63: Chapter 63: Do Not Marry 63: Chapter 63: Do Not Marry After school that evening, it was already pitch-dark when I got ho.
Dinner was on the table, and because our inco had been poor recently, the food at ho was still lacking oil and salt, but it was edible.
Bai Yanjiao took a couple of bites before she pushed her bowl and chopsticks away, standing up, “I’m not eating anymore, I’ll go back to my room first!”
“Yanjiao, sit down and eat so more, look how thin you’ve beco from hunger!” Bai Xue’s heart ached for her daughter, no matter the quality of the food, she still had to eat sothing.
“Mom, eating these dishes every day, I’m so tired of them I could sprout wings!” Bai Yanjiao plopped down onto the stool with a huff.
“And who do you bla for that!” An Ping slamd his chopsticks down onto the bowl with dissatisfaction, “Your unreasonable uncle has been staying for so many days!
Just like a locust, he has eaten everything up, and now it’s already good that we have food to eat!
What are you even picking at!”
“An Ping!
How can you talk to like this!” Bai Yanjiao glared at An Ping, he never used to be like this before.
An Hao must have done sothing behind the scenes to cause such a quick change in An Ping these days.
“Enough!
Stop arguing!” An Shuchao, with a headache from their quarreling, shouted abruptly before raising his head to speak to Bai Xue, “Xue, if it doesn’t work out, we should find so work for Yanjiao to do.”
Bai Xue was taken aback upon hearing this; An Shuchao had never said things like this before.
It seed that this fight had indeed caused so opinions about her and her daughter.
Seeing that Bai Xue looked a bit unhappy, An Shuchao sighed, “Xue, don’t overthink it!
Look, Yanjiao is already eighteen.
After the New Year, if there’s a suitable match, it’s ti to talk about marriage.
Our ho is too poor; we still need to save up so dowry for the child!
Now, while I still have the strength to work a bit more, and since Yanjiao has at least made it to junior high, if it doesn’t work out, she can find so work in town for now, and when I get back on my feet, she can co back!”
The mont Bai Yanjiao heard this, she imdiately disagreed, tears welling up as she clung to Bai Xue’s hand, “Mom, I don’t want to get married so early!
Is Dad implying that I’m freeloading at ho and that’s why he wants to drive out?”
As her daughter began to cry, Bai Xue’s tears also started to flow, “Old An, are you looking down on the two of us mothers and daughters?”
“Look at you, why would you think that!
Getting married at eighteen is quite normal in our village, isn’t it?
Didn’t the Zhao Family’s daughter just get married?
I didn’t an anything else!
If you really don’t want to work, then forget about it,” An Shuchao couldn’t bear to see Bai Yanjiao’s tears, being a stepfather is as difficult as being a stepmother, after all.
Hearing An Shuchao say this, Bai Yanjiao finally broke into a smile, “I knew Dad didn’t an it that way.”
Even if he did an it, she wouldn’t want to get married.
She already had soone she liked, Shen Zhihua—the son of Aunt Liu on the west side of the village, who was handso and gentle, and every ti she went to play with Shen Lianqing, she always enjoyed stealing glances at him.
She had once thought of marrying into a good family, but seeing a scholarly boy like Shen Zhihua stirred her heart.
To know that he was acknowledged as the smartest kid in the village, good at studying—marrying him would satisfy Bai Yanjiao fully.
As Bai Yanjiao was dreaming happily, she heard soone calling from the yard, “Is Aunt Bai ho?”
The voice sounded familiar; it seed to be Shen Zhihua’s voice indeed.
Bai Yanjiao’s eyes lit up instantly, and she got up to lift the curtain.
There stood Shen Zhihua in the yard, holding an enal basin in his hands, bathed in the cool moonlight, his handso face making her heart race even more.
“Brother Zhihua, what brings you here?” Bai Yanjiao’s little heart thumped rapidly.
Shen Zhiyuan smiled faintly, “My mom asked to bring sothing over!
Also, I needed to discuss sothing with An Hao!”
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