Gu Changning nodded, she knew, Uncle Zhou has always been honest on weekdays, and he can force such a person to the point of anger, it seems that it is not ordinary anger, and it is no wonder that his son and daughter-in-law dare not speak out.

"Originally, my aunt didn't allow me to go out, but I told her that I came to you to learn embroidery, and she agreed." Apricot said proudly, "I'm smart, right?" ”

"I see, I'll just say why did you suddenly come here today." Seeing that the weeds were almost gone, Gu Changning scooped a spoonful of water to clean his hands, and said to Xing'er, "Since I know your true intention of coming to me, let's start, it just so happens that I also think that embroidery alone is boring, with you with me, I won't be bored and panicked." ”

"What? No, I just said it casually to my aunt, you don't have to take it seriously. Xing'er looked at her with a confused expression, not expecting her to take it seriously.

"How can this be done, Aunt Chunhua handed you over to me, then I have to be responsible for you, get up quickly, wash your hands, don't get it, let's go back to the house."

Xing'er looked at her with a wrinkled face, her eyes revealing pleading, begging Gu Changning to let her go.

Her least favorite thing to do is needlework!!

"Okay, hurry up, you just don't learn now, you have to learn in the future, you can't escape this." Gu Changning stepped forward and pulled her, trying to pull her up from the ground.

"Got it, got it, don't talk it in my ear! You're almost catching up with my aunt! Apricot stood up with lamentation and grief.

Gu Changning turned his head to look at her when he heard this, wrinkled his nose unhappily at her, and pulled her towards the house even harder.

Hmph, dare to dismiss her for being wordy, she will definitely make her regret saying this sentence for a while!

Gu Changning thought secretly in his heart.

Xing'er shuddered suddenly, she didn't know that the pain was coming, and she simply followed Gu Changning to practice embroidery needlework.

***

The sudden death of Aunt Zhou still had a big impact on the village, because the cause of her death has not yet been found.

If they had known why she had died, the villagers might not have cared so much.

But it was precisely because I didn't know three words that everyone was very nervous, but they didn't know what they were nervous about.

For a while, except for those who went to the fields to farm and work in the mountains, there were almost no people on the village road.

"How do you feel like the village has become so much quieter?" Lin Jun sat on the stone chair in the front yard of the Gu family, and said to Gu Changning, who was busy drying the fungus.

He appeared at Gu's house because he had a message to tell Gu Changning, and he happened to meet Gu Huai'an who needed to find him, so he took advantage of this matter to come to Xinghua Village with Gu Huai'an.

said that Gu Huai'an was in need, but in fact, Lin Junze had a book with four annotations in his hand, which he borrowed with others, and it happened to be seen by Gu Huai'an, Gu Huai'an was happy to see it, and wanted to ask him to borrow a copy by hand.

Poor students could not afford to buy books, so they borrowed a copy by hand and kept it, and then returned the original.

However, Lin Jun borrowed this book from someone else, and said that he would return it tomorrow morning, if Gu Huaian borrowed it, he would not be able to repay him tomorrow, so he had to give up helplessly.

Unexpectedly, Lin Jun suddenly said that he was going to his aunt's house too, so he could lend him a copy first, and then return the book to him before he went home in the evening.

Gu Huai'an was very moved when he heard this, and immediately invited people here.

As a result, when he really came to Gu's house, Lin Jun was not in a hurry, he handed the book to Gu Huai'an and asked him to go to the study to copy it, while he sat in the courtyard with the old god, watching Gu Changning work, and asked about the abnormality of Xinghua Village by the way.

"Isn't it just quiet?" Gu Changning put the dried fungus as flat as possible, and said without raising his head, "An eldest lady in the village passed away a few days ago, but there were no external injuries on her body, nor was she poisoned, and her body was even better without disease, and she was suddenly found dead in her own home, do you say that everyone is afraid?" ”

"So weird?" Lin Jun nodded knowingly.

