Chapter 194: If you bloom, the breeze will come
After Zhu Yingning informed Wang Shengju, when the group rushed to the farm, the farm was in chaos.
Several pigs that had died suddenly were lying on their backs outside the farm. She roughly counted them and found that there were eight in total, three more than Wen Wenxu had told her. It seemed that while Wen Wenxu was rushing to inform her, several of them had failed the gastric lavage and died.
The farm was in chaos. The police hadn't arrived quickly enough, and the scene was completely chaotic. Someone was holding a large water pipe, filled with an unknown liquid, and thrusting it into the pigs' mouths. The drugged pigs struggled violently, forcing several young men nearby to restrain them. No one at the scene was wearing protective gear. As for the suspected poisoned feed, it was left hanging in the open, unattended.
Zhu Yingning rearranged the personnel on the scene, first gathering everyone together and asking them to wear protective gear, for fear that the vomit of the poisoned pigs would harm other healthy pigs. He also isolated the pigs that had eaten the feed from the other pigs, and assigned two or three people to guard the pig feed to preserve the evidence. He also called a few more young men from the nearby village to help with the pigs' stomach lavage.
After a period of chaos, the order on the scene finally became somewhat controllable.
Wang Shengju paced anxiously behind the farm facing the batch of dead pigs, waiting to be contacted by the police.
**
Chu Jiating heard the sirens of the approaching police cars.
She was sitting at the dining table eating a piece of cake, and the sound of more than one police car sounded. Out of the curiosity shared by all humans about the sound of police car sirens, she couldn't help but walked out of the door while chewing the half-eaten piece of cake in her hand, and came to the end of the alley closer to the sound of the sirens to peek in.
She was not the only one who was curious. The young and old in the village - those who were still breastfeeding, those preparing to go to school, those who got up early to buy groceries, those who planned to do housework, those who were looking for friends to play cards... all came out of their homes and gathered in the village threshing ground, talking about what had happened.
Chu Jiating witnessed firsthand how the rumor was born. Two elderly men said in a serious tone, "Hey! Someone must have died, that's why the police came."
"Oh my god?! Who died?" someone asked in surprise.
"I heard that Gangzi from the next village was called to the cooperative's farm to help out. Someone must have died there."
"I just heard them say something about five... Did five people die?"
"No way? With so many people dying at once, there won't be a serial killer in this place, right?!"
The children were sent to school one after another by their parents. Chu Jiating heard them gathering in groups of three or five, excitedly discussing the serial killer. She knew that this outrageous rumor would surely spread widely among the students in a short time, and might even turn into an endless campus ghost story.
She felt a little bored, and seeing that these people were speechless, she simply went back to the house while chewing her cake.
On the way back to her house, she brushed past a man. The man had a hunched back and walked in a hurry without paying much attention to where he was going. When he brushed past her, he bumped her shoulder hard with his right shoulder. Not to mention apologizing, he didn't even turn around, as if he didn't realize he had bumped into someone.
Chu Jiating was a little unhappy. She pressed the tip of her tongue against her hard palate and made a click of the tongue. She turned around and said, "Don't you have eyes?"
When the man heard her voice, he realized there was someone next to him. He was startled at first, but then he asked her in a low voice without any hesitation: "Hey, little sister, what was that sound just now? Are they the police?"
Chu Jiating looked him up and down suspiciously: "So what?"
"Do you know why the police are here? Which direction are they going?" The man talked to her, but his eyes kept glancing at the threshing ground where the crowd gathered.
According to Chu Jiating's original personality, she would never bother to play the role of a good person and answer questions for a stranger, but the man in front of her was acting suspiciously, which made her a little wary and interested. She said, "I heard that there was an accident at the farm. Several pigs died. The police received a call and are going to arrest the criminal."
She deliberately exaggerated, "With advanced surveillance and fingerprint technology nowadays, I think we'll catch the criminal soon."
After hearing her words, the man's already pale face turned green, and he mumbled something, not knowing whether he was talking to himself or something else. After mumbling, he turned around and walked back the direction he came from, without going to the threshing ground.
Chu Jiating stood there without moving, and only after she finished the pancake in her hand in a few bites did she rub her greasy thumb and index finger clean on the corner of her clothes, and followed with big strides.
**
Tracking someone is not a difficult thing for Chu Jiating.
