The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family
Chapter 280: So Many People Like Me (8)_1

Chapter 280: Chapter 280: So Many People Like Me (8)_1

Wang Ting glanced displeasedly without speaking.

Pei Yuan took a small bowl, filled it with a half-bowl, and handed him the chopsticks.

Wang Ting picked up some food and ate, also finishing the sesame paste pancake, all the while pulling a long face and showing an ’I’m not happy’ expression.

Pei Qin showed understanding, knowing that the stress on the little radishes of aristocratic families was substantial. The Wang family had strict rules, and Wang Ting, unlike Chang Yonglin, couldn’t just bury himself in his books to study for official exams; it was difficult for him to even step out.

By the time Pei Qin packed up to go home, Wang Ting expressed his dissatisfaction, "My name is Brother Ting! Not Little Radish!"

In Pei Qin’s place, the well-behaved were called Little Radish, and the mischievous troublemakers were called bear children!

As Wang Ting sat in the house, his gaze fixed on Pei Qin, "Why is Chang Yonglin always living at your place? And why didn’t you come to me to sell the hand-cranked threshing machine?"

Pei Qin blinked, "Their family has a shop that sells farming tools, and the hand-cranked threshing machine is also a farming tool, similar to hand carts, so we went to Chang’s house!"

"We could have sold it too!" Wang Ting glared at her angrily.

Pei Qin looked at him with a smile, "So I was just about to have them finish the current tasks and start working on another type of skateboard!"

Wang Ting asked, "What kind of skateboard?"

Pei Qin described the Dragon Surfboard to him, "...with two wheels, you can slide forward without having to push off!"

He could barely manage the one with four wheels, and now she had come up with one with just two. Wang Ting stared at her for a while before saying, "Then you teach me first!"

"Sure!" Pei Qin replied with an amiable smile.

Wang Ting, sitting inside, asked what Chang Yonglin usually ate while staying there because he wanted to eat the same.

Pei Qin made him caramelized sweet potatoes, sweet and sour pork loin, pepper salt lamb chops, stir-fried sweet potato stems, steamed sweet potato leaves, and boiled buns.

Chang’s house was inferior to the Wang family in many ways, and Chang Yonglin didn’t usually play with Wang Ting. Seeing the envy in Wang Ting’s eyes, Chang Yonglin chewed on the pepper salt lamb chops with a smile.

In the afternoon, Pei Wendong and Chang Yonglin went off to school, and Wang Ting asked Chang Yonglin why he was living at Pei Qin’s house.

"To study and learn martial arts!" Pei Qin didn’t hide it from him.

"You know martial arts..." Wang Ting began, but then he remembered how she had taken down one of his servants with just two moves and pursed his lips in displeasure.

Pei Qin packed a basket of sesame paste pancakes for him to take away, "In a few days when we dig up sweet potatoes, would you like to come over?"

Wang Ting’s eyes lit up, "When will you dig them up? I’ll come over!"

"Then, before we dig up the sweet potatoes, when I go to deliver peanuts to the county, I’ll call you!" Pei Qin said.

Wang Ting’s sulky face finally broke into a smile after a long while.

The frost had long since fallen, and the sweet potato leaves in the ground had been frostbitten, tasting different. Sun Quanliang family raised pigs, so Pei Qin had them cut the sweet potato vines and take them back home for pig feed. She herself picked two bags of sweet potato leaves and brought them back to dry into vegetable strips.

The Sun Quanliang family watched and decided to pick some sweet potato leaves to dry into vegetable strips since steamed sweet potato leaves were quite tasty, giving them an additional dish to eat in winter. They took a sack and, along with their two daughters, went to pick sweet potato leaves.

Because they had cut quite a few sweet potato vines, and Pei Qin had previously also picked some, the Sun Quanliang family started picking from the end of the field. They hadn’t gone far when they found dead sweet potato vines, which, when pulled from the ground, revealed the sweet potatoes beneath had been dug up; the vines were simply left sticking in the soil without roots and, being frostbitten, had died.

"Did someone steal the sweet potatoes?" Pei Qian jumped up when she heard.

The Sun Quanliang family hurriedly explained, "We’ve been keeping an eye on it from morning till night. My husband has also been watchful at night. It was just one plant near the end of the field that was stolen." Seeing Pei Qian’s grim expression, they felt uneasy. They had previously sent a few sweet potatoes to their house, and the grandmother worked at the noodle shop, yet they had failed to guard the sweet potatoes in their field.

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