Chapter 18: The Matchmaker Liu Arrives

Although the meal was not finished, everyone in the Wu family had lost their appetite after the incident with Luo Yong and the fertilizer factory.

Fortunately, they had all eaten about seven-tenths full beforehand and were not hungry now.

After discussing it, they decided that the three women would take the food home and heat it up for dinner when Wu Zhipeng got off work.

“The bus is here. Mom, Xiaoye, Xiuxiu, you can take this bus back,”

Wu Zhipeng suddenly saw a bus coming, heading towards the city, and immediately told his family.

He originally wanted to send his mother, wife, and sister home, but time was running out.

Calculating the time, he would have to start his afternoon shift in half an hour.

There was simply not enough time for him to send them back and then rush back to work, so he could only let them go back by themselves.

The three women in the Wu family nodded in unison, “Okay, we’ll wait for you to get off work and have dinner together.”

The bus quickly arrived at the bus stop and stopped. Wu Zhipeng quickly sent the three women onto the bus, watched them get on, and only turned back to the factory after the bus drove away.

Wu Xiuxiu sat with her mother and sister-in-law for a while, got off at their stop, and walked towards the alley. As she was about to enter the alley, she suddenly heard someone calling Dong Xiaoye.

“Xiaoye! Xiaoye…”

Wu Xiuxiu and her mother and sister-in-law immediately turned around and looked in the direction of the voice. They saw a plump woman with a smiling face on the opposite street waving at them.

“It’s Matchmaker Liu!” Dong Xiaoye’s eyes flashed with surprise, and she said to Ding Hongjuan and Wu Xiuxiu.

Wu Xiuxiu’s eyes flickered slightly. It was truly a coincidence to meet Matchmaker Liu here.

“Let’s go over and greet her…” Before Dong Xiaoye could finish speaking, she saw Matchmaker Liu running over.

“Aunt Liu, what a coincidence, we met here.” Dong Xiaoye greeted her with a smile when she saw the woman approaching.

“This girl is your younger sister-in-law, Wu Xiuxiu, right?” Matchmaker Liu’s eyes were fixed on Wu Xiuxiu, scrutinizing her.

“Yes, she’s my husband’s younger sister, Xiuxiu. This is her mother, my mother-in-law,” Dong Xiaoye nodded and immediately introduced Matchmaker Liu.

“Hello!” Ding Hongjuan and Wu Xiuxiu immediately greeted Matchmaker Liu.

“Matchmaker Liu, we’re counting on you for Xiuxiu’s marriage. Please take the time to find her a good husband and a good family. We will definitely thank you generously,” Ding Hongjuan said to Matchmaker Liu with a polite smile.

“No problem, Xiuxiu’s marriage is in my hands.” Matchmaker Liu laughed heartily and patted her chest.

“You said it was a coincidence that we met here, but it wasn’t actually a coincidence. I came here specifically to find you. I was planning to go to your house, but I ran into you here.” Matchmaker Liu looked at Dong Xiaoye.

“You came here specifically to find us? Is there something wrong with the blind date you arranged for Xiuxiu tomorrow?” A hint of surprise flashed in Dong Xiaoye’s eyes, and she quickly asked.

“Could it be that the blind date you arranged for Xiuxiu has encountered some problems?” Thinking of this possibility, her face showed a deep concern.

Could it be that the blind date Matchmaker Liu arranged for Xiuxiu found out about Xiuxiu’s hospitalization and was worried that Xiuxiu would have sequelae, so he rejected Xiuxiu and refused to go on the blind date?

That shouldn’t be the case.

She didn’t tell Matchmaker Liu about Xiuxiu’s hospitalization. She was afraid that if Matchmaker Liu knew about Xiuxiu’s hospitalization, she would accidentally tell the other party, making the other family worried that Xiuxiu would have sequelae and rejecting Xiuxiu, not liking her.

This kind of thing had happened to her cousin before.

Her cousin had gotten sick shortly before her arranged marriage. When she met the prospective husband, the family learned about her illness and worried about potential complications. They ended up rejecting her.

