The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family
Chapter 328: Defending the Eight Front Teeth (2)_1

Chapter 328: Chapter 328: Defending the Eight Front Teeth (2)_1

Mo Heng continued disassembling characters and revising the dictionary, taking each character extremely seriously. Hearing Shen Songming arrive, he showed little reaction.

Shen Songming gave him a side glance and called for Pei Qin to go home and cook.

Mo Heng listened as they discussed what dishes to prepare, pursed his lips, and kept his eyes down as he continued to fiddle with writing and ink.

Shen Songming, intent on getting out, bumped into Sun Xiujin as he returned to town.

She was taken aback and glanced at Shen Songming. Joy surged in her heart before she could even smile, then her gaze shifted to Pei Qin and Pei Qian beside him, and she stiffened, "Young Master Shen is here again?" She thought, "It was just the New Year when he last visited, and in less than two months, he has come again."

"Oh! It’s almost time to plant sweet potatoes, so I had some free time to come and have a look," Shen Songming said and continued walking.

Pei Qin also greeted her and went home to prepare lunch.

Watching them walk away, Sun Xiujin had no more words to say and felt a tightness in her heart.

Pei Qian turned her head to look at her and, seeing her pale face, snorted inwardly and purposely asked, "Brother Songming! What did you bring us this time?"

"Some great stuff! You’ll know once you see it!" Shen Songming had finally finished making the musical clock and musical box. Although not very exquisite, they were functional, and that was what mattered. As long as he could succeed in making them, big bucks were to follow!

When everyone got home, Pei Yuan had already prepared the vegetables.

Pei Qin immediately spotted the chests and cases placed in the hall and went to open them.

The musical clock and musical box were wrapped with cotton and silk.

Shen Songming helped take them out and told her about how he resolved the issues he encountered last time, "They’re all made of copper, and I’ve worked on the surface to make it look quite magnificent and grand! It’s far more precious than yours without any decorations! It could sell for much more!"

Pei Qin looked at the copper musical clock, adorned with crystals and enamel, and her lips twitched, "Putting something like this in my house is just inviting thieves!"

Lu Hao chuckled, "Ms. Pei, rest assured, no thief will be able to steal it!" Otherwise, what would be the use of him and his siblings?

Pei Qin suddenly realized, remembering that she had two family members skilled in martial arts. Not just copper with a few ornaments, even if it were gold with gemstones, thieves couldn’t make off with it.

"Even without them, if a thief really did come, would you let him get away!" Shen Songming figured that if a thief ever targeted Pei Qin, getting away without compensation would be his lucky day.

"Of course not! Being a thief is wrong!" Pei Qin nodded in agreement, despite having been one herself.

Shen Songming also took out the musical box, which was a set to match the clock, also made of copper with crystals and enamel embedded, and looked exceedingly exquisite.

Pei Qin opened the musical clock, wound the mainspring, and set the clock.

Although Lu Hao and Lu Hai had known from Shen Songming’s last visit that Pei Qin had made the musical clock and musical box, they were somewhat incredulous to see her winding the clock with such ease. She, a mere village girl from the town who had grown up oppressed and bullied, could actually make these precious musical clocks and musical boxes...

Once the clock was wound, it started to tick. The steady sound of its hands moving and the small copper gong-like object swaying back and forth could be heard.

Instead of numbers, small characters were used to denote the hours. Anyway, the hands were at the right places for the respective times, so Pei Qin could tell the time with a glance at the hour hand, and Pei Yuan and the others could also understand what time it was.

"So this is a musical clock? With the hours indicated, is it more accurate than a water clock?" Pei Qian, fascinated, moved closer and touched the enamel surface and the embedded crystals.

The crystals were specifically mined from a crystal production area on Shen Songming’s instructions. The clarity wasn’t perfect, but Pei Qian thought it was exquisite, and such an item looked valuable just by sight.

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