The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family
Chapter 391: Don’t Play Intelligence with Mom (5)_1

Chapter 391: Chapter 391: Don’t Play Intelligence with Mom (5)_1

Pei Qian hadn’t even said anything yet, her heart unwilling and full of angry resentment as she clenched her teeth, "Just you wait! None of Old Pei’s House will get away! None of you will have it easy!"

Pei Yuan and Pei Wendong also looked on with dark hatred before following Pei Qin out.

Chang Yonglin said softly, "Sister Qin is so awesome! Look at them, the moment they saw Sister Qin raise a hand and take a couple of steps forward, they were scared stiff, what cowards!"

When the villagers saw that Pei Qin really was leaving, they all felt a bit regretful. They thought there would be a fight, a great show to watch, but to their disappointment, she just left like that!

The people from Taiping Town who had come over also felt it was unfair and followed her back, boldly asking Pei Qin on the way, "We all stood up for you! Why didn’t you give them a thrashing?! It’s so damn infuriating! They even took the reward, are the officials at the top blind?!"

Shen Songming was on the brink of exploding with anger. He had never expected that after all his efforts, the reward he saw as good as his own would be snatched away through a loophole by that bastard Pei Zongli. He simply couldn’t imagine Pei Qin’s reaction when she saw the reward going to Old Pei’s House. Even if Pei Zongli was Pei Qin’s father, besides providing the sperm, he hadn’t done a thing as a father! It was Pei Qin who had planted sweet potatoes for two years and promoted them, and Wu Dongsi’s memorandum was very clear—as was Meng Dinglun who had been warned and didn’t dare tamper with the process, yet somehow the reward ended up with Pei Zongli. Pei Qin would definitely want to kill him!

After he asked Shen Bi and uncovered the reason at home, he almost felt the urge to die. These people are all fucking crazy! He had already lost two fiancées to death, and now he just wanted to marry Pei Qin. If they disagreed, they could talk to him, but why let go of the matter of the reward, creating a gap for others to exploit?! If Pei Qin knew that she had missed out on the reward because of him and it had ended up with the bastards of Old Pei’s House, she would definitely beat him to death!

Old Lady Shen held onto him, calling him her good grandson, and urged that if he liked Pei Qin, just take her as his wife. It would also elevate her family’s status, and he mustn’t act rashly anymore.

Shen Songming paid no heed, taking a clock and a musical box, he requested to enter the palace, to have an audience with the current Emperor.

Shen Bi would not allow him to make a scene. But the Emperor was quite fond of that clock and musical box, and several younger Princes in the palace had also heard of them and wanted one. Shen Songming had always said they were not available and had taken reservations, but he had never actually made them.

Now that he personally delivered the items to the palace, and being a scion of the Shen family with his own achievements, the Emperor made an exception and allowed him into the palace to meet him.

Shen Bi, worried, also hurried into the palace. He was afraid Shen Songming would cause trouble; he had been too unreliable over the last two years!

Shen Songming had already presented the clock and musical box to the Emperor and spoke of the sweet potato cultivation, requesting the Emperor to thoroughly investigate and give justice to the orphaned siblings who lost their mother and were abandoned by their father!

The Emperor didn’t know about this. He had only heard about the benefits following the spread of sweet potatoes and had ordered a reward of a hundred taels of gold, leaving the rest to the Ministry of Revenue.

When Shen Songming mentioned that Lady Fang was forced into Jian Xiao, but Pei Zongli had ’returned from the dead’ with a rich bride and son to drive his original wife to death, suspicion arose in the Emperor’s heart. The decree for Jian Xiao had been his own, and he was surprised to see the matter tangled up with it. He immediately summoned several officials involved.

However, there were conservative voices clinging to the argument that Pei Zongli was the father of Pei Qin’s siblings and that as Pei Qin’s siblings were children of the Pei family, there was no wrong in granting the reward to the Pei family.

Shen Songming engaged in a verbal battle with the ministers, questioning them point by point, citing evidence, leaving the ministers speechless.

The reward should rightly be granted to Sister Peiqin and her siblings, as it was they who had painstakingly cultivated and promoted the sweet potatoes, benefiting the people.

Shen Songming won the debate, but the outcome could not be changed. The Imperial Court had already issued the reward to Old Pei’s House, and it couldn’t simply be retracted right after being conferred, admitting a mistake, as it would make a laughingstock of Chu Nation.