The next morning, it was calm, and when Xie came in the afternoon, Chen told Xie the few words that Du Jinning had taught her, and Xie was so happy that he didn't know what to do.

She immediately took off a jade bracelet from her wrist, put it on Du Fangfei, and said with a smile: "Although this is not a particularly valuable jade bracelet, it was handed down by the ancestors of the Xu family, and Brother Yuan'er's grandmother passed it on to me, and now I will pass it on to you." Later, you pass it on to your daughter-in-law. ”

Du Fangfei lowered his head shyly.

"Okay, I'll go back and call the matchmaker to propose marriage now." Xie couldn't sit still anymore, and couldn't wait to go back to the matchmaker from last time to propose again.

The more anxious Xie's attitude was, the more important he was to this family affair, and Chen was indescribably happy in his heart, and immediately got up to send him off: "Go, go, let's book the family affair as soon as possible, we can all rest assured." ”

Not long after Xie left, the matchmaker came to the door again. However, the Chen family still didn't mess up, and immediately asked for Xu Chengyuan's birthday, and went to ask someone to join the eight characters.

These eight characters are naturally a match made in heaven.

So the two exchanged Geng posts, and Du Fangfei's family affair was ordered.

"In-laws." After being engaged, Xie changed the name of Chen, and she smiled shyly, "Look, when will they get married?" The two have also reached the age of getting married, and it is not good to delay it for too long. ”

Du Fangfei's age is actually not very old, and he will only turn sixteen years old in two months. Although Chen's remarks when he refused to marry earlier were prevarication, it was actually the truth. Du Fangfei has suffered since she was five or six years old, and she has carried the family of the third room on her shoulders with her, and she has not had a few good days in the past eleven years. Although the Xie family is good, Xu Chengyuan is also very good, the Xu family has a simple population, and they will not suffer hardships when they marry, but being a daughter and being a daughter-in-law are still different after all.

Therefore, Chen originally planned to stay with Du Fangfei for another year, and wait until he turns seventeen years old next spring before getting married.

According to the family's dried tofu business and Du Jinning's teahouse dividends, Du Fangfei can buy a few lucrative dowries when the time comes.

But now Chen didn't dare to stay any longer. Du Fangfei's marriage has a lot of twists and turns, although Yan Cen has been punished, maybe he will not give up, and there will be some demons. So Chen thought about it, discussed it with Du Jinning, and decided to set the wedding date in the autumn.

If you are too tight when you are engaged and married, it will make people gossip. There are always those three aunts and six mothers-in-law who like to chew their tongues, saying that they are in such a hurry to get married, is it because the woman doesn't pick up some points, and the man's child is in her stomach, so she gets married.

At the beginning of the year, and then in the autumn, the process of "Nacai, asking for names, Najib, Najib, Nazheng, invitation, and greeting" will take half a year to be calm.

For the sake of propriety, Du Jinning still gave money to Lu Xiaobei and asked him to invite an idler named Qin Laoliu, who lived opposite Yan Cen, to help keep an eye on Yan Cen's movements.

That Yan Cen not only didn't get the job done this time, but lost the quota of the maid meal, and also hung a bad reputation in the county order, and there was more than enough success and failure, Yan Songtao naturally abandoned him like a shoe, and instructed his subordinates not to hand over the words he asked to see again.

Without relying on it, where would Yan Cen dare to provoke the Guan family and Du Jinning again? If the Guan family makes another move, and no one intercedes for him, his talent and reputation may be dismissed. He had to retreat to his home and be honest.

On this day, Du Jinning got out of school at night and was leaving the academy with Zhang Hongwen, when she saw Qin Lao Liu squatting at the base of the wall waiting for her.

Seeing Du Jinning coming, Qin Lao Liu was also very interested and did not come forward to say hello, but pretended not to know, just lowered his head and waved the pebble indiscriminately, looking bored.

It wasn't until Du Jinning waved goodbye to Zhang Hongwen that he went up to Zhuangzi alone - since he was engaged, Xu Chengyuan would not be able to go to Du's house again. Du Jinning said that his hands were much better, and it was no problem to take a bookbag, and Du Fangfei also helped to sew the strap of the bookbag a little longer, so that it could be hung diagonally around his neck. Xu Chengyuan and Zhang Hongwen relieved themselves and didn't send each other off, so Du Jinning went home alone during this time - Qin Lao Liu saw that no one was paying attention to him, so he followed Du Jinning to Zhuangzi.

After walking for a while, Qin Lao Liu saw Du Jinning waiting for him in front. He hurriedly ran over and saluted Du Jinning: "Young Master Du." ”

"Sixth Brother Qin." Du Jinning returned the salute and asked, "But what's the situation with Yan Cen?" ”

I have to say that Lu Xiaobei is a talent. This kid has been at the bottom of society for many years and knows all kinds of people of all kinds of religions. And he himself is a righteous person, not to mention the friends he has made, just in terms of morality and integrity, there is nothing to say.

This is the case with Qin Lao Liu. Although this person has no ability, he is idle all day long, and he gambles a few times from time to time, so he is not a good person in the general sense. But this person can stick a knife in the ribs for a friend, and if he sees that you are pleasing to the eye and is willing to make friends with you, he will do his best to help.

"Most of the righteousness is the slaughter of dogs, and the negative heart is mostly the reader." Others don't say it, just look at Qin Laoliu and Yan Cen, Du Jinning thinks it can embody this proverb very well.

"He has no money now, and Ah Qiang won't help him pass the word, but he doesn't dare to go to Mrs. Yan's place again. However, I heard my mother-in-law say that Yan Cen's wife is asking someone to say goodbye to Yan Cen. Qin Lao Liu said, "Young Master Du, you said that no matter what moves the Yan Cen family has, I have to tell you, so I came over to tell you." ”

"Thank you, Sixth Brother Qin, this news is very important to me." Du Jinning arched his hand, "In this matter, I still have to ask Sixth Brother Qin for help." ”

Qin Laoliu patted his chest and said, "Since you are a person approved by Lu Xiaobei, I naturally want to help you, otherwise I wouldn't have made this trip." ”

"So you're welcome."

Du Jinning knew that for people like Qin Laoliu, it was very important to treat him as a friend and not put on a show. She had the heart to accept Qin Lao Liu for her own use, so she was very honest with Qin Lao Liu, and as soon as they met, she told her family about her family's grievances with Yan Cen, and even Yan Cen told Qin Lao Liu about Du Fangfei's marriage, and bluntly said that she wanted to take revenge on Yan Cen. She also told Qin Lao Liu, if Qin Lao Liu didn't help her because of the neighbors' affection, she didn't blame Qin Lao Liu, she just hoped that Qin Lao Liu wouldn't tell Yan Cen about her plans.

This honesty, as well as respect for Qin Lao Liu, made Qin Lao Liu extremely comfortable. In addition, Lu Xiaobei said good things about Du Jinning in front of Qin Laoliu, and Qin Laoliu regarded Du Jinning as a friend.

Du Jinning knew that for people like Qin Laoliu, it was not good to be too polite.

She said bluntly: "I want to ask my sister-in-law to help Yan Cen Zhang Luo with a family affair." He has a poor old mother and young daughter, and I don't want to bring the innocent with me, so I want my sister-in-law to be able to recruit a woman who is both upright and diligent and strong. After marrying into the Yan family, he can treat his mother and daughter well, but he can beat Yan Cen from time to time. If a person like Yan Cen doesn't do the right thing and beat him, he may be able to go to the right path, and he won't use conspiracies and tricks to calculate people all day long. ”