Chapter 1 The Matchmaker Arrives

Summer 1974.

"The sun is shining on your buttocks, why don't you get up? Are you waiting for me to serve you?"

"You are not destined to be a lady, but you are born lazy. It's a pity for me to be your mother!"

"In the whole Nanhe Village, there is no other girl as lazy as you. You are a born bitch, but you behave like a lady of a capitalist family!"

Jiang Yu turned over and woke up slowly. It was her mother who was scolding her outside. Of course, she was scolded.

This happened every morning. She was used to it.

She sat on the kang, her face full of fatigue.

She used to sleep all the time, but today she really didn't sleep well.

It was because she had a dream last night, as if a movie was playing in her mind, and she couldn't wake up no matter what.

Jiang Yu tilted her head slightly, and a strand of her hair slid down and scratched the side of her jaw.

Last night's dream was too clear, as if she had experienced it personally.

She saw that she got what she wanted and married a city man.

The man was a mechanic at the Second National Cotton Mill, named Fu Xiangyang.

She still remembered the appearance of Fu Xiangyang in her dream. He was not very handsome, but he had a delicate appearance and was about ten centimeters taller than her.

Compared with the identity of a "city person", other conditions were not so important to Jiang Yu.

What troubled Jiang Yu all night was that she was not living a good life in her dream.

The city mother-in-law was powerful. Seeing that she had not been pregnant for a year after entering the house, she prepared various folk remedies to feed her.

After taking bitter and smelly Chinese medicine for several years and even drinking boy's urine, she still couldn't get pregnant. Her mother-in-law became more and more dissatisfied and scolded her at every turn.

Until Fu Xiangyang's eldest sister died, the two children were left unattended and passed to Fu Xiangyang.

But the two children were old, and no matter how much she gave, they were still outsiders.

What's more terrifying is that she didn't know until the moment before her death that it was Fu Xiangyang who couldn't have children, but her husband's family kept it a secret from her, making her feel guilty and work like a slave for the Fu family all her life.

Jiang Yu's heart was gripped and her eyebrows were slightly frowned.

She wanted to marry into the city and eat government food, but she never thought of marrying such a person.

Pa pa pa——

"Jiang Yu! Jiang Yu! You're going to die. If you don't get up, I'll skin you alive!"

Wang Meili has been practicing her scolding skills for ten years, and her scolding skills are so annoying that anyone can't stop listening.

Jiang Yu hurriedly got up, changed her clothes, put on her shoes, and walked out.

She yawned while braiding her hair.

"Mom, I'm up, stop scolding me."

Jiang Yu's voice was soft, as if it was mixed with sugar, and sounded like she was acting coquettishly.

No matter how nice the voice was, it couldn't soften Wang Meili's heart.

Wang Meili snorted angrily and slapped her. Jiang Yu was prepared and dodged to the side.

This slap with full force happened to fall on her younger brother Jiang Hao.

Wang Meili gave birth to four children, but Jiang Hao was her only son, and she treasured him like the apple of her eye.

Jiang Hao, who was slapped, immediately howled: "Mom, why did you hit me!"

Wang Meili felt so distressed that she rubbed his face.

"Mom didn't want to hit you, it's all your big sister's fault, why are you hiding!"

Jiang Yu spit out the toothpaste in her mouth and simply wiped her face.

"I'm not stupid, if I don't hide, will I be waiting for you to hit me?"

Her face was tender and white, like a lotus in clear water, and she didn't look like a person who often worked in the countryside.

Jiang Yu really didn't work much, she just found time to slack off.

She was famous for being lazy and greedy in Nanhe Village, but Wang Meili couldn't do anything with her, and she was still hoping that this good-looking daughter could be married off in exchange for a high bride price.

Wang Meili couldn't vent her anger on her, so she turned her anger to Jiang Ting.

"What are you standing there for? Go cook and boil an egg for your brother. He needs to take good care of himself."

Jiang Ting and Jiang Yu are twin sisters. Jiang Yu is only two minutes older than her.

They look a bit alike, but Jiang Ting is more dull and doesn't like to talk like a saw-mouthed gourd.

Wang Meili slapped her in the face with a palm-leaf fan, but she didn't say a word.

Jiang Yu shook her head and sighed in her heart.

It's not that I didn't teach this sister when she was a child that she didn't need to be so obedient.

In Wang Meili's eyes, sons are treasures and daughters are weeds. They have no other use except to get married in exchange for dowry and marry a good man to help her brother.

But Jiang Ting didn't listen. She thought she was talking nonsense. She obeyed her parents' words and accepted everything. She wished she could rush up to be Jiang Hao's blood bag.

As time went by, Jiang Yu stopped trying to persuade him.

"Jiang Ting, cook me an egg too. I didn't sleep well last night!" Jiang Yu shouted.

Jiang Ting didn't respond, but Wang Meili started to swear again: "Eat, eat, eat, you have a share of eggs? They are reserved for your brother to replenish his body. Do you understand?"

Jiang Yu pouted, "If Jiang Hao continues to replenish his body, he will be 200 kilograms."

Her brother is a rare fat man in the village. Jiang Yonghua and Wang Meili are both tall, but Jiang Hao is less than 1.7 meters.

Add this 180-meter weight, isn't he a fat man.

Seeing that Wang Meili was about to take action again, Jiang Yu didn't run away before she heard Old Lady Ye shouting: "What are you doing so early in the morning!"

Seeing her mother-in-law angry, Wang Meili put down her hand embarrassedly.

"It's just this little bitch, trying to steal eggs from her brother, she's so ignorant!"

Jiang Yu said lazily, "Mom, don't keep calling me a bitch, I was born by you, I'm a little bitch, what are you and my dad, big bitches? My grandma is an old bitch? So my whole family is bitches?"

Old Lady Ye glared at her and walked in from the door, and Jiang Yu saw that there was actually someone standing behind her.

"Old sister, I told you to laugh at me."

Seeing Old Lady Ye's laugh so worthless, Jiang Yu wondered who this person was.

Wang Meili asked before her: "Mom, who is this lady...?"

Old Lady Ye held the old lady beside her affectionately, as if they were sisters.

"This is a famous matchmaker in the city, her surname is Yao."

Jiang Yu's heart skipped a beat when she heard that she was from the city.

Yao the matchmaker, she also dreamed about her last night, but she didn't see her face clearly.

But this floral top and navy blue pants are the same as the matchmaker who praised Fu Xiangyang to the sky!

Wang Meili has already taken the initiative to walk in with Yao the matchmaker.

"Auntie, please sit down. Jiang Ting, cook two more eggs for Grandma Yao!"

Then she glared at Jiang Yu and said, "What are you standing there for? Go and pour a glass of sugar water! Your Grandma Yao has come all the way here, she must be thirsty." Jiang

Yu felt that Wang Meili was not so enthusiastic even when her own grandmother came.

But Wang Meili's attitude was very pleasing to Matchmaker Yao.

"Don't be so polite. I'm not one of those poor relatives who ask for money. I'm here to act as a matchmaker."

Wang Meili smiled with her teeth showing: "Auntie, thanks to your care, it's a coincidence that my family really has two unmarried daughters."

Matchmaker Yao smiled complacently: "I have inquired in advance. Your twin daughters are beautiful and famous in the surrounding area."