"Propose marriage for Jin Han? Who would propose marriage for him?" Su Dahu was completely confused. In this day and age, what normal person would propose marriage for a man? It's not like he's marrying into the family.
Moreover, marriage proposals are traditionally a matter for parents, but Xiao Jinhan had long since severed ties with the Xiao family, making him essentially an orphan.
Su Hua didn't say anything, but her movements as she played with the black horse's tail slowed down slightly.
Chunhua pursed her lips, stretched out her short arms, rolled up her sleeves, and arrogantly put her hands on her hips, staring straight ahead like drooping heads. Then, she suddenly cleared her throat.
"Hmph! That shameless old man Xiao, he ate his son's blood bun and is no longer his son. He still dares to interfere with Jinhan's marriage. My Su family will not stand for it!"
The clear, childlike voice, with a hint of deliberately imitative roughness, made Su Hua and Su Dahu both widen their eyes in surprise.
He then burst into uncontrollable laughter.
"Pfft! Hahahaha..."
"Chunhua, let's just talk directly from now on! Let's not be so silly..."
Chunhua blushed with laughter and scratched her little tuft of hair on her forehead a little embarrassed. "These are the words Grandma threw down when she went out with the broom. After throwing them down, she took the whole family to Uncle Jinhan's place, and even Xiao Hei and Da Bai came with her."
Before she could finish speaking, a plump figure dressed in red and green stumbled along the narrow path.
On her chubby, round face was a thick layer of bright red rouge. Her cheeks were swollen up to the size of a steamed bun, whether from a fall or a bump. Her hair was crooked and covered with beggar-ticks and dead leaves.
It was as pathetic as could be.
Su Hua's eyes twitched slightly. She had seen this woman a couple of mornings ago when she was chatting with Aunt Zhou. She had heard that Wang Ergou had hired this matchmaker to propose marriage to Meng Yun'er, but Meng Yun'er had run away, so Meng Yongfu had spent money to propose marriage to the Liang family instead.
This woman was a well-known matchmaker in the surrounding villages; no family could do without her matchmaking.
It is said that every marriage that she has spoken of has never failed to come to fruition.
However, at this moment, she was constantly sobbing, as if she had suffered some great injustice.
"Matchmaker Zhang, please wait a moment, my son's marriage arrangements haven't been finalized yet..."
A deep, middle-aged male voice rang out, hoarse and slippery, like sandpaper rubbing against glass, giving one goosebumps for no reason.
Su Hua frowned slightly and saw a man in his forties following closely behind Zhang the matchmaker.
The man was tall and wore a dark blue long robe and jet-black shoes. His thin face had some wrinkles, but it was still clear that he was quite handsome when he was young. However, his complexion was somewhat ashen and he had a beard.
The sharpness that couldn't be hidden in his two yellow eyes.
Matchmaker Zhang flicked her sleeve and spat at the man, "Pah! Your son?! Aren't you just a son who stays at home all day, never goes out, and never speaks?"
This little wolf cub doesn't recognize you as his father at all!
Don't ever come to me with this kind of mess again. That wolf cub just grabbed me by the neck and threw me out; he clearly wanted to kill me.
I don't want the matchmaker's money anymore; consider it just bad luck that I stepped in dog poop today..."
As Zhang the matchmaker spoke, she secretly glanced at the small wooden house behind her. Before she finished speaking, she had already sprung up and leaped far away.
It was as if a vengeful ghost was chasing them.
The man wiped the thick phlegm he had spat onto his forehead, and his face darkened slightly.
Su Hua raised an eyebrow. "This old man Xiao, I think I'm meeting him for the first time."
“The Xiao family is all elusive,” Su Dahu shook his head slightly. “Especially Old Man Xiao and Xiao Jinyan, let alone you, even I, in the past nineteen years, no, in the past eighteen years, I can count the number of times I’ve seen them on two hands.”
Only Old Lady Xiao comes out more often, so she's not quite as strange.
"Eighteen years?" Su Hua murmured.
Su Dahu nodded. "That's right. Hua'er, you may not have noticed before, but the Xiao family fled famine and settled here eighteen years ago. I heard from my mother that Jinhan was a little Yuxue Wanzi who was less than a year old at the time. She was pink and tender and very cute."
Even after my two brothers and I grew older and more sensible, we would still occasionally hear our mother say, "I've never seen such a beautiful little baby in all the surrounding villages."
Su Hua's lips curled up slightly as she listened. Just thinking about how exquisitely handsome the man looked now, she knew he must have been quite remarkable when he was young.
As the two were talking, the Su family and villagers gradually caught up.
Walking at the front, Su Bai put her hands on her hips. When she saw Old Man Xiao standing at the entrance of the courtyard, she immediately laughed disdainfully: "Ha! You've lived such a long life for nothing. Even matchmakers are more discerning than you. You kicked Jin Han out of the house and cut off all ties. Now you still have the nerve to lick your old face and propose marriage to Jin Han. You've made the laughingstock of the entire Shanghe Village."
Old Man Xiao didn't react much to these words, only letting out a heavy sigh:
“It wasn’t my intention to sever ties with my family back then. Jinhan knew that he was injured and didn’t want to be a burden on his family, so he insisted on cutting off relations. We tried to persuade him, but we couldn’t do anything about it.”
Moreover, although we've severed ties, he's still the child I raised with so much care. Even if we're broken, we're still connected by blood. How could I, as his father, really abandon him?
He'll be nineteen next year, and now his leg is so limp he can barely walk. If we, his parents, weren't we going to find him a good marriage? When he gets old, won't he have no one to rely on for the rest of his life?
As she spoke, her eyes even reddened.
Some of the soft-hearted women softened their previously mocking gazes upon hearing this.
Su Baishi completely ignored the remark and instead raised her voice sharply, "For his own good? You want him to marry into the Gao butcher's family and become a live-in son-in-law? Is that for his own good? Everyone knows that the Gao butcher's daughter looks like a wild boar."
I'm almost thirty.
She caused the deaths of three husbands in total.
Even the dogs in Gaojia Village shook their heads when they saw him.
You're really doing this for Jinhan's own good, so much so that you're practically sending him to his death!
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