Flip the table and divide the family property! Take his wife and daughter into the mountains and eat

Seeing Da Niu so embarrassed, Brother Zhao chuckled and changed the subject, his gaze falling on Er Gai Zi, who was eating with grease dripping from his mouth.

"By the way, Brother Ga Zi isn't young anymore, is he?"

Erga was stuffing the last piece of a large, oily steamed bun into his mouth when he was suddenly called upon. He waved his hand dismissively and began to boast indistinctly:

"Brother Zhao, don't worry about me! I'm not like Da Niu. I'm working with Brother Shanhe now, doing big things! I've got money in my pocket. Once I go to the city, what kind of city girl can't I find? I wouldn't even look at those few villages around here!"

The bricklayers at the table burst into laughter again upon hearing his tone.

Erga Zi ate and drank his fill, completely suppressing his cravings, before standing up and wiping his greasy mouth with his sleeve.

"Da Niu, you guys cover up first! I need to hurry and buy some soy sauce, or my mom will really beat me with a broom handle if I'm late!"

He grabbed the empty soy sauce bottle and soybean bag from the base of the wall, and with an arrogant, pigeon-toed gait, strolled out of Da Niu's yard.

When they arrived at the village store, Erga bought a pound of bulk soy sauce, two boxes of matches, and then went to Old Li's tofu shop to exchange his half-bag of soybeans for a large block of steaming hot tofu.

After all that fuss, by the time he returned to his yard with the tofu and soy sauce bottle, the sun was already high in the sky.

As soon as Ergazi stepped into the courtyard, he heard an extremely exaggerated laugh coming from the main room.

He lifted the curtain and peeked inside, then froze in shock.

The village's famous matchmaker, Wang, was sitting cross-legged on the heated kang (a traditional heated brick bed) in his house, waving her signature big red floral handkerchief in her hand, spitting as she chatted away with his mother:

"Sister-in-law, you can rest assured! This time, the girl I found for Ga Zi is Cui'er, the youngest daughter of Liu the carpenter in Xia Kanzi Village next door! That girl is incredibly pretty, with a great figure, and she's super efficient at farm work!"

Matchmaker Wang gave a thumbs up, "Now that Ga Zi has made a fortune with Zhao Shanhe, we can pick and choose any girl from all around us! Yesterday, I practically flattened the threshold of the Liu family's house with my words. When they heard he was our Kaoshantun's God of Wealth, they were overjoyed!"

Ga Zi's mother sat on the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed), her smile so wide that the wrinkles on her face almost crinkled together, and she echoed her sentiments repeatedly:

"Oh, Auntie, if this works out, I'll give you a big red envelope! This rascal runs around like a madman all day long, and once he has a little money, he doesn't know the immensity of the world. We need to find him a decent wife to keep him in check, so I can hold my grandson soon..."

Erga Zi stood in the outer room, and the more he listened, the more something seemed off.

So the old lady sent him out to work early in the morning because she was secretly plotting to put a bridle on him?

He was about to go inside to protest, but as soon as he took half a step out, the matchmaker Wang's next words from inside the house froze him in place.

"But sister-in-law, there's something I need to make clear to you beforehand."

The smile on Ga Zi's mother's face faded slightly:

"What did you say?"

Matchmaker Wang looked around and lowered her voice:

"At first, the carpenter and his wife were a little hesitant. They disliked that our Ga Zi used to go into the mountains every day without a proper job, and they also heard that he had a wild temper. They were afraid that their daughter would live in fear after marrying him."

Erga Zi, who was standing in the outer room, immediately raised his eyebrows.

What does it mean to have no proper business? What does it mean to have a wild temper? I used to make a living through my skills!

But before he could finish cursing in his heart, Matchmaker Wang continued:

"But when they heard that Ga Zi was making a lot of money with Zhao Shanhe and had even worked in a state-owned factory in the city recently, their attitude changed completely. Yesterday, Liu the carpenter even asked me how much Ga Zi was making a month and whether the family was planning to build a new house in the future."

