I Got Rich in Period Fiction
Chapter 267: The Space Device May Have a Service Life

Chapter 267: Chapter 267: The Space Device May Have a Service Life

He Xiuyu chuckled softly, no longer wishing to continue the conversation, and briskly turned off the lights in the study, taking his fragrant and gentle wife back to the bedroom.

A little separation is better than a new marriage, after all.

Naturally, it was a blissful evening with a perfect moon...

...

As it turned out, Lu Ye wasn’t a fool, but a young man adept at seizing opportunities.

After He Xiuyu had made that call to him, Lu Ye had hurried over like the wind, and by that time, the entire team had already approved the greening system.

However, He Xiuyu couldn’t focus all his energy here. What he did next was also what he and Qiao Qingyu had discussed.

Old Xie was still holding the position of logistics director. He was also the farm manager, so there was a significant change in personnel at Tenghai Research Base during this meeting.

Comrade Zhou Xiaoqin (Sister-in-law Li) was originally a small team leader, but because of her hard work and excellent performance, she was appointed as the deputy director of the farm.

Meanwhile, Director Xie still held the position of farm manager.

But Old Xie was no longer in charge of logistics. He was officially appointed as the director of the Tenghai Greening Ecology Center.

This position was two levels higher than the logistics director, and his salary had increased by two levels as well.

Old Wei still focused on administration.

The new logistics director was a subordinate of Old Xie; the two of them worked well together, and since the logistics department required someone diligent, earnest, and hardworking, he was the right person for the job.

This new director was also known by Qiao Qingyu.

He was a very serious person, and everyone called him Old Zhang.

As for Qiao Qingyu, He Xiuyu was not planning to let her formally join the staff of Tenghai Research Base just yet.

Once she entered that system, Qiao Qingyu would be restricted in what she wanted to do, and he planned to wait until the timing was right to spin off her Original Seed Laboratory separately.

But not now. He had at least to wait until Qiao Qingyu graduated from college.

Just thinking about it made He Xiuyu somewhat anxious, wishing that Qiao Qingyu would graduate from college now. Of course, it wasn’t because he was in a rush to separate the Original Seed Laboratory.

He wanted to have a child that belonged to both of them.

He really, really did, and he had even thought of a name.

Whether it was a boy or a girl, the name would be He Qiao.

Hmm, it’s just that he didn’t know if Qiao Qingyu would agree.

Although the name was meaningful, it was too simple.

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A year passed, and Lu Ye grew another year older, maturing and becoming much steadier.

No one knew what he had been through; last year, one could read his thoughts in his eyes, but now one couldn’t see anything at all.

Perhaps this was the price of growing up.

Lu Ye happily took a greening ecology system back to Xichuan to report to his old leader.

Naturally, the old leader thought to entrust the task to him.

A new entity was established, called the Xichuan Greening Ecology Headquarters. No one knew why it was called ’headquarters,’ probably because they didn’t want to be overshadowed by Tenghai.

Anyway, Lu Ye became the deputy director of this headquarters—of the branch that is.

He was too young and inexperienced to take on the major responsibility; it would upset those comrades who had toiled hard for half their lives.

Lu Ye didn’t care.

Originally, he came to Xichuan to gain experience, but now he really wanted to accomplish something.

Lu Ye brought the seeds he had acquired to Tenghai Research Base, a total of five truckloads, all handed over to Qiao Qingyu, to be settled in a professional manner, with a payment of three thousand yuan for seed cultivation fees.

Previously, He Xiuyu had already grown the seeds he brought in using the Space Device, and this time Qiao Qingyu wasn’t alone; she didn’t need to do anything, as He Xiuyu had taken care of everything.

He Xiuyu handed over the successfully cultivated seeds to Professor Feng, instructing them to grow saplings in the base’s experimental fields.

Saplings cultivated with local soil were more likely to survive.

As for the over twenty thousand pounds of seeds from Lu Ye, He Xiuyu used the evening hours to work with Qiao Qingyu, cultivating them using the Space Laboratory.

For their initial cultivation, they had to utilize the equipment of the Space Laboratory.

During the process, He Xiuyu discovered an unexplained energy fluctuation during the third stage of seed cultivation.

He Xiuyu walked around the space.

He didn’t believe that this space could connect to other higher-level spaces, or that some advanced life form was controlling this laboratory.

He was more inclined to think it was the intrinsic energy of the Space Device itself.

If so, the Space Device might have a lifespan.

That is, after exhausting its energy, the space might disappear.

But he had no idea what kind of energy was sustaining the Space Device.

In fact, He Xiuyu was eager to immediately research the energy and composition of the Space Device.

If it could be deciphered, it would presumably propel the entire human society straight into the space age.

Unfortunately, he had no time for that.

Just like that, half a month really did pass by in the blink of an eye.

One day, Qiao Qingyu planned to visit her land to check on the crops—the corn, wheat, and barley had all sprouted.

It had rained the day before, so there should be plenty of soft soil in the grassland. Qiao Qingyu didn’t bring Rongrong with her; she took a backpack and placed it inside the tractor’s cabin, then started her own vehicle and headed out of the base courtyard.

Once she left the courtyard and traveled a bit further, there was a road, not very straight, leading to Xiaxi Commune and also to Xichuan.

Then, Qiao Qingyu saw a few people on the roadside and a familiar van parked there.

Qiao Qingyu didn’t even slow down because she saw Wu Xiujie.

She had a bad feeling that this old man Wu Xiujie was definitely there to find her.

Qiao Qingyu drove straight ahead, not wanting to deal with the old man, only to find that Wu Peng hastily stood up and started waving his hands.

Qiao Qingyu had no choice but to stop the tractor.

They weren’t the type to fake accidents; she simply didn’t want to interact with them.

Without even leaving the tractor’s cabin, Qiao Qingyu opened the door and asked Wu Peng, "Mr. Wu, is there something you need?"

Wu Peng smiled and pointed to the side of the road.

Following the gesture, Qiao Qingyu saw Wu Xiujie sitting by the road like an old farmer, wearing a straw hat, holding a fan, and fanning himself intermittently.

"Comrade Qiao Qingyu, my father wants to speak with you about something."

Wu Peng had complicated feelings toward Qiao Qingyu; every time he saw her, he was reminded of little aunt.

Speaking of which, little aunt was a good person.

She was the only good person in the entire Wu Family.

She never looked down on him for being the son of a concubine, taught him to read, and even gave him pastries to eat. Regrettably, the concubine always said she had ill-intentions, and therefore, was adamant that he should not go to little aunt’s place.

In the Wu Family, especially as a son to Wu Xiujie, one must learn to be ruthless and inhumane to survive.

He was not a good person; on the contrary, he was a villain with hands stained with blood.

In the Wu Family, good people never received a good reward.

He sighed and looked away.