After the village chief left, Zhou Guoqing took the lead in picking up the hoe beside him. When he was about to demonstrate to Jiang Li, he almost hit his foot!

Jiang Li: “…”

Well, you'd better stop teaching.

"Hey little comrade, that's not how you use a hoe!"

The villagers nearby were shocked when they saw this and quickly reminded him.

"Captain, you're not hurt?"

Liu Jiayi hurriedly walked up to Zhou Guoqing and looked at him with concern.

Zhou Guoqing was also frightened by the scene just now, and his face turned pale! "No, it's okay!"

Zhou Guoqing waved his hands quickly. He didn't want to embarrass himself in front of Comrade Xiao Jiang! But as long as he thought about the hoe that almost hit his feet, Zhou Guoqing couldn't help sweating.

"Little comrade, that's not how you use a hoe!"

A villager ran up to the group and picked up a hoe to demonstrate: "You should do as I do so as not to hurt your feet. This hoe is very sharp, so be careful!"

Lin Jiye and Xi Qingshan imitated the villagers in swinging their hoes, and Jiang Li, Xu Yuanyuan and others also followed suit.

"That's right, you must control the direction of the hoe!"

After repeated instructions, the villagers returned to their positions. Jiang Li, Xu Yuanyuan and others had already picked up their hoes and started working. Only Liu Jiayi was still standing beside Zhou Guoqing.

"Captain, are you okay?"

"It's okay, just get back to work."

After Zhou Guoqing finished speaking, he picked up the hoe, walked up to Jiang Li and started talking to her.

"Comrade Xiao Jiang, does your foot still hurt? Do you want me to help you with the work?"

Jiang Li: "...Thank you for your kindness, Captain. No need to bother."

"Captain, I need help. Can you help me do the job?"

Seeing that Zhou Guoqing was always pestering Jiang Li, Xu Yuanyuan smiled and changed seats with Jiang Li.

Zhou Guoqing's face suddenly fell. How could Comrade Xu be so short-sighted?

He was about to refuse when he heard Xu Yuanyuan say, "Forget it. The captain can't even hold a hoe steadily. I can't afford it if he gets hurt!"

Xu Yuanyuan deliberately brought up something that was not related to the topic. Zhou Guoqing's face turned extremely dark when he heard it. However, Xu Yuanyuan looked at Zhou Guoqing seriously, as if to say, "I'm only thinking about you."

"Captain, be careful! This hoe is so sharp. It's no joke if it hits your feet!"

After she finished speaking, she turned around without paying any attention to Zhou Guoqing's extremely dark face and blinked at Jiang Li who was looking at her.

Xu Yuanyuan had already seen through Zhou Guoqing's little thoughts. He had one face before meeting Xiao Jiang, and another face after meeting Xiao Jiang.

Stay away from people like this who say one thing in front of you and another behind your back!

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"Boss, look, there's a hole here!"

Tiezhu, who was checking the pig farm for other problems, squatted on the ground and excitedly waved to Lu Chaoli who was standing beside him.

"Hole? How can there be a hole in a pig farm?"

Lu Chaoli, Hu Zi and others hurriedly walked towards Tiezhu, looked in the direction of Tiezhu's finger, and sure enough, they saw an inconspicuous small hole in the corner of the wall!

The corner of the wall was previously covered by weeds in the pigpen, and they had never noticed the existence of this hole. If Tiezhu had not pulled out all the weeds in the pigpen, they would not have noticed the existence of this hole.

Hu Zi muttered something, then squatted on the ground and looked outside the cave. However, the entrance of the cave was too low and he could not see what was happening outside at all.

"Brother Tiezhu, please move aside. I'll lie on the ground and take a look."

Tiezhu, who was squatting on the ground, moved back two steps. The next moment, Hu Zi lay directly on the ground and looked towards the cave in front of him.

When he saw the green seedlings outside the cave, his eyes widened, and then he reached out of the cave and plucked a leaf.

"Boss, I think I should have found the reason why the piglets died."

Hu Zi stood up with the vegetable leaves floating on white powder in his hand, and then handed the leaves to Lu Chaoli.

Lu Chaoli took the vegetable leaves from Hu Zi's hand and put them in front of his nose and smelled them. Seeing this, Tie Zhu and others surrounded Lu Chaoli.

"What do you think, Boss? Is there anything strange about this vegetable leaf?"

"It has just been sprayed with pesticides."

Lu Chaoli sniffed the leaves and handed them to Tiezhu. Tiezhu also put them to his nose and sniffed them. His eyes suddenly widened: "It really smells like pesticide!"

The white powder floating on the leaves is nothing but the dried pesticides that remain on them.

"So, Boss, the piglet died because it accidentally ate vegetable leaves that had just been sprayed with pesticides?"

Lu Chaoli glanced at the small hole in the corner of the wall and nodded: "For now, this is the only possibility."

The two dead piglets happened to be in this location. There was no problem with the pig feed and the sow, and the other piglets were also fine. The only explanation was that the two piglets accidentally ate the vegetable leaves sprayed with pesticides outside the cave.

Hu Zi squatted in front of the hole and gestured: "The piglets that were born a few days ago can indeed stick their mouths out of this hole. I just saw bite marks on the leaves. It seems that the two piglets did eat the leaves sprayed with pesticides."

Tiezhu and the others looked at each other. They thought it was a problem with the feed, that the piglets were born malnourished, or that they had contracted some disease. They never expected that there was a hole in the corner of the pigpen, and what a coincidence that there were vegetables that had just been sprayed with pesticides outside the hole!

"Hey, this, this, tell me what this is!"

Tiezhu stretched out his hands and patted his palms with the backs of his hands.

"Okay, fill the hole first, then look for holes elsewhere and fill them up as well."

"Yes, Boss!"

Several people took action, looking around the corners with small sticks in their hands.

After finding out the cause of death of the piglets, Lu Chaoli breathed a sigh of relief. Although two piglets died, fortunately the other hidden dangers he was worried about did not occur, and the current hidden danger was successfully resolved.

The sun soon set towards the southwest, and the sunlight above our heads became scorching hot.

Having learned from previous experience, the villagers no longer confronted the Great Heat head-on and instead picked up their hoes and went home.

The enthusiastic Aunt Zhang ignored Jiang Li and Xu Yuanyuan's excuses and finally took them home to get some more sweet potatoes.

Looking at the small baskets of sweet potatoes in the arms of Jiang Li and Xu Yuanyuan, Aunt Zhang slapped her thigh and said, "I was inconsiderate. I should have asked those men to come and get them. This way, we could have gotten more!"

"We've already finished what Aunt Zhang gave us last time, and this time she brought us so much, it's enough for several meals."

"Yes, Aunt Zhang, these are enough for us to eat. Thank you, Aunt Zhang. We will go to the town to buy you some fruits later!"

Aunt Zhang took Jiang Li's arm and said, "Hey, you two kids, please don't buy those for me. I have bad teeth and I don't like them!"

As they were talking, they left Aunt Zhang's house, and Aunt Zhang walked ahead to walk the two of them a little further.

Mother Lu came out to pour out the laundry water and just arrived at the door, she saw Aunt Zhang talking to two little girls in front of her. She was curious about who the two girls were, so she stood at the door and looked at them.

This glance revealed some clues. Why does the hat on that girl's head look so familiar? (End of this chapter)