Chapter 386: Chapter 385 Collecting Intelligence
Raising tigers, such an unparalleled great idea, Su Yuncheng didn’t even dare to ntion it to the team leader.
He was worried that the old man wouldn’t be able to catch his breath, and the whole village would have a feast.
Li Dahe was dragged back to the team headquarters, smoked a bag of cigarettes, and then furrowed his brow and asked, “What do you an? Say it again.”
Su Yuncheng said each word clearly, but when put together, why couldn’t he understand?
What acorns? What luring down the mountain?
Could a brain kicked by every donkey in the commune co up with such a harmful idea?
Lin Nianhe saw his incredulous expression and could only take the manuscript paper on the table, drawing and kneading it into pieces while explaining the cause and effect again.
After listening, Li Dahe still refused to admit that he understood.
What could he not understand?
It was just that—
“Xiao Su, it’s not that I don’t trust you, but this thing doesn’t make sense, you understand? What is this for? This…”
“Uncle Team Leader, you just don’t trust.”
Lin Nianhe kindly reminded.
Then she got kicked by Li Dahe.
“Cough cough…” Li Dahe, distressed, stroked his hair three tis, and looking at the broken hair on his fingernails, the old man’s face wrinkled like a bitter lon, “I do trust our village folks, we’ve all been together for so many years and know each other well… Yes, I admit, everyone might have so minor flaws, but accusing them of wanting to commit murder, that’s absolutely impossible!”
Li Dahe’s tone was very firm, and his expression was as unwavering as the few hairs still clinging to the top of his head.
“I also don’t think it was soone from our village,” said Su Yuncheng, “I would like to ask if there has been anyone recently in the village who has been on bad terms with others, or seen any suspicious figures.”
“This…”
Li Dahe wrinkled his brow in deep thought.
He had been so busy lately he hadn’t paid attention to these minor details.
He hesitated for a long ti and couldn’t co up with an explanation, so Su Yuncheng said, “If possible, I would like to talk to the villagers.”
Li Dahe, as if suffering toothache, gnawed his teeth and nodded, “Alright, we can’t be at ease without a resolution to this matter, so you…”
Lin Nianhe raised her hand, “Or maybe I should ask.”
“You?”
“It’s just about finding out who has been to the village recently,” Lin Nianhe fixed her scarf and said, “Brother Yuncheng is from Public Security, the villagers would surely be nervous if you asked them, and it would end up just like Uncle Team Leader, unable to rember anything. Let do it, to avoid causing everyone worry.”
As she spoke, she waved at Su Yuncheng, “Wait for my triumphant news!”
She ran off quickly and Su Yuncheng couldn’t stop her; he could only turn to ask Li Dahe, “Team leader, what do you think…”
Li Dahe cut him off with a frown, “I don’t think yet, you think first—am I unable to rember because I’m nervous?”
Su Yuncheng: “…”
Before Su Yuncheng could speak, Li Dahe took his speechlessness as agreent, slapped his thigh, “Exactly, this little rascal just babbles nonsense every day. Nervous? What do I have to be nervous about?”
“…”
Lin Nianhe went out the door, heading straight to the grain drying yard.
At the grain drying yard, they had already started dividing the wild boar at, with ice-tinged blood spreading in a small pool on the ground. Strips of dark red at were cut, and nobody found the sll of the at unpleasant.
“Ouch, Miss Lin, why did you just get here? Co over here, co to , you’re afraid of the cold, don’t freeze.” Aunt Li, standing at the front of the line, vigorously waved at Lin Nianhe.
Lin Nianhe, with her hands tucked in her sleeves, walked over, grinning and said, “No need, Aunt Li, I’m dressed warmly, not afraid of the cold.”
“You see, you child, why don’t you listen,” Aunt Li directly took action, pulling Lin Nianhe to the front, and she didn’t forget to look around at the other aunts and shout, “We’ve all heard that Xiao Su shot these wild boars. If it weren’t for him, how could we have at? Isn’t it right to give you guys a bit more and let you pick first?”
With Aunt Li calling out like this, everyone around, n and won alike, even those chopping the wild boar at stopped wielding their knives and responded:
“Right, right. Let Miss Lin pick first!”
“Even if it doesn’t concern her, what’s wrong with letting the kid pick first?”
“Exactly, Miss Lin go to the front, don’t get sick again from the cold, we’re all used to this weather, hurry up.”
“Hey listen, you still have to teach the children too!”
Lin Nianhe just said “no”, then was pushed to the front by the villagers, one hand after another.
Facing the kindness of the villagers, Lin Nianhe wanted to laugh but felt helpless.
She wasn’t here to get pork!
She had other serious matters!
But with the atmosphere pushed to this, Lin Nianhe could only take her portion of pork first.
Without knowing before, she was startled once she received it.
Including the one from the mountain, there were eleven wild boars in total, the largest being three hundred sixty pounds, the smallest over eighty pounds. According to the rules of Ten Miles Team, each person could get thirteen pounds of at.
Exaggeratingly speaking, that was more than a city dweller’s annual at ration.
Thank goodness it was winter, outdoor is a natural freezer, so there was no worry about the at going bad.
Looking at the bright red heap of at, Lin Nianhe was sowhat worried.
First worry was how to handle these ats while attending to her affairs, second was how she could finish eating so much.
Inside the team office, Su Yuncheng was pondering today’s strange wild boar case, when the door creaked open and then Lin Nianhe lifted the door curtain and entered.
“Finished asking?”
Su Yuncheng and Li Dahe asked simultaneously.
Lin Nianhe handed the wild boar at to Su Yuncheng, seemingly helpless said, “Not yet, I haven’t even started talking, the aunties and uncles insisted on not getting tired from queuing and had get the at first, I couldn’t even refuse… Everyone cares too much for , I feel so undeserving!”
That smug little look, as if asking Li Dahe: Uncle, do you get this treatnt when you go out?
Li Dahe: “Scram!”
Lin Nianhe: “Alright.”
Lin Nianhe put down the at and quickly rolled out again.
She had to roll out, she had already seen Uncle Team Leader’s fidgeting feet under the table, if she didn’t hurry away she would definitely get kicked.
Lin Nianhe stayed outside a bit longer this ti, probably for over twenty minutes before coming back.
When she returned, her hands and pockets were full of sunflower seeds, peanuts, and a few hazelnuts.
She sat by the stove, roasting by the fire while cracking seeds, her delicate little mouth opening and closing, without affecting her reporting to Su Yuncheng: “Uncle He and He Jianjun visited our team three tis this past week, for delivery and collecting raw materials, they exchanged a total of two hundred seventy thousand boxes of matches… Apart from the two of them, no one from Nine-miles Team ca except for the kids going to school.”
“As for Victory Team, a few lads ca over. Three nights ago, Aunt Wang was startled awake from a dream where the sauerkraut at her ho had spoiled. She went out after ten o’clock to check on the sauerkraut, and coincidentally saw a few boys. She thought they were thieves and called out to them; they said they were looking for Zhao Zhuangshi. Aunt Wang even told them about the injury Zhuangshi had suffered, and after exchanging a few words with Aunt Wang, they left.”
“Aunt Wang said she recognized the leader, he was Captain Cao’s nephew, nad Liu Jun.”
“Oh right, also, Aunt Wang’s sauerkraut was not spoiled.”
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