Right now, people inside the workshop kept poking their heads in and out, and since Mr. Zhao and Mrs. Zhao were both fairly well-known locally, they felt utterly humiliated.
Their son might be slow, sure, but his talent in business was something the old couple were very proud of. They used to worry about his marriage, thinking his standards were too high.
They never imagined it wasn't that their son's standards were too high, but that his taste was too… offbeat!
Just look at the woman in front of them—she looked almost ten years older than their son, and her looks were so-so. They really couldn't understand how their son could be so hopelessly, stubbornly in love with her.
Yes, she was kind and had a good heart, but there were plenty of kind, good-hearted girls who were also pretty. With their family's circumstances, finding a kind, younger, prettier, never-married girl than this woman really wouldn't be a problem.
