The son-in-law owns a large plot of land and offered to give them a piece to build a house, but the elderly couple felt they should build their own.
Shuiqing knew that her parents would never use their land, fearing that she would lose face in her husband's family and the village, and also not wanting Wenhua and Jiajia to be talked about in the future. Fortunately, the wasteland in the village was not valuable, and it was easy for the Hu family to acquire it.
Her parents and Wen Hua had been helping her these past few days, but she resolutely refused any money they offered. However, it was alright; she had already figured out how and what to give them.
"Okay, but isn't it a bit early?"
Mother Hu said with a smile, "No, no, it's not too early. It would take a year or two to complete all the steps of hiring a matchmaker, betrothal gifts, matching birth dates, and setting a date."
Buying land, building a house, and furnishing it will take quite some time; can't all of these be done at the same time?
Wenhua is seventeen this year. We're aiming to marry him by the end of the year. If there's no auspicious day at the end of the year, we can postpone it until next year. But it's always better to be prepared early than to have nothing at all.
It's better to be prepared. If you don't have the means, that's fine. But if you do have the means, you'd still like to have a grand and spectacular wedding, so that both the Hu and Ding families can look good!
Shui Qingyi thought about it and agreed.
Which daughter doesn't want to be valued?
She nodded and said, "Okay, Father, go ask first, but don't mention the Ding family yet. Just say that you think Shanshui Village is nice and want to stay."
“Your father isn’t stupid. He wouldn’t have said those things before we hired a matchmaker!” Mr. Hu replied bluntly.
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On the other side, Ding Heli, who was inspecting the production of the last batch of medicinal herbs at the herbal medicine workshop, saw Qin Yilin rushing over and pulling him to quickly turn outside.
The two walked until they reached the foot of a grove of trees far from the herbal medicine shop, and he asked blankly, "What's wrong?"
He's only going away for a month or two, why are you so reluctant to let him go?
I'm still worried about the food supplies. Sigh, we've known for a long time that our family's cooking skills are terrible, so what's the rush?
Thinking of this, he reassured her, "It's okay, it's alright if the food outside is a little bad, it's fine even if it's not very good, don't worry."
"I'm not in a hurry! It's good enough to have something to eat, why be picky? What's there to be picky about?" Qin Yilin said irritably, thinking of the information she had inquired about when returning the hairpin.
Ding Heli: ...Could it be that it's that time of the month again? Is that why you're so irritable?
Qin Yilin forced out the words through gritted teeth: "Tell me, when Wenhua gave Jiajia the hairpin, how did you go back and inquire? Who came back saying that his feelings for Jiajia weren't romantic?"
Seeing this, Ding Heli immediately understood! He asked in return, "Did I ask the wrong person?"
Qin Yilin didn't answer, but gave a cold snort.
Ding Heli tried hard to recall.
Upon reflection, I realized he seemed to have forgotten to ask one question!
He only asked if the hairpin was a token of their love, and Wen Hua said no. He had always thought that Wen Hua didn't have those kinds of feelings. Sigh, why didn't he ask her that question back then!
"Then, what do we do now?"
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