Although Xue Qianren was just a child, Xue Yaya's heart as an old lady still trembled again and again. Xue Qianyan looked at Xue Yaya strangely and silently remembered it in her heart.

Since we are going to look for Lang Ziyan, Xue Yaya looked at the books on the shelf and said, "Should we finish reading the books we have borrowed?"

Xue Qianyan felt dizzy and scratched her temples: "I don't understand a lot of this!"

Lin Fubao smiled. Could she say that she couldn't understand some of the books? She estimated that among the four people, only Yaya could read these books without any problem. Unexpectedly, Xue Yaya said, "Just read it a few more times. I can't understand it in one go."

She didn't lie. Although she had accumulated knowledge from her previous life and had the experience of the past few years, it was still somewhat difficult for her to read these ancient Chinese books:

"How could so many people fail to even pass the imperial examination in ancient times?"

After a few words, Xue Qianyan's self-confidence was restored: "I think it's not impossible for me to take the exam to become a scholar now!"

Lin Fubao sighed. This child was sometimes self-abased and sometimes conceited. It was really speechless! Xue Yaya patted Lin Fubao's hand: "Fubao, don't sigh! It's not an old lady!"

Lin Fubao looked at the Er Ya that Xue Yaya handed over and said with a bitter face, "When are we going to meet Brother Lang Ziyan? Isn't the time not decided yet?"

I'm talking about -

"You gave me Er Ya so that I could copy it?"

Xue Yaya sighed and looked at the three children in front of her: "Am I so unreliable? You just now - no - you just sighed, didn't you say you couldn't understand? Isn't this a tool for reading books?"

She quickly opened the book: "Isn't this a dictionary?"

"Then when are we going to see Brother Ziyan?"

Xue Qianyan was more concerned about this. Xue Yaya pursed her chin and said, "That depends on Uncle Bai!"

Lin Fubao and Xue Qianyan were a little puzzled. Xue Qianren raised an eyebrow and looked at Xue Yaya: "Do you expect my father to go to the county town to buy things?"

Xue Yaya said back: "Aunt Shi is a grown-up girl, and as her youngest son, you can give her some advice!"

Xue Qianren frowned: "Let's read the book first!"

Lin Fubao glanced at Xue Yaya in confusion - was this a disguised way for Xue Qianren to show his goodwill to his stepmother first?

The one who was going to marry Xuelibai was Shi Xiaolan from Yuelai Village. She was 22 years old this year and was an old maid. In terms of appearance, the girl was pretty and petite. She would not have trouble finding a husband when she was young. Even now, she could have married a childless widower. But she had lost both her parents and was an only child, without any brothers or sisters to rely on. There were a few people in the Shi family who were not greedy for her property and wanted her to marry a son-in-law to support her. But how could a man willing to marry a son-in-law be a good one?

It was also a coincidence that people would go up the mountain to pick mushrooms and pine nuts and walnuts in autumn. Shi Xiaolan once went up the mountain with the women in the village. Because she was still single at an advanced age, she was always looked at with a sidelong glance. She was inevitably a little embarrassed and gradually became alone. What was even more terrible was that she took the wrong road. She accidentally slipped from the steep slope to the cliff and was hung on the tree.

The young generation of the Xue family would go up the mountain to hunt when they were free. Except when they went into the deep mountains together, they were all on their own at other times. It happened that Xue Libai went up the Nanshan Mountain alone that day! And because the people from Yuelai Village were collecting along the way, the small animals were driven deeper in disguise. He went in, and when he came back, he happened to hear Shi Xiaolan's cry for help, and then it was a clichéd plot of a hero saving a beauty.

Xuelibai didn't take the rescue seriously. Although he was a little extreme, he knew the importance of it and didn't tell anyone else about his rescue. They both thought that the other person was married, but Shi Xiaolan was a woman after all. She was saved by a man she didn't know. She was a little moved and couldn't help but secretly inquire about it.

But Shi Xiaolan was a young lady who had never been out of the house. She had only met Xue Libai once. Based on his attire and the bow and arrow in his hand, she guessed that he was a famous hunter nearby, but she didn't know which one. The old lady was secretly anxious but had no choice. Or maybe she couldn't hold it in any longer and asked the matchmaker who came to her door, pretending to be annoying. She heard that the young men in Xue's family had married and had children. She was a little sad. She should have been mentally prepared, right? There are still people who get married at the age of fifteen or sixteen these days. Those who are still unmarried in their twenties are too late, like her because her parents have passed away one after another.

What kind of person is the matchmaker? She could tell at a glance that she had chosen a man from the Xue family. But she was kind-hearted and felt sorry for the girl being delayed by her parents, so she consoled her, "Speaking of the men in the Xue family, they are all sturdy. It's not impossible for our little Lanjun to find a man like that. But your family's conditions mean you need to recruit a son-in-law."

The cousin's wife from the next room in the family who was accompanying him also noticed the difference in his expression and quickly imitated what her father-in-law had said:

"Aunt, my father-in-law said that getting married is a lifelong thing! When my uncle and aunt were alive, there were more people who came to ask for marriage than there were pigs in the village."

The matchmaker twitched his lips, and Shi Xiaolan's cousin's wife probably realized that she had said something, and waved her hand and laughed loudly: "Oh, I don't know how to speak. What I meant was that my father-in-law told me that my uncle and aunt love my sister so much, we can't ignore her just because my uncle and aunt are gone..."

After a long conversation, the matchmaker finally said with a smile: "I understand what your father-in-law means. He means that as long as Xiaolan's children have the last name Shi, it will be a good marriage, right?"

Shi Xiaolan's cousin nodded, that was what she meant. The matchmaker slapped his thigh and said, "Then we can choose from a wider range of people!"

Thinking of this, she confirmed: "Then when Xiaolan gets married and has many children, it will be easy to discuss giving the child the Shi family surname."

Thinking of Shi Xiaolan's family's few descendants, she added, "As for those who lost their first wives and have many children, it might be easier to negotiate if Xiaolan marries them and the children take their mother's surname."

If there is such a situation, the possibility of getting married is even greater.

My cousin's wife nodded. That's right. Nowadays, every family has many children, but it's still hard to let their children take their mother's surname. Some people would rather be adopted by the clan than take their mother's surname.

Shi Xiaolan stayed aside without saying anything. She had to get married anyway. At her age, she had too few options to choose from. The matchmaker sighed when he saw that Shi Xiaolan was a little distracted. She didn't know whether she owed or earned the kindness of giving birth and raising her! If she were to say, Shi Xiaolan was born into the old Shi family to repay her gratitude!

Thinking about the Xue family that Shi Xiaolan had just inquired about, she stomped her feet and turned to Linjiazhuang. She remembered that there was a widower in the Xue family...

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