Just as the large wooden crate was locked, there was a knock on the door of the female educated youth's room.
Everyone was woken up, and someone yawned and asked, "Captain, why are we being woken up so late?"
There were quite a few people who came, including the brigade leader and his two sons, the brigade accountant Zhang Yong'an and Xu Dong, as well as three other men from the village.
Lu Guoan didn't keep them in suspense and went straight to the point.
"Because we were worried about the granary, we sent eight people to guard it at night. As a result, we actually discovered that someone was stealing grain. We followed them all the way to your educated youth settlement."
Yang Caihong's heart skipped a beat. How could this be?
She had clearly looked around when she came back, and didn't see anyone following her at all.
Furthermore, why didn't they tell her, the scorekeeper, that they had people guarding the granary?
Her heart was pounding like a drum, and she was frantically trying to think of a solution, but her mind was a complete blank, and she didn't know what to do.
When the other members of the educated youth settlement heard this bombshell, they instantly sobered up.
Did some educated youth steal grain?
They all felt they had made a mistake, and were also angry and ashamed, believing that the villagers were insulting them and xenophobic.
His face immediately turned ugly.
"Captain, that's impossible. If anyone was going to steal grain, it should be one of those petty thieves in the village, not someone from our educated youth settlement!"
These words sounded very targeted. The scoundrel Lu Yuan seemed to be an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire, which displeased Xu Dong, the Lu brothers, and three other men.
"What do you mean? We saw with our own eyes a suspicious person carrying a bag of grain into the educated youth compound."
"You must have seen it wrong."
"A quick search will tell you if you're not mistaken; the grain that was just dried today is still warm."
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