Chapter 77: Fear of comparison in everything

While walking home, Tai's mother looked at Jiang Meihua and talked about some family matters.

"Where are you from? I haven't seen you much. Are you from this town?"

Jiang Meihua smiled and nodded, "I'm from the Qianjin Brigade. My brother and sister-in-law run a breakfast shop in town, and I came to help."

"So that's how it is. That's what I thought." Tai's mother looked at Jiang Meihua a few more times and thought to herself that this girl, who was fair-skinned and pretty, actually had a rural household registration.

How can a girl who works on the farm all day be so fair?

It's rare that I can't get tanned by the sun.

"Girl, what's your name?" Tai's mother asked again.

"My name is Jiang Meihua, what's your surname, aunt?"

"My surname is Hu, and my husband's surname is Tai," said Tai's mother.

Jiang Meihua blinked, "Your husband's last name is Tai?"

"What's the matter?" Tai's mother looked at Jiang Meihua in confusion.

Jiang Meihua pursed her lips and smiled, "I know a friend whose last name is also Tai."

Tai's mother smiled and said, "There are only five families with the surname Tai in this town, and they are all from a large family. I must know your friend. What's his name?"

"Of course you know him. He works at the veterinary station."

Mother Tai stopped and squinted at Jiang Meihua, "Tai Wenguang from the veterinary station?"

"Yes, Aunt Hu, do you know him?"

"Of course I know her." Mother Tai thought of the girl her son was talking about, and her face looked unhappy. "Are you dating that girl named Tai Wenguang?"

Jiang Meihua's face suddenly turned red, and she stammered, "Not yet... not yet, we just know each other."

With a blushing face, she said no.

Tai's mother's face darkened, she let go of Jiang Meihua's hand, and said coldly, "My leg is fine, you don't need to support me. Thank you so much today, do you have anything else to do? I won't keep you any longer, you can go first."

After saying that, she left in a hurry.

Jiang Meihua blinked, confused. They were talking fine just now, why did he suddenly turn hostile?
She couldn't figure it out, so she shrugged her shoulders, went to the cooperative to buy two bottles of wine, and returned to Jiang Daguo's shop.

After Tai's mother and Jiang Meihua separated, they went to a colleague's home.

"Why did you come just now? The girl has been waiting for you for a long time." The colleague greeted Tai's mother at the door and complained with a smile.

"Oh, don't mention it. I met a mad bull that kept chasing me. I was scared to death. Then I met a nagging girl who kept talking about this and that." Tai's mother waved her hand, looked into the house, and asked in a low voice, "How does that girl look? Top, middle, or bottom?"

My colleague looked serious and said with a smile, "We are close friends and colleagues for many years. How can I find a worse teacher for your son? She is the best female teacher in the Xinghuo Brigade Primary School. You will know when you see her."

The colleague took Tai's mother into the house.

A young girl in her early twenties, seeing Tai's mother coming, smiled and nodded politely, "Hello, Teacher Hu, my last name is Fang, you can call me Xiao Fang."

She smiles appropriately, speaks gently, and dresses fairly fashionably.

But looks...

He has dark skin, a square face, sparse hair, is short and fat, and is nearsighted.

Tai's mother was so angry that she secretly pinched her colleague.

My colleague frowned. What went wrong?

She knew that Tai's mother was picky, but as a colleague and good friend of many years, she had to endure it.

"Xiao Fang, please sit down." Tai's mother waved to Xiao Fang and sat down first.

Xiao Fang did not sit down. Instead, he poured tea for Tai's mother and pushed some melon seeds and candies in front of her before sitting down.

Since we are all teachers, there is no shortage of topics to talk about.

However, Tai's mother was not satisfied. After chatting for a while, she said she had something else to do and wanted to leave. This made the colleague so angry that his face turned pale.

She smiled and asked Xiao Fang to sit down first while she saw Tai's mother off.

When we got outside, my colleague complained quietly, "Why don't you give me a greeting gift?"

"I'm not satisfied, what can I give you?"

"This girl is so good, and you're still not satisfied?"

"She's not good-looking and not worthy of my son." Tai's mother shook her head.

"She is a normal school student sent from City A. Teaching at Xinghuo Primary School is just for training. She will be transferred to City A in two years. After Wen Guang marries her, she will find a way to transfer Wen Guang's file to City A for work. Her parents also work in a unit in City A. They have been city dwellers for generations. Are you still not satisfied?" The colleague sighed and shook his head.

"She is shorter than me, at most 1.55 meters tall. Our Wen Guang is 1.8 meters tall! She is also fat. If she marries into our family, won't all the descendants of our Tai family be short and fat? No, no, I don't like her." Tai's mother shook her head.

The colleague suppressed his temper and said, "You, you, the good-looking ones complain about the bad working units. The good-looking ones complain about the appearance of others. I have found eight girls for Wen Guang, but you didn't like any of them. I don't have the ability to find another one, so you should find a wife for your son yourself."

Tai's mother looked at her colleague and said, "You, I have chosen a good in-law family for your daughter, but can't you help my son find a good wife?"

My colleague thought to himself, my girl is not picky, as long as the conditions are suitable for her.

But Tai's mother had a bad temper and said directly that there would be a quarrel.

Not wanting to turn their friendship of many years into an enemy, the colleague had no choice but to say, "Okay, okay, I'll look for it again."

"Then I'll go back first. You must look for it again."

"I know, I know." The colleague rubbed his forehead, waved his hand and went back.
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After leaving her colleague's house, Tai's mother recalled what Jiang Meihua said, that her eldest brother opened a breakfast shop in town.

So they started looking for them one by one.

There are only a few breakfast shops in town.

It didn't take long for Tai's mother to see the girl who had saved her standing at the door of a breakfast shop at the entrance of the market.

She is graceful and beautiful like a lily.

Alas, how could such a pretty girl be born in the village? How could she have a rural hukou?

Tai's mother looked over here frequently, which attracted the attention of Jiang Xiaoxiao who was playing with toys at the door.

Jiang Xiaoxiao ate longevity noodles and, accompanied by Jiang Meihua, played with a toy wooden horse in the sun at the door of the shop.

This was made of wood by Uncle Jiang. The four legs of the wooden horse are four small wheels, and there is a long handle on the back. You hold the handle to push the wooden horse.

Bang bang, very interesting.

Of course, this "interesting" only refers to what other children say. Jiang Xiaoxiao, with her adult soul, feels that it is very childish. However, in order to suit her age, she still tries hard to act like a child and plays with the wooden horse.

She noticed Tai's mother and pulled Jiang Meihua's sleeve, "Auntie——"

He also pointed at Tai's mother across the road.

Jiang Meihua looked up.

Just then I saw Tai's mother hurriedly turn around and walk away.

She frowned in confusion. Isn't this the same Aunt Hu from before?
Thinking of Hu Bo's strange expression just now, Jiang Meihua did not call her and went to play with Jiang Xiaoxiao.

But Jiang Xiaoxiao was looking at Tai's mother.

She has curly hair, wears gold-rimmed glasses, is neither tall nor short, and is slightly plump. She wears a sweater with black dots and a bright red background.

Isn’t this Tai Wenguang’s mother?

[Strange, why does Tai Wenguang's mother keep looking at the second aunt? ]

Jiang Meihua heard Jiang Xiaoxiao's thoughts, blinked, glanced at Jiang Xiaoxiao, and then looked at Tai's mother who was walking away.

The middle-aged woman she saved was Tai Wenguang’s mother?
(End of this chapter)