I, reborn, really don't want to be a matchmaker!

"We...we're buying in bulk, so naturally it's cheaper than what's sold at the market," Zhao Feng explained with a long face.

"Hmph! You're kidding me!" Qin Chaoyang slammed the account book onto Zhao Feng's head. "Listen, if you don't want to go to jail, you'd better settle the bill for Li Mei's bamboo products at the market price and apologize, or don't blame me for being impolite."

"Good! Good!" Seeing that Qin Chaoyang had left him a way out, Zhao Feng immediately got up and took an abacus from the old-fashioned wooden stick next to him. Then, in front of Li Mei's family, he started to calculate the accounts while flipping through the ledger.

About five minutes later.

The general ledger is then generated.

The total is 482.6 yuan.

After Zhao Feng called over a few companions and pooled the money together,

She tremblingly handed it to Qin Chaoyang: "You...you count it and see if the amount is correct."

Qin Chaoyang didn't answer, but instead gave Li Mei a wink.

Li Mei understood immediately, took the money from Zhao Feng, and counted it in front of her parents.

I counted it twice, and only after confirming that the amount was correct did I hand it over to my parents.

Li Mei's parents looked at the "substantial" amount of money in their hands and couldn't help but cry.

After all, others don't know how hard it is to be broke, but they know it in their hearts.

Now that they've received the four hundred-plus yuan from the bamboo weaving, not only can they pay off some of their debts, but the pressure on their shoulders has also eased considerably.

Li Mei breathed a sigh of relief and wanted to sincerely thank Qin Chaoyang, but Qin Chaoyang put his arm around Zhao Feng's shoulder and went to a corner of the threshing ground to whisper something.

No one knows what he said, but when Zhao Feng returned, he was trembling with fear. After kneeling down and kowtowing to Li Mei's family several times, he rode off on his old bicycle.

Zhao Feng's companions followed behind, pushing old-fashioned bicycles. One of them even lost his shoes because he was running too fast.

But instead of picking it up, he rode his old-fashioned bicycle and quickly disappeared on the dam of Bailu Reservoir.

"Brother Chaoyang, what did you just say to that liar?" Li Mei asked, curious as she watched this scene.

"He didn't say anything, you'd better not ask." Qin Chaoyang glanced at the approaching darkness. "It's getting late, if there's nothing else, I'll head back now!"

"You've helped my family so much, could you stay for a meal before you leave?" Li Mei glanced at her parents and then asked shyly.

I really helped her family a lot today. Otherwise, if it were her in her shoes, I really wouldn't know what to do.

"Let's eat next time!" Qin Chaoyang waved his hand and walked towards the Bailu Reservoir dam.

"Wait a minute." Li Mei quickly caught up with him: "You...you're really Director Qin's nephew?"

"What do you think?" Qin Chaoyang asked, shrugging his shoulders.

"I said yes," Li Mei replied softly.

"Why?" Qin Chaoyang was amused.

He also felt that Li Mei in front of him was as innocent as a blank sheet of paper, easier to deceive than anyone else.

"Because your surname is Qin! It's the same as Director Qin's," Li Mei replied.

"So, you're surnamed Qin because you're Director Qin's nephew?" Qin Chaoyang became serious. "Listen, I'm not Director Qin's nephew. I said that just now to help your family get back the several hundred yuan you owed."

"Huh?" Li Mei was taken aback.

Isn't he Director Qin's nephew?

How come that arrogant and domineering demeanor just now looked so similar?

"You just need to know about this, but don't tell anyone else, not even your parents," Qin Chaoyang instructed.

said.

He will be in a lot of trouble.

"Okay! Okay!" Li Mei nodded, then looked at Qin Chaoyang, her big, watery eyes filled with gratitude: "Thank you for everything you've done for my family, thank you so much."

"By the way, can you tell me how you figured out those guys from other villages were scammers?"

Anyway, she could tell, but she couldn't tell at all.

"Of course, I figured it out by intuition," Qin Chaoyang said with a smile, trying to brush it off. "Don't bother seeing me off, go home quickly! We need to deal with Wang Zhaohu's blind date tomorrow, and then we have to go to the city to look for jobs!"

"Mmm!" Li Mei nodded, feeling a little reluctant for some reason.

