Chapter 15 Matchmaking
After deciding to pick up the crab cage the day after tomorrow, Zhang Ze said goodbye to Tong Yuanhang and started walking around the streets today.
Unfortunately, his efficiency was indeed much lower without selling fish on the black market. He only managed to sell five mandarin fish in one morning.
There are only so many well-off families in the county, and not everyone likes to eat mandarin fish.
Moreover, the families who bought yesterday will definitely not buy today, and may not even buy this month. After all, the price is not cheap, which makes it difficult for Zhang Ze to sell his mandarin fish.
Of course, the biggest impact was that the red armbands were patrolling extremely strictly today, and Zhang Ze encountered them several times on the street.
Fortunately, the fish on his side was tied with a straw rope, and it looked like the buyer, so no accident happened.
After counting the morning's catch, I only sold five fish for seven dollars and eighty cents in total.
This daily income is actually very exaggerated. If you earn this much every day, it would be at least over two hundred yuan a month, which exceeds the income of more than 99% of the country.
But it was much less than yesterday, which made Zhang Ze somewhat uninterested in continuing to sell fish.
"Forget it, I'll go to the beach tomorrow and try selling it when I get the crab cage the day after tomorrow."
Zhang Ze knew that he should quit while he was ahead. Since the inspection was so strict today, there was no need for him to go against the wind and commit crimes. He simply went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy everything he wanted.
He bought two strings of candied haws as he promised to bring to his sister.
The third sister must have two younger sisters, so they must be treated equally.
He bought another half pound of candy for 40 cents and half a pound of candy coupons, and used the remaining candy coupons to buy fruit candies at one cent each.
White Rabbit is too conspicuous and is considered a luxury product in this era. It would be a bit of a problem if Zhang Wu showed off with his friends and attracted attention.
We have to live a low-key life.
After buying the sugar, Zhang Ze bought some seasonings that didn't require tickets. Unfortunately, dried chili peppers were hard to find, and there was no chili pepper at all, so he had to give up.
There are also pencils and pencil knives. Pencils are two cents each and pencil knives are five cents each.
As for HB pencils, Zhang Ze couldn't bear to buy them because they were too expensive, costing only 1.1 cents each.
After buying the exercise book, he went to the scrap yard and bought some elementary and junior high school textbooks and exercise books.
In other people's eyes, he is also an illiterate, so he has to pretend to learn and slowly get rid of the image of an illiterate, and by the way, he can also teach his two younger sisters.
If my sisters want to continue their studies in the future, it would of course be best for them to go to school.
I spent almost all of the seven dollars and eighty cents I earned today.
Of course, they are not used in grocery stores, and textbooks in junkyards are not valuable either.
Datou still bought the lines, hooks, dried shrimps, dried eels, etc., and Tong Yuanhang took all the money.
At noon, he went to the state-owned restaurant to eat a bowl of noodles again. In the afternoon, he walked around the county again. Seeing that patrols were still very frequent, he simply took all his things and took a bus back to the village.
When we got back to the village, it was probably around three in the afternoon.
As soon as he entered the house, he saw his mother chatting with a middle-aged woman.
He knew this middle-aged woman, she was from the same village, but she was a matchmaker, and had lured many young wives from outside to join the young men in the village.
"Mom, Aunt Cuifen." Zhang Ze greeted her politely when he saw her. Then he put the things he was going to put in the house and came out to listen to what was going on.
As far as he could remember, this matchmaker had long been eyeing his younger sister Zhang Qian and had always wanted to be a matchmaker for her.
He had to find a way to stop it. In his previous life, it was because of this matchmaker that his sister didn't marry the right person.
Zhang Huihong didn't expect her son to come back at this time, but he came back just in time. She hurriedly called him, "Aze, Mom asked your Aunt Cuifen to find you a girl. You can go to Lumen Island with Aunt Cuifen the day after tomorrow."
"Me?" Zhang Ze was stunned for a moment. He thought it was a marriage proposal for his sister Zhang Qian, but it turned out to be his own fault.
