The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family
Chapter 181: The Concubine Is Promoted (8)_1

Chapter 181: Chapter 181: The Concubine Is Promoted (8)_1

Pei Zongli tried to stop her, but Qian Wanxiu pulled out the hairpin from her head and held it against her neck, tears streaming down her face as she looked at him, "I have done so much for you, yet do you seek to drive me to death?"

"Wanxiu, no, it’s not like that! I..." Pei Zongli wanted to explain, but Qian Wanxiu was merely in a moment of indignation, all for the sake of the entire Old Pei’s House. If the Old Pei’s House were to fall into disrepute, their return would immediately be marked by shame and disgrace!

Maid Shuhua had already brought the horse, and Mother Qian went to help harness the carriage, moving boxes and chests onto it, and Wanxiu’s mother and a few others directly left in the carriage.

The villagers watched with bated breath, saying the Fang family was formidable, to have actually driven away the young Miss of the Qian family.

Lady Zhu sat on the ground, crying and cursing as she slapped her thighs. Complaining of the cold ground, she stood up, continuing to rant and slap her thighs. She accused Pei Qin of driving away Wanxiu, saying that the Fang family had pushed her daughter-in-law away.

"Your second daughter-in-law is dead! She’s already smashed herself to death at your family’s front door! It was your Pei family that drove her to it!" Grandma Fang retorted sharply.

The front gate was open, and the villagers outside awaited the unfolding drama, eager for the commotion.

Old Pei immediately ordered them to stop the racket and the cursing, and told Pei Zongli to quickly go after Wanxiu and the two children to bring them back.

Pei Qin looked at the group, "Then I’ll go back and wait for news."

Old Scholar Fang watched, then rose to his feet, saying he would wait for a message from Old Pei and the Pei family. A line of people followed Pei Qin to the small courtyard.

Lady Yu, noticing Old Scholar Fang and others surveying the courtyard, hurriedly explained, "This house still belongs to the Pei family. When Rongniang left the main house, she had nothing, not even a grain of food—the house is borrowed." She aimed to highlight the pitiable situation of Sister Peiqin and her siblings, to have them taken into the Fang family. Otherwise, considering the way the Pei family was, they would surely bully them in the future!

Pei Wendong gripped Pei Qin’s hand tightly, his eyes red, but remembered Pei Qin telling him he was a man, that he would pursue studies and become an official in the future, that he mustn’t cry, so he held back his tears from falling.

Si Ya also stared at her intently, with an unfriendly look in her eyes.

San Ya asked, "Big Sister! Just now you..."

"I was in a bad mood," Pei Qin sighed. "Let them make a ruckus and entertain me, to lighten my spirits."

San Ya couldn’t help but want to laugh, yet also felt like crying. She just knew her big sister wouldn’t abandon them!

At this moment, Old Scholar Fang too was looking at Pei Qin, realizing that his granddaughter was of an exceptional mind, highly intelligent. He couldn’t help feeling a bit desolate. If only Rongniang had been as wise and clever, she wouldn’t have ended up like this!

Grandma Fang, holding Pei Qin’s hand, cried as she wiped away her tears, "Those Pei family are worse than pigs and dogs, heartless beasts deserving of divine punishment! They are inferior even to actors!"

Lady Yu began to persuade, urging Sister Peiqin and her siblings not to listen to Old Pei’s House, to come to the Fang family instead, promising to treat them as her own.

Fang Li and Fang Fu also spoke up, urging Peiqin and her siblings to go with them to the Fang family.

Old Scholar Fang noticed how Pei Wendong and San Ya were so attached to Pei Qin, seeing her as their pillar, and asked her, "Do you want to stay in the Pei family, or go with your grandparents to the Fang family?"

Finally acknowledging them as their grandparents again.

"I won’t go anywhere!" Pei Qin declared directly. She could look after San Ya and the others herself, educate them. Although Lady Yu was benevolent, Grandma Fang and Old Scholar Fang felt sorrow, anger, and sympathy for the death of their eldest daughter, and pitied them. It was, however, not an ideal place to be!

Grandma Fang and others were stunned, "Qinqin, you alone... and the three of them, all of you are desolate orphans... how will you survive!?"

Lady Yu disagreed, insisting that Pei Qin bring her siblings back to the Fang family, "You are still young, there are some things you haven’t considered. Come back with us! You’ll have your grandparents, your uncles! Anything in the future can be easily discussed and resolved!" Qinqin was a girl, even if she observed mourning for three years, she was meant to be married off. Without her parents, how could she cope alone? And after her marriage, what would become of her younger siblings? Now, as a lone girl caring for her siblings, she was bound to be taken advantage of!

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