Shu Yu paused, "That Old Master Qian from Donggu County?"
"Yes." Dazhuang nodded, "Zhang Qing is spineless. After being questioned by the village chief, he confessed right away. That Old Master Qian gave him money to steal the sunflower seeds. Not just this time, last time too. According to Zhang Qing, Old Master Qian had already planted the sunflower seeds from before, but they didn't grow well. It rained for many days recently, and the sunflowers looked like they were going to die, so he came up with this idea again."
When he talked about the sunflowers dying, Dazhuang was visibly pained.
He knew how easy it was to grow sunflowers; they didn't require much for their growing environment. Land originally used for grains could be used for sunflowers, yielding an abundant harvest.
Yet Old Master Qian had the ability to let crops over several acres perish; he clearly didn't know how to grow them.
