Chen Guozhong and his family didn't expect that Lai Baoqing would be a matchmaker for their son Chen Dongliang, let alone that Lai Baoqing was entrusted by Ma Lao Er, and what they didn't expect the two of them to do was that Ma Lao Er entrusted Lai Baoqing to tell his only daughter Ma Hua to his son Chen Dongliang. The two of them looked at Lai Baoqing with wide eyes, and the two of them put their hands in their mouths and bit them like dreams, so they didn't believe it and asked, "Is this true?"

"Look at the two of you, isn't this true or can it be fake? Can you joke about this with the two of you and make fun?" Lai Baoqing looked at Chen Guozhong and his wife seriously, and said, "Captain Ma has been looking for me twice about this matter, and I thought it was quite appropriate, so I promised Captain Ma to protect this medium for the two of you." ”

"Is it suitable to live in this village?" Chen Guozhong had already blossomed in his heart, and asked tentatively with a careful smile on his face.

"What's wrong with that? Your family name is Chen, and his family name is Ma, and he lives in a village, not an ancestor. Lai Baoqing immediately glared at Chen Guozhong, "They are all children who grew up in front of them, they know their roots, and they will get along well in the future." ”

"This is true, they are all children who grew up in front of themselves, which child has a temperament and temperament, and they all know it in their hearts. Chen Guozhong narrowed his eyes and said with a smile, "Two children are suitable, but I'm afraid that others will gossip." ”

"What gossip can others say?" Lai Baoqing frowned and asked, "Besides, this is a matchmaker who protects it, and it is not privately decided by the two children themselves, what can others say?"

"That's what Lai Mao's father said!" Dongliang Niang immediately took Lai Baoqing's words and said.

"Look, it's better for my sister-in-law to open it. Lai Baoqing saw that Dongliang Niang had spoken, and with a smile on his face, he said with a little disparaging Chen Guozhong, "I think you just can't think about it." We can't talk here and we can't spread it to the outside, so how can we go up to the pole to marry our own daughter to our boy's family? ”

Chen Guozhong really said this to Lai Baoqing, which made the joy in his heart flow to his face, he smiled and said: "As long as Captain Ma and the two of them don't dislike our family, they don't dislike our kid." ”

"Look at how shameless you are, if people dislike it, can they ask me to be involved in this matter?" Lai Baoqing pouted at Chen Guozhong, "I think you are cheap and obedient." ”

"Don't talk to him!" Dong Liang Niang also pouted at Chen Guozhong, turned her face to look at Lai Baoqing, and said with a smile, "I have to trouble you to run more errands and move your mouth in this matter, if you have any ideas and requirements over there, you can come over in time to ventilate." ”

"Tomorrow, I'll give Captain Ma a reply and tell him that the two of you have agreed to this. Catch up with the two children to talk together. Lai Baoqing smiled with satisfaction on his face, and got up to leave Chen Guozhong's house.

"You can't leave tonight, and now you have a meal here and go back, it's not a ten-mile road. When Dongliang Niang saw Lai Baoqing getting up to leave, she immediately asked Chen Guozhong to pull Lai Baoqing, "Dongliang Dad, if you can't keep Lai Mao's father today, you won't eat dinner, and you won't sleep!"

"In this way, I can't stay any longer. Lai Baoqing saw that Dongliang Niang stayed so really, smiled, and sat down on the bench again.

Dongliang Niang saw Lai Baoqing sit down, so she went to the stove room to toss dinner.

"Brother Chen, I didn't expect this matter at the beginning, Captain Ma was looking for me to chatter, and it was about the child's marriage. Lai Baoqing sat down and saw that Dong Liang Niang had gone to the stove room to make dinner, so he continued to tell Chen Guozhong about the coming and going of this matter.

"Captain Ma already had this in his heart?" Chen Guozhong took Lai Baoqing's words.

