In the evening, the group returned to Qingshan Village and met several villagers on the way into the village. After everyone greeted each other, some people curiously asked them what they were doing in the city.

Naturally, Qin Shan would not tell the truth, so he excused himself with an excuse.

As the carriage gradually moved away, several villagers gathered together to gossip:

"A while ago, Dashan found some matchmakers to arrange a marriage with Xiaoxiao. Why has there been no movement recently?"

"I guess I just smile at a girl like this if I haven't seen anything good. It doesn't matter if I'm more picky."

"That's right. If the news about Xiaoxiao staying at home and looking for a new wife hadn't spread out a long time ago, the doorstep of his family would have been trampled to pieces."

"No, most of the people who are willing to be sons-in-law are not very good. I'm afraid it will be difficult for them to choose a suitable one."

"Haha, just wait. With Dashan's virtue, I guess he won't like anyone, and he might turn Xiaoxiao into an old girl."

"Probably not. If we really can't find a good one, the Dashan couple might marry her off."

"No way? The Dashan couple adopted Xiaoxiao and put her on the family tree. Isn't it the idea of ​​keeping her in their family to raise a wife so that they can provide for them in their old age?"

"This may be the case for other families, but not necessarily for the Dashan couple. They didn't pick up Xiaoxiao in the early years, and they didn't see them raising other people's children, providing for them in old age, and continuing the family line. They didn't attach much importance to it."

"This is true. When I didn't pick up Xiaoxiao, many people advised them to adopt the second child of his family. There were also people in our clan who couldn't afford to raise many children begging to give it to them. You see, they should

Is that right? Dashan said at that time that it was his destiny not to have children. When he gets old and dies, he will leave the house and fields to his nephews, and they can dig a hole and bury themselves in it."

After hearing these words, the others fell silent. They felt more and more that Qin Xiaoxiao had a good life. Being seen by Qin Shan became the treasure of the couple. From now on, all the Qin family's property will belong to her.

Thinking of this, they all became upset in unison.

Back then, even if he had no shame, he would still beg for nothing and send his useless bastard to the Qin family. Ah, no, it would be more reliable to throw it halfway into the mountain and let him pick it up.

At this time, the four of them had returned home and did not know what those people were talking about.

Mr. Qin prepared dinner and waited for them to come back to eat together. At the dinner table, Qin Shan talked about the meeting today while eating. Mrs. Miao and Lin Qiuniang supplemented on the side, emphasizing that Qin Xiaoxiao did not fall in love with Li.

Zhao's reason.

"If you don't like it, you don't like it. Your concerns are not wrong." Mr. Qin looked calm, as if this result was expected by him: "Our family didn't give us any information about the matchmaker, so you don't have to worry about the Li family.

Come up."

"Grandpa, there's nothing wrong with the Li family. I just let you down for all your hard work." Qin Xiaoxiao felt a little guilty. She knew that grandpa was very satisfied with Li Zhao. On the way back, she also learned that grandpa had done something in front of Li Zhao in order to check her.

"Collapse due to heatstroke".

"Grandpa's hard work is called hard work if it makes you good. If it makes you bad, it's called nonsense." Mr. Qin made a rare wisecrack, not wanting his granddaughter to be burdened: "You are the one who wants to live with your grandson-in-law. You like the most."

important."

Having said this, he sighed slightly: "It's hard to find a suitable son-in-law. The boy from the Li family is also the taller among the short ones. If such a man is worthy of you, you will be wronged."

"Grandpa, don't say that, I understand everything." Qin Xiaoxiao felt warm in her heart, knowing that they had tried their best and never complained about the poor person the family found for her.

"You're still young, don't worry, we'll just take our time to find him." Mr. Qin was afraid that his granddaughter would be worried about not finding a suitable husband, so he comforted her with a smile.

Qin Xiaoxiao couldn't laugh or cry: "Grandpa, I'm not in a hurry, really."

Mr. Qin nodded, not sure whether he believed it or not.

Only Mrs. Miao and Lin Qiuniang knew that their granddaughter was really not in a hurry. After looking at each other, they thought it would be better to tell Mr. Qin about her and Jingheng.

After the meal, Qin Xiaoxiao walked around the door, eating and teasing Rhubarb.

Dahuang was already very old. He managed to jump a few times and then lost the strength. He sat on the ground and looked at his master with his head tilted, his old yellow eyes were very gentle.

Qin Xiaoxiao squatted down, gently touched its head to its tail, and combed its dull hair.

The last ray of sunset gently enveloped one person and one dog, and a faint sadness filled the air.

"I asked you to come to me when you get home, but you are squatting here and playing with the dog. I am not as good as a dog in your eyes, right?" Xue Ya came to Qin Xiaoxiao to settle accounts after eating, and happened to see this scene,

Feeling a little displeased for some reason, he opened his mouth to accuse.

"Sister Xueya, how can a good person be compared with a dog?" Qin Xiaoxiao stood up and said with a smile: "I am thinking that you are eating, so wouldn't it be appropriate for me to go in and find you?"

In her heart, Dahuang is also a relative, and his status is no lower than Xueya's, but in front of Xueya, she must not say these words, it is too hurtful.

"Okay, who cares about you?" Xue Ya leaned against the tree trunk, as lazy as if she had no bones: "Tell me, did you meet someone when you went to the city during the day?"

Qin Xiaoxiao didn't hide it from her, and said truthfully: "I saw it, but I didn't like it."

