That day, the long-absent voice of the brigade leader suddenly rang out over the village through the loudspeaker.

The voice was loud and urgent, reaching every household: "Everyone, assemble at the threshing ground! I emphasize, everyone! No one is to be left out!"

“Everyone from every household must come, except for elderly people who cannot walk.”

When Xie Yan and Yu Yue heard the broadcast, they exchanged a glance, and a spark of hope ignited in their eyes.

Xie Yan was both hopeful and incredulous. "Wife, do you think we've found the arsonist?"

Recalling the news his father-in-law had revealed yesterday, his heart began to race.

Yu Yuehui was extremely anxious and urged impatiently, "Let's go, let's go and take a look!"

"Whether it is or not, we'll find out when we get there."

Xie Yan quickly helped the hurried Yu Yuehui, and the two walked briskly towards the wheat field.

On the way, they ran into Gu Bin and his wife, who were also rushing out of their homes.

Their eyes met, and the eagerness and anticipation in each other's eyes were self-evident.

At this moment, no further words were needed; everyone understood each other perfectly and quickened their pace, heading towards the wheat field.

Upon arriving at the threshing ground, they discovered that most of the others had arrived much earlier than they had, with only a few older people who were still on their way.

Everyone waited anxiously, and within two minutes, everyone had arrived.

Everyone's eyes turned to the village officials standing in front, their eyes filled with barely concealed anxiety, eager to know the truth.

Seeing that almost everyone had arrived, Yu Shan knew they were all anxious and didn't waste any more words. He directly invited the police officers behind him to come forward.

There were three police officers who came this time. In addition to the two who had visited the village before, there was a police officer who looked relatively young.

The older police officer looked serious, scanned the room, and then said directly, "I know you are all very anxious, so I won't beat around the bush. The reason I've gathered you all here is because we have found the arsonist behind this fire."

His words were met with an uproar.

Ignoring the commotion below, the old policeman waved to his back, and two people being escorted slowly walked forward.

When everyone looked closely, they saw that it was Wang Yindi, who was heavily pregnant, and an elderly woman with white hair next to her. The moment they came out, no one could believe that it was real.

Several elderly villagers broke down instantly, unable to contain themselves, and rushed forward, shouting through tears, "How dare you! That's the entire village's food supply!"

"You two heartless bastards, how could you do this to me?" she said, waving her arms as she tried to rush forward to teach the two a lesson, but was quickly stopped by the police officers standing in front of her.

"Sir, please don't be anxious, let us finish what we have to say." The police officer tried to stop the agitated old man while patiently calming him down.

The old man was heartbroken and pounded the ground with his fists, crying out, "What else is there to say? Neither of them smokes, they didn't set it on fire on purpose, what other reason could there be!"

As he spoke, he angrily pointed at the white-haired old woman, "You old hag, there's food for your family in here too! How could you be so heartless as to eat it all!"

This white-haired old woman was Wang Mazi's mother.

Normally, she always had a kind and approachable demeanor. Who would have thought that she and Wang Yindi would be the ones to cause this disaster? It's hard for everyone to accept this fact.

"I told you long ago that this old bastard had no good intentions, but you didn't believe me. Now you see!" Wu Da Niang cursed angrily from the crowd.

She had long disliked the old woman's pretentious manner; she appeared gentle and weak on the surface, but was actually quite snobbish.

"They dare to order wheat, what other bad things wouldn't they do!"

The slightly younger villagers, having been taught by their families to be overly concerned with seniority and not to join others in scolding the elders, turned their anger towards Wang Yindi.

They recalled how they had felt pity for her cries and provided her with food and drink, only to be betrayed by her, who burned all their food. It was truly chilling.

The crowd erupted in shouts and curses, and emotions grew increasingly agitated.

Finally, the team leader stepped forward and loudly stopped everyone from hurling insults.

The old policeman then went on to recount the detailed process of the two men burning wheat and the reasons behind it.

It turns out that ever since Wang Yindi learned that she would have to go back to labor camp after giving birth, she had started to have wicked ideas.

She went around trying to persuade the brigade cadres and respected elders in the village to step in and save her life, promising that she would never do it again.

However, both the village officials and the elderly knew that this was a huge responsibility and that they had no way to protect her.

But Wang Yindi didn't think so. She stubbornly believed that these people were deliberately refusing to help her, and her resentment grew deeper and deeper.

In a fit of anger, she came up with the vicious idea of ​​burning the wheat.

In her twisted mind, since she was going to a labor camp anyway, she wouldn't be able to eat much of the food, so what was the point of keeping it?

Let's just burn it, and everyone stop eating it and suffer with her.

As for the possibility of people dying as a result, isn't that just what she wanted?

The old woman was only trying to steal the grain.

Every day, when everyone was eating and the threshing ground was unattended, she would take a small broom and secretly sweep the grain under the haystacks.

The weather had been unusually dry lately, and the wheat stalks had long since dried out. When repeatedly rubbed with a broom, they actually caught fire.

Coincidentally, on that very day, she ran right into Wang Yindi, who was hiding somewhere preparing to set a fire.

With fires breaking out on both sides simultaneously, and fueled by the dry weather, the fire quickly spiraled out of control, leading to this tragic disaster.

Although the two saw each other, they were afraid of being exposed, so they ran away. By the time people nearby saw them, the fires on both sides had already merged together.

The two who ran away worked together perfectly to cover for each other.

The police initially thought they wouldn't be able to find the arsonist and were about to give up when they noticed something unusual about Wang Yindi. With a suspect in mind, they had a direction and quickly found her.

When Wang Yindi realized that his scheme had been exposed, he knew he couldn't take the blame alone. Without even needing a police interrogation, he immediately implicated the other person.

It was someone no one expected.