I Became the Favorite of Big Bosses

Chapter 444 Something went wrong

The breeze was blowing, the minute hand of the watch pointed to the third frame, the time was 11:15, and no one appeared on the path.

Wei Lan frowned slightly and secretly comforted herself:

　　It must be that Gu Chao is carrying a heavy weight, so... wait another five minutes!

However, five minutes passed and there was still no one in the distance.

 It was expected.

This place is a bit far away from the big cafeteria. Although I still want to wait and see, time does not allow it.

Wei Lan patted her cheeks, let go of her negative emotions with a long sigh of relief, and waved to the two little ones, "Okay, pack up and go home!"

 “Oh! Go home!”

 “Youlan, wait for me!”

The two little ones, one holding a **** and the other carrying a basket of wild vegetables, ran down the hillside.

The child's innocent and carefree laughter infected Wei Lan. She inserted her fingers into her black hair, pulled up a casual ponytail, and quickly ran down the mountain after her.

 “Be careful…watch your feet!”

"I know! Sister Lan! Hahahaha... Fengyao, I run faster than you!"

“Youlan, Sister Lan said, be careful, run slower and don’t fall...”

 “Don’t worry! I’m looking at my feet!”

Running all the way to the brigade, You Lan held Feng Yao's hand with rosy cheeks, her dark and lively deer eyes blinking, "Sister Lan, grandma said that I would boil eggs at noon, I will bring them to you then!"

“Okay, let’s go back after playing outside for a while!” Wei Lan nodded with a smile and touched the heads of You Lan and Ji Fengyao respectively.

Watching the two little ones running to dig wild vegetables in the field, Wei Lan turned around and took a shortcut and trotted towards the canteen.

Just when he turned the corner of the alley near the cafeteria, a figure jumped out from the other end of the alley. Wei Lan couldn't stop in time and bumped into the man.

  Spring has just begun and it is not yet time for spring plowing. There is little work on the brigade. Logically speaking, it is still a slack time for farming. Wei Lan did not see clearly who the figure was. She only smelled an unpleasant and sour smell of sweat, which was very strong.

As soon as the smell entered his nose, Wei Lan subconsciously held his breath and swayed, and finally managed to hold on to the alley in time to avoid falling.

It rained a while ago, and there is little sunlight in this alley. The walls are covered with a thin layer of green moss. When you press it with your hands, it feels cold and sticky.

Goosebumps stood up on Wei Lan's back. After she stood firm, she quickly retracted her hand. It was in this way that she could see clearly who the person she bumped into was.

"Second Aunt?" Wei Lan's peach blossom eyes widened slightly, looking at Aunt Liu who fell to the ground in disbelief.

Second Aunt Liu was not as lucky as Wei Lan. She just rushed into the alley without expecting to hit anyone. The fall was severe and she couldn't get up for a long time.

Aunt Liu was lying on the ground with her arms and legs flailing like an overturned turtle, struggling to get up.

Hearing the sound, Second Aunt Liu was stunned for a moment. Her struggling movements paused for a moment. She turned over and sat on the ground and looked up at Wei Lan with a stern look on her face. "Oh, oh...it's Wei Zhiqing! How about it? I didn't bump into you, did I?"

After saying that, she got up and wanted to get closer to Wei Lan to check. Maybe she fell hard, and as soon as she took a step, she fell against the alley wall, "Ouch, ouch, feed my feet..."

Wei Lan is very clear about Er Aunt Liu's temperament. She doesn't like other people's kindness, and she will quarrel with others for three days and three nights just to make a small profit.

Afraid that Second Aunt Liu was going to touch the porcelain, Wei Lan jumped away and looked at Second Aunt Liu defensively with widened peach blossom eyes, "I'm fine, but Second Aunt, didn't you fall somewhere? Do you want me to call someone to help you?" Would you like to go to the health center and take a look?"

 “No, no need, I’m fine!” Upon hearing that Wei Lan wanted to call someone over, Aunt Liu held out flowers and quickly refused.

Perhaps realizing that she had overreacted, Aunt Liu retracted her hand with a slightly ferocious smile on her face, "It's not a big deal for me... Doesn't Wei Zhiqing still have to cook for everyone? It's almost time Right? Hurry up and get busy! Don’t delay!”

"Oh..." Wei Lan narrowed her peach blossom eyes and nodded gently, "Since the second aunt said it's okay, I'll leave first."

Wei Lan sidestepped around Aunt Liu.

Just after taking two steps, Wei Lan turned around suddenly. She originally thought that Second Aunt Liu would lift the big wood **** and give it to her behind her back, but she found that Second Aunt Liu did not move where she was, but she was still staring at her with a pair of triangular eyes.

 Seeing her suddenly turn around, she even nodded and smiled in a "friendly" way.

 Abnormal, too abnormal.

