Chapter 86 Poisoning
Watermelon field.
Ye Xiaomei rushed into the yard without even bothering to tack her bicycle and threw it outside the door.
I watched my mother kneeling in the sheepfold in the yard, hugging a sheep and crying.
"Mom, please let me see it quickly." Ye Xiaomei stopped beside the dead sheep and pulled her mother up first.
"Xiao Mei, what should we do? They are all dead...all dead."
Zhao Mei cried so hard that she couldn't even get up. She just sat on the sheep dung, leaned against the gate and patted her legs.
Ye Xiaomei felt extremely distressed when she saw this. She understood her mother's reaction very well. These sheep cost more than three hundred yuan, plus the rabbit breeding cubs, a total of five hundred yuan.
This does not include the labor costs of daily lawn mowing, and the investment of 30 cents per pound of wheat bran. The most important thing is that no one can bear the sudden loss of hope.
Ye Xiaomei checked the situation and found that all six sheep had stopped breathing. She ran to the rabbit cage and saw that only three were dead.
So fast?
"Mom, don't worry, I will get to the bottom of this matter." Ye Xiaomei carried a dead sheep and a dead rabbit.
The dead sheep was hung on the back seat and the rabbit was hung on the handlebars. When they hurried to the county veterinary station, they heard that it was poisoning. Ye Xiaomei was shocked.
I had to pretend to be calm and asked politely:
"Boss, can you tell what kind of poison this is?"
The boss was a man in his fifties. He seemed to be used to this and said slowly:
"There are many cases of livestock poisoning this season, most of which are caused by the use of paraquat, which is poisonous on the grass."
Paraquat?
Ye Xiaomei had only heard that because the annual harvest was not much, families with dung would use this stuff as feed. Later, some people used chemical fertilizers, and the crops did grow a dark green color.
Later, paraquat was invented, and weeding was no longer necessary. However, only families with better conditions could afford it. 90% of the people in Meihua Village could not afford it, and would rather work harder to save money.
"Girl, if you raise these things in the future, you must be careful." The eldest master looked at the delicate-looking Ye Xiaomei and reminded her reluctantly:
“Even if you cut grass in the wild, you have to wash it and dry it before feeding it to sheep and rabbits.”
After saying that, the boss sighed as he turned around to look for something: "I have no choice. Farmers are all using these now. If I don't keep up, I won't be able to open this store, okay..."
He turned around and took out a brown plastic bottle: "This is the medicine."
Ye Xiaomei stared at the name on the bottle of medicine - Paraquat.
"No!" Ye Xiaomei's eyes turned cold and she turned and left.
"Your rabbits and sheep..." the boss shouted.
Ye Xiaomei ignored him and got on her bike and pedaled hard towards home.
When they arrived at the watermelon field, they found that it was surrounded by villagers. The news that Ye Xiaomei and her mother raised sheep and rabbits had already spread everywhere.
Now everyone looked and saw that they were all dead.
Even the three rabbits that were still alive when Ye Xiaomei left were gone.
——What a pity.
——Yes, it’s autumn now, and winter is coming soon. The price of mutton will go up. It would be a real waste if they died.
Wang Dazui, the former neighbor of the Ye family, felt distressed. Just a few hundred yuan was gone just like that. He quickly went to the place of delivery to support Zhao Mei:
"Zhao Mei, don't be too sad. If you die, we can raise you. If your body collapses, there will be no hope."
Ye Xiaomei suddenly walked around the yard and found the corn seedlings piled in the corner:
"Mom, when did you harvest these corn seedlings?"
Zhao Mei's nose was full of snot and she continued to cry, "Yesterday afternoon, my mother thought that rabbits and sheep would like to eat it, so I went for a walk again. As soon as I left the house, I ran into your aunt who kindly gave me a lot of it, saying that it was freshly harvested."
"..." Ye Xiaomei's mind exploded. Auntie? She knew that she was lazy and gluttonous, and they would argue over household chores, but she never thought that Auntie was so vicious.
She didn't say anything, but just said to the people watching the excitement outside: "Auntie Wu and Auntie Zhang, don't worry, it's noon now, go home and talk again another day."
The crowd then disappeared one after another.
The moment Ye Xiaomei closed the door, she pressed her back against it, lowered her head and took a deep breath to suppress the pain in her heart.
"Mom, Mom?" Ye Xiaomei pulled her mother, who was sitting on the doorstep with her head leaning against the door frame, looking utterly at a loss.
