The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family
Chapter 259 The Eldest Sister is so Capricious (5)_1

Chapter 259: Chapter 259 The Eldest Sister is so Capricious (5)_1

"One year later!" Pei Qin stated directly.

"That’s a long time," Mo Heng walked over, smelling the strange odor, "Is this fermented with mold starter?"

Pei Qin looked up, "Do you know how to brew alcohol?"

Mo Heng hesitated before nodding, "I should."

"Even if you should, you couldn’t do it anyway!" What does ’should’ mean? That’s basically a no! Pei Qin ignored him and continued working on her soy sauce.

Mo Heng stayed by her side, feeling peaceful inside. He believed that he had misunderstood her words, "The knife cuts through the flesh, but the heart cuts through the soul." Because all the aggression in his heart had calmed down, turning into another kind of deep-seated brutality, deep as still waters.

Seeing that it was almost noon and the noodle shop would be busy, Pei Qin washed her hands, placed the large crock of soy sauce outside to sun, and headed out to the noodle shop.

Mo Heng had not yet learned how to go back and his vision cloudy ’watched’ Pei Qin.

Pei Qin took him outside and then escorted him to Old Father Kong’s doorstep.

"Thank you," Mo Heng expressed his gratitude.

Pei Qin waved her hand dismissively and hurried to the noodle shop to get busy.

In the past few days, it had been Pei Yuan and Pei Qian who were busy at the noodle shop, while Pei Qin was home working on the soy sauce. Initially, everyone thought she was using beans to extract oil, perhaps to open an oil mill, but who knew it was for soy sauce. And it was so complicated.

"Big sister! Since beans can be pressed for oil, bean oil must be edible too, right? Let’s not teach others; we can make it ourselves! It would be perfect to sell it along with the soy sauce!" Noodle-making techniques had been taught to Pei Lizheng, pickling bamboo shoots to the Fang family, Sun Tiezhu was busy with carpentry, and Zouxing’s family was about to make a hand-cranked corn sheller. Concerned that Pei Qian might give away the bean oil pressing technique to the Feng family just by mentioning it, she was eager to keep it within the family.

"Sure! Let’s hand over the noodle shop to someone else then!" Pei Qin no longer wanted to manage the noodle shop – she was overwhelmed and felt restrained.

Pei Qian was startled, "Why hand over the noodle shop to someone else? Aren’t we doing fine as it is?"

"Big sister! If we’re short on hands, we could hire someone else. It’s okay if you’re not at the noodle shop; nothing will go wrong!" Pei Yuan also didn’t want the noodle shop to be run by others.

"We’ll still buy the dough and ingredients. Whenever we’re free, we can come help. If others run it, we’ll just pay them more labor wages. That way, we can free up our hands to do other things, and you two should learn more. You spend all your time in the noodle shop – when will you have time to learn?" Pei Qin raised an eyebrow.

"If we let others run it, they’ll quickly learn and take over!" Pei Qian argued anxiously.

"It’s just a noodle stall, what’s there to panic about!" It was clear from Pei Qin’s words that she wanted to give away the know-how; she had lost interest in selling noodles and wanted to do something else!

Pei Yuan tried to persuade her again, "Big sister! There’s no need to hand over the noodle shop; Pei Qian and I can look after it. You can focus on your things, and don’t need to worry about the noodle shop!"

"I’m too busy with my stuff; I need your help!" Pei Qin looked at her blankly, then added, "Moreover, you’ve been at the noodle shop selling noodles all this time; what have you learned?"

The two of them were at a loss for words.

Pei Qin was a woman of action; she promptly found Grandma Sun and asked her what her daughter’s family did for a living, whether they lived far from town, and told her she was looking for someone to manage the noodle shop. She needed somebody to oversee it for three years, and afterward, the shop would be theirs.

Grandma Sun was also surprised and anxiously asked her, "The noodle shop is doing well, and it’s making money every day! Why stop?"

"I’m going to open a workshop, and it’ll be busier in the future. We’ll need to find someone!" Pei Qin said with a smile. Moreover, the noodle shop was time-consuming and only provided a small income. In the beginning, it was okay, but in the long run, she had neither the time nor the energy for it.

Considering this, Grandma Sun nodded, "You do need to hire full-time help! You can’t manage it all; hire full-time workers then! You’re all still young, growing, and you’re busy to the point of exhaustion; it could ruin your health!"

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