Wei Lan had interacted with Second Aunt Liu several times before. Not only did she know Second Aunt Liu completely, but she also had a general understanding. The two of them had already laid the foundation for their conflicts. How could it be that Aunt Liu was not so friendly and easy to talk to? right.

 Could it be that…

Wei Lan stood outside the alley, turned her head and glanced at Aunt Liu, who was stumbling forward in the alley, dragging her legs. As if she had thought of something, she ran towards the cafeteria.

Wei Lan's face turned red as she ran, and she pushed open the door of the cafeteria with a bang. Two people who were busy in the courtyard suddenly raised their heads.

Jiang Lihua was stunned for a moment, then looked suspicious, "What's going on?"

Wei Lan pursed her dry lips, gasped and shook her head, "No, it's nothing."

 Leaning on the door and taking a few deep breaths, Wei Lan finally moved around and spoke again, "Has anyone been here in the cafeteria just now?"

Li Sangsang nodded, "The aunt on the team came here and gave me a bunch of vegetable moss. It's a little hollow. If you pick a pick, you can make a bowl of it, which is enough for a meal in the cafeteria."

Wei Lan had no time to discuss how much vegetable moss there was and whether it was enough, and then asked: "Who are these aunts? Is the second aunt among them?"

Seeing Jiang Lihua and Li Sangsang's dumbfounded faces, Wei Lan stamped her feet, "It's the second Aunt Liu who caused the most fuss in the cafeteria last time. Has she been here?"

Wei Lan looked anxious, and Jiang Lihua couldn't help but look at him seriously.

“I’ve been here before.” Jiang Lihua put down the sweet potatoes she was washing, stood up and walked over, “What happened?”

Once he heard that Aunt Liu had come, and when he saw Aunt Liu's abnormal behavior on the road just now, Wei Lan couldn't feel at ease.

"I don't know if she got into trouble or not. First tell me, what did she do after she came here? Where did she go in the cafeteria?" Wei Lan pulled Jiang Lihua and looked her in the eyes and asked.

Jiang Lihua tried hard to remember, and in the end she only answered: "I just walked around the courtyard, and then left, and didn't do anything else."

Wei Lan frowned and asked, "Are you sure?"

Jiang Lihua was originally sure, but after being asked repeatedly by Wei Lan, she became a little unsure. She turned to look at Li Sangsang, "Really? I was just fetching water and washing sweet potatoes in the courtyard, and those aunts came in to look around. , I praised him for being open-minded and left."

Li Sangsang also nodded, "Wei Lan, Sister Lihua is right, I was there just now."

"Okay..." Wei Lan let go of Jiang Lihua, took a step back and distanced herself slightly, then turned around and stood in the courtyard, looking around. Li Sangsang is in charge of the key to the dining hall door, because he has to carry water first every day, so Li Sangsang and his brother Li Jiandang will arrive earlier.

At this time, the yard has been almost tidied up. There is a large wooden basin in the center of the yard, with sweet potatoes soaked in it. The water is very turbid.

Everything seemed to be pretty much the same as usual, nothing weird, but Wei Lan just couldn't let go.

Wei Lan was still looking at the details in the hospital, but Jiang Lihua and Li Sangsang couldn't help it. They held her hands and shook her from side to side. "What's going on? It's so scary!"

“Yes, why don’t you tell us? It will save us the trouble of guessing and worrying.”

Wei Lan can't talk nonsense about people's reputation, but these two people in front of him can be trusted.

 Wei Lan pursed her lips, and after thinking for a moment, she decided to tell the two of her true thoughts.

"What? Then we need to investigate this carefully!" Jiang Lihua shouted, with a look of confusion on her face, fearing that something would go wrong in the cafeteria and the brigade would be responsible for them.

On the contrary, Li Sangsang clapped his chest with his small hands, feeling much calmer, "I don't think there's anything to worry about. It concerns the brigade. If something goes wrong, it's not just the three of us who will be responsible, down to the members of the brigade. No one, not even the captain, can escape."

Li Sangsang is confident, "As long as you are not stupid, I basically hope that our team can be the best in this sunflower seed project."

　　This is a good idea, but I'm afraid of meeting someone who can't understand it clearly.

Li Sangsang had a strong sense of collective honor in his heart and did not believe that anyone would destroy it or cause trouble.

"Hmm..." Wei Lan nodded lightly, his dark eyebrows furrowed in worry. He was afraid that if he spoke too deeply, Li Sangsang would be disgusted. He took a gentle breath and kept all the words in his heart. He only paid special attention when he was busy behind the scenes. .

After paying attention to this, I actually discovered some problems when it came to steaming brown rice and fetching water and washing the rice.

 “Why is the water so muddy today?”

The large water tank is at the corner of the courtyard. The water usually brought back is crystal clear. Today, the water in the tank looks like someone has kneaded a handful of mud into it. The water is yellow and turbid.

