The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family
Chapter 850 - 183: Compensate with 100 Worms_2

Chapter 850: Chapter 183: Compensate with 100 Worms_2

Pei Qin slapped him across the face, "Here, there’s only me, no Commandery Prince!"

"How dare you! You actually hit the Commandery Prince?!" Xiao Yi glared, pointing at Pei Qin and scolding her.

A few servants also glared with an air of readying themselves to brawl with Pei Qin.

"So I hit you, what about it!? Always going on here about ’Commandery Prince this, Commandery Prince that.’ If someone heard, they’d serve you right up to the human traffickers to slaughter!" Pei Qin said and slapped him again.

It was summer and the clothes were thin. She slapped him twice with considerable force, causing Xiao Yi pain. Holding his hands behind his back, he touched his back, "If you dare hit me again, I’ll have my royal father take care of you! He’ll execute all nine Clans in your family!"

"Heh! Has your daddy not told you our families are to be joined? That includes your people among the Nine-Clan too!" Pei Qin rolled her eyes at him.

Xiao Yi thought about it and realized it was true. His little face turned purple with anger, and he couldn’t speak.

Huang Qiu came to say that the hot water was ready and Xiao Yi could go bathe now, and the food would be prepared immediately.

Xiao Yi snorted with the bearing of a Commandery Prince and called for his servants to bring his clothing and help him bathe.

Aside from converting the ear room inside the main bedroom into a clean room, outside, there was an outhouse and a bathing room next to each other, and the bath had to be taken in the bathing room.

Xiao Yi complained about everything again, disliking it all.

Pei Qin went to the kitchen to supervise and cooked iron-plate black pepper beef, Jing sauce pork slivers, sauerkraut fish fillets, stir-fried sweet potato stems, and cold marinated bamboo shoots.

Mo Heng had gone into town early in the morning to pick up Xiao Yi and hadn’t eaten yet either.

Xiao Yi looked at the dishes, and except for the fried pork sprinkled with black powder he hadn’t seen before, the rest looked plain. He put on airs and sat down, asking others to serve him food.

Pei Qin shot him a sidelong glance, "In my home, you follow our rules. You’re six or seven years old and still need help eating; if you can’t eat by yourself, are you useless? My Little Radish was able to eat by herself at the age of two!"

Xiao Yi’s little face turned dark, "This Junior Provincial Official could eat by himself at two too!" He didn’t remember whether he could, but he had to say so, to maintain his dignity. In reality, he’d always been fed by his wet nurse, and only because she had gotten sick from the long journey and couldn’t come with him this time—he remembered her crying about it. Otherwise, she would have been feeding him.

"Then eat by yourself!" Pei Qin said coldly.

Xiao Yi, with his little face swollen with anger, took up his chopsticks and began to eat. He had never seen black pepper beef before, so he took a piece and stuffed it into his mouth. As soon as the food touched his mouth, he spat it out immediately with a yell.

The nearby servant’s face changed dramatically in fright, "Junior Provincial Official, are you all right?!" He immediately confronted Pei Qin, "How bold, Pei Qin! How dare you poison the Junior Provincial Official with your food—what is the punishment for this?!"

"He just ate too quickly and burned himself," Pei Qin said nonchalantly. "Our home’s food is delicious, but you shouldn’t eat in such a hurry. This iron-plate black pepper beef might not look hot, but it’s scorching hot near the iron plate." Saying this, she picked up a fried potato ball from the middle and blew on it before eating.

Xiao Yi sipped some cool tea and felt a little better. Watching Pei Qin enjoying her meal, he harrumphed angrily and sat down to continue eating. He couldn’t believe that he, a dignified Commandery Prince, couldn’t even eat properly!

Mo Heng took a flatbread and rolled up some Jing sauce pork slivers and bamboo shoots for Pei Qin, then made one for himself too.

Xiao Yi, really hungry now, didn’t ask for help and made himself a flatbread roll. Finding it quite tasty, his eyes flickered. He ate several in a row, wrapping both Jing sauce pork slivers and black pepper beef, and soon, he felt full.

Jiujiu, Sun Xingwang, and Zhao Xiaolang came back. "Daddy! Mommy! I caught several bean beetles!" She hadn’t caught any herself though; she had snatched them from others.

Seeing that the meal was ongoing at home, Jiujiu’s eyes lit up, "I want to eat too!"

"Let your daddy pick out some fish for you to eat." Pei Qin came over and washed her hands and face.

Jiujiu still clutched the bean beetles in her hand.

Xiao Yi, hearing that this was Jiujiu, looked at her sideways and sized her up. She was only slightly delicate-looking and somewhat familiar. Such looks, in a poor rural area—even if she grew up to be stunning, would still make her nothing but a pretty simpleton!

Jiujiu sized up the unfamiliar little boy as well, noticing his pale skin, rosy lips, double-lidded eyes, and long dense eyelashes, making his delicate face rather pretty, almost like a girl. Seeing the way he looked at her, Jiujiu, being sensible, realized he didn’t like her. Glancing at the dining table, which still had plates and bowls that hadn’t been cleared, she figured he had just been eating from her family’s table!

She snorted, came over with the bean beetles, and threw them right at his face.