Chapter 282 Foreign Spy (1)_1
Master County also came to the fields to see Pei Qin’s family digging up sweet potatoes. A bunch of people who got the news from the entire Taiping Town gathered around to watch.
Some people came over to touch and see, thinking about sneaking away with a piece of these rare sweet potatoes.
Pei Qian was watching the whole time. She had hired some workers, but she also pointed out the two young ones from Sun Quanliang’s family and a servant of Chang Yonglin to keep an eye on the sweet potatoes to prevent anyone from stealing them. Seeing someone attempt to sneak away after touching, she didn’t say a thing but quickly ran over, grabbed the person who took a sweet potato, and yanked at her clothes to snatch the sweet potato from inside. With an angry expression on her face, she scolded, "You shameless thief! How dare you steal our sweet potatoes!?"
When the crowd heard someone was stealing sweet potatoes, they all turned to look.
The woman hurriedly shouted her innocence, "I was merely curious to look! I didn’t steal anything! Don’t wrongly accuse me!" With so many people around, she only took a small one, and this wretched girl noticed it right away.
"I saw it was you who stole it! The sweet potato was stuffed in your clothes, and you still dare to deny it! Master County is right here! Do you still dare to steal? Shameless!" Pei Qian furiously scolded.
The woman’s face changed and she shoved Pei Qian away before running, "Anyway, I didn’t take your sweet potatoes! You can’t frame me!"
"Stop! Don’t run!" Pei Qian shouted, about to give chase.
"Pei Qian!?" Pei Qin strode over, calling her.
"Eldest sister! Someone stole a sweet potato! I’ll go chase them!" Pei Qian turned her head, shouted a sentence, and hurriedly ran after the thief.
The woman was quite fast at running away, and Pei Qian was a step too slow, failing to catch up with her. Angrily, she returned with a darkened expression and asked if anyone recognized the woman who took the sweet potato.