The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family
Chapter 757 Envy Arrives (5)_1

Chapter 757: Chapter 757 Envy Arrives (5)_1

Pei Houli and Pei Wenbo had become laborers, but since they were earning money every day, they didn’t plan on returning. After all, the only property left at home was the land. With Lady Chen at home, she wouldn’t let the second branch of the family take everything. The silk and satin shop of the second branch had always been said to belong to Qian Wanxiu as part of her dowry, so it had nothing to do with them.

In Capital Jingcheng, they could also open a noodle shop to make money, and gradually, they could become wealthy there. By then, if Pei Wenli secured an official position and Pei Wenlee married the Official Registrar of the Crown Prince’s Chancellery, even if Pei Qin and her group arrived, they wouldn’t dare to do anything to them! Neither would Fang Liuming dare to act rashly!

Kong’s had also calculated that Fang Liuming wouldn’t dare to quarrel with them; if a dispute were to arise, the fact that Pei Qin’s mother and their uncle had slept together for so many years, giving birth to three children including Pei Yuan, wouldn’t exactly be an honorable affair! Few people accepted or looked favorably upon the practice of Jian Xiao. As soon as it was mentioned, they would instantly be branded as bastards.

Seeing Kong’s assertive, Pei Wenli was also afraid she might switch sides and harm them by siding with Pei Qin. That lady from the Glorious Monastery Dianbo’s house wasn’t so clingy. The Glorious Monastery had no real power, and the Dianbo was only a small seventh-rank official. As long as he could enter The Chancellery of the Crown Prince and serve the Crown Prince, even as a runner, once the Crown Prince ascended the throne, he could still hold an official title, even without having achieved the status of Palace Graduate, thanks to the reputation of his success as a Graduate in the Imperial Examinations.

He was planning to ingratiate himself with the Crown Prince, so he stayed very close to the registrar to whom Pei Wenlee was betrothed, asking her to help by whispering in the registrar’s ear to recommend him to the Crown Prince or to get him into The Chancellery of the Crown Prince.

"To hell with it all! Shameless, swinish beasts! Using our family’s property to open a noodle shop and make money..." Pei Qian was so angry that she gritted her teeth. She wished she could rush over there, curse them out, and smash their faces in.

"Indeed, they are quite cunning," Pei Qin sneered coldly.

Some things are bound to be figured out and done by people, but anyone could do them except for Old Pei’s House, as it had no shame!

In Fang Liuming’s letter, he asked Pei Qian whether she wanted to go to Jingcheng. With soy sauce and pine-flower eggs ready to be shipped to Jingcheng and kimchi soon to be delivered, she could go to Jingcheng with the merchants. Now, Yang Boyan and Bai Jinyan had businesses that had reached Jingcheng and opened shops. Kong’s had secretly taken hoelāo noodles and sesame sauce flatbreads and opened a noodle shop. They just waited for them to go to Jingcheng too.

However, Pei Qin was currently pregnant, and Mo Heng would not allow her to travel far. Although Pei Qian really wanted to go and severely punish those shameless people, it wouldn’t be good for her to head to Jingcheng alone, even with a guard. If Pei Wendong went to the capital to take the exams, she could follow to take care of him and also look into the business, but without a senior female relative in Jingcheng, where Fang Liuming and Fang Fu were present, it wasn’t feasible.

Clenching the letter tightly, Pei Qian wished she could tear it to shreds. "Elder sister! We can’t just let them swagger around complacently!"

Pei Qin rubbed the walnut in her hand. "Brains are indeed quite useful."

With the letter in hand, Pei Qian headed for the door. Just as she reached it, Hong Xia blocked her way, "Miss! Are you really going to spread this around? Better let this servant take care of it. If you go out and talk, it won’t look good. This servant can go out, curse, and shout."

After giving her a look, Pei Qian sullenly retreated into the room.

Taking advantage of going out to buy meat, Hong Xia first caught people’s attention with her indignant demeanor. Once there was an audience, she spread the rumor that Kong’s had heard that Pei Wenli had latched onto a member of the Official Family and escaped to Jingcheng. She had even taken her father-in-law and brother-in-law with her to open a noodle shop in Jingcheng using their family’s hoelāo noodles and sesame sauce flatbread recipes.

Previously, a man surnamed Kong, named Kong Yi, had agitated them to approach Sun Lizheng and suggested that he convince Pei Qin to start a workshop. Once such a story went out, people immediately retorted. They said that Kong’s had never eaten hoelāo noodles and sesame sauce flatbread and were intentionally ostracizing people with the Kong surname in order to deal with them.

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