The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family
Chapter 885 - 194: Undermining the Foundation_2

Chapter 885: Chapter 194: Undermining the Foundation_2

Sweet Potato Flour Workshop, the villagers of Taiping Town all strongly hoped it could stay in Taiping Town, "Her family makes spicy cabbage, runs a noodle shop in the city, and now they even want the Sweet Potato Flour Workshop, meddling in everything! I’ve never seen such insatiable greed!"

The crowd unanimously disparaged and scorned, no curses were uttered, but it was enough to make Fang Hui, Grandma Feng, and Feng Shouxing lose face.

Feng Shouxing’s face turned purple with restraint, "We didn’t sell the recipe! You are slandering us without any evidence!?"

"My hand, it hurts so badly!" Fang Hui cried, holding up her injured hand as proof.

Grandma Feng painfully clutched at her chest, "How many benefits have you received from them? You talk nonsense here! My grandson broke my sister’s hand, are you all blind!? Can’t you see with your eyes!?"

The villagers had indeed seen it, but given Pei Qin’s habit of beating people, she had struck Old Pei’s House several times, and Pei Zongli, her own father, more than once. Therefore, it was no surprise that she had twisted Fang Hui’s hand.

When infestations are numerous, one does not mind the itching, they thought; having hit people so often, not merely twisting Fang Hui’s hand—had Pei Qin truly beaten Fang Hui in public, they wouldn’t have found it strange. Who would expect anything less from Fang Hui, a mere aunt who had already taken plenty, yet was still greedy for more, demanding this and that, and even sold the spicy cabbage recipe to target Pei Qin and her family?

Some who felt Pei Qin was wrong to beat an elder like Fang Hui only dared to condemn her in their hearts a few times, but to outright support Grandma Feng’s words? They weren’t foolish enough to offend Pei Qin and her family.

Seeing that many in the crowd appeared indifferent, and others unmoved, Fang Hui continued to hold up her drooping right hand, her heart burning with undying fury. These people actually thought Pei Qin was right to break her hand!?

Feng Shouxing internally regretted allowing Fang Hui and his mother to come and make a scene. Clearly, everyone sided with Pei Qin and her family.

Grandma Feng bitterly clenched her teeth, "You...you beat an elder, and everyone saw it! I’ll take this to the Government Office and sue you for disrespect and unfilial behaviour. Even if you have money and power, you won’t escape a beating!"

"Then go ahead and sue us!" Pei Qin said, pushing aside Fang Hui’s drooping right hand.

Her touch was far from gentle; the pain made Fang Hui cry out miserably, "My hand...it hurts! It hurts to death! My hand is ruined!"

Pei Qian snorted angrily, "Debt must be repaid; it’s a good opportunity to discuss with Master County how to return the three hundred taels of silver you owe us!"

"Why don’t you just kill us! Kill us! Last time you barged into our home and took two hundred taels; you want more! Just kill us!" Grandma Feng burst out upon hearing about the additional three hundred taels, veins popping with rage.

"More than a thousand taels of silver’s worth of Jade White Cabbage was smashed by you, and you falsely claimed half of it on my maidservant, with a debt note as proof; you still need to pay it back!" Pei Qian said coldly.

"You’ve ransacked our house! Robbed us blind! Smashed everything! You might as well smash this old bone to pieces!" Grandma Feng threw herself to the ground, starting to wail and throw a tantrum, "Can’t live like this! Absolutely can’t live like this anymore!"

Pei Qian looked at her disdainfully, then at Fang Hui and Feng Shouxing, "Without the thousand taels of silver from the spicy cabbage recipe, you wouldn’t act, would you? Have the nerve to claim you have no money! The noodle shop wasn’t smashed, was it!?"

The crowd gasped, utterly shocked, "A thousand taels of silver!? That spicy cabbage recipe is actually worth so much!?"

Fang Hui, Feng Shouxing, and Grandma Feng all shuddered; it could sell for a thousand taels of silver!?

"Impossible! Just a worthless cabbage, do you think it’s gold!" Fang Hui refused to believe; in her view, Pei Qian was just blowing things out of proportion to torment them.

"It depends on whom you sell it to. If it’s a regular merchant, it’s worth a hundred or so taels of silver; if it’s a large merchant, you could get several hundred taels. If it’s a merchant with connections and power, they would pay a thousand taels of silver for the recipe, and they could make their money back and profit within a year, easily collecting the silver!" Pei Qin explained, then glanced at the three with unhappy expressions and continued, "However, this spicy cabbage was never all that great; it’s just a side dish, everyone could potentially make it at home!"

When the spicy cabbage first came out, many tried it more than once, yet no one succeeded in replicating the taste, and many attempts even turned inedible.

Feng Shouxing watched Pei Qin turn her back on them, facing the crowd and declaring that spicy cabbage could be made and eaten by every household, a strong, unpleasant premonition suddenly arose within him.

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