Saturday, July 30, 2022.

Today is a special day. Jiang Feng got up earlier than usual. While brushing his teeth and washing his face, his mother, who was washing rice to cook porridge, couldn't help but ask, "Xiao Feng, why did you get up so early? Why don't you sleep a little longer?"

Jiang Feng said as he washed his face: "I got up because I couldn't sleep. We have guests coming this morning. Tell me what vegetables you need to buy, and I'll go out and buy them in a while!"

Mother Jiang's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she asked, "Xiao Feng, do you have a new client?"

Jiang Feng hung up the towel, shook his head and smiled, "It's not a new client, but the client named Zhu from Qingshan Town. The client went to the county town to register for marriage yesterday, and he should come to thank the matchmaker today."

Speaking of this, Jiang Feng couldn't help but sigh. He didn't expect that the first family to come to thank the matchmaker was not the first client, the Li family, but the second client, the Zhu family.

According to the customs and habits in Bailiang County, the newlyweds usually go to thank the matchmaker on the second day after the wedding. The wedding of the first client, Li Xingwen and Zhang Qiulan, is scheduled for the last day of this month, which is tomorrow.

Therefore, according to custom, the Li family will not visit the matchmaker to thank him until the day after tomorrow.

Although the second client's blind date was more than ten days later than the first client's, because the second client had no plans to hold a wedding for some reason, the couple simply registered their marriage in a low-key manner. This led to the second client visiting the first client to thank the matchmaker before the first client.

Jiang's mother couldn't help but widen her eyes when she heard this, and said in surprise, "No way, it's progressing so fast, it seems like you've arranged for them to go on a blind date for only a week, right? They registered for marriage so soon?"

Jiang Feng smiled and said, "It's a bit fast indeed, but it's nothing, there are faster ones! They felt that each other was okay after spending a few days together, and they trusted me as a matchmaker, so they registered for marriage so quickly."

Jiang's mother smiled happily and said, "That's great. You just stay home and wait to receive the guests. Leave the shopping and cooking to us. I'll call your father and brother to help right away."

Jiang Feng laughed and said, "Mom, it's impossible for the guests to come so early. I'll just go buy the food."

However, Jiang's mother disagreed. Her youngest son was the apple of her eye and she doted on him. Now that he was such a skilled matchmaker and was about to make a lot of money, she naturally didn't want to let him do anything, even something as small as buying groceries.

Seeing that he couldn't persuade her, Jiang Feng just let her go.

Soon, Jiang's father and Jiang Fei were woken up by Jiang's mother. They were a little sleepy when they first woke up, but when they heard Jiang's mother say that Xiao Feng had a client coming to thank them for the matchmaking, they instantly became alert.

Ever since Jiang Feng started working as a matchmaker, Jiang's father and Jiang Fei have benefited a lot from it. Not to mention the big bags of fresh fruits, just the Dalong cigarettes sent by the two clients have made this father and son the center of attention among their friends.

After all, those were expensive cigarettes that cost fifty yuan a pack. In rural areas, apart from the rich people and gamblers who were willing to spend money, how many ordinary villagers would be willing to smoke such expensive cigarettes?

Jiang Feng doesn't smoke, so the expensive cigarettes sent by customers are basically divided between Jiang's father and Jiang Fei, father and son.

Nowadays, when customers come to thank the matchmaker, you can tell with your butt that Dalong cigarettes are indispensable. Therefore, the father and son clean the house or go shopping for groceries, and they are more active than Jiang Feng.

At around ten o'clock in the morning, a red Teana stopped in front of the Jiang family's door.

The people who came were none other than the newlyweds Zhu Liang and Ding Yaping, as well as the eldest sister Zhu Li and Zhu's father.

Jiang Feng's family of four came together to greet them. After the two sides greeted each other and exchanged a few polite words, the four people from the Zhu family began to take out the gifts they had prepared to thank the matchmaker from the trunk of the car one by one.