Wei Lan held the basin in one hand and stirred half of the gourd ladle in the other hand. Finally, he scooped up a ladle and came closer to smell it.

 There is no special or strange taste.

"Where did you get the water today? From the small port? Or from the well of the captain's house?"

"I picked it from the brigade captain's house. I went with my brother in the morning." Li Sangsang said.

In the morning, when Li Sangsang and her brother Li Jiandang went to fetch water, they saw clearly that the water was clear.

Li Sangsang still didn't believe what Wei Lan said. When he looked closer at the water in the tank, Li Sangsang's eyes widened, "Mom! What's going on? Isn't it a bird pooping in it?"

 Wei Lan thought she had gone too far with the mud, so Li Sangsang just made a pile of shit...

 The water in the tank is almost impossible to look at, okay?

Wei Lan glanced at his watch. It seemed that time was running out.

She pushed the basin into Li Sangsang's arms, picked up the barrel and walked out, "Okay, anyway, don't use the water in the jar for now. You go pick up the moss first. I'll go to the captain's house to get a bucket of water and I'll be back in a while. .”

 “It’s better for me to go!” Li Sangsang carefully placed the basin on the ground for fear of spilling a grain of rice. After setting it down, he caught up with Wei Lan and grabbed the bucket.

Li Sangsang turned around and teased Wei Lan while running, "With your little arms and legs, you can only get half a bucket of water back with all your efforts, so who can use it?"

"Look at your feet!" Wei Lan glared at her angrily.

Li Sangsang was carrying a bucket, laughing and running quickly out of sight.

Be on the safe side, people who went to the field at noon came back and the situation still happened when they came to the table for dinner.

 On the long table was a bowl of boiled vegetable greens and a large basin of egg drop soup.

A group of young men were laughing and drinking soup, but they were shouting at the three girls in the back room:

“Hey! Sang Zaoer, do you still have the eel from a few days ago? Why didn’t you cook it? We haven’t eaten enough yet!”

Eel is not a serious meat, they have eaten it in previous years, and the muddy smell can make them vomit out all the overnight rice in their stomachs.

I don’t know how the three girls in the cafeteria cooked it. It didn’t smell fishy at all. The soft and tender meat was covered in soup and when I took a bite, my happy eyebrows almost flew away.

"Yes, you don't know how to catch it? If not, we will find time to catch it ourselves later, and then you can do it, will it be possible?"

What they said was indeed true. After Gu Chao left, the eels at home were cooked twice more. Although there were some left, it was not enough to fry a big plate for everyone to eat. Wei Lan simply didn't bother and just let Youlan digs up some earthworms every day and throws them in to keep them temporarily.

There are at least five ready-made fish baskets at home. Wei Lan once loaded up the bait and got up early in the morning. He ran to the place where the fish baskets were placed downstream of the small harbor. After several mental preparations, he could not put his foot in the water.

 The temperature is already low in the morning, and the water is even colder.

 She couldn't even imagine what kind of mentality Gu Chao had every time he got into the water.

 He is also a living person of flesh and blood, not made of iron.

Wei Lan let out a soft "tsk", her beautiful eyebrows twisted up in distress, and something she had seen on TV suddenly flashed into her mind. The kind of rubber shoes that fishermen wear when fishing are a bit like suspenders, and they are connected from the feet to the chest. As long as the water level does not reach your chest, your clothes will not get wet.

 At this time, I don’t know if there are any for sale.

Wei Lan was nudged by Jiang Lihua next to her. She suddenly came to her senses and opened her mouth to answer when suddenly there was a loud noise outside:

 “Heidan’er, can you do it? Everyone is still eating, how can everyone continue to eat like this?”

"Yeah, I'm sorry! You eat first, eat first, don't worry about me!"

A rush of footsteps ran past, and the voices in the room did not stop. "Someone else is eating, and he suddenly has to squat in the toilet. How can he eat?"

“It’s just, oh, oh...why, why...my, my stomach hurts too!”

 “Oh, me too, I can’t do it anymore, Heidan’er, wait, wait for me, I’ll go too!”

 “I, I’m going too!”

In the blink of an eye, most of the people at the long table who were noisy just now ran away. The remaining three or five stared at each other, and then they kicked off their long legs in exactly the same way, squeezing the chairs away from the table and putting some distance between them, holding the sweet potatoes in their hands. , Jobs are pushed far away.

 One person having diarrhea does not mean there is a problem. Three, five or ten people all have diarrhea, which is enough to indicate that it is a big problem. For the safety of themselves and the project, everyone is very careful.

Wei Lan and Jiang Lihua came out after hearing the commotion and were a little dumbfounded when they saw the mostly empty main room, "What, what?"

 (End of this chapter)