The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family
Chapter 306: Paving the Way for the Eldest Grandson’s Exam (7)_1

Chapter 306: Chapter 306: Paving the Way for the Eldest Grandson’s Exam (7)_1

If she hadn’t heard her speak, Pei Qin would have wondered if she had become mute.

Moreover, Pei Qin was feeling quite unhappy. Ever since she started eating meat and fine wheat flour, she had shot up in height. But this year, her growth had slowed down.. At first, she hadn’t noticed, but standing next to Lu Hai, Pei Qin suddenly felt a head shorter. She could let her face be, having already reached its current state, she could simply avoid mirrors in the future. But she couldn’t let her height stop growing just like that! She still longed for the long legs she had in her previous life! What was the deal with growing into a petite and delicate figure? Was someone expecting her to be a clingy and dependent woman?

Looking at Lu Hai’s long legs, then at her own, she felt they were disproportionately short, not thick, but certainly short. Pei Qin became very frustrated and decided that from then on, she would go to the butcher shop every day, buy big bones to make soup, and fish to cook soup every now and then. She also planned to buy a couple of dairy goats to raise in the workshop, so she could drink goat’s milk whenever she liked. She was determined to grow taller!

After another year had passed, and they had eaten the Laba porridge and Laba rice, it was Lady Fang’s anniversary.

The siblings put on their mourning attire, asked Sun Tiezhu for help, and received guests from the Fang family, Feng family, Zou family, as well as the steward sent by Landlord Chang, the steward from the Wang family, Landlord Zhao, and Sun Lizheng, all of whom offered paper spirit money.

People from Sun Dashun’s family and Sun Quanliang’s family in the town, and others who were familiar with them, also paid their respects.

A crowd gathered on the mountain above Back Mountain Village to burn paper offerings and offer sacrifices to Lady Fang.

Grandma Fang, being an elder, shouldn’t have come. Usually, burning some paper money for Lady Fang would suffice, and on days like this, she couldn’t go to the grave, so she stayed at home with Grandma Sun, talking about past events involving Lady Fang, and both of them couldn’t stop wiping away tears.

At the grave, there was also a chorus of weeping.

Pei Qin calmly completed all the rituals without delay, then led everyone back to town.

Back Mountain Village knew it was the first anniversary of Lady Fang, and as Pei Qin and others passed by, villagers stood outside, watching and quietly discussing who was from the Wang family, who was from Landlord Chang’s house. Although the first anniversary wasn’t celebrated grandly, the presence of so many people indeed added to Lady Fang’s honor.

After eating, they sent off the others, but Grandma Fang, Lady Yu, and Fang Hui did not leave because Pei Qin’s fifteenth hairpinning ceremony was in three days.

Pei Qin did not plan to celebrate it and asked Grandma Fang and the others not to trouble themselves.

"The hairpinning ceremony is a significant event. Although it coincides with another, it still needs to be commemorated!" Grandma Fang didn’t want to see her distressed. Moreover, Pei Qin would turn sixteen after the New Year. Even though the family’s circumstances were currently very good, it was still necessary to find a suitable marriage match. Once the mourning period was over, she would not be any younger, and it was essential to start planning ahead; it would be too late to begin after the mourning period had ended.

"Just comb my hair and put in a hairpin, that’s all!" Pei Qin didn’t want to make a fuss or celebrate. Every time she thought about being only a teenager, she felt filled with a sense of discordance.

Fang Hui listened, her eyes gleamed faintly with emotion, and she offered some comforting words while helping her comb and arrange her hair.

Lady Yu was also thinking about Pei Qin’s potential marriage. She looked like her mother, with delicate and standard features, and was both clever and capable. She deserved someone good, someone who was her equal. Their experience was limited, and so was their circle of acquaintances. Lady Yu was contemplating seeking help from Landlord Chang’s youngest son, who was staying nearby, to matchmake on Pei Qin’s behalf.

With this matters on her mind and observing Fang Hui’s actions, she started to have her suspicions.

On the way back home, Lady Yu shared her thoughts with Grandma Fang, "We must be very diligent in handling Qinqin and her brother’s affairs. We can’t allow the Pei family to take advantage of any loopholes."

"Of course not! Your father is also thinking about this," said Grandma Fang, unwilling to tolerate Old Pei’s House scheming over Pei Qin’s marriage again, "You make a good point, our circle is indeed limited, and they do not match well. Let’s ask your father for his opinion, see if we can get help from Landlord Chang’s house, or perhaps from Landlord Zhao’s family in town. Hopefully, they won’t refuse!"

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