Forced to marry a disabled man in the countryside? I'll repay you tenfold!

Upon hearing that the oyster mushrooms would be distributed soon, everyone immediately stopped arguing.

"Excellent! Elder Shen is indeed efficient!"

"Yes, yes, as long as we get the oyster mushrooms today, that's fine! We can discuss the rest later!"

"Hurry up and harvest! We're all waiting!"

Old Shen led everyone to Jiang Weiwei's cultivation room. Jiang Weiwei's face showed just the right amount of confidence and composure. "Distinguished leaders, please look, my first batch of oyster mushrooms is fully mature, with an estimated yield of at least 300 jin. After today's harvest, the second batch will be ready in seven or eight days. Together, the total yield will be at least 1,000 jin."

The managers quickly calculated in their minds. Although a thousand catties wasn't much for each family, these fresh mushrooms were a rare commodity. Taking them back to add to the staff canteen's menu or distributing them as welfare would be enough to make the workers happy for a while, something other factories would envy. As everyone was happily imagining how to distribute them, Old Shen had already taken out the key and unlocked the cultivation room.

"ah--!!!"

The moment the door opened, Jiang Weiwei let out a piercing scream and rushed inside. "My mushrooms! Who? Who did this?! Who destroyed all my mushrooms?! These are the fruits of my labor, cultivated over a month of painstaking effort! Damn it! This is a waste of food! It's a crime!!"

Without her having to shout any further, everyone saw the horrific scene inside the house and gasped in shock.

The cultivation room was now a complete mess. Both the first batch of mature oyster mushrooms and the second batch of young mushrooms had been brutally destroyed.

Old Shen's face instantly turned ashen, and the veins on his forehead throbbed. Having spent his entire life working in agriculture, he couldn't bear to see perfectly good grains wasted like this! This wasn't just a loss; it was an extreme trampling of labor!

The most heartbreaking thing is for those factory and mine managers who are eagerly awaiting the mushrooms.

"Oh my God! All these perfectly good mushrooms... are gone? There's not a single edible one left!"

"Who's so heartless! This isn't just a little bit, it's hundreds or even thousands of kilograms of fresh mushrooms! Enough for so many of our factory workers to enjoy some!"

"This is definitely sabotage! Elder Shen, this can't be left like this! We must find the culprit and punish them severely!"

"Yes! Punish them severely! They promised us a share today, and now it's all gone!"

Jiang Weiwei's tears rolled down her cheeks like a broken string of pearls. "Mr. Shen, look, you've always kept the key yourself. It was fine when I left yesterday afternoon, but today..."

"I know you cherish crops like your own life, it couldn't be you, someone must have deliberately sabotaged it under the cover of night! You repeatedly emphasized that this experimental site concerns the interests of the country and the collective, and anyone who dares to sabotage it is an enemy of the country and the people, and must not be let off lightly! Now someone has destroyed my mushrooms and ruined everyone's expectations, you must stand up for me and find this heartless sabotage thief!"

She was crying on the surface, but inside she was full of pride.

Last night, she borrowed a ladder from Wang Tieniu, who was hoping she would help him get a good job, then climbed onto the roof and used a pole to destroy the mushrooms inside, all to frame Su Wanqing!

Suppressing his anger, Old Shen carefully inspected the doors and windows, and finally shook his head: "No one has entered the house, and the windows and doors are fine."

Su Wanqing stood at the back of the crowd, her brows furrowed, equally surprised.

Her thoughts raced, and she suddenly realized: Jiang Weiwei must have spread the word beforehand to lure these people to share the mushrooms, and then deliberately ruined her own mushrooms in order to frame her.

So that's how it is! This is the big move Jiang Weiwei unleashed after days of silence!

Knowing she was doomed to lose the production competition, she resorted to undermining her own chances by destroying the mushrooms and creating trouble, then shifting the blame onto herself, the most competitive party! If the charges of "damaging collective property and malicious competition" are proven true, she could not only lose the planting site, but also be immediately disgraced and even sent to a labor camp!

What a vicious thought!

Sure enough, Jiang Weiwei suddenly raised her head, pointed at her, and said, "Old Shen, it's her! It must be Su Wanqing! She's jealous that my father can provide more support and is afraid that I can use this to turn the tables and take over the management of the planting site. So she harbored malicious intentions and used such despicable means to destroy my achievements! Who else would deliberately sabotage my mushrooms?!"

She rushed to Su Wanqing, "Su Wanqing, I never thought you were this kind of person! These mushrooms aren't ordinary mushrooms; they represent hope for improving the meals of hundreds, even thousands of families! Even if you desperately want this spot, even if you hate me, how could you tamper with food? How could you do something so self-destructive and wasteful of national resources?! Doesn't your conscience hurt?!"

Her words directly placed Su Wanqing on the moral judgment seat for "using any means to achieve her goals and harming the collective interest".

"Old Shen, Comrade Jiang is right! Who would come and ruin these perfectly good mushrooms for no reason? I bet it's someone from another competition, afraid of losing, so they're resorting to dirty tricks!"

"Yes, this kind of vicious competition is too despicable, and it must not be tolerated!" said Section Chief Ma of the oil refinery, who had the loudest voice.

"That's right, this is extremely serious! I think we should cancel the competition and find the person who caused this disruption first! Someone with that kind of character has no right to manage the planting site!"

Old Shen's expression was solemn. "Quiet! The saboteurs must be investigated, but before the matter is clarified, do not jump to conclusions or arbitrarily accuse comrades!"

Comrade Jiang Weiwei's second batch is estimated to yield 150 jin (75 catties), while Comrade Su Wanqing's second batch is estimated to yield 350 jin (175 catties), more than double that of Comrade Jiang Weiwei. Given that she is about to win through merit, what reason would she have to risk sabotaging her competitor's mushrooms? This doesn't make sense. Without evidence, we can't make baseless accusations!

Su Wanqing glanced at Old Shen; at least he had said a few fair words.

"Huh? This Comrade Su's output is so high? Well... then it really doesn't seem that necessary."

Everyone nodded in agreement.

Section Chief Ma of the oil refinery disagreed. "That's not necessarily true. Didn't Comrade Jiang say that her father can get more resources? What if Su Wanqing is afraid that Comrade Jiang will use those resources to overtake her in the future? Or... or maybe she's just narrow-minded and can't stand seeing others do well! I think she's probably the one who did this! Who else but her has such a big conflict with Comrade Jiang?"

Jiang Weiwei secretly nodded to Section Chief Ma. This was a talent she had been cultivating over the past few days, and he had really put in a good job today.