The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family
Chapter 276: So Many People Like Me (4)_1

Chapter 276: Chapter 276: So Many People Like Me (4)_1

"The eldest daughter married a Scholar only to end up like this. Even if Pei Qin had the capability and the family earned money, she’s dead now and can’t enjoy it! Besides, Liuming isn’t outstanding, who knows if he’ll ever pass the exams!" Fang Hui said angrily.

"Last time, the Sun family was unwilling to be the matchmaker because Sun Tiezhu’s brother-in-law also wanted to marry the cousin!" Feng Bo thought that if it hadn’t been for Zou Xing and the Sun family, and without the obstruction of the grandparents’ family, Pei Qin would have definitely agreed to marry him.

Fang Hui suddenly understood and immediately cursed a few times, "No wonder when I asked for their help, even bringing gifts, they acted as if I was offending them! They also said some Shopkeeper was rejected for a marriage proposal, damn it! It was all their own scheming, wanting to secretly drive us all away!"

"Cousin... helped Zouxing’s family with business negotiations, I saw them in the county after Double Ninth Festival." Feng Bo was very dispirited and gloomy; they were relatives after all. He couldn’t think of any good fortune coming their way, and they even bluntly rejected his marriage proposal!

Fang Hui felt she could not tolerate this, she had never suffered such an insult before.

But now, if she went to confront them rashly without a reason, considering that the Cold Food Festival was approaching, she decided to endure for the moment.

As the weather turned colder, Pei Yuan took out all the fabric at home and laid it out on the kang to make cotton-padded clothes for the family. She planned to make a set of lined jackets first, which could be worn immediately, and then the cotton-padded jackets.

There were several bolts of fabric in plain colors; Pei Yuan chose a blue cotton silk to cut a lined jacket for Pei Qin, trimming it with light yellow borders.

Pei Qian was also learning to sew; Lady Zou was very good at needlework and often taught them when she had nothing to do. Seeing that Pei Qin did not indulge in needlework, and relying on Pei Yuan alone was too much, she took it seriously and learned to sew.

Other than buying the soles to make boots, they could now make socks and clothes themselves.

According to Pei Qin, spending time and effort on needlework was not as good as just buying with a few coins, which was more convenient. But since she couldn’t sew, she couldn’t expect Pei Yuan and Pei Qian not to learn it either, or else the family would be left without anyone who could sew clothes in the future.

While the two of them were sewing at home, Pei Qin took care of the workshop matters; or when Lady Zou came to visit, she would instruct them on embroidery work, while Pei Qin entertained Xiao Xingwang.

On market days, she would deep-fry sweet potato balls to sell at a stall.

Seeing that the workshop would still take some days to finish, Pei Qin built an oven and started to experiment with making sesame seed cakes.

Pei Qian began to worry, thinking that her older sister was too fond of new things and tired of the old; the noodle shop was still making money, but she insisted on not running it anymore. Deep-frying sweet potato balls was also based on a whim, frying them occasionally. Now she wanted to make sesame seed cakes, with an oil mill and soy sauce still to manage. How long could she sell these sesame seed cakes? Surely it wouldn’t last even a year before she taught it to someone else, right?

Pei Qin was bored, so she tried making sesame seed cakes and they turned out quite successful. The next market day, she pushed her cake stall out to the street to sell.

There were people waiting to buy sweet potato balls, but then they saw her switching to selling cakes, which made them think she was fickle.

However, the sesame seed cakes were delicious and fragrant; those who had bought before, came back to buy more. In the end, she sold out.

When asked if Pei Qin would set up her stall the next day, she waved her hand, "I’ll set up during the market days!" meaning she’d set up whenever she felt like it.

Pei Yuan and Pei Qian didn’t care when she would set up her stall, but they both disagreed with her teaching others how to make sesame seed cakes, "Even when the workshop opens, it won’t be that busy. We will hire workers to oversee that side. Once the soy sauce starts fermenting, there’s no need to watch over it constantly. With a market every five days, we can sell sweet potato balls and sesame seed cakes when we’re free; that’s enough to buy vegetables and salt anyway!"

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