Lin Xiaoman felt distressed and squeezed to sit next to her, "Oh, why have you been wronged? Why do you still want to drop the golden beans?"

Lin Xiangxing rested her head on Lin Xiaoman's shoulder, "Xiaoman, I'm getting married. I'm afraid it will be difficult to see each other again in the future."

Shen Guihua was saddened by her daughter's comments, but how could her daughter not get married when she was older?

"Okay, don't talk about that. How can a girl not marry when she is older? If you say that, Xiaoman should feel uncomfortable."

Lin Xiangxing, who was just aggrieved at first, listened to Shen Guihua's words, and her tears fell down like broken pearls.

Lin Xiaoman had known for a long time that Lin Xiangxing liked Li Tiezhu, a farmer in Liujiazhuang in the next village. Lin Xiaoman had also met that man, and he was a down-to-earth and good young man.

But the Li family was so poor that they didn't even have a piece of land, so they could only rent the land owned by Zhuang Liu. After paying the land rent for a year, the remaining grain was not even enough to make ends meet.

The past few years have been bad, and I heard that they still owe Mr. Liu a lot of money. Lin Xiangxing's family doesn't want to suffer the consequences of marrying off their daughter, and they have always disagreed with this marriage.

But seeing Lin Xiangxing crying all the time, Lin Xiaoman felt uncomfortable. He asked Lin Xiangxing which family she had chosen, and she said that it was Fang who ran a grain store in the county. She had an only son in the family, and it was the family that Lin Xiangxing married to. Young Mistress.

"When you get married, you can have a good life with clothes to stretch out your hands and food to open your mouth. What do you think she doesn't want to do?"

Lin Xiangxing still cried, and the other three people in the car also persuaded her: "Xiangxing is reluctant to leave her parents. We have also heard about Fang Ji Grain Store. She is an only child in the family. Mrs. Fang is the second daughter of the family who just married the year before last. For example, The young master is only a few years older, so he shouldn't be able to match his mother-in-law's legacy. There is a maid at home to serve him, so Xiang Xing will be blessed if he marries her."

Lin Xiaoman comforted softly: "Why don't you go to the city today and I'll accompany you to that grain store to have a look, in case you're not a bad guy?"

Lin Xiangxing stopped crying for a moment. She didn't know what she thought of, but she hummed softly after a while.

The yellow mud road was full of potholes, and the carriage bumped along it, making Lin Xiaoman envious of the big road over there.

After finally arriving at the county town, Lin Xiaoman felt that all the bones in her body were about to be knocked apart. She didn't want to take a carriage again no matter what she said when she went back.

After getting out of the car, although Lin Xiangxing didn't say anything, her eyes wanted Lin Xiaoman to accompany her to the Fang family grain store. Lin Xiaoman asked her to calm down, "Aunt Osmanthus, I'm a little thirsty. Let’s go have a cup of tea at the tea shed over there?”

Shen Guihua smiled and nodded, "Okay, Aunt Guihua will treat you to a drink."

Lin Xiaoman was not polite to her, and several people walked into the tea shed.

The person who opened the tea shed was a woman in her forties. There was no one in the tea shed at this time. When she saw the four people walking in, she came over and greeted them with a smile, "What kind of tea do you want to drink?"

Shen Guihua ordered a pot of Biluochun.

Lin Xiaoman remembered that when she was a child, her mother and Aunt Guihua would order Biluochun every time they brought her and Xiangxing to the city. Her mother would use hot tea to scald the tea bowl, and then pour some sugar into the tea bowl for her to drink. , Aunt Guihua also laughed at her mother for being poor and fastidious.

Now that her parents are gone, Aunt Guihua still remembers the tea she loved to drink in the past, and she felt a little sad for a while.

The woman was about to leave after bringing tea, but Lin Xiaoman stopped her and said, "Mother, I want to ask you about someone."

The woman wiped her hands with the apron in front of her and said, "Who do you want to ask about, girl? I wonder if I recognize you."

