The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family
Chapter 282 Foreign Spy (1)_1

Chapter 282: 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.

Some said they hadn’t seen clearly, while others thought she resembled someone’s daughter-in-law.

Wu Dongsi spoke a few words with Pei Qin and then immediately told the villagers about the promotion of sweet potatoes. Tomorrow, the Government Office would post an announcement that sweet potatoes were to be widely promoted in Yuanyang County, with Pei Qin’s family leading the instruction for everyone. Stealing or causing trouble was prohibited, and severe punishments would follow, etc.

Sun Lizheng also expressed that he would oversee the villagers and help Pei Qin’s family promote the sweet potatoes.

Pei Qin asked Wu Dongsi for a land marker plaque. On the plaque, she requested to carve "Government Promoted Sweet Potato Land," requiring the official seal of the Government Office and Sun Lizheng’s signature.

Wu Dongsi agreed, and immediately directed his Changsui to take a pen and paper and swiftly wrote an order to have a land marker plaque made.

The crowd hadn’t expected the sweet potatoes to be so valuable that they would all have to start planting them. Some were eager to try, but many others were anxious. After all, they had never grown sweet potatoes before, and they still conservatively believed that wheat, corn, and sorghum were the proper grains! These sweet potatoes had come from a foreign country and yielded as much as two thousand pounds per acre, which was quite frightening!

Some people were scared and held back, but Pei Qin had anticipated this and opened the workshop doors to let Sun Quanliang and others bring in the sweet potatoes.

Lunch was prepared on the workshop’s side.

Even though Sun Tiezhu’s family was no longer operating the mill, they still had some implements left. Pei Qin had sun-dried sweet potatoes before, and she had ground them into flour at Sun Tiezhu’s house.

Grandma Fang, Lady Yu, Lady Ruan, together with Fang Hui, also helped. They mixed the sweet potato flour and made dumplings with mixed vegetables inside to steam. They also steamed buns made of sweet potato flour and mixed grains.

They also used the noodle machine to press sweet potato noodles, stir-fried winter bamboo shoots and pickled bamboo shoots, radishes, cabbage, and made honey glazed meat. A full pot of meat and bone broth was stewed.

Sun Quanliang led the workers who had worked for a meal, gleefully accepting their food.

Last time Wu Dongsi only tried a few dishes made with sweet potatoes and baked sweet potatoes, and he hadn’t seen sweet potatoes ground into flour to make dumplings, buns, and noodles. He was quite surprised and took a portion for himself, asking Pei Qin not to prepare a separate meal for him, as he would eat with everyone else.

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