Reborn in a small village in the 1990s

Chapter 78

Zhao Da'e looked at Zhou Chunwen strangely: "Cousin, you have so many jujube trees on the mountaintop, and nobody wants them. Why are you eyeing Uncle's few dried jujubes?"

"You don't know, my aunt is from Wenjiagou. Their place is even deeper in the mountains than ours, and the wild jujubes there are sweet. There are also walnuts, mulberries, and chestnuts."

"Alright, they have goats on the mountain too. What, you want your uncle to catch a few goats for you and make you a whole roasted lamb? Cousin, you're already as fat as a ball, you should eat less." Zhao Da'e said disdainfully.

When Zhou Chunwen heard Zhao Dage say she was fat, she immediately puffed up her cheeks and said angrily, "You and Er Ya are thin. Sometimes I really envy you. You show off all the time and you're not fat."

Zhao Da'e's lips twitched: "Cousin, you should know that what I'm showing off is all whole grains. This stuff won't make you fat. It's the peanuts you secretly eat that will make you fat."

Zhou Chunwen was stunned: "How did you know I secretly ate peanuts?"

Zhao Da'e rolled his eyes in disdain: "You sneak around in the middle of the night, while Er Ya and I are sleeping, chewing peanuts every day, crunching away. I'm not deaf."

"Um... let's change the subject." Zhou Chunwen was extremely embarrassed.

The two sisters were steaming buns and chatting when someone suddenly came to the door and asked loudly, "Is anyone home? Is this Zhou Yuren's house?"

Zhou Chunwen went out, pulled up her apron, and looked at the person who came in. It was a middle-aged woman in her forties, wearing a lint-shedding nylon coat, pilling elastic pants, rolled-up cotton shoes, a worn-out pink scarf, and a dark face under a messy ponytail that looked like it had been exposed to the sun and wind and had peeled skin.

Zhao Da'e also came out, and upon seeing the person, he said he didn't recognize him.

"Who are you looking for?"

"Is this Zhou Yuren's house?" the middle-aged woman continued to ask.

"Yes. You are..."

"I am Shi Zhihui, and Lao Ma is my third sister's husband," Shi Zhihui said.

"Shi Zhihui?" Zhou Chunwen had absolutely no recollection of her. "I don't know her. You've come to the wrong place..."

"Ah, it's Fourth Aunt! Please come in, please come in." Zhao Da'e remembered who the visitor was and quickly greeted her warmly. Then she pinched Zhou Chunwen and whispered, "Cousin, she's here to introduce my cousin to someone. Old Ma's wife's fourth sister, from the south of Xiaoheyan, from the same village as our maternal grandmother."

Zhou Chunwen was completely bewildered: Fourth Aunt? His fourth aunt had run off to the Great Northern Wilderness in a fit of anger because of his eldest aunt's constant nagging, and they hadn't heard from her for four or five years. But this person couldn't possibly be his fourth aunt from the same family. So who was this fourth aunt? After Zhao Da'e's explanation, Zhou Chunwen was still only vaguely aware of the situation. However, since she was introducing a potential partner to his older brother Zhou Tianfu, she must be… a good person.

This is the first person in many years that the Zhou family has come to propose marriage to the eldest brother, Zhou Tianfu. We absolutely cannot let her get away.

Zhou Chunwen tugged at Shi Zhihui's clothes, "Fourth Aunt, come inside. It's terribly cold outside."

Turning his head, Zhao Da'e let out a loud cry and called out into the yard, "Uncle, Uncle, we have guests!"

Shi Zhihui was then helped into the courtyard by Zhao Da'e and Zhou Chunwen. Zhou Yuren didn't even have time to put on his shoes before rushing out, his face beaming with a smile that almost made him wrinkle: "Are you relatives? Come in quickly. You've come all this way, you must be cold."

Shi Zhihui scratched his head, feeling a little embarrassed by his overly enthusiastic attitude towards the Zhou family members, and said, "It's not cold at all. It's sunny and quite warm today. My husband is from the same village as your brother-in-law. His name is Han Guofu. He calls your brother-in-law 'Big Brother.' They live in the same village, so I won't wear a coat. I'll just call you 'Big Brother' too."