The suspicious-looking man twisted and turned in the alleys of the village, took many unnecessary detours, avoided crowded places, and finally ran towards the farm.
Chu Jiating sneered and ran after him.
The farm wasn't far from their village, only about ten minutes' walk away, or even faster if they ran. As they neared their destination, the man's pace noticeably slowed, especially after witnessing the police car parked outside the farm. He curled up like a frightened bird, crouching low, his hands clawing at the bushes by the roadside, as if he wished he could turn into a clump of grass and hide.
He squatted in the bushes outside the farm for a long time. Chu Jiating squatted in another bush ten meters behind him, also holding her breath and concentrating. But she thought in her heart that this man had such a poor mental quality, how could he dare to commit a crime?
The man had been planning in the bushes for a long time, perhaps waiting for an opportunity that Chu Jiating couldn't understand. In short, after more than half an hour, when her legs were numb from squatting, he finally moved. While everyone at the farm was busy, he pretended to be passing by and said to Wang Shengju at the farm gate, "Secretary, what's going on? What happened?"
Wang Shengju said: "I'm busy now and don't have time to entertain you. Ah, if you have nothing to do, just go."
"I don't mean to cause trouble, I just wanted to see if there's anything I can do to help."
"No, no, it's good enough that you don't cause more trouble. My place is a mess! Go back if you're not wearing protective clothing!" Wang Shengju said impatiently, and ignored him, turning around to check the situation with other staff on the farm.
The man seemed to be idling and wandered around the entrance of the farm for a few times, looking at what this person was doing, then looking at what that person was doing. Finally, when everyone was busy and no one was paying attention to him, he sneaked into the farm like a mouse and went straight to the bucket of feed.
The two farm employees guarding the feed had already been there. The police had already come and told them to take the bucket of feed back to have it tested by a specialist to see if it contained any poison. They then went outside to look at the dead pigs, discussing whether they should bring them in for testing as well. They were locked in a heated discussion at the door, probably convinced that no one would dare to tamper with the feed right under their noses. During this moment, the man rushed over to the bucket, snatched it up, and ran away while the two employees turned to talk to someone else.
Chu Jiating was stunned.
In all the criminal investigation TV dramas she had watched, the villains always planned their crimes in detail, taking into account the right time, place, and people, and they would also learn all kinds of professional anti-detection knowledge in advance. This gave her a misunderstanding that all the evil things in reality would definitely happen under careful planning.
I didn't expect that the crime in front of me was as simple and unpretentious as the business war in reality that killed the rival company's money tree.
Overwhelmed by the complaints, she didn't know where to start. Fortunately, her body's reaction was still there, and she always kept a distance from the man. After seeing him stealing the feed bucket, she was able to eject immediately, shouting "Thief", and quickly stepped on the other person's steps.
**
"There's a thief!"
Zhu Yingning was still communicating with the police when he heard this powerful voice.
She looked towards the source of the sound and was shocked to find that Chu Jiating, who was supposed to stay at home eating cakes, actually appeared here. Not only did she appear, but she was also chasing someone. Not only did she chase someone, but the person she was chasing was running wildly with a feed bucket in his hand, as if he was afraid that everyone present would not guess that he was involved in the poisoning.
She hurried over with the police.
Two more people got out of the police car, holding batons, standard police knives, handcuffs and other items to assist.
However, before everyone arrived, Chu Jiating had already circled in front of the man, swung several straight punches at his face, and took the feed bucket from his hand as he fell.
Zhu Yingning didn't even see how she threw the punch. She just felt that she raised her hand and swung her arm, leaving a few afterimages. The next second, the man fell to the ground with a cry of "ouch".
The man who fell to the ground was quickly subdued by the police who arrived.
Chu Jiating was holding the bucket of feed. Seeing that she had nothing to do here, she stuffed the bucket into the stunned Zhu Yingning's hands, said "I'm leaving first", and turned to go back to the village.
**
It was not until dark that Zhu Yingning finished dealing with all the chaotic things of the day. She rushed back home exhausted and planned to make dinner for Chu Jiating.
When you open the door, a fragrance hits your nose.
The aroma of instant noodles.
I don't know where Chu Jiating got a few buckets of instant noodles from, but she was fiddling with them in the kitchen with chopsticks. The chopsticks stirred the thick soup made from the seasoning bag, and a rich aroma wafted out of the kitchen continuously.
When she saw her, Chu Jiating didn't say anything like "You're back" or "Welcome back", but asked: "Should the eggs be laid first or last?"
