Pampered by the Toughest Man After Divorce
Chapter 1120 - 1122 Xiao’ai, Dabao, Xiaobei

Chapter 1120: Chapter 1122 Xiao’ai, Dabao, Xiaobei

However, as Xia Dabao entered the kitchen and sat by the stove to boil water, she couldn’t help but smile again. Having been immersed in it from a young age, she believed that a husband and wife should be like her parents, sweet and loving, always adoring each other. When she got married, she too wanted to find someone with whom she could be sweet and loving forever.

But where in the world would that person be?

She was already fourteen years old. Many girls in the village her age were already talking about boyfriends. Her parents had also asked for her opinion, telling her to speak up if she liked someone. There was no need to be shy, but she didn’t find any of them appealing.

About this matter, her father and mother had discussed the reasons. Their daughter wasn’t interested in any of the village lads because there was something wrong with the way they raised her.

Almost no girls in the village knew how to read, but both of them worried about their daughter being uneducated, so they had taught her to recognize characters and told her stories since she was little. They were also concerned that she might be too weak and bullied when she married into another family, so they taught her all eighteen types of martial arts skills. Now look, their daughter was educated and knew Kung Fu, which made it even harder for her to marry out. Marrying her to village men who couldn’t even recognize one character would mean she was too educated for them, and the families who saw Xia Dabao’s Kung Fu prowess—who would dare marry her?

Then there’s the matter with Xia Dabao’s name. Logically speaking, since both parents were educated, they should have chosen a more refined name for her, something like Yuyan or Pingting. But they had gone with "Dabao" instead. According to her mother, they had originally given her an elegant name, but since they were used to calling her "Baobao," she never responded to her formal name, hence they simply settled on "Dabao."

Xia Dabao sighed. She was already fourteen and not a single proposal had come her way.

But despite this, her father and mother remained optimistic, especially her mother, who said that marrying someone should be about marrying someone you truly like. One shouldn’t carelessly engage in a blind or mute marriage; otherwise, life would not be happy later on.

So, Xia Dabao just kept spending her days idly in the village.

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Early the next morning, Xia Dabao once again got up early.

She was planning to take the rabbit she caught yesterday to the market to sell. With the money, she could buy candied haws and also indulge in Old Lady Zhang’s Fried Pancake—an irresistible treat fried in peanut oil that oozed with deliciousness with every bite. Thinking of this, she couldn’t help but swallow and got up to wash and get dressed.

Although she was no good with needlework, she was very skilled at tying her hair. Her mother had always liked to help her style her hair in various attractive ways since she was little. Yes, her mother called it "hairstyle."

Xia Dabao always felt that her mother was different from the other village women. When village women combed their hair, they just combed it and never called it a hairstyle. The same went for clothing; a yi was worn on top, and a chang worn below, but her mother would just call all of it clothes. She had heard that her parents weren’t locals but had come from afar to do business. They had been wandering around in their youth and finally decided to settle down in the beautiful Peach Blossom Village.

As for her grandparents, her parents only mentioned that they became separated during the war and couldn’t be found again. Xia Dabao had no doubts about this, since it coincided with the time of her birth, when several countries were at war. Many people from the North fled to the South, and since she knew her parents had lived in the North before, it must be true.

"Mom, I’m going to the market," Xia Dabao called out as she picked up the leftover rabbits and greeted Nan Feng, who was picking vegetables in the courtyard.

But Nan Feng, looking towards where they had been the day before, instructed Xia Dabao, "Take your little brother with you, okay?"