The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family
Chapter 914 - 203: Good Calculation_3

Chapter 914: Chapter 203: Good Calculation_3

Pei Qin chuckled, "They’ve received New Year’s money!"

"This Commandery Prince will also give you New Year’s money!" Xiao Yi glared.

"Bring it on!" Pei Qin stretched out her hand.

Xiao Yi looked towards Manager Liao.

Manager Liao immediately made a troubled face; they didn’t have much silver left!

Xiao Yi’s little face instantly soured, and he sent someone to send a message home, demanding silver.

Manager Liao also included a letter, claiming Pei Qin not only neglected the young master but also schemed against him for his naivety, brazenly asking for silver.

It was true that Chang Yonglin and Xiao Yong followed Pei Qin, and they indeed gave her silver every year. However, Chang Yonglin’s silver was exchanged for goods and food, whereas Prince Yong’an truly sent silver every year.

Otherwise, why would Pei Qin be willing to raise someone else’s Radish for so many years for free!?

The school soon let out for the New Year holiday. Pei Wendong and Xiao Yong had passed the year-end exam and came home for the New Year.

Like previous years, the family made sugar-coated peanuts and Drunkard’s Peanuts, various caramel melon seeds, winter melon candy, and sold soy sauce along with them at the market.

In the past, it was always Pei Qin and Pei Qian, accompanied by Pei Wendong, who went.

This year, Pei Wendong told Pei Qin to rest, and he took the family’s Little Radish to the market. So, the two of them, along with Jiujiu and Xiao Yi, headed out to sell their goods.

Xiao Yi had never sold anything before; the idea of selling things like a street vendor at the market was something he refused!

Jiujiu, with a look of disdain, pushed him away, "Then you might as well go home!" Then eagerly she sat behind the stall, following Pei Wendong and Xiao Yong’s lead, keeping track of how much their goods sold for and calculating earnings with her fingers.

Pei Qin hadn’t drilled Jiujiu from a young age to turn her into a child prodigy or anything of the sort, letting her play freely, only teaching her simple literacy, drawing, and some arithmetic. Simple sums she could do correctly, but once it got to two-digit numbers, she would either overshoot or fall short.

Xiao Yi ridiculed her from the sidelines, not waiting for her to complete her calculations before producing the correct answer himself, undermining her confidence.

Jiujiu, not content with making continual mistakes, went back to Pei Qin to complain, "Mom! He’s calling me stupid! I’m not stupid!"

Pei Qin nodded, "Yes! You’re not stupid!" yet she reached out to touch Jiujiu’s forehead. Little Radish had a face like her father but this intelligence... could it really be like hers?

"If he mocks me again, I’ll hit him!" Jiujiu declared with big round eyes.

"Well... Focus on your studies! Let’s overpower him with intellect!" Pei Qin said earnestly.

Jiujiu blinked, finally heeding the advice. In the morning, she went out to sell peanuts, melon seeds, and winter melon candy, snacking as she sold, then quietly studied in the afternoon, practicing reading and writing in the evening.

With Pei Wendong taking care of the household affairs, Pei Qin was at ease, thinking about eating and drinking, looking forward to the New Year.

After Little New Year, the festive atmosphere grew even thicker.

The kids were all looking forward to new clothes, tasty treats, and New Year’s money.

Although Jiujiu wasn’t lacking in food or clothing, she was just as eager for New Year’s money, "Uncle said he’s going to give my sister and me big red envelopes!" Time had passed for quite some time, and she feared her uncle might forget.

Of course, Fang Liuming hadn’t forgotten. On New Year’s Eve, he came into town and delivered the New Year’s money ahead of time. A string of small Silver ingots with tassels attached, one for each Little Radish.

Jiujiu had already received a bunch of New Year’s money and was ecstatic.

Snow began to fall heavily on the first day of the New Year.

The group gathered inside the house, boiling hotpot and roasting dumplings.

On the second day of the New Year, Fang Liuming, who had been newly married the year before, and Pei Qian came to visit relatives, joined by Zhao Xiao Chen and Pei Yuan with their son Happy, all together eating, drinking, and talking.

Fang Liuming would depart with Pei Qian for his post the day after tomorrow, and once gone, it might be a year or more before they’d see each other again, so the siblings had plenty to talk about.

They didn’t head home until late into the afternoon.

After seeing off relatives on the third day, Fang Liuming and Pei Qian got their luggage ready.

Fang Li and Widow Yang also packed their belongings.

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