When Lin Guoqing was driving Chen Chunhua home, Sanni had just picked all the cotton she had picked that day.
The calluses on my hands were prickly and the dead skin was covered with cotton threads, making it difficult to clean them.
Sanni tied a knot in the last sack of cotton she had, then wrote her name crookedly with a brush that was almost worn out, and waited for the foreman's queue to be less crowded so that she could go over and hand in her job.
There were two lanterns hanging at the bottom of the shed. They were not very bright, just enough for everyone to see. After thinking about it, Sanni went over, sat down beside it, took out her notebook from her trouser pocket, and silently reviewed her Japanese.
There were still several middle-aged and elderly women in the shed who had not finished picking the flowers. They saw Sanni started reading again, picking the flowers and chatting with them.
"Sanni, this is your first bag, young people are really good at working fast and skillfully."
"That's right! If anyone could marry a daughter-in-law who can both make money and study, they would probably laugh in their dreams!"
Several middle-aged and elderly women laughed for a long time, and then asked Sanni out of gossip,
"Sanni, are you 20 this year?"
Sanni turned around and corrected, "It's 19."
"Hey, almost. Chinese New Year is just two months away. I'll be 20 in two months, and I can get married~"
A group of married women smiled at her with ambiguous expressions, which made Sanni speechless. She turned her head back and rolled her eyes at them.
Why is it that these people only think about getting married? When they see someone who doesn’t have a partner or a family, they start thinking, “I’m old enough to get married.”
nerve!
"Hey, look at you guys! The little girl is shy!"
"That's right! You think you're a seasoned veteran, but you still think a 19-year-old virgin is just like you!"
"Hahaha……"
Sanni was even more annoyed, and felt she couldn't concentrate on her notes anymore. If she wasn't afraid of arousing public outrage among the elderly, she would have even wanted to cover her ears.
"Sanni~ What kind do you like? Auntie will introduce it to you!"
"That's right, you said it! Your Sihe Village is not too far from here. Ask around and see if there are any good families. I'm telling you! Boys from good families should be taken advantage of early!"
"That's right! Otherwise, they'll all be snatched up in the blink of an eye, and then you won't even have time to cry!"
Sanni sighed silently, then took a deep breath and turned to the group of aunts and grandmas.
"My family is looking for a live-in son-in-law. Do you have any good recommendations?"
There was a moment of silence in the shed.
"S-son-in-law?"
Sanni nodded seriously. "Yes, since you know Sihe Village, you can go and ask around. Our Ma family in Sihe Village has nine daughters but no sons. My father was just promoted to village Party Secretary this year. If there are no major problems, he should be able to hold the position for many more years."
You can't marry off all your daughters and leave them alone at home, right? So you want to recruit a live-in son-in-law."
Miss Ma Sanni opened her almond eyes and acted very seriously. If she lied with her eyes open, no one would believe her if it was too fake, and it would not be true enough if it was too real. The best thing is to be half-true and half-false.
"My eldest and second sisters are already married, and my younger sisters are still young and studying. My grandparents are old, my mother is in poor health, and my father doesn't have much time. During the busy farming season, there are not enough people working in the fields.
You guys also said that I'm old enough to get married, so wouldn't it be perfect for me to find a live-in son-in-law now? He can come in and help with the housework!"
Everyone in the studio was stunned. Who just said that this girl was shy? Isn't that a very reasonable explanation?
Sanni looked at them with a pure and innocent smile.
"So, if you have any suitable young men, please introduce them to me. But don't marry one who is too poor, because my father is the village party secretary after all. Don't marry one who is too lazy, because I can only rely on him to work! Don't marry one who is too ugly, because I have to live with him face to face for the rest of my life, so I have to be able to eat and sleep well in front of him."
After thinking about it, she added,
"I don't want someone with a bad temper. A son-in-law is half a son. If you invite an ancestor in, my family won't serve him."
I'm afraid no man who wants to marry a wife has as many requirements as she does. This was the same thought in the minds of everyone in the studio who listened to her requirements.
The aunts forgot that they still had to pick off the flowers, and they all criticized her for being too demanding.
"If the family can afford to marry a wife, which man would be willing to be a son-in-law?"
"That's right! If you are good-looking and hardworking, there will always be someone willing to support you, even if they are poor... Hey, isn't the Zhou family in our village like that!" An auntie nudged her companion next to her with her elbow.
The auntie who was traveling with her was reminded by her, thought about it, nodded vigorously, "Yes!" Then she looked at Sanni and said earnestly,
"Nizi! If you really want to marry a son-in-law, don't set such high standards! There's a family in our village that's really poor. Their parents have to take medicine every day, and they have two sons who need to get married.
I was originally thinking about sending one of them out as a live-in son-in-law, but his family is fertile! The two sons are so... energetic! He's not lazy, but he doesn't have much money because he doesn't have parents to support him.
But both of his brothers got married later! They didn’t spend a penny from the family! The money for the wedding and the furniture were all paid by the father-in-law’s family!
"That's right! They're so poor that they don't even leave, and you're still asking for so much... How can you find it~"
"Yeah, yeah! You should all be a little more modest. You can't expect a live-in son-in-law to come from a well-off family. As for looks, why should a man be so good-looking? Just being decent is enough. If he's strong enough to work and doesn't hit women, that's already pretty good!"
“That’s right…”
Sanni listened to their chattering and persuading her, and she was so angry that she felt like smoke was coming out of her head. She couldn't help but roll her eyes to the sky.
"Why haven't I seen men say these things when they marry women, and they're looked down upon for having high standards? Aunt Li, I remember you said yesterday that there's a boy in your family looking for a partner. Did his mother even tell the matchmaker that she wanted someone who could guarantee the birth of a son?"
Aunt Li was named and showed a bit of embarrassment on her face, but she still said stubbornly with the tone of someone who had experienced it, "Who doesn't marry a wife to continue the family line? With the childbearing policy so strict nowadays, isn't it because they want to have a boy right away..."
"Then isn't the purpose of my family recruiting a live-in son-in-law to continue the family line?" Sanni stood there like a female warrior.
"Finding an ugly man and then having an ugly child? Will this sect be able to continue?"
"By the way, can I also ask for a man who's guaranteed to give me a son? The kind that, if he can't, he'll have to go back to his parents' house?"
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I am thinking about what kind of man is worthy of my Sanni
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