Qian Duoduo traversed the dense forest and arrived at the lake in half a day. She took out four water bottles from her backpack and collected one bottle each at a distance of 100 meters, 200 meters, and 300 meters from the first water collection point. She put the last bottle into her backpack, which suddenly became quite heavy.
Bai Yu, perched on Qian Duoduo's shoulder, refused to step into the mud. Qian Duoduo laughed and said, "Bai Yu, I didn't expect you to be such a germaphobe!"
Bai Yu: "Meow! I'm just a clean freak. My fur is so white, it's too much trouble to wash it if it gets dirty. Meow~ [○?｀Д′? ○]"
Qian Duoduo walked down the mountain with a smile. The way down was much faster than the way up, because Bai Yu had memorized the path and pointed Qian Duoduo down the mountain. Before long, she reached the foot of the mountain. She carried her bag to Professor Yuan's place, where some simple experimental equipment that Qian Duoduo and the others had brought were located.
After testing, Qian Duoduo was surprised to find that the water quality in the freshwater lake was still freshwater after the typhoon. Holding the data, she pondered for a moment and asked softly, "Bai Yu, do you know how this happened?"
Bai Yu was scratching Qian Duoduo's shoelaces when he suddenly heard Qian Duoduo's question and was taken aback: "Meow! What did you ask?"
Qian Duoduo asked, "What's the deal with the lake on the mountaintop?"
Bai Yu was taken aback: "That lake, there is a purification stone in it. It was originally meant to purify me, but over the years, the purification stone was moved from the top of the stone chamber to the top due to changes in the mountain. That is why I can still maintain my current state."
Qian Duoduo was taken aback, then bent down and rubbed Bai Yu's head.
Bai Yu felt comfortable being rubbed and purred softly. Suddenly, it jumped onto Qian Duoduo's lap and said, "Meow! Someone's coming! Meow~ Σ(⊙▽⊙"a)
Qian Duoduo immediately put Bai Yu into the farm. Professor Yuan walked in and saw Qian Duoduo looking at a piece of paper. He asked, "What are you looking at?"
Qian Duoduo said, "Teacher, these are four water samples I obtained from the lake at the top of the mountain. The water quality is fresh water, which can be used for irrigation."
Upon hearing this, Professor Yuan immediately took the data from Qian Duoduo and began to read it. After reading to the end, he said happily, "Great, that's wonderful! In that case, they can divert an irrigation canal, and then we'll have rice to eat on Qiannan Island."
Qian Duoduo nodded and said, "That way, Qiannan Island can grow its own rice, as long as it avoids the typhoon season."
Professor Yuan nodded and said, "Yes, this is a great step forward for our research and study. Actually, what I really want to do is to grow rice on saline-alkali land."
Qian Duoduo smiled as she looked at Professor Yuan's excited expression. "This idea is good, but it's really difficult!" Back then, even the father of hybrid rice, Grandpa Yuan, only officially started developing it in the early 21st century. It was only more than a decade later that it was planted on a large scale and achieved great results.
Professor Yuan's current happiness and excitement are simply because he wants the island's residents and soldiers to have food to eat. Perhaps this is a unique emotion of people in this era!
Two months after the typhoon season, the sky over the former South Island was still blue. The houses on the island were also rebuilt and were more sturdy. With the support of Qian Feng, Professor Yuan led the island's residents and soldiers to reclaim land, dig water channels, and divert lake water from the mountain. They also built a small dam at the top of the mountain to control the lake water.
In the midst of all this busyness, a stranger boarded the ferry to the former South Island.
Looking at the blue sea, Lu Yuan thought about Qian Duoduo, that heartless woman. She came and never came back. Didn't she miss him at all? Even if she wrote letters, well, that was really a case of writing one now and then, as if she were just playing around.
As Lu Yuan disembarked from the ferry, he saw two little boys selling fish. Lu Yuan walked up to them and asked, "Hello, children, could you tell me which way is the military camp on Qiannan Island?"
Yu Hongze looked at Lu Yuan, whose speech sounded somewhat like Qian Duoduo's, and asked, "You're from the inland, right?"
Lu Yuan smiled and asked curiously, "How did you know?"
Little Fish raised her hand and said from the side, "I know, because you talk just like Sister Duo Duo!"
Lu Yuan laughed: "You're really smart. Qian Duoduo and I are from the same place. I came here to find her."
Yu Hongze looked at Lu Yuan and asked, "What do you want with my sister Duoduo?"
Lu Yuan smiled and said, "I'm her boyfriend. We haven't seen each other in a long time. I came here to see her."
Yu Hongze shook his head and said, "I haven't heard Sister Duoduo say that she has a boyfriend. You're not trying to lie to us, are you?"
Lu Yuan chuckled and said, "What do you have that I would lie to? Besides, if I lied to you, I'd be exposed as soon as I met your sister Duoduo."
The children looked at each other and nodded. That makes sense!
Yu Hongze said to the people next to him, "I'll take him to Commander Qian. Commander Qian can tell at a glance whether he's Sister Duoduo's boyfriend or not."
Everyone else nodded.
Lu Yuan smiled as he looked at these little kids, and he was pleased that they were so wary of him.
Qian Feng looked at the young man Yu Hongze had brought over. He said that the young man was Qian Duoduo's girlfriend. This identity made it really hard for Qian Feng, as the older brother, to like him. Seeing Lu Yuan's smiling face, he told Yu Hongze to go home and then took Lu Yuan to the military compound.
When Qian Duoduo saw Lu Yuan, she was surprised. She really didn't expect that he would come by himself.
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