"They wouldn't dare!"
Jiang Xile muttered something under her breath.
"What? What did you say?"
"Oh, you didn't say anything! What's wrong?"
"I thought you spoke, but I didn't hear what you said, so I asked."
"I knew it! You must have misheard me. Let's hurry up and go, it's so hot in the sun!"
"It's the middle of summer, of course it's hot! Speaking of which, it's your and Ren Qi's turn to be on duty again tomorrow!"
"Yeah, the days go by so fast, it's our turn again!"
"Who can argue with that? I wonder when this kind of life will end!"
Seeing Su Jinxiu sighing all the time, Jiang Xile asked curiously.
"What's wrong, Sister Jinxiu? Is something bothering you?"
"Hey, you're still young, you don't understand!"
Jiang Xile looked at Su Jinxiu with a puzzled expression, then turned her gaze to Ren Qi.
Ren Qi sighed and comforted him:
"Things will work themselves out. If you don't want to get married, no matter how much they pressure you, they can't do anything about it, especially since you're far away from them right now!"
"But what my parents said isn't entirely unreasonable. Of all those who went to the countryside, how many were able to return to the city? Besides, I'm already twenty-two this year!"
"So what if we're twenty-two? We can't let our age make us feel inferior!"
"Hey! Let me think about it some more!"
At this point, even Jiang Xile, who was quite naive, understood that Su Jinxiu was being pressured to get married. In this era, it was common for people to get engaged and married at the age of seventeen or eighteen.
If you're not married by the age of twenty, people in the countryside will start calling you an old maid. Su Jinxiu was an educated youth sent to the countryside, so twenty-two wasn't exactly old, but it wasn't young either.
Most of the men in this age group in the brigade have gotten married, and some who got married early already have two children.
No wonder Su Jinxiu's parents urged her to get married; unlike in later generations, one can remain single for life.
In this day and age, if a girl doesn't get married by a certain age, she'll face a lot of gossip and rumors.
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