Professor Gu's daily life in the countryside after his rebirth

Chapter 173 Looking for a Cow

Just as Zhao Baogen was about to go to the cowshed to check out the situation on the scene, Guo Zhida and the entire experimental group came one after another, and Gu Zhan followed the team into the cattle farm.

As soon as Guo Zhida saw Zhao Baogen, he quickly walked over and asked anxiously, "Captain, what's going on? How could the cow get lost for no reason?"

Zhao Baogen sighed and said, "I was just planning to go check out the situation."

"Then let's go there quickly." Guo Zhida said.

Zhao Baogen nodded and looked back at everyone. Gu Zhan saw Zhao Baogen looking at him, so he nodded and followed the team to the scene of the incident.

Inside the experimental cattle shed, everything seemed normal. Just as everyone was about to go in, Gu Zhan said anxiously, "Wait."

Zhao Baogen was already getting anxious and angry. When he heard Gu Zhan's words, he was also a little confused: "What?"

"Look, there are footprints inside the cowshed."

As soon as Gu Zhan said this, everyone woke up from their dream and stretched their necks to look inside. They saw all sorts of messy footprints on the ground in the cowshed, which looked like they had been there not long ago.

"Who of you went into the bullpen this morning?"

Gu Zhan looked at Zhou Guoping and asked.

Zhou Guoping shook his head subconsciously: "I didn't go in. I came here to feed the cows. When I opened the door and saw that there were no cows, I panicked, left the cart and quickly called for help."

"Well, where are the rest of you?"

The others were shaking their heads. Gu Zhan said, "Okay, since none of you went in, the person who left footprints inside is most likely the last person to enter the cowshed. If one cow went missing, it could be an accident. But if all the experimental cows in this cowshed are missing, it definitely wasn't lost. There's only one possibility: it was intentional."

"This..." With the evidence placed in front of them, everyone looked at each other in bewilderment.

Who on earth would work so hard on the experimental cows at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences?

"Report it to the police."

Gu Zhan's words were like thunder out of the blue.

So far, there has not been a single incident of missing oxen in the entire Xia County.

"Report to the police? Can they find it?" Zhao Baogen asked hopefully.

"It's very likely!" Gu Zhan said confidently.

The team members at the cattle farm made quite a noise in the morning. Many team members nearby came over after hearing the noise and gathered around to watch the fun.

When Gu Zhan said the word "call the police", the crowd fell strangely quiet for a moment, and then someone suddenly broke the silence, and the surrounding noises began to become chaotic again.

"Then call the police. What are we waiting for?" Guo Zhida slapped his thigh and said anxiously.

"Oh well."

As he spoke, Xia Yu walked out of the crowd: "Master, I'll go call the police."

"Well, Captain Zhao, what do you think?"

Zhao Baogen glanced at the crowd around him, sighed solemnly, and said, "Then let's call the police. Guoping, follow Comrade Xia Yu to the Public Security Bureau to report the incident."

"Hey, okay."

After saying this, Zhao Baogen looked at the crowd with a burning gaze, then retracted his gaze and said to them, "The cattle from the Agricultural Science Academy got lost on the territory of our Shanghe Village Production Brigade. This is a great shame for the Shanghe Village Production Brigade."

These words were spoken with great emphasis, and as soon as they fell, the people who came to watch the excitement suddenly stopped thinking and lowered their heads.

After all, at the beginning, they also thought that the cows belonged to the Academy of Agricultural Sciences and had little to do with them, as long as they were not cows from the team's cattle farm.

Zhao Baogen's words reminded them.

In an instant, everyone felt ashamed.

Seeing that everyone had quieted down, Zhao Baogen arranged the remaining people at the cattle farm and the brigade cadres to form groups to search for cattle in the surrounding areas.

As soon as the personnel groups were determined, the team members present enthusiastically joined in the search for the cows.

Zhao Baogen subconsciously glanced at Gu Zhan and asked for his opinion.

Only after Gu Zhan nodded did Zhao Baogen start to divide the groups.

A total of five teams were formed, and they began carpet searches at key locations.

Because the cattle farm is at the foot of the mountain, and August is the time when the grass is lush, if luck is good, these cows should not have gone very far, so they are most likely on the mountain. Therefore, Gu Zhan applied for two groups of people to go into the mountain to search, he led one group and Zhou Liang led the other group.

Zhao Baogen agreed.

Before leaving, Gu Zhan specifically instructed that from now on, no one would be allowed to enter the cowshed where the cow had gone missing, and that someone should guard it and wait for the police to arrive.

Gu Zhan and Guo Zhida walked along the winding mountain road, observing as they went.

At first, there was no discovery and no definite conclusion, but as the two continued to go deeper, they found cow dung and footprints left by cows on the mountain path.

"Xiao Gu, look, there is a footprint here." Guo Zhida said excitedly.

Hearing the voice, Gu Zhan withdrew his gaze and walked towards where Guo Zhida was.

When I got closer, I saw that it was true.

Gu Zhan frowned. Now, there were traces of cattle in both directions. Which direction would be better?

Gu Zhan hesitated for a moment, stopped to observe carefully, and finally decided to go to the direction where Guo Zhida was first.

"Let's go inside and take a look, Team Leader Guo."

Guo Zhida was extremely anxious at the moment. The experimental results were about to come out, but something like this happened, which made him feel very nervous.

"Okay!" Guo Zhida said without any hesitation.

The further they went inside, the more grass there was on the ground. In the end, they had already strayed far away from the winding mountain road.

Gu Zhan was so focused on finding the cow that he completely forgot that he and Guo Zhida had already entered the mountains.

The rain started to fall quietly at some point, and the grass on the ground was stained with water droplets and began to become slippery. Before long, the trouser legs and shoes of both of them were completely soaked.

The cloth shoes have no elasticity and they make your feet feel wet and slippery when you wear them, just like plastic wrapping your feet. You will slip a lot when you walk.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the traces left by the cattle were getting fewer and fewer.

Guo Zhida was a little anxious and kept praying in his heart that the rain would stop soon.

But things did not go as planned. The rain continued to fall and was getting heavier.

The rain flowed down their cheeks, blurring their eyes.

Guo Zhida was angry and anxious. His voice was almost trembling as he asked Gu Zhan, "Xiao Gu, what should we do now?"

"Search, keep searching. There are traces left around here. We will definitely find it."

"Okay!" Gu Zhan's words greatly encouraged Guo Zhida's confidence. He wiped the rain off his face and continued to look around.

Suddenly, the sound of a cow mooing startled the two of them. Guo Zhida excitedly walked over to Gu Zhan, not caring about his slipping feet, and said, "Xiao Gu, listen, that's a cow mooing! We found it."

Gu Zhan finally breathed a sigh of relief. As long as he found it, it would be fine.