Chapter 730 Shameless to Death (3)_1
Pei Qin asked the kitchen to prepare a meal.
"This house has a Cook woman, so you don’t even need to lift a finger to cook! You don’t even have to step into the kitchen!" Fang Hui said enviously, "In our house, let alone a Cook woman, we haven’t even saved up enough silver for Er Lang to take a wife yet. A few days ago, when the weather changed, his grandfather fell ill. The money spent on medicine, seeing the doctor, and getting acupuncture treatments really added up." She sighed as she spoke.
Listening to her lamenting about poverty, Pei Qin laughed but said nothing.
Fang Hui, seeing that she wasn’t responding, felt annoyed. They really didn’t care about her, their aunt! Seeing her family struggling probably made them feel even more pleased with themselves! But since Pei Qin wasn’t responding, Fang Hui couldn’t just stop talking; how else would she bring up the matter of the spicy pickled cabbage!? So even though Pei Qin remained silent, Fang Hui kept on complaining, "Your cousin Dalang is still working as a shop assistant, earning only a few taels of silver a year. After spending a little here and there, it’s all gone; there’s no chance he can contribute to the family expenses. Just a few days ago, when I was at your maternal grandfather’s house, they were talking about this. If we could open a shop for him, or manage something, he could slowly start to build things up, and the family wouldn’t be so hard-pressed!"
"But you know what your eldest uncle is like. You handed the Sweet Potato Flour Workshop directly over to them, and he’s been treating it like it’s his own. If you hadn’t spoken about it beforehand and let people from the village take a share, he would certainly have kept it all for himself! Even so, he doesn’t let our family get involved at all. Er Lang wanted to manage something in the workshop but he wouldn’t allow it. Nobody can talk him round, and I’m out of options, so I had to come to you to see what can be done."
"Allowing only the villagers of Fang Family Village, Horse Temple, and Xiao Yang Village to participate in the Sweet Potato Flour Workshop was a rule I set," Pei Qin explained with an ’oh’.
Fang Hui’s face froze, "You set this rule!? Why make such a rule?"
"I established that rule to prevent people from other villages from meddling," replied Pei Qin.