C132 132 Wheat Stolen?

When the harvest time came, the Zhongling Village became more lively.

Many people who had not been home for a long time also squeezed in for a few days to collect wheat.

When Xia Yi stepped out of her room early in the morning, she saw a group of people carrying sickles and walking towards the ground.

After sending another trip to the capital and other towns, Xia Yi gave Uncle Wen two days of leave, so he could go home to collect the wheat.

Uncle Wen felt a little embarrassed, because Xia Yi had already given him enough holidays every month. He had never thought of a job that could allow him to rest for eight days in a month.

Other than that, Xia Yi had also specially given him a wheat harvest vacation, so as to let him come back and collect the wheat.

When he thought about it, he decided to send some firewood to the capital, even though it was the first day of the new year, he still couldn't rest. In these few months, the only time he had rested was because the Prince Mu had cured his water problems.

Xia Yi gave Uncle Wen two whole days worth of wheat recovery leave.

Uncle Wen quickly took back all the wheat in his field and pulled it back along with the cart.

On the second ride back to the village, he took a detour around the same route and passed by Xia Yi's house.

Xia Yi was just about to send some snacks to Granny Liu, when she saw that Uncle Wen was standing in front of his house and was about to knock on the door.

He looked behind Uncle Wen and saw a cart full of wheat. It was as tall as a man and was tied to the carriage with a hemp rope.

"Just come back from the field?" Xia Yi greeted the Uncle Wen.

"Yes." Uncle Wen replied, "I've finished the work on the ground, you have wheat in the ground yet, why don't I help you tomorrow? I still have one more day of my wheat vacation. "

"It's fine, our family is small, Uncle Changsheng said that he will help me in two days, and my Second Uncle also said that he will come back to help." Xia Yi rejected, "If you have the time, you can grind wheat at home."

Uncle Wen laughed: "No need to delay, no need to delay any further. Harvesting more wheat two times is too dry, the head of wheat is easy to bump into, not easy to harvest."

"I don't need these next two days." Xia Yi said, and then she looked into Uncle Wen's eyes, "Uncle Wen, what time did you wake up this morning? "His eyes are burning red."

"Not early, not early." Uncle Wen said as he rubbed his eyes with his sleeve.

In order to quickly finish all his work and help Xia Yi, he woke up early. He didn't rest much at noon, so he just casually ate two mouthfuls of food sent by Aunt Wen.

Xia Yi was very clear that in this era that relied on manpower, to be able to gather all of the wheat within a day must have taken a lot of effort.

So no matter what, she wasn't willing to accept Uncle Wen's help.

Uncle Wen returned home resentfully.

Initially, Xia Yi thought that Uncle Wen had given up, but she didn't expect that she would knock on Xia Yi's door again early the next morning.

"What's wrong, Uncle Wen?" Xia Yi asked.

The Uncle Wen asked somewhat anxiously: "Xia Yi, you went to collect the wheat yesterday night?"

Xia Yi asked somewhat blankly: "No, why would I go and collect wheat at night?"

"The wheat in your field is gone!"

"What do you mean?" The wheat was growing well in the ground, how could he not see it?

Uncle Wen said: "You will know if you follow me to take a look."

On the way to the fields, Uncle Wen told Xia Yi that when he went to collect the wheat yesterday, he specially visited Xia Yi's house.

This morning, he wanted to secretly help Xia Yi take the wheat back, but he found that the wheat field was only left with neat and tidy stubble.

He knew that Xia Yi was still making snacks at home during the day and did not go back to the fields. Instead, he thought that Xia Yi had taken the wheat back overnight.

Now that he asked, he realized that Xia Yi did not know about it. In other words, the wheat in Xia Yi's plot had been stolen …

He had seen the thief who stole rice and needles, but he had never seen the thief who stole wheat for a whole plot of land.

When Uncle Wen arrived at the fields, Xia Yi looked around. The wheat on both sides of the road was growing up well, and only the wheat in her plot of land was missing.

"Uncle Wen, which family are these two from?" Xia Yi asked.

Uncle Wen replied: The land on the left belongs to your Second Uncle, and the one on the right belongs to Chang Sheng.

"If my family was alone in this two acre field, how long would it take to cut all these wheat?" Xia Yi asked again.

Uncle Wen thought for a moment and said: "If I'm alone, I'll need at least a day. Even if my movements are faster, it'll still take at least half a day."

"Then Uncle Wen, did you see who came to my land yesterday?" Xia Yi asked again.

Uncle Wen shook his head and said, "My family's plot of land is quite far away, so I only came to take a look yesterday morning. I don't know what happened during the day. "

"Wait, you said they stole it during the day, isn't that too brazen!" The Uncle Wen said in disbelief.

Xia Yi went down to take a look, and could still see the tracks on the wheat field. The tracks were not narrow, and even overturned the stubble, showing that it was not a small cart.

Furthermore, there were small dewdrops on the overturned wheat stubble, which meant that the wheat in the field wasn't pulled away this morning, but had already been pulled away yesterday. Otherwise, there wouldn't be any dewdrops on the wheat stubble.

"Uncle Wen, look." Xia Yi squatted and pointed out those dewdrops to Uncle Wen.

Uncle Wen had worked all his life and was a very experienced person. After hearing Xia Yi's pointers, he immediately understood.

"This... This is too lawless. " Uncle Wen was too shocked, only saying these words after a long while.

Xia Yi said: "So I deduce, it must be an acquaintance's doing."

With that, she stood up and looked around. The wheat had not been collected yet, and only two families had collected the wheat about 70 to 80 meters in front of her.

From this distance, they might not be able to see anything.

However, if he wanted to go this way, he would have to pass through those two fields …

Thinking about this, Xia Yi asked Uncle Wen about the owners of the two fields.

One of them was Niu Fengzhi's family, so Xia Yi decided to ask Niu Fengzhi about it.

Xia Yi had interacted with Niu Fengzhi a few times and knew that she was warm-hearted. She wouldn't hide anything from him if she saw anything.

Niu Fengzhi carefully thought back to it, and said: "Yesterday, when I finished collecting all the wheat, it was pretty early, so I really didn't pay attention to who was going to your house."

"Who did Aunt Fengzhi see going in that direction yesterday?" Xia Yi asked in a different way.

After saying a few names, she suddenly thought of something and said: "That's right, I saw your Second Aunt yesterday, and her family's brothers have come to help collect the wheat. You said that your Second Uncle is a real Second Uncle, but I haven't come back to help me with anything these past two years …"

She didn't hear what Niu Fengzhi said after that, but the two words "Second Aunt" were extremely clear.

She thought... She should head over to Mao Cuilan's home now.