Chapter 1060: Unbelievable

Gu Jinli blushed as she heard it: "You already know, elder?"

Doctor Wu snorted: "I’m not blind. Have you set the date?"

Gu Jinli replied: "The engagement ceremony date is set, May 19th. Remember to come and celebrate then, elder."

Doctor Wu did not refuse. Over the years, he had come to treat Gu Jinli like his granddaughter. He was very pleased to see her finally getting together with Qin San Lang, and said, "Since you’re finally getting married, I’ll help you manage the pharmaceutical workshop a bit more."

Gu Jinli smiled and immediately thanked him: "Thank you, Grandpa Wu."

With Doctor Wu’s words, she could spare the time to go to Songzi Manor and make a knife for Brother Qin.

...

Gu Jinli’s house had a splendid dinner tonight, with three families plus Doctor Wu eating joyfully.

While her family was eating, Mrs. Chen also dragged Gu Dagui, along with their two foolish sons, to Gu Dafu’s house, surrounding Gu Dexing and inspecting him thoroughly.

Gu Dexing was feeling uneasy under her gaze and couldn’t help asking, "Second Aunt, what are you looking at? Is there something on my face?"

Mrs. Chen nodded seriously: "That’s right, there are three words on your face: golden son-in-law!"

Hearing this, Gu Dexing blushed and pointed to a chair by the dinner table: "You and Second Uncle have a seat first, Brother Wang, Brother Fa, come help me bring out the dishes."

He figured they were about to talk about his marriage again, so he decided to escape first.

Seeing this, Mrs. Chen said disdainfully: "What dishes? What good food can you and your father have? Here, this is some marinated meat from Sister Daya’s house, it’s free, cut it up and bring it over to eat."

Mrs. Chen, intending to discuss Gu Dexing’s marriage, didn’t cook at home. Thinking that Gu Dexing’s food wouldn’t be great, she went to Gu Daya’s house to take a few plates of marinated meat back, and the four of them came to Gu Dexing’s house to eat.

Gu Dexing took the basket and went to the kitchen to cut the marinated meat.

A moment later, he brought out the marinated meat, two stir-fried dishes from home, and some coarse grain rice with Gu Dafu.

Seeing this, Mrs. Chen once again showed her disdain: "Why didn’t you cook white rice? In the future, you’re going to be the son-in-law of a rich family; eating coarse grain rice is embarrassing."

"Enough, Mrs. Chen, you’re eating for free and yet you complain so much." Gu Dagui couldn’t stand it any longer. This woman just had a sharp tongue, what’s wrong with coarse grain rice? Back when they were fleeing, they even ate leaves.

Mrs. Chen snorted, retorting: "Who’s eating for free? I brought a basket of marinated meat, worth half a tael of silver."

Gu Dagui almost died laughing: "You dare to say that. That marinated meat was taken from Sister Daya’s house. You didn’t spend a single copper coin."

Gu Dafu heard this and shook his head, quickly stopping them, laughing: "Stop arguing, let’s eat. The kids are hungry."

Speaking, he gave Brother Wang a piece of marinated lamb: "Eat up."

The child was staring eagerly at the marinated lamb, almost drooling.

"Thank you, Uncle." Gu Dewang smiled contentedly, biting into the marinated lamb and eating the coarse grain rice happily.

Mrs. Chen and Gu Dagui quickly picked up their chopsticks to eat. Estimating that the food was good, Mrs. Chen ate cheerfully, and after being full, she remembered the matter of the Xu family. Turning to Gu Dafu, who was tidying up the dishes, she said: "Big brother, you know the Xu family in the county, the second branch, right? We just met yesterday. That Xu Er couple has taken a liking to Brother Xing, and want to marry their eldest daughter to him. Brother Xing is going to be a son-in-law of a rich family."

Gu Dafu was taken aback. Before dinner, he thought Mrs. Chen was joking about Brother Xing. He didn’t expect it to be true, but: "Wasn’t it Brother An they took a liking to? And the girl they matched with doesn’t seem right. Isn’t she Xu Tongsheng’s own sister? You two even argued yesterday..."

Mrs. Chen interrupted Gu Dafu: "Exactly because I argued with Xu Ling, the Xu family thought that girl wasn’t suitable, so they switched to the second branch’s daughter."

She turned to Gu Dexing, adding: "That girl is called Xu Zhong. Her formal name isn’t great, but she has a really nice nickname, Linglong. I saw her yesterday. She looks good, even better than Xu Ling. Her temper is good too, very capable, and most importantly, Elder Xu said she’s the first granddaughter and will get an extra dowry for a grand wedding."

"Elder Xu also said, that in the future when the family is divided, the second branch of the Xu family will receive thirty percent of the assets, not much less than the first branch."

Mrs. Chen praised Xu Zhong and the second branch of the Xu family so much that Gu Dexing was a bit uneasy, looking at his second aunt suspiciously: "Is what Second Aunt said true?"

Praising so much, with Second Aunt’s ability to make plain iron seem like gold, he was a bit skeptical.

Mrs. Chen got angry, stood up and said: "What do you mean? You don’t trust Second Aunt? Has Second Aunt ever lied to you?!"

She had, quite a few times when he was young, to the point of taking his school books and showing them off at her family’s village, where everyone read them.

When those books were returned, they were beyond filthy, with children’s snot on them... uh, remembering that made Gu Dexing a bit sick.

Seeing Gu Dexing frowning and looking disgusted, Mrs. Chen also remembered the past, and joked: "That was in the past. Since you grew up, Second Aunt hasn’t lied to you anymore."

Gu Defa: "You deceived Brother Dexing twice last year. Once was..."

With a snap, Mrs. Chen smacked Gu Defa on the head, snapping: "You brat, shut your mouth, will you die if you don’t speak?"

Gu Dagui said: "Brother, it is true. Mrs. Chen didn’t lie. Third Aunt and Sister Dashan know too. It was Second Mrs. Xu who hinted personally when she came to apologize."

He nudged Mrs. Chen: "Hurry and take out the silk flower Miss Xu gave you."

"Right, right, we have the silk flower as proof." Mrs. Chen immediately took out a pouch hanging from her waist, and from it, a box. She opened the box and showed the two silk flowers to Gu Dafu and Gu Dexing: "Look, these are silk flowers made by Xu Zhong... Xu Linglong herself, made in the shape of lotus flowers, and wrapped with gold thread. Giving such precious things shows sincere intent."

Hearing this, Gu Dafu believed it somewhat but feared Mrs. Chen might have misunderstood. After all, his sister-in-law was careless and often made mistakes. If she misinterpreted and they went to propose, it would be humiliating.

So he said: "Second Sister-in-law, please repeat what Second Mrs. Xu said, slowly and in detail."

Mrs. Chen’s earlier narration was like storytelling, and he missed some details. A lot of hints in marriage matters are hidden in the details.

Mrs. Chen sipped a bowl of water, then repeated what Second Mrs. Xu said, also recalling the words of Third Grandma, Mrs. Cui, and Gu Jinli.

Hearing this, Gu Dafu pondered for a moment, then joyfully looked at Gu Dexing, eyes moist: "My son, it’s indeed a good match coming your way."

Eagerly, he asked: "What do you think? Are you interested in the Xu family’s eldest daughter? If you think she’s suitable, we can start preparing tomorrow. Once the presents are ready, we’ll have Second Aunt take the official matchmaker to propose immediately."