"Well, this strange thing also alarmed the officials, and I sent someone to see it before, but I can't see the reason...... By the way, didn't you come to find your aunt? Why can't you go over now? Gu Changning glanced at him and said.

"Don't worry, I've already said hello to my aunt and grandmother before I came, I'll go when I come to tell you something." Lin Jun said.

"What's the matter?"

"I've already taken care of what you were worried about."

Gu Changning paused, turned to look at him in surprise, glanced at the direction of the backyard, and after making sure that A-Niang and her brother couldn't hear the movement here in the room, he leaned over and whispered, "You mean...... Mrs. Li? ”

Lin Jun nodded with an unfathomable expression.

"Who is it?"

"The daughter of the Zhang butcher's family."

"Zhang Butcher?" Gu Changning recalled carefully, and only after a few moments did he find some shadows in his memory, the corners of his mouth twitched, and confirmed, "You mean, that Zhang Qianqian, who dared to chase her father all over the street with a kitchen knife at the age of twelve?" ”

Lin Jun's face was unfathomable.

"If it's her, it's the right person...... But Mrs. Li is not stupid, she won't find such a daughter-in-law for her son, right? ”

"Originally, I didn't think it was very likely, but since you just said Aunt Zhou, I think it's nine out of ten."

"Why?"

"Do you know what the world fears the most?"

Gu Changning shook his head.

"Imbued."

"What do you mean?" She humbly asked.

"Aunt Zhou's death is so strange, it will definitely become a strange talk in ten miles and eight villages, and strange talk often means detached from the facts." Lin Jun said meaningfully, "According to what you said before, she instigated Aunt Zhou to come to your house to find fault, and then Aunt Zhou ran to find Mrs. Li to settle accounts because she felt that she was being tricked, and Aunt Zhou is now dying so bizarrely, do you think she will become the target of everyone's suspicion?" ”

Needless to say, she's already ......

Gu Changning said silently in his heart.

"With such a mother-in-law, what other girl do you think would be willing to marry in?"

"If you say so, why is that Miss Zhang willing to marry into the Li family?"

"That Miss Zhang is famous for her murder, and no family dares to come to the door to propose marriage at the age of eighteen this year, and her stepmother has long been looking at giving her to the old staff in the town as a concubine in exchange for silver taels, and the old man is already sixty and eight, and he can be Miss Zhang's grandfather. Originally, Butcher Zhang still had a glimmer of hope for his daughter, thinking that there would be any blind boy who was unlucky and willing to come to the door to propose, no matter what, she was also his daughter, so he would not push her into the fire pit, but the result was to wait, this is to be eighteen years old, eighteen years old is still waiting for the daughter in the boudoir, but it is a big problem. ”

The corners of Gu Changning's mouth twitched.

"Recently, Butcher Zhang has obviously been a little moved by what her stepmother said, and if she doesn't marry herself off quickly, she can only go to be a concubine."

"So that's the case, there are fire pits on both sides, which one to jump is not to jump, naturally it is the one with less harm to jump." Gu Changning suddenly realized and silently concluded.

Lin Jun had a faint smile in his eyes and did not deny it.

"It would be great if it could be solved like this!"

"That's not enough." Lin Jun curled the corners of his thin and good-looking lips slightly, and then said, "There is a lack of a bridge between them. ”

"Bridges? What do you mean......" Gu Changning asked subconsciously.

"Even if there are not many people who are willing to marry Li Dazhu now, and there are not many people who are willing to marry Zhang Tuhu's daughter, why do they have to choose each other?" Lin Jun's light and cold eyebrows implied a hint of calculating excitement, "After all, they just have fewer choices, and they are not the only one who has the other party." ”

In most farmhouse homes, daughters are usually treated as bargains, and they eat the least at home, but they do not do less work, and after a few years of raising, they exchange them for a dowry so that they can tell their sons daughters-in-law.

If she meets parents who don't care about her daughter's life or death, as long as Mrs. Li has a few taels of silver, she can also choose a daughter-in-law who can be manipulated by her.

