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Chapter 103 Selling a Sick Cow
Before leaving the commune, Ji Sisi went to Huang Qiaomei to tell her about Ji Nian, and then went to Qiping Commune with Captain Ma.

"Captain Ma, I'll get off here. Find a shady spot and wait for me for a while. I'll be right back."

Captain Ma said worriedly, "Sisi, why don't I go with you? I'm worried about you going alone."

"This isn't the old society, are you going to detain me? Captain Ma, don't worry, I'm leaving."

Ji Sisi strode away and entered the second production team of Qiping Commune.

Huaihua and Qiping are adjacent. Several people from Huaihua Commune married into Qiping Commune. Ji Sisi asked Liu Lan to keep an eye on the information of these families so as not to let anything slip.

At noon, everyone was still eating lunch. After finishing their meal and resting for a while, they would continue working.

Ji Sisi stopped a person coming out of the canteen. "Hello, comrade, do you know Liu Guihua? I'm her cousin. I came from Lu County to visit relatives. I heard she married someone from your area."

After speaking, Ji Sisi took out her letter of introduction.

The man took the letter of introduction, glanced at it, confirmed it was in order, and returned it to Ji Sisi.

The men saw that Ji Sisi had fair and delicate skin and beautiful features, and that she was obviously a city girl who had never done farm work, so they did not doubt her claim that she was visiting relatives.

The man nodded decisively, "I know them. Their family lives on that slope over there. I'll take you there."

As they walked, Ji Sisi looked for an opportunity to ask questions.

"Comrade, I heard that the yak meat in your cooperative is two cents cheaper than in the city. Could you tell me where the supply and marketing cooperative is located?"

When the topic of cattle came up, the man suddenly became nervous and gave a perfectly tactful answer.

"This meat is the same price at the supply and marketing cooperative and in your city. You can buy the same thing when you go back to the city."

Ji Sisi feigned regret, "I thought your supply and marketing cooperative would be cheaper."

Ji Sisi acted well; her bright eyes were full of regret, and her expression conveyed disappointment.

The man wavered, but quickly extinguished the flame that shouldn't have been ignited. "Yes, it's all the same."

For the rest of the journey, Ji Sisi didn't ask about yaks anymore. Instead, she pretended to be ignorant and asked about things like growing grain in the countryside.

The man pointed to the mud-brick house, "We're here, this is Liu Guihua's house."

"Okay, thank you, comrade."

As Ji Sisi was about to walk up the slope, the man called out to her, "Um... it's probably best to avoid eating beef for a while."

Although the captain warned against talking about yaks to outsiders, it shouldn't count as telling people not to eat beef, right?

After the man finished speaking, he turned to leave.

"Why?" Ji Sisi asked back.

The man stopped, his expression unnatural. "It's nothing. You city folks don't work in the fields, so it doesn't matter whether you eat or not. Just pretend I didn't say that."

This time, the man left as soon as he finished speaking, and he didn't stop no matter how much Ji Sisi tried to talk to him.

Standing at Liu Guihua's door, Ji Sisi felt increasingly uneasy. The news about yak lung disease should have been widely circulated in the past few months.

I was talking to the man just now, but he didn't say a word and was deliberately avoiding the topic.

It seems that the second team is really hiding something.

After thinking it over, Ji Si knocked on Liu Guihua's door. A woman's voice came from inside, "Who is it?"

"Who are you?" Liu Guihua opened the door and saw a stranger. She didn't dare to open the door completely, leaving only a crack.

"Hello, I'm Liu Lianhua's colleague. I'm visiting relatives in the countryside and I just happened to be passing through your team. She asked me to bring you some things."

Liu Guihua was puzzled. How could her stingy older sister remember her? But when she saw the oranges and half a pound of candy in Ji Sisi's hand, she thought, "How stingy! She had someone bring me oranges and candy from so far away."

Liu Guihua lowered her guard and opened the door to invite Ji Sisi in.

Ji Sisi went in and sat for a while, chatting briefly. She discovered that Liu Guihua was just like the man from before, and even more tight-lipped than the previous man.

Seeing that she couldn't get any information out of her, Ji Sisi had no choice but to leave under the pretext that she had to rush back to the city.

Ji Sisi dared not wander off and could only turn back.

On the way back to the Sixth Team, Ji Sisi asked, "Captain Ma, do all the herders' cattle have to be sent to the slaughterhouse and then to the supply and marketing cooperative? Do you know anyone at the slaughterhouse?"

Captain Ma shook his head. "Yes, that's the procedure. I don't know anyone here. Why are you suddenly asking about this?"

Ji Sisi told Captain Ma about the conversation she had with the man earlier.

Does the person's advice against eating beef mean there's been a problem with the beef lately?

She thought that if Qiping Commune sold the dead cattle as usual, they wouldn't suffer too much loss. If they reported fewer sick cattle, no one would notice any problem.

"Of course, this is just my suspicion and doesn't prove anything."

Captain Ma was so frightened by Ji Sisi's suspicions that he was speechless.

Even if he had ten times the courage, he wouldn't do that! What if someone dies from eating a sick cow sold to a slaughterhouse?
Captain Ma noticed Ji Si's intention to investigate and offered, "Although I don't know anyone at the slaughterhouse, I know where it is. If you want to go, I can take you there."

Ji Sisi hummed in agreement.

It was already 5 p.m. when they got back to the sixth team. It was time to get off work. Thinking about Ji Nian, Ji Sisi silently sped up her pedaling.

Ji Sisi rode her bike directly to the guardhouse.

Wu Gang was eating inside when he heard the commotion outside and ran out, his mouth still greasy. "Sister-in-law."

Has Qi Yan returned?

Wu Gang shook his head, "Not yet. Your eldest sister came here today to make a phone call back to Jianghai, and then Xiao Mao said she hadn't been anywhere else."

"I understand. Thank you for your hard work, Comrade Wu. You should go eat now. I'm going to the cafeteria to eat too."

Wu Gang smiled憨厚ly and replied, "It's not hard work, it's all what we should do!"

As soon as Ji Sisi arrived at the cafeteria, Huang Qiaomei was there too. She pulled Ji Sisi aside to talk.

"You weren't joking this afternoon, were you? Is your older sister really a murderer?"

"How could I joke about this? I heard it from Jiang Hai's relative, and I don't think she would lie to me."

Huang Qiaomei was still worried. "It's not that I don't trust you, but without proof or an arrest warrant, our station can't just arrest people arbitrarily."

Besides, it's about ten kilometers from our police station. If calling them over turns out to be a misunderstanding, knowing your older sister's personality, it could cause quite a bit of trouble.

After hearing Ji Sisi's words in the afternoon, Huang Qiaomei became uneasy and couldn't concentrate on anything. She was worried that there really was a murderer in the prison.

Whether it's good or bad, it will affect the institute. Luckily, not many people know about it yet; if it caused panic, the consequences would be...

She gets a headache just thinking about it.

"Sister Qiaomei, I know you're worried, that's why I only told you. If Director Fu comes back tonight, please pass on the message to him and let's discuss how to handle this."

Before he finished speaking, Wu Gang appeared in the cafeteria.

"Sister-in-law, Director Qi and the director are back. They want you to go to the station!"

(End of this chapter)