Lin Xing'an's residence is arguably the richest in the entire village, and at the same time the most humble.

It is said to be rich because its construction area is more than 400 square meters, which occupies almost one-tenth of the lakeside.

To put it simply, the whole building is made entirely of logs, and there is no decoration in it. Except for a few rooms that were separated from each other and used to house the experimental equipment, which had wooden floors on the ground, the rest of the houses were organized into rows of plots with various plants on them, which looked like greenhouses. Take Lin Xing'an's words, what is not a home, isn't it just a place to sleep, as long as you can shelter from the wind and rain and have a place to lie down, you don't need to be so particular. Living in a lab makes it easier to work.

When I entered the wooden house where Lin Xing'an lived, I saw that there was nothing else in it except for a wooden bed, a table and a chair.

Plastic pots of various sizes are piled up all over the ground, containing soil, some of which are planted with saplings, and some of which have just grown green shoots.

These basins, large and small, occupy almost the entire floor of the room, leaving only a passage that barely fits one foot, and you have to be very careful when you pass through, and if you are not careful, your body will lose your balance and step on them.

Ling Zikai walked in and said, "Uncle Lin, what are you busy with?"

Lin Xing'an was lying on the table and fiddling with his head, after hearing Ling Zikai's words, he raised his head, and just saw him walking past a pot of seedlings, his leg brushed over a branch that grew out of the edge of the pot, and hurriedly shouted: "Ouch! Be careful, don't break it." ”

Then he hurriedly ran over, picked up the pot of seedlings, carefully checked it, and then turned around and put it directly on the head of the bed beside him.

Ling Zikai smiled bitterly: "Uncle Lin, there is such a big experimental shed built next to it, which is enough for you to cultivate a large number of seedlings, why do you have to move into your own sleeping place." ”

"The houses are full of rare species you brought from Tiger Leaping Creek last time, and some of them are extinct outside. I'm trying to breed them with a new technology, and I want to keep an eye on their growth and get first-hand data, so I put them here so I can observe them all the time. ”

"Uncle Lin, even if you have to observe all the time, you don't need to be so exaggerated, is it possible that you are staring at these seedlings with your eyes open when you sleep!"

"Brother Ling, what you said is a bit of a layman!" Qian Lao, who was following behind him, interjected: "For a person who is really engaged in scientific research, his mind is full of experiments all the time, even when he sleeps. Maybe sometime in your sleep, some inspiration will pop up in your sleep. ”

When Ling Zikai heard this, he remembered that there was a workaholic behind him, if the two of them got together, there would be no room for him to talk at all, so he quickly changed the topic and asked, "Uncle Lin, what strange things did you find in the forest farm, take a look?"

Lin Xingan casually pointed to the table and said, "It's all on this table, you can see for yourself!"

Only then did Ling Zikai notice that there was a small pile of stones on the table, large and small, rectangular and round, black, white, red, and yellow.

Ling Zikai asked puzzledly, "Uncle Lin, aren't they just some stones? There are many on this mountain, what's so peculiar?"

Lin Xingan said angrily: "Do you think I have nothing to do when I'm idle, pick up some stones and come back to fiddle!"

Without waiting for Lin Xing'an to explain, Qian Lao had already picked up a small stone, looked at it in his hand for a while, and said: "These should be fossils, this one in my hand looks like a plant fossil called Nesu, living in an era 20,000 years ago." ”

Hearing Qian Lao's explanation, Lin Xing'an sighed lightly, glanced at Qian Lao, and said, "I didn't expect you to also have research on paleontology?

Qian Lao took a cylindrical fossil with a length of more than 20 centimeters handed over by Lin Xing'an, looked at it carefully for a while, and said, "If I guessed correctly, this should be a fossil of mammoth tusks!"

"And what about this?"

Lin Xingan seemed to want to take the test of Qian Lao, and handed over a piece of hard paper again. There were a few stones the size of a grain of rice on the paper, and the surface was so black that if you picked it up by hand, it would fall through your fingers if you were not careful.

After holding the piece of cardboard and looking at it for a while, Qian Lao asked in a somewhat uncertain tone, "Could this be the fossil of a few grains of rice?"

"Oh, that's right! That's right, it's a few grains of rice fossils! By the way, are you doing archaeological work? If ordinary people would never be able to identify the origin of these fossils at a glance. Even if it's me, it's only confirmed after the instrument test!"

Ling Zikai was a little ridiculous when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "Uncle Lin, I forgot to introduce you, this is Qian Lao, the most outstanding energy dynamicist in Huaxia, not the archaeologist you imagined. ”

"You say he is the old man known as the father of energy?"

Lin Xing'an asked a little uncertainly, and after seeing Ling Zikai nodded, he suddenly stood in awe, bowed to Qian Lao, and said: "I have long admired your name Qian Lao, thank you for your outstanding contributions to China's aerospace and military science, so that the Chinese nation can straighten its waist on the world stage, and no longer need to look at other people's faces." ”

Qian Lao hurriedly bowed and said, "You are serious, I am just an ordinary astronaut." In fact, everyone is just different in the division of labor, as long as they do their own work, their contributions to the country and society are the same, there is no difference in size!

I heard Ling Zikai talk about you, in order to transform the more and more harsh environment and find a sustainable development path, you gave up fame and fortune, and were willing to come to this forest farm, this dedication and courage to the cause is truly admirable!"

Lin Xingan said humbly: "Compared with Qian Lao, you have been working incognito and silently for decades for national defense construction, and this little thing I have done is not worth mentioning at all." You are our role model. ”

Ling Zikai said beside him: "I said two great scientists, don't be humble there! I don't feel like I'm talking about each other's suspicions!"

Qian Lao and Lin Xingan were stunned for a moment when they heard this, and then laughed.

"Speaking of which, everyone is chasing the dream in their hearts! Being able to gather here today can be regarded as a kind of fate. If you have anything to say, just sit down and talk to your heart's content. Now let's get down to business, Uncle Lin, where did you pick up these fossils?"