Chapter 139: Be a concubine? Be a mistress?
Chapter 139: Be a concubine? Be a mistress?
Before I reached the door of my house, I saw a lot of villagers gathered at the door.
Some people saw her coming and quickly made way for her, and everyone looked at her meaningfully.
Jiang Xiaohe's face was full of question marks and she frowned as soon as she entered the house.
In the yard, there were several carrying poles covered with red cloth, and next to them was a gorgeously dressed woman in red and green, with a handkerchief in her hand and a flower on her head. She looked like a matchmaker no matter how you looked at her.
Standing next to them were Zhang Fu, Zhang Quan and Zhang Daniu, and the expressions on their faces were not very good.
When the matchmaker saw her coming, she immediately came up to her with a smile, twisting her hips: "Oh, this must be Miss Jiang, she's really beautiful!"
Is she okay? She was wearing a linen shirt today, her hair was casually tied up on top of her head, and she was holding a sickle in her hand. She had worked all morning, and her body was very dirty. Her hair was now messy, and her face was already soaked with sweat. I'm afraid her face was also very dirty, so how could she look good?
Seeing that Jiang Xiaohe didn't say anything, the matchmaker was not angry.
"Today is a good day for Madam Jiang. You are so lucky to be noticed by the town master. Come and see what he has prepared for you."
When the crowd heard this, they all looked at Jiang Xiaohe with envy. She was a widow, but someone could take a fancy to her. She was so lucky.
Zhang Daniu clenched his fists.
Jiang Xiaohe waved her hand away and asked coldly, "Who asked you to come?"
The matchmaker was slightly stunned, then smiled again: "Who else could it be? Of course it must be Mr. Chang from the town!"
She knew that the psychopath had said a lot of inexplicable things to her in town yesterday, and she hadn't taken it seriously at first, but now...
"Master Chang said that the lady knew about this."
The matchmaker noticed something was wrong and quickly added this sentence.
She knows shit!
The villagers thought, wasn't Jiang Xiaohe unwilling to be Master Chang's concubine before? And now? Could it be that she was just pretending before?
There was confusion on everyone's face. Zhang Chunyu was also there to watch the fun. After hearing the crowd's discussions, he cursed them as a vixen.
Wang Qiuxia, who followed along, was startled when she heard the matchmaker's words and quickly looked at Zhang Fu. Zhang Fu shook his head slightly at her, meaning for her to keep silent. She could only stand aside, feeling sad and silent.
Later, Zeng Hua saw that her sister-in-law didn't say anything, so how could she speak?
Wang Qiuxia looked at Jiang Xiaohe with a sad face. Could it be that her daughter-in-law was so anxious to renovate the house and help them make money just to get married?
Jiang Xiaohe was slightly angry, staring at the matchmaker and said, "Be careful with your words. I'm a widow, and you are undoubtedly destroying my reputation by talking like this."
This matchmaker was a very sensible person, and she had naturally made inquiries before coming. She felt that Jiang Xiaohe was a little embarrassed.
As soon as he changed the subject, he immediately smiled and said, "You see, I am an old man who can't speak at all. It's my fault. It's just that Mr. Chang told me that he mentioned this to you, so I thought you knew about it."
"Oh? Just because he mentioned it, I have to agree?"
The matchmaker frowned slightly and said, "My lady, this Master Chang is a wealthy family in our town. Although you will be a concubine when you marry him, there is no mistress in Master Chang's family. Master Chang also said that if you can give birth to a child for him, he will support you to become a mistress."
When the villagers first heard about being a concubine, they wanted to ridicule Jiang Xiaohe. Why did they make such a big fuss? She was going to be a concubine? But when they heard that she would be the mistress after giving birth to a child, they immediately stopped laughing...
Zhang Chunyu clenched his fists in the crowd, wondering how Jiang Xiaohe could be so lucky! She was just a widow, but she was favored by a rich man.
Jiang Xiaohe's face was already full of anger. Chang Wei actually humiliated her in this way.
"Enough!" Jiang Xiaohe shouted, scaring the matchmaker and everyone watching the fun in the yard.
"Miss?"
"Matchmaker, go back and tell Chang Wei that I have no interest in him, and even less interest in being his concubine or the mistress of his house. If he continues to pester me and ruin my reputation, the worst that can happen is that we will die together!" After saying that, Jiang Xiaohe started to chase people away.
Seeing that Jiang Xiaohe rejected the marriage, Wang Qiuxia felt a little relieved, while the matchmaker was still persuading Jiang Xiaohe.
"I say, my lady, this marriage with Master Chang is really a good one for you, let's talk it over!"
"I have nothing to say to you!" Jiang Xiaohe said unhappily.
Wang Qiuxia came up and said, "You are such an unreasonable matchmaker. My daughter-in-law said she doesn't want to, but you are still shameless. Do you want us to use force?"
Since Wang Qiuxia had spoken, Zeng Hua behind her put her hands on her waist and stood up: "That's right! Since Xiao He doesn't want to marry, she will be the daughter-in-law of our Zhang family. Are you going to force her?"
As he said this, he took the lead in driving the matchmaker out.
The matchmaker saw this and was afraid that today's marriage would not be possible and that the things used to propose marriage would be thrown out, so she quickly signaled to the servants and asked them to carry out the red pole.
"In that case, I'll come back another day."
Jiang Xiaohe really wanted to say that there was no need to do it another day, but the matchmaker had already left with her people.
Seeing the person leave, Jiang Xiaohe was still a little angry.
The people outside who were watching the fun dispersed when they saw that there was nothing exciting to watch.
"Xiao He..."
Jiang Xiaohe looked at Wang Qiuxia and Zhang Fu: "Dad, Mom, I said before that I will never marry again in my life. If someone like this comes to our house in the future, just beat him out directly, and don't need to inform me again!"
After saying that, he picked up his sickle and walked back to the field.
"Cousin's wife?" Zhang Danniu shouted, glanced at everyone, and went after Jiang Xiaohe.
Wang Qiuxia turned to look at Zhang Fu: "Boss?"
Zhang Fu stood up from the stool: "Okay, my daughter-in-law has said so. Next time something like this happens, we will do as she says!"
After saying that, he took Zhang Quan and Zhang Daniu back to the construction site to work.
Zhang Daniu left the house and couldn't help looking at Jiang Xiaohe, who was standing by the edge of the field in the distance. Would she never marry again in her life? Then was there no hope for him either.
After everyone left, Zeng Hua pulled Wang Qiuxia aside and said, "Sister-in-law, what Xiao He just said, does it mean that she will marry again in this life?"
Wang Qiuxia knew that Daniu was interested in Jiang Xiaohe, so she wanted to make it clear.
"When her family wanted to capture her and marry her off to someone else, she told me and her father that she only wanted to stay with us two old people, take care of us until we die, and then raise Chuan'er."
After listening to her, Zeng Hua was stunned for a moment, sighed, and followed her to the field.
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