CHAPTER 375: CHAPTER 88: A MOONLESS, WINDY NIGHT FOR “BUSINESS”

The sudden rain at night came abruptly and ended just as quickly. It seemed that those deeply asleep hadn’t even noticed.

After the baptism of rain, a natural fragrance of soil emanated from the ground of the farm, with the moon peeking out from behind the clouds and illuminating the ground in silvery white, much like early winter frost.

"Jiao is exhausted," Little White Jiao lay motionless in the space, unable to help but complain to Xiao Xian.

"Isn’t it just making you create artificial rain with space lake water? Look at the sugarcane seedling, so composed, didn’t even make a sound," On the large kang bed of the farm that could accommodate five people sleeping side by side, Zhang Yiyi slept in a "spread-eagled" position, and Zeng Xuerou was also soundly asleep. In the rural night, with no noise of cars rolling over the roads, only the sparse chirping of insects, both of them had a peaceful night’s sleep, completely oblivious that one person was missing from the kang bed.

In the space, Xiao Xian looked at the lake with water "looking undiminished," still holding the sweet potato seedling she had earlier plucked from the farm’s soil.

Little White Jiao soaked resentfully in the lake, "Little master, I am a Jiao with dignity. Generally speaking, when I wield wind and rain, all it takes is to summon rain clouds. But you made me drink a belly full of water, going straight up to the sky, spraying it back and forth several times. If you tried it, you’d also be exhausted."

The farm’s land wasn’t lacking water; what was missing was a Detoxification Agent.

The sweet potato seedlings on the farm had not shown growth for so long but were withering day by day. In conditions not lacking water, sunlight, or fertilizer, this was abnormal, no wonder Zhuo Feng was so worried.

The sweet potato seedlings in Xiao Xian’s hands and all the seedlings on the farm had been sprayed with a high concentration of herbicide. This inadvertent discovery made Xiao Xian break into a cold sweat. Zhuo Feng and Feng Xing had offended someone and didn’t even realize it. This situation was very dangerous. Today it was the sweet potato seedlings that were tampered with medicine; tomorrow it could be poison in the water they drink.

Thinking back and forth, Xiao Xian, also combining the incident of the stolen hay stack near the Milk Feed Factory, roughly deduced the poisoner.

"Glyphosate, a kind of herbicide? Its presence near both the farm and the Milk Feed Factory definitely isn’t a coincidence. Could it be that someone from the Milk Feed Factory secretly sprayed these chemicals in the farm?" The sweet potato seedling in Xiao Xian’s hand still had traces of this substance, which, according to Xiao Xian, could suppress the normal growth of any crop.

If she hadn’t just stolen hay near the Milk Feed Factory, she wouldn’t be sure that the abnormal growth of the seedlings on the farm was related to the Milk Feed Factory. It must be that someone from the Milk Feed Factory had experimented in the nearby fields before spraying.

"I need to warn my aunt and uncle but just warning them once, how should they handle it for the second or third time?" Xiao Xian muttered as she sat in the space.

The sugarcane seedling shook its leaves, but Xiao Xian was unmoved. Little White Jiao had enough rest and poked its head out of the water, "What else can be done, eradicate to the root."

The sugarcane seedling shook its leaves again, whether in agreement or not was unclear.

"That’s not a bad idea, such a nice farm, having such a neighbor is really disappointing," Xiao Xian couldn’t help but recall the past Qian family.

"Hehe, little master, you finally see the light, I will help you swallow up that Milk Feed Factory," Little White Jiao disliked being a water carrier, preferring to go back to its original trade.

"That’s not safe. If by morning the entire Milk Feed Factory is gone, it’s guaranteed to make headlines, we need a more subtle way," Xiao Xian pondered for a moment, thinking she needed to first find out who was behind this.

The night was as cool as water, and while Xiao Xian racked her brain, the JinBei van that Yezi and Uncle Lu were in, stopped by a spacious expanse of water.

They had already been waiting here for most of the evening, and Uncle Lu had sent the van driver back first.

"Yezi, we’ve followed for a whole night, what exactly are you planning to do?" The pond ahead was part of the Huang’s Breeding aquatic base, located in the Miyun Small Reservoir of Miyun County.

The small reservoir belonged to the county and was supposed to be a source of life’s water. To maintain water quality, it’s not allowed for aquaculture, but in the end, a small part of the waters was used by Huang for freshwater aquaculture, which also showed Huang had some skills.

Uncle Lu, following the truck of Huang’s Breeding, was worried that their truck would drive directly to their company’s exclusive breeding area. If it was the exclusive breeding area, their Xiao JinBei couldn’t get in. Fortunately, they went near the Miyun Small Reservoir. This area has an open water space, and their car was parked across the waters where Huang bred Hairy Crabs. It wasn’t very clear at night, and they thought they wouldn’t be discovered.