The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family-Chapter 1186 - 273: 60% Certainty_3

Having come to this understanding, she also began to appear happy.

Jun Suxue was brisk and energetic, almost seeming to bring a breeze with him as he walked.

Pei Yuan and Pei Qian, along with Happy and Yun Yun, came over for a visit to check on Pei Qin’s condition with her medicine.

Pei Wendong and Chang Yonglin also received messages and rushed back, "Where is this Divine Doctor? Are the medicines effective?"

Pei Qin assessed her condition, "It seems like I’m even less afraid of the cold now."

That meant the medicine was working! The siblings were all delighted.

The Lesser New Year had arrived, plunging them into the festive bustle of the New Year preparations.

The Manufacturing Bureau was even busier, but Mo Heng had taken over, managing the sale of fireworks.

Each type of firework had an illustration, and on the night of the Lesser New Year, each type was set off once, allowing people to select their favorites.

The next day, at dawn, a long line had already formed at the Manufacturing Bureau. Since the fireworks were limited in number, once sold out, that was it. Even though each family’s purchase was limited, because the number was too small, those who didn’t come early still missed out.

More people from the outskirts squeezed into the capital, all for the chance to grab a crate of fireworks.

By the time Pei Qin arrived to check the situation, the line had already snaked into a long dragon.

Mo Heng was there, keeping order, and with Xiao Yong’s assistance, everything was proceeding smoothly.

Silver and banknotes flowed into the Manufacturing Bureau in noisy torrents.

Pei Qin snorted quietly to herself, so much silver, and none of it hers, how unfair! She should be getting a cut!

Xiao Yong, noticing how she stared at the silver like it was an enemy, couldn’t help but laugh. He came over and whispered to her, "I spoke to my father, and he agreed that three-tenths of the Manufacturing Bureau’s profit from the firework sales will go to Sister Qin!"

Pei Qin’s eyes sparkled, "Really?" Three-tenths was no small sum of money!

Xiao Yong nodded with a smile, "Yes!"

"Well done!" Pei Qin patted him.

Mo Heng, who was busy, turned his head and looked over with a melancholic gaze.

Pei Qin waved at him to say hello, then went inside to continue watching them work.

After three days, all the fireworks were sold out. And so the year was ending.

An Zhouyuan had been buried.

The Wei family came over and took Wei Shu back to the Wei family.

Rumors immediately started swirling on the outside. The Wei family still claimed to be a Scholarly Family, a family of propriety, yet here, before Eldest Young Master An’s body was even cold, without a willingness to observe mourning, Wei Shu was hurriedly taken back home, truly callous and unfeeling! Being a married woman and yet so eager to return, it seems she was thinking of remarrying, which is even more shameless and unprincipled!

Even if General Pei could not bear children again, by taking a concubine for Marquis of Xining, she could still have sons! They could be registered under her name and raised to later show her filial piety! There was no need for a middle-aged widow to compete for this, right? Shameless and faceless! ƒreewebηoveℓ.com

When the news broke out about Pei Qin’s reputation among the people, they took to cursing Wei Shu thoroughly.

At this time, the An family came forward to explain, according to An Zhouyuan’s last wish, the two had already divorced, and Wei Shu did not need to perform funeral rites for An Zhouyuan, let alone observe mourning for him. After her heartbreaking divorce, she insisted on not leaving, determined to stay and care for An Zhouyuan until the end, which was truly affectionate and righteous, moving Heaven and Earth. They asked for the outside gossip to stop slandering Wei Shu, as it was unfairly maligning a good person.

Originally, there was a wish for Wei Shu to remarry into a respectable family, but Madam An couldn’t bring herself to say it. Although it was she who had insisted on bringing Wei Shu into the family, she had poured her heart out for Wei Shu. Her son had cherished her for years, as well. A husband and wife share a hundred days of grace, yet she actually...

Looking at her son’s portrait, the empty home, Madam An felt her heart had died with her son, having fainted several times from crying.

Old Master An also sobbed uncontrollably.

Servants consoled them, suggesting the portrait be put away. Though it served as a remembrance of the young master, the master and mistress were now too heartbroken to keep looking at it!

Madam An disagreed, refusing to put it away, washing her face with tears as she looked at the portrait. It so resembled her son! Even the sickness etched upon the face and the melancholy in the eyes were strikingly similar! How wonderful it would be if her son could live on forever just like in this portrait?

The more Madam An thought about it, the more she couldn’t accept it. Finally heeding the servants’ advice that the portrait was unsettling, bringing them to tears, Madam An took the painting and went straight to Tiance Mansion.

When Pei Qin heard Madam An was visiting, she was immediately puzzled, "This mother-in-law surely isn’t so kind as to help her daughter-in-law find a new husband, is she?"

Huang Qiu and Xue Dong exchanged glances, "Madam, perhaps it’s best not to meet her. If she comes crying and pleading with Madam, it’s just troubling during the New Year!" It was about to be New Year’s Eve, and they seemed intent on giving their lady a hard time.

Pei Qin thought about it; the Wei family had already received the divorce papers, taking away Wei Shu without a word of explanation. Yet when the outside rumors ran wild, it was the An family who stepped up to clarify and redeem Wei Shu’s reputation, which was far more effective than a hundred explanations from the Wei family. Now with Madam An coming to see her, "Let her in!" she was curious to see just how saintly this mother-in-law could be.