The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family
Chapter 833 - 179: Dream on About Marrying into this Family

Chapter 833: Chapter 179: Dream on About Marrying into this Family

Seeing Yu Qingxiu coming again, Pei Qian’s expression darkened a bit. "What are you here for this time?"

"Cousin Qian..." Yu Qingxiu greeted her with a flushed face.

"I certainly don’t have a cousin with the surname Yu." Pei Qian didn’t give her any face, and made herself clear. While her elder sister was easy to speak to, they were trying to climb up their social ladder. She wasn’t going to let it slide. Calling her cousin would mean she’d have to slave away for them.

Yu Qingxiu’s face turned red with shame, and she looked at Pei Qian somewhat at a loss.

Pei Qian was still waiting to get busy and raised an eyebrow to ask her, "What do you want?"

Facing her attitude, Yu Qingxiu couldn’t say it out loud. After hemming and hawing for a bit, she asked, "...Is the Scholar’s Wife... is she here?"

"I think you better call her ’lady’! The way you keep calling ’cousin’ as if my elder sister should provide whatever you want, as if we owe you! We don’t have such relatives in my family, nor do we owe you anything!" Pei Qian retorted disdainfully.

Yu Qingxiu, unable to lift her head, quickly apologized and walked away.

Hong Xia watched her walk away, then turned back to ask Pei Qian, "Third Miss! Did she come because she wanted something again?"

Pei Qian rolled her eyes, "They are going to Capital Jingcheng and will definitely need to spend money. Who knows what cunning scheme they’ve thought up this time!" It must have been that old vixen Grandma Li’s idea.

Yu Qingxiu returned home so quickly that Grandma Li could tell from her expression that she hadn’t succeeded. Her face fell instantly as she scolded, "All you know is eating with that mouth of yours, can’t even speak properly, and you can’t handle such a trivial matter! No stir in that belly of yours, useless in anything, how do you expect to live up to being a Scholar’s Wife!?"

"Grandma..." Yu Qingxiu teared up, "Cousin... Lady Mo and the others were not at home."

"It was so affectionate when you called her cousin, why is it Lady Mo now!?" Grandma Li, perked up her ears to the change in tone, asking displeasedly.

Yu Qingxiu, realizing that Grandma Li had caught on, lowered her head, "We aren’t really their proper relatives, and we keep asking them for help... in the end, we owe them favors."

Grandma Li’s face darkened, "Did they say that?" Not waiting for Yu Qingxiu to respond, she clenched her teeth and said, "We’re not proper relatives? Those kinds of proper relatives they hardly ever deal with, and they still seek proper relatives! What have they done to help us anyway? A small favor they could do with just a few words, and when have we ever come empty-handed? Help us? They have eaten our food!"

Yu Qingxiu didn’t dare to speak, just listened quietly with her head down. They weren’t proper relatives to begin with, and such attempts to establish connections were in vain. If they let out a single hint of complaint, they would not be able to associate with them anymore.

Seeing her utterly useless, Grandma Li’s face turned even more grim, "You have been to Fang Hui’s house for several trips; you should go too!"

Yu Qingxiu, recalling Pei Qian’s contemptuous look, didn’t dare and felt ashamed to go again, "How about you go, Grandma? As an elder, you would be much better at speaking." Whenever Pei Qian snapped at her, she stopped talking.

Grandma Li flew into a rage at once, "If I tell you to go, it means you are the relative connected to them, even if only slightly. If you can’t even talk properly, how can you handle even this little task!"

Yu Qingxiu replied no more, and Grandma knew that she was only slightly connected to that family, the Li family not at all. Using her to ask for things, but she herself didn’t dare to go.

The more Grandma Li thought about it, the angrier she got. Outsiders can be taught, having received so many gifts from them, why couldn’t they teach them!? Summoning Yu Qingxiu, she learned that only Pei Qian was home and not Pei Qin, feeling a bit reassured, "Pei Qian is the most sharp-tongued. Not to mention you going, even if her own father went, he’d still get snapped at. Come with me, we’ll go look for Pei Qin!"

Yu Qingxiu didn’t want to go, what if she was rejected by Pei Qin again?

Grandma Li figured Pei Qin wouldn’t do so. Now they were not as before; their son had been conferred the title of Scholar, and in the future would become an official. They would need to rely on her son’s power and so would have to be cautious. It was just a noodle shop, everyone else managed, why couldn’t they!?

The two of them visited Liu’er Alley again.

Pei Qin washed her face and came over, "Opening a noodle shop, eh? Then you should take whatever you need and go to the noodle shop to learn from Lady Zhao and the Zhao’s family sisters-in-law!"

With one sentence, she agreed outright.

Seeing how easily it was settled, Grandma Li’s eyes gleamed with triumph, and she blurted out, "Qingxiu came over before, and Pei Qian said you weren’t home. Who knows what she said, Qingxiu returned with red eyes."

Pei Qin looked over at her.

Yu Qingxiu was sitting right beside her, and upon seeing the chill in Pei Qin’s glance, she quickly pulled her. Pei Qian might have scolded her, but she was Pei Qin’s own sister. They came to learn how to open a noodle shop, and she had agreed, so continuing to speak ill of her sister was only going to offend her, wasn’t it?

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