Therefore, she did not go home immediately, but waited until Qin Chaoyang's figure disappeared on the dam of Bailu Reservoir before turning around and walking towards her door.

At the doorstep, under the eaves, Li Mei's parents and grandfather were waiting for her.

Because they work in the fields year-round, Li Mei's parents and grandfather are much older than she imagined.

The father, Li Dacheng, was not even fifty years old, but he looked like a sixty-year-old man.

The mother, Zhang Xianglin, has countless white hairs at her temples, and her face is lined with more wrinkles than her peers.

Li Mei felt a lump in her throat when she saw it.

But she didn't say anything; she just kept it in her heart.

Seeing that her parents had something to ask her, Li Mei moved a long bench and sat down at the door.

"Meizi, was that young man really your friend?" Li Dacheng asked softly after taking a couple of puffs of his pipe.

"Mm." Li Mei nodded.

Because Qin Chaoyang had just given her instructions, she didn't say a word about Qin Chaoyang's personal information.

"He's a good person, just a bit unreliable," Li Dacheng said.

This lack of composure clearly refers to Qin Chaoyang's earlier act of beating Zhao Feng.

"You think you're so prudent? You took your savings of several years and went into business with your brother, only to lose everything and end up owing more than two thousand yuan." Zhang Xianglin couldn't help but retort.

"You...you...why do you have to bring up such a sore subject?" Li Dacheng was so embarrassed by the retort that he couldn't even speak properly for a moment.

"Alright, alright, Mom and Dad, stop arguing. Let's not bring up the past anymore." Li Mei was heartbroken seeing the situation escalating. "Now that my friend has helped me get the money for those few hundred yuan worth of bamboo products, let's think about which relative we should pay back first!"

"There's no rush to pay back the money." Li Dacheng looked at Li Mei: "What I want to ask now is, how far have things progressed between you and this young man?"

"And what's his name?" Zhang Xianglin followed up with another question.

"Dad, what do you mean by 'what stage' my relationship with this young man has taken? We're just ordinary friends. We only met today when we went to the police station to give a statement," Li Mei explained anxiously, blushing.

"Just ordinary friends?" Li Dacheng smiled.

"It really is," Li Mei confirmed.

"I don't believe you. Would an ordinary friend go to such lengths to help our family like that?" Li Dacheng retorted. "An ordinary friend, would they take you home?"

"I...I..." Li Mei stammered, not knowing how to explain herself for a moment.

She wanted to tell everyone she knew, but when she thought about the consequences, she had no choice but to keep quiet.

After all, if she keeps quiet, she can hide the fact that she lost her job and it won't cause panic in her family.

"We're not asking you all these questions for any other reason than that you're eighteen this year, the age to start thinking about marriage," Zhang Xianglin said earnestly to Li Mei. "If the other person is suitable and truly loves you, we as parents won't object."

"Oh!" Li Mei nodded, blushing.

Qin Chaoyang's conditions are indeed very good, and he is the type he likes.

"Now that you've agreed, can you tell me the name of that young man from earlier?" Zhang Xianglin pressed.

"His surname is Qin," Li Mei replied, but as for his given name, she opened her mouth but dared not say it.

She was afraid that if she said it, it would cause an even bigger misunderstanding.

They were even more afraid that they would eventually leak the things Qin Chaoyang had instructed them to do.

Because Qin Chaoyang was the son of Zhao Mudan from Wanhe Village, his parents could easily find out by asking around in the surrounding villages.

Once the truth is found out, Qin Chaoyang's impersonation of Qin Bo's nephew will undoubtedly be exposed.

To Li Mei's surprise, what she feared most came to pass.

Zhang Xianglin smiled and said, "I know your friend's surname is Qin. Didn't he say before that he's the nephew of Director Qin of the supply and marketing cooperative?" Zhang Xianglin smiled and said, "Since Director Qin's surname is Qin, then his surname must be Qin."

"It's over, it's over..." Li Mei covered her forehead, not knowing how to respond for a moment.

Only then did she realize that in order to help Qin Chaoyang cover it up, she had ended up getting herself into a mess.

In order to prevent things from getting out of control, she gritted her teeth and had no choice but to lie, giving Qin Chaoyang a random name, Qin Sanlang.

Seeing that her parents were not asking any more questions and were instead tidying up the bamboo crafts they had made, she got up and "escaped" into her room, immediately closing the door behind her.

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