Chapter 281: So Many People Like Me (9)_1
"Only one sweet potato was stolen? The cabbages are alright?" Pei Qin inquired.
"The cabbages are untouched! It is just one sweet potato that got stolen!" the person from Sun Quanliang’s family hastily replied.
"The sweet potatoes are ready to be harvested, curiosity from others is inevitable. Go back and keep a close watch!" Pei Qin, having snatched melons and dug up sweet potatoes herself when she was young, figured it could be any child from the families around, lured by curiosity and craving, sneaking out at night to dig one up.
Seeing that she wasn’t pursuing the matter, the representatives from Sun Quanliang’s family quickly expressed their gratitude and promised to keep a close watch, before hurrying off.
"It might have been them who stole it! And you just let them go without even a proper questioning!?" Pei Qian exclaimed furiously.
Pei Qin gave her a look, "Stealing a melon or pinching a date isn’t worth making a big deal about. Besides, once we dig up the sweet potatoes, we’ll give some to their family anyway, so it’s not worth stealing just a few!"
The suspicion that one of Sun Quanliang’s had committed the theft was just a casual remark from Pei Qian. In truth, she was more suspicious of someone from Old Pei’s House or someone else from Back Mountain Village since it was only a bit more than two miles from Back Mountain Village to Taiping Town. Their fifty mu of land adjoined the land from Back Mountain Village.
But since there were people watching during the day, it was impossible to find out who might have stolen one at night. Buying a whole manor would be much cheaper; it’s just that they didn’t have that much silver on hand right now. They could only make sure the people from Sun Quanliang’s family kept a tighter watch.
Mo Heng, who hadn’t visited in a while, came by again, "Is the soy sauce workshop finished yet?"
"We’ve just finished raising the beams and laying the tiles," Pei Qin answered him.