He Erniu often wrote letters to Anning.
The sisterly bond between them really developed deeper.
Meanwhile, at Anning's house, people started introducing potential partners to Xiangling.
Most of them were acquaintances, and the prospects seemed quite promising.
There were workers' children from certain factories, who had houses and were divorced, with two kids. Their wives had died in childbirth when the second child was born, and they had not remarried for years for the sake of the children. Knowing about Xiangling's situation, they wished to find someone to propose on their behalf, saying that if Xiangling took good care of the children, the children would surely be filial to her in the future.
There were also school teachers with one son who was already eighteen and about to take the university entrance exam. The fathers thought that since the children had grown up, they didn't fear stepmothers mistreating them, so they considered remarriage.
