Bai Shibo kept his head down. Bai Shihai, who grew up with him, could immediately tell that he was hiding something.

“If I suspected it was you, I wouldn’t have kept it a secret for you at the conference. But what were you doing last night? Tell us so we can know for sure, right?”

"Alright, Hai-ge, Bozi is a grown man now, isn't it normal for him to have his own things to do?"

Deng Min noticed that the atmosphere between the two brothers was a bit tense. Bai Shibao, a grown man in his twenties who was already married, was being scolded by his brother against the wall, which made him feel a bit embarrassed.

Bai Shihai sighed: "Xiaomin, we believe him, but so many people went to the movies yesterday. What if someone gets home and realizes he didn't go to the movies last night? When the brigade leader comes to our house, won't we all be worried?"

Bai Shihai's words made sense, so Deng Min stopped trying to persuade her.

Bai Zhiman asked, "Bozi, is there anything you can't tell your family?"

Bai Shibao seemed to have done a lot of mental preparation before saying, "I went to Wangjiazu last night."

"What are you going there for? Is there business there?"

Wangjiazu is so far from Shili Village. Luckily, the family had a bicycle, otherwise Bai Shibao might not have been able to get back until dawn.

Bai Shihai frowned. If they were going to sell things, it would be troublesome; there was no way to explain this openly.

"Dad, do we have any relatives in Wangjiazui?" Deng Min and Bai Shihai had the same idea and immediately thought of how to keep the matter a secret.

Bai Shibao immediately said, "I'm not going to sell anything, it's... oh dear, someone introduced me to a potential marriage yesterday morning and asked me to go and take a look."

"What?" Bai Shihai thought he had misheard. "Who? Who is it?"

“I met him on the black market. He always comes to my place to buy glutinous rice strips, saying his daughter especially loves them. You guys are all worried about my wedding, so I thought I'd go and see him.”

After Bai Shibao finished speaking, Bai Shihai didn't know what to say.

"Bai Shibo, Bai Shibo, what can I say about you?" Bai Shihai paced around the room in anger, then stopped and pointed at Bai Shibo's nose. "You don't even know who he is, yet you go to that unfamiliar place without telling your family. If you were to sell yourself to someone to mine coal, who would be able to find you?"

"Who would sell me? Only idiots and fools would sell me to work in the coal mines."

Bai Shibao thought to himself, "I'm a grown man, what's there to be afraid of?"

"Aren't you stupid?!"

Bai Shihai stopped yelling after Deng Min tugged at him.

Deng Min asked, "So you went to see her yesterday, what did you think of the girl?"

Bai Shihai looked at Deng Min in shock. How could she be just like Bai Shibao, doing things so unpredictably?

“It’s great,” Bai Shibao said, blushing and scratching the back of his head. “She speaks nicely and doesn’t mind that I’m not good at speaking.”

Deng Min immediately became excited: "Really? What does she look like? Is her family okay?"

"She's quite good-looking too." Bai Shibao smiled.

Deng Min thought to herself that the Bai siblings were all good-looking, and Bai Shibao was used to seeing his own siblings, so his taste shouldn't be too bad. She smiled and said, "Then when will you bring someone to our house to take a look?"

"It hasn't come to that yet, sister-in-law."

"You two are actually chatting about this," Bai Shihai tugged at Deng Min, "Is this thing reliable?"

In all his life, he had never heard of anyone just walking by on the street and being able to drag someone home for a blind date.

They're still from the black market.

It's not that Bai Shihai is prejudiced, but most business people these days are shrewd. There aren't many like Bai Shibo. What if he gets scammed?

Deng Min calmed down and said, "I just asked Bozi to bring her back so we could take a look. Now that Bozi is willing, this can be done. Even if it's unreliable, can a married woman really run away?"

“Why not?” Bai Zhiman blurted out abruptly.

Deng Min never argued with her father-in-law, so she said, "Then what do you think, Father?"

"Bozi, do you really think that girl is suitable?" Bai Zhiman asked.

“I think it’s okay, Dad. Last time my sister-in-law took me there, she complained that I didn’t know how to talk, but it was the first time I met her, how would I know what to say?”

Bai Shibao's request was also very simple. Bai Zhiman then asked, "So, is she the only one you can't live without?"

Bai Shibao didn't speak, but Deng Min reminded him, "Bozi, you don't need to be so anxious. I sent a letter to the aunt in town during the New Year to ask if there were any suitable women there. She should be able to write back in the next couple of days. Why don't you take your time to choose?"

After calming down, Deng Min also felt that Bai Shibao should definitely find a wife with good conditions. He shouldn't marry her just because she is good at talking. It's not good if she is too good at talking. If she comes back and always dominates her husband, Bai Shibao won't be able to control her, and he won't be able to live a good life in the future.

"Your sister-in-law is right. Think it over carefully and don't meet her for now."

After Bai Shihai finished speaking, he saw that Bai Shibao looked dazed and asked, "Did you hear that?!"

"I heard you, I'll think about it carefully."

Bai Shibao himself was also in a state of confusion. This was the first time he had talked so much with a girl with marriage in mind, and he had felt quite touched last night.

It's just that their family's circumstances are a bit messy. Seeing his older brother and father's attitude today, Bai Shibao didn't dare to say anything.

Seeing that Bai Shibao agreed so readily, Bai Shihai couldn't bear to scold him anymore: "I'm doing this for your own good. We don't know anything about the person you're looking for, aren't we worried?"

Perhaps because his older brother was too responsible and his older sister was too domineering, Bai Shibao was not very clever from a young age. In any case, his older brother and sister would always step in to help him when something happened.

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