Reborn in Dunhuang, I am farming and doing business in the desert

Chapter 13 Matchmaking
“Brought by the Western Region Caravan.”

Although he was annoyed with Xue Lingyao, Shen Zhao didn't want to show his emotions on his face all the time.

As long as Xue Lingyao doesn't cause trouble in front of him, Shen Zhao can always live in peace with her.

"Western Region Caravan? Ah Zhao is really lucky." Xue Lingyao sighed: "I have never encountered such a good thing."

Shen Zhao glanced at her and said nothing.

Seeing that the girl ignored her, Xue Lingyao was silent for a moment, and suddenly her beautiful eyes flashed and she whispered, "Ah Zhao, actually Brother Qin has always been fond of you. He was very sad during the days when you broke off the engagement."

Shen Zhao felt sick after hearing this and looked at her coldly: "Xue Lingyao, who are you to say this in front of me? Go back and tell your mother to send the money for my medicine!"

When Xue Lingyao saw Shen Zhao starting to argue with her again and even mentioned the money for the medicine, her delicate eyebrows couldn't help but knot up.

Before she could say anything, her arm was grabbed by her younger brother Xue Yi: "Sister, let's go, Brother Qin is waiting in front."

Turning around, I saw Qin Yi standing not far away and looking over here.

Xue Lingyao suddenly felt a secret sense of pride in her heart. She glanced at Shen Zhao, then slowly walked away holding the water jar.

Shen Zhao stared at Xue Lingyao's back as she walked away, then he looked towards the turbid Jinshui River, slowly calming his rising anger.

I finally understood why I fell in love with the cold and aloof Qin Yi in my previous life.

When I was a teenager, I was always bewitched by Xue Lingyao because she kept telling me that Qin Yi liked A Zhao very much.

Now that I think about it, this woman really had evil intentions. She knew that Qin Yi had feelings for her, but she deliberately tried to link him with the Shen family.

Shen Zhao was sure that Xue Lingyao had played an indispensable role in Qin Yi's proposal to the Shen family.

Perhaps Xue Lingyao also often told Qin Yi how much Ah Zhao liked him.

The more Shen Zhao thought about it, the angrier he became, and he couldn't help but clench his fists.

Before the age of fourteen, I had always been ignorant about love and had never had any thoughts about Qin Yi.

Ever since Xue Lingyao often said that Qin Yi liked her, she believed it and couldn't help but pay more attention to Qin Yi.

Later, the girl fell in love for the first time and really fell in love with the boy from the Qin family.

But every time her enthusiasm was extinguished by Qin Yi's cold face, Xue Lingyao would appear on time and say that Qin Yi looked cold but had a warm heart, and that he actually liked Ah Zhao very much...

Shen Zhao was suddenly angry at his own stupidity.

How could she be so blind in the beginning? She just followed what others said and was led by an unknown outsider all her life. She deserved it for being plotted against and killed!
Shen Zhao took a deep breath and kicked the yellow sand hard.

At this time, the second brother Shen Heng had already fetched water and was placing four buckets one by one in the baskets on both sides of the cart.

"Let's go home!" He put the strap around his shoulders and neck, pushed the bike and left.

However, due to his lack of arm strength and it being his first time pushing a heavy object, the unicycle was wobbly and unstable.

Upon seeing this, several teenagers from the same neighborhood immediately ran over to help stabilize the object, and they pushed it back with a few people laughing.

"Brother Heng, can you lend me your car later?"

"Of course!" Shen Heng has the same temperament as his father. He is cheerful and generous towards his friends.

"I want to borrow it too! Can you lend it to me after Ah Zhu has borrowed it?"

"Okay!" Shen Heng agreed immediately with a smug look on his face.

"And me! And me..."

Shen Zhao was speechless after hearing this.

But she had no intention of interfering with her second brother's friendships.

In this northwestern desert, most of the garrison soldiers are kind and honest, and the neighbors live in harmony with each other.

