It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

Chapter 237

After Jiang Yan dealt with the traces inside and outside the yard, he lived in fear for another five or six days, but there was no sign of Governor Lu and others entering the village.

No matter how uneasy he felt, Jiang Yan forced himself to calm down and make new farm tools.

She had only heard of the curved plow in the textbook, but had never seen one in real life. Even the winnowing wheel she had seen as a child, she had no idea about its internal structure.

If she had known this would happen, she would have brought a few more blueprints with her so that she could hire someone to build it.

Why not make it yourself? Jiang Yan has no talent for crafts like carpentry and weaving, and until now she can only make some crude things that are useful.

Jiang Yan split the thin bamboo pole in his hand, leaving only the ends connected, then carefully removed the horizontal diaphragm, and finally tied it tightly with a thin rope.

In order to make this thing, she used up almost all the bamboo poles she dragged back in the cold wind, and her palms were covered with scratches. Fortunately, when it came time to sow in the spring, she could stand and plant the seeds in the soil without bending over.

She bought a very small bag of rapeseed seeds, which were common vegetables in later generations. Few people grew them in Heding Prefecture, and they were even rarer further east and south.

The owner of the grain seed shop called it Brassica rapa and sold it at a very high price, saying that it was a new thing that had just been tried in the western part of Xiding Prefecture.

It was a new thing and the price was high. Even if the shopkeeper praised it, few farmers were willing to buy it. Not to mention that most farmers did not buy seeds from the shop, but exchanged them privately. As a result, Jiang Yan had forgotten about the pottery pot when he was sowing seeds.

After a few days, Jiang Yan thought that since there had been some time between the murders, it was time to go into the mountains to look for clues, to see how the two men came to Dongshan Village, and to see if there were any omissions she could fill.

The snow in the mountains had not melted yet, so Jiang Yan did not walk far. He followed the vague traces of the two people for half an hour and reached a high slope. He had already made up his mind.

Standing here and looking around, one can roughly deduce how the two people ran out of the forest, and then followed the path that the Dongshan villagers had cleared to go to and from Tiankeng Mountain, and went straight into Dongshan Village.

Even though the grass and trees are sparse and there is no obstruction, the path is still clearly visible.

Jiang Yan was unable to hide a mountain road. Seeing that it was still early in the morning, she climbed over the hill and walked forward for a while. She used a small shovel to shovel up several sets of footprints along with the snow, shaped the edges, and then carefully transplanted them to another direction.

As for the other footprints and bloodstains, as well as the footprints left by himself, Jiang Yan used a bamboo broom to sweep them away carefully.

Although such forgery is difficult to achieve perfect, and cannot be prevented by someone with ulterior motives, but what if?

If the people who came to look for her were careless and didn't investigate carefully, or if the weather got warmer and the snow melted and she couldn't tell the difference, then she would most likely be left out of the matter.

However, Jiang Yan thought as he cleaned up the traces, would blood that had been exposed for more than ten days still have a bloody smell? Probably not... After all, they hadn't been able to lure the beast out of the mountains at that time.

Moreover, she had buried the internal organs and blood of the wild animals on the spot before, and nothing happened.

-----------------

Because everyone visited relatives and friends during the New Year holidays, the joke about Dongshan Village being haunted quickly spread from Wangjia Village to several neighboring villages.

Some people listened to it as a novelty, some were half-believing and half-doubting and secretly wondered who the ghost was, and some kept the fact that Dongshan Village was deserted in mind and planned to find a chance to go there to see if there was anything they could do.

In Rongcheng County, which is a little further away, the people there have no time to gossip. They are busy fighting a new epidemic that came out of nowhere.