It was the time to turn over the sweet potato vines, and the hillsides of Hebian Village were all filled with members turning over the sweet potato vines.
In the past few years, we had to eat collective meals. Now we don’t have to eat collective meals, but we still have to do the work collectively.
Working next to Xie Ailian was a woman from the Chen family named Niu Dahua.
The two of them usually have no conflicts, and when they work together, they naturally talk a lot.
"Old Xie, isn't it time for your eldest son to be seen?" Niu Dahua suddenly asked Xie Ailian.
"It's time to meet each other." Xie Ailian nodded.
Having many sons means that there will be more labor force in the family in the future, so they must be raised up first and found wives for them.
When I can finally be a laborer, I'll have a grandson...
In this life, I will work like a slave until I die of exhaustion.
"Is there any girl that catches your eye?" Niu Dahua asked again.
“…” Xie Ailian shook her head.
Seeing this, Niu Dahua lowered her voice and said, "Shi Guixiang's daughter is just the right age for your eldest son."
Xie Ailian listened with hesitation on her face.
Shi Guixiang is not an easy person to get along with.
It's not that he's afraid of not being able to defeat her, but, "We're from the same village, and the age is right, but it's probably difficult to marry a daughter into a wealthy family."
Shi Guixiang is a person who despises the poor and loves the rich, and Niu Dahua naturally knows this. But which family in the village with a daughter would not want to marry into a wealthy family?
"Well! Let's not make a big fuss. Whether it can be done or not is just a matter of mentioning it. If we refuse, it's just a waste of words."
Since Niu Dahua said so, Xie Ailian smiled and said, "Then I'll trouble you, elder sister."
Xie Ailian did not mention this matter after returning home.
Why bring up something that didn't even exist?!
In the next few days, she and Niu Dahua were working in the mountains and encountered each other while washing pig grass by the river, but neither of them mentioned it again.
That day, Niu Dahua suddenly came up to me and said "Pooh!" before she even said anything.
Xie Ailian thought to herself, this must be because of something she did at Shi Guixiang's place!
Sure enough, Niu Dahua started to scold.
Xie Ailian was not angry. "One family has a daughter, and hundreds of families want her. It's normal for people to want to marry into a wealthy family. I'm sorry to bother you."
"As for this matter, there's no place to talk about it. Your eldest brother isn't even insulting his daughter. If she disagrees, she can just disagree. No one will say anything to her."
Niu Dahua's mouth was full of gurgling sounds, "Shi Guixiang is just a prankster...her mouth is full of shit, she is really disgusting.
You said your eldest son is handsome and tall, though a little thin, but he is also honest, efficient at work, has a lively look in his eyes, and is energetic..."
Xie Jialian poured her a bowl of water, curled her lips, and resisted the urge to ask her what specific annoying words Shi Guixiang had said.
In short, she felt that if Niu Dahua mentioned anything, it would be like disrespecting her daughter!
However, the next day Xie Ailian went back to her parents' home and contacted several close women in the village to see if there was a girl suitable for Wang Fangbing and to introduce him to someone else.
It's a pity that those who specialize in matchmaking have restrained themselves. After all, a "matchmaker" is still a dealer. If they are arrested and criticized, there is no place to reason with them.
Half a month later, Niu Dahua came to visit again.
It is said that Shi Guixiang actually found a family in the town for Chen Meiru. The conditions were good and she could have a meal of dry rice a day and meat once every one or two months.
Speaking of this, Niu Dahua swallowed her saliva.
However, he immediately chuckled and said, "That's right...that guy is a fool."
Xie Ailian: “……!”
"Having a full meal a day and meat for a month or two is indeed a good thing. For example, my family, back when we were 'smashing pots and making steel'... we haven't eaten collective meals for a long time, but we still use a pot that's patched up with nails on top of each other, it's green in color, and it's rarely been oiled."
Upon hearing this, Niu Dahua's mouth twitched.
I have to say that there was a small crack on the ear of her family's pot, and every time the pot repairman came to the village, he was reluctant to fix it.
However, she still sneered, "There's hope for being poor, but there's no hope for being stupid."
“…”Haha, but people would rather marry their daughter to a fool.
Niu Dahua didn't notice Xie Ailian's expression. She kept saying that Shi Guixiang didn't treat her daughter as a human being and only wanted to sell her for a high price. She wanted Chen Meiru to stay at the man's house and never come back. Balabala...
After a long while, he finally reacted, chuckled twice, talked about something else, and hurried away.
However, as Niu Dahua said, Wang Fangbing is tall, good-looking, honest and hardworking, so it's not that there is no one to propose to him.
When Shi Guixiang was in high spirits and urged her daughter Chen Meiru to please the family of the second fool in the town, someone introduced Wang Fangbing to a girl from Hejia Village, which was further inside Hebian Village.
The two of them met.
Therefore, Xie Ailian was very happy. When she heard people talking about Shi Guixiang and Chen Meiru, mother and daughter, she just took it as a joke and did not say anything unpleasant.
After all, Niu Dahua wanted to tell Wang Fangbing about Chen Meiru at that time. Even though Shi Guihua called Wang Fangbing a "toad" and said some unpleasant things, she didn't say it in front of her, let alone shout it in the village.
Wang Fangbing, the person involved, didn't even know about this. As for whether Chen Meiru knew about it, Xie Ailian didn't know either.
After Wang Fangbing fell in love with her, Xie Ailian would often ask Wang Fangbing to go to her house to help with chores...
In the eyes of the villagers, Xie Ailian asked Wang Fangbing to perform at the girl's house, which was much more normal than Shi Guixiang asked Chen Meiru to perform at the boy's house.
Hejia Village is two miles away from Hebian Village. With Wang Fangbing's speed, it would only take him about ten minutes to get there.
To make your presence felt... the mother-in-law will be more and more satisfied with her son-in-law. By the end of the year, the two families will have decided on the marriage and will just wait for the spring or summer of the following year to pick an auspicious day for the wedding.
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