Everyone lives by the concept of "if you treat me well, I will treat you well too", and helping each other is common. Of course, there are also people with bad intentions, but not many.

Now it seems that the Xue and Qin families should be ranked among the bad-intentioned ones.

Shen Zhao was thinking as he walked, and he picked up the dead branches he encountered on the way and took them home to use for burning.

After several days of sandstorms, all you can see is fine yellow sand, and the little bit of green left in the fields has been swallowed up by the wind and sand.

The neighborhood vegetable fields have also been affected, and it is estimated that before winter comes, every household will have no vegetables to eat.

Shen Zhao was not worried about these things. The small bronze mirror contained everything. As long as she had money, she could buy a lot of them immediately.

After returning home, Shen Heng poured four buckets of water into the water tank and was surrounded by several teenagers and went out.

The teenagers almost got into a fight over the right to push the cart.

In the end, Shen Heng acted as a peacemaker and asked them to line up and push the ball one by one.

Shen Zhao didn't care how noisy his second brother and the others were, and quickly scooped water to feed the sheep.

Goats can drink muddy water without any problem, but it is not okay to use it for cooking.

Just as she was considering whether to ask her mother for some money to buy some clean water, she heard someone walking into the yard.

"Is his aunt at home?" A sturdy woman in her forties looked around.

Shen Zhao came out quickly and asked, "Who are you?"

"Oh, you are the girl from Shen Tingjun's family, right?" The strong lady looked Shen Zhao up and down and said with a smile, "You are really as pretty as the girl from the Xue family."

Shen Zhao's face darkened slightly, wondering what this lady was going to do.

The strong lady didn't hesitate to come over and took Shen Zhao's hand and said, "I have a happy event today and I want to talk to your mother about it. Isn't she at home?"

"She's not here." Shen Zhao didn't know where his mother had gone, so he had to get a chair and ask the lady to sit down.

The old lady waved her hands repeatedly: "No, no, I'll just stand here and wait for your mother."

Then he looked at Shen Zhao for a few more times and asked with a smile, "I heard that you broke off the engagement with the young man from the Qin family? Is it true?"

Shen Zhao felt a little disgusted when he heard this, but he still responded.

"Oh, that's great!" The old lady smiled and said, "It's also the bad luck of the young man from the Qin family who mistook fish eyes for pearls. Humph! In the future, you will definitely be able to find a husband who is ten times better than him."

Shen Zhao was speechless.

She guessed that this lady was here to propose marriage to her.

As expected, the old lady continued, "Actually, I have a good marriage proposal for you. The man is from Yuli Township and has a hundred acres of fertile land."

Shen Zhao interrupted her before she finished speaking: "Thank you for your kindness, Auntie. My mother said that I am still young and we can discuss marriage in a few years. There is no need to mention this matter again."

The old lady was choked by these words and her face suddenly turned ugly.

After a moment of silence, the old lady forced a smile and said, "A marriage will be arranged in a few years? Haha, I'm afraid you don't know that according to the laws of this dynasty, if a woman doesn't get married by the age of 15, she will be fined 50 yuan. You are 14 this year, right? You will be 15 next year. By then, where will there be a ready-made ideal husband waiting for you?"

"Don't worry about this, ma'am." Seeing that the lady was still pestering him, Shen Zhao began to get impatient and said directly, "Please go back. I have to go out to work."

Seeing that Shen Zhao had directly ordered them to leave, the old lady could not help but snort coldly: "I would like to advise the girl that it is better for a woman to get married sooner rather than later, otherwise she will rush to become someone's concubine, which is not easy at that time."

"Who do you think would be someone's concubine?"

Zhang Shanyue walked in slowly from outside, staring at the strong lady with a frosty face: "What nonsense are you talking to my daughter while I'm not at home? Sister Hua, you don't talk like this when you're a matchmaker."

When Sister Hua saw Zhang Shanyue coming back, she hurriedly smiled and said, "Don't get me wrong, I'm just giving you an analogy. There's no such thing as a concubine or not."

(End of this chapter)