Chapter 261

Defending the People

In the blink of an eye, it was already 1990.

In the middle of summer, Chen Lina picked out the most fashionable skirt for herself and was trying it out in front of the mirror.

Suddenly, the phone rang.

"Mom, when are you coming to see me?" It was Nie Weimin's voice.

Before Chen Lina could say anything, Nie Weixing, who was changing into her skirt, said, "Brother, my mom and I will come to see you in our most beautiful skirts. But you said that the iris will bloom when we arrive. Will the iris really bloom by then?"

Nie Weimin said on the phone, "Yes, of course it will bloom. Although I have never seen the Imi flower bloom, your sister-in-law has seen it with her own eyes. She said that the Imi flower blooms once every five years. When you come, it will really bloom."

Wei Xing hung up the phone and said, "Mom, I have to go to class first. Let's go early and see my brother tomorrow when we have a day off."

Seeing that the young lady was about to run out, Chen Lina pulled her back and carefully applied sunscreen on her before saying, "Remember to hold an umbrella when you go out. You are not allowed to go out like this."

"But didn't I already put on sunscreen?"

"Girl, sun protection is an extremely delicate job. Look, I have managed to make you fair again in the past two years. You are such a beautiful girl. If you make yourself dark again, I will give you to your mother An and never want you again."

The little satellite girl has changed again compared to the past two years.

Yes, when she was seven or eight to ten years old, she was a little black girl who couldn’t be any darker.

In the past two years, Chen Lina was surprised that her daughter had grown up, so she enrolled her in a dance class. In addition to urging her to practice her figure every day, she also tried her best to discipline her strictly so that she could learn how to whiten her skin.

"Xiao Chen, what's wrong with your Wei Xing? I thought she would never get whiter after getting darker, but she has gotten whiter day by day in the past two years. Her skin is simply terrible." Sister Wang called Wei Xing over through the wall and looked at her face carefully. After looking at her, she waved her hand and said, "Hurry up and go to school. Leng Feng has been waiting for you here for half an hour."

As soon as Wei Xing left the house, she really saw Leng Feng standing outside her house on tiptoe on a 28-inch bicycle with a green schoolbag hanging around his neck.

"Why don't you come in and wait? It's so sunny outside and you look so dark." Nie Weixing said as he jumped into the back seat.

Leng Feng stood on tiptoe and said, "Come sit in the front. The seat at the back was used to tie up a pig yesterday. Don't you think it's dirty?"

The satellite knew that he was talking nonsense, so he punched him hard on the back twice. "Yesterday, I was riding your bike too, and you dared to call your sister a pig."

"Hold your umbrella tight. If you get a little darker, Aunt Chen will scold me again, saying that I took you out to play." Leng Feng said as he pedaled his bike and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Nie Weijiang came home wearing big slippers and carrying a laptop.

Deng Chun followed behind him and said, "Nie Weijiang, you can't be so careless anymore. I want to ask you, when will the code for Hero's Journey be finished? The manufacturer is almost driving me to death."

Nie Weijiang frowned and said, "My mind is a mess. Don't bother me. Go away."

Deng Chun had a bad temper outside, but in front of Nie Weijiang, he was as gentle as the God of Wealth. "Okay, let's go back to the company and continue writing code, okay? Why do you want to go home? There's not even a toilet in this house. Aren't you always the most demanding in terms of living conditions? This place is really not suitable for you, really."

"This is my home. I'm used to living here. If you're not used to it, go back to Shanghai," said Nie Weijiang.

"Mom, I'm back." he said as he entered the door.

Smelling the alluring aroma, Nie Weijiang went straight to the kitchen. "Mom, aren't we going to see my brother tomorrow? We'll be gone for several days. What are you cooking?"

Chen Lina was dicing beef. "What are you doing? Making some food for your elder brother and your sister-in-law. There's nothing in Dongfeng City. Although I haven't written to you in a few years, I know your elder brother must be crazy. Really."

