In the breakfast shop, Zhou Zhigang was getting bored waiting. They had agreed to meet at nine o'clock, but it was already ten minutes past nine, and the girl was still nowhere to be seen.
Li Cuilian and Zhou Chunping were chatting happily and didn't notice Zhou Zhigang's impatient look. Because they were afraid of being criticized, Li Chunjiao's parents didn't come, so Li Cuilian had to temporarily take over as the woman's elders.
After waiting for more than ten minutes, Zhou Zhigang began to feel annoyed. He really didn't understand what the girl was thinking. If she didn't want to see him, she could just say so. But she agreed to see him, and then she disappeared.
Zhou Zhigang stood up and was about to leave when a graceful figure at the other end of the street caught his eye.
The girl was wearing a floral shirt, black trousers, and her two long braids bounced with her hurried footsteps. Just by looking at her graceful figure as she walked, you could tell she was a great beauty.
The girl is getting closer. When Zhou Zhigang saw her, he felt the blood rushing to his head. This girl is so beautiful! She has a pair of bright almond eyes under her willow-shaped eyebrows, a straight nose, and bright red lips...
Flowered shirt? Is this girl Li Chunjiao? No wonder she's called "Jiao" (likely a nickname), delicate and tender, isn't that the "Jiao" part? Thinking of such a beautiful girl marrying him, Zhou Zhigang felt a wave of happiness sweep over him, drowning him completely...
In the blink of an eye, the girl entered the door of the supply and marketing cooperative and disappeared. Zhou Zhigang was still immersed in the astonishment of that moment, unable to extricate himself for a long time.
Li Cuilian, who was chatting, looked up and saw Li Chunjiao had already walked to the door of the supply and marketing cooperative. She hurriedly said to Wu Jinfeng, "Auntie, look! That girl is my cousin, the one in the flowered shirt."
Wu Jinfeng and Zhou Chunping looked up and saw a dark and plump girl standing at the door of the supply and marketing cooperative. After hesitating for a while, she ran in.
"Boss, boss." Wu Jinfeng saw Zhou Zhigang's eyes fixed on the gate of the supply and marketing cooperative, and a satisfied smile appeared on her face.
The boss likes this? He has a really good eye. Wu Jinfeng was completely speechless.
Wu Jinfeng was almost shocked when she saw Li Chunjiao for the first time. She didn't expect that such a beautiful Li Cuilian would have such an ugly cousin. Wu Jinfeng was very disappointed at the time. Such a girl would definitely not be favored by her eldest son. It seemed that the relationship between their Zhou family and the village chief's family would be difficult to further develop.
Zhou Chunping's thoughts were similar to Wu Jinfeng's. Seeing Zhou Zhigang's satisfied smile, Zhou Chunping nudged him with his elbow and asked in a low voice, "Boss, tell me the truth, do you like this girl?"
Zhou Zhigang's eyes and heart were filled with the beautiful Zhao Yunxiang. He didn't even notice the floral shirt on Li Chunjiao, who had just entered the supply and marketing cooperative. He thought Zhou Chunping was asking him if he was satisfied with Zhao Yunxiang, so he quickly nodded and said, "Yes, I am. Dad, she's the one!"
Zhou Chunping was stunned.
Wu Jinfeng finally understood what was said. She slapped her thigh with joy and said to Li Cuilian, "Hongming's wife, I'm really sorry to trouble you with this matter. The boss likes her. I will send a matchmaker to your family to propose marriage in a few days."
Li Cuilian was also very happy. Her cousin's plan was successful, and she, as her cousin, felt very proud to return to her parents' home.
A marriage was arranged despite Zhou Zhigang's misunderstanding.
When it came to the day of the wedding, Zhou Zhigang saw that the bride looked nothing like the girl he had seen on the day of the wedding.
Zhou Zhigang took his bride home in a daze, and only then did he have the chance to vent his frustrations to his father. He suspected that the beautiful girl at the door of the supply and marketing cooperative that day was a "spy" hired by the Li family to make him recognize the wrong person.
After hearing his son's true feelings, Zhou Chunping nearly collapsed with rage. It was this Li Chunjiao they met that day. What had that look in his son's eyes made him mistake another girl for Li Chunjiao? What should he do now? He'd already married her, could he return her?
After being lashed out by Zhou Chunping, Zhou Zhigang had no choice but to leave for a toast. Zhou Chunping's family was considered wealthy, and to demonstrate their strength, Zhou Zhigang married a daughter-in-law with a wedding banquet featuring over a dozen tables. While there wasn't much fine food or wine, the atmosphere was as lively as the village chief's wedding the previous year.
That night, Zhou Zhigang fell asleep drunk and didn't touch Li Chunjiao. Li Chunjiao didn't care either. He was a man after all! What else could he do when he was drunk?
The next morning, Zhou Zhigang went to Sanhe Town. After getting engaged to Li Chunjiao, Zhou Zhigang met Zhao Yunxiang once in Sanhe Town. He always thought Zhao Yunxiang was "Li Chunjiao" and was too embarrassed to approach her to talk to her. He just glanced at her and let it go.
Standing outside Lao Wang's tailor shop, Zhou Zhigang's heart shattered as he heard someone inside call out "Yunxiang." Zhao Yunxiang answered. He had always believed that such a beautiful woman would be his wife, but the result... was so... cruel.
Within a day, Zhou Zhigang thoroughly investigated Zhao Yunxiang. From other sources, he learned that Zhao Yunxiang's father was Zhao Qingshan, the director of the supply and marketing cooperative. He also learned that Zhao Yunxiang was only fifteen years old, a recent junior high school graduate, but she was incredibly skilled and had already become the backbone of Lao Wang's tailor shop. They... after all, were not meant to be!
Zhou Zhigang knew he had missed out on Zhao Yunxiang. Even if he hadn't married Li Chunjiao and had chosen Zhao Yunxiang from the beginning, Zhao Qingshan might not have been interested in him. Zhao Qingshan's family was well-off, and he was known for loving his daughter, so he was determined to find an outstanding son-in-law for his daughter.
Zhou Zhigang was a farmer digging for food in the mud. He was not good-looking and his talents were not outstanding. How could Zhao Qingshan have noticed him? What's more, he was already married.
Thinking of that ugly woman back home, Zhou Zhigang's heart chilled as if it had been immersed in ice water. It was all his fault, blinded by sudden happiness. In the more than a month between the matchmaker's proposal and the wedding, Zhou Zhigang was so preoccupied with finding a nice set of furniture to suit his "future wife" that he didn't bother getting to know Li Chunjiao in detail. He didn't even realize he'd chosen the wrong person. He was so stupid!
Zhou Zhigang, heartbroken, returned to Zhoujia Village, picked himself up, and started living with Li Chunjiao. He was the one who was wrong, not Li Chunjiao. He had married her, but what else could he do?
Li Chunjiao's pregnancy was also good, and she gave birth to a son, Zhou Jiaxing, the following year. Zhou Zhigang was very content with having a son, and he buried Zhao Yunxiang deep in his heart.
Unexpectedly, a few years later, Zhao Yunxiang married into the Zhou family and became Zhou Zhigang's third sister-in-law.
Zhou Zhigang lived in pain every day because his former sweetheart had become his third brother's wife. Every time he saw Zhao Yunxiang, he would think of his foolish deeds in his youth, and Zhou Zhigang felt even more miserable.
Seeing Zhao Yunxiang whispering to Zhou Zhixin and running around for Zhou Zhixin, Zhou Zhigang felt uncomfortable!
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