“Your name is Mo Luopo, and you are forty years old this year. Since your mother passed away, you have not spoken to a woman, let alone married. Am I right?” Wang Yao said to Mo Luopo with a serious expression.
"This... I'm just a fishmonger, why are you asking about me... no? How... how did you know?" Molopo blinked at Wang Yao, his face full of surprise and doubt.
He wasn't surprised when Wang Yao called out his name and age; after all, he could easily find out by asking around at the market. However, the fact that he hadn't spoken to a woman since his mother's death was so bizarre that no one except Molupo knew it.
As long as a person lives in this world, it is impossible not to come into contact with the opposite sex. This is no longer the feudal era. Women are engaged in all kinds of work. It is absolutely unimaginable for a person to live to be forty years old and not have spoken to a woman for more than ten years.
But this was indeed true. Since his mother's death, Molupo had never been sick again, so he had never been to the hospital or interacted with female doctors and nurses. He also had no siblings and lived alone in the old house abandoned by his parents, with no neighbors around him.
He would catch fish from Sanyantang every day and bring them to Ziqiang County to sell. He wasn't exactly living in seclusion, but all the women he encountered seemed to intentionally or unintentionally ignore him.
At first, he didn't know what was going on. Sometimes when he saw female customers or women he often met, he would take the initiative to greet them, but they would not respond to him at all, as if he were invisible. After a while, he got used to it.
Fortunately, he could still communicate normally with men, such as the men collecting fees at the market, the male vendors selling seafood on either side of his stall, and the male village officials from his own village. These men basically satisfied all his social needs. When he saw women, he simply ignored them, giving up all hope.
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