The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family
Chapter 731 Shameless to Death (4)_1

Chapter 731: Chapter 731 Shameless to Death (4)_1

Pei Qin exclaimed in surprise, "Aren’t you out of money right now? Cabbage might be cheap, but you still need a significant amount of silver to buy so much. Ingredients are even more expensive. Can you really afford to put up the silver as capital?"

They would figure out a way to get the silver needed for capital even if they didn’t have it. Besides, the year before last, Pei Qin and Mo Heng were sent to jail in Capital Jingcheng, and their workshop was sealed by the Government Office, yet their family made a good sum of money by selling spicy cabbage. But if Fang Hui admitted she had the capital, it would contradict what she just said. Fang Hui’s eyes shifted, and with red eyes, she said, "Your grandfather’s family isn’t wealthy either. I heard it was you who gave them fifty taels of silver for their workshop. I won’t borrow from them. You have plenty of spare change, so lend us some, and we will pay you back immediately after selling the spicy cabbage at the end of the year."

Pei Qin laughed. "I’ll go to the kitchen to see if the food is ready. Let’s eat first." Saying this, she stood up and left the room.

As soon as Jiujiu heard they were going to the kitchen, she immediately stood up to follow.

With Huang Qiu’s assistance, the Cook woman had already steamed the lotus leaf cakes. The fish slices were ready and made into sauerkraut fish. She also stir-fried some meat and eggs, prepared a dish of small green vegetables, and cooked an egg and corn soup.

Seeing that the dishes were ready, Pei Qin came out to wash her hands and prepare for the meal.

Li Hualing, seeing her washing her hands, also hurried over to wash and help.

When the dishes and soup were served, Feng Xiaolang was lying beside the table, stretching out his hand and demanding, "Eat meat! I want to eat meat!"

"Alright, alright! You’ll get meat now!" Fang Hui hugged him and sat him on a chair. "Just wait a moment, huh?"

Feng Xiaolang didn’t want to wait. Every time they had meat, he would get two pieces first. Seeing that Fang Hui didn’t give him any, he stretched out his hand and grabbed a handful.

"Xiaolang!" Li Hualing’s face instantly flushed with embarrassment as she helplessly turned to look at Pei Qin.

"The child doesn’t know better! The child doesn’t know better!" Fang Hui, too, realized it didn’t look good and quickly repeated herself, then began to plead poverty again, "We adults won’t say anything, but it’s rare for the little one to see meat."

"I’m sorry, Cousin!" Li Hualing said, blushing with embarrassment.

"It’s just child’s play, no harm done." Pei Qin sat down and let Jiujiu sit next to her, picking out fish for her to eat.

Li Hualing didn’t sit down until after a while when the heat on her face subsided. She fed Feng Xiaolang while preventing him from grabbing food with his hands.

Fang Hui watched Jiujiu, who was holding a wooden bowl and eating rice by herself with a spoon. Then she glanced at her own grandson and couldn’t help feeling resentful, thinking Pei Qin was doing it deliberately, showing off how Jiujiu could eat by herself to imply that their Xiaolang was clumsy and lacked manners. How could the little girl, who usually had wet nurses and maids by her side, eat on her own!? She picked up a piece of fish with chopsticks and said to her, "Jiujiu is really impressive, already eating by herself."

"Our young miss still can’t eat fish." The nanny hurried over to pick out the fish and set it aside.

"It’s because I forgot for a moment, seeing Jiujiu eating like such a little adult." Fang Hui pulled at the corners of her mouth, joked with a laugh, and added an egg to her plate.

"Thank you, Aunt Grandma!" Jiujiu looked up and said.

"Hehehehe! Jiujiu is really sensible! She seems as if she’s four or five years old." Fang Hui remarked with a laugh.

"Eating a lot, she grows so tall for nothing." Pei Qin chimed in.

Li Hualing also spoke up to alleviate the awkwardness of earlier, "This lotus leaf cake has a milky flavor. Was it made with goat milk?"

"You still drink goat milk every day!?" Fang Hui looked up and inquired.

"We drink a bit. When I was pregnant with Jiujiu, I couldn’t touch goat milk; whatever amount I drank, I would throw up. This time around, except for not having much of an appetite, I’ve had no reactions."

"No wonder Jiujiu is so tall and fair!" Li Hualing glanced at Jiujiu and then at her own son, feeling there was quite a difference. Jiujiu was only a few months older than Xiaolang. Should she go back and start feeding her son goat milk too?

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