Lin Xiaoman smiled, "It's the young master of Fang Ji Grain Store in the city. I heard a while ago that he wants to invite someone to go to the countryside to be a matchmaker. I just want to ask the young master of the grain store. We have a great business, why do we want to hire someone to go to the countryside to be a matchmaker?" ”

The smile on the woman's face froze. Seeing no one around, her eyes swept over the faces of Lin Xiaoman and Lin Xiangxing, and then she whispered: "Which girl from your family is this? I won't hide it. If the Fang family invites someone to come to propose marriage, don’t accept it. A good girl can’t be pushed into a pit of fire.”

Lin Xiangxing seemed to be relieved, and Shen Guihua's face turned pale. She took out a handful of copper coins from her body and said, "Sister, please tell me what kind of family this Fang family is."

Seeing this look, the woman knew that this was the daughter of Fang Ji Grain Store who had chosen her. She looked at the copper coins in her hand, which numbered about thirty, and she put a smile on her face again, "There happened to be no guests, so a few Come here and have a good talk with me. I'm not looking for the money you gave me, but I just don't want to see my good daughter jump into the fire pit. That Young Master Fang, oh, he has that disease..."

After coming out of the tea shed, Lin Xiangxing felt relaxed, but Shen Guihua's face turned green, "The person named Fang is really not a human being. He just looks for flowers and asks Liu Ran about his illness on weekdays, and even his stepmother doesn't let her go? I don't know Mrs. Fang." Whose seed is in your belly?"

Lin Xiangxing pulled Shen Guihua's sleeve, "Mom, don't say this outside."

Shen Guihua was also angry for a moment, and after she finished speaking, she regretted that she shouldn't have said these things in front of her daughter.

Lin Xiaoman also said: "Aunt Guihua, the most important thing right now is to get rid of the Fang family, but we can't marry Xiang Xing into the Fang family."

Shen Guihua nodded repeatedly, hurriedly bought some things in the city, and rushed back with Lin Xiangxing.

When passing by Fangji Food Store, I saw a young man of eighteen or nineteen years old sitting in front of the door. He looked like a decent person, but he was flirting with a woman in gorgeous clothes, and he would touch her from time to time.

After asking the people next to me, I found out that the young man was Fang Mingcheng, the young boss of Fangji Grain Store, and the woman was from Baihualou in front of me.

Shen Guihua spat in the other direction, "You're a disciple!"

This caused the passers-by to laugh, and Fang Mingcheng was so angry that he wanted to rush over and hit someone, but the clerk next to him stopped him and said something in his ear. Fang Mingcheng's eyes showed disbelief and guilt.

If you originally believed the woman in the tea shed, why would Shen Guihua not believe it after seeing this? Marrying her daughter into the Fang family is really pushing her into a pit of fire.

Fortunately, according to Shen Guihua and Lin Xiangxing's wishes, they haven't made a decision yet. As long as Xiangxing's family doesn't agree to the marriage in the end, the Fang family can't say anything.

Shen Guihua took her daughter and hurried back to tell her family about the matter. Lin Xiaoman and Lin Erhu inquired according to the address written on the deed.

After asking a few people, I found my store in a corner.

The facade doesn't look too small. There is a stove outside the door and a simple awning. It looks shaky. To protect against rain and snow, the shed needs to be reinforced.

Fortunately, it's a little out of the way here, but the front door is spacious, and a few tables can be set up when the weather is nice.

But what greeted them was General Tie guarding the door.

Compared with the adobe houses in the countryside, the brick and tile houses in the city are much sturdier and not at the epicenter of the earthquake. Last year, there was a huge turnaround in the area, which had little impact on many shops in the city. At least my parents bought this shop in addition to looking at it. It looks a little dilapidated, but not damaged at all.

I leaned on the broken window paper and looked inside. There were twelve square tables in the shop, and each table was equipped with four long stools.

There are still some rags left on the ground that have not been taken away.

After asking the shop next to it, I found out that this shop was rented to a couple selling steamed buns last year. However, life has been difficult for everyone in the past two years. They can't buy a few buns in a day. If they hadn't paid rent for a year, they would have died a long time ago. Closed for business.
Chapter completed!