As the two were talking, Li Mancang and his men came over from a distance.

"What are you talking about?" Li Mancang asked.

"Uncle Erniu is imparting his experience to me!" Xu Jianguo said with a smile.

"That's right, learn more from him, it will do you good!"

"Uncle, hurry up and eat, it will get cold soon."

"Okay, then I'll eat first. Erniu, if you're done eating, go back and rest early. You've been exhausted these past two days!"

"Don't worry, I'll go back after I finish arranging the tasks."

By the time everyone finished dinner, it was already dark.

Li Erniu followed Li Mancang and began to arrange the patrol area for everyone tonight.

Since today is the first day of autumn harvest, the dozen or so terraces on the highest point have been harvested, but an area for drying grain has been added, so tonight's patrol mission is divided into fixed and mobile posts.

The fixed post is mainly responsible for the threshing ground, while the mobile post is mainly responsible for the remaining fields that have not yet been harvested.

Xu Jianguo was assigned to a mobile post, mainly responsible for a cornfield area to the east of the village, which was also the field closest to the threshing ground.

This was the result of a joint discussion between Li Mancang and Li Erniu. They knew that Xu Jianguo was skilled, so they hoped that he could also take care of the threshing ground so that they could provide timely support in case of any situation.

After receiving the task, Xu Jianguo went to the cornfield with Li Yuqiang from the same village. Li Yuqiang was the youngest son of Li Changxing, the brigade accountant.

"Brother Yuqiang, how about I go to the northeast and you go to the southeast?" Xu Jianguo said.

"Okay, no problem!" said Li Yuqiang.

After discussing for a while, the two of them each went to their respective areas and began to stroll around the fields.

In order to conceal his night vision ability, Xu Jianguo quietly took out a flashlight from the space and began patrolling at a frequency of twenty minutes.

Before we knew it, it was midnight. Sandaliang Village was unusually quiet at this time, with only the occasional chirping of insects and birds.

Xu Jianguo looked at the dark moon in the sky, turned off the flashlight and hid in the cornfield beside the field. He took out a bowl of well water from the space and drank it. The cool well water refreshed him and his fatigue disappeared without a trace.

"Jianguo!" Suddenly a soft cry was heard.

"Here!" Xu Jianguo quickly turned on his flashlight and shone it over. Seeing that it was Li Yuqiang, he asked, "What's going on, Brother Yuqiang?"

"It's okay. I saw it wasn't bright over here, so I came over to take a look."

"I think it's a bit stupid to walk around the fields with a flashlight. After all, they are in the dark, and my flashlight is like being in the light. If thieves come and see the flashlight, they will definitely hide. Wouldn't our deployment be in vain? So I hid and planned to use the flashlight when there was movement. It would be in time."

Li Yuqiang thought for a moment and said, "Okay, who did you learn this from?"

"Hehe, I was just thinking about it. Brother Yuqiang, let's divide the work. You stay in the open and I stay in the dark. If someone dares to steal the food, we will catch him by surprise. How about it?"

"Okay, I'll do as you say!"

"Okay, Brother Yuqiang, if you get tired, call me and we can switch."

"What's so tiring about this? Just stay put."

"good!"

After Li Yuqiang finished speaking, he walked back to his original position with a flashlight, while Xu Jianguo continued to hide in the cornfield and observe.

It was 2 a.m. when a slight sound of footsteps came from the darkness not far away.

Xu Jianguo immediately sat up straight and looked in the direction of the voice.

Then Li Deli from the village came quietly towards the threshing ground.

Li Deli is in his 20s. Although his surname is Li, he is also an outsider like Xu Jianguo. His grandfather used to run a grain store in the county and his family was well-off. Later, during the Agrarian Revolution, he was labeled a landlord and died in the criticism and struggle. His grandmother took her only son to hide in her mother's home, which is now Sandaliang Village.

When Li Deli was two years old, his mother ran away secretly because she couldn't stand the poverty. A few years later, his father also disappeared after going into the mountains to hunt. Li Deli had to depend on his grandmother.

Because of his background, Li Deli was often bullied by other children in the village since he was a child. However, the taciturn boy never defended himself or argued with others. He just silently endured the beatings and insults from these people, and finally wiped the blood off his head and patted the dirt off his body, as if nothing had happened.

When Xu Jianguo was very young, he was once asked why he didn't resist?

Li Deli said: "They stop beating us when they get tired of beating us, and stop scolding us when they get tired of scolding us. If you resist, they will only make things worse."

At that time, Xu Jianguo did not understand Li Deli. It was not until he grew up that he realized that this might just be a way for Li Deli to protect himself, an attitude of having to compromise with reality.

Despite this, Xu Jianguo only understood his ideas, but did not agree with his approach.

After all, if you even look down on yourself, how can you expect others to look up to you? To use a saying from later generations, "If you are not brave, who will be strong for you?"

Xu Jianguo threw away the memories in his mind and stared at Li Deli. He saw him walk to the edge of the field not far from Xu Jianguo. The gentleman looked at Li Yuqiang who was on patrol, then squatted down, made a trumpet shape with his hands, and called "coo coo coo" several times towards the distance, the sound was short and long, as if sending some signal.

A moment later, the same sound was heard in the darkness in the distance. Xu Jianguo knew that the thief was coming!

He could never have imagined that Li Deli would actually join forces with outsiders. Although it is still unknown whether these people's purpose is food, the fact that they are communicating in such a special way at this time means that there must be a secret between them.

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