Chapter 490 - 488: Reassuring Pill
Father Liu coughed, giving Mother Liu a significant look.
Only then did Mother Liu hesitantly begin, "My dear niece Yongzhu, as you have seen, we both are quite fond of this child, Yongping. Our Xiao Qiao—"
At this point, Mother Liu also felt somewhat awkward. Normally, such matters should be initiated by the male family head. According to traditional customs, a matchmaker should first be sent to express that the Wang Family’s Fourth Child has taken a liking to the Liu Family’s daughter and wishes to ask for her hand in marriage.
Then the Liu Family should take a day or two to consider the proposal before agreeing to the matchmaker.
Only after that should the matchmaker go back to the Wang Family with the message and bring the Wang Family to formally ask for the marriage, in accordance with proper etiquette.
But it wasn’t as if the two families lived far apart; and now that the head of the Wang Family was an unmarried young woman, they inevitably needed to get past Wang Yongzhu first before discussing further matters.
Mother Liu found it really difficult to broach the topic. There was a saying, "One looks up when marrying off a daughter, but lowers one’s head when taking a wife."
When had the bride’s family ever rushed to bring up such a matter? How would one’s own daughter be able to hold her head high in her in-laws’ home afterward?
So having said a few words, Mother Liu became tangled up, and no matter how much Father Liu signaled, she simply wouldn’t continue.
Wang Yongzhu might not fully understand the intricacies of these customs, but she knew the principles of how to behave.
Although she felt that the matter of the marriage between the two families was not up to her, being merely a younger sister, this was something that should be discussed with Old Granny Zhang and Wang Laozhu.