As soon as everyone finished their meal and put down their chopsticks, Old Lady Shen yelled towards the inner room at the top of her voice:
"Hey everyone, what are you all doing hiding in there? Come out and clean up the dishes!"
Seeing this, Shen Wenfang and her sisters quickly stood up to help, and did not forget to wink at Old Lady Shen.
"Mom, my sister-in-law hasn't even eaten yet, so don't bother her."
But Old Mrs. Shen didn't care at all.
"It's not like I'm not letting her eat. She's giving me the cold shoulder, and I should indulge her? What did I say that's wrong?"
Without giving Old Lady Shen a chance to continue complaining, Yao Cuixiang came out quickly and cleared the table without saying a word.
Even the two sisters came out to help.
Lin Ran looked at her aggrieved aunt, and then at her younger aunt who was sitting there like a hands-off boss. She looked more like a guest than Shen Wenfang and the others.
Then compare Old Mrs. Shen’s attitude towards my aunt with Uncle Shen’s indifferent look as he sits there.
I'm afraid there will be trouble in this family in the future.
After cleaning up, the sisters gathered in the yard again.
Yang Chunmei suddenly remembered something and looked at Shen Jinzhi curiously.
"Jinzhi, I heard you've been looking around lately. Is there any guy you've set your sights on?"
There was a gossipy glint in his eyes.
Lin Ran was a little shocked when he heard this.
"Sister Jinzhi, are you starting to see her?"
She remembered that Shen Jinzhi was only one year older than her and was only eighteen this year. Yang Chunmei was also eighteen this year, and they had not even met yet.
When this matter was mentioned, Shen Jinzhi just nodded lightly.
There was no joy or shyness on her face, she was so calm as if it was not her who was proposing marriage.
Seeing this, Lin Ran couldn't help but ask with concern:
"Sister Jinzhi, what's wrong? Have you not met the right person, or do you not want to get married?"
She remembered that the original owner and these two cousins had always had a close relationship because they were of similar age.
Especially Shen Jinzhi, every time she got something delicious, she would wait for the original owner to come and eat together.
Once I got a piece of egg cake by chance, but when the original owner finally came, the cake had already gone moldy.
At that time, the two sisters were so heartbroken that they hugged each other and cried.
Besides, marriage is a life-long event, so she couldn't help but ask a few more questions at this time.
Shen Jinzhi didn't want to say it at first, but when she met Lin Ran's concerned gaze, she couldn't help but tear up and finally told the truth.
"My dad hopes I can find a live-in son-in-law, but it's nothing."
"But you all know what my family's situation is, so any family in the surrounding area that's not starving to death doesn't want their son to marry into the family."
"Currently, only Sun Laizi from our team is willing."
"But his family is so poor that they live in a shabby hut and can barely support themselves. Besides, he is ugly and has a scabby face."
At this point, Shen Jinzhi burst into tears.
Yang Chunmei was so scared that she covered her mouth.
"What? You mean Sun Laizi? How can this be possible?!"
Lin Ran also found information about Sun Laizi in her memory.
In fact, there is nothing wrong with Sun Laizi's character. He is just taciturn and may not even fart in a whole day.
My family is really poor, but it’s okay, after all, I’m marrying into her family.
In this day and age, who with a well-off family and an only son would be willing to marry into the family?
The key issue now is that Sun Laizi’s face is really unbearable to look at.
Lin Ran still remembered that the original owner was frightened and cried when she first saw Sun Laizi.
You can imagine how unsettling that look must be.
Shen Jinzhi has another problem, which is that she likes people who are good-looking.
She now doubted whether the reason she was so nice to the original owner was because the original owner was good-looking.
However, she didn't know how to comfort him. It was useless for them to talk to her. The key was to make Uncle Shen change his mind.
Cao Baozhu was still angry, so she went off to play somewhere else and didn't want to pay any attention to them.
But when she saw Lin Ran and the others chatting, she couldn't help but secretly prick up her ears to listen.
When she heard this, she forgot that they were still in a cold war and sneaked over in her little leather shoes.
She asked out of pure curiosity:
"Sister Jinzhi, is it because you don't have a son that you have to find a son-in-law?"
Shen Jinzhi had long since stopped arguing with her and simply nodded in response.
But this scared Cao Baozhu.
"Well, I'm the only daughter in my family. Will my parents let me find a son-in-law?"
Although she didn't want to admit it, Shen Jinzhi had to say it.
"Don't worry, even if my aunt and the others want you to find a son-in-law, given your family's conditions, there are many people who want to marry into the family. You can choose the one you like then."
She simply didn't have a choice.
Cao Baozhu was relieved when she heard this. Yes, her family was from the commune and was not as poor as her uncle's family.
This realization made her lose her composure for a moment, and she immediately said bluntly:
"Then Sister Jinzhi, won't you all be able to surpass me in your entire lives?"
"Not only are you not living as well as me now, you also don't dress as well as me. Even if you get married in the future, you still won't be able to compare to me."
As she spoke, she looked at Lin Ran more closely.
"No matter how beautiful Sister Ranran is, you can only find a partner in the countryside, unlike me."
Lin Ran was completely too lazy to pay attention to this person.
At such a young age, he always wants to compare everything. Needless to say, it must be brought up by his aunt.
She had finally come across the era when husbands were the most important thing to her, but she was not here to continue being a man's vassal.
Her value does not need to rely on men to be realized.
But Lin Ran can let it go, but Shen Jinzhi and Yang Chunmei can't.
Especially Shen Jinzhi, she was already worried about her hopeless future, and then her dignity was trampled on in front of her by Cao Mingzhu. How could she not collapse?
She immediately ran away crying.
But Cao Mingzhu still didn't think there was anything wrong with what she said and even complained about it.
"Why are you crying? Isn't what I said the truth?"
Although Yang Chunmei was also angry and sad, she did not dare to offend Cao Mingzhu, so she could only swallow her anger.
Lin Ran hadn't originally intended to argue with this spoiled child, but she really couldn't stand Cao Mingzhu's behavior of adding fuel to the fire.
He clearly knew Shen Jinzhi's pain, but still rubbed salt into the wound. This was a bit like he was just trying to highlight himself without caring about other people's lives.
Immediately taught coldly:
"What's wrong with country people? As the deputy director of Changxi Commune, is this how my uncle-in-law taught you to look down on country people?"
"So what if we're from the city? There are so many beasts in human form. Some of them might even be worse than Sun Laizi. At least Sun Laizi has good character."
Cao Mingzhu was scolded for no reason and immediately became angry and started yelling.
"How can country folk possibly compare to city folk? City folks eat rations, and you country folk can only dig in the fields. Your only role is to serve us city folk!"
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