"Master, you are a rare guest. Today, the brigade is engaged in double robbery. You are old and you can sit down at my house. Xilai is at home. I'll come back after finishing my work here." Zhang Fangqing saw the old priest and hurried to the ridge of the field.

Zhang Fang cleared the position and immediately others rushed up. There were not many threshing machines in the village, and all the young and strong men were on the formation. The threshing machine had no time to spare.

"It's okay, I just went down the mountain to ask something. I opened more than acre of fields on the mountain. It was just blooming, and it was too late to plant seedlings. It depends on whether your brigade has any seedlings left. If there is any left, I will divide it into me and count it as much as a grain, or I will exchange wild boar meat for you." The old Taoist wanted to plant this season of rice. After the late rice harvest, the master and apprentice no longer have to worry about being hungry.

"The seedlings must be left this year, and they are too hard to do. There are a few hills in the village that cannot be watered. If it doesn't rain these days, it will definitely not be planted. There will definitely be many seedlings left. If there are leftovers, just take them away, Taoist priest, and you can exchange them for things." Zhang Fangqing said.

"When can I come to get the seedlings?" asked the old Taoist.

"Master, we have to wait until the fields in our brigade are planted. Only after confirming the remaining seedlings can we send them to others. I can't make the decision. Looking back, I ask Secretary Maolin. He is the brigade secretary, and only he can make the decision." Zhang Fangqing said.

"That's right." The old Taoist nodded.

"Master, don't worry, there must be some leftover seedlings. After going back, the brigade's fields have been planted, I will ask a few people to send them to you. By the way, the seedlings will be planted for you." Zhang Fangqing said.

The old Taoist thanked repeatedly: "Then I'll tell Secretary Maolin about this and I won't make you embarrassed."

Zhou Maolin has been urging production teams to urge production every day. He is the brigade secretary and several brigade cadres basically don’t have to go to the fields to do farm work, and the work points are higher than others. He wears every day and catches up with commune cadres. In this kind of weather, many men in the village are shirtless, and at most they wear gauze vests. The exposed skin is tanned and black. Every time he goes to the shade of the tree to cool down, he will tear off the shedded layer of skin with his hands. After rubbing it with his hands, he can be rolled into a ball.

Zhou Maolin was wearing a long-sleeved white shirt with rolled up sleeves and a black permanent pen was pinned in the upper pocket of the shirt.

"Master, are you looking for me?" Zhou Maolin was still very enthusiastic when he saw the old Taoist.

"Secretary Maolin, I came down the mountain to ask you for something." The old Taoist said.

"Where did the Taoist priest come from? Just give me instructions if you have anything. Anything I can do, I will do my best. The last time I did it thanks to the Taoist priest. Otherwise, I wouldn't know what would happen." Zhou Maolin said politely.

"This is how it is..." The old Taoist said the situation.

"Don't worry about this. There are a lot of leftover seedlings in our brigade every year. After all, there are too many seedlings. This year the drought is severe, and the new fields opened last year cannot be closed. We focus on keeping the old fields. There will definitely be leftover seedlings. I will send them to you at that time. I can still do this. But this year I've done so well, if you do it on the mountain, do you want to go there to release water?" Zhou Maolin said worriedly.

"There is a spring in the field, which is just for watering the rice fields. Otherwise, I wouldn't have opened a piece of the field. If I had to carry water, I wouldn't be able to make my life." The old Taoist said.

"That's really suitable." Zhou Maolin nodded.

Just as the old Taoist was about to say goodbye and leave, Zhou Maolin said, "Master, I didn't want to bother you anymore. But only you can solve this problem."

The old Taoist frowned, but there was no way. He had just gotten the benefits of others, so he could only ask, "Heyuan's cub was always in Guilian's parents' home. Isn't it a double snatch? Guilian's family also had to earn labor points, so they sent Heyuan's cub back. As soon as this little boy moved his nest, something was wrong. He was jumping around at an outside family, talking and laughing, but when he came back, he kept silent. Master, please help me see if this little boy was shocked?"

"Why is it the Heyuan family's business again?" The old Taoist frowned. This matter naturally could not be accidental, and it was the Zhou Heyuan family's business, which made the old Taoist a little worried. If Zhou Heyuan's death, Xiao Guilian's madness, and if something happened to Zhou Heyuanzai, everything would be related, this matter would not be so simple.

"Yes. The Heyuan family is really a crime, one thing after another." Zhou Maolin sighed.

"I have no preparation now. His family's affairs are too mysterious. I have to prepare well if I want to go. I will go there rashly. If there is anything, it will not be enough to spend my life in it." The old Taoist did not agree.

"Master, can you go and take a look first? You will be ready at that time." Zhou Maolin said.

"I won't go to his house, why don't you bring the child here and I'll take a look." The old Taoist dared not run to Zhou Heyuan's house rashly. There must be something strange about the family matters one after another. Maybe once you run over, you will get completely entangled.

Seeing that the old Taoist's attitude was firm, Zhou Maolin had no choice but to agree: "Those Taoist priest, please wait for a while. I'll go and carry that little boy over."

Not long after, Xiao Guilian came over with her son. This little boy was less than two years old. In Xiao Guilian's arms, he was silent and his eyes were a little dull.

As soon as Xiao Guilian saw the old Taoist, she knelt on the ground with the child in her arms: "Tao Master, help me! The Taoist Master, save my cub!"

"Don't do this, don't do this, get up. Why do I think what happened to your baby if you are so upset?" said the old Taoist.

After hearing what the old Taoist said, Xiao Guilian stood up.

"My baby is fine at my parents' home. After he comes back, he becomes like this." Xiao Guilian said.

"When your cub brought it back, did anything special happen?" asked the old Taoist.

"No? Nothing happened." Xiao Guilian said.

"Think carefully, nothing happened. How can your cub become like this? Tell me carefully, when did your cub come back and when did it become something wrong?" said the old Taoist.

"My baby came back on the eighth day of this month. It seems like this is the case on the ninth day of the month." Xiao Guilian said.

"What about the eighth day of the first lunar month?" asked the old Taoist, "Is this the night of the eighth day of the first lunar month?"

"On the eighth day of the lunar month, my grandfather was having her birthday. We came back after lunch. When we returned to Xianji Bridge, it was already dark. The child fell asleep on the way and went back until the next morning. When we got up, we became like this." Xiao Guilian said.

"So many things happened in your family, who would let you walk on the night road?" The old man was so angry that his beard curled up.
Chapter completed!