Chapter 249 - 250: Bitten by a Rat 3
However, the rest of the old Chen family was dumbfounded.
They had snuck out at night to dig for the grain, so if anyone had seen them, news would have spread yesterday.
It would be foolish for a family member to share such secret outside, yet how could the news spread so quickly, as if it had grown legs?
Li Chunhua, with a darkened face, mumbled angrily: "Who the damn big-mouth revealed this? We should be the ones to benefit from this grain. Now, even the remainder in the rat holes will be targeted by others."
Zhao Mei stood next to her, nervously fiddling with her hoe stick.
Except for the Chen family, only her maternal family and her brother-in-law’s family knew about the grain in the rat holes.
Although her family promised not to tell anyone, she worried that someone might have seen them digging last night and spilled the beans.
If her maternal family leaked the information, her in-laws, even her husband would blame her.
Compared to Zhao Mei, Zhou Zhaodi, who also informed her maternal family, was calm.
She went with her maternal family to dig for grain last night and was quite confident that no one saw them.
Even if her maternal family were loose-lipped, it was impossible for the news to reach their commune in such a short time.
After all, it took two whole hours to travel between the two communes!