The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family-Chapter 33 - Bird Droppings Fall on the Head_1

You lowlifes!”

Pei Qin narrowed her eyes slightly and took a step forward.

Pei Wenbo got scared and immediately backed up two steps, “My dad’s at home; you dare to hit me!?”

“I dare to hit your dad, so what are you?” Pei Qin sneered coldly.

“You…” Pei Wenbo was choked by her words, but seeing Pei Houli coming over, he yelled, “Dad!

Dad!

This wench just said she wants to hit you!

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She stole my meat bun!”

Pei Houli came over with a frown.

Pei Qin looked sharply at Pei Houli, “A wench?”

“Er Lang!” Pei Houli, upon hearing this, scolded Pei Wenbo, “This is your eldest sister; how can you insult someone!?

Apologize to your sister!”

“I won’t!

She hit me!

She stole my pigeon meat and even snatched my meat bun!” Pei Wenbo said obstinately.

After all, his dad was his real dad!

No matter what, he would take his side!

Pei Qin watched Pei Houli with cold eyes, “Do you lay a hand, or shall I?”

Pei Houli was stunned for a moment, then frowned, “Da Ya…”

With a mocking cold laugh, Pei Qin swept a glance at Lady Zhu, then at Old Pei at the entrance of the main hall and without another word, turned to help Lady Fang serve rice.

This left Pei Houli hanging there, his face full of embarrassment.

Lady Zhu saw this and, feeling that Pei Qin wouldn’t dare to do much, opened her mouth to complain about Pei Qin’s wrongdoing.

For breakfast as usual, Pei Qin grabbed two wowotou and scraped together a bowl of stir-fried radish strips, eating with the few women in the kitchen.

After eating, Pei Qin left with an axe and a rope.

Seeing this, Si Ya guessed she was going to chop firewood in the mountains and hurried after her, saying to Lady Zhu, “I’ll follow her, to keep an eye on the eldest sister!”

“Don’t follow me!” Pei Qin said irritably.

Seeing her get angry, Si Ya paused for a moment but continued, “I’ll go with you; I can help you with the work!”

Pei Qin grew even more impatient.

It wasn’t that she was angry with Si Ya, and Si Ya couldn’t be blamed for anything.

She was always trying to please Lady Zhu and Old Pei, and suck up to the main house, all to avoid getting beaten or scolded and to get enough to eat.

She had no reason to blame Si Ya!

It was just that she felt irritable, utterly vexed!

The atmosphere at home had subtly changed since Pei Houli returned.

Lady Fang mentioned that she’s the younger sister-in-law, but in fact, she’s undeniably related to Pei Houli through a collateral branch of the family.

She even birthed San Ya, Si Ya, and Pei Wendong, which can’t be ignored by any means.

Now, their second branch is like a thorn in the flesh for the main branch, with Lady Chen blatantly scheming against her, finding her a match like Qian Dog just because the dowry included two acres of land.

The whole family consented without a single objection, tacitly agreeing to it.

In such a plight, unless they broke away from Old Pei’s House, San Ya would be next, followed by Si Ya.

What Pei Wendong would be taught to become was still an unknown.

Anyway, she refused to endure such days!

Even in these ancient times of poverty, she couldn’t swagger around as she did in modern times, but as someone who’s always been domineering, she couldn’t live so suffocated, could she?

She mustn’t lose face back in whatever era thousands of years ago this was!

So, the most urgent matter now was to earn money!

Earn silver!

To take Lady Fang and the others and say goodbye to Old Pei’s House!

But relying on selling firewood alone wouldn’t bring in much money; even the four copper coins they earned were barely enough for them to eat a meal of mixed-flour wotou!

Pei Qin walked on, her thoughts continuing to churn for ways to make money.

The more she thought about it, the more the withered mountains seemed to mock her.

“Motherfucker!

It’d be nice if a bag of silver fell on my head right about now…”

Chirp chirp—chirp chirp—

A bird call drifted by.

Pei Qin frowned and looked up, “Shit!

When you’re down on your luck, even bird shit falls on your head!?”

Si Ya couldn’t help wanting to laugh but tried hard to keep it in and handed over a few tree leaves, “Here, wipe it off!”

Pei Qin bowed her head, letting her wipe the bird shit off.

She really wanted to let out a scream like the apes of Tai Mountain, daring the poor luck to hurry up and escalate!?

With a frown on her face, she continued up the mountain, found a dead tree, walked around it, seemed satisfied, and prepared to chop down the whole thing and sell it.

Just as she swung the axe thrice, the branch she was chopping didn’t move, but another branch, shaken loose, snapped off and thudded onto her head.

Pei Qin sucked in a breath from the pain and cursed, “Damned heavens!” Was it written in the almanac that today wasn’t suitable for going out?

Si Ya, seeing that she was all right, hurried over to pick up the kindling.

Pei Qin simply climbed up the tree to chop.

While she was chopping above, Si Ya was picking up below.

The two worked for a while, nearly clearing the dead tree and gathering two big bundles of kindling.

Pei Qin rested for a while, shouldered the firewood, and descended the mountain.

Before she had gone halfway, she saw someone pulling a cart of goods into the village, wrapped in bright red cloth and quite conspicuous.

Si Ya couldn’t help feeling joyful, “It’s a betrothal gift coming in!” If their house had two more acres of land, they could eat their fill!

If big brother passed his exams and gained a title, their days at home would improve, too—they wouldn’t need to work so hard, and they could eat to their heart’s content, even have meat!

Pei Qin gave her a stern look, then rolled her eyes toward the sky.

She said that today was nothing but bad luck!

“Shall we go back home, Eldest Sister?

They must have brought a lot of delicious food!” Si Ya thought about it and couldn’t help salivating.

If they returned late, there would be nothing left for them!

“You go back,” Pei Qin said, her back loaded with kindling as she continued down the mountain.

Right now, she needed money!

Needed silver!

Si Ya felt torn.

She wanted to sell the firewood and earn money, but she also wanted to go home.

If she went back late, there really would be nothing left for them.

After some thought, she said to Pei Qin, “Then I’ll go home first!

Otherwise, I’ll be too late and miss out!”

With that, she dashed down the mountain like a wisp of smoke.