The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family
Chapter 354: The Potential to be a Crooked Businessman (1)_1

Chapter 354: Chapter 354: The Potential to be a Crooked Businessman (1)_1

Grandma Fang’s heart sank suddenly, and she hurriedly said, "Qinqin forced it on me, and I didn’t dare to give the recipe to Hui Niang, so I came back to discuss it with you." Her voice grew softer as she spoke. She knew she shouldn’t have taken it, but we’re all family after all. We can’t just have superficial relations; by being close and affectionate, we can bring prosperity and good fortune to the family.

"You really are confused! Hui Niang has had an easy life, everything always going her way. Her own family caters to her, and now everyone else should too!? We haven’t interacted for so many years, Qinqin and the others have never heard about their little aunt from when they were young until now. Even if they’re relatives, they’re still distant! There’s no real connection of kinship, yet she has all these expectations. Qinqin doesn’t owe her anything, why should she indulge her!?" Old Scholar Fang berated Grandma Fang angrily.

Grandma Fang took his scolding without daring to speak.

Old Scholar Fang’s face was gloomy, "Don’t think that blood relations can’t be severed. If they truly couldn’t, the Pei family would have taken Sister Peiqin and her brother long ago!"

Grandma Fang dared not speak even more, only quietly asking, "So what do we do now? We surely can’t... really break ties with their family..."

Old Scholar Fang didn’t say a word, his eyebrows knitted tightly together, and he sighed thinking about how Pei Qin was unwilling to return the Jade Hairpin Shen Songming had given her. Qinqin would always need support in the future...

He picked up the recipe, crumpled it into a ball, and then called for Grandma Fang to accompany him to the town.

Fang Li wanted to drive the cart to take them, but Old Scholar Fang did not allow it, driving the cart himself.

Seeing the two of them out the door, Fang Li hurried back to the room to look for the torn-up kimchi recipe, but he couldn’t find it anywhere, which puzzled him. If it wasn’t torn up and thrown away, could it have been taken back to give to Pei Qin and the others!? With this thought, Fang Li slapped his thigh in regret. Last year, just those kimchis sold for over a hundred taels of silver, more than what he earned from two seasons of making pickled bamboo shoots. To just hand it over to his second sister’s family, Mother really did not think about her son, but was instead helping her married daughter earn money!

Grandma Fang regretted being swayed by Old Scholar Fang’s words.

The two quickly reached the town.

Just as they arrived at the door, they could hear an argument inside.

Pei Qian went to the noodle house to check the accounts, and as soon as she heard that Pei Qin had taken the kimchi recipe from Grandma Fang and taught it to Fang Hui, she was furious, "...You’re not stupid, you know that their intentions aren’t good, yet you just had to fake some pleasantries, and now you’ve given away the business for nothing!"

"It’s just some kimchi; if it’s gone, it’s gone, and it gets rid of trouble. Spare me the future hassle of them nagging; you might want to hear it, but I don’t have the time!"

"Who wants you to listen, can’t you just send them away!? A good business that’s only busy for a month or two in the year, aren’t those several dozen taels of silver worth anything!? Even if you were to give it away, it shouldn’t be to them. What right do they have? They always calculate against us, their little niece, with such audacity. If you let her get her way, and she starts spreading rumors about you wearing their family’s hairpin, you’ll be crying yourself to death, married off to them and slaving away to support their family!" Pei Qian’s face turned a shade of blue with anger, her chest heaving, and she wanted nothing more than to strangle Pei Qin.

"Aren’t we hardly in touch with them anymore?"

"Barely in touch!? We still send gifts during festivals! They have the nerve to blatantly demand our family business, I don’t know how they have the face for it!"

Grandma Fang’s old face turned red, and she finally understood the calculations Fang Hui made that time and how much it had repulsed Sister Pei Qin and her brother. To this day, they were still resistant. She also suspected that Fang Hui’s visit was not solely for the harmony and closeness of both families, nor was it to give Pei Qin a boost.

"Enough! It’s just some kimchi, let them have it! You’ll receive their gratitude, and they’ll definitely speak well of you! It’s not a loss to you!"

As soon as Pei Qin spoke, Pei Qian immediately retorted, "Speak well my ass! They’re ill-intentioned, and will only take an inch and want a mile! The kimchi is our family’s, I told you before, if you don’t want to do it, I’ll take over! Why should we give it to them!? Go and get that recipe back! We’re not giving it to them!"

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