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Xu Gong still insisted on carrying the basket of sweet potatoes to the mountainside for Xu Qing. Only when Xu Qing urged him did he go down the mountain to prepare the land.

After Xu Gong left, Xu Qing took the basket to a secluded corner to ensure that no one would find her if they came up the mountain.

Then he bought a large pile of sprouted sweet potatoes from the mall and filled several baskets.

He picked up a hoe again and started digging in the ground; he had to go all the way with the act.

When Xu Gong came to pick her up, he exclaimed in surprise:

"I never expected sweet potatoes to grow here, little sister. You're so lucky."

My older brother and I used to go hunting in the mountains, and we passed through this place at least eight hundred or a thousand times.

We've never seen anything like this before. You've got sharp eyes, little sister.

It seems my brother and I will have to be more careful when we go up the mountain in the future; who knows, we might find some treasure someday.

This made Xu Qing blush.

I silently thought to myself: I'm sorry, second brother, even if you have sharp eyes, you wouldn't be able to find it. This thing doesn't belong here...

Xu Gong transported the sweet potatoes back to the field, and the group divided the work: one person dug a hole, one person put the sweet potatoes in, and one person covered them with soil.

The field was quickly restored to its original state.

Back home, Wen came in carrying Xu Beibei and said with a grim expression, "I went for a walk around the village, and only our land was dug up."

Xu Qing had calmed down by now and comforted her, "Mother, don't be angry. It's not worth getting sick from getting angry. We've already thought of a solution."

Afterwards, Xu Qing explained her plan to Wen Shi again, and Wen Shi nodded repeatedly as she listened.

"I'll go right now. Once we catch that thief, we'll break his arms and legs before handing him over to the authorities!"

Xu Qing looked at Madam Wen. How come her mother said exactly the same thing as her second brother? No wonder they were related by blood, because she agreed with her too!

After accepting her task, Ms. Wen took Xu Beibei and went out.

Xu Beibei can already roll over and can't stay at home at all. She rolls around non-stop as soon as she's put on the bed. Her favorite thing to do every day is to go out.

Seeing her grandmother carrying her towards the door, she stopped reaching out to her mother, her eyes crinkling with laughter, and her chubby little legs kicking excitedly.

Walk to the yellow banyan tree at the village entrance. This is the village's gossip exchange center. If you want to ask about anything, this is the place to go.

Several women were already sitting under the tree, crossing their legs and eating sunflower seeds.

Upon seeing that Madam Wen had arrived, he greeted her:

"Aunt Wen, you've brought Beibei out to play again? Come and sit here."

"Oh my, what a lovely child! So fair and plump, even a young lady from a wealthy family would look like this!"

Mrs. Wen smiled, not taking it to heart. It was true that her granddaughter was adorable, but she also understood why everyone was so eager to curry favor with her.

She skillfully struck up a casual conversation with the woman.

"You all better keep a close eye on your sweet potatoes. Something came down from the mountain yesterday and ruined my sweet potato field."

You'd better send someone to keep watch in the field at night these next few days. The seedlings are ready for transplanting in just a few days; it would be such a waste to destroy them now.”

When their own interests were involved, everyone suddenly became a little nervous.

"Aunt Wen, do you know what that is? It can't be a wild boar, can it...?"

“Wild boars have come down to look for food in previous years. Wild boars are something else! They're very clever. If they come once, they'll eat the whole village!”

"Good heavens, it can't stand to see us have a good life!"

“My land is close to the foot of the mountain. I’ll go back now and tell my husband to stay in the field tonight.”

Some people rushed home in a hurry, while others whose homes were far away were not so worried.

Anyway, there are other restaurants blocking the way, so they can't eat at her place.

Seeing that Madam Wen was still sitting there playing with her granddaughter, the remaining women were secretly gloating, but on the surface they pretended to be worried and said:

“Aunt Wen, your family has so much land, and now the sweet potato seedlings have been destroyed. Isn’t this all for nothing?”

"How much wasted, Aunt Wen? Is there nothing left?"

“My family grows a lot. If we have any left over, you can come to my house and take some to plant.”

Seeing that everyone had finished speaking and were all looking at her, Madam Wen patted her chest as if she had just recovered from a fright, and said with a beaming smile:

"Fortunately, my husband is protecting me. My daughter found another patch of sweet potatoes on the mountain the other day, and they've just sprouted."

My son and daughter went to transplant the seedlings into the ground early this morning, so it shouldn't affect this year's planting schedule.

After Wen finished speaking, Aunt Tian's face immediately darkened. She glared at Wen and turned to leave.

Neither Ms. Wen nor the woman she was chatting with noticed anything amiss. After chatting about this and that for a while, Ms. Wen got up to take her leave.

Back home, Ms. Wen excitedly ran to Xu Qing's room, touched Xu Beibei's diaper to make sure it was dry, and then put Xu Beibei on the bed.

"Daughter, I've done as you said, but will it really work?"

Xu Qing: "That person dug up half of it, but destroyed the sweet potato seedlings instead of taking the rest. It's clear that we have a grudge against them."

Now that we know we suffered no losses, we will definitely come again.

But I'm also a little curious, who exactly hates our family so much? We haven't offended anyone recently, have we?

Ms. Wen: "I've been staying home with the children lately and rarely go out, so it definitely isn't me."

Xu Qing slowly recalled the events in her mind.

Old Man Shi couldn't possibly have traveled this far to do this, Xu Wulai has also been exiled, and Daya has already reconciled with her.

Who else could be so despicable?

Seeing Xu Qing deep in thought, Madam Wen exclaimed, "Why waste your brain? We'll find out tonight anyway."

Xu Qing smiled and shook off the thoughts in her mind.

……

Aunt Tian was chopping firewood at home.

When her neighbor came back, she told her that she had heard from Wen that wild animals were coming down from the mountain and ruining the sweet potatoes.

It would be better to have Aunt Tian go to the fields to keep an eye on things recently.

Upon hearing this, Aunt Tian couldn't contain her excitement. Those people really went and dug up Xu Qing's sweet potato field.

She dropped the firewood in her hand and ran towards the banyan tree, eager to see Wen's dejected face.

Who told Xu Qing to treat her like that? He clearly agreed to give her two taels of silver, but it turned into one tael, and in the end, he didn't give her a single tael and even slammed the door.

She was so angry she had nowhere to vent. On her way home, she heard the same people who hadn't received any sweet potatoes last time because of their sarcastic remarks looking at other people's sweet potatoes in their fields with worry.

She suddenly had a good idea and casually said a few words to the person next to her.

“Our land is in a better location. So what if Xu Qing’s family has a lot of land? It’s all at the foot of the mountain. It’s not safe to grow anything there. It’s easy for wild animals in the mountains to eat it.”

"You work hard to grow a crop, but you never know when it will be destroyed. Then you'll have nowhere to cry."

"I really don't know what her family was thinking. They're so rich, why did they buy wasteland? Wouldn't it be better to buy fertile land? It's such a waste of money."

She saw the expressions on those people change from secret delight to thoughtfulness, and then they composed themselves and pretended not to have heard anything.

I knew these guys would definitely cause trouble.

She happily went home, and then paid special attention to what was happening at Xu Qing's house.

Hearing what the neighbor said, he was happy for a short while, but then he heard what Wen said, and he felt even more unhappy.

No, we've already done it, we can't just let it go like this.

Aunt Tian steeled her resolve and headed towards the house of the people who had done the bad thing.