Because tomorrow was the Dragon Boat Festival, everyone at "Su Ji" would have a day off, so there were many minor matters to be dealt with. As the shopkeeper, Su Qingluan had to be the last to leave to prevent any mistakes, so it was already dark when she returned home.
As soon as she got home, she heard Yang say to her, "Tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival. Do you want to go out for an outing with some girls your age? Like the one from the Tian family..."
Upon hearing this, Su Qingluan understood: Come on, another blind date. After all, since she traveled through time, although Yang occasionally suggested that she go out and relax and have fun, she never suggested a specific "someone".
If she casually suggests "go out and play with a friend", you don't have to think about it, the subtext of this sentence is definitely "I have found a good boy for you this time, do you want to go and see him? He's the little so-and-so from old so-and-so's family" or something like that.
In her previous life, Su Qingluan's master, his wife, and adoptive parents all passed away before she started college. After college, she was constantly bedridden. Therefore, many times, whether it was classmates at school or some elders she met after graduation, instead of asking questions like "When will this girl find a partner?", they often offered blessings like "Don't think too much, relax and you will recover faster."
Compared to whether she could live to the next year, for Su Qingluan in her previous life, getting married and having children were too distant topics.
So in her previous life, Su Qingluan did not have the opportunity to experience the "topic of urging marriage" that many young people avoided for various reasons.
However, as the saying goes, "What is yours will come to you sooner or later." Su Qingluan experienced the "pressure of marriage and blind dates" that she had not experienced in her previous life, and the high density of it, thoroughly in this life.
This year, according to the age counting system of that era, Su Qingluan would be fifteen years old and would be a marriageable girl. Although Su Qingluan's fifteenth birthday was still some time away, from the perspective of people of that era, as long as a girl reached the age of fifteen, it meant that she was old enough to get married.
Moreover, in this era, there was no such thing as "three years minimum sentence, up to the death penalty". Many girls were sent to their "husband's family" as child brides when they were less than ten years old, or even very young. It was not uncommon for them to get married and consummate their marriage at the age of twelve or thirteen.
In fact, strictly speaking, although Yang frequently arranged "blind dates", Su Qingluan felt that Yang and Su Guangfu were already "enlightened parents" rarely seen in this era.
First, they didn't resort to forced marriages based on "parents' orders and matchmaker's words." According to the customs of the time, if both parents favored the man's family and the man favored the woman's family, they could completely implement an arranged marriage without the younger generation's consent.
In this era, this kind of marriage not only will not cause any controversy, but is the most "reasonable and natural" process.
However, Su Guangfu and Yang fully respected Su Qingluan's opinion. As long as she was unwilling, they would not force her even if they felt it was not appropriate. They would even comfort her by saying that fifteen years old was not too old and many people got married at eighteen or nineteen and lived a good life.
Although in the modern people's thinking, fifteen and eighteen or nineteen years old do not strictly reach the "legal marriage age", it can be said that the eldest brother should not laugh at the second brother.
However, in this era where the average age is only in the forties and people in their sixties and seventies are considered "old age", it is very difficult to comfort your daughter to wait a few more years.
Secondly, Su Guangfu and Yang Shi didn't believe in the idea that a woman's virtue lies in her lack of talent. Having both experienced hardship and poverty, and having raised three children with their own hands, they understood the importance of earning money for ordinary people.
In contrast, those bullshit "female virtues" and the like were worthless before the problem of food and clothing. Therefore, they never asked Su Qingluan to stay at home to take care of her husband and children after getting married, or to give up the business she had built or hand it over to someone else.
In Yang's words, "The money you earn is yours. How can you push it away? Those who want their sons to take over the store that my daughter worked so hard to run, don't they look in the mirror and see how much they are worth?"
The most important thing is that neither Su Guangfu nor Yang ever asked Su Qingluan to change herself by saying "if you get married, you have to do this and that". All they asked of Su Qingluan was to live in peace and safety.
As for such intensive "blind date groups", it is just based on the mentality of "it is better to find a good blind date early rather than late", and she wants to find a satisfactory partner as soon as possible.
After all, for women of this era, although they could remain single and set up their own households, the objective environment and the various social and personal problems they had to face were much more severe.
Su Qingluan had also considered this issue. Although giving birth in this era was a daunting task, she checked various materials about this era and found that if one did not marry and set up one's own family, one would basically face a similar difficult environment.
The most important thing is that if she doesn't get married, the "property" she has accumulated will often be difficult to remain in her hands when she grows older - because although she has "money" now, it is difficult for her to have a trustworthy "heir".
So whether Su Qingluan was willing or not, she had to have a child - a child who could inherit all her property.
In this day and age, the option of "having a child out of wedlock" should not be considered at all. Not to mention whether it is allowed by law, in any environment, "the father is unknown" will be gossiped about behind the back at the very least, and at worst, thrown into a pig cage or drowned in a pond.
Su Qingluan did not want to challenge the rules of this era, because she simply did not have that much ability now - unless she was the eldest princess who was the only aunt of the current young emperor and was second only to the emperor and favored by everyone.
...But compared to this kind of character setting, the probability of dreaming of finding a husband who meets all the requirements is higher.
Thinking of this, Su Qingluan couldn't help scratching her head: Although she is very lucky that her parents in this life are not weird, stubborn, feudal or old-fashioned, and are even very reasonable, she can't stand the fact that her blind date is so lame!
In Su Qingluan's eyes, these young men, who were no more than seventeen or eighteen years old at most, were children who had not yet grown up. Although she was still a fifteen-year-old "girl" on the surface, after all, she had lived two lives and was almost thirty years old.
Although she also wants to be a mother painlessly, the object should not be the person she calls "husband" in this life!
Thinking about her first outing in her life, Su Qingluan didn't want to waste such a memorable and beautiful event by wasting time with a young man, so she said, "Mother, I have to deliver the third portion of rice dumplings tomorrow morning. Here, I've put them away separately."
Because he came back late today, Mu Xingzhi's portion of rice dumplings was obviously not delivered in time. However, this also gave Su Qingluan a chance to avoid the "blind date".
However, it turned out that she was too simple-minded.
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