After Liu Yue came, several people from the village came to inquire about the situation.
Some people thought that Lu Lin and Chen Xiaomi might have heard the rumors about Chen Xiaocai and Shen Chi in the village, and felt that it was not good for Shen Chi to stay in the store all the time, so they decided to put both Grandma Shen and Shen Chi together. I rushed back and came to gloat.
Many of them came to comfort Grandma Shen, and some came to inquire about the news because they had their eyes on Grandma Shen's original seat.
Not only Zhang Xiuhe wanted to work for Grandma Shen, but many others also wanted it.
"Grandma, this Chen Xiaomi is too worthless. Anyway, you have been working for so long. Look at him, and he just drove you back casually. It's too unreasonable."
No wonder Mrs. Chen said that he was rebellious by nature, and you two are old friends, yet you don’t show affection at all... Granny Shen listened to the woman in front of her, chattering endlessly, and said helplessly: "I am not driven back, I just came back to deal with it. matter."
"Is there anything to deal with right now!" Mrs. Zheng believed that Grandma Shen had been driven back, but she was embarrassed to say so.
"This embroidered lotus, although this embroidered lotus is not very good?"
"However, the craftsmanship is still good. However, to be honest, there are many people with good craftsmanship in the village. If it weren't for the fact that there is a Lizheng brother, how could it be her turn!" Zheng said.
Grandma Shen: "..." Even before the word horoscope was written, the village was full of uproar. Lu Lin didn't mean to use Zhang Xiuhe at all!
Grandma Shen felt that Zhang Xiuhe might have spread the rumor on purpose. If there were too many rumors, the villagers might think that Lu Lin had agreed to use Zhang Xiuhe. Lin backtracked.
"The business in the store is average, and we don't plan to recruit people for the time being." Grandma Shen said.
On a hot summer day, several children were enjoying the shade under a tree with pale white flowers.
"Yaya, Shen Chi has returned to his hometown." Zhang Dabao said to Zhang Ya.
Zhang Ya nodded, and said proudly, "Well, I heard that she was driven back."
Previously, Lu Lin rejected Zhang Ya's mother Ma Shi's marriage proposal, which made Ma Shi very angry.
Later, news about Chen Xiaocai and Shen Chi came out in the village. It wasn't Ma who spread the news in the first place, but Ma made a contribution to it.
Zhang Ya thought to herself: An old woman with dim eyesight and a little girl in the Shen family can't work at first glance. It's normal to be driven back, and it's abnormal not to be driven back.
"My mother and aunt made a lot of copper coins by selling embroidery to Lu Lin. I heard that Grandma Shen earned even more."
Zhang Ya curled her lips and thought to herself: What's the use of earning a lot, aren't you driven back? However, Grandma Shen must have made a lot of money before.
"Is Chen Xiaocai and Shen Chi really related?"
"Of course it's related, they used to play together!"
"Just playing together."
If you want to get engaged, you need a matchmaker. Chen Xiaomi found a relatively famous Wang matchmaker nearby.
There have been dozens of marriages arranged by matchmaker Wang, and she is quite respectable in ten miles and eight towns.
Matchmaker Wang was completely surprised by Chen Xiaomi's visit, "Shut up for Chen Xiaocai and Shen Chi!"
Chen Xiaomi nodded and said, "Not bad."
Matchmaker Wang said a little puzzled: "Shen Chi is a little twin!"
If it weren't for the fact that the family couldn't live on, they wouldn't usually look for Shuang'er. As far as she knew, the Chen brothers had made a lot of money recently. Even before, selling those gloves made a lot of money.
She also heard that before Lu Lin bought a bear without batting an eyelid.
Chen Xiaomi gave Matchmaker Wang a cold look, and said coldly, "Is there anything wrong with Shuang'er?"
Matchmaker Wang smiled embarrassingly, and said, "Shuang'er is fine."
Matchmaker Wang suddenly remembered that Chen Xiaomi was a Shuang'er, and there was a Shuang'er in the family. This silly little Shuang'er must have a bad life in other people's homes. However, Chen Xiaomi I really like that younger brother, spoiled and lawless.
