For the first time, Southern Opera gained a concrete understanding of the historical cowshed.
The cowshed is located at the end of Hongxing Village. This area is unsuitable for farming, so the village leveled it with a stone roller to make a wheat threshing ground. The harvested crops from the village are transported here to be dried and hulled.
The leftover wheat stalks, bean stalks, and the like are used to feed cattle.
Hongxing Village is located in a plain area with a lot of land around it. The cowsheds in the village are all rammed earth and thatched houses. The winters here are very cold, so the cowsheds all have two doors, with a trough in the middle. To feed the cattle, you only need to go in through the front door.
The cowshed is large enough for five or six cows to live in together.
When Nanqu and his group arrived, it wasn't the busy farming season, so there was no need to use oxen for labor. Usually, after feeding the oxen in the morning, they would lead them out of the cowshed and tether them in an open space to bask in the sun.
If someone is diligent, they will simply clean out the cow dung from the cowshed. Of course, Nanqu glanced at the person cleaning the cow dung and estimated from the amount of dung that it hadn't left the pen for several days.
The cows have gone out, and the ventilation inside has been turned on.
The people undergoing labor reform below live in front of the cowshed. Originally, the area in front of the cowshed was used to graze cattle, but now it is occupied by people undergoing labor reform.
Besides Wang Minsheng, whom Nan Qu knew, there was another man who looked to be in his forties and three men who looked to be in their sixties who were undergoing labor reform here.
I didn't see any couples coming together in Nanqu. But that's fine, it's more relaxed when a large group of men are together.
To accommodate Nanqu, who was a young girl, the villagers kindly arranged for Zheng Jianmin to stay in the nearby tool shed. The tool shed was used to store oxcarts, farming tools, and chaff cutters.
In addition, some chopped hay was placed there.
Since it's temporary, there's naturally no possibility of having a bed.
That night, Nan Qu slept on an oxcart covered with straw, while Zheng Jianmin huddled in a pile of weeds.
Because Nanqu was active at night, she naturally pretended to be asleep and fooled Zheng Jianmin.
Just as Nan Qu was about to make a move, she heard a noise outside and closed her eyes again.
"Don't worry, I checked outside, there's no one else. I pretended to go to the restroom. I never expected you'd be assigned this mission too."
Hearing that it was Wang Minsheng, Nan Qu thought it was perfect, saving her the trouble of going to find him.
At this moment, under Zheng Jianmin's thick coat, Nan Qu had already taken out poison from her spatial storage. Because both of them knew martial arts, and this body was only two years old, she couldn't be careless.
Just as Nan Qu was about to make her move, she heard Zheng Jianmin say:
"I didn't expect to see you here either. By the way, you're more capable than me. Did you find out who attacked us behind our backs last time?"
Speaking of this, Wang Minsheng said helplessly, "Don't even mention it. My boss laughed me to death. I've never been so humiliated in my life. Fortunately, the old guy from the research institute was caught. The mission is considered accomplished, otherwise, I would have just smashed my head against a wall and killed myself. Didn't you notice?"
Zheng Jianmin said helplessly, "If you didn't notice, how could I? Not to mention you, I also got scolded by my boss and then was taken back."
However, to be fair, it was probably done by some reclusive master. But this person's intentions weren't bad. Otherwise, they wouldn't have sent us to the Ministry of National Defense.
Nan Qu paused, what did that mean? Were they enemy agents?
Just as Nan Qu was having doubts, she heard Wang Minsheng say, "The original plan was to wait for that old guy to send out the information, and then we could catch all these people in one fell swoop along this line. But what happened was that all the people we were tracking, including the old guy's men, were sent to the Ministry of National Defense. The whole plan has been disrupted."
Zheng Jianmin recalled his old commander's orders and asked, "So, your mission this time is the same as mine? To protect Mr. Lian?"
"More or less, but my mission is to find out that there are enemy agents around the old man, so the leader sent me here to find that person."
Nan Qu was stunned after hearing this. So, these two were good people? If so, then it would be understandable that they were released.
No, if that's the case, then what's the point of having space here?
She even wanted to kill those two, so isn't this awkward?
Nan Qu put the poison back into her spatial storage, feeling a sense of relief. It seemed that it wasn't that enemy agents were controlling them within the national defense system, but rather that these were all good comrades who had been released.
Also, it's really great that Zheng Jianmin isn't an enemy agent.
She really didn't want to be the daughter of an enemy agent.
Wang Minsheng said a few more words and then left.
Zheng Jianmin got up and glanced at his "sleeping" daughter, feeling even more guilty.
It's his fault. Not only did he not look for his daughter immediately after she went missing, but now he's making her suffer like this.
Remembering his former leader's words, Zheng Jianmin began to waver.
Perhaps he really should find someone else; at least then his daughter will have someone to take care of her.
But when he thought of his wife, Zheng Jianmin felt a pang of sadness and was conflicted.
Gently stroking his daughter's forehead, Zheng Jianmin returned to the haystack once more.
Hearing Zheng Jianmin's steady breathing, Nan Qu knew that Zheng Jianmin had fallen asleep and opened her eyes.
The next second, Nan Qu's figure disappeared.
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