Longevity begins with slaying demons and eliminating demons

Chapter 301 Matchmaker
"I haven't told you who it is."

The moment he heard Shi Lei's words, Shi Xiaohan's heart throbbed involuntarily for a moment.

"Could it be him?" She thought silently, Gu Xu's familiar face appeared in her mind, and a faint blush appeared on her cheeks inadvertently.

This appearance of his daughter was obviously expected by Shi Lei.

Although this girl usually doesn't admit it, and she is coy when mentioning Gu Xu in the letter, but Shi Lei knows that her soul has been taken away by that kid Gu Xu long ago.The shyness that could not be concealed in her eyes had already betrayed the thoughts deep in her heart.

"That's who you have in mind."

Shi Lei looked at his daughter with a complicated smile on his face.Now that my daughter has grown up, she will soon leave this house and live her own life.For this, Shi Lei was naturally quite reluctant.

Shi Xiaohan stood there blankly, motionless.

Her cherry lips parted slightly, and her breathing paused for a moment.

At this moment, Gu Xu's figure appeared in her mind again - he put on a bright red wedding dress, standing by the side of the sedan chair, smiling at her.

"I...I'm not thinking about that guy Gu Xu..." She turned her head and stammered.However, in her heart, there is a villain who is jumping for joy.

"Hmph, I'm still talking hard."

Shi Lei shook his head helplessly, reaching out his hand to touch her head, and smooth out her wind-blown hair, but Shi Xiaohan immediately avoided it.

He paused, and then said, "Don't talk about anything else. Just tell me if you are willing or not."

Hearing this, Shi Xiaohan was silent for a long time, then pursed his lips, subconsciously nodded, and gave a soft "um".

Her cheeks flushed even more red before she knew it.

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Marriage is never wishful thinking.

In the Daqi Dynasty, a couple had six steps from marriage proposal to completion of marriage, namely: "Na Cai", "Ask Name", "Na Ji", "Na Zheng", "Invite date", "Prospect". welcome".

Also known as "six rituals".

Among them, "nacai" means that a man and a woman send a matchmaker to each other's home to discuss the preliminary marriage - "matchmaker" refers to the man's matchmaker, and "妁" refers to the woman's matchmaker.If both parties are interested, the man will formally send a matchmaker to the woman's home to propose marriage with certain gifts.

As the old saying goes:

"The bandits have missed my time, and the son has no good matchmaker." (1)

"How about Fake? Bandit ax can't do it. How about taking a wife? Bandit matchmaker is not allowed." (2)

Although the Daqi Dynasty did not have strict defenses between men and women like Gu Xu's previous life in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, they still followed the tradition of "the order of the parents and the words of the matchmaker" in matters of marriage.

Even if the two have already hit it off, they still need to use a matchmaker to complete the whole process of talking about marriage, proposing marriage, and getting married, so that it can be regarded as a perfect marriage.

So two days later, when Gu Xu was practicing in his mansion, a hunchbacked old lady surnamed Liu suddenly came to visit, claiming to be a matchmaker.

Gu Xu frowned slightly, and wanted to politely decline.

Recently, due to Gu Xu's reputation in Luojing, countless people sent matchmakers to his house, but they were all driven away by Gu Xu on the grounds that "the Luoshui Conference is approaching and we need to focus on cultivation" .

However, this Granny Liu's words dispelled Gu Xu's thoughts.

She said with a smile all over her face, "It was Shi Qianhu from Laizhou Prefecture who asked me to come."

"Shiqianhu from Laizhou Prefecture..." Gu Xu silently repeated the name in his heart.

As we all know, Shi Lei has only one daughter.He condemned the matchmaker to come to the door, and naturally what he was talking about would be Shi Xiaohan's marriage.

Although Gu Xu is young, he has lived two lifetimes and experienced many things - he has climbed to the Golden Luan Temple, climbed to the top of Laoshan Mountain, and confronted the evil god face to face.This allows him to basically remain calm when faced with various situations.

But at this moment, he was a little at a loss.

His heart was originally as still as still water.

But at this moment, a stone fell into it, causing ripples on the calm water surface.

"Master Gu, Mr. Shi had already expected that you would have concerns in your heart," Granny Liu said with a smile after seeing Gu Xu's expression, and handed an envelope to Gu Xu's hand, "So he deliberately Let me hand this thing over to you.

"Master Shi's daughter is in the prime of her youth right now, she is beautiful and charming, there are countless people who want to go to Shi's mansion to discuss relatives.

"I can guess, Mr. Gu, a young talent like you may think in his heart of 'establish a career first, and then start a family'. But you have to understand that the girl will not wait with you forever."

Gu Xu did not respond immediately.

Granny Liu's words made his eyes become a bit more dignified.

PS: Sorry for the short chapter.Recently, I feel very dizzy, my thoughts are very confused, and I can’t find the state (often I can’t squeeze out a line of words for several hours, and I don’t feel right when I write it QAQ). I hope everyone can give me some time to adjust.

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Notes:

(1) From "The Book of Songs·Wei Feng·Mang";
(2) From "Book of Songs Binfeng Fake".

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