The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family
Chapter 553 Disgraced (5)_1

Chapter 553: Chapter 553 Disgraced (5)_1

However, this year’s farming season, Pei Qin had basically stayed indoors.

Supervisor Chen was looking after Tian Zhuang, so there was no need for her to keep an eye on the wheat harvest or the planting of corn and soybeans. And by the Pai Building, nearly a hundred acres of sweet potatoes had been planted in March, it was still not time to harvest them. There were also several dozen acres of spring soybeans that weren’t ready to mature.

In the sweltering heat that seemed to fry the air, Pei Qin preferred the cool indoors and had no desire to step outside.

As the farming season was nearly over and Zhang Shiqian still hadn’t found the opportunity to make his move, his anxiety grew.

At last, the family was finished with their urgent work, and Sun Xiujin hurried over to her maternal family with her daughter, only to see that Shi Qian hadn’t succeeded, and she was anything but pleased. Were they all fools? Was it so difficult to administer some drug and induce her premature labor?

Carrying her daughter over for a visit to see how Pei Qin was doing, she wanted to use the same old trick and invite her out for mung bean jelly.

"I can make mung bean jelly at home, and going out to eat means traveling so far," Pei Qin said, growing lazy nowadays and unwilling to go outside in the scorching weather.

"But it feels different eating it outside than when you make it at home! You still owe me a serving of mung bean jelly!" Sun Xiujin looked at her with a smiling face.

"I’ll return a whole basin to you later!" Pei Qin replied languidly.

Sun Xiujin laughed and pulled her to go outside, "Walking more now will make giving birth easier when the time comes."

"I practice martial arts every morning!" Pei Qin retorted, mentioning that the afternoons were the hottest time of the day, which made the ground emit a baking heat.

Sun Xiujin’s eyes widened in shock, "You still practice martial arts while pregnant!?"

"Get a couple more, and it’ll be twice the fun!" Pei Qin raised her eyebrows.

Sun Xiujin, realizing that Pei Qin wasn’t joking, felt a heavy heart. If she couldn’t coerce Pei Qin, was she supposed to personally administer the drug? If she got caught, surely that fierce wench Pei Qin would beat her to death, right?

After returning home, Sun Xiujin thought it over and decided to quickly relay the message to the people of Old Pei’s House, encouraging them to act against Pei Qin. On the note, she deliberately left Shi Qian’s name. He bore a grudge against Pei Qin and sought revenge; it was only rational.

There were many literate people in Old Pei’s House, and the note ended up in Lady Zhu’s basket at the market. After Lady Zhu purchased some meat, she only noticed the paper wad stuck to the butcher’s package when unpacking it at home, and carelessly threw it away.

Pei Wenbo picked it up and unfolded it, "Grandma! Look at this note, it was written by Zhang Shiqian!"

Lady Zhu, being illiterate, came over with a puzzled look, "What does it say?"

"It says that that lowly creature Pei Qin got pregnant before getting married! That’s why she was in such a hurry to wed!" Pei Wenbo showed her.

"What did you say!? Pregnant before marriage!? That little wench..." Lady Zhu’s eyes widened in shock.

Lady Chen, overhearing, also rushed over and snatched the note to read. With a twisted smile and cold laughter, she said, "Turns out she’s just like her mother, a promiscuous and lowly slut! She was impregnated with a bastard child before getting married, and that’s why the young master of the Shen family couldn’t marry her, forcing her to spend silver on a pretty-faced gigolo!"

Lady Zhu snorted, "Having left our house, she still bears our family name, yet she committed such shameful and loose behavior, tarnishing not only her own reputation but also the name of our family!"

"What tarnished the reputation of our family? We have had no relation for a while now! Their promiscuity and despicability don’t trouble us one bit!" Lady Chen spat out, clenching her teeth with a sinister tone, "Our family’s reputation was already destroyed by her, a little whore! It’s her family that has garnered all the good reputation!"

Lady Chen didn’t have much inclination to craft a scheme for a false premature birth to ruin Pei Qin’s reputation, so she decided to let everyone know that Pei Qin had slept with a man and conceived a bastard child before marriage!

When Old Pei heard about it, he pondered over the haste and oddity of Pei Qin’s marriage, not choosing the wealthy and powerful Shen Songming, but instead marrying a pretty boy, which was truly puzzling. If it was just for Mo Heng’s handsome appearances, Pei Qin was too shrewd to give up marrying into an aristocratic family for the sake of a handsome face. There had to be more to the story!

Now that the story was unraveling, it was said to be that Pei Qin was pregnant before her marriage, forcing her to wed, and since she couldn’t marry Shen Songming, she ended up paying silver to marry a pretty-faced gigolo!

When Lady Chen and Lady Zhu began to spread the news of Pei Qin’s premarital pregnancy, Old Pei hesitated and did not stop them. If Pei Qin really had been pregnant early and gave birth to a child in less than ten months after marriage, then she would have been promiscuous before her marriage. If not, they wouldn’t be defaming her, the note came from Shi Qian. He just told Lady Zhu and Lady Chen to keep the note.

Pei Qin was pregnant before marriage!?

Such news, once spread, shocked almost everyone in the town.

Pei Qin had given up Shen Songming and instead married the godlike Mo Heng, a marriage that was both impulsive and highly scrutinized. There had been suspicions before, but now the news that Pei Qin had been carrying a bastard child and hurried to marry Mo Heng, sent shockwaves throughout the town.

Grandma Sun, upon hearing the rumor outside, quarreled with the townsfolk, "What nonsense are you spouting! Mo Heng and Xiao Pei had already arranged their marriage! She completed her mourning period and wasn’t young anymore, so she married just before the New Year!"

"We’re just repeating what we’ve heard! If it’s not true, then we’ll just wait for her to give birth! Let’s see if it’s a full-term pregnancy of ten months! If the baby comes in seven months, then she was pregnant before getting married!"

With a darkened face, Grandma Sun scolded the people before hurrying over to find Pei Qin, "...I don’t know who started spreading this nonsense! It’s all over town all of a sudden! If it keeps going, your reputation will be ruined!"