Reborn since 2005

Chapter 347 A match made in heaven

Author: Hometown Three Thousand Miles

June 19th, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, is the Dragon Boat Festival.

For Yan Xin, it was another day of sleeping until he woke up naturally.

However, his work and rest schedule was normal, and he woke up early, before seven o'clock.

I lay on the bed for a few minutes, looked at my phone, and then got up.

Father Yan is not at home. He got so much mugwort and calamus yesterday and wants to take them to the town to sell them today. He was late and there was no business, so he set off before dawn and had breakfast in the town.

——Usually, it means eating two steamed buns and drinking a bowl of porridge for one or two yuan.

Yan Xin needs to make breakfast for himself.

Seeing that it was still early, he didn't rush to make breakfast. Instead, he went out for a run and ran on the path in the field for more than half an hour before returning.

When I came home, I saw Bai Xiaoling waiting at the door of his house pushing a bicycle.

When I saw him coming from a distance, I waved and said hello: "Brother Xin, you are back!"

Yan Xin was a little puzzled and asked with a smile: "What are you waiting for here?"

"Do you want to buy tofu today?" Bai Xiaoling asked.

Then he added: "It's the festival today, and tofu is very popular. There are only a few pieces left. I'll keep them for you."

Yan Xin scratched his head, feeling a little embarrassed. He really had no intention of eating tofu today.

Tofu is not particularly delicious. I ate so much yesterday that there is no need to eat more today.

It's not that I'm reluctant to spend money. Tofu costing 50 cents a piece is worth a few dollars, so there's no loss in buying it and throwing it away.

If you just buy it and throw it away without eating, it would be a waste of food. As a farmer's son, he cannot accept such a thing.

He smiled and said, "You can leave this opportunity to others. Our family ate tofu yesterday. It doesn't matter if we don't eat it today."

Bai Xiaoling said, "Okay, I'll sell it to someone else later."

Today is a festival, and there are more people buying tofu than usual - it is a dish after all, and it is not shameful to have a plate of it during the festival, and it is more respectable than putting some pickled products on the table.

Before reaching the twelfth group, there were only a few yuan left.

Even if Yan Xin doesn't want it, she won't worry about not being able to sell it.

It doesn't matter even if you can't sell it, there are only a few pieces of tofu left, you can eat it yourself.

She has been waiting here for more than ten minutes, not to sell Yan Xin a few pieces of tofu, this is just an excuse.

After talking about the tofu thing, he lowered his voice and said, "Yesterday I asked my mother about a matchmaker who wanted to introduce her to your father -"

Yan Xin quickly asked: "What did your mother say?"

"My mother said that a matchmaker did tell her about this. She originally agreed and thought it would be okay..." As she said that, Bai Xiaoling's eyes showed some resentment, "But she also said that the matchmaker later told her

, your father looked down upon her, and then he no longer had the intention..."

Yan Xin was stunned for a moment, thinking to himself: "Is my dad so fierce? He said it so directly?"

No matter how you think about it, it's not his father's speaking style.

So he shook his head and firmly denied: "That's impossible! It must be the matchmaker's nonsense! How could my dad say such a thing?"

Bai Xiaoling said: "I don't think your dad would be so direct, maybe he just means this..."

Yan Xin thought: "That's indeed what it means."

But he still didn't admit it and said: "My dad mentioned this to me, which means that I need to think about it, and he didn't mean to say he doesn't like it."

"Then what are you thinking about? My mother is such a diligent and thrifty person, and your father is also an honest person. They are both middle-aged and widowed. Isn't it a match made in heaven?" Bai Xiaoling was a little anxious.

"Marriage is not a trivial matter, so it must be carefully considered." Yan Xin said.

Bai Xiaoling said: "But, but they are already that age. If you think about it again, everyone is old..."

What she said is also true.

In terms of age, they are all in their forties and can only be described as middle-aged.

However, if you waste a few more years, you will really get old.

Yan Xin felt sad after hearing this, and thought it made so much sense.

That’s not to say that finding a partner doesn’t require consideration, but it certainly shouldn’t be considered for too long, especially for older people who don’t have so much time to waste.

