Back in the village, Su Jianmin asked Xie Shuting where to get off the bus.
"If you want to go back to the production team, this place is just right. If you want to go back to Captain Luo's home, the road ahead is closer..."
Xie Shuting couldn't help but look at Su Nanbing's hand. She felt that the teeth mark on his hand was quite deep. After all, it was because of her relationship that he was bitten. She had to look at him no matter what.
Just apply medicine.
"Well, I've already asked for leave. I have nothing to do in the afternoon. How about Wen Li and I go to Uncle Su's house to sit down?"
Su Jianmin didn't think much, he said "Okay" and then continued to drive Xiaobai back home.
In the room, Bai Lu was greeting guests. She was a woman in her fifties with white hair on her temples.
"Mom." As soon as Jinbao ran home, he saw his mother pouring tea for her.
Looking at the old woman sitting on the chair with confusion, Jin Bao was a little curious about who she was.
Could it be that they were villagers who came to chat with their mother? It was strange. Most of the women of this age in the village did not speak Mandarin and rarely interacted with them. Sometimes they would give each other something out of politeness and ask the younger generation to come over.
"Jinbao, are you back? What took you so long?" Bai Lu said, stepping forward and holding her daughter's hand.
"Something happened at the market..."
Jin Bao was about to talk about his second brother catching the thief. The woman who was sitting on the chair suddenly stood up and said with a smile: "Oh, this is your daughter, right? She is really lucky to look like that!"
Look at this beautiful little face, as pink and tender as dough, and these eyes, so watery that you can see how blue the sky is and how white the clouds are. It’s amazing when you grow up. I don’t know what will happen to you.
How many young men are thinking about it?"
Su Jianmin locked Xiaobai back in the mule shed, and happened to hear the woman's words as he walked home. He immediately frowned, with displeasure written all over his face.
Since he didn't know who the other party was, he couldn't show his inner emotions too clearly. He could only pull his wife aside and asked in a low voice: "Who is that person? Look what she said, our Jinbao
How old is she? What did she say to make the young man miss..."
"She is a matchmaker, so she definitely likes to look at people's looks to determine their marriage prospects." Bai Lu felt that there was no big problem. "Besides, she was just praising our Jinbao for being so beautiful. What does it matter?"
"Matchmaker?" Su Jianmin's eyes widened and he asked in surprise, "Who found her?"
"Didn't you ask Captain Luo about the matchmaker yesterday? Captain Luo is very efficient in doing things. He called for someone at noon today. She just introduced herself to me and said that I can just call her Aunt Xu. She is ten miles away.
The famous matchmaker in the village.
She knows the situation in the entire town, including the appearance of the girl to be married, her family situation, her general personality, whether she works hard or not, etc. As long as we tell us the conditions, there is nothing she can't find." Bai Lu
explain.
Su Jianmin was stunned, "I thought it would take at least a week..."
"The New Year is over, and Nan Bing has nothing to do recently. It would be nice if you take him to the girl's house to meet him."
After saying that, Bai Lu glanced outside the gate and said, "Strange, where is Nan Bing? Why didn't he come back with you?"
"We came back together just now. Originally, I wanted to cut some grass for Xiaobai myself. Nan Bing said he would help me, so I took two girls, Xie Shuting and Hua Wenli, up the mountain with sickles." Su Jianmin explained.
"Ah? Taking Shuting and Wenli with you? Why?"
Su Jianmin gave an overview of what happened at the market, "Nan Bing helped Xie Shuting clear her name as a thief. Maybe she wanted to say thank you, so she offered to help cut the grass, and then she dragged Wen Li along.
"
"I didn't expect something like this to happen. Those thieves are so ungrateful. They should have been arrested long ago!"
When the couple were whispering, Aunt Xu held Jin Bao's little hand, touched it here and there, and asked: "Little sister, how old are you? Tell Grandma Xu, okay? Grandma Xu will find you a good husband in the future."
.”
Jinbao had already roughly guessed that she was a matchmaker.
Yeah! Mom really went to find a matchmaker to help her second brother go on a blind date? But the second brother seems to have a bit of an affair with Sister Shuting. If they go on a blind date now, will it be impossible for them?
"Aunt Xu, my daughter is still young, so I won't bother you with this matter."
Su Jianmin pulled Jinbao to his side and said to Aunt Xu: "We came to you mainly for the matter of my second son. He is twenty-one this year. I discussed it with his mother and felt that he is about the same age.
Got a family."
"Oh! Twenty-one is very big," Aunt Xu sat back on the chair and took a sip of tea. "Many people in the surrounding villages get married at the age of seventeen or eighteen. If you haven't found someone after twenty-one or two,
Even if the person you fall in love with is older, you will be criticized.
If there is a child at home who has never found a wife or has never been married off, it is a shame for the parents.
Some parents can’t even close their eyes until they die because their children haven’t gotten married yet.”
Su Jianmin felt that what she said was too exaggerated, "Now the law stipulates that a man can marry only when he is 20 years old, and a woman can only marry when she is 18 years old. My Nan Bing is just the right age, not too early and not too late."
"This is a rural area, not a city. How can there be so much care? As long as the production team leader changes the date of birth, it is impossible not to get a marriage certificate. The couple I matched a few days ago are only seventeen years old.
"
At this point, Aunt Xu asked: "Have you decided what kind of partner you want to find for your son? How old should he be?"
I think a seventeen-year-old girl is just right. She looks pretty, works well, and is good at giving birth. If you get married this year, I’m sure to give birth to a big fat boy for your family next year! If you hurry up, maybe by the end of the year...
…”
Before she could finish speaking, Su Jianmin interrupted anxiously: "No, no, seventeen is too young. It's better to follow the law. It should be at least an eighteen-year-old girl. I think twenty is better, and
Nan Bing is only one year younger."
Bai Lu agreed: "Yes, Aunt Xu, think about if there are girls around twenty years old. It is best to be literate. It doesn't matter if you are illiterate. The important thing is to be motivated and willing to learn."
After hearing what she said, Aunt Xu couldn't help but say "ouch" twice in a row, and said with a smile: "This is the first time I heard that someone is looking for a daughter-in-law who can read and be willing to learn. You said that literacy is good.
What's the use? It's not like taking the top prize.
Literate girls have many ideas and are not good at work. Let’s talk about those educated youths who go to the countryside. They are used to holding pens in their hands and feel weak when holding a hoe. When the summer and autumn harvests come, I see that none of them can cut half an acre of rice.
Tian, I have to lie down from exhaustion."
"Hey! Half an acre of rice fields is not easy," Su Jianmin couldn't help but say, "Farmers who have been doing farm work since childhood have to go without eating or drinking for seven hours a day. It is estimated that they can only cut half an acre of rice fields. That is a very heavy workload.