"Aunt Wang, give me a few more bowls. You can eat here and take them back."
"Hey, I'm so lucky again. I always take advantage of you."
"What are you talking about, Auntie Wang? You heat my kang, you chop my firewood, and my house is so clean, you come to clean it often, you just come to eat a bowl of noodles, why do you have to be so polite?"
Aunt Wang's face was full of wrinkles as she smiled, but she became really worried when she thought about the wheat that was destroyed in the fields. Their entire village was hoping to sell some of the wheat after the harvest this season and save it.
"What a coincidence! Who is so shameless as to destroy our crops? The greenhouses have been damaged and the surviving wheat must have frozen to death."
"It's getting late today. I'll go check it out tomorrow morning. Lele's husband Qin Guoqing has already contacted the plastic film factory. I estimate that the plastic film will arrive in the next two days."
"That's great, but we don't have enough time. The weather is getting colder day by day, and a lot of wheat has been burned by the fire. If it weren't for the heavy snow, there really wouldn't be any left."
Cheng Qiao nodded, and seeing that the noodle soup was already out of the pot, she quickly scooped up the meat and the fried eggs with a spoon and brought them to the living room for Li Huan and the others to eat first.
Aunt Wang also happily took a large porcelain bowl and sat in the kitchen eating noodles. The moment the braised pork entered her mouth, her eyes and heart were filled with satisfaction.
Originally, we had prepared braised pork for the New Year’s Eve dinner, but the unexpected incident ruined my mood and I had no idea what the meat tasted like when I ate it.
Now Cheng Qiao and Huanzi are back. With them, the villagers seem to have found peace of mind, so everything they eat tastes delicious.
Secretary Hao slept directly at Li Huan's house. The warm kang made him feel much more relaxed as he was feeling very nervous. It seemed that as long as this guy came back, the problem would be solved satisfactorily.
After a good night's sleep, Li Huan and Cheng Qiao made some breakfast early in the morning. After Ye Xiaolin and Secretary Hao finished their breakfast, they followed Li Huan and Cheng Qiao to the fields.
Before reaching the fields, Cheng Qiao wrinkled her nose. The air was still filled with the smell of gasoline and burning plastic film. The smell was extremely unpleasant, and some of the burnt film was directly stuck to the wheat seedlings.
Cheng Qiao felt very distressed. These wheat seedlings were all varieties she had cultivated from the space. They were planted in the fields and watered with water from the space.
The villagers kept the best wheat seeds and planted them with great effort, but it turned out like this. If she knew who did it, she would make him taste the pain of being burned by fire.
"Li Huan, I think this is arson. I have asked the comrades from the Public Security Bureau to investigate who bought the gasoline during this period, who would come here to set the fire, and whether there is a traitor in your village."
When Secretary Hao learned that the frost-proof greenhouse in Xiangyang Village had been burned and the wheat fields had been destroyed, he immediately reported the incident. This incident aroused the anger of local cadres and the masses. The county party committee leaders attached great importance to it and asked Secretary Hao to keep a close eye on the matter.
The next morning, Secretary Hao and his colleagues from the Public Security Bureau rushed to Xiangyang Village. When they smelled gasoline in the air, they immediately determined that the fire was arson.
They felt that the arsonist came with hatred and must have an insider, otherwise he would not be so familiar with Xiangyang Village and would not burn the crops so viciously.
Cheng Qiao said nothing. Secretary Hao had a higher status than Li Huan, so even if he had not thought it through properly, he could not correct him in front of so many people.
This is not an ordinary arson case. First of all, ordinary people do not have the ability to get so much gasoline because gasoline is not available to individuals.
Those who can buy gasoline are definitely drivers, and drivers also need tickets and letters of introduction to buy it. It's easy to tell who is who, so they won't be so stupid.
There are also some large factories that also need gasoline. If we want to investigate, we might as well start from there. However, there are no large factories in Xiangyang County, and the areas involved are too wide to be easy to investigate.
In addition, Cheng Qiao believed that there was absolutely no traitor. The villagers attached great importance to winter food. It was the only way to get rich at present, and no one would destroy it.
In fact, Cheng Qiao already had some immature answers in her mind. There are five villages in Xiangyang County that practice two grain planting seasons a year, but this person chose Xiangyang Village.
So this person was coming for her. Back then on the train, their people couldn't take her life, so they wanted to destroy her home. The most urgent thing for her was to find this person.
Li Huan understood it in his heart, but he did not say much to Secretary Hao. Instead, he asked Wang Xiangyang to organize the villagers to start cleaning up, tidying up the scene first and digging out the burnt wheat.
Cheng Qiao followed Li Huan walking in the fields. Whenever he saw wheat that had not been burned but was almost frozen to death, he would secretly leak some space water out.
Some villagers were asked to rebuild the frost-proof greenhouses. When they heard that they could still rebuild the frost-proof greenhouses, their confidence returned and they quickly started working.
A few days later, early in the morning, the little troublemaker drove a military truck to the entrance of Xiangyang Village. However, the road in the village was narrow and the car could not get in at all.
Loach had already brought a few childhood friends and were waiting at the entrance of the village in a tractor. When they saw the plastic film coming, they immediately turned into porters and moved the plastic film from the truck to the tractor.
Loach ran back and forth again and again, and his originally clean face was cracked into several pieces by the cold wind, but he didn't care and just wrapped his head with a piece of torn plastic film.
Cheng Qiao took out a brand new Lei Feng hat and put it on Niuqiu's head. Niuqiu felt warm on his head and couldn't help but take it off to take a look. He was so surprised that he could hardly speak:
"Second Aunt, this is for me."
"Yes, put this on to cover your mouth and face. Oh, and these gloves. Your gloves are too thin and not cold-resistant."
Cheng Qiao saw the white gauze gloves on Niuqiu's hands, which were already extremely dirty, but she was reluctant to throw them away, so she took out a pair of cotton gloves from her backpack and handed them to Niuqiu.
Loach almost shed tears, but he held them back. He couldn't cry now, otherwise the tears would freeze on his face and it would be really painful.
"Thank you, Second Aunt."
The younger generation in the village have become accustomed to seeing Li Huan calling them "Second Uncle" and Cheng Qiao calling them "Second Aunt". Cheng Qiao also accustomed to this way of calling them. It doesn't make him sound old while still reflecting the seniority, which is great.
The tractor ran back and forth with a "thump thump" sound, and Xiangyang Village became lively again. People were building sheds everywhere. Seeing the frost-proof greenhouses being built one after another, Aunt Wang organized people to start lighting coal stoves so that the temperature in the greenhouse would rise faster.