He raised his right hand: "Captain, I want to report something."

The captain assumed he knew who the thief was: "Who are you reporting?"

"I want to report Lin Zhiheng, a former educated youth, because I suspect he stole money from everyone at the educated youth settlement."

Lin Zhiheng was wrongly accused again and immediately lost his composure. He yelled at Lin Guanghui, "Lin Guanghui, you're making false accusations again! You say I stole money, can you produce any evidence?"

“Captain, I have evidence to support my report against Lin Zhiheng.”

He then told the brigade leader about Lin Zhiheng's past as a beggar in Jinshi, how he had been smiling just now, and how he and Lin Zhiheng had pulled peanut vines together.

Lin Zhiheng said, "Captain, Lin Guanghui used to be a local thug in Jinshi. He often robbed and plundered with a group of hooligans. He did a lot of bad things. Today, he was working when he suddenly had a stomachache. I think he was faking it so that he could sneak back to steal money while he was in the toilet. He must have stolen that money."

"Little beggar, you stole it."

"It was you, Lin Guanghui, who stole it."

"You must provide evidence when you speak."

"You say I stole it, do you have any proof?"

The two started arguing again.

The captain disliked Lin Guanghui intensely, but he didn't stop them from arguing for the time being. He just observed them quietly, and no one else stepped forward to stop them.

After a while, the captain waved his hand to stop them.

"You two stop arguing. Someone will investigate this matter. There's no point in arguing anymore." He glanced at the stove in the kitchen. "You haven't eaten yet, have you? Hurry up and cook and eat. You all have to go to work this afternoon. Don't let this delay your work. Hurry up, whoever is supposed to cook, go and cook. It's time for everyone to get to work."

Today, Song Qingfang and Shen Man were cooking. The two of them quickly went into the kitchen and started cooking.

The brigade leader hadn't eaten yet, so he called out to Lu Zhengting, and the two of them left the educated youth settlement together to go home.

After they left the educated youth settlement and walked for a while, the brigade leader asked Lu Zhengting, "Do you think it might be that Lin Guanghui?"

Lu Zhengting shook his head: "Although I don't know if it's that Lin Guanghui, I'm sure it's not Lin Zhiheng."

The brigade leader chuckled: "You wouldn't be so sure that you don't suspect Xiao Lin's brother just because of her, would you?"

Lu Zhengting looked at him and asked, "Uncle, what do you think?"

“I also think that this young comrade Lin Zhiheng is more innocent. After all, he doesn’t look like a person with bad intentions. On the contrary, Lin Guanghui doesn’t look like a good person at all.”

Lu Zhengting smiled and said, "Uncle, I'm looking at this from an objective perspective."

Although he also believed that Lin Qingyan's younger brother was not a bad person.

The captain smiled and lowered his head, saying nothing more.

In the afternoon, the educated youth went to work in the fields as usual. In order not to disturb the thief from returning the money, Gu Mingzhou listened to what the brigade leader said and went to the fields with Lin Sisi again, but he had no intention of helping Lin Sisi with the work.

Lin Qingyan had nothing to worry about, because thanks to the existence of the spatial dimension, she and Lin Zhiheng successfully avoided the theft of their money.

She suddenly remembered someone: Shen Man. Whether Shen Man was a reborn person or a transmigrator, she might have a personal space.

If Shen Man had a spatial ability, it would be too easy for her to steal everyone's things without them noticing.

But Shen Man also seemed unhappy at noon. Plus, she was working in the fields, so it wasn't easy for her to get out of other people's sight.

She was neither the thief nor did she have a personal space.

Who could be the person who stole the money?

As she walked along carrying her bamboo basket, she turned around and saw Shen Man in the field. Not far from Shen Man, she also saw Aunt Liu.

If you want to know if Shen Man has been working in the fields all morning, just ask Aunt Liu.

Although she hadn't lost anything, that beast Lin Guanghui was relentlessly framing Lin Zhiheng, and she didn't want others to suspect Lin Zhiheng. If the real culprit could be found, Lin Zhiheng's innocence could be completely proven.

So she walked over to Aunt Liu.

Aunt Liu was working with her head down when she heard footsteps. When she saw it was Lin Qingyan, she smiled and said, "Little educated youth, is there any news from your educated youth settlement that you came here specifically to tell this old woman?"

Lin Qingyan sighed inwardly, thinking that Aunt Liu was indeed a professional gossip enthusiast, always able to capture the shadow of news and gossip no matter when or where.

Judging from what Aunt Liu said, it can be concluded that the loudspeaker is unaware of what happened at the educated youth settlement that morning.

She looked at Shen Man not far away and asked Aunt Liu, "Auntie, I want to ask you, was that educated youth Shen in the fields all morning?"

Aunt Liu wasn't straightforward; she wouldn't answer Lin Qingyan's questions directly. She had to dig out some gossip from them first.

"Young educated youth, why are you asking this? Whether or not Shen, the educated youth, is in the fields, what does it have to do with you?"

"I was just asking casually. If you don't want to tell me, that's fine too."

Lin Qingyan was about to leave when Aunt Liu grabbed her arm. "Little educated youth, tell me, is she trying to steal your man? You suspect she's not working and is secretly having an affair with your man?"

Lin Qingyan was utterly impressed by Aunt Liu's gossipy abilities.

"Auntie, don't talk nonsense, I don't have a boyfriend."

"That means you're not virgins yet, but you're interested in each other. You two women are vying for one man."

"Auntie, if you don't want to tell me, then don't guess."

"Alright, alright, Aunt Liu will tell you." Seeing that she couldn't squeeze any more gossip out of her, Aunt Liu told Lin Qingyan the truth: "She was in the fields all morning, and we even ran into her when she went to relieve herself in the nearby grove."

"Oh." She took two fruit candies out of her pocket and stuffed them into Aunt Liu's hand: "Thank you for telling me, Auntie."

As soon as Aunt Liu saw the candy, she immediately forgot all about gossip and quickly took it.

Lin Qingyan said goodbye to her and then left.

I also went to check on Lin Zhiheng and found that he was working normally, so I wasn't worried anymore. Then I went to the place where we were cutting pig feed.

At the foot of the mountain, Da Hu, Er Hu, and several other children had already started working.

Lin Qingyan walked over and saw that there was still a lot of grass here, so she put down her bamboo basket and cut pig feed with them.

Because the density of the grass was limited, it was impossible for everyone to stay together indefinitely. Lin Qingyan was on the very edge of the group, and she was getting further and further away from them.

Lin Qingyan cut half a bamboo basket of grass. Seeing that there wasn't much grass left, she decided to move to a place with more grass. She would look for it first and then call the children over when she found it.