Chapter 14 New Mission Du Hai is currently at the steel rolling mill…
Du Hai has recently become quite famous in the steel rolling mill area; everyone knows his name.
Although no one in Sun Xiuzhen's family worked at the steel rolling mill, they had heard about Du Hai, so their eyes lit up when Mingxi mentioned him.
Yes, the person who asked Zhao Sulan to help introduce a potential partner was none other than Sun Xiuzhen, who was staying in the bed opposite Zhao Sulan in the hospital.
She simply couldn't accept her daughter marrying a good-for-nothing, but no matter what she said or tried to persuade her, Huang Pingping insisted on being with Feng Fan. Driven to desperation, she came up with a wicked idea.
That is, to introduce other potential partners to Huang Pingping.
Sun Xiuzhen believed that the reason her daughter was so fixated on Feng Fan was simply because she hadn't seen how outstanding other young men were. She refused to believe that Huang Pingping could remain devoted to Feng Fan after spending time with other good young men.
Thinking about this, Sun Xiuzhen remembered Zhao Sulan, whom she had just met. She had heard that Zhao Sulan was a matchmaker, so she went to her door early this morning. Unexpectedly, Zhao Sulan was currently recuperating and could not introduce potential partners, but her daughter said she could.
Sun Xiuzhen frowned slightly, her eyes filled with conflict.
She looked Mingxi up and down with her eyes.
Looking at Mingxi's youthful face, she couldn't help but feel uneasy.
But when she thought about Mingxi saying that she had just helped Du Hai get together with her yesterday, she was tempted again.
Everyone knows Du Hai. The unlucky guy whose marriage fell through because of rumors spread by his own aunt, and whose girlfriend dumped him. But he just broke up with his girlfriend, and he's already found someone else?
It seems that Mingxi, the woman who introduced Du Hai to this potential partner, is quite something.
After hesitating for a long time, Sun Xiuzhen finally nodded: "Then I'll trouble Comrade Xiaoming."
She figured she might as well try anything, no matter what kind of young man Mingxi introduced to her daughter, as long as he was better than that good-for-nothing Feng Fan.
Finally, business came knocking. Mingxi was overjoyed. She smiled and asked softly, "So, what are Comrade Huang's requirements for a partner?"
Sun Xiuzhen: "Her? She doesn't have any requirements for her partner, so you don't need to worry about her. Just listen to me. Listen to me, find her a normal, honest, hardworking young man. As long as he's not like Feng Fan, who doesn't do anything serious all day long, that's fine. Right now, I just want Pingping to break up with Feng Fan. She can be with anyone else."
Mingxi was completely confused.
Sun Xiuzhen immediately said she wanted to ask her mother to introduce Huang Pingping to a potential partner, which made Huang Pingping think that Huang Pingping had broken up with her boyfriend.
But judging from the implication in Sun Xiuzhen's words, it doesn't seem to be the case.
Mingxi considered for a moment before speaking: "Um, Aunt Sun, I have a question for you. Did Pingping break up with her boyfriend?"
Aunt Sun: "No, I only asked you to introduce me to someone so that Pingping could break up with Feng Fan!"
Mingxi was dumbfounded.
This...this...this isn't right, is it?
“Um, Aunt Sun, if Pingping hasn’t broken up with her boyfriend, I can’t introduce her to someone else, that wouldn’t be appropriate.”
Although Mingxi wanted to do business, she still had professional ethics.
Introducing potential partners to people who already have partners—isn't that just pimping?
Grandma Sun was taken aback: "What's wrong with that? Who says I can't introduce her to other potential partners if she already has one?"
Mingxi: ...
Is this correct?
Isn't it said that people in this era are very conservative?
Mingxi carefully considered her words and said, "Yes, I know, Aunt Sun, I understand that you don't want Pingping to be with her boyfriend. My mom also said that Pingping's boyfriend is no good and unreliable."
“Absolutely!” Sun Xiuzhen started talking as soon as she brought it up.
"It's not that I have a problem with Feng Fan, it's just that he's a terrible person. You don't know, Feng Fan didn't continue his studies after graduating from junior high school because he didn't get into high school. After graduation, he just hung out with those hoodlums all day, loafing around and hanging out in the streets. Later, his family finally scraped together enough money to buy him a job, but what happened? Even with a job, he still didn't go to work properly. He was lazy and only went to work sporadically. He smoked, drank, gambled, did all sorts of bad things, and didn't do anything worthwhile."
"How can I feel at ease knowing that Pingping is going to marry someone like that?"
Mingxi: "No, absolutely not!"
Sun Xiuzhen: "That's right!"
She looked distressed and aggrieved: "Unfortunately, Pingping isn't as sensible as you. She doesn't understand my good intentions and only thinks I'm targeting Feng Fan. She even said that Feng Fan's family treats her better than I do."
Speaking of this, Sun Xiuzhen was really angry: "There's not a single good person in the Feng family. I've already asked around and found out that the Feng family favors boys over girls. Feng Fan has four older sisters. Guess what his four sisters' names are?"
Mingxi tentatively asked, "Zhaodi?"
“That’s right!” Sun Xiuzhen said angrily, “Feng Fan’s four older sisters are named Zhao Di, Nian Di, Xiang Di, and Lai Di respectively.”
