The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family
Chapter 712 Doing Something Big (5)_1

Chapter 712: Chapter 712 Doing Something Big (5)_1

"Great! I’ll just do the talking, the actual work is left to the people below. I’m hardly tired!" With several pairs of eyes watching, she stays busy as if she were resting.

Fang Li then said, "Mo Heng is an official now, and you are the wife of someone with a Decree. It’s not like you need to come every day to watch the long-term workers. As the business grows bigger, we need our own people to help keep an eye on things..."

Pei Qian interrupted him before he could finish, guessing his intentions, "I manage our family business. We have long-term workers and stewards, there’s no need for others to help manage this little bit!"

Lady Yu glared at Fang Li covertly, signaling for him not to speak anymore. Even the Pickled Bamboo Workshop could become big. He had no skills himself and was always eyeing others’ businesses; he would never succeed in his lifetime!

Old Scholar Fang also blamed him for trying to stir up trouble again, and after speaking well of Pei Qin and Mo Heng, returned home.

Fang Li was not satisfied. Every time there was an opportunity to make big bucks, it only concerned her, never caring about them. When there were issues, they were sought out and it was their family that was relied upon. If their business did well, wouldn’t it still be because Song Ming, as an official in Jingcheng, was giving them face?

"They must think that if our business does well, it’s all thanks to their family having a son who became an official! As if being a small Seventh-rank official in some remote and lawless place makes that much of a difference!" Pei Qian scorned Fang Li.

"’Where the mountains are high and the emperor is far away,’ that’s where even the emperor is powerless!" That’s why Pei Qin prepared quite a few trump cards for Shen Songming, at least if something unexpected happened, he could save his life.

Hearing this, Pei Qian began to worry. Probably even the reputation of the Shen family wouldn’t count for much in a place ’where the mountains are high and the emperor is far away,’ right?

Pei Qin asked her to prepare a dowry gift for Fang Fang.

Pei Qian’s heart was not in it; she disliked Fang Fang for being lazy and gluttonous and really didn’t want to prepare anything extra. Still, she cared about maintaining appearances: a pair of silver bracelets, a Silver Step Shake, a pair of gold earrings, two bolts of fine cloth, and two bolts of satin.

"Wow! The stingy hen is plucking itself!" Quipped Pei Qin as she saw the generous dowry Pei Qian prepared.

"Wasn’t it you who said we need to maintain our dignity? If the dowry is too meager, we lose face!" Pei Qian replied irritably.

Pei Qin looked over the gifts and added a pair of pearl earrings.

Pei Qian’s eyes widened in disbelief. "Such smooth and round pearls are hard to come by, and you’re still adding these earrings to her dowry after already giving so much!?"

"Enough, it’s just a pair of earrings. When you get married, their family will give something in return!" Pei Qin patted her reassuringly.

Pei Qian thought of Fang Liuming, and her expression involuntarily darkened. If she married Fang Liuming... she would become an officer’s wife, able to spite the Yang family and the Bai family deeply...

Pei Yuan came a day early to see the dowry gifts prepared by Pei Qian and smiled approvingly, "Little sister, you’re getting better and better at managing the household."

"I’m looking at your dowry gifts!" Pei Qian knew her sister could be extravagantly carefree. Although her second sister had improved a lot, she still spent quite a lot.

Pei Yuan had added two bolts of cloth, a pair of silver hairpins with gold inlay, and a pair of golden cloves.

"For just a cousin, you’re adding so much!" Pei Qian scolded her.

"The golden cloves were added by my mother-in-law," Pei Yuan replied with a smile.

Mo Heng wouldn’t go, but as a cousin, Pei Wendong, had to be there to help with the bride’s side and had also requested time off to come home early.

The siblings, along with Jiujiu, finished their meal, got ready, and hurried to Fang Family Village.

Fang Liuming, an official in Jingcheng, couldn’t make it back in time, so Fang Liuyang, who was only twelve, had to carry Fang Fang on the bridal sedan. He was worried, showing his teeth in a grimace, "My frail body carrying my sister—I’m afraid she’ll flatten me if I stumble and fall!"

Hearing this amidst her busy preparations, Lady Yu came over to scold him, "We didn’t let her eat much these past two months, she’s lost a lot. You just have to carry her from inside the house to the doorfront; you can hold on!"

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