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Chapter 1370 What, Pulling Up Seedlings
Sending supplies to the dam area is quite troublesome, and the amount of supplies brought is fixed, plus there's nothing of value around.

"Then let's just make some simple dumplings."

When Zhao Tianshan was in a dilemma, Wei Fugui made a suggestion.

Because making dumplings is just a formality; what's inside is entirely up to them.
"By the way, where are Expert Lin and Feng Cheng?"

At this moment, Qu He and Yu Zheng did not see Lin Hao and Feng Cheng, so they asked Zhao Tianshan.

"Oh, they went to see the nursery. Expert Lin said they're planning to expand it, and they're just waiting for your seeds, Director!"

"Expert Lin also complained that the seeds you promised last time are nowhere to be seen. How can we plant them on a large scale in the future!"

"Uh, yes, it will happen soon!" Yu Zhenglai said hesitantly, but still said:
"I have already applied, and I estimate that the seeds provided by the National Forestry Bureau will arrive soon."

"That's wonderful!" Zhao Tianshan's mouth stretched into a wide smile when he heard that the seeds were almost here.

"Director, since there's already a nursery here, why don't we go take a look together?"

At this moment, Qin Xuemei, who was helping to pack things up, suddenly heard that Lin Hao and Feng Cheng were at the nursery, and immediately wanted to go and see them.

“But it’s already noon, why don’t we wait until we have lunch before we talk about it?” Qu He felt sorry for these college students, and then looked at Yu Zheng.

"Secretary Qu, we're not hungry. We can have lunch after we finish visiting the nursery."

"Great, that's exactly the kind of enthusiasm we need from Comrade Qin Xuemei. In that case, let's visit our Saihanba nursery area!"

He then said to the Liberty Wheel, "Captain Zhao, lead the way!"

Seeing Qin Xuemei's enthusiasm for her work, Yu Zhenglai was naturally overjoyed, feeling that she was different from the college students who had come before.

It seems that ever since Lin Hao arrived, these new college graduates have all shown great enthusiasm for their work.

"Okay, Mengyue, Tangqi, Xiurong, Mengyin, let's go and inform them."

Then Qin Xuemei took the four girls to find the four boys who were still dawdling over making their beds.

After everyone had gathered, Zhao Tianshan led them towards the nursery.

The protagonist they were looking for was fetching water from a water source with Feng Cheng.

Because watering in the nursery requires more precise control and is done using a spray system, the process is relatively slow.

"Comrades, we've arrived! Please look!"

Meanwhile, on the hillside next to the nursery, Yu Zhenglai and Qu He, led by Zhao Tianshan, also saw the nursery with their students.

"Wow, that's great!"

"There are so many nurseries and so many saplings. The germination rate looks pretty good."

With his eyes narrowed, Sui Zhichao couldn't help but admire the large number of saplings.

The pine trees inside are all neatly arranged, and the saplings are all covered with green leaves. In this Saihanba desert covered with yellow sand, every sapling is radiating hope.

After descending the hillside, everyone gathered in front of the nursery.

"How many saplings can such a small nursery have? And judging from the appearance of these saplings, their survival rate will not be high."

Everyone was in high spirits, but at this moment, Wu Yansheng, wearing a high-necked trench coat, curled his lip and looked at the nursery in front of him with disdain.

"Wu Yansheng, stop making sarcastic remarks!"

Seeing Wu Yansheng's arrogant demeanor, Qin Xuemei felt somewhat resentful. Although she didn't show it much, she had long been disappointed in Wu Yansheng.

Since arriving at the Summer Palace, Wu Yansheng's performance has been consistently disappointing.

Just like I said, Yu Zheng and the others were praising Lin Hao a lot before, but now that they've arrived, you're already criticizing him.

Moreover, this nursery isn't that bad; it's already quite remarkable that such a good nursery could be built in such an environment.

Seeing the dark faces of Yu Zheng and the other two, it was clear that they were unhappy with Wu Yansheng.

If Lin Hao, Engineer Chen, and Feng Cheng don't achieve any results in Bashang, if they don't manage to keep the trees alive, or if they don't cultivate the nursery well, then naturally they have nothing to say.

The problem is that Lin Hao not only managed to keep the trees alive, but also cultivated saplings on the dam. The reason the nursery was small was not because Lin Hao and his team couldn't cultivate them, but because the seeds hadn't arrived.

The words and actions of these college students sounded very unpleasant.

