Mu Yangling and Qi Haoran looked at each other, and their hearts sank. They asked, "How could no one notice such a big move?"
Li Er wiped his tears and said, "Zou Da lives alone. Because the weather is still a little cold, we go up the mountain to gather firewood to sell every day. When we come back, we'll transport the grain seeds back and leave them at his house. Prior to this, we've already asked about the amount reported by the tenant farmers and weighed the grain seeds. Then, we asked the estate manager for the job of distributing grain seeds to those tenant farmers. When we passed by Zou Da's house, we simply switched the Dry Rice No. 1 seeds with the grain seeds that we'd prepared beforehand. As it's still very early, no one noticed."
As the estate manager was largely illiterate, he merely wrote some numbers and simple markings on the bags. After gaining experience from the first two years, it wasn't difficult to find out what he had written on the bags.
