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Chapter 70 Peach Girl
"Nonsense, you're going to beat up the girl's father, and he can still laugh when he hears your name?" Grandma was the first to react and said to Xie Hushan:

"If you dare to make trouble again, I will get up and go back to live in your uncle's yard."

Xie Hushan lowered his head and said nothing. Grandma then said to Old Lady Meng, "See what they are saying about the blind date over there. We will listen to them here. Did they go back to the cliff or..."

"They have a distant relative in Liushenzhuang, which is more than ten miles away from us. Their home is too far to make it back. The mother and daughter are staying at their relative's house tonight. I'll send a message and ask them to come and visit tomorrow. Don't bother them anymore. It's quite far and inconvenient to go back and forth." Old Mrs. Meng understood after seeing grandma's attitude, and she got off the kang after she finished speaking to grandma.

Grandma looked at Xie Hushan and Daxiu, and felt that neither of these two children was reliable. She could only look at her eldest son Xie Qimao:
"Da Mao, I don't care whether you ride a bicycle or find a large vehicle from the veterinary station, you have to accompany your second aunt to Liushenzhuang to deliver a letter."

"Okay." Xie Qimao agreed and followed Old Lady Meng out. The aunt helped grandma see the guests off.

When there were no outsiders around, grandma glanced at Xie Hushan, who was keeping his head down and not talking, and said, "Why are you so unwilling to look at me today, no matter what I say, can your grandma still harm you?"

"You will definitely not harm me. You will definitely find a good wife for me. I am not happy about it... What if I can find a city girl as my grandson's wife in the future? Yes, your grandson is not ugly, and you always praise me for my intelligence. Why can't I find a city girl as your grandson's wife..." Xie Hushan said with a forced smile.

If I go to Hong Kong Island, get an identity and make some money, grandma will definitely take him over to enjoy a good life. As for Sixth Master, that depends on whether grandma is willing to take him with her. Most likely she will. Even if grandma dislikes Sixth Master, they are still married.

When grandpa retires, I will probably have to find a way to take care of grandpa and grandma as well.

Daxiu must also be dealt with. She can't be left alone to bring disaster to the village and ruin the reputation of the Xie family after everyone else left. Besides, Xie Hushan is planning to steal Dahei and take him away with her when she leaves.

Even if my second uncle and second aunt don't go, they have to wait until their son, my cousin Xiaobao, is older and then send him over to study. Adding up the total number of people, it's almost time to move.

I have to at least find a way to earn enough money to buy a house big enough to accommodate so many people. How can I have the mood to find myself a wife now?

You have to help the Xie family expand and have children. When you get to Hong Kong, you can find beautiful girls to help you have children. In that place, rich men can have three wives and four concubines, and they can have as many children as they want.

"You are sweet-talking, smart, and not ugly. I believe you can definitely get a city girl to be with you, but you are not a good match. The girl's family is well-off and looks down on country people. Even if the marriage is successful, can you stand your wife's temper? When you go to her house to pay New Year's greetings, will she let you, a country girl, sit at the table for dinner? Even if you sit at the table, you will overturn the table with your temper if she says a few words to you?" The grandmother was no longer angry with her grandson because things had taken a turn for the better:
"Marry a daughter of a high rank and marry a wife of a low rank. Your grandma's judgment of people is correct."

"You don't have to use your sewing machine to help me change my wife. What would my uncle and aunt think? And what would your grandson Xiaobao think?" Xie Hushan said to his grandmother.

Grandma smiled and opened the kang cabinet. Xie Hushan went over to help take out the paint-chipped sewing machine from the cabinet and put it on the cabinet. Grandma touched the sewing machine with her hand and said with a smile:

"I've told your second uncle's family, they understand what I mean, and I'm not partial. I'm saving something for Xiaobao. Don't be reluctant to part with the sewing machine for your grandma. To be honest, I feel upset when I see this thing, otherwise why would I always put it in the cabinet?"

"It's a good deal to use it to buy you a wife that suits you. This girl will definitely be the prettiest, most knowledgeable about social etiquette, and the best at housework among all the wives you have had as children."

"She's as thin as a cat, how can you say she's pretty? Girl, how about I earn money to buy you a pair of reading glasses, and then you can help me choose one, okay?" Xie Hushan muttered in a low voice, unwilling to give up.

Grandma wiped the sewing machine and said, "What do you know? She's not fully fed and hasn't grown up yet. Her bones and facial features are there. When we get engaged, let her live with me for a while during the off-season. Let her eat some greasy food. You'll see the difference in a few months."

"Grandma, I haven't grown up yet. Can I live with you and eat with that sister-in-law?" Daxiu didn't care about anything else and only spoke and participated in the discussion on topics that interested him.

