Ma Deliang is a meticulous and reliable person.
He had promised Shen Xiaobei to help her find physical evidence, so he was determined to help her find it.
As a scorekeeper, he had a lot of freedom of movement. According to Shen Xiaobei's instructions, he paid special attention to some ditches, places with dense weeds and trees, and places where it would be difficult to be discovered if things were thrown away.
But after searching for more than half an hour, nothing was found.
In their production team, several households raised a few chickens. The food was not enough to feed the people, let alone the chickens, so these chickens were always looking for insects and food.
Any food scraps in any corner will usually end up in the stomachs of these chickens very quickly.
So after Ma Deliang searched around and found nothing, he felt that he should change his thinking.
He should look for food in places where the chickens wouldn't normally look for it.
One place chickens won't go to is the farmlands that are far away. There's no need to look for them because there are usually people working in the fields.
And there is the riverside.
Behind their production team was a long river, with neither the head nor the tail visible.
Chickens cannot swim and only like to move around on land. They rarely go near water. In any case, Ma Deliang has never seen chickens near the river, but he can occasionally see ducks.
After thinking about this, he immediately went to the river with the mood of trying his luck, walked down the river bank, and slowly checked the weeds along the water's edge and walked forward slowly.
In an area covered with dense weeds, he finally discovered something unusual.
There were actually some scattered white rice here. He hurriedly picked up the rice grains one by one and put them into his trouser pockets.
Then he continued to look forward and found some scattered white powder on the mud and weeds in front of him. He picked up some powder with his fingers, twisted it, and put it in his mouth to taste it.
After confirming that it should be flour, he immediately pulled off two weeds that were covered with flour.
Traces of two of the three foods were found. Ma Deliang guessed that the sweet potatoes must have been thrown into the water here.
He hurriedly took off his shoes, rolled up his trousers, and groped his way barefoot along the mud by the river.
After groping for a while, I found a big sweet potato on a piece of mud.
When he saw the sweet potato, he couldn't hide his excitement and continued looking for it. However, after searching for a long time, he only found one more.
But this is enough.
This shows that Shen Xiaobei's guess is correct, and he can report to her with these physical evidences.
Ma Deliang took the two sweet potatoes still covered in mud and the weeds covered in flour, picked up a few large leaves nearby to wrap them up, and then went to find Shen Xiaobei.
While planting rice in the fields in the morning, Shen Xiaobei stood up from time to time to see if Ma Deliang was nearby.
She quickly noticed him when he arrived.
Seeing that he was also looking at her, and seemed quite happy, with something bulging wrapped in leaves in his hand, Shen Xiaobei immediately told Fan Huifang who was not far away that she had a stomachache again and was going to the toilet.
"Lazy people are really good at shitting! Sister Huifang, I think she just wants to be lazy!"
Kong Wanwan saw that Shen Xiaobei had gone to the bathroom several times today and was very dissatisfied with her.
However, Fan Huifang did not take her provocative words to heart. She was very depressed because the food was lost.
Shen Xiaobei went to the toilet closest to the farmland, but even though it was the closest, it was still quite far away and took several minutes to walk.
Ma Deliang deliberately kept a distance from her and followed behind her.
When they reached a deserted place, the two began to talk.
"Horse Scorer, have you found any physical evidence?"
"Yes, Shen Zhiqing! Look at these two sweet potatoes, the flour, and these rice grains. I found them by the river."
"Found it by the river? People wash clothes and vegetables by the river every morning and evening. I didn't expect that! Thank goodness for the horse scorer. You're so thoughtful that you even thought of looking by the river!"
"Haha, Shen Zhiqing is really too kind. So what are you going to do next? Take these physical evidence to confront that person?"
"Yes! But I'll talk to her after work this morning. I'd also like to ask the horse scorer to keep these physical evidence for me first."
"Okay, then whenever you need me, feel free to come find me."
"Well, thank you, Horse Scorer. I'll get back to work now! Tomorrow when I go to the county, I'll bring you a small gift as a thank you!"
"Shen Zhiqing is so polite. No need, no need. It's just a small favor. How can I accept your gift?"
"Okay, Horse Scorer, I'm just telling you about the gift. Don't reject it outright. You can decide whether you want it or not when the time comes! That's all. I have to leave now!"
"Why--"
After Shen Xiaobei finished speaking cheerfully, he immediately trotted away.
Ma Deliang shouted at her back, but didn't know what to say. Then he showed a subtle and happy smile.
She wants to give him a small gift, what will it be?
Although Ma Deliang said that he didn't need it, he still had some expectations in his heart. After all, he had never received any gifts until he was 20 years old.
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A while after Shen Xiaobei and the others came back from work at noon, Ma Jiquan came over.
After Fan Huifang and Deng Yuliang asked him to sit down, everyone discussed the incident of food theft last night in the main room.
"Young educated youth, I've thought about this and think we should all report the theft of your grain to the brigade headquarters and see if the brigade secretary agrees to send two people to our production team to investigate door to door."
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