Chapter 20 Chili Red, Chili Spicy

Although chili pepper is not native to the country, the moment it lands on the land of the city, the hot and spicy flavor melts into the lives and blood of the people of Sichuan.

Chili pepper and Sichuan native pepper meet, just like a pair of men and women who are married in the world, after several reincarnations, they finally achieved this charming love, and it has become the taste of generations of Sichuan people who are reluctant to give up.

This tastes like a man in Sichuan, hot and spicy, with some subtle and long sullenness.

This tastes like a woman in Sichuan, spicy and spicy, with some desire to cover up the style.

Little Pepper is a red person in several towns near Checheshan, just like a hot red pepper. Although she is not as admirable as the talented Zhu Duangong, nor is she as simple, kind and respected as the Seven Old Men, she was so popular when she was young, and she is unwilling to be lonely when she is old.

The scenery of the past gave Pepper a proud heart, and at that time, many people chased their butts, making Pepper feel that he was a capable person and a person who could change the fate of many people.

She was accustomed to hearing those flattering words, and she was accustomed to seeing those flattering faces, and she felt that she was high above, a person floating in the clouds. Although she also knows that there is a lot of criticism against her behind people's backs.

After all, Pepper turned out to be a matchmaker. In the seventies and eighties of the last century, matchmakers were a very popular character. At that time, in the countryside, the ideology was not as open as it is now, and the marriage of young men and women mainly relied on matchmakers.

If a young man and a woman come together without a matchmaker, they will be laughed at. Even if you look at each other correctly, you have to find a reputable matchmaker to come forward at the wedding.

As the saying goes, "There are no clouds in the sky and no rain, and there are no pairs on the ground." "This matchmaker is not only a matchmaker, but also to ensure smooth communication between the man and woman before marriage, and act as a mediator.

The man has an opinion on the woman, and the woman has an opinion on the man, so the matchmaker has to run on both sides to reconcile the contradictions between the two sides. Said that the matchmaker was good once, and the matchmaker's leg was broken.

A good matchmaker, that's a lot of skills. People say that it is dead, and it is alive, and that it is alive, and that it is God. The sparrows that fly in the sky will say that they can come up to the ground, and the fish that swim in the water will say that they can come up to the shore.

This little pepper doesn't actually have much to say, it's just some short bad talk in the parents. It's just that she is also in contact with the parents of rural young people who have little education like her, and everyone can talk about it together. Many ordinary people in Sichuan talk a lot in private, but when it comes to the real scene, they can't let out a fart.

Little Pepper dares to say it, and if she loves to say it, she will naturally surpass them.

Little Pepper loved to go to the market at that time, and she would go to the market in the nearby township. It's also a hobby for those who work as matchmakers. If you move around diligently, you will know more and master more resources. Which family has a girl to marry, which family has an unmarried guy, who has a few big tiled houses, and whose family has many good fields, this is a matchmaker to understand clearly.

Speaking of which, although the little pepper at that time did not have much culture, those behaviors are very in line with the current marketing methods, to understand the market, to master resources, to know the contradiction between supply and demand, but also to have perfect after-sales service.

At that time, many marriages were still arranged by parents, and there were still buying and selling marriages like zĂ i, and there were also ridiculous exchange marriages. These matchmakers sometimes became accomplices to the remnants of feudalism. Like Feng Xian'er's marriage is one of them, so that her restless heart is restless and causes a lot of trouble in the village.

Many older young people who can't talk about mother-in-law will tie up with a senior matchmaker like Xiao Pepper who has rich experience and resources. At that time, Pepper always had someone to help with the work when the farm was busy. Older young people who want to start a family are always rushing to help her family with the work.

Every time I go to the market, Pepper is invited to eat. Those old rural ladies who were anxious to hold their grandchildren always took her to their homes to eat when they were in the market, and gave her some eggs, sugar and the like before they left.

