"Guilty" to crops

All week long, Mr. Hoan has been waking up very early to go to the guava garden. Every day, he walks around the garden a few times until the sun is high in the sky before returning. This morning, Mrs. Lan went looking for him and found him sitting at the edge of the garden. Feeling strange, she asked:

- Why don't you go exercise with Mr. Kiem these days instead of sitting here? Are you afraid that thieves will steal the guavas?

Mr. Hoan cleared his throat and said:

- I watch out for the electricians to steal the worms.

Mrs. Lan was surprised:

- Why steal worms?

- A few days ago, someone from Phu Tho broke into a guava garden in a neighboring village and stole earthworms. I heard that China is buying earthworms for 50,000-70,000 VND/kg. Many people, because of greed, do not think about the consequences of their actions. They bring electric shock machines to catch all the earthworms. Doing so is "sinful" to the plants.

- Is that happening again? Because of the use of chemical fertilizers, the amount of worms in the soil has decreased. Now, catching worms in such a destructive way is not good. Earthworms are like machines that work day and night to plow and improve the soil, helping the soil to be loose and the plants to grow well. It is unacceptable to use electric shock to catch worms, sir. Later, I will tell the neighbors to be careful not to let anyone into the garden to catch worms.

Passing by, seeing Mr. and Mrs. Hoan and Mrs. Lan in the guava field early, Mr. Huan, the village chief, approached and gently asked:

- You two went to the garden so early. Did you sell the guava for a good price?

- The guavas won't be sold for another half month. We're just here to watch out for earthworm thieves - said Mrs. Lan.

Hearing about earthworms, Mr. Huan said:

- If you see any suspicious objects, please let us know. The district has also sent a document to the commune and each village requesting to strengthen control and immediately prevent the use of electric shock to trap worms! I'm afraid that our people will take advantage of the situation and bring the machine to their own garden to catch worms and sell them without knowing. I have already used the loudspeaker to announce to people to detect and not catch earthworms.

- You have to spread the word so that people can see the role of earthworms and that the act of using electric shock to catch earthworms is wrong. Catching earthworms destroys the environment and agricultural production, which is no small matter!

Mr. Huan agreed and told Mr. Hoan:

- You two also support us in propagating and monitoring the neighbors so that they know how to protect the land improvement "machine".