Chen Xiaomi nodded, and said proudly: "Of course, girls are delicate and coquettish, they are better than twins, and can withstand blows."
Matchmaker Wang suddenly felt that she understood Chen Xiaomi's intentions. Chen Xiaomi just wanted to find a job for the family.
Lu Lin took Chen Xiaocai to choose the engagement gift, and Chen Xiaomi went to choose the matchmaker.
Chen Xiaomi chose Matchmaker Wang, and Lu Lin only found out afterwards.
"You're looking for Matchmaker Wang." Lu Lin said in a strange way.
Chen Xiaocai nodded, and said, "Yes, we've decided on a candidate, it doesn't matter which matchmaker you're looking for."
"That's true, but this Wang Matchmaker, it seems that she was the one who told Lu Tong to the widower before." Lu Lin said.
Chen Xiaocai blinked and said, "Ah, I forgot."
Lu Lin shook his head. Lu Tong's marriage was also full of twists and turns. Before Tang's dislike of Li Ji as a widower, he kicked out the matchmaker. Later, because no one was willing to pay such a high dowry, he turned around and married his daughter to Li Ji. Li Ji's impression of this mother-in-law is not much better.
Lu Tong married into Li Ji's family, and it seems that his life is not very good. However, it can't be entirely blamed on Li's family. Tang swallowed up his daughter's betrothal gift, and would come to the door from time to time to fight the autumn wind. That old lady of the Li family, It's no wonder he was nice to Lu Tong. What's more, Lu Tong's girl, although she looks good, is very delicate and can't work.
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Grandma Shen looked at Shen Chi who kept looking out the door, and said: "Don't look, three days later, it will be an auspicious day, so I should choose to come on that day."
Shen Chi nodded, "Oh".
Grandma Shen sighed. The people in the village seemed to regard them as being driven back. There was a lot of gloating behind their backs, and Grandma Shen didn't have the nerve to say that they came back to get engaged. People take it as a lie.
Shen Chi rubbed his hands, his face was red, and he felt a little nervous.
When Shen Chi was in the town, he knew that Lu Lin proposed marriage to Chen Xiaocai. Although he was very happy, it was not too unexpected. , I was always afraid that I would make a mistake, so I didn't dare to think too much.
After Lu Lin looked for Grandma Shen, Chen Xiaocai also looked for Shen Chi.
Chen Xiaolai sent a small silver pendant to Shen Chi. The small pendant was bought by Chen Xiaocai when Chen Xiaocai was in Liuzhen.
The two sat in the yard and chatted for a long time.
Shen Chi went out to wash things before, and was pointed at by several girls in the village. The leading girl said that he was indiscreet, so he was driven back.
Shen Chi didn't expect the people in the village to be so mean, they could be so mean. Shen Chi suddenly thought that Xiaocai and Brother Xiaomi might have grown up bearing such rumors in the past. Xiaocai and Brother Xiaomi had to endure much more rumors than him .
Shen Chi originally had great confidence in Chen Xiaocai, but the villagers all said that he was not good enough for Chen Xiaocai, and that he was driven back. It was okay at first, but after hearing a lot, Shen Chi himself was a little unconfident up.
Grandma Shen didn't mention the matter of Chen Xiaocai and Shen Chi to anyone, she just said that she went home to deal with some matters, which caused all kinds of rumors in the village to boil.
However, Matchmaker Wang came, and the rumors in the village stopped immediately.
Matchmaker Wang is in the business of talking about matchmaking, and she can say a few words to anyone she meets.
A curious villager asked Matchmaker Wang why she was here. Matchmaker Wang told the villagers that she had come to ask Shen Chi for a horoscope, and that she was going to match Shen Chi with a horoscope. Concealing it, I said directly that if Chen Xiaocai goes well, Chen Xiaomi will come to propose marriage in a few days.
Matchmaker Wang's words caused an uproar, and the people who were gloating were stunned. It turned out that Shen Chi was not driven back but really came back to deal with the matter.
