Scientific Travel

Having finally been rescued from the crowd, Gou Dan quickly stood next to Deng Yin.

It's too dangerous here; he has to protect his host!

Wei Wujiang didn't know why Deng Yin was here, but considering that Mei Shengke had returned, it wasn't hard to understand why she was here.

It must have been brought back by Mei Shengke.

Didn't she go to gather supplies? Why did she bring Deng Yin back with her?

Upon seeing Wei Wujiang arrive, Mei Shengke, mindful of the unpleasantness between Wei Wujiang and Deng Yin, said to Deng Yin, "You two go to my room and sit for a while. I'll make you some tea."

Right next door, Mei Shengke personally took Deng Yin there, and his attitude was undeniably good.

After settling Deng Yin in, Mei Shengke went out and dragged Wei Wujiang, who was waiting at the door, away with him.

After everyone left, Gou Dan said to Deng Yin, "She's a really nice person. Even though she wasn't getting enough to eat, she still thought of pouring you tea."

Deng Yin glanced at Gou Dan in surprise.

The system's attitude changed so quickly. It was asking her to save Mei Shengke a moment ago, but now it's starting to treat her sarcastically.

He's probably holding a grudge because he just lost face.

Sigh, the system's heart is broken.

It's so small...

After the system became Dog Egg, it lost the ability to listen to her inner thoughts, otherwise he would definitely have argued against it!

Their systems never use any of those convoluted methods; they're nothing like humans!

Praise is praise, and criticism is criticism!

......

Mei Shengke led Wei Wujiang to his room. As a general and his deputy, they were the only two people who could stay in a single room at the moment.

Seeing that Wei Wujiang was still in a daze, Mei Shengke patted him on the shoulder.

"Snap out of it. When you see Deng Yin later, you can't stare at her like you did just now, okay? It's very impolite."

Wei Wujiang looked at Mei Shengke and asked, "Why did you bring her here?"

Mei Shengke briefly recounted what had happened in the past few days, making a few minor edits, including removing the part about her fainting.

It was only said that Deng Yin saw that she had caught a cold, so he took her back and took care of her for a few days.

While speaking, Mei Shengke brewed some tea.

I just agreed to make tea for someone, so it wouldn't be good to come back empty-handed.

The tea leaves were all obtained from Wei Wujiang. Mei Shengke doesn't like tea, and since this is a military camp and there are no guests coming, she doesn't have any tea leaves.

Wei Wujiang doesn't like drinking tea either. The tea he has has been sitting for a long time, and most of it was given to him as gifts.

Mei Shengke doesn't understand tea and can't distinguish between good and bad, but he can tell the difference between superior and inferior tea.

Every time Wei Wujiang receives tea, she puts it in the cabinet, and the ones on top are the freshest.

After Wei Wujiang had finished processing Mei Shengke's words, she said in a low voice, "She is indeed a good person and wouldn't stand by and watch someone die." The first time they met was also because Deng Yin saved him.

It was only later that he made a mistake, which strained the relationship...

The water boiled, and Mei Shengke went to the cabinet to find tea leaves. As he searched, he said, "It's good that you know. When you see her later, think carefully about what you should and shouldn't say."

Wei Wujiang remained silent until Mei Shengke finished brewing the tea, without uttering a single word.

......

When Mei Shengke returned with the tea, he discovered that Deng Yin was missing.

The person in the next room saw Mei Shengke and took the initiative to answer, "Our distinguished guests just said they wanted to see where we store our grain, so Xiaoying took the two of them there."

"I understand." Mei Shengke handed the teacup to Wei Wujiang, asking him to take it to her room while she went to check on things.

......

Xiaoying noticed that General Mei's attitude towards Deng Yin was unusual, so she treated her with utmost care. As they walked, she explained, "We used to grow vegetables on the fifth floor, but unfortunately the harvest was poor; the produce was small and wilted."

Xiaoying is a real chatterbox; she talked the whole way. Deng Yin is the same; she would say one thing and Deng Yin would reply immediately, never letting a word fall to the ground.

"Yes, without the sun, it's naturally difficult to get a good harvest of vegetables."

Xiaoying's eyes lit up, and she asked Deng Yin, "Did you farm before?"

Deng Yin stood tall and said confidently, "More than that, I not only farmed before, I still farm now."

“My family used to be farmers, and I was farming before I joined the army.” Xiaoying sighed and said regretfully, “I planted a small plot of vegetable garden on the fifth floor, but it doesn’t grow as well as the ones I planted back home.”

After they finished speaking, the group went up to the fifth floor. Xiaoying pointed to the row of cabbages on the far side and said, "That's it. The cabbages I grow back home are at least twice as big as these."

Looking at the vegetable patch, Deng Yin could only say that it had great potential for growth.

Even the largest cabbage was not half the size of the smallest cabbage that Deng introduced.

Seeds are one aspect, while soil, sunlight, and water resources are another.

The batch of local seeds that Deng Yin planted later, even though they were only half-grown, were already bigger than all the cabbages here.

“Growing crops in this environment will definitely not yield any results. Why don’t you buy crops from the surrounding cities?”

Deng Yin had wanted to ask this question for a long time. Military camps like this must have military funds, and those funds shouldn't be enough to feed the people here.

Even in the worst-case scenario, the emperor would definitely distribute provisions. How come everyone here is so thin that their cheeks are sunken?

Xiao Ying looked somber and explained, "You've come from a big city, haven't you? The surrounding cities don't even have enough food to feed their people, so where would they get any extra to sell to us?"

Not right.

Nine out of ten something is wrong.

Deng Yin had recently visited Xiye City. Although he hadn't seen the granary there, given that Zou Guangyu could even raise pigs, there was no question of food shortages.

Deng Yin only went to Building No. 2 West, and only met the wealthiest people there. He didn't know that the people in the other buildings weren't actually doing very well either.

In particular, people actually starved to death in the three buildings where the uprising took place.

To fit the occasion, Xiaoying's stomach growled at that moment.

She smiled sheepishly, trying to suppress the rumbling in her stomach by speaking.

"Would you like to go and take a look at the granary? It's quite empty there, with only a few bags of rice left."

Seeing Xiaoying's attempt to cover up her misunderstanding, Deng Yin was unusually at a loss for words.

She took out a pancake from her spatial storage and handed it to Xiaoying.

When people are hungry to a certain extent, their brains stop working properly, like Xiaoying is doing now.

Although she didn't see where the cake came from, she assumed she hadn't noticed and didn't realize that Deng Yin had conjured it out of thin air.

Xiaoying quickly waved her hand and refused, saying, "I can't accept it. If General Mei finds out that we're accepting things in private, I'll be subject to military law."

Xiaoying suddenly came to life; she didn't seem like a soldier, but rather a young woman in her twenties who was afraid of being beaten.

"Alright." Deng Yin didn't insist. Anyway, she came here so that everyone could have enough to eat. It didn't matter if it was sooner or later.