My cousin's blind date today is from a nearby village, and he was introduced by the matchmaker in the village. Jiang Hui felt that this matchmaker actually had a little similarity with a real estate agent, and they both relied on providing information services to collect fees.

However, when it comes to matchmaking, it does require a lot of skill. The matchmaker should not only be familiar with the basic situation of the man and the woman and their families, and strive to be "the right person", but also be able to basically and accurately reflect the situation to the men and women and their parents, and should also make use of their strengths and avoid their weaknesses as much as possible, so that both parties can fully understand each other's strengths, so that both parties are happy to reach an agreement on marriage. That is to say, to be born with a "matchmaker's mouth".

To be a matchmaker, you must be diligent in running errands, and from the day you start matching men and women, you must often go back and forth between men and women to convey each other's wishes and requirements to prevent unexpected changes. It is customary for both men and women to have an obligation to entertain matchmakers. The countrymen say that "the matchmaker has a hundred meals", and there is a place where the matchmaker says that the matchmaker has to eat eighteen mouths, which is not an exaggeration. The main purpose is to reward his work in running and matchmaking. Speaking of a matchmaker, the matchmaker can get some money, which is called a "thank you matchmaker".

However, as young people go out to work, only returning for a few days during the Spring Festival, the process of speaking media has also been simplified. After meeting, it is okay, and if it doesn't work, it doesn't work, and there will generally be results quickly.

Next, Jiang Hui will see the flash marriage process of the man and woman in this situation from knowing each other together. Although it was a flash marriage, the life of the cousin and sister-in-law was actually quite good, and it was happier than many couples who entered the marriage hall after many years of love. It seems that this practice of getting married first and then cultivating feelings is not completely useless.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the uncle, cousin and matchmaker set off with some fruits and other gifts, sitting on the second-hand pickup truck used by the cousin for the stainless steel doors and windows business.

Jiang Hui didn't know what he had experienced in the middle, but he thought about it as nothing more than that after the cousin arrived at the woman's house, the woman's parents, relatives and future sister-in-law came out to meet the cousin, and then the cousin chatted with the woman about what he was doing.

In fact, it is the girls of the flower age who don't know what kind of boy is suitable for them, and they don't necessarily accept this kind of "meeting" type of engagement. However, due to the narrow environment and life circle, more young people can only succumb to this kind of "blind date", and the quality of marriage is determined by heaven to a certain extent.

In the afternoon of the same day, news came from the matchmaker that the woman was more satisfied with her cousin, and this family affair was completed, so that the uncle and cousin would go to the woman's house tomorrow morning to discuss the next arrangement, specifically to set the date of the engagement, and discuss what things need to be prepared by the gift money.

That's right, if you meet once, you have to talk about engagement, and sometimes the rural blind date is so simple and rude, fast and concise. You must know that the next day is the New Year, which means that the engagement is still being talked about on the New Year's Day.

The situation of the cousin is actually not an isolated case, the Spring Festival is approaching, tens of millions of young men and women who work in the city return to the countryside during the Spring Festival, and use the short time to return to their hometowns to go on blind dates frequently.

Next, naturally, the cousin's father and son went into battle again, and set the third day of the new year to get engaged, and then the woman came to the man as a guest on the sixth day of the new year, and when the eighth cousin set off to do business, the cousin-in-law went with him. At the end of the year, when the belly is big, I will come back to get half of the wedding, and Jiang Hui's nephew will come to this world in the first month of the next year.

Jiang Hui's cousin's blind date process is a successful model. Marriage in rural areas often creates new problems: blind dates, marriages, part-time jobs, childbirth, and left-behind children. In rural areas, left-behind children are already a big problem, and migrant couples with better conditions will gradually take their children to their own side and then go to schools for migrant children. After many years, most of the left-behind children continue to follow the path of their parents and enter a new cycle.

Jiang Hui couldn't help but feel that he was actually quite lucky, when he was a child, the people in the village had not gone out to work on a large scale, and most of the children of the same age spent six years in the village primary school without worry. My mother also went out to work with my father after my sister went to junior high school.

In this era when reform and opening up are in full swing, Jiang Hui is in the midst of great changes unseen in 3,000 years, and hopes that he can bring some beneficial changes to the world with his meager strength and make some contributions to this land that gave birth to me and raised me.

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On the morning of the New Year, Jiang Hui was woken up by his father early in the morning, and followed the second uncle to take their respective roosters to the land lord to sacrifice and slaughter.

Then, just after lunch, I took chicken, fish, pork, wine, incense, firecrackers, and paper money to the Guanyin Temple to worship.

In an atmosphere full of fireworks, Jiang Hui followed everyone to light incense and candles, pour wine, kneel down, and set off firecrackers.

Jiang Hui's generation has a relatively low degree of recognition of these traditional customs. Although they follow the sacrifice step by step, it is true or false to say how pious they are in their hearts.

These rural customs have been handed down hundreds or even thousands of years ago to the present day, and have played a certain role in maintaining rural life, but with the changes in the living environment in recent years, these customs have become a bit unsustainable.

Take Jiang Hui himself as an example, at the end of the year, it is too much to be able to go home twice, but it may be difficult to go home once a year in the future. The various customs and customs of the countryside are only maintained by those who stay behind, and sooner or later they will not be able to persevere. If we really want to change this situation, we must make the countryside have the charm to retain young people, which is difficult for most rural areas to have.

Jiang Hui had thought that he would build his hometown into a beautiful countryside in the future, and if it could really be realized, it should be able to play a certain positive role in retaining these traditional customs.

The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner was celebrated by several families. The second uncle, the fifth uncle and Jiang Hui's family packed up the meals they had prepared and brought them to the uncle's house, and the big family gathered together at three tables.

Several families spend the New Year together, the atmosphere will be more lively, and the grandparents will be happier.

Naturally, the next step is to eat and drink, toast each other, and say words of blessing. In general, in this case, a few people will get drunk, but fortunately, the toast is not as fierce as Jiang Hui when he was a child, otherwise after eating and drinking at night, it is estimated that seventy or eighty percent of adult men will have to drink and lie down.

The biggest significance of the Chinese New Year for a family should be to have the opportunity for everyone to get together, after all, everyone usually has a good time, and it is rare to see each other once, so it depends on the New Year when everyone goes home to get together.