The three of them looked around, but saw no one on the other side of the bridge. Hu Zi on the side was obviously impatient with waiting, and couldn't help but ask: "What time is it now? Why hasn't anyone come yet?"

"It must have been delayed by something. My good aunt said that she will go to the market every day to sell fish, rain or shine." Li Damao said, his eyes kept staring at the other side of the bridge as he spoke, and he looked worried.

Tie Zhu couldn't help but wonder: "Since you are selling fish, why don't you go to the market to see it?"

"How can I have the time to go to the market? It takes a long time to go there."

This is true. Most of the people in the village are self-sufficient and only go to the market once or twice a month. This bridge is the only way to go to the market in eight villages nearby, so it is right to stay here.

Tiezhu asked curiously: "Brother Damao, which village is your partner from?"

"From Xigang Village."

"Ah?...Isn't Xigang Village the village of my second uncle? That's great. We live close by. It will be convenient to go to my father-in-law's house for a meal or something."

"It's convenient to send firewood to my father-in-law." Huzi on the side also grinned.

"Ten strokes have not happened yet." Li Damao said.

Huzi, however, didn't take it seriously: "Didn't my good aunt say so? The girl's family has already agreed, and they are just waiting for your nod."

"Then you have to look the same. You can't marry me like a pig or a dog." Li Damao looked at it on the surface, but in his heart he thought, if the person looks similar this time, he should marry him off. After all, his age is different.

There, if it drags on any longer, it will really become a joke to the villagers.

"Is she a girl who has not yet left the court?" Tie Zhu added in a very unflattering tone.

After hearing this, Li Damao immediately felt unhappy: "Nonsense, can I, Li Damao, marry a second-hand guy?" He knew that the people in the village were waiting to see his joke, saying that she, Li Damao, couldn't marry a wife, and no one would bet on him.

The one who finally married was either an abandoned woman or a widow.

"My good aunt also said that this girl is only fourteen or fifteen years old. She is good-looking and hard-working."

Hearing this, Tiezhu didn't say anything else. Who among these fourteen or fifteen-year-old girls who are in their prime years is not beautiful?

If this is true, Li Damao is really lucky.

While they were talking, a truck came into view of several people.

"Here we come..." Li Damao was a little nervous.

"Is that her?" Tie Zhu asked, his eyes fixed on the cart in front of him.

The wheels of the cart are very high, and there are several tall wooden barrels placed above it, which blocks the face of the person pushing the cart, but you can still tell from the gray skirt below that it is a woman.

"Yes, that's her. My good aunt said that she pushes the trolley back and forth every day."

Six eyes were staring blankly in the same direction. The cart was getting closer and closer, but it stopped halfway. The wheel was probably stuck by something. The woman came out from behind and bent over to deal with it.

a while.

The person was so far away that his appearance couldn't be clearly seen, but his figure still looked pretty good. Seeing this, Li Damao secretly rejoiced.

Huzi touched him with his elbow: "Oh, Damao, this woman is worthy of marriage. Look at her butt. You can see that she is a good childbearer."

For some reason, Li Damao felt unhappy when he saw him staring at his future wife's ass, so he didn't speak to her.

As the cart got closer and closer, the three of them quietly stepped back and hid in a bush at the end of the bridge in a tacit understanding and waited silently.

The sound of wheels pressing against the dirt road reached their ears, and then an unpleasant fishy smell rushed over. Huzi and Tiezhu quickly covered their noses. Li Damao held it back, but he could not hide the look of disgust on his face.

The three of them took a closer look and finally saw clearly the true face of the man pushing the cart.

Not to mention that the teenage girl has dark skin and her face is covered with pimples, her appearance is hard to describe.

The man pushing the cart didn't know that there was someone hiding in the bushes, so he pushed the cart straight towards Xigang Village.

As the people walked away, the unpleasant smell faded away, and then three grown men walked out of the bushes.

"Oh my god, the smell is so exciting." Huzi couldn't help complaining: "Not only does it smell bad, but can you see that face clearly?"

Huzi shook his head as he spoke and sighed: "It's a pity that your figure matches such a face."

Tie Zhu couldn't help but add another sentence: "If this woman gets married, she won't have nightmares when she sleeps in the middle of the night. Don't you think so, Brother Damao?"

Li Damao couldn't hear his gloating. His face turned red and white, and finally he glared at the two of them, turned around and left without saying a word...

Xu Weiqiu didn't know how many people had just commented on her. She looked up at the sky and quickened her pace.

When she arrived at the field base, she unloaded several wooden barrels from the cart and washed them in the ditch. The wooden barrels were for fish, but the fishy smell could never be washed away.

After entering the village, she pushed the cart into the Xu family's firewood shed and took out a bundle of firewood.

There were two red lanterns hanging at the door of Xu's house. The red words "Happy" on the door were not posted well and a corner fell off, so she straightened them out.

As soon as she entered the door, she met Xu Weicheng's daughter-in-law Hongyan, who had just walked in. When Hongyan saw her, she pointed at her face in surprise without saying hello and exclaimed: "Miss Qiu, what's wrong with your face?"

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The second mother in the room heard the sound and came over, and was shocked when she saw her appearance.

Xu Weiqiu looked calm: "What's wrong with my face?" He stretched out his hand and touched some protruding particles.

"Come, come and take a look." Erniang pulled her into her room, took out a mirror from the bedside and held it in front of her.

She went up and took a look, and when she saw her ghostly appearance in the mirror, she suddenly understood.

"There was a lady selling pastries at the market who tried two pastries for me. They probably had peanuts in them."

Zhang had heard from her that she was allergic to peanuts. She didn't know what an allergy was. She just knew that she couldn't eat it and would always pay attention when cooking. Only when she saw the pimples on her face did she realize that allergies were so terrible.

"Then what should I do? How can I go out to meet people when I have such a good face?"

Xu Weiqiu saw that she was anxious and said quickly: "It's not a big deal. It will be fine in a few days."

"Is this true?" Zhang was doubtful.

"Really, why did I lie to you?"

"No need to apply some medicine?"

"No need to paint anything."

Under her repeated assurances, Er Niang was still worried: "You still have to be careful. If you leave scars, it will be troublesome. Qiu'er, you have reached the age of marriage. The most important thing for a woman is to marry a good family.

, I’m afraid it will be hard to find a partner if this face is ruined.”

Xu Weiqiu didn't pay much attention to what she said, but she didn't refute it. She knew that it was useless to talk about different opinions, so she just agreed obediently.


Chapter completed!