Chapter 550 The bastard is right in my house, and he is causing a huge stir in his den!

The fire a few months ago was caused by a thief taking advantage of a loophole due to careless precautions. There is still room for discussion on the right and wrong and the anger in my heart.

This time it's different.

This time the bastard is right in my house, causing a huge uproar in his lair!

The farm manager's face turned pale, and the village chief and others were so angry that they kept gritting their teeth.

But it was too late to react, the person had already run far away, and it was too late to catch him now.

Zheng Erhu and his men must have secretly colluded with Peng Yuanliang a long time ago, otherwise they would not have been able to do it so suddenly and without attracting any attention.

Peng Yuanliang was definitely protecting them. Whether he could find the person after chasing them was one thing, but if he found the person and refused to come back, what would it matter if he relied on the indenture to forcibly catch the person who had run away?

The people ran away as fast as they could, and I wouldn't care even if I caught them and beat them to death!

What’s even more terrible is the things taken away by Zheng Erhu and his men!

Seeing Sang Zhixia arrive, there was a moment of silence among the originally extremely angry crowd. Everyone looked at Sang Zhixia with guilt and sadness, their eyes red but unable to say a word.

Yun Gui, who had been promoted by Sang Zhixia to the position of Second Steward, walked forward a few steps with his head lowered. He dropped to his knees with a thud, seemingly unresponsive to the pain. He gritted his teeth and said, "Boss, I failed to live up to your trust. It was my carelessness that gave Zheng Erhu and his gang the opportunity to turn against me."

"It's all my fault. Boss, please punish me. I'll accept any punishment you give me!"

There were originally five people in charge of the farm, with Zheng Erhu as the leader and Yun Gui as the assistant. Two of the remaining three followed Zheng Erhu and ran away, leaving only Wang Jie.

Wang Jie was a man of hot temper. Without even waiting to apologize to Sang Zhixia, he angrily said, "Boss, please take a break first. I'll take people to arrest Zheng Erhu and the others right away!"

"Yes, we must bring them all back!"

Someone in the crowd shouted, "Those who were the traitors will have to wait for God's retribution, but they also took away our seeds!"

"Those seeds must not fall into the hands of such despicable things!"

"That's right! Even if it costs us our lives, we must recover the stolen grain!"

"Grain seeds must not be lost!"

Anyone who has worked on a farm for a long time knows that the key to high farm yields lies in the different types of crops used elsewhere.

Those grain seeds are extremely important treasures. In order to prevent the secrets from being leaked, the people working in the greenhouse are carefully selected by several managers, and no one is allowed to interfere with the subsequent storage.

Now most of the grain in the granary has been taken away by Zheng Erhu, and the remaining grains are all defective and are of no use at all.

Spring plowing is approaching, and the most precious grain seeds have been lost. What should the farm do?

What to do with so many people on the farm?

The anxious atmosphere invisibly enveloped the hearts of everyone present. Some of the more sensitive ones couldn't help but cover their mouths with their hands and cry softly.

"What's going on here..."

"The boss treats us so well, what on earth could have gotten into Manager Zheng and the others that they did something worse than pigs and dogs..."

Suppressed crying spread among the crowd, and Wang Jie, with a dark face and full of anger, was about to chase after the people.

Seeing the crowd rushing to move, Sang Zhixia lowered his eyes, concealing the complex expression in his eyes, and said solemnly, "Stop."

Wang Jie's eyes turned red with anger: "Boss!"

"Zheng Erhu and his men are using sickles to dig at the very core of our farm. They're going too far!"

"If it doesn't happen this time, then..."

"I'd like to get angry, but what good would that do?"

Sang Zhixia said expressionlessly, "The man ran away two days ago, and the things were lost two days ago. If we chase him now, can you catch him and seize him red-handed, or can you recover the lost things intact?"

"You think Zheng Erhu is stupid, but the person who instigated Zheng Erhu to plan this is also stupid?"

People are born by their mothers and raised by their fathers. They only have one face. No matter where they hide, their appearance remains unchanged. As long as someone sees them in person, they can be recognized no matter what.

But what about rice seeds?

There are so many rice seeds in the world, and countless of them grow exactly the same after being sown. Even if one has a pair of sharp eyes, he will not be able to recognize what is what in a mixed place.

If Zheng Erhu and his men were not extremely stupid, they would have already made preparations for stealing things. The rice seeds they took away from the granary might have been mixed into the things prepared by Peng Yuanliang. Who could tell the difference?

If we chase after him now, even if we manage to find the person, we won’t be able to recover the lost things.

Wang Jie choked hard, his eyes bloodshot, and he gasped for breath, "But Boss, are you really going to just let it go like this?"

"Such a big thing, we..."

"Who said that's the end of it?"

Sang Zhixia waved her hand, signaling for peace of mind. She turned to look at Xu Tongsheng, whose face was horrified with rage, and said, "Uncle Xu, I remember you have all the indentures for the people on the farm."

Xu Tongsheng nodded quickly: "Yes, yes, I have always been in charge of the indenture matters."

"The boss said before that in order to prevent people from leaving the farm, anyone who doesn't have a contract will not be allowed to work on the farm again. So everyone on our farm has a contract."

Sang Zhixia never used the indenture contract to pressure others, and was too lazy to bring it up.

But if someone slapped her directly in the face, she wouldn't mind making a scene.

Under the gazes of countless people, Sang Zhixia said, "Give me the indentures of those who escaped and give them to me later."

"Everyone has dispersed now. Go do what you need to do. Don't stay here and make trouble."

Wang Jie was still unwilling to give in: "Boss, those bastards dared to run away, they didn't take the indenture seriously, you..."

"If they can take it lightly, then I can also take their lives lightly."

Sang Zhixia smiled coldly, rubbing her fingertips and saying lightly, "Having a body contract is like selling your life to me. If I say live, you can't die. If I say die, you can't even think about living."

"I don't need the stolen grain seeds, and I'm not that interested in those little details either."

"But no one involved in this matter will have an easy time."

Sang Zhixia was rarely so angry. His frosty eyes swept over everyone one by one, and the scene that had been extremely noisy just now suddenly became silent.

"Yungui, go and count how much grain is left in the granary. If you have a good number, come back and report back in half an hour."

"Wang Jie, take your men to the rice fields that have been designated this year and assess the area. You can estimate the amount of grain seeds needed and tell me if you find any shortfalls."

Sang Zhixia quickly suppressed the potential heated discussion with a few words, quickly closed his eyes and said, "I will investigate the matter of the traitor separately."

"But there's one thing I want everyone to remember: spring is precious and shouldn't be wasted. If you miss it, you'll have to wait another year. There's no need to waste time on things like this."

"Okay, let's all go."