Shen Huanxi's brows were twisted into knots.

She was divorced and had children. In this era, what kind of people could a matchmaker introduce? Su Chaoyang was introduced by Liu Xiumei, and she knew him best.

In this life, even if she wants to marry again, she will find one on her own.

"Matchmaker Zhou, someone came to my place yesterday to propose marriage. You can go and ask around and you'll find out how I kicked them out."

"Someone came to you yesterday to propose marriage?" Matchmaker Zhou was obviously a little surprised. Someone came earlier than her?

"Yes, she lives in the city. She has two villas and two cars. It's her first marriage, but I kicked her out when she came to propose marriage. I wouldn't marry her even with such conditions."

"Oh, so that's it." Upon hearing this, Matchmaker Zhou did not back down, but laughed instead.

"Then you have to listen to me finish explaining the other party's conditions. He... Oh, Huanxi, I haven't finished yet."

Shen Huanxi suddenly walked into the room. Just as Zhou the matchmaker was about to chase her in to continue her conversation, she saw her walk out again with a needlework basket in her arms.

Putting the needlework basket on the small wooden stool under the eaves, Shen Huanxi turned into the stove room again. After a while, she came out with a small clay pot. She also took out a purple five-cent coin from her pocket and waved it at Chang'an Changning in the yard.

"Chang'an and Changning, go to Li Qigong's house and get five cents of soy sauce. Be careful not to fall when you walk."

"good!"

Chang'an and Changning let go of the wooden bucket containing laundry that they were carrying together. They were just about to ask Shen Huanxi if they wanted to take back the clothes that were soiled by sand and dust and wash them again, but when they heard Shen Huanxi's instructions, they put down the buckets and ran over.

Changan took the money, took his sister's hand, and ran to the home of Li Qigong, who made soy sauce and sold it in the village.

When Matchmaker Zhou saw Shen Huanxi sending her daughter away, she thought Shen Huanxi wanted to have a detailed talk with her and thought there was a chance, so she walked over to Shen Huanxi.

Shen Huanxi had already picked up the needlework basket and was threading the needle with her head lowered. The clothes she bought for Changan were a little too big, so she had to alter them.

Sure enough, Matchmaker Zhou started chattering beside her.

"The man I'm telling you about is five years older than you. Like you, he's just divorced and has two sons. He broke his leg in an accident two years ago and can't stand up now..."

Shen Huanxi paused when he heard this.

She had no intention of listening to Zhou the matchmaker's introduction from the beginning. The reason she didn't chase her away was because she knew that the matchmaker was also paid to do things for people, and even if she refused, the other party would not leave easily. So she simply let her stay and told her to take care of her own business.

Now after hearing this, she was a little confused.

Zhou the matchmaker has been doing matchmaking for decades. Doesn't she know that you have to introduce someone well before you introduce them? She didn't mention the advantages right away, but directly said that the other person was lame. She wasn't afraid of scaring her away.

She had just deliberately mentioned Su Chaoyang's conditions just to let Matchmaker Zhou know that she would reject such conditions, let alone those that were not good.

After hearing what she said, Matchmaker Zhou not only did not leave, but stood even closer to her. She thought that the person introduced by Matchmaker Zhou was better than Su Chaoyang, but who could have thought that it would be like this?

When Matchmaker Zhou saw Shen Huanxi looking at her, she smiled again.

"Huanxi, don't blame me for speaking frankly. The man you mentioned who was rejected by you was a first-time married man from the city, and his family was not bad. What do you think he wanted from you?

There is no man who doesn't want to have his own children. If you marry a man who is childless in his first marriage, he will definitely ask you to have children. When you and he have children, what will Chang'an and Changning do? He will definitely treat you differently.

I'm not pointing fingers at anyone in particular. You're divorced and have two daughters, so it wouldn't be appropriate for you to marry any first-time married man. The one I found for you is a perfect match. We both have children, so no one is worse than the other.

More importantly, he has a lame leg. It will be even harder for a man like him to find a wife. If he marries you, he will cherish you even more. You don’t have to worry about him having someone else behind your back like your ex-husband did…”

After hearing this, Shen Huanxi felt that Matchmaker Zhou had a unique perspective, but her words also made sense.

In her previous life, both of her husbands cheated on her and neither of them cherished her.

But she shook her head anyway.

"I won't marry you, find him another one."

"Huanxi, think about it again. His two children, one eight years old and one four years old, are about the same age as Changan and Changning. If you can play with Changan and Changning on a regular basis, you can relax a little."

"Then I have conditions." Shen Huanxi fastened the waist of the clothes and cut the threads with scissors.

"First, after we get married, I will be in charge of the family's money. Second, we will never have any more children. Third, I can get a divorce anytime I want."

After hearing this, Matchmaker Zhou actually nodded with a smile.

"Okay, then I'll arrange a meeting between you two whenever it's convenient for you."

"Huh?" Shen Huanxi paused. The needle in his right hand almost pierced his left index finger.

She just mentioned that in order to make Matchmaker Zhou give up, because she knew that her conditions were excessive, at least the third one was excessive. She never expected that Matchmaker Zhou could arrange a meeting.

"Do you think they can agree?"

"Why not? They said that as long as it's not a crime, any conditions you put forward can be negotiated."

