The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family
Chapter 108: Discussing Setting Up a Stall_1

Chapter 108: Chapter 108: Discussing Setting Up a Stall_1

Even if she didn’t recognize her anymore, that woman was still her mother. Hearing coughing up blood, Lady Fang asked with some concern.

Lady Yu turned her hand and gave Fang Fang a harsh slap on the back. "What nonsense are you hearing your father say! Which of your eyes saw your grandma coughing up blood!?"

Fang Fang, having been slapped, quickly escaped to the side and cried out, "It was Dad who said it! When has Dad ever talked nonsense! Grandma is lying on the kang!"

Lady Yu gave her a fierce glare, then turned to explain to Lady Fang, "You also know what kind of person Fang Li is, don’t listen to his nonsense! Mum is just a bit sick with a cold and a cough, but after taking medicine, she’s much better! We don’t lack money in the house either!"

Lady Fang nodded in relief after listening and saw them, mother and daughter, out.

Fang Fang still wanted to speak, but Lady Yu chased her and patted her on the back.

"Grandma is sick, why don’t they visit relatives to see her!?" Fang Fang howled as she ran towards the village exit.

Lady Fang hesitated a bit, then went back to the house and looked at the cabbage and radish Lady Yu had brought over for a long time, still deciding not to go.

Si Ya, fearing that she took the money and really sent it to the Fang family, thought that visiting would also require a considerable amount of money to buy gifts. Besides, why should they? They no longer recognized her as their daughter, never cared about their mother and sisters’ lives, but now seeing them make money, they wanted to scrounge from them!

She started to worry about the silver Lady Fang was holding onto. Counting on her fingers several times, they now had five and two taels of silver, plus sixty or seventy wen of small change. She had to remember it well!

Pei Qin squatted on the ground, pondering what they could do before the New Year to earn some more money. Thinking it over, she still wanted to set up a stall.

Back Mountain Village was close to Taiping Town, just three miles away, so going back and forth was convenient. There was a market every five days, and there was still quite a flow of people. With just two months left before the year’s end, she had to think of which stall to set up that would earn the most.

"Qinqin? Qinqin?" Lady Fang called her several times, seeing that she was as if she hadn’t heard.

Pei Wendong nudged her, "Big sister! Mum is calling you!"

"Ah!? What is it?" Pei Qin raised her head to look at Lady Fang.

Lady Fang, somewhat helplessly, said, "Mum said she wanted to teach you needlework, and now that we have needles and thread, you should come learn. It’ll be a skill for the future."

Pei Qin laughed, "I’m currently figuring out how to sell hand carts and pushcarts, I’m really busy right now. Once I’ve sold the carts, I’ll learn from you!" If she were to learn needlework, she’d poke her hands full of holes! Saying this, she stood up, "You teach San Ya first!" She picked up Pei Wendong and took him out to recite his lessons.

Lady Fang could tell she didn’t want to learn and shook her head, focusing on teaching San Ya and Si Ya instead.

Pei Wendong wobbled his little head as he began to recite, "Humans at birth are inherently good, their natures are similar, but their habits become distinctly different, if..."

"Stop! Who taught you to wobble your head? If your head is wobbling dizzy, how can you recite any book at all?" Pei Qin interrupted.

Pei Wendong looked at her sheepishly and whispered, "I... I saw Big Brother doing it like this when he recites..."

"Don’t wobble your head! When studying, do it properly! Start over!" Pei Qin, seeing those kids swaying their heads while reciting, wanted to twist off their heads and kick them.

Pei Wendong hurriedly complied and began reciting again, not daring to wobble his head this time.

Pei Qin held a stick and drew on the ground, giving prompts from time to time, and had him recite from "The Analects of Confucius," while she mulled over her plans for the stall.

Lizheng Pei Li, passing by and hearing the sound of a child reciting, came over to see. He saw Pei Wendong reciting with his hands behind his back and Pei Qin, head bowed, drawing something on the ground while explaining and prompting. He couldn’t help but be curious. Pei Zongli had died when his daughters were two or three years old, and now, the eldest daughter of Old Pei’s House actually knew how to read?

"Big sister! I don’t know the rest below." Pei Wendong had been earnestly reciting what she had taught him these past days.

"I don’t know either, I’ve only heard this much. Recite it again!," Pei Qin, drawing a boiler, was still planning to set up a noodle stall, as a bowl of hot soup noodles would be easy to sell in cold weather.

"Oh!" Pei Wendong began reciting from the start again.

Pei Lizheng listened for a while and then walked on, but felt a bit of pity.

At night, Pei Qin discussed with Lady Fang about setting up a stall to sell noodles. "After all, we go to the market once every five days, and if it doesn’t work, we can also sell in the county town."

"Mum only knows how to roll out noodles by hand. There are many eating plain noodles in the market, but we have never done this before, we lack the experience." Lady Fang was tempted by what she proposed, but without prior experience, if they couldn’t sell it, the hard-earned few taels of silver could be lost.

"No way! Setting up a stall requires capital! If we invest the hard-earned silver and fail, then we’ll have nothing but the northwest wind to drink!" Si Ya strongly opposed.

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