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Short Love Story

Hi guys, I was browsing the web and came upon this really cute short love story, it's a folk legend and I thought since it was nice and short, why not post it here.
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There is a folk saying, “Three people with five eyes which refers to three people looking at something and still failing to see its defects.

Another expression is “The next day is too late to discuss long and short legs!”, which means once a deal is made it is too late to reconsider its advantages or disadvantages. Sometimes the two expressions are linked together. But they both mean the same thing: you should look over the merchandise before buying it, because the next day is too late to complain about defects.

There once lived a matchmaker named Xiàng Qīn famed for being able to find a mate for absolutely anybody. She was approached by a boy with one leg shorter than the other who sought a beautiful girl for his bride. And she was approached by a girl blind in one eye who sought a handsome boy as a husband. And she decided to match them to each other.

When the time came for their formal meeting Xiàng Qīn told the boy to stand casually in the doorway and rest his short foot on the high threshold so the girl wouldn’t see the two legs together.

And she told the girl to stand in the doorway on the other side of the room and keep half of her face hidden behind the door frame, merely peeking around, so as to convey the impression that she was very demure and shy. Both of them did this, and therefore neither got a full view of the other. And both of them loved what they saw. So they agreed to the marriage.

“You must be absolutely certain,” said the matchmaker. “Once you are married, I don’t want any of this business about “three people with only five eyes,” as the old expression has it, or any misgiving about the “long and short” of anything. The young man and the young woman both thought these were merely hackneyed turns of phrase and remained enthusiastic about the marriage.

After they were married, the groom lifted the bride’s veil and was shocked to see her blind eye. But she wasn't blind in both eyes, and with her veil up she immediately spotted his short leg. And that is how they discovered that the sneaky matchmaker meant these phrases quite literally, for of the three of them, the bride was missing an eye, so truly there were three people with five eyes; And the groom truly had a long leg and a short one. But by then, of course, it was too late to do anything about it.

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