"Oh my god, all our grain is gone! All gone!"
"What?" Zhou Fugui's head buzzed instantly. He didn't care about arguing with the villagers anymore and rushed to the granary with his shiny bald head.
That was their family's guarantee of stability during famine years; if it were gone, the Zhou family would be finished.
After seeing the contents, Zhou Fugui couldn't even cry anymore. To be on the safe side, he had hidden the grain in several places, but now, apart from two relatively hidden underground vaults, all the grain was gone.
"Who was it? Which bastard did this—?"
The two real "bastards" were sitting comfortably at the dining table, eating the breakfast that Liu Xiaoyu had carefully prepared, while listening to Qinglong describe the scene at that time.
"Nine Strings, really, why did you shave his head? It's so dirty. Who knows how long it's been since he washed his hair? The grease is so thick, tsk tsk." Luo Xi said sarcastically while stirring the porridge in the bowl to cool it down.
"It's just a haircut, why would I need to touch him?" Jiuxian slowly took a bite of his steamed bun, but then, as if remembering something, a hint of disgust appeared on his face.
He pinched two fingers together and tossed the dagger used in the crime last night, along with its sheath, to Qinglong: "Here you go."
Azure Dragon: "..."
He doesn't want it either.
Zhou Cang, the one who truly instigated this incident, only learned about it when he returned from buying cattle that evening.
Now that he knew Luo Xi quite well, he immediately guessed that Luo Xi was standing up for him, and his eyes reddened again: "The Boss is truly, truly... benevolent!"
Zhou Yan, who went with him to herd the cattle, was somewhat worried: "Uncle, do you think Zhou Fugui might guess that it was the chief who did it? If he goes to the county government to report it, won't that be bad for the chief?"
After spending so much time together, Zhou Yan's dissatisfaction with Luo Xi had completely disappeared, and he now considered her needs in every way.
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