"He is in the space center. As the saying goes, when you do big things you have to make sure people are well fed. I don't believe my eldest brother doesn't have enough to eat in the space center," said Nie Weijiang.

Chen Lina noticed that the computer bag he was carrying was different from the one he brought with him and asked, "Did you change to a new one?"

"This is Apple's latest computer. I wanted to test its performance, so I bought one. However, this one is for you. Mine is in the office in the mining area," said Nie Weijiang.

"Since it's mine, just complete the process and put it in the living room. After I cook the beef, I'll try it and see if it's convenient to use." Chen Lina said.

Wei Jiang put the computer in the living room and went to the kitchen door.

What Chen Lina uses is the best yak meat available in the Alimu Forest Farm. Among the yak meat, she selects the best kind of beef brisket with fat and lean parts.

First boil it and blanch it to drain the blood. After it’s cooked, cut it into thumb-sized cubes. Then, fry these small cubes in oil until they are dry, fried thoroughly, and crispy. Then take them out when they are crispy.

At this time, use the oil used to fry the yak to fry the chili peppers. Add the peeled melon seeds, peanuts, and peeled walnut kernels that you had prepared when you were not busy earlier, fry them all together until golden brown, then put the beef in and simmer.

She would make a big pot of it, which smelled delicious, and when it had cooled she could bottle it.

Suddenly turning around, Chen Lina saw Nie Weijiang standing at the kitchen door with a smile on his face.

This child was quite well-behaved when he was young, but now that he has grown up, he likes less and less to dress himself up and has become more and more casual.

Wear big slippers, big trousers, and a big vest, just wear it in whatever way makes you comfortable.

However, his biggest concern was not leaving home.

"Weijiang, an industry like the Internet still has to be developed in a big city. Didn't Deng Dongya keep calling you, saying that as long as you were willing to go to Shanghai, he would try every means to provide you with favorable policies, preferential treatment, and investment? You wouldn't really become the little mama's boy that your mother said you were, staying in the mining area because you couldn't bear to leave me, right?" Chen Lina said, turning around, taking out a hot soft steamed bun from the basket, breaking it in the middle, putting two large spoons of beef sauce in it, and handing it to Weijiang.

"Copy it, copy it, and take the meat from the bottom of the pot." Deng Chun appeared from nowhere and snatched the steamed bun with beef sauce.

Standing outside the kitchen door and taking a big bite, he said, "This is normal, Aunt Chen. I'm staying here because I can't leave you. Also, don't think Nie Weijiang is a little mama's boy. He's a bad boy. He does all kinds of things outside."

"Deng Chun." Nie Weijiang was angry.

Deng Chun smiled jokingly, "You don't know, although he is not in a relationship outside, he has a lot of girls to chat with online. It's very interesting. I recently chatted with one, and we were very passionate. She kept saying I love you every day."

At first, Chen Lina said she wanted to surf the Internet and chat, so Nie Weijiang set up a chat room, just like QQ in his previous life, and now Chen Lina is also using it.

In short, the Internet is an emerging industry, and most of the people who go online are high-end talents. They explore things online and have a wide range of interests.

Chen Lina didn't believe it. "My Weijiang wouldn't chat with girls. You mean the blue enchantress on the Internet? That's me. Deng Chun, don't get the wrong idea."

Deng Chun took a big bite of the hot steamed bun, and red oil flowed out from both sides. "Auntie Chen, do you want to do this? Are you really the Blue Demon?"

Chen Lina came out of the kitchen and let her tightly tied hair loose. "Yes, I am the Blue Enchantress, what's wrong?"

Deng Chun turned around and jumped out of the room. "Oh my god, I can't live like this anymore. Nie Weijiang, our chat room must be closed from now on. Close it. I don't want to chat online anymore."

"What's wrong with this child?" Chen Lina asked as she stuffed the steamed bun for Nie Weijiang into his hand.

