Xu Yan thought about it for a moment, and it was true.

As soon as Xie Zhuo stepped out, he was surrounded by several people who kept jeering at him.

"Get lost, get lost," Liu Mancang pulled away the young man who was crowding next to Xie Zhuo. "Someone like you, who wants to marry someone like my third sister-in-law? In your next life!"

The young man was still somewhat unconvinced.

"If you're so capable, then you should come up with six hundred yuan and buy a bicycle," Liu Mancang glanced at him sideways. "If you can really come up with that, I'll call you grandpa!"

I'm afraid I won't be able to call him "Grandpa" anymore.

After all, no one has the wealth of Xie Zhuo's family.

The captain walked forward, banging on a basin, while Xie Zhuo, as always, looked lazy and lax, trailing at the back of the crowd.

Occasionally, when Liu Mancang and Zhao Jisheng were talking, he would chime in with a few words, but the rest of the time he would lower the brim of his straw hat, keep quiet, and walk forward.

He was the same as always, but the others were different.

Several young women and women walking ahead were talking about something, and every now and then they would turn their heads to glance at the tall figure standing in the crowd.

“I really feel like Xie Laosan has changed,” one of the women said.

“Hey, now that you mention it, I think I’ve noticed it too,” another person added. “It does look a bit better than before.”

A man walking next to them couldn't stand it anymore and muttered, "What's with all the changes? They're still the same. They've just added a couple more patches to their clothes. They're so rich, they give it all to their ancestors, and they dress like beggars."

"You don't know anything," Li Aihua said, having overheard his words. "That's called loving your wife."

“That’s right,” one of Li Aihua’s sisters-in-law chimed in, “That’s what a good man is like, unlike you. You’re the only one eating at home, and Yang Ying has become so thin!”

After saying that, he glanced at the woman carrying a large basket on her back.

The man was questioned by the two loudest women in the village, and he immediately fell silent and hid behind them.

"Hey, Sister-in-law Aihua," the woman who had said Xie Zhuo looked different earlier took a few steps toward Li Aihua, "have you noticed that Xie Laosan seems to have become a little more handsome?"