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Chapter 15 Matchmaking

Deciding to pick up the crab pots the day after tomorrow, Zhang Ze said goodbye to Tong Yuanhang and started walking around the streets today.

Unfortunately, the efficiency of selling fish on the black market was indeed much lower. He only managed to sell five mandarin fish in one morning.

There are only so many families with good conditions in the county, but not everyone likes to eat mandarin fish.

And the families who bought it yesterday will definitely not buy it today, or even this month. After all, the price is not cheap, which makes it difficult to sell Zhang Ze’s mandarin fish.

Of course, the biggest impact was because the red armband patrols were particularly strict today, and Zhang Ze encountered them several times on the street.

Fortunately, the fish on his side was carried with a straw rope and looked like a buyer, so no accident occurred.

After counting the morning's harvest, the five fish sold for a total of only seven yuan and eighty cents.

This daily income is actually very exaggerated. If there were this much every day, it would be at least more than 200 a month, exceeding the income of more than 99% of the country.

But it was much less than yesterday, which made Zhang Ze somewhat uninterested in continuing to sell fish.

"Forget it, I'll go to the beach tomorrow and have a look. I'll sell them when I get the crab pots the day after tomorrow."

Zhang Ze knew better than to give up when he saw what was going on. There was no need for him to commit crimes despite the strict investigation today. He simply went to the supply and marketing cooperative and bought everything he wanted to buy.

He promised to bring two bunches of candied haws to his sister.

The third sister cannot be without the second sister, and a bowl of water must be balanced.

He also bought half a catty of candy for 40 cents and half a catty of candy coupons. He spent the remaining candy coupons on fruit candies costing one cent each.

The white rabbit is too conspicuous and is considered a luxury item in this era. It would be troublesome if Zhang Wu and his friends attract attention by playing zither.

You have to live a low-key life.

After buying the candy, Zhang Ze bought some free seasonings. Unfortunately, dried chili peppers were hard to buy, and spicy millet was not available, so he had no choice but to give up.

There are also pencils and pencil-repairing knives. Pencils come in half, and knives come in half.

As for hb pencils, Zhang Ze was reluctant to buy them. They were too expensive, costing only ten cents each.

After buying the exercise books, he went to the scrap station to find some elementary and junior high school textbooks and exercise books.

In other people's impressions, he was also illiterate. He had to study hard and slowly get rid of the image of illiterate. At the same time, he could also teach his two younger sisters.

When the younger sisters want to continue studying in the future, of course it is best to go to school.

I almost spent all the seven yuan and eighty cents I earned today.

Of course they are not for use in grocery stores, and the textbooks at the scrapyard are not valuable either.

Datou still bought lines, hooks, and dried shrimps and eels, and Tong Yuanhang made all the money.

At noon, he went to the state-owned restaurant for a bowl of noodles. In the afternoon, he walked around the county again. Seeing that patrols were still very frequent, he simply took all his things and took the car back to the village.

When we got back to the village, I guess it was around three o'clock in the afternoon.

As soon as he entered the house, he saw his mother chatting with a middle-aged woman.

He knew this middle-aged woman from the same village, but she was a matchmaker and had tricked many young wives from outside for the young men in the village.

"Mom, Aunt Cuifen." Zhang Ze greeted the person politely, and then prepared to put the things in the house first, and then come out to hear what was going on.

In his memory, this big matchmaker had been eyeing his sister Zhang Qian for a long time and had always wanted to be her matchmaker.

He had to find a way to stop her. In the last life, it was because of this matchmaker that his sister failed to marry the right person.

Zhang Huihong didn't expect her son to come back at this time, but he came back just in time. She quickly stopped him: "Aze, Mom asked your Aunt Cuifen to tell you about a girl. You and Aunt Cuifen will go to Lumen Island the day after tomorrow.

.”

"Me?" Zhang Ze was confused for a moment. He thought he was kissing his sister Zhang Qian, but the kiss ended up on his head.

But now he has no idea of ​​marrying a wife. He must at least earn enough money and build a new house after the land is allocated to each household, right?

It was only a matter of one or two years, so he was really not in a hurry.

But he couldn't explain this clearly, he could only say tactfully: "Mom, I'm not in a hurry, let's wait a little longer!"

This evasion made Zhang Cuifen mistakenly think that he did not like the girls on the island. Of course she would not miss it if business came to her. She quickly said: "Aze, don't think that it is not good for others to be girls from the island. Auntie told you

The girl is not only well-behaved and sensible, but also diligent in her hands and feet."

"And the body and bones are good, I'm sure I can give birth to a big fat boy for your family."

It would have been fine if I didn't talk about this Cuifen, but Zhang Ze lost interest even more after talking about it.

With good health and hard work, she is indeed a good wife for an ordinary rural youth, but there is nothing attractive about her at all.

And it doesn't matter if it's a boy or a girl, as long as it's his.

However, before Zhang Ze could say his refusal again, his waist hurt in vain.

When he looked back, he saw the threatening look from his old mother.

"..."

After a moment of silence, Zhang Ze decisively said: "Okay, I'll go take a look with Aunt Cuifen the day after tomorrow."

Seeing his agreement, Zhang Huihong and Zhang Cuifen smiled at the same time.

The two parties continued to discuss some small details, and then Zhang's mother enthusiastically sent the matchmaker out.

But Zhang Ze's face completely collapsed. When Zhang Huihong came back, he immediately complained: "Mom, why did you suddenly propose to me without saying a word? I also plan to rebuild the house after I make money.

This way Awu will have a room after I get married."

"Now that I'm married, where will Awu live?"

"You don't need to worry about this. After your marriage is finalized, mom will hire a carpenter to make furniture for you. Move the bed in your room and put it in my room. A Wu will sleep in my room after there is a curtain between my room."

Since Zhang Huihong had considered her eldest son's marriage, it must have been planned.

Then, a trace of anger suddenly appeared on her face, and she added: "Before you came back, that Mrs. Wang dared to brag in front of me that two dogs were on a blind date, and she even deliberately talked about it to me. This is not obviously looking for trouble.

?"

"After I inquired about it, I found out that Zhang Cuifen was the matchmaker and that the girl was from Lumen Island. The bride price for the girl there was only fifty yuan. No, you gave me forty yuan yesterday, so I just paid the total

Find her to kiss you too."

"When we were talking just now, Zhang Cuifen said that there is a good girl over there and asked her to come to the village to find out if there is any suitable young man. I thought this was a coincidence, so I just asked you to go and have a look."

"You're not young anymore, you're better than those two goons in everything. Even those two goons are attracted by others, how can you make them look down on you?"

"Er Gouzi has been taken by someone?"

Zhang Ze was shocked. The Ergouzi in his memory couldn't marry a wife, so he cheated her from another place. Then his wife from another place ran away after two years, so he cheated her again, only to run away again.

This guy is just like him, a guy who will never have any descendants.

It's just that he deserves it. How can a woman be so lazy and lazy? He simply didn't marry the right person.

Then he was shocked again: 'Isn't it because of me?'

In his previous life, Er Gouzi also wanted to seduce his sister at first, but he did not go to the county town to sell fish at that time and always protected his sister. Therefore, Zhang Qian and Zhang Qing were hardly harassed by the second-rate men in the village.

But in this life, as soon as he went to the county town to sell fish, Ergouzi happened to harass his sister and was even beaten up by him.

By the way, he was beaten badly yesterday. His nose and face were probably bruised and swollen. How could he go on a blind date and still be chosen?

Zhang Ze did not expect that the flapping speed of butterfly wings would change so quickly.

Regarding Er Gouzi's blind date, he kept it in his mind for the time being.
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