After the people of Xujiazhuang learned that someone had poisoned the plants, they began to investigate under Xu Peng's leadership.
After receiving the news, the people at the man's house immediately left Xujiazhuang via mountain paths.
When Xu Peng and his men went to the man's house, they couldn't find him.
"Your cousin and the others have left?"
Hearing what Captain Xu said, Xu Yang felt a little guilty.
"Uncle, they just came to visit my mother and me, and left after one day."
Upon hearing Xu Yang's words, Captain Xu frowned and looked into his room.
"Go in and look for them."
I searched all over, but couldn't find anyone.
Xu Yang said, feigning confusion.
"Uncle, what happened?"
He knew perfectly well what was going on, but at that moment, he could only pretend he knew nothing.
"What happened? You don't know what happened? Xu Yang, your dad and I are good brothers, and you're the only kid from our village who went to high school. Your dad has helped the villagers a lot before, so the villagers specifically reserved this job for you..."
Upon hearing this, Xu Yang's eyes widened, and he said.
"Uncle, I really don't know what happened."
“Yesterday and the day before, you were in charge of patrolling. What were you doing at the factory between six and seven in the morning? Tell me honestly.”
“I heard that there were weasels on the hillside, and I thought I should drive them away so they wouldn’t harm the chickens, so I went to the factory.”
"Really? Xu Yang, then why didn't you go with the others? Why did you go alone?"
Xu Yang's mother looked at Captain Xu, and her lips twitched.
She didn't know what those people were up to before, and she had tried to dissuade her son, but they gave her a lot of money—several hundred yuan. They also said that if they dared to give her money, they could also harm her and her son; if they dared to tell anyone, they would surely die.
She's too old for that, but her son is still young, unmarried and childless. She can't let anything happen to him; she has to protect him.
"Captain Xu, it wasn't my son who did it."
Upon hearing this, Xu Yang's heart skipped a beat. How could his mother be so stupid? Wasn't this just admitting guilt without being asked?
Looking at Xu Yang and then at Xu Yang's mother's appearance, Captain Xu understood everything.
"Take him away and interrogate him properly when you get back."
“Captain Xu, my son is innocent. If you want to arrest someone, arrest me instead.”
Xu Yang's mother called out anxiously.
"Mom, what nonsense are you talking about?" Xu Yang shouted.
Xu Yang's mother then realized that she had said the wrong thing.
"Captain, I misspoke. We don't know anything."
Even though Xu Yang's mother pleaded for him, Captain Xu no longer believed them. He sent someone to invite the police to interrogate Xu Yang.
The people in the brigade were all gathered around the entrance of the brigade headquarters, discussing the matter.
"Could it really be that Xu Yang did it?"
"In our brigade, only about twenty people went to work in the factory."
"Although other families also had relatives come, none of them left."
"Xu Yang's relatives left at this time; what else could it be but a guilty conscience?"
"How can he face his father by doing this?"
"Isn't this going to ruin our entire brigade?"
"That's really too much."
Everyone was both angry and furious, fearing that this incident would affect the brigade and that the factory would fire them.
The vegetables they grow now are all sold to this factory. What's more, they even paid for road repairs. During holidays, the elderly living alone and the children in the village receive gifts.
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