Important: Putting this right at the beginning: BE!!! Bad ending!!!
How can you farm without getting tanned? Cheng Fanghua doesn’t get tanned because she doesn’t farm. Her older brother, Cheng Xinnian, does all the work.
The other girls in the village are hardworking and capable. Cheng Fanghua is famous for being lazy, so at eighteen she still hasn’t been betrothed.
Her old father frets at home amid clouds of smoke, puffing away on his pipe. Her mother visits Matchmaker Wang every day, worrying until her hair falls out strand by strand. Cheng Fanghua herself is cheerful and carefree, leading a pack of children off to catch fish and birds.
Cheng Fanghua likes Li Tingshu. It was love at first sight.
Li Tingshu is an educated youth sent down to the countryside, tall and slender, fair-skinned and handsome. He is exactly Cheng Fanghua’s ideal type.
She wants to get married, to Li Tingshu.
Although it was hard to reconcile, the two still separated peacefully. The last incident about their parents shocked me a little, but I can understand it. Also, the ending was very confusing, but I believe their story is still going on...
Overall, the writing style is quite good, and there is a process of falling in love at first sight, without being too ridiculous.