high probability of success.”
“I have studied the Kari Mountains for a long time, and I believe there is a very high probability that there are rare earth deposits there,” Zhang Richeng said confidently, pointing to the map.
"Um…"
Everyone was pondering Zhang Richeng's suggestion, and it seemed that, at this moment, it was indeed the best advice.
"That works too. How should we choose?" someone said, looking at Qi Minglin.
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