Chapter 71 Xu the Matchmaker

Sun Daying's face turned completely dark, and his voice was filled with obvious anger.

"I begged Sister Xu Yao to introduce him to me. Li Jichang is the man I chose myself. I am very satisfied with him and I am very grateful to Sister Xu Yao for helping me as a matchmaker. If I hear you gossiping again, I will tell Sister Xu Yao."

Everyone's faces turned pale and blue, and Sun Daying sneered.

"If you think it's easy to marry in the city, go ahead and get married and see if anyone will pay attention to you."

Why would city guys marry country girls?

If you marry a country girl, not only will you have to buy food at a high price, but all your children will have to eat expensive food!

Not only can a country wife not provide any help to her man, but she also has to always be on guard against extortion from her country relatives.

Sun Daying thinks very clearly and will not be provoked by others.

She is average looking, far less pretty than Sister Xu Yao. She will never have the chance to fly to the branches of the trees in her life, so it is good enough for her to settle down under the tree.

Although Li Jichang is not good-looking, both his parents are working and he has hands and feet. He is a little lazy now, but with her supervision, he will definitely be able to change slowly.

Sun Daying's words made several people blush and they all found excuses to leave.

"People in the city don't even give betrothal gifts, so it's better to marry someone from the countryside. Yingzi is so stupid."

"Yingzi must have regretted it, but she just didn't say it and was just pretending to be strong."

They talked enthusiastically, criticizing Sun Daying's stupidity and Xu Yao's dishonesty from head to toe, and then dispersed with satisfaction.

This way.

Xu Qiang and Xu Weidong went outside to look for Xu Gang, while Xu Yao was preparing to have a good sleep.

An unmarried girl from the village named Tiantian came to the house with a basket of fresh vegetables. She was shy and wanted Xu Yao to introduce her to a man from the city.

Xu Yao was speechless for a long time and then said.

"It's not that easy to marry a city girl. Have you seen Yingzi's man?"

She nodded sweetly, "I know, being poor doesn't matter, as long as the man who doesn't look uglier than Yingzi is fine."

She had just said that Yingzi's man was ugly, and then she turned around and found someone uglier than her man. I wonder how she would be scolded.

As for why not ask Yingzi to introduce her?

The men she finds for herself are all like that, so the ones she helps them find can only be worse!

Xu Yao touched her nose and told her the truth that matchmakers in the city only introduce disabled or intellectually challenged girls to country girls.

Tiantian opened her mouth but ultimately said nothing. Disability and mental retardation didn’t matter and she walked away with a look of disappointment on her face.

When she was leaving the house, she ran into another unmarried girl, who was also carrying a basket and with whom she had just been chatting.

The two looked at each other and looked up at the sky.

Tiantian smiled awkwardly, "Hey, were you also forced by your family to come to Xu Yao for matchmaking?"

The girl nodded vigorously, "Yes, yes, my mother insisted that I try it."

As they talked, they quickly separated at the door.

Several girls from the village came to her house one after another, and Xu Yao could no longer take a nap.

She pounded the bed angrily, "I should hang a sign on the door saying 'I don't act as a matchmaker'."

Ji Changyu smiled softly, "I'll stay in the main room, you and An An sleep in the room."

Before the two of them could finish discussing it, Xu Gang came back carrying the bag.

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After Xu Gang and Qian Shengyang caught the fish, they kept them in a jar in the dilapidated house.

When moving, Xu Yao left many things behind.

There are cupboards and tables, and the bed is covered with worn-out bedding. Xu Gang stays here at night.

Now that he had money, he exchanged some food with the villagers, and took Qian Shengyang and his sister to start a fire in the dilapidated house.

Qian Shengyang's stepmother is the head of the family. She is devoted to her children, and his biological father protects her.

Anything delicious at home was secretly cooked by the stepmother, and the brother and sister had no chance of eating it at all.

Qian Shengyang could not hide the fish he caught from his shrewd stepmother, and most of them ended up in the stomachs of his half-siblings.

The three of them huddled in the shabby house, cooked a fish and ate it with dry rice, and they were very satisfied.

The captain's wife, who was passing by, saw smoke coming out of the chimney of the dilapidated house. She walked in and saw Xu Gang inside. She was stunned for a moment.

"Gangzi, why don't you go to your grandfather's house for dinner? Your dad is looking for you everywhere, you should go back quickly."

Before anyone came in, Xu Gang and the others had finished eating, and he stood up.

"They're back so early?"

He thought Xu Yao would come back in three days.

"Yes." The captain's wife looked at his confused face and her eyes flashed.

"Your brother-in-law arranged a job for Xu Qiang. The job he arranged for you should be better than his, right? Look at the nonsense I'm asking. You are Captain Ji's brother-in-law. How could he treat you unfairly?"

Qian Shengyang finished washing the dishes and walked out. "What kind of job is this? I didn't hear you talk about it, Gangzi."

The captain's wife pretended to be surprised, "Ah? Didn't Captain Ji make any arrangements for you? No way?"

Xu Gang glared at Qian Shengyang. He was really annoyed by these gossipy women in the village!

How could he not know how his own sister, who was born from the same mother, treated him? Is it necessary for them to instigate?

Xu Gang drove away the captain's wife, poured some water into the bag, put the fish and loach on his back, and held the hare in his left hand.

He told Qian Shengyang that he would go find him later, locked the door, and walked towards the old house.

"Look, are these enough?" Xu Gang put down the hare and the bag, opened them to show Xu Yao, and kicked the rabbit beside his leg.

"I hunted the rabbit in the mountains. You can take it back to..." He wanted to give it to An An to replenish her body, but when he saw Ji Changyu standing beside him, he changed the subject and said, "Give it to Yan Yu and Xiao Bai. Studying is taxing their brains."

Ji Zhangyu glanced at Xu Yao with an ambiguous expression, then picked up the gray rabbit with a gentle expression, "Thank you, brother."

Xu Jiaan was sleeping in the house. Xu Yao and Xu Gang went to the main room to talk, deliberately lowering their voices to avoid being heard through the walls.

"How much is this? Have you weighed it?"

"8 jin of fish and 4 jin of loaches, weighed using the scale at Shengyang's house. If it's not enough, I left some at the broken house." Xu Gang replied.

There are many people in the compound, and twelve kilograms is enough. Any more would be bad if it attracted other people's attention.

Xu Yao counted out 9.6 yuan and gave it to him. "That's enough. My neighbor can't finish it. Sell the rest to Wang Shengnan. Her rags can't be cut off. Did you take the hairpin to the village to sell it?"

"I tried to sell a little, and it went quite well." Xu Gang's face turned a little red when he said this.

Xu Yao stared at his flushed face, sensing something was wrong, raised her eyebrows, and was about to continue asking questions.

Xu Weidong, Xu Xiangbei and others came out and urged Xu Gang to transfer the ownership.

"Yaoyao, you guys want to buy some fish? Why didn't you tell me? Otherwise I would have asked Qiangzi to catch them."

Sun Yanfang saw with her own eyes Xu Yao giving money to Xu Gang and she was extremely jealous.

Xu Yao laughed, "Second Aunt, he is my brother. Besides, if I give him a chance, can he catch any fish?"

Sun Yanfang looked embarrassed and didn't say anything.

Except for Xu Yao's family of three, everyone else went to the brigade to transfer the ownership of the old house. After the brigade had stamped the property, they had to go to the commune to get another stamp.

Seeing Ji Changyu's dark eyes deep and his serious expression staring at the bag of fish, Xu Yao's eyelids twitched and she hurried over to comfort him.