"Not really. Lai Baoqing shook his head and said, "Captain Ma is such a girl, I don't want to marry far away." ”

"This is also, not to mention the captain of his horse, whoever he spreads will have such a mind. Chen Guozhong nodded and said, "The girl is married far away, and it is inconvenient to come and go." The girl married to herself, back and forth under her nose, there is a place where she can reach out and help, pull a hand. ”

"I listened to Captain Ma's thoughts, and I wondered if there was a suitable offspring in the surrounding villages. I don't know why, I've been thinking about it, and I've figured it out to the child who is the pillar of your family. I tentatively told Captain Ma, but he didn't say yes, he didn't say no, he just didn't speak. I'm going to stop talking. A few days later, he came to me again and told me about it, and I told him what I was thinking about, and asked him to think about it too. Not to mention, he pondered this time, but said that my thinking is such a thing, let me come to your house and ask you two. ”

Chen Guozhong listened to Lai Baoqing's words and kept nodding to Lai Baoqing.

"I didn't expect the two of you to agree so happily. That's it, this is how it should be, it's all fate!" Lai Baoqing was very happy that he was so briskly involved in this marriage.

"I don't know what the child thinks. Chen Guozhong looked at Lai Baoqing and said.

"What does the child think?" Lai Baoqing frowned and stared at Chen Guozhong and asked, "Can the child be the master?"

"Now it's not like you can't have an arranged marriage. Chen Guozhong smiled.

"That's just what I said above, who is in charge of the child's marriage?" Lai Baoqing shook his head and said, "What is said above is said above, and what is said above is not necessarily accurate." A few years ago, I was still shouting about catching up with the United States in three years and five years, but how many years have passed, and I haven't even smelled the shadow of other people's farts. Do you remember the time when you smashed pots and cans to make steel, and the iron lumps and farts that were smelted were useless, and you couldn't eat them if you threw them there. What is said above is not necessarily true!"

Chen Guozhong didn't expect that Lai Baoqing still had a mouth, and he seemed to have no spirit on weekdays, so he had a mouth when he chattered. He opened his mouth, but he didn't know how to respond to Lai Baoqing's words.

"Besides, we are all small people who eat in the mud, and the ones mentioned above are for those big people. Let's make the decision on the child's marriage, what kind of investigation team can be sent from above?" Lai Baoqing saw that Chen Guozhong was speechless, and approached what he said just now, "Then again, the child's affairs are in charge of the child's affairs, and the hair in the child's crotch is not fully tied, what do they know? Can they think of the future days? Can they think of oil, salt, sauce and vinegar?"

"That's right!" Chen Guozhong nodded to Lai Baoqing and said, "The child won't think that far." ”

So, you can't let the child get involved in this by himself. Besides, let's tell our children that the matchmaker is engaged, can the blind and lame clean up at home?" Lai Baoqing looked at Chen Guozhong and said very knowingly, "Don't we think that the children will be able to live a nourishing life in the future? Ma Hua and Dongliang, the two children, both grew up in front of us, what kind of temperament do the two children have, we are all clear in our hearts. I wondered if these two children lived a two-person life, and their lives would not be bad in the future. ”

"That's right!" Chen Guozhong really didn't know how to pick up Lai Baoqing's words, but he kept nodding his head at Lai Baoqing, and said this casually with Lai Baoqing.

"Are you calculating in your heart, your two families just have two children, and when the children get married, the two families will become one, and five or six laborers will earn work, and you are afraid that the days will not be nourishing?" Lai Baoqing smiled on his face, his mouth pursed, and his eyes stared at Chen Guozhong, "Captain Ma and the two of them still don't regard the days of these two children as their own? I think, if the matter of these two children is done, you can steal the fun, and you can wake up laughing when you fall asleep." ”

