The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family
Chapter 377: You Can Change It Now If You Don’t Want To (11)_1

Chapter 377: Chapter 377: You Can Change It Now If You Don’t Want To (11)_1

Pei Qin reached out and touched his forehead, "You really do have a serious fever!"

"It’s not a fever! My face is flushed from the heat!" Shen Songming protested as he hopped around.

Pei Qin withdrew her hand, unconvinced, "Your skin is so thick, you still turn red? I’m not colorblind!"

"You... just you wait! Once I resolve those matters, I’ll come find you! And if you haven’t changed by then, I won’t be nice to you!" Shen Songming bravely uttered a fierce threat and, taking advantage of the moment when no one was looking, he hugged her tightly, "Pei Qin! I will definitely marry you!"

"Holy shit!" Pei Qin, caught off guard by his hug, realized she only came up to his shoulders. She pushed him away and looked down at his legs, "You’re actually so much taller than me!?"

Shen Songming paused, recalling how she always fixated on her height, and couldn’t help but try to coax her with a laugh, "What do you say? Admire these long legs of mine, tall and strong, perfect for shielding you from wind and rain! We have plenty of ’revolutionary capital’ to be carefree and rove around with you!"

Pei Qin wasn’t amused, giving him a sarcastic laugh and an expressionless face as she carried the jar to the workshop to milk the goats.

Shen Songming wanted to join her.

Pei Qin gave him a cold glance, "Seeing you makes me want to break your legs!"

Startled, Shen Songming froze and began to protectively clutch at his legs. He could think of a solution if she knocked out a tooth, but if she really took his legs off, that would be the end of him! In ancient times there are no prosthetic limbs! If he became crippled, she would definitely not marry him!

Pei Qin ran to the workshop, milked a jar of goat’s milk, and carried it out. Glancing up at Tianping Mountain, she noticed the sunflowers were ripe, "Time to harvest the sunflowers! I forgot to tell Little Radish Wang yesterday; he doesn’t get out much but seems to really enjoy the harvest!

Shen Songming thought of leaving tomorrow, but seeing her in a bad mood, listless and worried, he couldn’t leave her be. The next day, he came over again with two big fish to comfort her, "Twenty-three and still sprouting up! How old are you now? Sixteen! Next year you’ll be seventeen! There are still another six or seven years until twenty-three. Don’t worry, you’ll definitely grow a lot more!" Yet, inwardly, he was praying that Pei Qin wouldn’t get any taller. Her current height wasn’t low compared to others! Holding her, she was slender and soft, just right for cuddling. What a wonderful feeling - he wondered if she would let him hug her one more time before he left?

Pei Qin only hummed in response.

Shen Songming then got her up to teach her exercises for growing taller, "Practice every day, and you really will grow taller!"

"There’s such an exercise!?" Pei Qin was skeptical.

"Yes! There’s nothing too bizarre for this world, and these height-increasing exercises are scientifically based!" Shen Songming nodded, taught her the exercises, and then gave her a long list categorized by various types of food: meats, fish and shrimp, eggs, vegetables, fruits, nuts, telling her to nourish herself well. She was really too thin; holding her, there was no sense of plumpness! If she could gain a little more weight, become a bit fuller... that would be perfect!

Pei Qin believed him, learned the height-increasing exercises, and planned to give both herself and the little Radishes at home a good nutritional boost.

Zhang Yan came over from outside, intending to buy soy sauce.

Shen Songming observed him and immediately felt a hint of crisis. Just for soy sauce, he could have sent a servant, but he had to come by himself! Shen Songming realized that Zhang Yan wasn’t there for soy sauce; he was there to ’dabble in soy sauce’ in front of Pei Qin!

Being someone who came bearing silver, Pei Qin naturally welcomed him and led him straight to the workshop.

Zhang Yan ordered a lot, two hundred pounds of it, four jars of fifty pounds each.

"Two hundred sixty-two taels of silver!" Pei Qin calculated the cost, mumbling softly to herself, "Just one more jar would have made it two hundred fifty."

Zhang Yan heard her, his narrow, seductive eyes glancing at her, "I did run all the way to Runing Prefecture to save you. Can’t you give me a discount?" he said, casting a glance at Shen Songming.

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