Chapter 1145 Search (I)
After searching the captain's house, the whole village and the captain searched the homes of all the village cadres, but no sweet potatoes were found. So the captain led the whole village to search house by house starting from the village entrance.
After more than four hours of searching, they had successfully searched two-thirds of the households in the village, but still hadn't found the sweet potatoes. The villagers gradually began to suspect that it was people from outside who were stealing the sweet potatoes from their village.
"Everyone, work harder and we will have two hours to search everyone's homes." The captain said to everyone.
"Captain, do you think it might be people from outside who came to steal the sweet potatoes from our village?" Liu Jianshu asked the captain.
"No, because it's not that easy to transport the sweet potatoes from two acres of land. Although the sweet potatoes are still small, there are too many of them. And there are no wheel marks next to the sweet potato field, which proves that the sweet potatoes were not transported away by a car, but carried away by someone. So it is basically certain that the person who stole the sweet potatoes is someone from the village."
Everyone in the village was furious when they heard the captain's words, so they all said to the captain: "Captain, please take us to continue the search. Today we must find the termites in the village."
"Okay, I'll take you to continue the search."
"Mr. Xiao, wait a minute." Er Shunzi pulled Lu Xiaoxiao's clothes and spoke in a low voice.
"What's wrong?"
"My mom said she saw a small bag of sweet potatoes in my backyard."
After hearing what Er Shunzi said, Lu Xiaoxiao's face immediately became serious, and then she said to Er Shunzi: "Are you sure there is only a small bag of sweet potatoes?"
"Sure, my mother said the weight of the sweet potatoes would never exceed fifty kilograms."
"Just pretend nothing happened and continue to search the house with the team."
"No, if they search my house, I'll become the target of sweet potato thieves." Er Shunzi said anxiously after hearing Lu Xiaoxiao's words.
“Don’t worry, that bag of sweet potatoes only proves that someone framed your family, it will never make your family a thief.”
"Really?"
"Um."
Half an hour later, the captain searched Er Shunzi's house. He led his men into Er Shunzi's house and soon came out with a bag of sweet potatoes. Then he asked Er Shunzi, "Er Shunzi, can you explain what's going on with this bag of sweet potatoes?"
"Captain, what sweet potatoes? Where did you find them?" Er Shunzi said after hearing the captain's words.
"It's right in your backyard. The sweet potatoes in the bag are about the same size as the ones dug up at the entrance of the village."
"Well, I didn't expect that the thief who stole the sweet potatoes was you." Liu Jianshu rushed forward and pointed at Er Shunzi.
After hearing what Liu Jianshu said, the people in the village looked at the bag of sweet potatoes that the captain brought out. They didn't understand anything, so they immediately started scolding Er Shunzi. Some of them were so excited that they picked up pieces of mud on the ground and hit Er Shunzi with them.
"Stop fighting, stop fighting. My Er Shunzi didn't steal the sweet potatoes. He wouldn't steal sweet potatoes." When Huang Xiaoya saw Er Shunzi being hit on the head by a piece of mud, she immediately stood in front of Er Shunzi and said.
"Huang Xiaoya, now the evidence is conclusive. You say Er Shunzi didn't steal the sweet potatoes. Do you think we will believe you?" said Liu Gang, who had just hit Er Shunzi with a piece of mud.
"My Er Shunzi really didn't steal the sweet potatoes. He was taking care of Liu Gouzi who had a fever yesterday morning. He definitely wouldn't steal sweet potatoes."
(End of this chapter)
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