Chapter 1736 — The Supermarket Thief
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The guard frowned. Thieves who were pregnant women were the biggest headache of all, and the ones they least knew how to handle. If by some carelessness something went wrong, the whole thing would blow up — and at worst they'd not only lose their jobs but have to pay compensation as well.
So the guard in charge was cautious. He said to the others, "Don't let her leave. I'll call the police at once!"
But before his subordinates could even reply, the pregnant woman turned to go!
"Ma'am... you can't leave yet... please wait a moment, just until the ** arrive and sort this out, all right?" one of the guards said, stepping carefully into her path.
"And why shouldn't I leave? Why? Just because she says I'm a thief?" The pregnant woman grew angry and pointed at Shen Yushu. "Then I say she's the thief! Look at me — all I've got on me is this one little handbag. Where would I even hide stolen goods?"
"That..." The guard was left speechless by her retort, at a loss for what to do.
"Ow — my belly hurts!" The pregnant woman suddenly clutched her abdomen. "Is this how your supermarket treats a pregnant woman? I need to get to the hospital — out of my way, quickly!"
"That..." The guard looked helplessly at the chief of security.
The chief, equally at a loss, looked toward Shen Yushu. If goods really had gone missing from this supermarket and he let the suspect walk, the boss would certainly hold him to account; but if he kept her here and something happened, that would be trouble too.
And then there were the price tags on the fine liquors on the racks behind her — all reckoned in the tens of thousands. If she really had made off with them, he couldn't answer for the loss either.
"She's pregnant, all right — pregnant with two bottles of liquor!" Shen Yushu said, pointing at the woman.
"Pfft..." Everyone present nearly burst out laughing at Shen Yushu's words. So the pregnancy was a sham — she'd hidden the liquor in her belly! No wonder she'd been so confident that she had nothing on her but a little handbag. Now it all made sense!
"Ma'am, would you open your clothes and let us have a look?" Hearing Shen Yushu's words, the chief of security actually calmed down. An ordinary person, unless certain, wouldn't have sworn to it so confidently.
"Ah — my belly, it's killing me..." The pregnant woman dropped to the floor at once, both hands pressed to her abdomen, and began to scream.
"Wife! Wife, what's wrong?" At that moment a man with a scarred face came pushing through the crowd, shoved the chief of security aside, and caught up the woman lying on the floor. Then he turned and bellowed at the chief, "My wife needs to be taken to the hospital this instant! I'll sue your supermarket! If anything happens to my wife, I'll have you charged with murder!"
"What?" The chief of security hadn't expected the pregnant woman's husband to appear, still less to hear such threats, and he hesitated again. His was no easy job — caught between the boss and the customers, squeezed from both sides — so when he heard the man carry on like that, he began to back down.