After finally seeing the two people off, confiscating the gifts, and closing the door, Xia Chunfu finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Xia Ruqian jumped out again and said, "Dad, you must not let my sister marry this kind of person!"
Xia Chunfu walked into the house with his hands behind his back and said, "Don't worry, I know what's going on. Huang Zhong's family is so poor, how can your sister live a good life there? If your sister uses that soap, I'm afraid her mother, who stings like that, will curse her to death. Besides, Huang Zhong is a tough guy!"
Xia Ruzheng spent his whole life to see Huang Zhong's true face. Xia Ruqian only saw the tip of the iceberg under Xia Ruzheng's inspiration. After all, Xia Chunfu was a man who had experienced turmoil and was not so easily deceived.
Xia Ruqian nodded and said, "Dad, you are right!"
Huang Zhong's family was in such a situation that the whole family couldn't find a good bowl or a neat chair. If my sister really married into that family, I'm afraid all the dowry would have to go into that family.
Xia Ruqian repeated Xia Chunfu's words, and Xia Ruzheng fell into deep thought. His father must have thought the same thing in his previous life. He had talked to him about it at the time, but he had gotten so obsessed with it that he was courting death. Xia Chunfu must have been very helpless. He also thought that with his own abilities, he could still support his son-in-law and ensure that his daughter lived a good life. He just didn't expect Huang Zhong to be such a terrifying person.
Huang Zhong proposed marriage for the second time and came in person. Of course, this shocked many people. This guy is very sincere!
This is the effect Huang Zhong wanted! First there is kindness, then there is sincerity. Even in the case of Huang Zhong's family, many people might think that not marrying Xia Chunfu is a sign of lack of vision.
Xia Ruzheng would never believe that this was not Huang Zhong's plan.
Xia Juan'er, who was sitting next to them embroidering insoles stitch by stitch, was another good friend of the Xia Ruzheng sisters. Unlike Xu Xianhua, she was quiet and capable. She spoke softly and was a very gentle person.
This time, Xia Juan'er also asked Xia Ruzheng in a gentle voice: "They are proposing marriage sincerely, why don't you think about it?"
Xia Ruzheng looked at the beautiful flowers on the insole in Xia Juaner's hand and secretly admired her dexterity, but she didn't remember the girl's fate later.
"Juan'er, there are many things in this world that require more than just sincerity. Sincerity is invisible and intangible. If someone doesn't have integrity but wants to appear sincere, that's not wrong. My father said he doesn't want me to live a hard life!"
Moving from the Xia family to the Huang family would indeed mean a drop in living standards. Xia Juan'er thought about it carefully and decided that one should follow the husband's lead and live the life that one marries. However, one could choose who to marry.
Xia Juan'er said, "I'm not as good as you. I don't have as many choices as you do. If there was a suitable one, my parents would definitely marry me off right away. Zhengzheng, you're beautiful and smart, but a girl's age is also important. You mustn't delay it too long."
This was Xia Juan'er's sincere advice. Xia Ruzheng accepted her good intentions and said, "I know. My father won't make me suffer, and I won't marry off casually."
Xia Juan'er was not as annoying as Xu Xianhua, and the two sisters liked her very much.
After Xia Juan'er left, Xia Ruqian gossiped to her sister, "Juan'er is almost old enough now, and her family is looking for a date! She's such a capable and gentle girl, I hope she can marry into a good family!"
Xia Ruzheng thought so too.
Xia Juan'er was speaking from the perspective of someone with a good relationship with the Xia family. Some people, who had no close relationship at all, or simply wanted to gossip about the family, were far more scathing. They said Xia Ruzheng was so old, yet still so picky and ignorant. They also said the Xia family was ungrateful, and yet I'd never seen those gossipers marry their daughters off to repay their benefactors.
Xu Xianhua had come several times, naturally to inquire about the Xia family's opinions. When she saw Xia Ruzheng said he wanted to leave Huang Zhong to her, Xu Xianhua blushed and said, "I'm afraid they don't like me."
Xia Ruzheng laughed in his heart. Huang Zhong is a man who accepts everything, no matter what. If you deliver it to his door, he will definitely accept it.
Because of this marriage proposal, the Xia family's reputation seems to be not as good as before. Xia Chunfu is aware of this and tells his daughter that this is a good opportunity to see people's hearts clearly.
However, Huang Zhong didn't seem to give up, constantly looking for opportunities to get close to Xia Ruzheng. For example, during literacy classes, he would copy love poems and send them to Xia Ruzheng. Sometimes Xia Ruzheng would find a bouquet of flowers on the window, or sometimes he would send him two fish he caught in the river. There were so many reasons that it was hard to list them all.
The Xia family naturally declined, but Huang Zhong was not easy to pester. Love poems and flowers would be thrown away, but sometimes, when gifts were presented openly, it was hard to refuse. In the end, he accepted half and rejected the other half, and the Xia family would return the favor twice as much. To outsiders, the two families seemed to be getting closer and closer.
Xia Ruzheng frowned. Is Huang Zhong planning to boil the frog in warm water?
Xia Ruqian kept nagging that if her sister got engaged right away, Huang Zhong would definitely not come back to harass her, but Xia Ruzheng didn't have anyone to get engaged to right away.
As for Huang Zhong, he no longer mentions the engagement, but he is very enthusiastic about the Xia family. Xia Ruzheng cannot run over and tell Huang Zhong directly, "Stop bothering our family, I will not marry you."
Huang Zhong's actions further strengthened Xia Chunfu's idea that he must not marry his daughter to Huang Zhong. Huang Zhong was a very treacherous person. If he did that to his daughter one day, she would probably die without knowing how.
In the spring, Xia Juan'er finally got engaged. The place was not far away. It was said that she and Huang Zhong were in the same literacy class. She was quite familiar with Huang Zhong. He was a boy with a dark and round face, and looked honest and kind.
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