Such a gossip-laden sentence quickly drew everyone's attention, and immediately someone expressed their opinion.
"Where's she from? She looks pretty young, what was she thinking?"
"Oh my, she wasn't bought, was she?"
"Bought what? The girl is from Shannan, and she just wants to marry him!"
"Impossible! Old Zheng is hitting 40 this year. If he really had the charm to woo someone, why did his first two wives insist on divorcing him no matter what?"
Old Zheng was a well-known bachelor in their village. He got married for the first time when he was around twenty but barely half a year passed and his new wife was done with him. She said he was a loser and wanted a divorce.
Back then, divorce wasn't common, and the two hadn't even registered their marriage officially; she packed her bags and headed straight to the south to find work.