Upon hearing this, Ga Zi's mother straightened her back slightly and her voice became clearer:

"Of course! My son Ga Zi has plenty of money right now! He just came back yesterday and paid me back..."

"Oh, sister-in-law, seeing how radiant you are, I knew you were destined for a blessed future!"

Before Ga Zi's mother could reveal the exact amount she had in store, Wang the matchmaker, with remarkable tact, interrupted her, waving her flowered handkerchief and showering her with compliments:

"The Liu family values ​​Ga Zi's drive and ambition! Carpenter Liu also said that he values ​​Ga Zi's skills, saying that this young man has a drive that others don't have. He feels at ease entrusting Cui'er to him, and she'll definitely enjoy a good life in the future!"

Hearing this, Erga Zi in the outer room couldn't help but curl his thick lips and sneer inwardly.

What do you mean by valuing my abilities? To put it bluntly, isn't it just that I'm rich now?

Two years ago, when his family was dirt poor, his mother specially asked someone to cut off a piece of good meat and bring two catties of brown sugar to beg this matchmaker, Wang, for his marriage.

The man wouldn't even let her in. He just stood in the yard, rolling his eyes, and said, "Sister-in-law, it's not that I don't want to help, but with Ga Zi's lazy and idle ways, you can't even find a proper bed or blankets in his house. What decent girl would dare jump into your fire pit?"

Ergazi could hear all the sarcastic remarks from that time clearly through the crack in the door.

His mother was so embarrassed that her face turned bright red. She brought the meat back untouched and sat on the warm kang (heated brick bed) secretly wiping away tears for several days.

He's still the same Ergaizi, his temper hasn't changed, his appearance hasn't changed. The only difference compared to two years ago is that he has money in his pocket. As a result, he went from being in a "fire pit" to "enjoying happiness".

Thinking of this, Erga Zi's reckless anger, mixed with resentment, surged up.

He slammed the soy sauce bottle and hot tofu onto the stove, lifted the curtain, swaggered in, and shouted at the top of his lungs:

"Mom, Aunt Wang, what are you two making such a fuss about? Who said I was going on a blind date?"

The matchmaker's smile froze instantly. Before she could even speak, Ga Zi's mother glared at her, grabbed a shoe-sewing awl from the kang mat, and threw it at her, yelling, "You little bastard, what are you spouting about! Who let you in? Get out of here! Can't you see I'm having a serious talk with your Aunt Wang?"

The awl fell to the ground with a "thud" at Erga's feet.

Erga Zi not only didn't leave, but instead dusted off the white dust on his cotton-padded jacket, deliberately putting on an air of disdain, and retorted with his thick lips:

"What are we talking about? My business is the business!"

Aunt Wang, it's not that I'm disrespecting you. But I, Erga, have at least seen the world now, thanks to Brother Shanhe! I see those towering skyscrapers and cars honking their horns all day long! I've even seen foreigners—Americans, Soviets—in fancy hotels! Tell me, after seeing all that, why would I still be interested in that...country girl from Xiakanzi Village who's never even left the commune's gate?"

The matchmaker was completely bewildered by his elaborate schemes, holding up her flowery handkerchief with her mouth agape, unable to utter a word for a long time.

Seeing this, Ergaizi raised his hand and continued his shameless babbling:

"If you ask me, you shouldn't bother being a matchmaker. If I, Erga, am going to find someone, it has to be a foreign woman! I'll bring back a blonde, blue-eyed, fluent-speaking foreign wife to our Kaoshan Village! Let everyone in Kaoshan Village see what's what!"

"Even if all else fails, I'll still find a factory worker from the city! She'll wear small leather shoes, have a perm, and wear that kind of face cream when she goes out! That would be so prestigious! So don't worry about my marriage, I know what I'm doing!"