Xueya became interested and asked: "Didn't you take a fancy? You shouldn't. Grandpa and uncle, the person they like is not that bad. Is he too ugly or too dull?"

Qin Xiaoxiao said helplessly: "It has nothing to do with others, it's my own problem." Afraid that Xueya would continue to ask questions, she first tried to silence her with words: "You didn't also like the person that my second uncle and aunt fell in love with before.

, just don’t ask me why I don’t like it.”

Xue Ya hummed, "Can you be the same as me? My heart has long been attached to Brother An, but you, a yellow-haired girl, are not."

Qin Xiaoxiao thought about it carefully and thought it made sense. He didn't know how to refute it for a while.

"Tsk, don't blame me for not reminding you. There are fewer men willing to be your son-in-law than the bastards in Qinghu. If you make up your mind to recruit a wife, you can just pick one. Otherwise, let others pick the rest.

You will suffer even more if you crumble melons and crack jujubes." It was rare that Xue Ya didn't carry a gun and a stick, so she persuaded her with good intentions.

Qin Xiaoxiao didn't want to continue this topic, and said vaguely and perfunctorily: "I know, I'm not stupid." After that, she began to change the topic: "By the way, in a few days is the day you have decided, the second uncle and the second aunt will give Xiao An

How much is the bride price?"

Xue Ya rolled her eyes at her: "What are you thinking? They ask me for money when I eat and drink at home, and ask them to give me gifts. It's impossible for the sun to rise in the west!"

Qin Xiaoxiao: "..."

It seems impossible.

"So you're going to pay the bride price yourself?" She couldn't help gossiping: "How much are you going to pay?"

"Twenty taels." Xueya said lightly: "It's my own idea, let him do whatever he wants."

It means that the Ministry of Security can stay at home, and it doesn't matter if you don't bring a penny over.

Qin Xiaoxiao was surprised for a moment, then smiled and said: "It's grand."

The betrothal gifts for a man's marriage to a woman's marriage are similar to those for a man's marriage to a woman's marriage. The bride price of twenty taels is already very high in this country where the average is five or six taels.

"You're such a arrogant person, I want him to remember how good I am, and don't always worry about Anjia when living with me in the future." Xueya sneered, openly revealing her selfishness: "Anjia has a lot of things to do, and I want to grow two hearts.

I can’t finish fucking him, I don’t want him to be like this after we get married.”

She is not hard-hearted, she just wants to rely on external force to survive because of Anjia's situation. This external force is not what she can have now, and she may have to pull herself down.

Qin Xiaoxiao nodded and expressed understanding: "Only when you live a good life can you have the energy to help others."

These words deeply touched Xueya's heart. She couldn't control her mouth for a while and said a heart-to-heart talk: "The husband you bring into the house may not be as good as the one you marry outside, but at home we are the ones who are in charge. This is no different."

Marry into someone else's house to see how they look?"

Qin Xiaoxiao knew that she was kindly reminding him, lest she choose the wrong path unwillingly, so he couldn't help hugging her and rubbing her face: "Sister Xueya, it turns out that you still miss me in your heart!"

"You're sick!" Xueya's goosebumps fell all over the floor. She pushed her away in disgust, strode into the door, and slammed the courtyard door with a bang, as if she was afraid of being caught.

In fact, she couldn't stand Qin Xiaoxiao's enthusiasm and became shy.

"Haha——" Qin Xiaoxiao couldn't help but laugh loudly. She didn't forget to reach out and rub the dog's head that Dahuang came towards, and met Dahuang's worried eyes.

Inside the door, Xueya was so angry that she gritted her teeth and returned to the room angrily, deciding not to talk to this annoying guy until she made a decision.

At the same time, Mr. Qin learned about Qin Xiaoxiao and Jingheng from Mrs. Miao. After being silent for a while, he called Qin Shan and Lin Qiuniang into the room and asked directly: "You two must stay at home with Xiaoxiao

Recruiting a wife?"

Qin Shan was stunned for a moment, a little confused: "No, don't you worry about getting married without leaving the family? Let's not talk about whether you can live a good life if you get married. If the in-laws' family knows that Xiaoxiao is lucky, they will

Can you keep it secret like us?"

Lin Qiuniang looked at her father-in-law's face and said cautiously: "There are advantages to staying home to raise a child, we can always keep an eye on her so that she won't be bullied; marrying outside also has the advantage of marrying outside, it is easy to find someone who is happy with Xiaoxiao.

.”

Mr. Qin asked again: "So you two have to stay home and raise a wife?"

After realizing this, Qin Shan realized: "Dad, do you mean to let Xiaoxiao marry a foreigner if the son-in-law is not good enough?"

Mr. Qin nodded: "I have this idea, but it depends on what Xiaoxiao means."

Qin Shan panicked: "Dad, the marriage was not decided long ago, why are you here again? If Xiaoxiao gets married, she will have to go home during the holidays. Do you think I am too smart?

You want me and Liu Laoer to squat stupidly at the entrance of the village, looking at the road every day and hoping for my daughter?"

The Liu Laoer he was talking about was one of the outsiders in the village. He raised his only daughter with great pains all by himself. His daughter got married a few years ago, so she could come back to visit him three times a year, which was considered too much.

I don’t know whether he lost hope or something else. Liu Laoer was inexplicably stupid. Every day he squatted at the entrance of the village, looked at the village road and called his daughter’s name. Unfortunately, when his daughter came back to see him, he found out that she was his daughter.
Chapter completed!