He said: "What you said makes sense. I need to persuade my dad."

After saying this, he asked Bai Xiaoling: "Then what does your mother mean? She won't listen to the matchmaker's nonsense and have a problem with my father, right?"

"Um..." Bai Xiaoling hesitated for a moment and said, "It may be a bit of a misunderstanding, but it's not a big deal. She thinks your dad is a pretty good person, honest and trustworthy."

It can be seen from her reaction that her mother has some opinions about being rejected, but not much.

Yan Xin was relieved now.

What he didn't know was how much ideological work Bai Xiaoling had done for her mother yesterday, and she even talked about her future with her mother:

"You also know that I will definitely not be able to go to college. I can only work part-time, and I don't have much ability. It is difficult to find a good job. I have to rely on myself. I don't know how difficult it will be in the future. If you marry Yan Xin, he

Dad, doesn’t Yan Xin become my brother? He is so capable, won’t he help me a little in the future? "

When she said this, her mother thought it was true.

Even though I felt a little aggrieved by being rejected at first, for the sake of my daughter's future happiness, I just had to endure it.

Besides, Dad Yan is not a bad person.

An honest and responsible person will not bring surprises to himself in life, but generally it will not bring disasters.

Bai Xiaoling said again:

"If you don't find a partner, it will be a big problem for me to get married in the future. Then when others see the situation of our family, they will have to provide for you in old age if you marry me. How big a burden will it be? Who would dare to marry me?

?If you get married to Yan Xin’s father, and the Yan family’s family conditions are so good, they will naturally support you in your old age, and people won’t have such worries about me.”

Her mother was angry: "So you just wanted to sell me, your mother, for a good price just for your happiness."

Bai Xiaoling hurriedly laughed: "It's okay, mom, don't worry, I won't take any of the bride price, I'll give it all to you!"

Her mother looked at her in shock: "What are you thinking? I, a widow in my forties, have remarried and I still want a bride price?"

Bai Xiaoling said: "We won't ask for it, but I think if people respect you, they should be interested no matter what."

Her mother snorted: "Even if someone gives it to us, we can't accept it. If we accept it, we won't respect ourselves."

"Okay, okay, if you don't accept it, don't accept it," Bai Xiaoling said.

Then he said: "I'm not saying it's for my own good. It's just that if you marry Yan Xin's father, I can get some benefits, but the one who gets the biggest benefit is you, isn't it? Look at that house.

Look at our houses. How big is the difference? His son is so promising and earns tens of thousands a month.

You are still a filial child, as long as you marry and treat your father well, then he can ignore you in the future? You also know me, it is difficult to support yourself, can you really point to me to provide for you in old age?

It would be much more enjoyable for a promising person like Yan Xin to be a stepmother than for me to be my biological mother."

After all kinds of persuasion, her mother finally agreed and gave her these words:

"Anyway, I have no objection. If someone is willing to live with me, then I will agree. If not, I will not rush to ask for it. These years have been so difficult, I have survived it alone, and I will not be afraid in the future.

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With this, Bai Xiaoling had the confidence to tell Yan Xin about this matter.

She is very concerned about this matter and feels that this is a major asset restructuring project that can optimize resources and achieve a win-win situation.

I stood there pushing my bicycle and talked to Yan Xin for more than ten minutes, and then both of them realized that the only obstacle to completing this project was Yan's father.

As long as Dad Yan is dealt with, the matter will be considered a success.

But Yan Xin himself has no confidence in whether he can handle Yan's father.

He told Bai Xiaoling: "My dad is too introverted and honest. He doesn't tell anyone what he thinks. He thinks highly of your mom. I think it is possible. We can't be too hasty.

You have to do it slowly."

Bai Xiaoling was a little anxious: "I think it's better to get it done earlier so that we don't delay each other."

In order to make Yan Xin have a sense of crisis, he added: "My mother has always wanted to find someone to marry. In the past, it was because she had to support my education, so others did not dare to talk to her. Now I have graduated from high school and have taken the college entrance examination."

