Chapter 7 I'll take care of my own affairs

Seeing Jiang Duo silent, Qiao Bin added: "Don't forget the purpose of our coming here. We have to go back after we finish what we should do. If you really want to get married here, you have to report it in advance, right?"

"Well, I'll go to the city tomorrow afternoon."

Well, this is really determined!

Qiao Bin was regretting that Jiang Duo, with such an identity, was going to marry a legendary woman, when the village accountant ran over panting in the sun on the canal dam next to him.

He said to Jiang Duo: "Captain Jiang, you collect the farm tools and follow me quickly. The village chief has something urgent to find you!"

Jiang Duo has always been serious about his work. He collected the farm tools and said to Qiao Bin, "I won't go back to the rest point to eat at night", and then left with the village accountant.

When they arrived at the village brigade, the accountant let Jiang Duo go in by himself.

After Jiang Duo entered, he saw the village chief Ming Dayou sitting at a worn-out double desk, holding a dry pipe in his hand and flipping through the work points book.

Hearing the movement, a smile appeared on his dark face, and he said warmly: "Xiao Jiang is here, come quickly, sit down."

Jiang Duo casually pulled over a heavy wooden stool and sat down, and asked: "What does the village chief want to see me about?"

"Xiao Jiang, you have been in our village for half a year. You should know some of the situations in our village, especially our family. My daughter Xiaojie is twenty years old this year. It is time for her to get married. There are many people from all over the country who have come to my house to propose marriage, but I don't like any of them. I just think you are a good young man, so..."

Jiang Duo understood and interrupted the village chief: "Hasn't the village chief heard about it yet? I have already got engaged to Mingzhu who lives at the end of the village this morning. It will be done in three days." Ming

Dayou knew about this of course. His daughter came to him and told him about it at noon. She was clamoring to marry Jiang Duo and insisted that he help her find a marriage now, otherwise she would jump into the well and drown herself!

Ming Dayou couldn't persuade the daughter of a noble family, and he also thought... Jiang Duo was arranged by a big family after all. Not only was he strong and capable, but he could also come up with so much money and gifts at once. He must have a good family background and was fully qualified to be his son-in-law!

"That's just talk. I can help you cancel the marriage and get your betrothal money back."

Jiang Duo was usually indifferent and distant, but at this moment his tone was a little heavier, and he asked the other party: "Why would someone who has nothing to do with me help me cancel my marriage?"

Ming Dayou was stunned for a moment, he frowned and took a puff of dry cigarette, exhaled smoke rings from his mouth, and said with a worried look: "Xiao Jiang, let me tell you the truth, my daughter is obsessed with you, she is willing to commit suicide for you! As a father, I can't just watch her die, can I? Besides, my family's conditions are much better than Mingzhu's. Mingzhu is a wild child without parents, with a bad temper and bad personality, much worse than my Xiaojie!"

"The village chief's daughter is naturally good, but I am not worthy of her. My marriage with Mingzhu has been decided, and no one can change it."

"Xiao Jiang, you have to understand that I am the village chief of Xiaojing Village, and you have to obey my orders and arrangements here. I can tell you clearly that if you marry Mingzhu, I will not give you a certificate!" Hearing

such a threat, Jiang Duo said lightly: "My relationship is not here, don't bother the village chief."

"You..." Ming Dayou was angry, and he poked the cigarette stick in his hand on the table unconsciously, and said angrily: "Then do you know that Mingzhu's family background is not good, her grandmother was a capitalist lady very early, I heard that you are from a big place, and the review there is very strict, right?"

This surprised Jiang Duo.

If Mingzhu's grandmother has such a background, then it will be a bit difficult during the review.

But he took the girl's body, so he had to take responsibility.

Jiang Duo stood up with a sullen face and was about to leave. Ming Dayou saw this and thought that Jiang Duo had listened to his words. He raised his eyebrows with pride, "Captain Jiang is a smart man. You can come to me when you figure it out. As the village chief, it is not a problem for me to help you get back the betrothal gift."

"Don't bother, I can handle my own business."

After that, Jiang Duo left without looking back.

As soon as he left, Ming Xiaojie, who was hiding in the next room, ran over and asked anxiously: "Dad, do you think this can work? Anyway, I don't care, I must marry Jiang Duo, otherwise I will die!"

"Okay, stop making trouble! If he is a smart man, he will not marry that bitch, let's wait!"

Hearing such a guarantee, Ming Xiaojie was finally relieved!

...

After Mingzhu returned home, she picked up a stick and beat the bedding that was drying in the yard. The dust almost covered the air around.

She coughed twice and sighed that the aunt and nephew were really good. They could tolerate such dirt!

After beating the quilt, she scooped water from a copper basin with peeling paint, cleaned the rag, and wiped the tables and windows inside and outside the house two or three times. She also bundled the firewood in the kitchen and piled it neatly beside the pot, swept the floor, put the quilt on the kang and laid it flat. Only then did the small earthen house finally look presentable.

Finally, she cleaned up the cooking area, and then Mingzhu stared at the empty water tank in worry...

There was no running water in those days, and water had to be fetched from the well in the center of the village.

Relying on the original owner's memory, she took a shoulder pole and two iron buckets and walked to the center of the village...

After a while, Mingzhu stood by the well, looking down at the well water with a confident look on her face.

After all, she had watched TV dramas. Even if she had never produced pork, she had seen pigs run, right?

She hung the bucket on the rope beside the well, put the bucket into the well, and then shook the rope.

But after shaking for five minutes, the bucket was still floating on the water and would not sink. She was going crazy. Why was it so difficult to draw water?

She sighed in frustration and was wondering whether to throw a stone into the bucket. Suddenly, a deep and pleasant voice came from behind her: "You don't know how to draw water?"

This voice scared Mingzhu!

She turned around and saw the man standing a few meters away.

Jiang Duo had dark skin and a tall figure under the setting sun. At this moment, he was looking at Mingzhu with an inquiring and scrutinizing look...