The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family
Chapter 123 Deliberately Provoking (4)_1

Chapter 123: Chapter 123 Deliberately Provoking (4)_1

"Someone! There’s someone! Taiping Town isn’t small, and there’s plenty of lazy folks who don’t want to cook! That noodle shop is always packed with customers every day!" Grandma Sun said as she ambled through town several times at noon after hearing they wanted to start a stall.

"So we should set up in the mornings when there is a market, and at noon when there isn’t?" Pei Qin asked Lady Fang.

"Good!" Lady Fang naturally followed her advice, ready to endure any hardship as long as there was money to be made!

Having made that agreement, Grandma Sun insisted on pulling them over to her place for a meal.

Last time Pei Qin and Si Ya had eaten at their house, they had spared no expense with meat and chicken and even sent back a chicken leg. Lady Fang dared not keep them any longer and politely declined, then stowed away their stuff at their home and dragged the handcart back to the village with the others in tow.

Pei Houli also returned from the market. The picks hadn’t sold well, and he didn’t see Sun Tie Zhu selling picks anymore, instead, he was holed up at home doing who knows what. He had a hunch it was related to Pei Qin, and after some thought, he decided to come out and ask Lady Fang. However, he found the doors locked from the outside and no one at home.

Just as he was about to leave, he saw them coming back, pulling a contraption with wheels, and he instantly knew it was made of wood, guessing that Pei Qin had taken it to Sun Tie Zhu to work on. That’s why Sun Tie Zhu had brought over meat and pastries and that wooden board before. Pei Houli felt he couldn’t let this continue and stood at the doorway waiting, "You all went to the market!?"

Lady Fang had been considering asking him, given his woodworking job and familiarity with lots of people, to find a good household for Pei Qin. But now that they had found the quite suitable Zou Xing, she no longer wanted anything to do with Pei Houli.

Si Ya eyed him suspiciously as he examined the handcart, opened the door, and quickly pulled it inside the house.

Pei Qin, both tired and hungry, asked, "Are there any more bamboo shoots? Mix them with meat for a stir-fry, and cook up some rice porridge!"

"There are still a few left! You rest a bit, Mom will go make it right away!" Lady Fang set everything down and hurried off to the kitchen.

Pei Houli tried to enter, but Pei Wendong closed the gate and, with a taut expression, wouldn’t let him in.

"San Lang! Open the gate!" Pei Houli said, frowning deeply.

Si Ya came out, "We’ve already divided the household! The big house doesn’t interfere in our affairs! If you want to ask about our handcart, you might as well not bother! No one is going to teach you about it!" She took a lock and secured the door.

Pei Wendong, seeing the front door was locked, quickly ran back inside.

Pei Houli’s face turned an ashen hue, "Da Ya! Da Ya, come out, I have something to discuss with you!"

San Ya had gone to help Lady Fang with the cooking, and Si Ya was counting money on the kang with a money pouch, while Pei Wendong peered over. Pei Qin had flopped onto the kang, listening to the clinking of copper coins and soon fell asleep, offering no reply.

Pei Houli called out for quite a while outside the door, turning blue with anger when no one responded. His commotion had drawn out the villagers to watch the spectacle, and with a darkened face, he turned and went back home.

Soon people started gossiping, "That Pei Loaer’s Da Ya, ready to teach outsiders how to make those picks but not her own family, letting outsiders make the money, she must be feeling restless!"

"It’s not just the corn picks; that thing with wheels they were pulling, also made of wood, looks like it could earn money too. She probably taught that to someone else as well!"

With that, everyone erupted into a cacophony of debate.

Lady Fang brought food into the house and set it on the small table, and seeing Pei Qin asleep, she said tenderly, "Qinqin! Eat something before you go back to sleep."

To catch the early market, everyone had woken up at the crack of dawn, and by this hour, they were all exhausted.

Pei Qin got up, stoked the fire under the kang, and after eating, the kang warmed up, "Next time after the market, we’ll buy a bag of coal and some firewood. Otherwise, our home supply won’t last many days."

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