Chapter 137 - 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?"