The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family
Chapter 378: You Can Change It Now If You Don’t Want To (12)_1

Chapter 378: Chapter 378: You Can Change It Now If You Don’t Want To (12)_1

Shen Songming frowned and looked toward Pei Qin, waiting for her to explain. It wasn’t her name on the invitation, so why did she have Zhang Yan go save her?!

"Young Master Zhang! Your trip wasn’t in vain at least! You got to enjoy the scenery and even ate two boxes of my pastries!" said Pei Qin with a forced smile.

"Your expression of thanks lacks sincerity," Zhang Yan remarked.

Zhang Gengshan, who came over to meddle, was quite displeased as he listened to the conversation. The young master had even sent Feng Wei to rescue her through the night, staking their last bit of capital, and Pei Qin didn’t even know! Their young master hadn’t even received a word of thanks!

In the end, Pei Qin received twelve taels of silver for the soy sauce, and rather ’kindly’ threw in an extra jar to thank him for making the trip to save her. Just enough to make up 250 kilograms!

Zhang Yan didn’t quibble with her and accepted the gesture graciously, saying if she pulled Wang Ting into the matter, he would let Wang Ting know to come over.

Shen Songming immediately grasped Pei Qin and inquired about everything from start to finish, until he was certain that Pei Qin truly had no feelings for Zhang Yan, and only then did he feel at ease. However, what concerned him most was Mo Heng, who was still squatting in the workshop.

Before leaving, Shen Songming made a point of visiting the workshop and told Mo Heng, "I’ve proposed marriage!"

Mo Heng stiffened in his action.

Shen Songming boasted, "As for the problems you think exist, I will solve them one by one! I am the right match for Pei Qin! As for you, your eyesight has already recovered. If you don’t leave, when I return to Capital Jingcheng, I’ll go pay a visit to the Mo family and ask why Young Master Mojiu was expelled from the family! Everyone in Jingcheng is very curious about the young scholar who was famous throughout Bei Zhili, and where he went after going blind!"

Mo Heng raised his eyes to look at him, his gaze icy, "Do as you wish!"

Shen Songming snorted, threw out another threat, and after making his tough talk, left Taiping Town to find Pei Qin, still not entirely at ease.

"Finally, some peace and quiet!" Pei Qin cleaned up her home and enjoyed two days of leisure.

Both the Sun Quanliang family and Zhang Dacheng’s family were ready, and could harvest the sunflowers at any time, so Pei Qin leisurely made her way to Taiping Mountain.

Wang Ting arrived as promised. He had last come in the summer when the mountainside was covered in a golden bloom of sunflowers, a sight far more beautiful than the peonies and camellias cultivated in his estate. When Pei Qin called him to harvest sunflowers, he promptly agreed, pleaded with his family for a day off, and came over.

But accompanying him was Zhang Yan.

Pei Qin gave a brief greeting, and with the Sun Quanliang family, Grandma Sun, Sun Tiezhu, Zou Xing, and a few hired hands, all set off to Taiping Mountain to harvest the sunflowers.

Zhang Dacheng’s family were also up on the mountain every day, having built a temporary shelter on Taiping Mountain. Fortunately, it was not yet cold, and with an extra blanket, they wouldn’t freeze.

Pei Qin plucked a sunflower, shelled the seeds on top, tasted them, and finding them fully ripe, said, "Let’s start harvesting!"

Everyone immediately got busy.

Pei Wendong and Chang Yonglin both took leaves of absence. The two were scholarly, and sometimes even stumped Teacher Sun with their questions, thus Teacher Sun was quite curious about how Pei Qin had taught them. When she said they wanted to take a break, Teacher Sun let them have it.

Fang Liuming also took a day off and went to Taiping Mountain to help with the work.

Batches of sunflowers were harvested, and in no time, baskets filled up and the cart of the donkey was soon overflowing.

Sun Tiezhu and Zou Xing were responsible for transporting them to the workshop, which was overseen by Zhang Gengshan and the Sun Quanliang daughters.

Pei Qin and the others clipped the sunflower heads.

After a busy morning, Zhang Dacheng and Sun Quanliang stayed behind to watch over things. Pei Qin led the others home to cook and have lunch.