Zhang Li laughed and said, "So you're saying this marriage is settled? Su Wei wants to meet in the fields. Have your daughter wait for her at the edge of your field, and I'll bring Xiao Fan to meet her there!"
Su's mother said "okay" and turned to walk home.
Zhang Li brought Yi Xiaofan to Su Wei's house. The girl hadn't arrived yet. Zhang Li said, "It's settled then, the girl will come here to meet you in a bit. I won't be a third wheel. You two can have a good talk after she arrives."
Yi Xiaofan nodded after listening, and Zhang Li turned and walked towards the village.
Not long after Zhang Li left, Su Wei came to the field carrying two hoes. Yi Xiaofan was puzzled. Why would she carry two hoes on a blind date? Did she want me to hoe the field for her family?
That was indeed the case. Su Wei walked up to Yi Xiaofan, handed him a hoe, and said, "We're both from the countryside, you should know how to hoe the fields, right?"
Yi Xiaofan asked, "Of course I can hoe the ground, but I want to ask you, are you here to have a blind date with me in the fields, or are you looking for free old labor to help you with your chores?"
"Both are available; take it or leave it!"
After Su Wei finished speaking, she placed one hoe on the edge of the field, picked up another hoe, and began to hoe the ground.
Su Wei is indeed very beautiful, and her personality seems a bit special, with a touch of spiciness beneath her gentleness.
Yi Xiaofan picked up a hoe and started hoeing the ground beside her. Su Wei just kept hoeing without saying a word, as if Yi Xiaofan was just a free laborer she had found.
Yi Xiaofan was focused on one thing and accidentally pulled up the corn seedlings. Su Wei said, "My corn seedlings aren't very thick, can you please not trim them for me?"
Yi Xiaofan apologized and continued hoeing the ground.
They hoeed until noon, then Su Wei said, "Shall we go back?"
Yi Xiaofan said, "Su Wei, are you on a blind date or do you want me to help you hoe the ground?"
"I told you before, it's both. I'll be here waiting for you at 2 PM. If you're not here by 2 PM, then don't bother coming back."
After Su Wei finished speaking, she picked up two hoes and walked towards the village.
Why Su Wei did this needs to be briefly explained here.
Su Wei's seventh aunt is three years older than her. She got married three years ago. After marriage, her uncle was lazy and loved to eat. He had a bad habit of drinking alcohol. He would drink like a god every day. The family's money was not enough for him to drink. He often beat his seventh aunt until she was covered in bruises.
Yesterday, Su Wei went to her seventh aunt's house, and her uncle beat her again, leaving her covered in bruises. Su Wei secretly vowed that she would only find a man who was obedient, and no matter how handsome he was, she would not want him if he was disobedient.
Su Wei never dreamed that Yi Xiaofan was a wolf. This proves the saying: "If you pick someone blind, you're destined to eat eight bushels of rice, but you'll never get enough no matter where you go." It's easy to draw a person or a tiger, but hard to draw their bones. You can never see a person's true nature just by looking at their appearance.
Learning from Aunt Qi's experience, Su Wei used this method to test Yi Xiaofan. If he didn't obey, he would be kicked out immediately. Her approach to matchmaking was truly ingenious.
However, she was wrong. She almost lost her life to Yi Xiaofan later, but that's another story.
When Yi Xiaofan returned to Zhang Li's house, he saw that his shirt was soaked with sweat and his feet were covered in yellow dirt. Zhang Li said, "Xiaofan, Su Wei won't let you work in her field, will she?"
Yi Xiaofan said, "This girl is really something else. She made me hoe corn in her family's cornfield for half a day, and it still wasn't over. She wanted me to go again in the afternoon!"
Upon hearing this, Zhang Li's beautiful eyes flashed with disbelief. She asked, "What on earth is this girl doing? Are you still going this afternoon?"
Yi Xiaofan thought to himself, "I've really run into a female hooligan today." He said, "Go, why wouldn't I go? I think I'm starting to like the wildness in her."
This is what people often say: a curved knife cuts vegetables against a ladle, and brine sets tofu—one thing subdues another.
Some people are just stubborn and unyielding. The more Su Wei tries to force things, the more Yi Xiaofan likes her. Maybe this is because he loves spicy food and isn't afraid of the spiciness.
After lunch, Yi Xiaofan told her mother to go home first. She rested in bed for a while, then got up before 2 p.m. and went out to the fields.
It's summer now, and the weather at two o'clock is unbearably hot. The sun is blazing. I thought to myself, "You have such delicate skin, if you're not afraid of getting sunburned, why should I be?"
Yi Xiaofan arrived at the field, where Su Wei was waiting in the sun, holding a small red umbrella. He said, "Girl, why aren't you working? Would it be a loss to work more on your own land?"
Su Wei said, "I told you at noon if we were going to work this afternoon, so I'm standing here waiting for you. You can work if you want, or leave if you don't."
Those words were too harsh. Yi Xiaofan was about to get angry when she heard them, but she instantly suppressed her anger and patiently said, "Girl, is this kind of game really fun?"
Su Wei said, "Did I force you? I just said, if you don't want to do it, leave now."
Yi Xiaofan has been around for so many years, but today he has finally met a troublemaker. He said, "You look like a female hooligan to me. I want to see how long you can keep playing this game."
After Yi Xiaofan finished speaking, he took the hoe from Su Wei and began to hoe the ground.
The dog days of summer are no joke; with temperatures reaching 38 or 39 degrees Celsius, hoeing in the fields at 2 a.m. is deadly.
Su Wei didn't care about any of that. She spread a newspaper on the ground, sat down under a small red umbrella, and read a novel. Under the shade of the red umbrella, she didn't feel too hot.
Yi Xiaofan hoeed until six o'clock in the afternoon, and his whole body was almost covered in mud.
Su Wei thought this man was alright. She never dreamed that Yi Xiaofan would be so enthusiastic about her. She was determined to have this woman.
At six o'clock in the afternoon, Su Wei walked up to Yi Xiaofan with a red umbrella in hand and said with a smile, "Alright, you don't need to work anymore, go back now."
Yi Xiaofan said, "So you're agreeing to this marriage?"
Su Wei countered, "What do you think?"
After Su Wei finished speaking, she picked up the hoe and walked home.
No matter how angry Su Wei's father was with his daughter, he couldn't ignore her finding a husband. The next afternoon, he went to Yi Village to listen to Yi Xiaofan.
He walked to Yicun and saw an old man herding sheep outside the village. He handed the old man a cigarette and said, "Brother, you're herding sheep here!"
The old man said, "I'm too old to do any work anymore. I can only raise a few sheep to herd and earn some money for oil and salt for my family. Which village are you from, brother?"
Mr. Su said, "I'm from Su Village. I'm visiting my cousin's house and also want to introduce my nephew, Yi Xiaofan, to a potential partner. I've watched him grow up; he's a good kid!"
Su's father spoke tactfully. He couldn't just ask Yi Xiaofan how she was doing, so he could only bring up the topic. Whether Yi Xiaofan was good or bad was up to the old man to decide.
The old man said, "Xiao Fan is indeed a good kid; he's capable and handsome too."
In those days, it was really useless for a girl to inquire about her future husband's family. No matter how you asked, it was all the same. You wouldn't get the truth from them. If the two families had a good relationship, they would praise the person to the skies, but if they didn't, they would say he was a piece of shit. If the relationship was so-so, you might be able to hear some truth from them.
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