Because she had undergone transmigration and her soul was now complete, her body had gradually become healthy?
Although it was somewhat fantastical, Jiang Qian was not someone who liked to get to the bottom of things. As long as her body was healthy, that was enough.
She liked her healthy self.
Along the way, she chatted with several talkative students. Then Jiang Qian saw a man. With just one glance, she knew he was a soldier.
His posture was far too straight, and he was tall and robust. Judging by eye, he was around one hundred eighty-five centimeters tall.
That height would be exceptional even in the later age, let alone in this era. He was truly a crane among chickens!
More importantly, this soldier brother had a masculine, heroic face, with long, sharply defined brows and a high, straight nose. His entire person radiated the agile vigor of a Black Leopard of the Jungle.
This man was healthy, powerful, and valiant.
When he heard the children calling out, “Teacher Jiang,” he turned to look at her, and his gaze happened to meet Jiang Qian’s.
The man’s eyes were sharp yet clear. Under his gaze, even the heart of this couch potato began beating three times faster!
Don’t misunderstand—she meant nothing else by it. It was simply the instinctive reaction anyone would have upon seeing an exceptionally handsome man. All the women who had experienced it understood!
After all, she was not a nun. She was a proper young woman with the seven emotions and six desires!
This man was the finest of the finest!
With all the experience Jiang Qian had gained from watching so many male celebrities in films and television in her previous life, she could say without exaggeration that this man’s face and physique both belonged among the very best!
She just wondered which lucky woman would get such a man.
That was what Jiang Qian thought, but she did not keep looking at him. After all, anyone could tell that he was no longer young. People in this era were accustomed to marrying and having children early; a mature man like him might already be the father of several children.
As for a married man, no matter how handsome he was, she would never be interested. That was a matter of character and morality.
The Jiang family.
At this moment, the Jiang family was on the verge of a storm.
Zhou Guiyun frowned at the matchmaker. “Matchmaker Zhang, just say what you have to say. You keep circling around the subject, and I have no idea what you mean!”
Seeing her like this, Matchmaker Zhang steeled her heart and said, “Sister Guiyun, I won’t beat around the bush anymore. I came today to inform you that the Old Wang family in town has called off the blind date!”
Jiang Qian had just returned home. Before she even entered, she heard voices coming from the courtyard house.
There was no need to go inside. She knew that the woman speaking was the famous Matchmaker Zhang from the surrounding villages.
She stopped without entering and listened from outside the door.
Before her mother, Zhou Guiyun, could say anything, her Eldest Sister-in-law, Zhao Aiying, angrily demanded, “Matchmaker Zhang, what do you mean? What do you mean, the Old Wang family has called off the blind date?”
Her Second Sister-in-law, Zhao Aifeng, also glared angrily at Matchmaker Zhang. “Matchmaker Zhang, if you don’t explain yourself today, you won’t be walking out of the old Jiang family’s gate!”
Matchmaker Zhang had known this would not be an easy task, but even so, her face twitched when she heard the words of these two fierce daughters-in-law from the Jiang family’s First Branch!
Hearing her Eldest Sister-in-law and Second Sister-in-law, Jiang Qian raised the corners of her lips in a smile.
Her Eldest Sister-in-law and Second Sister-in-law were from Zhao Village, and the two were cousins. When her mother had arranged a blind date between her Eldest Brother and Zhao Aiying, she had also taken a liking to Zhao Aifeng, the future Second Sister-in-law, so she had arranged an engagement with her second son at the same time!
Naturally, both women had since married into the family.
Jiang Captain, Jiang Father, had been smoking in the courtyard. Although his face was grim and he said nothing, since the matter concerned his daughter’s marriage, he had come outside to stand guard, lest anyone overhear.
As soon as he came out, he saw his younger daughter.
Jiang Qian raised a finger to her lips and made a “shh” gesture, telling her father not to make a sound.
Jiang Father remained silent and nodded, allowing his daughter to listen.
Knowing that Jiang Father had gone outside to keep watch, her mother, Zhou Guiyun, finally spoke:
“We weren’t satisfied with the Wang family to begin with. We made inquiries: they have six sisters-in-law, and none of them are easy to deal with. It was only because you said Granny Wang especially liked Qianqian and would provide enough betrothal gifts—and because you came two or three times—that we finally agreed, reluctantly, out of consideration for you. The matter had already been settled, so why has the Wang family suddenly called off the blind date? Is the Wang family making a fool of our old Jiang family? They’d better ask around and find out that my Jiang family is not someone they can bully!”
Jiang Father was the Brigade Leader of the Five-Star Brigade, while Zhou Guiyun had once been a famous Iron Lady. Together, the couple had raised four sons as fierce as wolves and tigers, as well as their daughter, Jiang Qian.
Not just in the Five-Star Brigade—even throughout the surrounding villages, who would dare bully them?
The blind date had been arranged by the Old Wang family, and now the Old Wang family wanted to cancel it. How could Zhou Guiyun easily let such a humiliating matter pass?
If word got out, wouldn’t her family become a laughingstock?
Matchmaker Zhang, standing in the courtyard, even had a distinctive matchmaker’s mole beneath the right side of her face.
Now that she was surrounded by the three women from the family, if she failed to give them an explanation, she truly might not be able to leave the old Jiang family’s home.
However, Matchmaker Zhang could not help cursing the Old Wang family inwardly. The Old Wang family had been the one interested in this marriage in the first place. With the blind date scheduled for tomorrow, that boy from the Wang family had unexpectedly come to tell her that he was no longer interested and that the matter was over!
Matchmaker Zhang was furious.
She had even gone to Granny Wang’s home to question her, but Granny Wang had merely sighed and said to let it go. She had also asked Matchmaker Zhang to go to the Jiang Family’s Second Branch and propose marriage on their behalf.
Those outrageous words had angered Matchmaker Zhang so much that she had left with a scowl.
But she was a matchmaker, and she had to make this trip to the old Jiang family’s home.
She had expected the old Jiang family to be this furious.
Matchmaker Zhang hurriedly said, “I know, I know. The fault lies with the Old Wang family, but as the saying goes, it takes two to tango!”
“What do you mean?” Zhao Aiying, the Eldest Sister-in-law, immediately seized a broom!
“Are you trying to dump that filthy mess on our younger sister? Our younger sister is honest and proper. Go ask around the surrounding villages and see if you can find anyone as well-behaved as she is. How dare you slander our younger sister?” Zhao Aifeng, the Second Sister-in-law, snatched up a stick!
Zhou Guiyun also glared furiously at Matchmaker Zhang. “Matchmaker Zhang, if you don’t explain yourself today, you’ll have to call your son to carry you home!”
Only then did Matchmaker Zhang realize that her words had been ambiguous. She hurriedly said, “No, no! When I said it takes two to tango, I wasn’t saying there was anything wrong with your Qianqian. It was Wang Hesong who took a liking to her older female cousin, Jiang Yue. Jiang Yue and Wang Hesong have gotten together!”
Outside, Jiang Father’s expression darkened as he looked at his daughter with concern.
Jiang Qian merely froze for a moment, then softly comforted her father. “Dad, don’t worry about me. It’s just a small matter.”
Jiang Father said gravely, “Don’t worry about this. Dad will make your older female cousin give you an explanation!”
Jiang Qian smiled, knowing that her father doted on her. However, she had not the slightest favorable impression of Jiang Yue, her older female cousin, who was jealous of her family’s better circumstances and constantly belittled her openly and covertly.
Still, she was somewhat puzzled. Her older female cousin, Jiang Yue, was indeed already engaged—to the Han family, more than ten miles away.