Transmigration: Flirted with My Childhood Sweetheart
Chapter 387 - 386: When Not Lacking Hair...

Chapter 387: Chapter 386: When Not Lacking Hair...

Gathering intelligence is a task that inevitably requires different methods in different places.

To pry some information from certain people, even using every trick in the book might not open their mouths; but to learn something from others, spending just twenty minutes chatting might reveal everything they’ve eaten for meals in a day, clear as day.

The former is difficult, the latter is not easy either.

After all, people don’t just casually open up their hearts to others, and acquiring useful intelligence through chatting not only requires a clever mouth but also the ability to guide the conversation and mine the other’s memories.

Su Yuncheng was confident in doing the former, but the latter... he really wasn’t up to it.

Li Dahe tilted his head towards Su Yuncheng, pointed quietly at Lin Nianhe, and said, "Initially I indeed thought about donating her to the police station, look at her mouth, wouldn’t it be a waste if it’s not used for interrogation?"

Su Yuncheng: "Yes."

If it were during the war years, it wouldn’t be a waste of talent to have her in the highest-level intelligence department.

After lamenting, Li Dahe turned back to the main topic, "Old He and the others had no issues when exchanging goods, could it really be the Victory Team wanting to harm us? They..."

Li Dahe didn’t finish the sentence "why".

Of course, he knew why.

Last time, Old Lady Qian and a few others from Victory Team took a big fall in Ten Miles Team, hadn’t they made enemies?

Thinking of this, Li Dahe’s brows furrowed.

He really didn’t want to face this issue. Unfortunately, he was the one who couldn’t avoid it the most.

Lin Nianhe turned to Su Yuncheng and said, "Actually, I’m not sure if it’s just a coincidence or if it’s really them, so... I plan to let Cao Shijian return earlier with the wild boar meat and then spread the news about how our village killed over a dozen wild boars."

Su Yuncheng and she exchanged a glance, and he immediately understood her strategy, standing up and saying, "I’ll keep an eye on them."

"You haven’t had dinner yet!" Lin Nianhe was a bit anxious, "In this freezing weather, you..."

"It’s fine," Su Yuncheng patted her head reassuringly, "This little task is nothing."

Lin Nianhe pursed her lips and said, "There’s no rush at this moment, it’s okay if Cao Shijian goes back a bit later."

Before reuniting with Lin Nianhe, no one would speak these detailed instructions to Su Yuncheng before he went on a mission. Looking at her worried eyes, his heart warmed.

He said, "Okay, don’t worry."

Su Yuncheng still didn’t waste much time; after eating a bowl of noodles cooked by Aunt Feng, he put on a white military coat and left.

His steps were quick, and in no time, he merged into the extensive white landscape.

Lin Nianhe leaned on the desk in the team’s office, looked at Li Dahe for a while, then said, "Uncle Team Leader, arrange for a few more people to stay at the warehouse tonight."

Li Dahe furrowed his brows, he had been especially silent ever since Lin Nianhe mentioned the Victory Team.

Hearing Lin Nianhe say this, he just hummed deeply and pondered for a long while before saying, "I’ll take a few of the boys and sleep in the warehouse tonight."

He thought about many things, related to Cao Manfu, related to their younger days.

Back then, Ten Miles Team was still called Ten Miles Village, and Victory Team was known as Cao Family Village.

Back then, Cao Manfu still stood straight, and Li Dahe also wasn’t missing any hair.

Back then, just having a full meal was a luxury for them.

When those strong young men were at an age when they needed a lot of food, their bellies devoid of sustenance, they were hungry all day and night.

They would go up the mountains together to trap rabbits and hunt deer, fish and catch shrimp, delighting over just a bit of food as if it were the grandest feast...

What time did he stop playing with Cao Manfu?

Li Dahe couldn’t quite remember. Perhaps it was when they both consecutively became team leaders of Ten Miles Team, or maybe when the Victory Team was often hit by disasters, or possibly when the Educated youth were sent to the countryside... He only recalled that later on, every time he saw Cao Manfu, he spoke less, always hunched over as if he was crushed by life.

The brothers of youth, inevitably drifted apart.

Li Dahe thought for a long time, then he remembered.

He began to distance himself from Cao Manfu when he secretly sold the deer skin they got together for twenty yuan.

Cao Manfu didn’t tell anyone, and Li Dahe also pretended not to know.

Until now.

A whole bag of tobacco was burned through, and Li Dahe hadn’t even managed to take a puff.

He silently knocked on his tobacco pipe and said to Lin Nianhe, "Girl, run an errand for me. Go tell Principal Wu and Hongzi about this, don’t worry about Old Zhao, I’ll go find him."

Lin Nianhe looked at Li Dahe, whose face was filled with thoughts, and obediently nodded, "Okay, I’ll go now."

"Hmm... How is Xiao Feng’s hand injury?"

Lin Nianhe: "...!"

She forgot to deliver the medicine to Feng Wei!

The injury on Feng Wei’s hand wasn’t severe, the cut was long but not deep. If Lin Nianhe delayed a little longer to remember him, the wound probably would have scabbed over.

Lin Nianhe thought about wrapping things up quickly, grabbed the iodine, and poured it over Feng Wei’s hand, causing him to grimace from the pain but dared not complain loudly, fearing his complaints might summon Brother Cheng who was nowhere to be seen.

"Brother Feng," Lin Nianhe said while applying the medication, "Brother Yuncheng suspects the wild boar incident isn’t a coincidence. He’s already gone to investigate the situation at Victory Team, so you’ll have a hard evening ahead, keep a watch with your gun in the village."

Feng Wei immediately straightened his expression, not even feeling the pain on his hand anymore. He immediately asked, "What happened? Sister Lin, can you elaborate?"

Lin Nianhe then recounted all the details to him.

After listening, Feng Wei nodded, "Okay, I understand. I’ll patrol the village tonight."

"Is it possible to have Principal Wu and Niuwa squeeze into my house with Aunt Feng? The village school is too big, having just the two of them there, I really can’t rest easy."

"No problem, we’ll head over there in a bit."

"Good... I’ll come along too, and stay with them."

Principal Wu and Niuwa were the ones Lin Nianhe worried most about; with one old and one young and both having virtually no means to defend themselves, stationed in such a large village school, their safety was certainly not ensured.

Upon hearing the reasons from behind and ahead, Principal Wu didn’t put on airs and immediately said, "Alright, then Niuwa and I will head over there, so you don’t have to worry about us while you handle the important matters."

Feng Wei helped settle Principal Wu and Niuwa, while Lin Nianhe hurried to inform Wang Hong about the matter.

As expected, Director Wang exploded on hearing the news: "Damn it, who dares plot against our village? I’ll flatten him with a shovel!"

Lin Nianhe quickly hugged her arm to stop her: "Aunt Wang, Aunt Wang, let’s stay calm, it’s just a suspicion!"

Wang Hong, with her face scrunched up: "Don’t try to soothe me, what could possibly summon all those acorns? Even if one’s brain got squeezed eight times by a door, they shouldn’t believe this was a coincidence!"

Lin Nianhe: "..."

She felt like Aunt Wang’s words were somehow scolding Uncle Team Leader...

Aunt Wang, holding the shovel that she had returned, carried the demeanor of a fierce warrior woman.

"Come on, I want to see which little coward dares to wield a big knife in front of me!"

Lin Nianhe looked at her and cooperatively clapped her hands, "Aunt Wang is mighty!"