The villagers all complained that Grandma Shen was too tight-lipped and didn't show her words in advance, which made many people who said sour words lose face. In the evening, Grandma Shen's neighbor, Grandma Li, came to Shen's house to visit.
Grandma Li and Grandma Shen are old neighbors, and their relationship is not bad.
"You've kept it too tight. It turns out that you went to the countryside to prepare for the marriage. I thought... that kid Chen Xiaomi crossed the river and demolished the bridge."
Grandma Shen said helplessly: "I didn't say anything, it's all rumored by people in the village."
"Xiaocai and Shen Chi are also quite right."
Grandma Shen smiled, and said: "It's okay, we A Chi can still endure hardships, and this Chen family brother likes to be able to endure hardships."
"It's good to be able to endure hardships. We still have to live in a down-to-earth way. I think Lu Chengyu married a young lady, and it's nothing good. The Lu family hasn't seen any improvement. It seems that the life has become poorer and poorer."
Grandma Shen lowered her head and did not speak. Shen Chi often hangs around Chen Xiaomi, and overheard it by chance. Chen Xiaomi accidentally slipped that Li Ru was just a concubine.
Shen Chi didn't realize who Li Ru was at that time, and during the chat, he chatted with Grandma Shen, but Grandma Shen was taken aback.
Grandma Shen told Shen Chi not to talk nonsense at that time, and Grandma Shen couldn't figure out whether Lu Lin knew Li Ru was a concubine afterwards or Lu Chengyu knew it before they got married, but she didn't remind her.
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Zhang Xiuhe said depressedly: "This matchmaker Wang is not talking nonsense, is it? Chen Xiaocai really likes Shen Chi."
Zhang Xiuhe saw that Grandma Shen had rushed back, but Lu Lin thought that Grandma Shen was not pleasing to her eyes, so she took the opportunity to make trouble.
As a result, Grandma Shen and Chen Xiaomi were in-laws right away, so naturally Grandma Shen wouldn't be used.
Zhang Jin glanced at his sister-in-law and said, "Matchmaker Wang probably wouldn't joke about such things."
Zhang Xiuhe was full of dissatisfaction and said: "Didn't you say that Chen Xiaomi is rich now? Why did you find a little girl for your younger brother? It's just a show."
"Perhaps Chen Xiaocai likes Xiao Shuang'er."
Zhang Xiuhe curled her lips, and said: "What's so good about Shuang'er, the Chen family already has two Shuang'er, and they still want to find a Shuang'er to come in."
"What do people like to do?"
Zhang Xiuhe scolded sullenly: "Grandma Shen, that old woman is really a chicken thief. She deliberately concealed it and made me lose face."
"She didn't say that she was driven back. You guessed that she was driven back." Zhang Jin felt that his sister-in-law was completely self-inflicted.
Seeing that Grandma Shen was driven back, I felt that it was because the big boss disliked Grandma Shen's poor craftsmanship, so he drove the person away, and even put on airs, telling people that the seat of Grandma Shen must belong to her. Grandma Shen wasn't driven back at all, but came back to prepare for the engagement.
"Brother, go talk to Lu Lin." Zhang Xiuhe looked at Zhang Chengdao.
Zhang Xiuhe released the rumor early on that she would take the place of Grandma Shen, but the news of the engagement suddenly made Zhang Xiuhe a little bit embarrassed.
"What are you talking about?" Zhang Cheng asked.
"My craftsmanship is much better than that old woman, Grandma Shen." Zhang Xiuhe said.
Zhang Cheng took a puff of cigarettes, and others would forget about it. He was not sure about Lu Lin. Before, when Chen Xiaomi was repairing a house, he was set up by Lu Lin, which made the villagers very disappointed with him later, thinking that it was because He didn't let the villagers build a house for Lu Lin, so the kang repairing skills were learned by the people in the next village.
Zhang Cheng felt that it was not quite right for Lu Lin to marry Chen Xiaomi, it was like a different person.