The man of Little Pepper, Mingwu is an honest man in Sichuan, a typical rake ear. The mother-in-law was wandering outside, and he didn't dare to say a word. He takes care of everything inside and outside the house by himself, and even his mother-in-law's underwear is washed by him.

This little pepper also has a skill that other matchmakers don't have, and she likes to play right and wrong to profit from it.

For example, if someone's daughter says that she has a good family and wants to marry her, she will say that the mother-in-law says that you are not good here, and the guy says that you are not right there. The little girl who was in the heart of the whole family hurriedly sent her shoes and flowers, begging her to say good things.

For example, if a young man likes that girl so much, that she doesn't marry her, she will say that the girl thinks you are black, and her mouth is not sweet, in short, she will find a lot of reasons to make waves. The young man hurried to offer a gift and begged her to repair the relationship.

If you can't get muddy waters, you can't touch fish, and if you can't light a fire, you can't rob. Pepper knows this and makes those people go round and round.

It's just that those are the scenery of the past. Now Pepper is a little lonely. Nowadays, young people have gone out to work, and everyone is out playing friends. There are also some people who even go home with their children in their arms, and even save the wedding.

Xiao Pepper feels that the atmosphere of young people nowadays is getting worse and worse, those matchmakers, the orders of their parents are gone, it can rain without clouds, and they dare to start a family without matchmakers. She is completely out of the market.

In the past, there were always people coming and going at the door of her house, but now there are some desolate people in front of the door.

However, a little pepper is a little pepper, it's not good if the pepper isn't spicy, it's not good if the pepper isn't red, she is a red and spicy little pepper, how can she lose her momentum in front of others. Everywhere she goes, she is the focus of people, and she can't lose the pride in her heart.

There is no market among the young people, which makes Pepper a little disappointed, but soon she finds that she still has the status of the old people in the past.

Little Pepper's man, Mingwu, had passed away a few years ago. Little Pepper, who is in her fifties, still has a bit of a girlish heart in her heart, and she still feels that she is a little attractive. Probably women are always like this, even if it is an old woman, she will think that she is still beautiful and good-looking, and no woman will admit that she is ugly and ugly. In the eyes of men older than her, she is young and attractive.

Pepper made good use of her remaining capital, attracting those old men to revolve around her.

Pepper's two sons are very rich, and they don't want this trouble-loving, show-off old lady to live with them, so they can only give her a lot of money to make up for the guilt in their hearts.

The little pepper with money in her hand is very generous, and whichever old man is attentive to her will have good wine and meat, and of course will accompany her through those lonely nights.

She is still the hot, red-hot little pepper, a woman who will not be lonely surrounded and surrounded.

Recently, Pepper discovers that her previously lost market has returned. Now, many rural elderly people who have lost their wives want to find a wife to live with, people's ideological concepts are no longer so conservative, and she can return to her old profession again. There is a case right now, Wu Mingjiang, who died of his mother-in-law, and Wang Chunhua, who died of a man in Wang Jiagou, are waiting for her to be a matchmaker.

Over the years, Pepper has also joined a Christian church. On a fixed few days a week, some of the old men and women in the village would gather at her house, and people from the church would come from outside to guide them in reading the Bible and teaching doctrine.

She didn't know who Jesus was, she didn't know what Jesus was, she just knew that these things could bring her popularity and make her establish prestige in the hearts of those old men and women, and that was enough.

The old men, the old ladies, believed in this foreign god with great devotion, believed in the heaven preached by those teachings, and believed that if they believed in the religion, they would be able to enter heaven after death.

They called Pepper's house a temple, even though it was nondescript. If Jesus had known that there was such a temple in this small village in the middle of the river, I wonder if he would have laughed out loud in heaven.

Although, sometimes, these things are ridiculed by young people. The old people still worship with devotion and chant in the morning and evening. It's strange to see an almost illiterate old rural lady holding a thick Bible in her hand, babbling and shaking her head from time to time, reading with such concentration. Perhaps these ethereal beliefs can relieve the loneliness of children not being around.