If she doesn't marry, it means she has no burden, and it will be much easier for her to get married again. I saw a matchmaker come to my door the day before yesterday. Although I don't know what they were talking about, I guess it was this."

Yan Xin fell silent.

Bai Xiaoling quickly expressed her loyalty: "Of course, brother, I still hope that we can become a family. But your father started early, otherwise I will have to be someone else's sister."

Yan Xin glanced at her and thought: "It doesn't matter if you have a younger sister or not. It doesn't matter if you don't want this younger sister... But that mother is indeed a good woman who is diligent and thrifty. If my father can marry such a woman, what will happen in the future?"

Life should be pretty good."

He said: "Well, let me talk to my dad again and let him make a decision as soon as possible. As long as he doesn't object, I will visit Matchmaker Wang in the afternoon and let her make an agreement."

Bai Xiaoling was overjoyed: "That's what we should do!"

After agreeing, Bai Xiaoling didn't stay any longer and ran back on her bicycle.

She didn't bother to sell a few pieces of tofu.

If someone wants it on the way back, sell it. If no one wants it, eat it yourself.

Compared with this family reorganization project, a few pieces of tofu are really nothing.

It was already eight o'clock, and Yan Xin was a little hungry, so he went to make breakfast.

Breakfast is too easy for one person. There are still dishes in the refrigerator that were not finished yesterday. There is a bowl with a few pieces of pork ribs in it. He uses the few pieces of ribs to cook noodles and has a portion of pork ribs noodles.

From the beginning to the end of the meal, it takes less than 20 minutes.

After eating, we went for a walk around the fields to eat and drink, and took some photos along the way.

At that time, you can show it to Ellie and prove that you are indeed going home for the Dragon Boat Festival.

——Ellie may not necessarily doubt him, but he feels guilty and feels the need to prove it.

He originally wanted to collect his father's lobster traps to see if he could prepare a plate of crayfish at noon, but he didn't know which of the densely packed traps in the ditch belonged to his family.

Accepting someone else's floor cage will cause disputes.

So I had to give up this idea.

After walking around for a while, I returned home and didn't go back upstairs. I just rested in the living room.

Lying on the sofa in the living room, I started playing on my phone.

Go online, chat, etc.

Feng Xi sent him several messages, from leaving the house to getting in the car.

Now she has boarded the bus back to the village, which is the earliest bus back from the county, and has now arrived in the town.

If she has enough money to rent a car and come back directly, it will be much more convenient and she can catch breakfast at her home.

But she didn't want to do that. She didn't want her family to know that she had money to take a taxi, so she could only take the shuttle bus back. When she took the shuttle bus back from the county, she knew exactly when she would get home.

Can't live.

Yan Xin saw that she said she had arrived in town, and then looked at his message list, and Ai Lili was on the list.

Ai Lili also sent him two messages. The first message was "Happy Dragon Boat Festival" (at this time, there were no online articles circulating about saying "you cannot say happy Dragon Boat Festival but only health". Everyone can legally say "Happy Dragon Boat Festival" without worrying about others calling the police)

, the second message was that she had driven to Xiaorong Town.

He replied to Ellie: "Happy holidays, be careful on the road."

Looking at these two messages from Ai Lili, I felt unsafe in my heart, so I replied "Happy holidays, be careful on the road", and then deleted the chat page between the two of them.

After deleting it, I feel relieved.

Then he sent a message to Feng Xi.

Feng Xi didn't drive, but took a minibus back, so she could keep chatting with him.

The two of them chatted for only ten minutes, and Feng Xi sent a message: "I got off the car, let's talk when we have time."

That's how the chat ended.

Yan Xin was even a little worried that she would come to his house instead of going back to her own home first.

He stood outside and waited for a while.

Instead of waiting for Feng Xi, he saw his father coming back pulling a small cart.

He quickly walked over and helped his father push the cart up the slope, while asking, "How much did it sell for today?"

"Eels and loaches were sold for seventy or eighty yuan, mugwort and calamus were sold for more than one hundred yuan, and the total sold today was more than two hundred yuan," Dad Yan said.

When I said this, I felt a little excited and a little proud.

The income of more than 200 yuan a day is indeed worthy of his excitement.

