A farmer's daughter travels through time, farming and dividing the family to fight for the best

"I'm sorry, Mr. Si, I didn't mean it." Li Dazhuang hurriedly explained. Although he said this, there was no guilt on his face.

"No problem." Si Chengxu replied calmly, and if you listened carefully you could hear a hint of coldness in his voice.

From then on, Li Dazhuang came every few days. When he came, he started working. He filled the water tank with water and chopped the firewood and piled it high. Si Chengxu was happy to have some free time. Occasionally, Li Dazhuang did not come in time, so he would just deal with it casually.

Li Xiaoxiao had hoped that Si Chengxu would speak up if he couldn't stand the hardship, but now he has basically nothing to do. Sun felt bad seeing Li Dazhuang coming to work every day, so she stopped him from working, but he wouldn't listen and came even more frequently.

They all went to the village to fetch water. After a while, the villagers knew that Li Dazhuang was fetching water for Li Xiaoxiao's family. They lived halfway up the mountain, so they joked with Li Dazhuang: "Dazhuang is fetching water for Xiaoxiao's family again."

Li Dazhuang smiled innocently: "It's Auntie. All the people working in this small family are women. It's too tiring to carry water, so I help them."

"What a good boy! Any girl who marries Da Zhuang will be blessed in the future."

"Da Zhuang, are you attracted to that girl Xiao Xiao? You and Xiao Xiao are a good match."

Suddenly, Li Dazhuang's face turned red all the way to his ears. Those who came to fetch water were all adults. Looking at Li Dazhuang like this, what else could he not know?

"Auntie, don't talk nonsense. Xiaoxiao and I are not very old. I'm leaving first." Li Dazhuang ran away with a red face. He could still feel his face burning even after walking a long way away.

Li Quanfu's wife, Zhang, went to the vegetable field to pick vegetables. She ran into Aunt Hua walking towards her. Zhang didn't like her and wanted to go around her, but Aunt Hua stretched out her hand to block her way: "Where are you going, Aunt Zhang?"

As the saying goes, don't hit a smiling person. Zhang stopped and said, "I haven't been to the cabbage field for a few days. I'll go and see if there are any bugs." Then she was about to leave.

"Mrs. Zhang, you don't have to do so much. No matter how much you do, you are doing it for others. Why do you have to do so much?" Aunt Hua said something without any context.

This sentence successfully aroused Zhang's curiosity. As expected, Zhang did not leave. She asked her suspiciously, "What do you mean? Tell me clearly. How did I do it for others?"

"Look at my mouth, don't you know?" Aunt Hua asked back.

"Speak clearly." The more Aunt Hua tried to hide the truth, the more anxious Zhang became.

"It's not a big deal. Your Dazhuang has been fetching water and chopping firewood for Li Xiaoxiao's family every day during this period. He must have taken a fancy to your Dazhuang and wants to become your in-law. Everyone in the village knows about this." Aunt Hua deliberately exaggerated the matter. She just happened to hear it. Li Quanfu's family was considered to be relatively well-off in the village. This damn girl, how could she marry into such a good family? She should have married an old widower like Li Ruolan, only then would she feel relieved.

Zhang felt very bad. What she feared came true. She didn't go to the vegetable garden. She told Aunt Hua that she had something to do and hurried home.

As soon as he got home, he slammed the door shut. Li Quanfu didn't go to the mountain today. He had just fallen asleep when he heard the door slamming loudly. When he got up, he saw Zhang's face full of anger and she was breathing heavily, obviously very angry.

"What's wrong? Who made you angry?" Li Quanfu asked with concern. It had been a long time since he saw Zhang so angry.

"He's still your good brother, Li Dahai." Zhang rolled her eyes at him and said unhappily.

"How could he offend you when he looks so sick?" Li Quanfu was puzzled.

Seeing her man like this, Zhang was so angry that she twisted his arm hard.

"Okay, okay, ma'am, I was wrong. Please forgive me." Li Quanfu begged for mercy again and again.

Seeing his expression, Zhang was both angry and amused. She repeated Aunt Hua's words with exaggeration and added at the end, "I don't agree with Dazhuang marrying her."

Li Quanfu stopped making a fuss and began to think about the matter seriously. Zhang's idea was similar to his. He was not optimistic about this marriage. The conditions of the two families were too different. Since ancient times, people have emphasized matching of social status. If Xiaoxiao had not been born in the Li family, he would still be happy to be his daughter-in-law. What a pity.

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Zhang went to find the matchmaker Sun in the afternoon. Sun was well-informed and knew almost all the girls of marriageable age in the surrounding villages. The Li family was well-off, so they thought of several girls who were well-matched. Among them was one named Song Xiangxiu, who Zhang thought was good. Songjia Bay was three or four miles away from their home. The girl had five older brothers and was the youngest in the family. She was loved by her parents and brothers. Her family was well-off and one of the richest families in their village.

Scholar Li and Li Quanfu were also very optimistic about her and chose the girl on the spot and asked matchmaker Sun to propose marriage.

Matchmaker Sun agreed readily, and as soon as she walked to the door, she ran into Li Dazhuang.

Matchmaker Sun smiled brightly and asked, "You must be Da Zhuang, right?"

"Yeah." Li Dazhuang didn't understand.

Without saying anything else, the matchmaker left with a smile.

Who is this? The moment he came up, he asked his name. Li Dazhuang walked into the house suspiciously. The whole family was there. They were talking, but when they saw him come in, they all stopped and looked at him, and gradually their faces became a little unhappy.

It was Zhang who spoke first: "Da Zhuang, you are already an adult. You are the only child in our family. We want you to have children and inherit our family line as soon as possible."

When Li Dazhuang heard this, his face immediately turned red. Did they also know that he wanted to marry Xiaoxiao? He replied in a low voice, "Yeah."

Seeing that Dazhuang changed his mind so quickly, he didn't like Xiaoxiao that much. Zhang felt relieved and in a much better mood. She touched Li Dazhuang's head affectionately and said, "You are such a good son. I guarantee that you will be satisfied with the girl I chose for you."

"What girl? Isn't it Xiaoxiao?" Li Dazhuang broke free from her mother's hand and asked back. At the same time, he felt vaguely uneasy in his heart, hoping that it would not be what he thought.

"What do you mean by 'Xiaoxiao'? She is not suitable for you. The girl I've found for you is from Songjiawan, named Song Xiangxiu. Matchmaker Sun has already proposed to her. Once the engagement is reached, we will get married as soon as possible." Li Quanfu slammed the table, his tone stern and unquestionable.

"I don't want to marry, I want Xiaoxiao." Li Dazhuang shouted angrily, tears welling up in his eyes, and he ran out of the door in anger. He really liked Xiaoxiao, so why didn't his family agree? Since the last time he went to Xiaoxiao's house to help, her mother told him to stay away from Xiaoxiao and not to have any contact with her.

He had liked Xiaoxiao a long time ago. Xiaoxiao was smart and brave, pretty and considerate. She spoke neither arrogantly nor humbly and her words were well-reasoned. He had never seen such a good girl. Although her family was poor, as long as he worked hard, he believed that life would be good. Why couldn't his parents see Xiaoxiao's merits?

The matchmaker had been gone for a long time, and it was already dark but she still hadn't shown up. Could it be that the Song family didn't agree to marry their daughter off?