Xie Hushan said speechlessly: "You haven't grown up yet? What do you want to grow up to? The teacher who taught you is not as tall as you. When she criticized you and hit your palm, she was afraid that you would suddenly hit her back..."

"Okay, then let Daxiu come and live with me." Grandma laughed and put the sewing machine back after wiping it, saying.

Old Lady Meng was an absolute professional matchmaker. She followed Grandma's instructions and passed the message on the same day. The next day, she arranged for the two families to meet and have a blind date, in order to finalize the matter quickly. Generally speaking, in the villages around Zhongping, as long as the man and woman can sit down together with their families for a blind date, the marriage is mostly considered a success.

Because the conditions and appearance of both parties have already been made clear by the introducer after they have met, only when both parties are willing will they sit down to meet.

Grandma called Xie Hushan to get up early in the morning and cleaned the house inside and outside with her, which was already quite clean.

Xie Laoliu, uncle, aunt, second aunt, Daxiu and Xiaobao all arrived early. Not long after, the second uncle of the Xie family was also picked up from the neighboring village by the second uncle. After all, it was a big event to have a new member, and all members of the Xie family had to be notified.

Of the six brothers of Xie's grandfather's generation, only the second uncle Xie Kegong and the sixth uncle Xie Kefu are still alive.

For some unknown reason, the Second Master moved to the village where the Second Wife's family lived a few miles away in his early years. He was almost like a son-in-law who married into the family. He basically never came to Zhongping unless there was something important. Moreover, the grandfathers of the Xie family also addressed Grandma and Sixth Master strangely.

"Sixth brother, sister-in-law, are you all doing well?" Second Master entered the yard and saw Grandma and Sixth Master coming out to greet them. He quickly took two steps forward and greeted them with a smile.

Just after they entered the house and sat down for a while, the sound of a carriage was heard at the door. Old Lady Meng and the people from the Jin family had arrived.

Including Old Lady Meng, there were five people in total. In addition to the blind date girl Taozi and her mother, there was also Taozi's distant uncle and aunt in Liushen Village. After being introduced by Old Lady Meng, both parties greeted each other politely and entered the house.

After they all entered the house, the women sat on the kang, while the men sat on the bench under the kang and smoked. Xie Hushan stood next to the old man Xie Qimao, accepting the scrutiny of the woman's visitors.

At this time, the men were chatting excitedly about the harvest on the ground, while the women were talking about family matters on the kang. Xie Hushan didn't understand. It was obviously a blind date, so why did everyone have to talk about trivial things first?

On the contrary, the two parties were ignored most of the time, and only occasionally someone would ask a question.

However, this also gave Xie Hushan the opportunity to observe the other person. She was thin, shriveled, and severely malnourished. Her long yellow hair was braided into two pigtails and hung on her shoulders. The clothes she wore were clean, but with patches on them. At this time, her aunt was sitting at the end of the kang next to her. She lowered her eyes quietly and shyly, and occasionally when someone else spoke to her, she would raise her head and smile, then answer openly, and then listen attentively to what the other person said with her big eyes blinking.

If you look closely at her appearance, it is indeed as my grandmother described. She has a fair and pretty oval face, but she is too thin and has not grown up yet. Her face is too small, which makes her eyes look big and bright. There is a smile between her eyebrows. She has a likable face that smiles even when she is sleeping.

While the elders seemed to be chatting but were actually observing secretly, Xie Hushan noticed that the girl named Taozi, at the urging of her grandmother, obediently stood up and picked up two sugar melons from the plate on the kang table, but after sitting back in her original seat, she never ate them.

Instead, after a while, when no one was paying attention, she quietly handed the candy melon to Daxiu, who was standing one step away from her pitifully and had been waiting for a long time but no one gave her a candy.

The next moment after putting the sugar melon into his mouth, Daxiu started chatting intimately with the other party. The main conversation format was that Taozi girl praised Daxiu with a smile, then asked Daxiu a question, and then Daxiu answered ten questions with a beaming face.

It seems that she can get everything she wants to know from Daxiu with two candies without waiting for the blind date to be over.

No wonder grandma was talking to someone while looking at the other person with a smile on her face, she was so happy as if she was going to marry the other person.

It was obvious that grandma chose a grandson's wife based on herself. The way this girl was trying to talk to Daxiu was exactly the same as the way grandma was trying to talk to other old ladies.

If they really get married, my grandmother will definitely teach him how to deal with her real grandson, just like how she taught Sixth Master, that beast.

Although this girl hasn't grown up yet, she already has a fighting attitude...

(End of this chapter)