The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family
Chapter 243 Pei the Big Bun (7)_1

Chapter 243: Chapter 243 Pei the Big Bun (7)_1

Pei Qin looked at him, "Which problem do you not understand?"

Pei Qian didn’t want to get too close to the people of the Fang family or the Feng family, so she also didn’t want Pei Qin to become too close with them either, "Elder sister! If we don’t leave now, it will be late when we arrive."

Pei Qin hummed in response, still looking at Feng Bo, "If there’s a problem that you can’t figure out, I can help you with it."

The attitude of an elder toward a younger family member.

Feng Bo hesitated before bringing up the issue of paying the grain taxes and how much the grain sold for.

Upon hearing this, Pei Qin said, "That’s not really a problem. For the village grain tax, the people from the Government Office and the Lizheng must have calculated the results accurately, and there shouldn’t be any errors. As for selling the grain, the buyers certainly have clear calculations. If you can’t figure it out, I could indeed come up with a result for you. However, it’s just one result, and to really understand it, you still need to do the calculations yourself!"

"Then... Cousin, could you teach me your method of calculating?" Feng Bo asked hesitantly.

Pei Qin frowned, "Mental arithmetic is something Grandpa can also do, everyone learns the same thing. It’s just that each person excels in different areas."

Feng Bo didn’t understand.

Pei Qian explained Pei Qin’s words to him unabashedly, "You can’t teach intelligence!"

Pei Qin glanced at Pei Qian and nodded to Feng Bo before urging the donkey cart onto the main road.

Feng Bo’s face turned red and then pale, looking quite awful.

"Intelligence can’t be taught!?" Chang Yonglin repeated, barely holding back a smile. He wasn’t ridiculing Feng Bo; he was purely pleased. Pei Qin didn’t teach Feng Bo, her cousin, but she taught him!

Fang Liuming was somewhat puzzled, but Pei Wendong and Pei Yuan were well aware that the mnemonics that their elder sister taught them for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division were supposed to be kept secret. If Old Pei’s House hadn’t opened a silk and satin shop in the county, needing the support of Chang’s house to manage it, their elder sister wouldn’t have taken Chang Yonglin under her wing to teach him arithmetic.

Feng Bo didn’t want to wait anymore, thinking of her every time he brought vegetables to them, yet always feeling like an outsider, not taken seriously at all.

When he got home, he told Fang Hui that he wanted to settle the marriage proposal sooner, so that once the engagement was set, it would be easier to talk and do things.

When Fang Hui heard that even the young master of Chang’s house was staying at Pei Qin’s house, she immediately became vigilant. If they had too much contact with wealthy families, it was inevitable that they would start to harbor aspirations of climbing the social ladder!

She took twenty duck eggs and two pounds of meat to Fang Family Village.

She had visited even during non-festive times to stay close to her natal family, and her in-laws had nothing to say about it, even supportive. Grandma Fang and Old Scholar Fang thought nothing of it. When she brought up Fang Liuming’s education in town, they thought she wanted her second son, Feng Chun, to attend the town’s school as well. But Feng Chun was too honest and simple-natured, not cut out for scholarly pursuits. Sending him to school would just be a waste of silver.

Fang Li, harboring the same intentions, well understood what this second sister had in mind. Whenever she began to speak with an ulterior motive, he would interject from the side, diverting her intended speech. After all, Qinqin had to observe three years of mourning, and although she would be a bit older after three years, at seventeen, his eldest son, only a year younger at sixteen, was the perfect age. The Feng family had only a little more than twenty acres of land and nothing else - how could that compare to their own family, with Liuming still studying to pursue official honors?

Fang Hui was so angry she felt a tightness in her chest but finally understood that her big brother also wanted Pei Qin as a daughter-in-law. That’s why he had his eldest son study in the town. She thought about it and then asked again, "Why did Liuming suddenly go to the town school to study? Wasn’t he doing well studying with dad?"

"This was father’s idea; he said studying in town with classmates could lead to great progress! It’s also an opportunity to become closer to Qinqin and her brothers! I thought it was a great idea, so I agreed!" Fang Li said with a smile.

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