The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family-Chapter 24 - Bring Mom a Meal(2)_1

Shut up!” Pei Qin, who loathed the sight of men crying even more, shot a glance over at Pei Wendong.

Pei Wendong hurriedly held back his tears, looking at her timidly.

Lady Fang, seeing her eldest daughter’s impatience, also quickly wiped away her tears, “Qinqin, wait a moment, Mom will heat up some food for you!” She called San Ya to light the stove.

Watching San Ya hurriedly run to light the stove, Si Ya’s lips puckered, her expression sour.

Their mother was always biased towards the eldest sister!

It wasn’t her chore, yet she insisted on making San Ya light the stove!

Pei Qin found the cabbage, tofu, and turnips, “Make a tofu and cabbage soup, stir-fry the turnips!

Heat up the steamed buns and stick the flatcakes to the pot!”

Lady Zhu’s face turned green as she listened, but thinking of the two acres of land and her eldest grandson’s future, she held back her anger.

This damned girl must be sent away early!

She absolutely could not be allowed to stay at home and wreak havoc!

The food was quickly prepared, and seeing that there wasn’t much, Pei Qin noticed that Lady Fang and the others had not eaten.

She didn’t dare to eat much, just two flatcakes and a bowl of tofu and cabbage soup.

Before they were done eating, Lady Zhu cursed them to start shucking corn, “You all eat like pigs.

Now get to work!?”

Pei Qin didn’t want to work; she wanted to go to the mountains.

If she could chop some firewood, tomorrow she might take it to town and even if she could exchange it for a few copper coins, that would be something.

Without heeding Lady Zhu, she grabbed a cloth bag, string, and, carrying an axe, headed out.

“Where are you going!?

Come back here and shuck corn!” Lady Zhu called from behind.

“Gathering firewood!” Pei Qin replied coldly and continued on her way without deviation.

“Good-for-nothing, shameless thing!

Even if you marry, you’ll come to no good end!

Gathering firewood, my foot!

You just want to be lazy!

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You’re going to meet that…” Lady Zhu cursed venomously, but remembering how Lady Chen had been kicked to the ground and trampled on earlier in the day for calling Pei Qin unladylike and accusing her of liaising with men, she bit her teeth in rage and held back.

Pei Qin looked back at her, snorted lightly, turned the corner out of the village, and headed toward the nearby mountains.

Halfway up the mountain, as she walked into a place with thick fallen leaves, Pei Qin first bundled some together, then took her axe to chop firewood.

“Damn it, life is tough now, and every copper coin counts,” she thought.

She planned to chop several bundles of firewood and hide them away to sell in Taiping Town and earn a few copper coins.

“Who’s there!?” She spun around, axe in hand, calling out sharply.

She had sensed someone following her partway up the mountain.

“Da Ya!” It was Zhang Dalang.

Seeing him emerge from the underbrush in the distance, Pei Qin couldn’t help but frown, “Haven’t I made things clear to you already!?”

Zhang Dalang hurried over, “Da Ya!

Please don’t be angry!

I…

I have thought of a plan and made a decision!

I will marry you no matter what!

Don’t say things in anger…

that hurt me!”

Pei Qin couldn’t help but roll her eyes to the sky, “Even if you would marry me, I wouldn’t marry you!

Go back to where you came from, and don’t annoy me, delaying my work!”

Zhang Dalang became somewhat frantic, “Da Ya!

I know you’re heartbroken and in pain, but that doesn’t mean you can say such things in anger!

I…

I’ve made up my mind.

If my mother doesn’t agree, I…

I…

I’ll take you with me!

We’ll leave Taiping Town!”

Pei Qin was surprised, “You want to take me and elope!?”

Pei Wenbo, hiding in the bushes behind, heard the word ‘elope’ and cursed silently with a hateful expression, got up, and quietly went down the mountain to head home.