After saying this, Hong Lingniang added, "My sister-in-law is a famous matchmaker in the surrounding area. The Zhang family is proposing marriage to your uncle's family, and they are looking for my sister-in-law to be the middleman."

After hearing this, Feng Qingxue and Aunt Feng knew that the source of the news was accurate.

Aunt Feng said in confusion, "Wang Jiao is pretty and fashionable, but she has a bad temper. You can tell at a glance that she is not the kind of person who is easy to get along with. Why did the Zhang family fall for her? Although Xiaoxue's uncle is the secretary of the village committee, Zhang Yuejin is a butcher. The Zhang family is no worse than the Wang family. It's strange that they are willing to marry a grandmother back home."

Because she had met Wang Jiao, Second Aunt Feng, who prided herself on having a keen eye, had a very bad impression of her.

"What's so strange? A daughter is sought after by hundreds of families, that's normal! Wang Jiao is pretty, so Zhang Yuejin fell in love with her! As for whether she has a good temper or a good personality, how can outsiders know if they haven't lived together? Ever since he became a butcher, Zhang Yuejin's standards have been high. Many families wanted to recruit him as a son-in-law, but he refused. Who knew that Wang Jiao came to the city some time ago, and he fell in love with her. When he came back, he asked his mother to ask my sister-in-law to go to the Wang family to mediate. He is the most promising one in his family, so his mother dare not disobey. Our Xiaoxue was poor before, her father didn't love her, and she was so hungry that she looked unrecognizable. If she had more meat like now, how could she wait for Lu Jiang to come back!"

Feng Qingxue said hurriedly: "I dare not compare myself with my cousin. I don't look like a beauty at all."

Hong Ling's mother looked at her and sneered, "Don't I know what you look like? Your mother was a beauty when she was young, how ugly can you be? Besides, who can't see the soot on your face if you look closely? Girls, there are no male laborers in the family, so it's okay to dress up a little ugly. As long as the pretty side is hidden and not seen by people with bad intentions, there's no danger."

"Auntie!" Feng Qingxue smiled embarrassedly.

Hong Lingniang did not stop working while she was talking. She dug up a fresh wild shepherd's purse and put it in the basket. Then she found two gray vegetables in the grass and dug them out as well.

She and Aunt Feng knew a wide variety of wild vegetables, and they could pick any edible one very easily.

Feng Qingxue only dug dandelions and wild shepherd's purse. After returning home and having lunch, she spent the entire afternoon picking half a backpack and half a basket of wild vegetables. She washed them carefully three or four times and put them in a bamboo basket to drain the water.

In the evening, she cut a few handfuls of tender motherwort and chopped a handful of peanuts, fried the chopped peanuts in a pan with oil, then added the motherwort, some salt and five-spice powder, stir-fried, added water and brought to a boil. She first beat two eggs, stirred evenly and filtered them into the pot to make flowers, then poured in a little flour water and cold water, stirred evenly and brought to a boil. Half a pot of vegetable paste was ready.

The fragrance of dandelions and the crispness of crushed peanuts blended together were so delicious that Feng Qingyun drank two bowls in one breath.

"Don't eat too much at night. If you want to eat, we can go dig wild vegetables tomorrow." Feng Qingxue said.

Feng Qingyun said strangely: "Sister, we haven't finished eating today's wild vegetables yet!"

Feng Qingxue said seriously, "Tomorrow I will make steamed buns with the remaining wild vegetables. We will keep a few for our family and send a few to the Lu family. Besides, there are so many people picking wild vegetables today. Do they eat all they pick? Didn't you see that several families put the washed wild vegetables outside to dry in the sun this afternoon, and then take them out when they run out of food at home. We have only had a few days of good life, and you have forgotten the pain of having nothing to eat?"

"Sister, let's go dig wild vegetables early tomorrow and dry them for storage!"