Chapter 170 The Food is Poisonous
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Yang Shengjun immediately winked at the soldier beside him, and the man ran towards the troops.
None of the family members around left and started chattering about it.
"That's impossible. How could the vegetables grown by Old Li be poisonous? Don't we grow the same ones? Could it be that all ours are poisonous too? But we've been eating them recently and haven't noticed anything wrong with them."
"That's right. Did Da Huang make a mistake? It's just a dog, how can it be more powerful than a human? It shouldn't be like that. We've all started a vegetable garden in the back mountain. Can't it be that only Old Li's vegetables are poisonous? Aren't they the same at other families' houses?"
"It's poisonous, that's the only possibility. Someone must have given it to us. But we all live in the family compound. Who would be so malicious? Judging from what Da Huang said, doesn't that mean you'll die if you eat it?"
"That's exactly what happened. Logically speaking, this shouldn't have happened in our family compound. How much hatred and resentment must there be to poison someone's vegetable garden?"
"Maybe, it's an enemy..."
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The gossip fires of the ladies were burning fiercely, and they began to speculate how the dish became poisonous, but everyone understood that it was impossible for Old Li to have done it himself.
Lin Cuicui's face turned pale. This meant that they were going to wipe out their entire family. She hated those Japanese spies, but how did they come to their unit without making a sound?
Normally, no one would come to the army for no reason. And the fact that he knew where her family's vegetable plot was was really strange.
Lin Cuicui stared at Tang Yue. Tang Yue was also thinking about this problem. She had been busy with other things recently and had not paid much attention to her family. It seemed that she was still too lax.
She thought that as long as her family lived in the family compound, it wouldn't be so dangerous, but she ignored the vicious methods of those spies.
Tang Yue walked over to Old Li and supported him, "Grandpa, don't be afraid, someone will come to deal with this matter soon." The army couldn't just ignore it.
When Old Li heard Tang Yue's soft voice, tears suddenly flowed down his face. His voice was choked with sobs, "Yueyue, Yueyue, Grandpa, Grandpa almost killed you, Grandpa... Wuuwuwu..."
Tang Yue wanted to pat Old Li on the back, but the height difference was too great and she couldn't reach him, so she could only pat Old Li's hand.
"Grandpa, what are you thinking about? It's okay. Isn't it okay? Grandpa is doing this for my own good. I know."
Old Li blamed himself so much, his heart aching. He was a lonely old man, but Tang Shengkai recognized him as his father and brought him all the way from the north to the south to live a good life. He was willing from the bottom of his heart to live a good life with this family.
Every member of Shengkai's family treated him like a relative. He also wanted to be kind to these children with all his heart. However, his good intentions almost led to bad consequences, and Old Li was now cold from head to toe.
Even in this scorching summer in the South Island, with the temperature over 30 degrees Celsius in the morning, he couldn't calm down.
It was terrifying, truly terrifying. Old Li naturally thought it was the work of the spies. But those spies were truly wicked. How could they possibly have taken advantage of his food? Those were vegetables. These days, it's hard for many families to even afford a little food.
Did he open up those vegetable plots in the scorching heat just to cause trouble for these spies?
Why can't they just come with real weapons? It's really despicable.
Old Li was furious. "We must find all those spies. Let me go, and I'll destroy them all. These spies are truly wicked."
Tang Yue also felt the same way. She was more anxious than anyone else. She wanted her family to live a normal life more than anyone else. Oh, her desire to go to Japan was even more urgent.
After a while, Commander Kang and Chang Yin, along with a group of soldiers, rushed towards this side in a hurry.
Teacher Kang is already so old, but after running for such a long time, he still doesn't look out of breath. It seems that this old man exercises a lot.
When they got closer, the group of onlookers immediately made way for Commander Kang and the others.
Seeing Tang Yue standing there perfectly fine, Commander Kang felt a sense of relief. He was terrified. The person who had just reported the incident hadn't explained it clearly, only saying that Tang Yue's vegetables had been poisoned.
When Commander Kang heard that, he was so angry that he didn't care about anything else and started ordering people to run over here.
Seeing that Tang Yue's family was fine, Commander Kang secretly took a deep breath, straightened his face, and asked, "What happened?"
As he spoke, he waved his hand and the guard beside him went over and picked up the vegetable basket on the ground. Some of the vegetables inside spilled out, and the guard didn't know whether he should touch the vegetables with his hands.
Tang Yue said from the side, "Just pick them up. It should be fine. Those vegetables were picked by my grandfather."
The meaning was obvious. If these vegetables were poisonous if touched directly, her grandfather couldn't just stand here.
Hearing Tang Yue's meaning, the guard didn't hesitate any longer and reached out to pick up all the vegetables and put them in the basket. Yang Shengjun had already started to report the situation. After listening to this, Commander Kang's face was very grim.
Originally, the situation of Tang Yue's family had not been exposed to everyone in the family compound. Now, after this incident, everyone must know that there is a problem with the safety of Tang Yue's family.
Commander Kang gritted his teeth and said, "Investigate! I'll investigate thoroughly! Let's find out how these vegetables were poisoned. Go down and inspect all of them to see what's in them."
Then he looked at everyone and said, "If you have nothing else to do, go home. Those who need to cook should cook, and those who need to train should train."
Everyone left without hesitation, not daring to disobey the leader. However, the news spread throughout the family compound, and Tang Yue's family once again became the focus of discussion. However, these were not even considered by Tang Yue's family.
In the main hall of Tang Yue's house, Commander Kang asked Old Li, "Have you seen anything unusual recently when you went to the vegetable fields? Have any strangers or people from the family compound approached you? Have they asked you any strange questions?"
Old Li has been thinking about what happened recently, but no matter how hard he thinks, he can't think of anything strange.
"Everyone's vegetable plots are next to each other. I heard from my neighbors that everyone has a vegetable plot on the back hill, so I went over and found a piece of wasteland to dig it myself.
Normally, we would run into each other when we went to the vegetable fields, and it was common for us to chat for a few minutes. I didn’t feel there was anything strange about it.
The vegetables are almost ready these past couple of days, and some people ask me why I haven’t taken them home to eat yet. I tell them I’ll wait until my granddaughter comes home to eat them.”
Master Kang had already understood the key point. Someone must have understood Old Li's intention. But Master Kang lowered his eyes and pondered. Why did these people have to wait until Tang Yue returned to poison the food?
Or was it already removed a long time ago, but Old Li just never pulled it out?
However, Commander Kang has made up his mind that no matter what the situation is, he will not let the person off lightly and he must find the person this time.
If those Japanese spies have infiltrated his troops on the South Island, he will never let them off easily.
"You have to be more careful recently. Don't eat anything given to you by others, except for the vegetables in your own yard. For now, leave the things on the land on the mountain alone. I'll have someone deal with them later, so that no one who likes to take advantage of others will take them home and eat them without knowing about this."
Old Li understood what Commander Kang meant. It was a shame to waste all the vegetables he had worked so hard to grow. But even if he was asked to eat them now, he wouldn't dare.
Teacher Kang looked at Tang Yue. There were many things Tang Yue did that her family didn't know about. Teacher Kang thought that some questions might not be appropriate to ask here, but he was thinking a lot now.
Was it done by those Japanese spies, or was it someone else?
Before leaving, Commander Kang looked at Tang Yue and said, "Captain Tang, please come back to the unit with me. There are some things I would like to know more about."
Old Li... he's the one who grew the vegetables, shouldn't I ask him? Why do I keep asking his granddaughter?
But since he was the leader, he didn't dare to ask.
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