20demayo Chapter 434 Potatoes Stolen
Chapter 434 Potatoes Stolen
As a result, when Gu Qingqing brought Wen Shengxi and Li Xin to the potato field and saw the current situation of the field, Gu Qingqing almost vomited blood.
She looked up to the sky and shouted, "Who? Who did it?"
"That starving ghost got greedy and did such a cruel thing. You are so greedy and want to have a good meal, why do you come to our farm to do trouble? Stealing people's food will make your sons and grandsons have no anus. Aren't you afraid of choking to death by eating our earthen eggs?" Wen Shengxi looked at the mess on the ground and the child in your hand, and you looked so obedient at home. At this moment, Gu Qingqing suspected that she was possessed by Wen Chen.
Gu Qingqing heard her little mouth speaking in a directional manner, and was afraid that her voice had set a bad example for them. She was so scared that she quickly covered her mouth and patted Wen Shengxi's shoulder, "Shengxi, you can curse, but you can't swear."
Wen Shengxi angrily threw the wilted earth egg leaf in her hand to the ground, crying with a distressed voice, "Sister, look at the land we worked so hard to grow. I came here to apply manure some time ago, but now it has been destroyed by that bastard."
Wen Shengxi cursed while looking towards Shangyang Village. In her opinion, her land was closest to Shangyang Village. If someone came to steal the eggs from the land, it would most likely be someone from their village.
At that time, because there were not enough potatoes, she planted them sparsely on one acre of land, applying plenty of manure and placing plants far apart so that they could grow bigger.
Who would have thought that when I came to see it a few days ago, it was still fine, but almost one acre of seedlings had been uprooted, and the seedlings that had not lost moisture were thrown randomly on the ground.
"Aunt, if this is eaten by a wild boar, then we will consider ourselves unlucky. It is obvious that it was stolen by humans. I will guard the field today. If anyone dares to come, I will fight them to the death." Li Xin was so angry that he clenched his fists.
result?
Snapped!
Gu Qingqing slapped him on the shoulder and yelled at him, "What nonsense are you talking about? I usually feed you well and pamper you just so you don't value your life! If I hear you say something like this again next time, be careful or I'll tell your uncle and have him spank you."
Li Xin suppressed the smile on his face and tried his best to make himself look obedient.
But in his heart, he was already very happy. Did his aunt want his uncle to beat him? He knew that his aunt was very kind to him.
But she never hit me. My aunt always said that she treated me as the child of the family. What adult doesn't hit their children?
Wen Shengxi, who was standing by, saw Li Xin being slapped by his elder sister, and immediately stepped forward to help, "Sister, what do you think we should do now?"
"Let me see." Gu Qingqing was also angry, but she still looked at the place that was burned, then squatted down and felt around in the soil with her hands.
As her fingers touched something, she dug up the surrounding soil and saw that there was a potato that had not been dug up.
Potatoes and sweet potatoes are very similar. They will produce fruits when you dig them up, but some of them in the ground will not be brought out, so you have to dig them up yourself.
Gu Qingqing dug several holes in succession, and there were already seven or eight potatoes as big as an adult's fist around her.
She roughly guessed what happened. She thought that the other party was not familiar with the characteristics of potatoes and only took away the potatoes on the seedlings, but did not dig up those in the field.
In addition, Wen Shengxi and Li Xin saw her digging, so they followed suit. Because they digged carefully, each of them had a dozen earth eggs around them.
Seeing this, Gu Qingqing waved to Li Xin and said, "Daxin, you run fast. Go back quickly and ask your aunt to drive the donkey cart over. Shengxi and I will dig these and bring them back later."
"Okay, I'll go right away." After saying that, Li Xin turned around and ran back to the village.
Wen Shengxi came up to Gu Qingqing with a gloomy face and said indignantly, "Sister, aren't you sad?"
Seeing that she was about to cry, Gu Qingqing couldn't help but raised her finger and touched her cheek. After that, she looked at the thin layer of dirt on her cheek where her fingers had just touched. She realized that she had done something wrong and twitched her mouth.
"It's sad, but what can we do? We don't know who did it. Since it happened, all we can do is minimize the losses."
Wen Shengxi nodded unhappily and started digging in the ridge of land opposite Gu Qingqing.
Seeing that it was getting dark, Gu Qingqing knelt on the ground and looked up at the edge of the field for the countless times, and finally saw a big black dog rushing towards them.
Wen Shengxi, who was digging in the ground with his head down, heard a dog barking. He then looked up and saw Zhao Dong and Zhao Bei driving a donkey cart with Li Xin sitting on it.
Wen Shengxi looked around but couldn't see Sister. He asked in confusion, "Sister, didn't you ask Daxin to go and call Sister? Why are Dong Ge and the others here but Sister is nowhere to be seen?"
"I do not know."
As Gu Qingqing spoke, she stood up from the ground. Wen Shengxi quickly stepped in front of her, holding her arm and trying to lift her up.
"It's okay, I can get up."
"I know." Wen Shengxi replied, but his grip did not loosen.
After Gu Qingqing got up, he brushed the dirt off his knees and calves, then walked towards the edge of the field.
"Brother Dong." Gu Qingqing spoke.
Zhao Dong looked at the messy land and said to Gu Qingqing calmly, "Daxin has already told us on the way here. Can you tell me when the other seedlings can be harvested?"
Gu Qingqing turned her head and looked at the fields. She originally wanted to wait for two days, but today she saw that the leaves of the seedlings still growing in the fields had turned yellow. She said, "We can harvest them now if we want."
"It's definitely too late today. How about tomorrow? We'll take them all back tomorrow." Zhao Dong replied.
"Take it, so as to avoid being targeted by thieves." Gu Qingqing nodded, but she stopped nodding halfway and reminded him, "Tomorrow is the town market, aren't you going to the town to check on the mule cart?"
"It's okay. We can go early and come back early. Zhao Zhong and I will go to the town tomorrow and ask Zhao Nan to bring Zhao Bei to dig these. There are still some work to be done in the town, so let Zhao Xi and Zhao Feng go. We should be back in the afternoon, and I will drive the mule cart over then."
"That's fine, you just make the arrangements, and I'll give you the money when we get home. It's getting late, let's collect the eggs in the team first and then go home." Gu Qingqing said as she wanted to get the two bamboo baskets she brought from the car.
The eggs are growing well, and the ones picked from the field alone filled six baskets.
After everything was done, the group drove the donkey cart back to Niutoushan Village.
Although some potatoes were picked up, the stolen ones were still stolen. Gu Qingqing was in a bad mood and didn't eat much.
After dinner, she asked Zhao Dong to wait and then turned back to the house. A mule would probably cost more than ten taels of silver. She also wanted to buy a mule cart, which would probably cost two or three taels of silver, and she would also need a saddle and other things.
Gu Qingqing originally took out twenty taels of silver, but out of fear, she took out five more taels, and gave a total of twenty-five taels of silver to Zhao Dong.
"Brother Dong, don't be afraid to spend money. The mule you buy is for running around Xinzhou Prefecture, so buy one with stronger legs and feet." Gu Qingqing said finally.
Zhao Dong took the silver and said, "Don't worry, Boss."
Before leaving, I whispered something to Old Yang.