Nie Weijiang smiled and whispered, "His name is Caesar the Great, the one who always makes random comments in the chat room. Don't tell me I told you that."

Today's chat rooms are still based on the DOS system. Everyone has a name, and a group of people flood the room with spam and chat nonsense.

When Chen Lina heard Caesar, she rushed out with a broom in her hand. "I'm going to kill you, you shameless Deng Chun. It turns out that you are the scoundrel who keeps talking nonsense in the chat room, saying that you want to meet me in person, and even marry me. I'm going to beat you to death."

Nie Weijiang went into the kitchen with a steamed bun in his mouth, unscrewed the lids of the cans his mother had collected one by one, and started to put the beef sauce in when he tried to cool it down.

There were more than a dozen large cans filled with beef sauce, and the lids were tightened one by one. To prevent oil leakage, they were also covered with a layer of plastic bags.

Nie Weimin and his wife, as well as Nie Weiguo, are now in the military and have been away from home for four years.

Nie Weiguo would occasionally send letters, and the only communication between the Weimin couple and Chen Lina was about these jars of beef sauce.

That's right, their 714 project team couldn't go home because of confidentiality. But they could receive the items and letters sent to them. Of course, they could write letters occasionally, but they couldn't have a deeper communication. At most, they could just report that they were safe and in good health.

When I first arrived in Dongfeng City, every time Nie Weimin wrote to me, he was complaining that he couldn't eat well and that he had to eat steamed buns every day, but what he hated most was steamed buns.

Chen Lina was very anxious after hearing this.

After all, among all the children in the family, none is as picky as Nie Weimin.

She couldn't change the food at the space center, so she came up with a solution. She fried beef cubes with chili peppers for him and then mailed the ingredients to the space center so that the child could have some flavor when eating steamed buns.

The first time I sent Beef Sauce, I received a reply from Nie Weimin three months later. The letter only contained one sentence: "Mom, I think I should also write a song about the love between me and Beef Sauce that will last forever."

This has been going on for four or five years. Chen Lina Lei is unshakable and has to send sauce to Nie Weimin once every three months.

Sometimes it was native beef, sometimes yak, and sometimes chicken sauce, but Nie Weimin's favorite was yak beef sauce. Yak beef was 20 yuan per pound, while ordinary beef was only 10 yuan per pound. It can be said that he had a taste for expensive things, which he thought was good.

After four years of difficult development, it is said that the manned space program has made a breakthrough recently, and finally, they can leave.

Look, Chen Lina has fried a big pot of beef sauce and is preparing to go see him.

When Weixing comes back from school, the whole family can take a plane together.

The reason why Nie Weimin and his team took this break was actually for work integration. Their entire 714 engineering team had to be merged into another large project team, and the rest time was only three days.

Right now, the guards are probably still in the desert. In order for the whole family to see each other, Chen Lina led the children, carrying large and small bags, to Uru to take a military transport plane directly to Dongfeng City, and then went straight to Dongfeng City.

As for Nie Gong, Nie Bozhao, he was actually in Daqing a while ago, and there has been no news of him in the past two days. Chen Lina guessed that he was probably also in Dongfeng City.

After all, the organization arranged for the whole family to meet, it was impossible to exclude the worker alone.

"Nie Gong, Nie Gong, can you walk slower?" Kobayashi from the Mechanical Engineering Department was chasing after him and shouting. The young mechanical engineer Nie Weimin was jogging all the way and he couldn't run over him.

Panting, Xiao Lin said, "What's wrong with you? You usually take your time to report to the headquarters, but today you ran fast. What's going on? Did your mother send you some beef stew again?"

Nie Weimin pushed open the door of the logistics department and called out "Xiaohong."

"Hey." A woman responded and stood up. "Hey, who is this? Which project team are you from? What do you want me to do?"

A short female comrade with a very big face was looking at Nie Weimin from behind the desk.