As Matchmaker Zhou spoke, she placed all the large and small packages she had brought for the marriage proposal on the table in Shen Huanxi's yard.

Two pieces of bacon, a live chicken, and a two-pound bag of flour were presented with full sincerity, unlike Su Chaoyang and his mother who came empty-handed.

Shen Huanxi was embarrassed. Matchmaker Zhou really took it seriously. It seemed that she didn't say it harshly enough.

"Matchmaker Zhou, I have a few more conditions I want to mention..." Well... I want to make them up.

Just when Shen Huanxi was making up the terms, Matchmaker Zhou spoke first.

"Huanxi, I am just introducing you and arranging your meeting. Don't tell me the conditions. You can discuss it with Xiao Shanhe after you meet.

Look at me, I'm old and confused, I didn't even tell you the most important thing. The other person is Xiao Shanhe, a city dweller..."

Shen Huanxi suddenly stood up and stared at Matchmaker Zhou.

"Are you talking about the mountains in Jiangshan and the rivers in He?"

…

Chang'an Changning went to Li Qigong's house to get soy sauce and came back soon.

When passing through the ridges of the fields, the villagers who were busy working in the fields couldn't help but take a look at the two little girls whose families had just been broken up.

"Chang'an and Changning, someone has come to propose to your mother again. I'm afraid your mother will have to remarry." Grandma Wang San bent down and dug up two big sweet potatoes, threw them into the bamboo basket that was already half full of sweet potatoes, and raised her sunburned face to tease Chang'an and Changning.

There are always people who like to tease children on purpose, just like when someone gives birth to a second child, they run to the eldest child and say, "Your dad and mom gave birth to a younger brother or sister, and they don't want you anymore."

Chang'an Changning's little head was shaking like a wave drum.

"No, our mother will never remarry! Someone came to propose marriage yesterday, but our mother refused. She will never remarry!"

"But someone came to propose marriage again today. Many people came to your house to see you. Don't you know that? Your mother is beautiful and still so young. If she didn't marry the man yesterday, she wouldn't stay single forever."

"Your father has remarried, so it's normal for your mother to remarry."

…

The villagers saw that it was getting exciting and wanted to tease Chang'an and Changning.

Chang'an Changning's face fell when he heard his uncles, aunts, grandpas and grandmas say this.

"You are talking nonsense! Our mother will never remarry anyway!" Chang Ning said angrily and ran home on her short legs.

Changan shouted anxiously behind him.

"Changning, slow down! Don't break the soy sauce can! Otherwise, you can give it to me to carry!"

…

The two girls returned home carrying the soy sauce jar and saw their mother seeing off Matchmaker Zhou.

The mother was holding a bag of flour and a piece of meat in her hands and was stuffing them into Matchmaker Zhou's hands. Matchmaker Zhou stuffed the flour and meat back into her hands.

"Huanxi, this is a gift from someone proposing marriage. Since you agreed to meet, then you should accept it. What will you say if I, the matchmaker, take it back?"

"Just consider it as a return gift. Besides, didn't I say that you should meet Xiao Shanhe first before making a decision? You take the return gift back and let the Xiao family know my sincerity." Shen Huanxi said.

Matchmaker Zhou looked very happy and nodded to accept the flour and bacon.

Chang'an and Changning were a little confused. What was the return gift? What was the promise? Did her mother promise to marry her?

Matchmaker Zhou came out carrying the flour and bacon that Shen Huanxi had given her. She passed by Chang'an Changning and reached out to touch their heads with a smile.

"Congratulations, Chang'an and Changning. You are going to have a new father."

Before Chang'an and Changning could react, Matchmaker Zhou walked away at the speed of a gust of wind.

As expected, a lot of villagers came to their yard. When they heard the villagers say so on the way home just now, they didn't believe it.

The two little girls carefully carried the soy sauce into the yard and heard everyone surrounding their mother.

"Huanxi, you are confused. You can't marry a cripple just because you are divorced. Times have changed. There are many divorced women who can marry well. You are so beautiful, are you afraid that you can't find a good one?"

"Yesterday, you didn't accept the marriage proposal from Su, who was a healthy man after all. Why did you accept a cripple today?"

"Xiao Shanhe has two sons who are about the same age as Chang'an and Changning. If you marry him, won't you have to take care of his two sons? You will have to take care of four children and a cripple. You will marry him to be an old mother."

…

Everyone was worried about Shen Huanxi, but Shen Huanxi himself was very calm.

Chang'an's clothes were altered, so she took the needlework basket back into the house and went to collect the clothes that were hanging in the yard.

It had just been washed when it was stained by sand and dust, so she had to wash it again.

The clothes that had just been hung out to dry were still wet, so she thought that if she waited until the water dried up a bit before putting them away, they would be lighter.

But after collecting two pieces of clothes, I found that there was less water but more sand and dust. They were heavier when I weighed them than when I just hung them up.

It's really not easy to live in a place with serious dust.

Seeing that Shen Huanxi was only concerned with collecting clothes and shaking off the dust on them, and did not say anything about changing his mind, everyone felt that they were the emperor and not the eunuch who was too anxious.

The village chief's son Zhou Dashu suddenly ran over in a hurry.

"Mailman Li came to the village to deliver a letter today. I asked him about Xiao Shanhe. Guess what I found out? Even if Xiao Shanhe is not a cripple, Huanxi cannot marry him!"