The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family
Chapter 261 The Eldest Sister is so Capricious (7)_1

Chapter 261: Chapter 261 The Eldest Sister is so Capricious (7)_1

Grandma Sun gratefully expressed her thanks and went home to discuss with Sun Tiezhu and Lady Zou to see what to do.

Pei Qin liked the feeling of starting anew, perhaps because her comfortable life and education from childhood made her care less about gains and losses. She preferred unrestrained freedom and was passionate about getting involved in things. If she had to choose between the two, she would definitely choose the former. Pei Qin, never afraid of gains or losses.

Sun Hongmei, however, didn’t have her resolute determination to part ways with the family at all costs. Too many things made her compromise. Two days later, she came over and said she was willing to work at the noodle shop.

Pei Qin asked if they hadn’t separated, running back and forth between the town and village every day, and even giving the money they earned to their parents-in-law, which made her furious, "So in three years, once the noodle shop is given to you, it will count as part of the Zhao family’s assets, right?"

Sun Hongmei nodded.

Pei Qin sneered, "Just hustling around for nothing, without getting anything good out of it, and might even bring trouble. I’d better find someone else!" She was no longer willing to have them take care of the noodle shop.

Sun Hongmei was stunned.

When Zhao Chengzhi heard that she was unwilling, he came to plead, "... Everything was agreed upon before. We will do our best!"

"The noodle shop is mine. Who I want to hire is none of your damn business!" Pei Qin had not seldom dealt with this kind of man in her past life.

Zhao Chengzhi didn’t expect her to be so fierce and was somewhat taken aback.

"Xiao Pei..." Sun Hongmei had only heard from her family about how good Pei Qin was, never imagining she could be so hot-tempered.

After hearing what Pei Qin said, Grandma Sun actually thought it was a good idea. Now holding back her strength, she couldn’t believe that the troublesome wife wouldn’t agree to a separation! She quietly instructed her daughter, then let her go back.

Zhao Chengzhi was very disappointed. The Zhao family members thought Pei Qin was messing around with them and wanted to come over to argue with Grandma Sun, blaming her for saying something to Pei Qin and causing trouble behind the scenes.

Pei Qin soon found Sun Dashun’s two daughters-in-law to take over the contract and hired Sun Quanliang’s mother to help with odd jobs.

Lady Zhao, who had been doing miscellaneous work in the noodle shop, was familiar with the tasks and quickly took charge with the help of her sisters-in-law. Since she couldn’t read well, Pei Qin asked her to devise a way to sew a small book with different marks for each type of noodles or rice noodles—marking a tally for each bowl sold. At the end of the night, when closing up, either she or Pei Yuan, Pei Qian would come to count how much was sold that day and then log the sales.

From then on, the three Pei sisters withdrew from working directly in the noodle shop. Only Pei Yuan couldn’t let go and would run to check on the shop after lunch. Pei Qian was even more obstinate, staying to do the accounting for several days.

Pei Qin didn’t pay attention to this but assigned them more lessons to complete each day and set targets for their handwriting practice.

Sun Dashun coordinated with two families from other villages, and the workshop soon started operating.

Pei Qin was at home preparing candy syrup for sweet potato fritters.

Outside, two government officials came looking for her.

Sun Lizheng thought that Sister Peiqin and her brother had caused some trouble or that something had happened at Old Pei’s House in the county town, involving Peiqin and her brother. Wiping sweat from his brow, he inquired with the two government officials, asking what matter the County Magistrate wanted to discuss with Sister Peiqin and her brother.

The two government officials were rather polite, simply saying that Master County had summoned Pei Qin for questioning.

Having received a letter from Shen Songming a few days before, knowing that the fellow was coming, Pei Qin glanced at Sun Lizheng and the two government officials and dropped a line, "Wait a moment!"

The two government officials were taken aback, while Sun Lizheng started to sweat even more—Master County had called for her, and she actually told them to wait!?

Making candy fritters can’t be interrupted; it needs to be done in one go while it’s hot, or else the sugar syrup will harden and won’t be able to be scooped up.

Both Pei Yuan and Pei Qian were on edge.

Pei Qin was busy making the sweet potato fritters all by herself, not stopping until they were ready, and filled three plates, "Done! Come and try the sweet potato fritters and see how they turned out!"

Looking at the caramelized sweets in the plates, several of them looked at each other, somewhat startled.

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