Chapter 719: Xie Yuanyuan's Confusion

He could only keep a close watch step by step; now that Guo Ge had returned to Beijing, all the other Industrial Economics in Pengcheng had already been put into operation, and only this place required a great deal of mental effort.

And at this moment in Beijing...

Li Xiue's belly was already very large, and Zhao Qiu Hua was also pregnant; Xie Yuanyuan was like a little follower, finishing taking care of one and then starting to take care of the other.

"When is Nan Nan coming back? I haven't seen her for a long time." Xie Yuanyuan finally sat down, and while taking a sip of water, she couldn't help but complain.

Li Xiue smiled, "Didn't you see her on TV a few days ago?"

Upon hearing this, Zhao Qiu Hua also couldn't help but smile and shake her head, "People, having too much ability isn't necessarily a good thing; it's hard for friends and family to even meet, and we can only see her on TV."

"I actually quite miss the time in Quanshui Village now; thinking back on it later, those days were carefree, and the things we worried about were just trivial matters."

She stroked her belly, no longer having the posture of a strong career woman from before; whenever she felt the fetus move, her expression would soften.

"Who's to say it isn't! The life we have now, we wouldn't have dared to imagine back then; the life we had before, now that I think about it, I cherish it all the more." Li Xiue shook her head.

Over there, Xie Yuanyuan peeled an apple, cut it in half, and gave each of them one half.

"I miss Dabao and Xiaobao." She pouted her lips, her whole person still in the state of a young girl.

"By the way, hasn't Xie Shuyang returned yet?" Li Xiue asked.

Xie Yuanyuan's expression paused, then she shook her head, "No."

They had lost contact for a month; for this past month, she couldn't find him by phone, and there was no reply to her letters; it was as if the person had vanished from this world.

His family couldn't find him, and she couldn't find him either.

Li Xiue and Zhao Qiu Hua exchanged a glance, "Nan Nan said that project research is very exhausting, and our country's project research is top secret; they aren't allowed to contact the outside world."

"That's right, Yuanyuan, otherwise, after you two get married, why don't you follow the project?" Li Xiue reminded her.

The secret Project Department is the same as the Military Department; one can follow the military in the Military Department, and in places with special extreme conditions, there isn't even a rank requirement to follow the military, because the soldiers are stationed in extreme conditions and have it very hard; the vacation they save up in a year might not even be enough to go home once, so the state relaxed the requirements for following the military.

And the Project Department can also be followed; there are special family quarters.

But if you follow the project, you also become classified personnel, and you cannot leave the Project Department until the project is completed.

This is to protect the project personnel, and also to protect the project being researched.

Xie Yuanyuan shook her head, "He has his business, and I have my own business; not to mention that this factory belongs to Nan Nan, and I need to supervise the safety and food projects."

"It is precisely because I love this line of work that I wouldn't leave it for him."

"He wouldn't leave the Project Department he loves for me either; we... are actually doing quite well as we are now."

She had her own pursuits and things she loved; she couldn't lose her own passion for the sake of one person.

She thought, he wouldn't either!

It was just that she was used to being pampered; whenever she hit a difficult situation or had something happy to share, she would find that she couldn't find him by her side.

This sense of disparity sometimes made her feel lost, and also prone to anxiety.

Li Xiue gently patted her back, wanting to offer some comfort, but she found that any words were so monotonous and bitter.

Zhao Qiu Hua smiled and peeled an apple for her, "You, you just think too much; it shows you aren't mature enough and have been protected too well."

"Do you still remember Nan Nan back then?"

"Hmm?" Xie Yuanyuan took the apple and then looked up.

Zhao Qiu Hua wiped her hands before continuing in a leisurely manner, "Nan Nan following the military was also something that happened later; they loved each other and got married, all while separated in two different places, but did their feelings change?"

"Nan Nan said that a good relationship is like wine; the longer it ages, the more mellow the wine becomes."

"Moreover, Nan Nan also said that when they are together, they are a family, and when they are apart, they are independent individuals; they can do what they want to do, and they can do what they believe is meaningful."

"Yuanyuan, you can follow the project, or you can grow independently."

Zhao Qiu Hua looked at Xie Yuanyuan; she wasn't saying words of comfort, but these things had to be said sooner or later, looking at Xie Yuanyuan's state.

She had been a bit anxious lately; this anxiety might not be noticed by anyone in the factory, but in front of them, Yuanyuan wouldn't hide it.

Xie Yuanyuan nodded, "Heh, I was just a bit lost, but I'm fine now."

She curled her lips; her companions had said many things, but she needed to digest them slowly by herself.

Wasn't she also trying to grow up all these years?

On the other side, deep in the mountains, the clothes of the three people had already been shredded into strips by tree branches; An Yinan's were slightly better, but Zhang Qian's and Chen Xun's were already beyond repair.

"Looking at the plants and the sun, our position is in the northwest." Zhang Qian measured the shadow and also looked at the sparsity of the vegetation.

An Yinan nodded, in full agreement.

"Wilderness survival... they didn't have to arrange such a place; it's truly too ruthless." An Yinan was between laughter and tears.

The grass here was already half a person tall.

Although they didn't have to worry about food, drinking water was a problem.

Thinking back to that time...

They had been crawling in the mud for a whole day during the day, and had just climbed into bed to sleep for less than an hour when they received orders to board a plane, and then they were thrown into this place.

Water, none.

Food, none.

Weapons, none.

It was absolutely a "three-no" product...

Fang Yi told the three of them with a deep look, "This is your final training: escape."

In these few months, he had already lost the will to live; at the very beginning, there was still some pleasure in tormenting them, but later, seeing these three freaks, was this even tormenting them?

It was absolutely him seeking torment for himself!

He couldn't compare to the two Soldier Kings, that was fine, but how could he not even compare to a female Comrade?

He was already starting to doubt life.

"In this direction." An Yinan pointed the way.

Whether it was from the training or the fact that they had arrived at this place, all commands were converging toward An Yinan, making them form an instinctive obedience; the brain's reaction was not faster than instinct.

"I'll clear the path." Chen Xun walked to the front, holding a thick stick in one hand and a thin stick in the other.

The thick stick was for probing the path, and the thin stick was for defending against poisonous creatures on the mountain, such as snakes...

An Yinan stated their location with certainty; after all, the creatures here, even if specially cultivated, could not be the same as those on the Southern Front, and the place they had arrived at while blindfolded during their flight was indeed the Southern Front.