Chapter 1712: Chapter 1569: IQ Rising
Li Liu, however, was unaware that he was already serving hard labor—working for free, without pay, that kind.
He and the driver had a bit of a petty thief’s style, sneaking around trying to open the gate of the fence. But while they were good at pilfering, their lock-picking skills weren’t up to par.
Just a plain big lock, and the two of them rattled it for ages, making the wire sh clank, but it didn’t open. Inside the duty room, Li Wei was getting anxious—
"Maybe I should just throw them the key."
If they delayed any longer, dawn would break, and could they still finish cutting five hundred pounds?
Chen Yuan pressed his shoulder: "That would be too obvious, even a fool could tell sothing’s wrong."
Li Wei stared at the surveillance, watching as the two thieves, unable to open the door, started clambering up the iron fence—the wire sh, despite its sturdiness and thickness, couldn’t withstand adults climbing it like that.
They had planned to take it slow and steady before. How would this climb sustain developnt at all?
Was that lock really that hard to open?!
He asked faintly, "Do they really know sothing’s amiss?"
Chen Yuan: ...
He simply picked up the keys from the table, causing a ruckus by smashing bowls and pots in the duty room, creating a wave of noise. Watching the two on the monitor awkwardly shrink back to the side of the vehicle, he yawned exaggeratedly and swaggered out to unlock the gate.
One must follow through when putting on an act.
He locked the door behind him, then stretched lazily, letting the key fall again.
This seed reasonable, right?
Even the shoddiest script has its audience, and even the most wry Dragon King has admirers.
Li Liu picked up the key, and a burst of enlightennt flashed through his mind: "Do you know what this is called? This is called destiny, I must be in for so great luck!"
He opened the lock, pushed the gate open triumphantly, and ticulously hooked the lock again—his hand getting stuck in the wire sh, pulling for a while.
"Good things take ti!"
That’s how they comnted, then stood in the shadowy Ai Grass Field, already beginning their happiness with sickles—
"Five bucks! Five bucks! Five bucks!"
Every handful they cut, they could sell for five bucks. After all, this Ai Grass grew robust and vigorous, with plump leaves and a strong aroma, truly worth soone’s five bucks!
In the duty room, Li Wei and Bian Mu Shiyi exchanged bewildered glances.
How non-existent was he? Did those two not even bother to co in and take a look?
Check if soone’s around!
See if there’s surveillance!
If there is, then delete it!
He took out his phone and sent Chen Yuan a quiet ssage: "Captain, where are you?"
Chen Yuan was on the cart bed of a small truck, he and the security guard holding their phones were comnting on Li Liu and the driver’s diligent, sweaty work, unable to hold back a sigh:
"It’d be fine if Xiaoyang doesn’t send a harvester this year, give it so ti, maybe those two will even co to steal wheat."
Look at their skill, how adept.
Then looking at the ssage from Li Wei, Chen Yuan thought for a mont, instructed: "Keep an eye, insects and snakes love hiding in the Ai Grass at night, if they bite soone, that’s not good—there’s still a bucket of dicated powder, sprinkle so more around them."
Li Wei, half-asleep staring at the monitor, chuckled at this: "Alright! Tonight, I pledge to protect these five hundred pounds of Ai Grass to the death!"
Chen Yuan advised him: "Three hundred pounds would suffice."
...
Two grown n cutting three hundred pounds of Ai Grass was still quite a chore.
After all, the sturdier and heavier it grew, the more force it took to cut.
A nightlong of huffing and bending, looking at the scattered pile of Ai Grass beside them, the two rediscovered so professional instincts:
"Let’s get it on the truck first."
Safety in the bag.
The driver also felt his back straining, getting old indeed.
He nodded, and the two quickly bundled the Ai Grass, heading towards the main gate. Facing the lock they had just relocked, they fell silent once more.
—Though good things take their ti, isn’t tonight a bit too taxing on ntal state?!
But anyway, the key wasn’t lost. So they again put in effort to unlock the door.
anwhile, on the car, Chen Yuan and the security guard quickly hid themselves.
They watched as the two opened the fence and tossed the bundles of Ai Grass inside, shrinking back into a shadowy corner, unmoving.
Not until dozens of pounds of Ai Grass were thrown inside did the security guard, who had a hard night’s work, stretch again as the surveillance footage once more showed the two laboring diligently.
"You know," he said with a grin to Captain Cheng Yuan, "these thieves, don’t even leave soone to keep watch, not worried that while they’re working there, soone had long been sitting in the driver’s seat. Once the crops are gathered, soone steps on the gas—"
Chen Yuan pondered for a bit: "Let’s not think like this, they did know to lock the door earlier, they’re not entirely witless."
The security guard beside him chewed over these words, then hurriedly covered his mouth.
Li Liu also sensed sothing not right at this mont.
He stared at the spot he just cut, feeling an overwhelming concern:
"Oh no! Forgot to spread out the cuts! Such a big gap, they won’t co to inspect carefully tomorrow, will they?"
Thus he instructed the driver again: "Rember, this ti we must cut in scattered bits."
In the Ai Grass among the clumps, Li Wei spreading dicated powder diligently: ...
What could he do?
He returned to the duty room, found a basket for draining vegetable leaves, hung it with a rope around Little Eleven’s neck, and added so dicated powder inside.
"You’re responsible for sprinkling around that side, I’ll handle this side."
Or else, really getting bitten by snakes and insects and facing an extortion would be ugly.
Little Eleven raised its neck, now quietly moving with a basket through the grass clusters.
Second Li Wei huffed and tread carefully, continued safeguarding Li Liu’s safety.
Luckily, this dicated powder was supposed to be spread regularly, else he would truly find it unworthy to go through this fuss for this fool tonight.
And so, they worked and worked.
This plot of over a dozen acres finally had all the dicated powder spread thoroughly. And now, as dawn gently brightens, the sky gradually takes a faint gray hue.
Another half an hour, diligent households in the village should get up.
Li Liu looked as they went back and forth, piling a sharp peak in the small truck bed, feeling deeply satisfied at this mont.
"We should leave too."
"Wait a minute!"
The driver, having a bit more sense, said, "The lights in the duty room are still on, we gotta check just in case there’s any surveillance, if so, delete it."
Sensible reasoning.
The two stealthily advanced towards the duty room, to which Li Wei felt a tinge of emotion: Working all night, gaining that one bit of intelligence, wasn’t easy indeed.
When should they be caught?
Perhaps catch them when they’re deleting the video! They’re all uploaded to the cloud, evidence downloaded long ago, deleting wouldn’t help.
Who would’ve thought, Li Wei soon erged from the inside, happily exclaiming:
"No one there, but the surveillance is still recording."
As soon as he said this, the driver tightened up instantly, then hurriedly urged him: "Quick, delete it."
Li Liu slipped back inside, soon erging again, this ti holding a monitor.
He said triumphantly:
"Deleting bit by bit is too much trouble, I’ll just take this away, see what evidence they’ll still have!"
In the Ai Grass Field, in the car, the security trio fell into a collective silence.
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