The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family-Chapter 76 - Renovating the Sparrow Courtyard (2)_1

Otherwise, where would the money come from to buy those things!

Where else would they get the money?

It must be stolen!”

“If the family’s silver hasn’t diminished, then don’t go around spouting nonsense!” Old Pei’s darkened face hadn’t changed all day.

Pei Wenlee secretly pouted, unconvinced.

If they hadn’t stolen the money, where would it have come from!?

She thought about the incident of getting lost while going up the mountain and also about Pei Qin losing her way when going to the market in town, grinding her teeth.

They must have secretly sold something to earn money, and then hid the money without reporting it, before they talked about dividing the household!

Definitely!

Didn’t they sell a bunch of pheasant eggs and wild persimmons last time!?

But now the family had already been divided, and it was too late to say anything.

Smoke from cooking rose in the small courtyard, where Lady Fang and San Ya, together with Si Ya, were all squeezing into the small kitchen.

Pei Qin was outside on the ground, using a stick to teach Pei Wendong how to read.

Millet porridge, corn pancakes, stir-fried tofu with cabbage.

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This was the first dinner in the new household.

Although it was a simple meal, sitting around a makeshift small table with half a door panel for legs, they couldn’t help but smile.

Because the kang bed had been retiled and was a bit damp, they kept burning charcoal.

After tidying up and lying down on the warm kang at night.

“It truly seems that having endured so many hard days, even this feels like luxury!” Pei Qin exclaimed.

Lady Fang’s eyes moistened, “It’s all because of mother…”

“Alright!

Alright!

After a long day, let’s sleep early!

We’ll get up early tomorrow to go up the mountain!

Once we earn some silver, we can live in a big house, wear new clothes, and eat the best food!” Pei Qin said, her ambition apparent as she painted a picture of a comfortable life if they stuck with her.

Lady Fang held back her tears and nodded with a smile, “Mother believes that if we all work hard together, we can certainly have a good life!”

In another room, Si Ya finally couldn’t hold back her complaints that Pei Qin had spent too much money.

There was no need to nail wooden boards all around the room.

It might look clean, but after fixing up the house, the silver was all gone.

Otherwise, two taels of silver could have been used to buy mixed grains and vegetables, and salt, enough to get them through the winter!

Now, there weren’t many bamboo shoots on the mountain, and bamboo rats weren’t caught every time either.

Lady Fang was already thinking about doing embroidery work.

Though her skills had fallen behind over the years, she could still make some money doing embroidery to buy vegetables and salt.

At this moment, all sorts of strange methods to earn money were popping up in Pei Qin’s mind.

Some were not suitable for now, but making small trinkets to sell wouldn’t earn big bucks, but it was still money.

So at daybreak, after getting little harvest from the mountain, Pei Qin brought back a few winter bamboo shoots and asked Lady Fang to fry them for a meal; she would go to Sun Tiezhu’s house in the afternoon.

They had already started selling stuff; she wondered how the sales were!?