Chapter 12

Wu Xiaoying frowned, “I actually forgot about this. How about you get married first and then get the marriage certificate when you are old enough? Besides, how many people get married and get a marriage certificate in our village? Your father and I didn’t get one, but we are still living well, aren’t we?

Taohua is such a good girl, so many families are vying for her, but her parents have not agreed yet. If you are willing, their family will definitely agree!”

Wu Xiaoying doesn’t care whether she is a sister or not. She is not her biological sister, so this reason does not apply to her.

“That won’t work. I need to file a report to get married, and the organization won’t agree.”

For the first time, Yan Fangming felt that it was a good thing to have this requirement for military service. At least it could help him reject some people he didn’t like. Taohua was a very good girl, but she was too familiar to him. She had always followed him around and called him brother when they were little, and he really treated her as a little sister.

Wu Xiaoying was worried now. “What can I do? It’s hard to find a girl of the right age. Girls in the countryside get married early, while girls in the city are still in school and have jobs. Look, Nuannuan is still a college student. She has a lot of potential. If she didn’t catch up with this time, she would have a lot of jobs after graduating from college.”

As she was talking, she turned to Xiang Nuan again, which was a pity to think about.

Yan Fangming glanced at Xiang Nuan with some surprise. He didn’t expect that she was still a college student. The girl was quite amazing.

“Well, I’ll go ask someone else.”

After Wu Xiaoying finished speaking, she ran away again, and Yan Fangming didn’t have time to stop her.

Xiang Nuan looked at his helpless expression and smiled with a hint of schadenfreude.

Yan Fangming turned his head and looked at her when he heard her laughter. “Don’t laugh at me yet. You will get married sooner or later.”

Xiang Nuan curled her lips and said, “I’m different from you. No one urges me.”

“Aunt will urge you.”

Yan Fangming was very sure about what he said. Given how much his aunt cared about her, she would definitely care about her marriage as well.

Xiang Nuan choked and became unhappy instantly. Urging people to get married is a topic that never goes out of date no matter what era it is.

Should she pack up and leave quickly?

Seeing that she was silent, Yan Fangming laughed, “Silly girl. Take a rest. I’ll go chop the remaining firewood.”

After he left, Xiang Nuan lay down on the kang, with Yan Fangming’s words in her mind.

Although she was a person who traveled through a book and possessed a system, she did not dare to fight against the inherent development of the times on her own. Even if she had severed ties with her biological father, her background was still sensitive. In the eyes of others, she was just the daughter of an exploiting capitalist. Therefore, for her own safety, she might have to stay here until the end of the movement, at least ten years.

This body is twenty years old now, and it will be thirty in ten years. There should be no woman here who is still single at the age of thirty.

Whether in her previous life or this life, she didn’t think marriage was a necessity, nor did she think that thirty was too old, but if she kept dragging it on here, she might be attracted by a lot of rumors.

Xiang Nuan turned over in annoyance. Forget it. She didn’t want to think about it anymore. She would just let nature take its course. Who knows, some handsome educated youth might come along one day and fall in love with her, and she would marry him.

As for why it wasn’t a man from the village, it wasn’t that she looked down on rural people. The main reason was that the rural people who could stay in the village now were illiterate and couldn’t even communicate with each other. How could they live?

If you haven’t met her, then just stay single. She will leave anyway, and you will be strangers in the future. You won’t sacrifice yourself for others!

Shuangxi came home from a crazy day outside and found out that Xiang Nuan was injured by her brother. He was so angry that he criticized her brother. It was only after Xiang Nuan pleaded for mercy that the little girl forgave her brother.

Yan Fangming deeply felt that he had no status in this family.

“Brother, are you going to marry Sister Taohua? After you get married, will Sister Taohua become my sister-in-law?”

Shuangxi nestled in Xiang Nuan’s fragrant arms, blinking her big grape-like eyes and asked Yan Fangming curiously.

Yan Fangming stretched out his hand and scratched her nose. “Who told you that? What does a child know? It’s not true. Don’t talk nonsense.”

“Humph, I’m not a three-year-old kid anymore. It’s just a marriage. Why don’t I understand?”

Wu Xiaoying asked with a smile, “Then tell me what marriage is all about.”

Shuangxi raised her chin proudly, “Isn’t marriage just a man and a woman getting married, living together and having a fat baby? What’s so difficult about it? I know everything!”

Wu Xiaoying sneered, “You know a lot. When your brother finds you a sister-in-law, he will give you a little nephew to play with. Didn’t you say that you have grown up? You will take care of the child in the future.”

Shuangxi hugged Xiang Nuan’s waist tightly with both hands and blurted out shocking words, “Then I want Sister Nuan Nuan to be my sister-in-law! Sister Nuan Nuan is pretty, and the child she gives birth to must be pretty too! I don’t want an ugly nephew!”

Sister Taohua is pretty, but Sister Nuannuan is prettier, and so is my little nephew!

When these words were spoken, the four adults present were shocked. Yan Mancang and Wu Xiaoying looked at Xiang Nuan, then at Yan Fangming, their eyes expressing ambiguous meanings.

Shuangxi didn’t know the lethality of his words. He tilted his head and looked at Xiang Nuan expectantly, “Sister Nuan Nuan, please be my sister-in-law!”

Xiang Nuan felt extremely embarrassed when being stared at by the whole family. She quickly raised her hand to cover Shuang Xi’s mouth and laughed dryly, “Well, I’m a little sleepy. I’m going to bed first. You guys should get some rest too.”

After she said that, she got off the bed, put on her shoes, and trotted back to the house.

After she left, Wu Xiaoying reached out and poked Shuangxi on the forehead, “You stupid girl, what are you talking about?”

Shuangxi touched his forehead unconvinced and pouted, “I am not talking nonsense at all, I just like Sister Nuannuan, I just want her to be my sister-in-law!”

Yan Mancang scolded in a low voice, “Keep your voice down, and don’t say that again!”

Xiang Nuan is indeed a good person, but her background is a bit poor. If his son was an ordinary farmer, he would have no objection, but his son was in the army, and Xiang Nuan was a time bomb, so he disagreed.

“Brother~”

After being scolded by her father, the little girl wanted her brother to support her.

“Shuangxi, don’t say that. Look how embarrassed you made your sister Nuannuan. You are so rash.

My marriage is an adult matter, you little girl just need to have fun, you don’t need to worry about it.”

Yan Fangming was reluctant to say anything harsh to her, and spoke to her in a gentle tone.

Moreover, when this girl just now asked Xiang Nuan to be her sister-in-law, he was not opposed to it in his heart. When his aunt mentioned peach blossoms in the morning, his first reaction was no.