If they hadn't achieved something on the dam, they wouldn't have received commendation from their superiors.

Zhao Tianshan also had his own opinions about these college students. After all, these nurseries were built by them, with handfuls of soil and sand collected, and these saplings were grown up day by day, which they had watched grow.

The fact that it's so tall is thanks to their daily efforts of carrying water to irrigate it, but Wu Yansheng has so casually dismissed their contributions.

Qin Xuemei is a seedling professional, so she naturally takes a closer look at the nursery after seeing it.

A sense of pride belonging to college students and to their own major emerged.

"Meng Yue, take some soil back with you. We'll do some testing once the lab is fully set up."

Qin Xuemei squatted down, grabbed a handful of soil, squeezed it with her hands, and then asked her classmate Meng Yue to help her collect the sample.

“Okay!” Meng Yue didn’t stand on ceremony and immediately took out a box from her backpack to start taking samples.

"This shouldn't be!" Qin Xuemei continued walking towards the center of the nursery, but the further she walked, the deeper her brows furrowed.

"Director Yu, logically speaking, the fact that you were able to grow trees here and make them survive using your own seeds should be due to these seedlings."

"But after I looked at these seedlings, I found that many of them were wilted and quite a few were substandard seedlings. If these seedlings were transplanted into this barren mountain, they definitely wouldn't work."

After inspecting a seedbed, Qin Xuemei casually pointed to the saplings in the nursery and looked at Yu Zhenglai.

"I don't know about that!" Yu Zhenglai scratched his head and said:

"Anyway, it was a joint research project by expert Lin and our bureau's technical section chief, Engineer Chen. They even managed to plant a batch of trees on the dam. You've all seen how healthy those trees are!"

Yu Zheng and Qu He were stumped by the college student's questions, because they only knew the basics.

After they retired from the war, they were assigned to this position. Those with technical skills were all subordinates!
Moreover, Engineer Chen is a latecomer to the field, and his current achievements are largely due to his experience.

So when Qin Xuemei suddenly asked such a professional question, Qu He and Yu Zheng couldn't explain it clearly. Zhao Tianshan had only a superficial understanding; he only knew that doing so was the right thing to do and was following Lin Hao's instructions, but he couldn't explain it logically or systematically.

"Director, although the germination rate of this nursery is very high, the quality is not very good."

"Many seedlings are already turning yellow, which is caused by a variety of reasons. If they are transplanted to barren mountains in the future, the survival rate will not exceed 30%."

“Look, these seedlings are what we call second-rate seedlings. They definitely won’t survive if transplanted to the mountain.” Qin Xuemei casually picked up a slightly yellowed seedling.

Seeing Qin Xuemei's confident demeanor, Yu Zhenglai couldn't help but look at Zhao Tianshan.

Zhao Tianshan shook his head, but his eyes were very firm, because Lin Hao had said that even the weaker ones could survive, and only a minority could not survive!

"Meng Yue, Wu Yansheng, let's pull up all these inferior seedlings!" Then the group began to pull up the seedlings.

"No, you can't pull it out!"

Seeing everyone about to pull up the seedlings, which Zhao Tianshan had personally nurtured, it would be like tearing out Zhao Tianshan's precious flesh if they were just pulled up like that.

"Why can't we pull them out? Xue Mei is a seedling expert. You're just a common soldier, do you even know anything about seedling cultivation?" Before Qin Xue Mei could speak, Wu Yansheng immediately interjected:
“If Xue Mei says to pull it out, then we definitely have to pull it out. Sui Zhichao, Yan Xiangli, and Da Kui, come and help.”

He then called over three other boys, wanting to help him remove the seedlings that didn't look good.

"You can't pull them out. These seedlings were planted by us. You can't pull them out. Besides, the forestry experts have already said that this is called natural selection and survival of the fittest. You can't pull them out!"

Seeing that everyone was about to pull up the seedlings, Zhao Tianshan immediately spread his arms to stop them.

“I’m going to pull them out, what can you do about it?” Wu Yansheng said, heading towards the nursery to pull out the seedlings.

"Everyone, stop! Everyone, stop!" Yu Zhenglai quickly tried to calm things down.
"Everyone here is a key force supporting Saihanba. We'll all be eating from the same pot from now on, so let's not fight and ruin our harmony."

"Oh, right!" Then he asked Zhao Tianshan, "Captain Zhao, what you just said, that Expert Lin said these weak seedlings were deliberately preserved so that only the fittest could survive?"