Nie Weimin waved his hands, looking unhappy. "Sorry, I didn't call you."

"Are you sick?" Xiao Hong clearly felt that this young and handsome engineer had a sense of disrespect towards her.

The other woman chuckled and said, "Maybe he is looking for someone else."

At this moment, someone outside shouted, "Nie Weimin, Nie Weimin, Comrade Wang Sitian from the Communications Group is looking for you. Where are you, Nie Weimin?"

"Who is Wang Sitian? Wang Sitian from the Communications Team. Where did she come from? What are you calling me for?"

As Nie Weimin spoke, he pushed open the door and walked out of the logistics team. As soon as he reached the corridor, he saw a female officer wearing a pea green shirt, tie, and a one-piece skirt, which was a type of 88 military uniform, standing in the corridor with a group of young people who were also wearing military uniforms.

She was about twenty-five or twenty-six years old, with big eyes, dark skin, and a green wide-brimmed hat on her head. Her smile was as red as a red apple.

"Wang Sitian, our leader, Nie Weimin, I heard that you are her relative. You don't even know her, do you?" said a young man behind Liu Xiaohong.

Nie Weimin was really confused just now. Of course, just think about it, he was anxious like a wolf because he hadn't seen his family for four years. He only remembered that the leader just said that all the people in the communication group had to go to the logistics department, so he followed in a hurry. Only then did he remember that his family was called Wang Sitian, and he was the one who changed the name.

He pulled Liu Xiaohong up and turned and ran.

"Hey, be careful about the impact, Team Leader Wang. We haven't received our labor insurance yet. How can you just run away like this?" The guys from the communications team shouted from behind.

Nie Weimin pulled Liu Xiaohong to the corner of the stairs and cupped her face with his hands. "My dear, why didn't you tell me that the communications team and the mechanical team work separately?"

"Let's not merge now, we can merge tomorrow." said Liu Xiaohong.

Nie Weimin hadn't seen his family for four years. Of course, he had lost his chauvinism in front of Liu Xiaohong. He put his head on her neck and said, "I'm tired of the smell of engine oil. Come on, come on, let me smell your body."

Liu Xiaohong untied his tie, unbuttoned his shirt, and whispered, "Can you please not be like this? We have a day off tonight and can stay out for three days, three days."

"No, I want to smell it now." Nie Weimin said, and continued to drill into Liu Xiaohong's neck. "Oh my god, my family smells so good."

At the corner of the stairs, two leaders happened to be coming down from the stairs and were chatting.

"The new gas generator was developed under the leadership of Nie Wei-min. After more than a hundred experiments, it has a 100% success rate. The data collection sensor was also developed under the leadership of Nie Wei-min. With the data collection sensor, our engineers can test rockets inside the bunker, which will greatly reduce the damage caused to engineers by radiation and explosion. The engine's turbine pump was also developed under the leadership of Nie Wei-min. This thing could have been purchased from abroad, but Nie insisted on making a new one himself. I can only say that our mechanical engineers are young, have ideals, are willing to explore and work hard..."

"Dad... Dad..." Liu Xiaohong was pushing Nie Weimin, who was chewing her like a pig's trotter, into the dark, when she suddenly saw Nie Gong and pushed Nie Weimin away.

Nie Weimin also heard someone talking. Okay, they were talking about him, but what did that have to do with him?

Anyway, for four years, he worked all night almost every day. In order to see his family earlier, he finished five years' work one year in advance.

"You are my family, I am going to kiss you now, that's it, no one can interfere with me." Nie Weimin said arrogantly, "Leader, now is the time to stay away from inappropriate things, I'm sorry."

"Our dad." Liu Xiaohong said.

"What, Dad?" Nie Weimin was still hugging Liu Xiaohong. He turned around, stood up straight, and saluted, "Dad."

Well, the person walking with the political commissar was really his father, Nie Bozhao.