"Moreover, others also told me that none of the Feng family's daughters married well. The eldest daughter married a former revolutionary committee director who was more than 20 years older than her, the second daughter married a manager of the supply and marketing cooperative who had driven away three wives, and the third daughter married a man who had lost a leg after returning from military service."
The fourth daughter of the Feng family is not married yet, but judging from the marriages of her older sisters, the Feng family probably plans to sell her off as well.
As Sun Xiuzhen spoke, she curled her lip. She only had one daughter, Huang Pingping, so naturally she didn't have any preference for sons over daughters, and she looked down on the Feng family for not treating their daughters like human beings and abusing them.
And, to be honest...
The two elders of the Feng family don't even treat their own daughters like human beings, so how can they treat other people's daughters well?
Her family's innocent daughter is going to be bullied by the Feng family if she marries into their family!
Sun Xiuzhen grew angrier the more she thought about it, her heart pounding wildly. Mingxi handed her a glass of water at the right moment: "Aunt Sun, calm down and have some water to rest."
After listening to what Aunt Sun said, Mingxi understood why she was so firmly against Huang Pingping and Feng Fan's relationship.
Neither Feng Fan nor the Feng family is a good choice.
Sun Xiuzhen waved her hand: "I can't get over it. I won't get over it until Pingping breaks up with Feng Fan!"
"Xiaoming, you're a young woman too, you shouldn't have a generation gap with Pingping. Can you help me think of a way to get Pingping to break up with Feng Fan?"
Sun Xiuzhen was truly desperate and, in her desperation, sought out Mingxi, the matchmaker, for advice on how to persuade someone to break up with their partner.
Mingxi: "This... I don't know either."
She shrugged helplessly, but then became curious: "Aunt Sun, how did Pingping and Feng Fan get together?"
Logically speaking, Feng Fan, a street thug, wouldn't have any contact with a well-behaved girl like Huang Pingping, let alone date her.
Sun Xiuzhen pinched her eyebrows and sighed deeply: "Alas, it's all a tragic fate!"
She said, "At the beginning of the year, Pingping went to see a movie with her friend. It was already evening when the movie ended. On their way back, they were robbed, and Feng Fan saved Pingping and her friend. At the time, my husband and I thought Feng Fan was a good person, so we bought some things and took Pingping to Feng's house to thank him. That's how Pingping got to know Feng Fan, and later she even fell in love with him. Actually, I was also at fault. I should have investigated what kind of person Feng Fan was when Pingping and Feng Fan started seeing each other, and then stopped him from seeing Pingping in time."
Sun Xiuzhen sighed deeply, her eyes filled with regret: "What a pity, I didn't think that much at the time. It was only after Pingping told me that she was with Feng Fan that I started investigating him."
Mingxi understood now.
Huang Pingping was originally a naive young girl, and this first encounter with a hero saving her was even more unexpected, plus Feng Fan was quite handsome.
Mingxi had never met Feng Fan, but Zhao Sulan had, and she heard that Feng Fan was good-looking.
It would be strange if Huang Pingping didn't succumb to such a combo.
Most importantly, there's Sun Xiuzhen's attitude.
Mingxi could tell from Sun Xiuzhen's words that Huang Pingping had always been an obedient child, and dating Feng Fan was the only thing she had done that disobeyed her parents.
For Huang Pingping, her insistence on being with Feng Fan might not be because she loved him so much, but rather because she wanted to rebel against the control her family had exerted over her since childhood.
This is a common problem among teenagers.
Although Mingxi never went through puberty, when she was in college tutoring to earn extra money, she read an entire book on child psychology and puberty physiology in order to deal with her employers' arrogant high school kids.
Seeing Sun Xiuzhen's worried expression, Mingxi decided to take pity on her and offer some advice: "Aunt Sun, you're wrong. It's better to guide than to suppress matters of the heart."
Sun Xiuzhen's eyebrows furrowed deeply, forming deep lines: "What? It's better to guide than to block? You mean you want me to support Pingping and Feng Fan's relationship?"
As she spoke, her voice rose a few decibels, becoming somewhat shrill.
Mingxi: "Haven't you noticed that the more you push Pingping to break up with her boyfriend, the deeper her feelings for Feng Fan become?"
“This, this…” Sun Xiuzhen stammered, wanting to deny it, but upon closer inspection, she realized that Mingxi was right.
She was in a daze: "Should I really have supported Pingping from the very beginning?"
Mingxi laughed: "That's not true. If you had supported Pingping and Feng Fan being together from the beginning, they might be married by now."
Sun Xiuzhen was completely bewildered: "Then, so does that mean it's wrong for me to support it, and it's wrong for me not to support it?"
Mingxi: "That's not entirely true."
She said, "Sometimes you should oppose, and sometimes you should support. Supporting alone won't work, and opposing alone won't work either. As long as you support when you should support and oppose when you should oppose, I guarantee Pingping will break up with Feng Fan."
"You're both supporting and opposing this, you've completely confused me." Sun Xiuzhen's forehead was practically sparkling.
She held Mingxi's hand: "Comrade Ming, I'm begging you, please explain this clearly. What am I supposed to do now?"
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