The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family
Chapter 237 Pei the Big Bun (1)_1

Chapter 237: Chapter 237 Pei the Big Bun (1)_1

Pei Qian’s face changed instantly as she widened her eyes and looked up at the sign of the shop, Auspicious Silk Shop. Not only Qian Wanxiu, Pei Zongli, Old Pei, and Lady Zhu, but almost everyone from Old Pei’s House was there. This was the Pei family’s silk shop!? They actually opened a shop!?

Seeing her enter with high spirits and come out with a gloomy, unpleasant expression, Pei Qin raised an eyebrow.

"This silk shop is opened by Old Pei’s family!" Pei Qian hissed resentfully, with a grudge against those ungrateful wretches of Old Pei’s family. They hadn’t even started living a good life yet, envious and angry to death at them, and then they took their revenge on them for driving their mother to death. And now, to top it off, they had gone to the county to open their own shop!

Just after the wheat harvest, Pei Lizheng told her that the first and second households of Old Pei’s family had split. Pei Zongli and Qian Wanxiu were planning to build a new courtyard of houses for Old Pei and Lady Zhu, so that the legal wife of Old Pei’s house could live with them. When Pei Qin first saw Pei Zongli and Qian Wanxiu, judging by their clothes, servants, and maids, she knew they had money, "I didn’t expect them to open a silk shop so soon!"

"They all opened a shop!" Pei Qian exclaimed, unable to contain her rage.

"Well, let them open it!" Pei Qin was not surprised.

Seeing that Pei Qin didn’t seem angry or talk about revenge, Pei Qian’s face turned blue with rage, "Have you forgotten how our mother died!? If it weren’t for them driving her to death, we wouldn’t be orphans without a mother now!"

Looking at her sister, whose eyes were red with fury, Pei Qin sighed, reached out, and rubbed her head.

Pei Qian felt an unexpected surge of bitterness and grievance, softer than anything she had seen in Pei Qin’s eyes before, which made her tears start to fall involuntarily.

"Aren’t you the one who always disdained taking from others? Everything we have now is earned with our own hands, clean and pure! Besides, aren’t we making money now? The future is long, who knows what will happen!" Pei Qin said as she patted the Drunkard’s Peanuts in the basket.

Pei Qian blinked, tears dropping one by one, without refuting her sister. She wiped her tears and climbed back onto the donkey cart.

Pei Qin glanced at the bustling Auspicious Silk Shop before driving the donkey cart towards Moon Tavern.

The Store Manager was also there and after tasting the Drunkard’s Peanuts, with their numbing and spicy taste, he had a clerk bring him a cup of wine to pair with them. The combination was indeed very flavorful, "...Drunkard’s Peanuts, the name is so simple yet brilliant!" He immediately had the chef’s assistant bring over a scale.

After weighing, there were sixty-one catties. Pei Qin asked for one hundred and eighty Copper coins per catty, not willing to sell even for one wen money less.

The Store Manager had collaborated with her several times before, but the prices she was asking for fried and roasted nuts were just too high. If they bought at these prices, probably not many customers could afford them. So he tried to negotiate the price with her.

Pei Qin smiled and shook her head, "Store Manager! Sugared peanuts you can figure out, and can even produce by yourselves. But these Drunkard’s Peanuts... If the Store Manager doesn’t buy, we might consider switching to another tavern."

Seeing her attitude, the Store Manager knew there was no room for negotiation on the price. Although the Drunkard’s Peanuts tasted nice, such a small amount cost more than ten taels of silver, which was really too expensive. They were in business, and couldn’t afford to operate at a loss. Yet, he didn’t want her to sell to another establishment. After much thought, the Store Manager decided to take only half.

Pei Qin portioned out half for them, collected the silver, and took the remaining half to another large tavern in the county, Drunken Immortal Tavern.

The Store Manager had a clerk quietly follow them to see what the situation with Drunken Immortal Tavern was.

The clerk waited outside for a long time before he saw Pei Qin and Pei Qian come out. The Drunkard’s Peanuts had already been sold. The two bought some flour, oil, spices, and a piece of meat, along with a bunch of bones, pulled two large bags of shelled peanuts and various other small items, and went back home.

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