O jovem rural, que fracassou repetidamente em encontros arranjados, pegou sua enxada e começou a cultivar os dois acres de terra ociosa. Um antigo cabaço herdado de família mudou completamente sua vid
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Hongwu County, Peach Blossom Village.
At the entrance to the village, beneath the shade of a tree, several old men were chatting idly.
Guo Dong walked along the narrow path leading into the village, looking dejected and somewhat ill at ease.
His blind date had failed again.
Remembering his previous attempts, he could not help sighing.
During his earlier dates, he had gotten along wonderfully with the girls, only to hear three words afterward: “I’m not interested.”
The more tactful girls would even add him on WeChat before he left.
Although they blocked him as soon as they got home, at least they had spared him the embarrassment in person.
Today’s girl had been even more direct, asking outright whether he owned a house and a car.
These days, who in the countryside did not have a house and a vehicle?
A private courtyard, a single-story house with four rooms, and a little electric scooter with two wheels.
Guo Dong had all of them, without exception.
It was far better than renting a single room in the city and squeezing onto the subway every day to get to work, wasn’t it?
The outcome was the same as before, but today’s blow had hit him especially hard.
What he dreaded most now was passing through the village entrance.
The old men had nothing to do all day, so they gossiped about everyone’s domestic affairs, moving from one village to the next.
Within a ten-mile radius, there was nothing they did not know.
Sure enough, the moment Guo Dong reached the village