After fleeing famine, I have thousands of acres of fertile land

"I'm so worried. There are only two villages nearby, and I want to find a matchmaker to introduce a girl to your brother, but there is no one around." Zhou looked at people around her age who all had grandchildren.

"Qingya, go to your third uncle's house and see if he is at home. Ask him to come over." Mrs. Li felt that her youngest son had been to many places and might know someone there.

"It's getting late, let's go tomorrow."

The two then noticed that it was dark, and quickly got up to cook. They had forgotten to make dinner.

When it gets late, I cook some porridge and stew some tofu with wild vegetables and have a meal.

Early the next morning, Ye Qing took Wangcai and Heizi to his uncle's house. The two houses were not far from each other, and they arrived there in a short while.

"Is Third Uncle home?" Ye Qing pushed the door open and went in. There was no one in the yard.

Ye Xiang came out of the room, "Qingya is here, my father is growing vegetables in the back."

"Uncle San didn't go out today."

"It's been hot these past two days, and the pork can't be kept well. We don't have to collect it every day." Ye Xiang pulled Ye Qing into the house to talk.

"Sister Xiang, I'm not going in. I'm going to go to the back to call Uncle San. Grandma asked me to call him."

"Grandma, is there something wrong? I'll go over to see her too." Ye Xiang was worried that there was something wrong with Li's health.

"Okay, come to my house and bring your needle and thread. I haven't done anything for a long time." Ye Qing didn't need Ye Xiang to lead him. He went out the back door directly to find Uncle Ye.

Ye Laosan had just finished planting the peppers and beans when he heard Ye Qing calling him.

"Qingya, what did your grandma call me for?" Uncle Ye walked home carrying a hoe.

"I want to discuss my brother's marriage with you."

Uncle Ye washed his hands and took his daughter and Ye Qing to the Ye family’s home.

"Wangcai, come here. I'll give you something delicious." Ye Xiang likes Wangcai the most. Wangcai is very smart.

But Wangcai was not online today. Ye Xiang called him several times, but he didn't come over and kept jumping up and down beside Ye Laosan.

Heizi was running in front. When he heard the food, he quickly turned around and waited at Ye Xiang's feet to be fed.

Ye Xiang gave the food in her hand to Heizi, "Heizi, eat more. Don't give it to that heartless Wangcai."

Ye Qing was watching happily from the side, "Sis Xiang, you like dogs so much, let Uncle San find one for you to keep."

"They are all ordinary dogs. Wangcai and Heizi are not as majestic as they seem. Where did you find them? I often go to check them out."

"It's halfway up the mountain. We went there a few times later but never saw it again." The two of them walked in, said hello to Li, and went to the room next to Ye Qing to embroider.

Ye Qing made two cups of tea and took some food. They basked in the sun, one embroidering and the other sewing clothes. But both of them kept their ears perked up to listen to the conversation outside.

Li and Zhou didn't let the two little girls hear this, so they could only listen secretly.

"Third brother, you have been to many villages. Do you know any matchmakers?" Li asked.

Ye Laosan pondered for a while and finally remembered that the last time he went to Lianhua Village to collect pigs, he seemed to have heard that a matchmaker was taking people on a blind date.

"Third brother, let's go to that village to look for him today. Dalang is not young anymore." Zhou was also impatient.

Ye Laosan drove the ox cart and took Li and Wei straight to Lianhua Village.

Ye Qing and Ye Xiang were both stunned. How could it be so fast? He left before they could even hear anything.

The two of them ignored them and spent a leisurely time chatting and eating snacks.

"Sister Xiang, don't go back at noon. Eat at my house. We don't know when they will be back. Aunt San went to Uncle Wei's house to help. It will be troublesome for you to cook at home alone."

Ye Xiang didn't act pretentiously and agreed directly. "Qingya, I'll help you cook. What are you eating for lunch?"

The two of them cooked a pot of dumpling soup, fried a few dishes, took out the steamed buns from yesterday to heat them up, and waited for the workers to come back for dinner.

The Li family members didn't come back until the afternoon. Ye Qing took out the lunch left in the kitchen and gave it to them to fill their stomachs.

"Qingya, don't worry. We had some dry food at noon and we are not very hungry now." Li looked happy.

"You found it, grandma."

"I found it. I'll take your brother to see him tomorrow."

"So fast." Ye Qing was a little confused.

"No, no, I just want to meet you, the girl from Lotus Village."

The three of them had dinner, and Ye Lao San went home. Li and Zhou began to look for things at home, and they would bring cakes when they went to visit tomorrow.

"There aren't that many pastries left at my mother's house, and I don't have time to buy more." Zhou looked through the pastry cabinet, feeling anxious.

"It's okay, go to the second brother's house and get two packets. He went to the city to see Sanlang yesterday and brought back a few packets." Li ordered calmly.

"I'll go right away. This is a great help. Next time I go to the city, I'll buy it and return it to the second brother." Zhou didn't delay and went there immediately.

"Is my second brother and sister-in-law home?"

"At home, sister-in-law, come in and sit down." Shen had just finished feeding the rabbit and came over when she heard Zhou calling her.

"I'm here to borrow two packages of pastries. I'm taking Dalang to a blind date tomorrow, and I don't have any ready-made at home. I'll return them to you when I buy some."

"Sister-in-law, this is a good thing. You don't have to pay it back. Dalang is going on a blind date, and this is what I, as his aunt, should give him."

"That won't do. If it works out, let Dalang send you two bags to share in the good fortune. The boys below are all grown up, so they need to be engaged in the next two years."

Shen liked to hear this. Sanlang was not a child anymore, so if he got married quickly, he would no longer have to worry.

Zhou took the cakes and left in a hurry, and went back to see what clothes Ye Dalang wanted to wear.

Ye Qing was being directed by Zhou and was determined to dress Ye Dalang up to look smart.

The next day, before it was completely light, Zhou had already gotten up and prepared dinner. Lianhua Village was more than ten miles away from Kaoshan Village, so they had to leave early. If they arrived too late, it would seem that they were not sincere.

Ye Dalang drove the cart, Li and Zhou carried cakes and sat in the cart, and several people drove the ox cart out.

The three of them first went to the matchmaker Liu's house in Lianhua Village. Matchmaker Liu was also a straightforward person. She took a ox cart to the girl's house.

"Ms. Wang, are you at home? We are here." Matchmaker Liu greeted at the door.

"I'm at home, come in." A skinny woman came out, opened the door and let them in.

"Hello, Sister Wang. We are the Ye family from Kaoshan Village. Sorry to bother you." Zhou began to introduce her family.

The woman looked him up and down, then opened the door and let him in.

"Sister Wang, this is Ye Chenchuan. I brought him here to show you today."

"Sister Liu, come in quickly, everyone come in and sit down." He shouted into the house, "Master, there are guests at home."

Several people entered the house and sat down. The house was tidy enough.

Matchmaker Liu began to introduce the situation of the Ye family, and Ye Dalang greeted them generously.

"You are here to escape famine. Have you built your house yet?" Wang Dagui was sitting on a stool, with a shoe on one foot and a slipper on the other, looking unkempt.

Li frowned when she saw this, knowing that there were guests at home and the house was not dressed neatly.