Chapter 690 Always Heart-Wrenching (4)_1
Old Scholar Fang knew he wanted to find a noble lady for his son to wed, yet Qinqin was unwilling to enter such a marriage. His grandson had persistently insisted on marrying her, and since he had promised to allow the wedding if his grandson passed the civil examination, he couldn’t go back on his word and let his grandson regret it for life.
However, Fang Liuming had also stopped writing letters to Pei Qian for quite some time.
Upon learning of his success in the examination, Fang Liuming immediately sent a letter back, asking Pei Qian for a congratulatory gift. The gift he sought was a token from Pei Qian. If she was willing to accept him, she need not say much—just send a token, and he would immediately return to marry her. But Pei Qian did not do so.
Fang Liuming’s letters then ceased.
It was Shen Songming’s letters that kept coming, mentioning Mr. Shen’s granddaughter, a girl named Shen Rou. She was also his clan sister, and Mr. Shen wanted to recruit Fang Liuming as his granddaughter’s future husband. There were also other families who wished to form matrimonial ties and, seeing that Fang Fu was a younger uncle and also an elder who could make decisions, they had already approached Fang Fu with marriage proposals.
Pei Qian read them and, with a darkened expression, scrunched the letters into a ball and threw them into the bottom of the pot, then turned to knead wheat kernels.
Soon, it was time for the busy wheat harvest, and there was little green wheat left. The late-harvested wheat by the workshop wall, cut and brought back by her, was kneaded into wheat kernels for Jiujiu’s food.
"Auntie?" Jiujiu could tell she was very angry, "I can’t eat anymore."
Seeing her cheeks puffed out, already stuffed full, and remembering she had just fed her several spoonfuls—the stuff was hard to digest if eaten in excess—she glanced at the wheat kernels she had prepared in her hand and pursed her lips, "Hmm! This is for Auntie to eat."
Jiujiu ran to Pei Qin, "Mommy! Mommy! I can’t eat anymore, and Auntie still wants to feed me."