After Xu Tang finished eating, she prepared to help clean up, but Liu Ermei stopped her.
“Let your sister-in-law do it. Little sister, you go have some fun.”
“That’s right. Little sister, go relax. Big Brother will clean up,” Xu Changshun added. “You worked hard cooking today. We can’t let you tire yourself out.”
Xu Tang didn’t argue with them and returned to her room instead. She opened the system shop and checked her points. Her total had already reached 155.
Over the next few days, Xu Tang occasionally went up the mountain to improve the family’s meals. Sometimes she would also bring water to them while they were working. She then found a carpenter and had him make her a wooden bathing tub.
A week passed quickly.
Xu Tang had already removed the gauze from her head. Everyone in the family was relieved that the injury hadn’t left a scar.
She secretly felt rather smug.
Of course it hadn’t. Anything produced by the system shop couldn’t possibly be defective…
After lunch, everyone else went to their rooms to rest while Xu Tang sat in the courtyard enjoying the sunshine.
Just then, she heard someone knocking on the gate.
She walked over and opened it, only to find a stranger standing outside.
When Lin Xiuxiang saw that the person who opened the gate was a pretty young girl, she immediately knew she had come to the right place.
Goodness, she was incredibly beautiful!
Lin Xiuxiang made a living as a matchmaker. She had heard that Zhao Guifang’s daughter in He Village was seventeen years old and still unmarried, and she happened to have a suitable young man on her hands.
The young man’s family lived in town, and he worked at a machinery factory, earning a monthly salary of 42 yuan.
He didn’t have particularly high demands. He had told Lin Xiuxiang that he was willing to marry a rural girl, as long as she was pretty.
Lin Xiuxiang had already introduced him to two girls, but he wasn’t satisfied with either of them.
Then she heard many people say that Xu Tang was the most beautiful girl in the surrounding villages.
That’s why she had come to make the introduction.
But Lin Xiuxiang hadn’t expected Xu Tang to be this beautiful.
Would a girl like this even be interested in that young man?
Still, since she had already come all this way, she might as well ask.
Perhaps the girl herself wanted to marry someone from town with good family circumstances.
Hearing the commotion, Zhao Guifang also came to the gate.
Seeing her, Lin Xiuxiang asked with a smile, “Is this Aunt Zhao’s home?”
Zhao Guifang looked at the woman at the gate in confusion. She didn’t recognize her and initially thought she might have come to the wrong house.
But after hearing what she said, she knew that couldn’t be the case.
She asked, “Who are you looking for? Is there something you need?”
Lin Xiuxiang immediately adopted her most professional manner.
“I’m a matchmaker from town. My name is Lin Xiuxiang. I heard that your daughter hasn’t been betrothed yet, and I happen to know a young man who’s quite a good catch.”
Zhao Guifang was somewhat surprised to hear that.
It wasn’t as though she didn’t know why her daughter had remained unmarried until now. The villagers thought her daughter had a bad temper and was lazy, so no one wanted to propose a match.
But in Zhao Guifang’s opinion, her daughter was so beautiful. What kind of man couldn’t she find?
She didn’t even think much of the village men.
Zhao Guifang looked at Xu Tang beside her, silently asking what she thought.
She was afraid Xu Tang wouldn’t be willing, so she didn’t dare make the decision for her.
Xu Tang was also somewhat surprised.
This woman had actually come to propose a marriage for her.
Although Xu Tang wasn’t planning to get married yet, she still invited the woman inside to talk.
She stepped aside and said, “Thank you for coming all this way, Aunt Lin. Please come inside and sit down. We can talk there.”
Seeing that her daughter didn’t seem opposed to the idea, Zhao Guifang warmly welcomed Lin Xiuxiang inside as well.
The rest of the family had already heard their conversation from inside the house. Once they realized that someone had come to propose a match for their little sister, they immediately became curious.
Xu Guoli also came out of the inner room, and Zhao Guifang introduced him as Xu Tang’s father.
Everyone then went to the main room and sat down.
Xu Tang went to the kitchen, poured a cup of water, and handed it to Lin Xiuxiang.
Looking at Xu Tang, Lin Xiuxiang found herself liking the girl more and more.
She was beautiful, polite, and well-mannered.
Xu Tang set down the cup and sat beside Zhao Guifang.
At the table were only Xu Tang, her parents, and Lin Xiuxiang.
Everyone else was practically sprawled around the doorway, secretly eavesdropping on their conversation…