Chapter 99 Proposal

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Chen Xiaolin didn't know that Yu Youyin was planning to propose marriage to her. She was so busy that she had no time to think about getting married.

During the day, she was busy drying the prepared medicinal materials at home, and at night she had to work overtime to pick the honeysuckle.

By the time she finished her work, it was almost the Dragon Boat Festival.

On the day before the Dragon Boat Festival, every household is busy making rice dumplings. Rich families make more rice dumplings, while poor families make a few rice dumplings.

Chen Xiaolin still likes to eat rice dumplings, and there happens to be a lot of glutinous rice in stock in the space. She planned to pack more and put it in the warehouse if she couldn't finish it. Anyway, it wouldn't go bad if she kept it. If she wanted to eat it in the future, she could just take it out and eat it.

In my last life, there was a lot of controversy on the Internet about the fillings in rice dumplings. Southerners like to eat salty ones, while northerners like to eat sweet ones.

Chen Xiaolin planned to pack half the sweet and half the salty ones, since she liked both flavors anyway.

She took out glutinous rice, mung beans, peanuts, sesame seeds, pork, salted duck eggs, red dates, and chestnuts from the space.

Chen Xiaolin found a basin and soaked the glutinous rice first, then sauteed the peanuts and sesame seeds until fragrant, cut the pork into pieces, and separated out the salted egg yolks.

She planned to make twenty salted egg yolk and chestnut fillings, thirty pork and mung bean fillings, and fifty sweet rice dumplings with red dates and chestnut fillings.

Fortunately, the two pots at Chen Xiaolin's house are relatively large, otherwise the wrapped rice dumplings would not be cooked in two pots.

Cooking rice dumplings is a time-consuming job. It takes more than four hours to cook them before they are ready to be eaten. If you want them to be delicious, it is best to simmer them for another two hours.

Chen Xiaolin couldn't help peeling off a pork and mung bean rice dumpling before going to bed. The freshly cooked rice dumplings were sticky but not greasy, and you could eat the meat with one bite. The rice dumplings she made were really delicious.

After eating the rice dumplings, Chen Xiaolin couldn't help feeling sleepy and went to wash up and go to bed.

The next morning, Chen Xiaolin packed ten rice dumplings in a basket and prepared them for Grandma Chen.

As soon as she walked out of the yard, she happened to meet Aunt Fang, the matchmaker from the next village.

"Girl Xiaolin, where are you going? Is your grandma at home?" Aunt Fang has introduced several young men to Chen Xiaolin, but unfortunately Chen Xiaolin didn't like any of them. Today she was entrusted by Youyin to come here specially. Proposed marriage to Chen Xiaolin. Of course, such a big event as proposing marriage still requires the presence of elder Chen Xiaolin, so she planned to go to Grandma Chen first to find out more.

"My grandma should be at home. I just sent her some rice dumplings. Come with me!" Chen Xiaolin was quite curious about what Aunt Fang wanted from Grandma Chen. Could it be that she wanted to introduce something to her again.

"Xiaolin, you're here, who is talking to you?" Grandma Chen heard Chen Xiaolin talking to Aunt Fang and hurriedly walked out of the kitchen.

"Grandma, does Aunt Fang have something to do with you?" Chen Xiaolin originally planned to put down the rice dumplings and leave, but the way Aunt Fang looked at her frequently, as if she was hesitant to speak, told her that her visit to Grandma Chen today had something to do with her.

"Oh, it's Xiao Fang. Why do you have time to come to Daqingshan Village today?" There are only two young people of marriageable age in the family, one of whom is still in the army. Grandma Chen knows without thinking that Aunt Fang's visit today is related to Chen Xiaolin.

"Yu Youyin from Yujia Village asked me to come and help him propose marriage to your Xiaolin. He is willing to use a wild ginseng tree as a betrothal gift to marry into your family. I don't know if you are willing. This young man Yu Youyin is quite good. He graduated from high school, is good-looking, and matches your Xiaolin very well. "

Although it was the first time for Aunt Fang to see someone returning a bride's gift to a bride, if she had known that Yu Youyin was so capable, she would have introduced her niece to him. A wild ginseng tree is worth a lot of money!

"Is Yu Youyin that object of yours?" Grandma Chen saw Chen Xiaolin blushing and knew that this Yu Youyin should be her granddaughter's mysterious object.

"Well, since he is willing to marry into his wife, then I agree to the marriage." Chen Xiaolin already had a good impression of Youyin. Since he had asked someone to propose marriage, there was no need for her to reject him.

"Xiao Fang, since my granddaughter agrees, I don't have any objection. You can let the Yu family choose a date, and then Xiaolin and Youyin can get engaged first

"Okay, I'll go back and announce the good news to the Yu family first. I'll come over in a few days after the Yu family has arranged the date." Aunt Fang felt relieved when she saw that the marriage was settled. With this tone, Yu Youyin finally got the five-dollar matchmaking gift she had promised her.

"Don't be in a hurry to go back. Stay and eat a rice dumpling before leaving." Grandma Chen originally wanted to say that she would stay for lunch, but now that she had just finished breakfast, she had to let her stay and eat a rice dumpling.

"I won't eat rice dumplings. Today is the Dragon Boat Festival. I also made rice dumplings at home." Nowadays, everyone's life is not easy, and Aunt Fang is too embarrassed to stay and eat other people's food.

"Then you take two rice dumplings back and try my handiwork." Grandma Chen took two rice dumplings from the kitchen and gave them to Aunt Fang directly.

"Okay, then I'll try your handiwork. It smells delicious." Aunt Fang couldn't resist, so she had to go back with two rice dumplings.

Chen Xiaolin saw Aunt Fang leaving and wanted to sneak away secretly. She really didn't know how to tell Grandma Chen about Yu Youyin.

"Stop, why are you running so fast?"

"Grandma, I'm in a hurry to get to work!" Chen Xiaolin didn't expect that Grandma Chen would react so quickly and couldn't even run away.

"Do you know about Yu Youyin's family situation? You really gave me a big surprise. You promised yourself out without anyone seeing you." Grandma Chen didn't want to agree to the other party so easily. She proposed marriage, but was frightened when he used wild ginseng as a betrothal gift. She lost such a generous grandson-in-law, where would she go to find one?

"His grandparents, parents, and six brothers are still alive at home. I actually don't know much about the others. I originally planned to ask my eldest aunt to help me find out, but I was busy and forgot about it some time ago."

"Why does the family situation you mentioned sound so familiar? Could it be that Yu Youyin is Yu Laowu's son?" Grandma Chen got even more headache when she thought of Yu Laowu's family. Fortunately, her granddaughter was looking for a son-in-law, otherwise she would I must bring Aunt Fang back to discuss the marriage again.

"Yu Youyin is Yu Laowu's second son." Chen Xiaolin knew that Yu Laowu's family had a good reputation in Daqingshan Village. After all, who could give birth to two sets of twins?

"It's a good thing that you are recruiting a son-in-law. Otherwise, if you were to live in their house, I would rather you stay unmarried and be an old girl at home." Every family has a hard time to read, and Yu Laowu's family is not so easy to treat.

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