"Slow down." Zhu Yingning stepped forward to teach her, "Otherwise, if you cook the eggs in the soup for too long, they will become loose and gray. If you want something firmer, you can fry them first and then add them to the noodles."
Dinner was quickly prepared. The two of them each held a large bowl of noodle soup and sat on opposite sides of the dining table to eat, both of them wolfing down the food in the same way.
Halfway through her meal, Chu Jiating, holding a piece of unbitten noodles in her mouth, asked vaguely, "What's going on with that guy?"
Zhu Yingning swallowed the food in his mouth and explained briefly, "He's always been at odds with the farm manager. Last night, the two of them were drinking with a few other men. The manager got drunk, and maybe he said something that embarrassed him. So he thought of adding some pesticides to the pig feed to poison a few pigs as revenge for causing him to lose his job. He said he didn't expect this to become such a big deal, and he didn't expect us to call the police, so he wanted to come here secretly to dispose of the feed, thinking that this would destroy the evidence and he wouldn't be blamed."
"...Outrageous." Chu Jiating finished her comment and continued to eat noodles.
"It's outrageous." Zhu Yingning smiled silently. "He'll have the police to deal with it. However, this incident also reflects that there are major loopholes in the supervision of our farm, which allowed people to take advantage of it so easily. The main reason is that we didn't have this awareness before and didn't know to be on guard... It can be said that this is a lesson learned."
At this point, she changed the subject, "By the way, I asked the police about your straight punches today. They're Sanda moves, right?"
Chu Jiating didn't expect the topic to suddenly turn to herself. She was stunned for a moment and denied it: "No, I was just hitting her randomly."
"Really? You're quite talented at this, then." She picked out the egg yolk from her bowl and gave it to her, smiling. "Seriously, have you ever thought about learning Sanda, Jia Ting?"
Chu Jiating stared at the two egg yolks in her bowl, picked at them with her chopsticks, and suddenly said, "Boring."
Well, the catchphrase pops up again.
Zhu Yingning was not discouraged. He observed her expression carefully and saw that her eyes were wandering and she looked dazed, not like she was telling the truth. So he made a decision on his own: "I'm free tomorrow evening after get off work. After dinner, let's go to the martial arts hall in town. There might be a teacher teaching Sanda there."
"...I won't be staying here long." Chu Jiating continued stirring the two egg yolks. "I'll be back soon, so it's useless to learn."
"Nothing is useless. Even daydreaming has its uses." Zhu Yingning tapped the edge of her bowl with the carved end of her chopsticks to remind her, "If you don't eat now, you'll mess up the egg yolk."
**
After washing up in the evening, it was already past twelve o'clock without me noticing.
After a busy day, Zhu Yingning was so sleepy that she could hardly open her eyes. She climbed onto the bed in a daze and wanted to sleep. After lying there for a few minutes, she remembered that she had forgotten to charge her mobile phone. She could only force her hand out of the quilt and fumbled around on the bedside table, trying to plug the charging cable into the charging port of the mobile phone by feel.
After all the operations, the charging cable was not plugged in, but the screen brightness became brighter and brighter, shining on her eyelids and dispelling most of her sleepiness.
She had no choice but to open her eyes and take a closer look - not only was the screen unlocked by her, but she also accidentally opened the WeChat interface and sent seven or eight elderly animated emoticons with the words "If you bloom, the breeze will come" to a contact on the chat interface. The accompanying GIF was a slowly blooming water lily with a background of various flashing colorful stars.
Since he had just chatted with Xu Sirui two days ago, his chat window was at a relatively high position, so he unfortunately became the unlucky guy who received the emoticon package.
Zhu Yingning sighed, grabbed the phone, and slowly edited the message, intending to explain it to him so that he wouldn't wake up the next day and think that someone had possessed her.
Before I could finish editing the message, Xu Sirui's reply arrived: "?"
She was startled, deleted the edited content, and asked, "Why are you still awake?"
When I think about it carefully, the last few times I sent him messages, he seemed to reply immediately. Could it be that he is always playing with his phone?
...It's so unfair. She is so busy that she has to fight for every minute to sleep, but he still has time to surf the Internet at high speed.
Zhu Yingning curled her lips, and in a fit of anger, she simply sent three more "If you bloom, the breeze will come."
There is no other purpose, just to confuse him.
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