So, she was thinking about guarding against this, and absolutely couldn’t tell Matchmaker Liu that Xiuxiu had been hospitalized.

Luckily, she had the idea of asking Matchmaker Liu to arrange a blind date for Xiuxiu when she saw her at the hospital a few days ago. So, when Matchmaker Liu asked why she was at the hospital, she lied and said she was visiting a sick friend.

Ding Hongjuan and Wu Xiuxiu also stared at Matchmaker Liu, their faces showing a hint of nervousness and worry, fearing that the blind date tomorrow might go wrong as Dong Xiaoye suspected.

“Nothing went wrong, don’t worry. But I came here specifically for the blind date,” Matchmaker Liu waved her hand, smiling to reassure the Wu family women.

“It’s about the blind date I arranged for Xiaoye. The prospective husband for Xiuxiu wants to meet beforehand, and he wants to meet this afternoon. I don’t know if you have the time.”

“Meet beforehand?” The Wu family women were all a little surprised.

“Why do we need to meet beforehand?” Wu Xiuxiu asked in confusion. Didn’t they already decide to meet tomorrow?

Matchmaker Liu hesitated in the face of Wu Xiuxiu’s question, as if she had something she couldn’t say.

Seeing this, the Wu family women were very strange. Dong Xiaoye said, “Auntie, you and my deceased mother were old friends. My mother always treated you as a sister, and I also treat you as my aunt. Please tell us everything, don’t hide anything from us.”

Matchmaker Liu looked at Dong Xiaoye and nodded, “The man’s family wants to meet beforehand because he’s going on a blind date with another woman tomorrow. I heard it was the woman who requested the blind date tomorrow.

Because the woman’s conditions are very good, I heard her father is an official, so the man’s family only dared to comply and didn’t dare to ask her to change the blind date time. So, they asked me to talk to you and change the blind date time with your family Xiuxiu to this afternoon.”

Upon hearing this, the Wu family women immediately frowned.

Although it’s normal to want to see more people during a blind date, the man hasn’t even seen Wu Xiuxiu yet, and he doesn’t know if it will work out with her, so he’s already eager to arrange a blind date with someone else. It really makes people feel uncomfortable.

Moreover, from what Matchmaker Liu said, the man is afraid of offending the second blind date because she’s from a good family and her father is an official, so he dared to comply and didn’t dare to ask her to change the time. He only dared to change the blind date time with Wu Xiuxiu. This makes it even more uncomfortable.

Wu Xiuxiu immediately felt disgusted with the man and didn’t want to go on a blind date with him anymore.

“Aunt Liu, from what you said, it feels like the man cares more about that official’s daughter. He probably doesn’t like me.

I’m afraid it won’t work out between us if I go on a blind date with him. I think it’s better not to waste our time and I won’t go on a blind date with him.” Wu Xiuxiu said to Matchmaker Liu.

She’s really angry! Matchmaker Liu sighed in her heart. She didn’t say it at first because she knew the Wu family, especially Wu Xiuxiu, would be angry.

No one would be happy about this kind of thing.

“Xiuxiu, don’t be angry. The man is wrong, but he’s got good conditions. He’s a high school graduate and a regular worker at the rolling mill. He’s a second-level worker with a high salary of fifty yuan.

His parents are both working and they’re both at the rolling mill. His father is an eighth-level worker at the rolling mill and his salary is even higher, at one hundred and eight yuan. His mother is in the factory office and earns fifty-six yuan a month.

Their combined monthly salary is over two hundred yuan. They’re really rich, you won’t have to worry about money if you marry into their family. You can eat well every day.

And he’s an only child. Everything in the family is his.

His mother even said that her daughter-in-law can take over her job in the future.

It’s so hard to find a job now. Being able to take over his mother’s job in the factory office in the future, where the work is easy and the salary is high, is like a pie falling from the sky. It’s so good, it’s unbelievable. It’s a dream come true.”