"Don't worry, are you sure it was delivered to your door by Auntie? There are no other seedlings?"
Ye Xiaomei was also sitting on the doorstep.
Zhao Mei wiped away her silent tears and nodded.
Ye Xiaomei couldn't help but frown and confirm again: "Didn't my mother and I bring back a lot of land a few days ago? We only have four acres of land, didn't my mother pick all the land a long time ago? How come there are still some?"
Zhao Mei was suddenly stunned and forgot her sadness: "Yes."
In previous years, Zhao Mei always took the children to work at the Ye family. She knew very well how much land there was at home and how long it would take to finish the work.
"So, where are you from?"
Ye Xiaomei already had the answer in mind: "Mom, maybe you'll understand if we go and take a look."
Ye family's territory.
Zhao Mei looked at her own field and then at the field next door, and immediately frowned: "Why are the corn seedlings so far apart?"
Ye Xiaomei nodded: "Yes, I remember when I went to the fields with my mother, the corn was about half a step apart. Look, it's so sparse."
Not only were they sparse, each corn field was two meters apart. Compared with the corn field next door, my own looked like a semi-abandoned wilderness, with a corn field appearing every few days.
Ye Xiaomei glanced at the grass growing on the ground, all of it was dry and yellow.
"Mom, wait for me." Ye Xiaomei's eyes were as sharp as torches, and she squeezed out a few words from between her teeth.
"What are you waiting for?" Zhao Mei burst into tears when she heard this: "They are all dead, how can I wait for this day, my lady?"
When Zhao Mei was at the Ye family, she was very short of money. Li Cuihua was so stingy with money that it was impossible for her to spend money to buy herbicides. Zhao Mei naturally didn't think of this.
Ye Xiaomei felt a pang in her heart and hurriedly comforted him: "Although the meat cannot be eaten because of the poisoning, the rabbit is dead and its fur is still there. Let's go home and cut off the rabbit's fur first. This is called reducing loss costs."
The mother and daughter didn't say a word that afternoon. Zhao Mei cut the rabbit's fur while crying, touching the rabbit's cold body.
After the hair was sheared, the rabbit turned blue all over, and anyone who saw it felt like a knife was stabbed in the heart.
Ye Xiaomei pretended to be calm and dug a hole at the foot of the mountain outside the yard and buried the rabbit.
Seeing that her mother did not follow her, Ye Xiaomei put down the shovel, squatted on the ground, covered her face, and tears flowed down her fingers.
After an unknown amount of time, the sun set in the west and the sky was filled with morning glow. Ye Xiaomei rubbed her face and looked back at the soft land, as if she saw the dozen rabbits she had buried.
"Mom, I will sell the cut rabbit hair tomorrow morning, and it will definitely not delay Xiaoya's tuition."
After saying this, Ye Xiaomei felt as if everything in her body had been drained away, and returned home exhausted.
She didn't eat a single bite of dinner.
Wang Lan called her outside, but Ye Xiaomei didn't want to respond. She was thinking about what to do next.
Moreover, the deaths of the rabbit and the sheep were obviously man-made. Originally, she still considered that they were all family, but the old lady was too cruel. Ye Xiaomei immediately decided to report it to the police station.
Ye Xiaomei has read Ma Qijun's books, especially the Civil Code, Constitution, Criminal Law, etc.
Early in the morning, Ye Xiaomei tied the snakeskin bag filled with rabbit fur to the back seat and headed for the county town at daybreak.
When they arrived at the county police station, Ye Xiaomei stretched her head and glanced at the clock on the wall inside the security room - it was half past seven.
After more than ten minutes, police officers in green began to arrive for work one after another, some of them carrying breakfast.
Finally, at eight o'clock, Ye Xiaomei was let in. She parked her bicycle under a tree and walked towards the place to inquire.
The receptionist at the front desk took a bite of the dough stick and asked while chewing, "What can I do for you?"
"I want to call the police. Someone has deliberately poisoned me. I want them to compensate me for my losses." Ye Xiaomei has read a lot of books, but she doesn't know how to negotiate, so she had to tell the reason and the result she wanted first.
The girl eating the fried dough sticks was so scared that her eyes widened.
Poisoning? Isn't that harming people?
The girl was too busy to eat. She picked up the yellowed landline phone and dialed a short code: "Captain, someone has reported poisoning."
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