In addition to the necessary gifts for thanking the matchmaker, such as pig heads, pig buttocks, and pig trotters, there were also two bottles of Moutai, two packs of Dalong cigarettes, two boxes of tea whose packaging alone was not cheap, as well as gifts such as wedding candies, wedding cakes, peanuts, melon seeds, and fruits.

In addition, there is a very festive oversized red envelope. The oversized red envelope is bulging, and no one knows how many old people’s heads are put inside.

I will skip the next 3,000 words of polite words.

At noon, the Zhu family had a very sumptuous lunch with the warm hospitality of Jiang Feng's family.

The result was naturally a great pleasure for both the host and the guests.

After dinner, the Zhu family stayed for more than ten minutes to drink tea before leaving with many thanks.

After the Zhu family left, Jiang Fei, who had been holding back for a long time, couldn't help but say, "Mom, take out the big red envelope and open it to see how much money is inside!"

Jiang's mother glanced at him and said, "You are the only one who is anxious!"

After saying that, she hurried back to get the red envelope. In fact, she was more anxious than anyone else.

Father Jiang had just drunk a lot of wine with his guests. His face was red at this moment. He said with emotion: "The Zhu family is very honest. Although I don't know how much money is in the big red envelope, I roughly calculated the value of the gifts they brought. It's at least more than four thousand. It's incredible!"

Jiang Feng nodded secretly after hearing this. He had also roughly calculated it before and found that the value of so many gifts was indeed no less than four thousand.

Jiang Fei said excitedly, "There are two more big dragons in this gift. Dad, you and I have benefited from Xiao Feng. Now even the quality of our cigarettes is completely different from before."

Hearing this, Jiang's father was both happy and a little sad. He said, "It's a waste to give us such high-end cigarettes."

Jiang Feng smiled and said, "Dad, what's the waste? Smoking is harmful to your health, and you can't quit smoking. Since you must smoke, then smoke better cigarettes. This is better than smoking those low-quality cigarettes."

At this time, Jiang's mother had already taken out the big red envelope, and the father and his two sons no longer worried about smoking. Instead, they stared with wide eyes as Jiang's mother opened the red envelope and took out a thick stack of hundred-yuan bills from it.

Then Jiang's mother handed the money to Jiang Feng and said, "Xiao Feng, you count it!"

Jiang Feng took the money and pinched it to feel its thickness, then analyzed: "I guess this money should be no less than 15,000 yuan. According to our custom of using auspicious numbers here, this money is 90% likely to be 16,800 yuan."

After saying that, he began to count quickly.

Soon, the money was counted.

Jiang Feng actually guessed it right, exactly 16,800 yuan.

Jiang Fei couldn't help but exclaimed: "Xiao Feng, you are really amazing. You can even guess this."

Jiang's mother counted the money and said, "The matchmaker fee is 16,800 yuan, and the thank-you gift is worth 4,000 yuan, so the total is 20,800 yuan. Then the red envelope and gifts on the day of the matchmaker exceeded 1,100 yuan, the day of the blind date was 800 yuan, and the day of the 'housekeeping' was also 800 yuan. How much is it in total?"

It was rare for his mother to remember it so clearly. Jiang Feng couldn't help but smile and said, "The total is about 23,500 yuan."

Hearing this number, Jiang Fei couldn't help but gasp and said in surprise, "Oh my God, from the time the Zhu family came to ask for a matchmaker to today's visit to thank them, it should be less than ten days, right? They have earned four months' salary from me?"

Jiang's father was also shocked. He earned 23,500 yuan in less than ten days. Looking across the entire Longshan Village, few people could compare to him.

Jiang's mother smiled so much that her eyes almost narrowed into slits, and she couldn't help but say happily: "Tomorrow Xiaofeng's first client will hold a wedding. If nothing goes wrong, Xiaofeng will receive a large sum of money the day after tomorrow!"