Reborn in the 60s, I hunt to support my family and even seduce the village beauty.

Without lingering on Qin Meiru for even a second, Chang Kun walked to his desk and picked up the things he had prepared beforehand.

"Master, Uncle Zeng, Brother Monkey, I have to catch my train. See you later."

The crowd then snapped out of their shock.

"Chang Kun, have a safe journey!"

Come back soon.

As Chang Kun stepped out of the office, he slowly exhaled.

If he hadn't had to catch his train today, he would definitely have pursued the matter of the stolen corn to the end, ensuring that no one in the Qin family would escape punishment.

However, now that he has made himself so clear, he believes that even if that guy Xiao Lü is bewitched and wants to protect him, his master and Uncle Zeng will not tolerate it.

Cheng Min blinked and whispered to Chang Kun, "That Qin Meiru, did she really steal the cornbread she took?"

Chang Kun glanced sideways at Cheng Min: "What? You think your man is petty and went to frame that woman?"

Hearing Chang Kun refer to Qin Meiru as "that woman," Cheng Min was secretly delighted.

"I didn't think that way, it's just... you only glanced at the tortillas and said they were stolen from her family, that seems a bit arbitrary."

"If you knew what the situation is like in rural areas now, you wouldn't think that way."

Cheng Min stared wide-eyed, waiting for Chang Kun to explain.

"Let me put it this way, in the countryside nowadays, during the Spring Festival, each person can't even get a single bite of those cornbreads—just one bite, not one person!"

"Nowadays, rural people would never eat cornbread like this. Even if they manage to get a little cornmeal, they'll mix it with wild vegetables or sweet potato stems and knead it into a dough to make cornbread."

Recalling the tragic events of the past two years in his previous life, Chang Kun sighed deeply.

Even without the system's detection, just from those ten pure cornbread cakes, he knew that the Qin family had definitely done something wrong.

At that time, rural people were often hungry, so it was normal for them to steal food.

But with such pure cornmeal, and the fact that it was still before the autumn harvest, Chang Kun suspected that the Qin family had stolen and eaten the corn that the brigade had reserved for autumn planting.

For farmers, seeds are everything!

Without seeds, nothing else matters!

Chang Kun had no idea; he was just guessing randomly, and his guess was almost right.

Looking back, Monkey and the others, who were originally going to the platform to see Chang Kun off, were just standing at the office door, silently waving.

After Lü Jiawei's blind date caused such a scene, not only was Lü in a bad mood, but everyone else also felt upset.

Even those who aren't from rural areas know how important seeds are to farmers.

If the cornbread that the Qin family brought was indeed stolen from the brigade's corn seeds, then that's no small matter!

Even if they are just railway police, they cannot be ignored at this time!

Lu Jiawei stared intently at Qin Meiru, his fists clenching and unclenching repeatedly.

He never imagined that corn tortillas came about like this. Luckily, he hadn't eaten them, otherwise...

Qin Meiru leaned against the desk, panting heavily, her eyes vacant.

Today, I came with Lü Jiawei to meet his colleague, but we ended up running into Chang Kun, who then discovered that the cornbread was stolen!

How could all of this have turned out like this!

She hates it so much!

But at this moment, hatred was too late; all that remained in his heart was boundless panic.

If people find out that she and her brother stole corn seeds from the production brigade, what will become of them?

Just thinking about it sends chills down my spine!

In the tense atmosphere, Old Zeng spoke.

"Hey! Little Qin, why don't you tell us how the corn tortillas came about?"

Lei Guohong, Hou Jun, and Xiao Yu stared intently at Qin Meiru, not missing a single expression on her face.

At this moment, Qin Meiru was so nervous that she couldn't speak, and her teeth chattered.

"If you don't speak, does that mean you agree with what Chang Kun said—that you stole these cornbreads?"

Qin Meiru hurriedly looked up: "No...no..."

"Then tell me, we police will not wrong an innocent person, nor will we let a guilty person go free!"

Qin Meiru did not understand the jurisdiction of the railway police. In her opinion, as long as it was the police, they could handle theft.

"I...I didn't steal it, I didn't do it!" She was almost incoherent.

"Who is that?! Tell us, confess, and we'll try to get leniency for your honesty!" Old Zeng's tone grew increasingly stern.

Lu Jiawei frowned deeply and couldn't help but shout, "Where did the cornbread come from? Tell us now! Do you really want us to go to your brigade to investigate ourselves?"

How infuriating! I finally found a blind date, but it turned out to be a police officer and a thief on a blind date.

A mouse wants to marry a cat, I really don't know what it's thinking!

Old Zeng gave Xiao Lü an approving look. At the crucial moment, his apprentice was still able to distinguish right from wrong and did not succumb to lust.

Qin Meiru's forehead was covered in cold sweat, her eyes darted around, and she began to speak recklessly.

"It's my brother! It was him! He did it all, I didn't do anything!!"

"You didn't do anything? How do you know these tortillas were stolen?!"

Under Lao Zeng's relentless pressure, Qin Meiru trembled all over, her lips quivering incessantly.

"I...I really didn't do anything!"

Seeds are the lifeblood of the collective. Stealing seeds is equivalent to cutting off everyone's escape route, and the punishment is much heavier than stealing a little money.

She remembered that two years ago, someone in the village stole wheat seeds and was convicted of sabotaging collective production. He was sentenced to three years in prison and sent to a labor camp to do hard labor.

There, they had to go to the fields before dawn, weeding, fertilizing, and harvesting under the scorching sun. During the off-season, they were also pulled to work on reservoir construction, river digging, and road building.

In the labor camp, dozens of people were crammed into a large communal room. At night, they could only sleep on their side, otherwise they couldn't sleep at all.

These are just the physical sufferings they endure. If the villagers found out that their family stole corn seeds, they would be stabbed in the back!

After that, his family could never hold their heads up in the village again!

No!

This can't be allowed!!

Qin Meiru suddenly raised her head, her eyes bloodshot, staring intently at Lü Jiawei.

"Jiawei, this is really none of my business! As long as you're willing to marry me, I'll be your housekeeper from now on, I can do anything!"

"From now on, I'll cut off all contact with my family, so you don't need to worry about my family dragging you down..."

"Look at me! Don't you like me? Look at me...!!!"

These words left Lü Jiawei speechless with shock.

This woman, in order to protect herself, actually abandoned her family.

Her parents worked so hard to raise her to be so beautiful, but in the end, they raised a heartless ingrate!

Lu Jiawei felt a chill run down his spine; thankfully, he had seen through the woman's true colors early on.

How can you expect someone who can abandon their parents to be loyal to you?

Thinking of this, he waved his hand fiercely.

"Stop talking!"

"What you can do now is to carefully explain your problems!"

"No need to go on about anything else!!"

In an instant, Qin Meiru was dumbfounded, and almost collapsed to the ground, like a wilted eggplant, her spirit completely broken.