Chapter 263 Hands in the middle of the night
Burning wasteland is a common phenomenon in farming.
Especially some rice and sugarcane fields, there is no way to do it without burning them down.
The newly issued regulations are to prevent pollution and cause fires, and do not allow burning of wasteland. Many farmers have followed the policy.
But there are also special examples, such as growing rice.
The rice in the dry fields can be burned, and the straw can be packaged and sold for money.
However, the straw and stubble in paddy fields cannot be dealt with. If the paddy fields are not burned, the straw and stubble will be beaten into the ground, which will cause a serious decline in the quality of rice transplanting.
If the rice seedlings are planted on the previous year's stubble, it will be difficult to survive without taking root, and the seedlings will easily float.
Therefore, many farmers still do things according to the old rules, and the management personnel turn a blind eye, as long as there are no fires and they do not do anything blatantly.
Some people will burn wasteland at night when no one is paying attention.
However, this has a major drawback. It is difficult to control burning at night. Sometimes the wind direction is unpredictable. If the land burned is relatively large, if the wind direction changes, it may burn to the land next door or to the forest.
Burning crops is a trivial matter, but people still die in the flames.
Lin Tian had heard of this kind of fire several times before.
So when he heard Xu Mao say this, he felt a little uneasy.
It must not be a fire.
He quickly walked down the stairs and waited at the door for Xu Mao's arrival.
Soon Xu Mao came to the door. Before the motorcycle was steady, he rushed to Lin Tian with a look of anxiety on his face.
He looked at Lin Tian, as if he had a backbone, and quickly spoke out.
"Oh! Lintian, it would be nice if you were here. Seeing you makes me feel more at ease. You know, ahem..."
Um, I spoke too hastily and choked.
Lin Tian said quietly: "Brother Mao, please speak slowly, don't be anxious, what happened?"
Xu Mao calmed down and said: "It's like this, didn't we contract a lot of land in Niujiao Village, and a piece of cabbage grown near the mountain forest was stolen. A whole two-cent piece of land was stolen from the cabbage.
I don’t know who is so wicked. There are still people stealing food these days!”
When Lin Tian heard that it was just "stealing food", he felt relieved.
He also thought that the crops in the field were burned by fire, causing a major event such as a wildfire.
Stealing food is better than fire.
But then I thought about it, Liangfendi has a lot of vegetables, it weighs three to four hundred kilograms.
It's not a small thing to have so much stolen, I'm afraid someone will be watching.
Lin Tian asked Xu Maodao: "Brother Mao, who do you think it will be?"
Xu Mao scratched his head.
"I don't know either. I'm worried because I don't know. We own so much land. If someone keeps an eye on it and steals it from time to time, the loss will be huge."
"Let's go take a look."
Xu Mao rode a motorcycle in front to lead Lintian, and Lintian followed him in a pickup truck. When they reached a small road, their car couldn't drive in.
Leaving the car on the side of the road, Xu Mao took Lin Tian into the field.
"You have to go in. The stolen vegetables are located near the forest."
Xu Mao stopped in front and pointed to the land in front of him to show Lin Tian.
Lin Tian saw a large area of empty space on the edge of the vegetable field. The soil there was churning and there were messy footsteps. It was obvious that the vegetables there had been picked not long ago.
Xu Mao felt his teeth itch with hatred.
"Those who steal food are very familiar with the terrain. The place where they steal food happens to be close to a remote mountain forest. There are no roads and no one has traveled here, so it is the best place to start.
If it were a dish on the roadside, someone might find it. But this location is remote and no one would find it.
I suspect that so many vegetables must have been stolen by more than one person. After stealing so much, I suspect that they drove over and looked at the dryness and humidity of the mud after it was turned out. They may have done it in the middle of the night."
Xu Mao's analysis was clear and logical, and Lin Tian nodded.
He squatted down and looked at the footprints in the soil. After walking around, he came to a conclusion.
"There were two people who came to steal, one with a foot of about 44 yards and the other with a foot of about 42 yards."
Lin Tian compared his footprints and came to a conclusion.
Xu Mao was dumbfounded. This was like investigating a case on TV. Scholars are different from a rough guy like him, they are careful.
Xu Mao scratched his head and asked Ying: "How about it? Do we need to build some sheds so that I can stay here at night and watch these vegetables?"
This time it was my fault for lax supervision.
People in our village have never seen anyone stealing vegetables. Every household grows their own vegetables and eats their own. This is the first time I have seen such a thing."
Lin Tian knew that some fish ponds would do what Xu Mao said.
On the eve of the harvest, we built a house near the fish pond and sent people to guard it overnight, just to avoid being stolen.
However, his situation is different. He has contracted a lot of land, and it is impossible to send people to guard it day and night.
Moreover, some places are really in remote places and beyond reach.
He had so few manpower that he didn't want to hire extra people to help him guard the land. It would be too hard for Xu Mao to guard the land alone.
He thought about it quietly and came up with a good idea.
"Brother Mao, I don't blame you for this. There are so many things you can't see, so you don't have to blame yourself.
You don't have to worry about the next thing, I'll take care of it.
I can guarantee that if those people come to steal a second time, they will definitely not get any good results."
Lin Tian is now fortunate that he has not used spiritual energy to improve these stolen cabbage sums.
Even if these people steal it to eat or sell it, what they eat are ordinary varieties, which is not a pity.
Maybe if the food tastes average, they won't come back next time.
But if they still want to steal, then they have to consider whether they are maliciously targeting Lin Tian's fields to ruin his business.
If it is the latter, Lin Tian cannot indulge in such behavior.
"Brother Mao, please go back first. I'll take a walk around here to see if there are any other clues."
Although Xu Mao didn't know what Lin Tian planned to do, he believed in Lin Tian's decision.
He didn't know why, but he always felt that Lin Tian had a way to solve the problem.
Maybe it was Lin Tian who gave him the impression that everything could be settled.
Xu Mao nodded and said, "Okay, I'll check somewhere else to see if anything has been stolen, and I'll tell you then."
"Okay, I'll trouble you to go and have a look."
No matter how clear it is, if a gang steals in multiple places, the situation will be even worse.
After Xu Mao left, Lin Tian entered the bead space and looked at the lush clematis growing inside, with a hint of satisfaction on his face.
"It's time to send you into battle."
Among them, there are several superior clematis trees that Lin Tian appointed as leaders. Their ability to communicate with Lin Tian and their growth status are better than others.
Lin Tian planted one of the clematis near the vegetable field. He was not sure whether the person who stole the vegetables would steal it again.
However, after planting clematis, the forest field can prevent the entire vegetable field from being stolen, and can also prepare the preliminary work for spreading spiritual energy to the crops later.
Lin Tian walked around a few times, planted a few weaker clematis trees, and carried out the order.
Chapter completed!