Yu Zhenglai originally thought that these college students were all truly talented, and he was quite pleased that they found so many problems right away.

They assumed it was an oversight by Lin Hao and Engineer Chen during their collaboration, which led to some mistake that was now discovered by these college students.

However, Zhao Tianshan then said that these promising talents were deliberately left behind by Lin Hao, which made it impossible for Yu Zheng not to take them seriously.

"Of course, Captain Zhao is right. These so-called inferior seedlings were indeed deliberately left behind by us."

Just then, a voice came from the opposite hillside. Only then did everyone look over and see two people wearing dark cotton-padded jackets and with short, choppy hair appearing on the hilltop.

Although Lin Hao's face was tanned from being in the desert, it did not diminish his handsomeness; on the contrary, it added to his ruggedness.

Feng Cheng's image was also quite good. Because Lin Hao reminded him to pay attention to his appearance, he didn't neglect it even though there weren't many people in Bashang.

Because of Lin Hao and Feng Cheng's achievements, most people in this area know about them. If they were to appear as wild men, it would naturally damage the image of the Forestry Bureau.

“These seedlings you call second-rate are actually good seedlings.”

Lin Hao and Feng Cheng walked into the nursery. Fortunately, Zhao Tianshan stopped them, otherwise the losses today would have been huge.

Feng Cheng glared angrily at everyone, which terrified the girls.

"You must be the new college graduates? What, trying to intimidate us as soon as you arrive at this dam?"

Lin Hao didn't say anything harsh to the new college students because they didn't know anything. So Lin Hao didn't confront them directly.

"Director Yu, is there something we've done wrong? Why do we have to uproot these seedlings? Isn't that a bit unreasonable?"

Lin Hao glanced at the college students in front of him, then looked at Yu Zhenglai and Qu He.

Lin Hao's current achievements give him the same influence as Yu Zheng when he speaks here.

"Expert Lin, please don't be angry. It's like this, Qu He and I are just roughnecks, we don't understand these things!"

"However, this student, Qin Xuemei, is majoring in seedling cultivation. During the visit to the nursery just now, after looking around, she discovered that there were many seedlings waiting to be planted!"

"So they thought of helping you by pulling out these inferior seedlings. They were actually doing it out of kindness!"

At this point, Yu Zheng could only act as a middleman, because Lin Hao was the one who needed to guide these college students.

If we start having conflicts now, it will be difficult to get along in the future.

Lin Hao didn't say much. After glancing at Yu Zheng, he turned to look at the college students.

Among the college students, Tang Qi, or rather, Tang Qi, blushed and her heart raced when she saw Lin Hao descending from the sky.

Upon seeing Feng Cheng accompanying Lin Hao, he quickly composed himself.

However, she discovered that Feng Cheng didn't even glance at her, which relieved her but also made her feel somewhat resentful.

She didn't expect the other party to forget her so quickly. However, Lin Hao mentioned that after Feng Cheng went to the Divine Tree once, he completely put her in the past.

However, what Tang Qi didn't know was that Lin Hao had already used illusion skills to completely alter Feng Cheng's memory of her.

Therefore, in Feng Cheng's eyes, Tang Qi at this moment was a completely unfamiliar, unremarkable country bumpkin.

Upon hearing that they were actually going to uproot their seedlings, Feng Cheng was filled with rage and was about to say something when Lin Hao stopped him.

"Which one is Qin Xuemei?" Lin Hao asked, looking at the college students.

At this moment, all the college students who went up the dam seemed to be completely bewildered by the situation before them.

Based on what Yu Zhenglai said and his attitude towards Lin Hao, it was clear that this person was the expert Lin that Director Yu had mentioned.

Qin Xuemei couldn't help but stare at Lin Hao for a couple of seconds, but before she could think further, Lin Hao called her name.

"I am Qin Xuemei!" Although Lin Hao exuded a powerful aura at this moment, Qin Xuemei was not intimidated and looked directly at Lin Hao.

"Hmm, they look good, but it's a pity that being pretty is useless in Bashang. Do you know that your self-righteous little action just now might slow down our transplanting speed and the survival rate of the saplings next month?"

Because these seedlings were not dug up, but forcibly pulled out, their root systems were inevitably damaged.

Once planted, a recovery period will be needed, which will inevitably affect the survival rate and prolong the transplanting process for Lin Hao and others.

(End of this chapter)