Chen Guozhong told Lai Baoqing that he was as comfortable as licking a cat, he usually doesn't smoke bags, but at this time he turned around to find a cigarette for Lai Baoqing. His whole body turned back and forth a few times as if he had a bearing, and his hands were busy touching his pockets at the same time, and after a long time, he smiled at Lai Baoqing embarrassedly and said: "I don't usually smoke bags, I want to find you a cigarette to smoke, but I haven't yet, I really feel that I have neglected you." ”

"I don't smoke it very often, I don't know how to suck a pot. It may be that Chen Guozhong's words reminded Lai Baoqing that he is not a cigarette addiction, and he stopped Chen Guozhong from being polite, so he casually took out his somewhat shabby cigarette pouch from his coat pocket, and then took out the bag containing tobacco leaves from his coat pocket, and pounded a pot of cigarettes with both hands.

At this time, Chen Guozhong had already touched the foreign fire from the table next to him, and when he saw that Lai Baoqing's cigarette pouch was ready, he snorted and scratched the foreign fire in his hand, and bowed over to Lai Baoqing to light a cigarette for Lai Baoqing.

Lai Baoqing took the cigarette pouch in his mouth with the torch in Chen Guozhong's hand, and then raised his head, looked at Chen Guozhong, and said with smoke in his mouth and nose: "You, just talk to that kid in Dongliang, he's not too young, it's time to say that a family has become a family." We are mud-legged people, and we pay attention to living, not embroidery. Then again, the horses and flowers are also good-looking, and there is nothing wrong with them, they are dangling in front of us all day long, and there is nothing to pick. ”

After Chen Guozhong lit the cigarette pot in Lai Baoqing's mouth, he sat back with his butt back. Lai Baoqing's words made him nod his head non-stop.

The pillar in the stove room feels lightweight tonight, and she doesn't feel tired at all at this time. She has been busy for a long time, and she is slowly a little worried, tonight she wants to entertain Lai Baoqing well, people worry about their children and talk about matchmaking, what kind of kindness is this! But what kind of kindness can be used to entertain others? These days, the chickens and ducks have rested their butts, and the eggs have been gone for a long time, and there are still a few duck eggs, but these few duck eggs can entertain the mood? Suddenly, she remembered that there were some pimple vegetables pickled last autumn, these pimple vegetables, I don't know if I saw the water or what happened when I pickled it last year, and it was moldy just after the New Year. She thought about it, except for the duck eggs pickled in the jar, she really couldn't think about what to take to entertain Lai Baoqing. Pickled salted duck eggs can only be boiled, not fried, so you have to make two stir-fried dishes. She thought back and forth about what else could be on the table at home, and let her think about it several times, but she couldn't think of anything that could entertain Lai Baoqing. Hey...... , I can't blame myself, if you don't have a festival, how can there be anything decent. She dragged the bellows with one hand and added firewood and grass to the stove with the other, and those who had eaten her own food said that she was skillful, and that she made the same thing better than others. No matter how skillful your hands are, if you don't have anything to do, it's all in vain. She glanced up at the stove, where the lid of the pot was already steaming out, and she could hear the squeaking of the pot in the pot. The potato flour cakes in the pot will be boiled in a small pot for a while, and the two sides of the kang will be burnt, and they will not taste like tofu dregs. She filled the firewood and grass in her hand into the stove, and the burning stick was tinkering and pulling in the stove a few times, and the hand holding the bellows was clattering and clattering for a while. But there are still sesame leaves dried in the autumn last year, stir-fry sesame leaves, and then stir-fry sesame leaves to beat duck eggs? These are two dishes. Put the pimple and sesame leaves together and stir-fry, maybe the musty smell will be covered by the sesame leaves, so that there are only three dishes! If you can make one more dish, it's four dishes. But how can this one dish be right? Her firewood-grabbing hand slapped her head, boiled two salted duck eggs, cut them into teeth and put them on the plate, wasn't it just a dish? She felt sure that she could make such four dishes, and her hand pulling the bellows became even more vigorous, and the flames in the stove were blown out by the bellows, and the whole stove was like a few red lanterns.