The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family
Chapter 375: You Can Change It Now If You Don’t Want To (9)_1

Chapter 375: Chapter 375: You Can Change It Now If You Don’t Want To (9)_1

Glancing back at her, Lu Hai couldn’t help but mourn for Shen Songming silently. Falling for someone like her, Young Master Shen must have been quite the sinner in his last life. He couldn’t help but blurt out, "Young Master Shen is a good match for you! Suitable!"

"Huh? What did you say?" Pei Qin stopped her hula hoop and asked him. Did Lu Hai just speak?

Lu Hai’s face darkened, and he reiterated, "Young Master Shen suits you!"

Pei Qin snorted, the foxtail grass falling out of her mouth, "Oh, Little Hai! That’s where you’re clueless. There’s a saying, ’Life is precious, love is more expensive. If it’s for freedom’s sake, both can be forsaken!’"

Lu Hai was taken aback, "You really have great aspirations..."

Pei Qin began to explain, "Think about it! I’m so free without parents to obey! Just need to take care of a few Little Radishes! If I were to get married, I’d be someone’s daughter-in-law, wife, sister-in-law, junior, senior. I’d have to be filial to in-laws and grandparents-in-law. I’d have to get along with sisters-in-law and love the younger ones. Between it all, I’d have to bear and raise children, attend to a man’s needs. And like some lunatic, I’d have to fight a bunch of women for a turn to sleep with a man! Ugh... I’m so comfortable now! Why would I dig a pit to bury myself in for no reason!?"

Lu Hai’s mouth twitched. So getting married is like digging a pit to bury oneself? That was a new one to him, and he reckoned she was probably the only one who could come up with such an expression! But then again, "You’re turning seventeen at the New Year, you’ll have to marry someday!"

"Will it be a crime if I don’t get married?! It’s not like I’m inconveniencing anyone!" Pei Qin retorted sharply, picking up the foxtail grass and sticking it back in her mouth as she crossed her legs in a manly fashion.

She felt she wasn’t inconveniencing anyone, but someone else thought differently. Zhao Junchao wasn’t young anymore, and the Zhao family wanted to marry a daughter-in-law quickly. They had already started asking Old Pei’s House about the wedding date.

Lady Zhu and the folks from the main house were in the countryside, inconvenient to reach. So the Zhao family approached Pei Zongli, after all, he was Pei Qin’s real father and had the right to decide.

Qian Wanxiu wanted to delay things. Now with Shen Songming here, it would be best for the Zhao family to cause a stir. But she hadn’t found any leads yet; stirring things up now would only backfire on the Zhao family and themselves. Shen Songming would collaborate with Wu Dongsi, presenting white as black and black as white! The key point was that even if the Zhao family wanted to force the marriage, the timing was not right. That little wretch hadn’t finished mourning.

Pei Zongli used the excuse that Pei Qin was still in mourning and it wouldn’t be proper to discuss such matters, to delay the proceedings.

The Zhao family feared they were being deceived into a marriage, suspecting Old Pei’s House of using them to have Pei Wenli earn the title of Scholar, and now wanting to break off the marriage. Zhao Junchao thought Pei Zongli’s refusal to set a wedding date meant that maybe he could get his uncle to help get his title back. The loophole they had exploited before was now not as easy to manipulate. Magistrate Wu was keeping an eye on his uncle and was very dissatisfied with him. Pei Zongli’s title was definitely out of reach.

As for deceiving into marriage, Old Pei’s House wouldn’t dare. They had the marriage contract! If it came down to it, the Zhao family could sue Old Pei’s House at the Government Office; even if they wanted to break off the marriage, they couldn’t destroy the contract, and they would still have to marry Pei Qin off. He felt he needed to get to know Pei Qin better, and for her to see his good points so that when they lived together in the future, things would be easier.

But the two of them had only exchanged a few words, let alone got to know each other. Pei Qin couldn’t even properly recognize him. Counting the days until Pei Qin came to the city to sell peanuts, Zhao Junchao stopped her, "Ms. Pei! I’m Zhao Junchao and I’d like to buy some soy sauce from you!"

Now the grocery shop didn’t yet have soy sauce for sale, it was only the workshops that sold it. Maybe on market days, Pei Qin, on a whim, would take the soy sauce to sell at the market.

But Zhao Junchao would never run all the way to Taiping Town to buy soy sauce. Because the people from Back Mountain Village all thought that he was engaged to Pei Wenli’s sister, Pei Wenlee, and it would become obvious if he did.

"The soy sauce isn’t on the market yet. If you really want to buy it, you need to send someone to Taiping Town’s market; if you’re lucky, you’ll be able to buy a half pound, enough to last your family for a good while!" Pei Qin told him directly.

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