The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law
Chapter 137 - 136, Experience the Matchmaker’s Mouth

Chapter 137: Chapter 136, Experience the Matchmaker’s Mouth

Matchmaker Zhang loved to powder her face, and ordinarily the fluttering of her handkerchief wouldn’t have been an issue, but as she waved it, a pungent scent was released.

Gu Feng deeply frowned, sneezed, and stepped aside.

"Matchmaker Zhang, please don’t stand too close, my old nose can’t handle those strange scents."

Matchmaker Zhang’s face stiffened, and her complexion darkened.

The previously pleasant atmosphere regarding the marriage proposal had been disrupted just like that.

Ultimately not wanting to quarrel over money, Matchmaker Zhang quickly recovered her powdered chrysanthemum face.

Without further ado, she got to the point, "It’s like this, over in the east at Anqing Town, a Scholar passed away three years ago, and his family has a daughter, quite a looker and literate too, and not to mention knowledgeable and well-mannered. She was about to be proposed for marriage three years ago, but then the Scholar died, and things got delayed.

By our customs, if there’s a mourning period, one must observe three years of filial piety, and she has completed these three years by now, she’s eighteen this year. Her age has held her back, making it harder to find a match in the town. Later, her mother came to me and asked to find a well-off farming household, and amongst all the farming families I know, yours, the Gu Family, is the most prosperous, and it just so happens that Dabao is seeking a match. Tell me, isn’t this fate?"

"The Scholar’s Family’s daughter?" Gu Feng was taken aback, then said, "But she’s a full three years older than our Dabao. Besides, we farmers want wives who can work, what’s the use for one that can read?"

"Hey! That’s where you’re wrong!" Matchmaker Zhang said somewhat excitedly: "Old man Gu, it’s not that I mean to criticize you, you’re good in every other aspect, but you are a bit too old-fashioned. Who decreed that farmers must till the land generation after generation?

Tell me, with the wealth of the Gu Family, would it be difficult to support a scholar? You just lack the connections. Alas, despite your family’s wealth, all the dozens in your household, not one is literate—your wealth alone won’t earn respect.

In the social hierarchy of scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants, scholars are ranked above farmers, you..."

"Hold on!"

Matchmaker Zhang, ceaselessly chattering and causing Gu Feng a headache, was cut off as he sternly said, "Are you here to arrange a match for Dabao or to criticize that not a single person in my family is literate?"

Matchmaker Zhang stiffened, then slapped her thigh, laughing, "Oh my, look at me, once I start talking, I just can’t stop. Yes, yes, of course, I am here to arrange a marriage for Dabao, precisely with the girl I mentioned, who just happens to be three years older than him.

There’s a saying, ’A woman three years older is like a piece of gold,’ these three years are truly no issue. As for her literacy and whether she can work, those are even less of a concern. If she can’t do farm work, she can learn—she’s managed to learn to read, haven’t she? Are you worried she can’t learn to farm your crops?

Being literate, well, that’s only a good thing for your family. In the future, if there’s ever a need to read some government decree or calculate some taxes, won’t you have someone who can do it?"

Not just that, if anyone else in your family ever wants to attend a private school, you’ll have that connection, won’t you? Worse comes to worst, she can even start to teach the children at home early on, and I’ve heard that the earlier a child begins learning, the smarter they become. Other families might not have this opportunity, but if your family marries a literate granddaughter-in-law, you’ll have it, and your great-grandchildren will surely be ahead of others..."

Matchmaker Zhang was famously known as a master matchmaker for ten miles around, her smooth tongue was no trifle, and once she started talking, it flowed like water.

On and on she went, not stopping until you nodded in agreement.

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