But he has no intention of getting married now. At least he has to earn enough money and build a new house after the household contract responsibility system is implemented and land is distributed before getting married, right?
It would only take one or two years, so he was not in a hurry.
But he couldn't say it clearly, so he could only say tactfully: "Mom, I'm not in a hurry, let's wait a little longer!"
This evasiveness made Zhang Cuifen mistakenly think that he looked down on girls from the island. Of course, she would not miss the business that came to her door, so she quickly said, "Aze, don't think that other girls are bad just because they are girls from the island. The girl I told you about is not only well-behaved and sensible, but also hardworking."
"And she's in good shape, I'm sure she'll give birth to a big fat boy for your family."
It would have been better if Zhang Cuifen didn't say anything. After she mentioned this, Zhang Ze became even less interested.
She is in good health and works hard. She would be a good daughter-in-law for an ordinary rural youth, but she is not attractive to him at all.
He doesn’t care whether it’s a boy or a girl, as long as it’s his.
However, before Zhang Ze could say no again, he suddenly felt a pain in his waist.
When I looked back, I saw the threatening look from my old mother.
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After a moment of silence, Zhang Ze made a decisive decision: "Okay, I'll go and have a look with Aunt Cuifen the day after tomorrow."
Seeing that he agreed, Zhang Huihong and Zhang Cuifen smiled at the same time.
The two sides continued to discuss some small details, and then Zhang's mother enthusiastically saw the matchmaker out.
Zhang Ze's face fell completely. When Zhang Huihong came back, he complained, "Mom, why did you suddenly arrange a marriage for me without telling me? I was planning to rebuild the house after I made some money, so that Ah Wu would have a room after I got married."
"Now that I'm married, where will Wu live?"
"Don't worry about that. Once your marriage is settled, Mom will ask a carpenter to make furniture for you. Move the bed from your room to mine. Put a curtain in my room and Wu will sleep in my room."
Since Zhang Huihong has considered her eldest son's marriage, it must have been all planned.
Then, a trace of anger suddenly appeared on her face, and she continued, "Before you came back, that old woman Wang dared to brag in front of me that Er Gouzi had been picked by someone on a blind date, and she even deliberately told me about it. Isn't this clearly looking for trouble?"
"I inquired and found out that it was Zhang Cuifen who acted as matchmaker and that the girl was from Lumen Island. The bride price for girls there was only fifty yuan. And you gave me forty yuan yesterday, so I decided to ask her to find you a match."
"When we were talking just now, Zhang Cuifen said there was a nice girl over there, and asked her to come to the village to ask if there were any suitable young men. I thought it was quite a coincidence, so I just asked you to go over and take a look."
"You are already an adult, and you are better than that Er Gouzi in every way. If Er Gouzi can be favored by others, how can you be disdained by others?"
"Has Er Gou been chosen by someone?"
Zhang Ze was shocked. In his memory, Ergouzi couldn't get married, so he tricked one back from another place. Then the wife ran away after two years, so he tricked her again, but she ran away again.
This guy is just like him, both of them will have no descendants.
He deserved it. No woman could stand a lazy and gluttonous man. He simply married the wrong person.
Then he was shocked again: "Is it because of me?"
In his previous life, Er Gouzi also wanted to take advantage of his sister at first, but he didn't go to the county town to sell fish at that time, and he always stayed by his sister's side, so Zhang Qian and Zhang Qing were hardly harassed by the second-rate guys in the village.
In this life, he had just gone to the county town to sell fish when Er Gouzi harassed his sister and was beaten up by him.
He was beaten pretty hard yesterday, so he must have a bruised face. How could he go on a blind date and be chosen? Zhang Ze didn't expect the flapping speed of a butterfly's wings to change so quickly.
He put Ergouzi's blind date aside for the time being.
He happens to be going to the county town to get the crab cage the day after tomorrow. He can ask Tong Yuanhang which family is so blind as to take a fancy to Ergouzi.
(End of this chapter)
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