Of course, eels and loaches are accumulated over a long period of time and are not income for this day.

Mugwort and calamus can be regarded as almost a day's income.

Unfortunately, there is only one day in a year.

After returning home, he put down the cart and carried a bucket to collect the crayfish in the cage on the ground.

There was also a snakeskin bag inside the bucket. Inside the snakeskin bag were more than a dozen food bags, and inside were oil cakes made from rapeseed oil, which were used as bait for crayfish.

Yan Xin looked at the time and saw that it was already half past nine. Thinking that there were quite a lot of dishes to make for the holiday today, he stopped playing with his phone and started preparing lunch dishes.

There are also several eels in the large water tank in the courtyard. The smallest ones are three or four taels, and the larger ones are almost a pound.

Yan Xin fished out all the eels, then killed the eels and picked out all the bones.

This is how to make braised eel.

They don't debone eels here, they are not so pretentious and don't bother.

After a few years, more and more people went out to work and their income levels became higher and higher, so this way of eating slowly became popular.

Yan Xin did this with the skills he learned while working for Ai Lili.

Although it is not as fast as those professionals, it can be done.

I also cut a plate of the pork I bought yesterday, and then chopped a dozen green peppers.

This is the soul dish of Daflan people, fried pork with green pepper.

I bought more than a pound of chicken wings in the supermarket. At this time, I also took them out to melt the ice and prepared to make a Coke chicken wings.

There is no Coke at home. After his father comes back, he will go to Laizi's small shop to buy some.

The steamed pork ribs are a must, and I also bought a pack of tempeh, which came in handy.

I also bought beef and also fried green peppers.

The green peppers are grown at home and are a bit spicy, but not very spicy.

After these preparations are almost complete, Yan's father also collected the crayfish and came back. There are two or three kilograms of crayfish, so he will make another plate of crayfish.

In addition, I also went to the vegetable garden to pick a few cucumbers and make a plate of cucumbers. It was also an extra plate of vegetarian dishes to relieve my fatigue.

This adds up to seven dishes.

Yan Xin thought for a while and felt that seven dishes were not very good, so he cut some leeks and put together another dish - scrambled eggs with leeks.

That's eight dishes.

The father and son had eight dishes, which was quite a sumptuous meal.

Dad Yan couldn't help but said: "You are making it look like the Chinese New Year."

Yan Xin said with a smile: "It's rare to celebrate the festival together, so it's not illegal at all to make it rich."

Prepare these ingredients and start cooking.

By the time the food was ready, it was already past 12 o'clock.

It's still the same rules as before, Yan Xin takes charge of the dishes, and Yan's father lights the fire.

The ingredients are already prepared, so cooking is quite easy.

At this time, Yan Xin talked to his father about finding a companion for his father. This time there was no roundabout, and he directly mentioned Bai Xiaoling's mother:

"Dad, Bai Xiaoling came over this morning to sell tofu. She told me that her mother said that you told the matchmaker last year that you didn't like her. Is this true?"

Dad Yan quickly shook his head: "I never said that!"

"Then what did you say?" Yan Xin asked.

"I told the matchmaker that I didn't have that idea and didn't want to find a partner." Dad Yan said.

The meaning is still the same, just a little more euphemistic.

Yan Xin felt that if he didn't directly explain that he disliked someone, it wouldn't be a serious matter.

Said: "I don't know how the matchmaker spread the word, but from what Bai Xiaoling meant, her mother felt aggrieved after hearing such words."

"Ah?" Yan's father was a little uneasy, "What should we do? How about I find a time to explain to her?"

Yan Xin smiled: "I've already explained it to you, saying that you didn't say that, and that you spoke highly of her."

"Oh." Dad Yan felt relieved.

There is some relief - my son has grown up and can handle things.

Otherwise, it would be offending people for no reason.

Just as he was thinking about it, he heard Yan Xin say: "I heard from Bai Xiaoling that her mother was actually quite satisfied with you at the time and thought it would be good to start a family with you."

Father Yan was silent, and he didn't know how to answer this.

Yan Xin asked again: "Dad, don't you have any ideas?"