Gu Changning looked at him and blinked, and the movements in his hands stopped: "So, what did you do?" ”

Lin Jun smiled faintly and said: "It's nothing, I heard that Li Niangzi will go to the temple to pray for blessings on the tenth day of the first month of every month, there is a master in the temple and an elder in my family is a close friend, I went to him to tell him about it, the master agreed to help me, and when Li Niangzi goes to the temple to incense again, he will find a way to let Li Niangzi get acquainted with Zhang Butcher's daughter, so that Li Niangzi believes that Zhang Butcher's daughter and her son are destined to marry, and there is no reason to refuse." ”

Gu Changning looked at him strangely, and once again felt in his heart that he was definitely not an ordinary poor student.

"But that's not enough, and we need a pusher to move things forward."

"Pusher? Who? Gu Changning instantly forgot that he was still suspicious of Lin Junze, and asked.

"Naturally, it's a matchmaker." Lin Jun had an expression on his face.

Gu Changning directly ignored his expression, still asking suspiciously: "If you ask the matchmaker to pull the matchmaker, it should be after Mrs. Li makes a decision before she goes to find someone, and before she makes up her mind, the matchmaker will not come to the door to build a red line for the two of them, right?" ”

"How is it impossible, as long as the news of the two families is interested in each other is known to the matchmaker, she will naturally take the initiative to come to the door."

Gu Changning lowered his eyes and thought about it, and felt that it was the same, "Then which matchmaker are you going to let take over this marriage?" ”

"Isn't there one of them?" Lin Jun said lightly, "I heard that the matchmaker surnamed Chen hasn't been to Xinghua Village for several years. ”

"Oh—is that her?" Gu Changning instantly thought of someone and knew which one he was talking about.

Speaking of which, the reason why this matchmaker surnamed Chen didn't dare to come to Xinghua Village again was related to Wang Xiu'e's family.

Because Wang Xiu'e's third brother and daughter-in-law, Xu, was introduced to her mother-in-law by this Chen lady.

At that time, this Chen Niangzi praised Xu's is skyrocketing, just like a heavenly maiden, she is beautiful, kind-hearted, has a good personality, and is hardworking and can do everything.

Her mother-in-law is a real person, and although she knows in her heart that what the matchmaker said will not be all true, she really didn't expect that none of them would be true.

The deceived Wang Xiu'e's mother-in-law has no choice, she has now married back, so she can't send her home, so she can only admit it.

It's just that this breath in her heart didn't go down, she went to find the Chen Niangzi in anger to settle the account, the two tore each other in front of the door for a while, Wang Xiu'e's mother-in-law squirted the blood of the Chen Niangzi's scolding, and she was scolded and she didn't want to go to Xinghua Village again.

After this incident, Mrs. Chen's reputation has deteriorated a lot, and all those who think about their children are unwilling to find such a matchmaker to match, her business is much more bleak, and the difficulty has increased, after all, most of the people who are willing to find her are also some family members who have twists and turns in family affairs.

But Gu Changning was still a little puzzled, "She must have been dissatisfied with our village for a long time because Aunt Wang's mother-in-law made such a big joke, will she still be willing to pull media for the people in our village?" ”

"How can you not be willing, such a person is greedy for money, and she can't get along with anyone and won't get along with silver, as long as she is sure that both sides are interested in moving each other, with her three-inch tongue, it is natural to raise the possibility of these five points to ten points."

If this was not the case, how could she exaggerate Xu's so many times under the bribe of Xu's father, and the other party who coaxed her was so happy that she married Xu's family.

Gu Changning nodded slowly, agreeing in his heart.

Speaking of which, Dr. Li is also such a person, for the sake of money, he can take the initiative to recommend himself to see a doctor, even if he is rejected many times, he will not give up.

From this point of view, this Chen lady is very close to the Li family, and she is indeed the most suitable person for this family affair.