Zi Ye has been able to read people's expressions since he was young, and he is very perceptive. He immediately noticed that there was something subtly wrong with the atmosphere.
He sat on the edge of the bed, looked at the large group of people outside, and asked, "Who is that?"
He pointed at the middle-aged man with a big belly.
Jiang Nanai whispered, "He is Boss Wei, who runs a dyeing factory. The fat boy is his son, named Wei Xiaopang."
"What about that one?" He pointed at the person next to him again.
"That's my second uncle and second aunt."
Ziye understood: "Why don't you see your father?"
When the word "father" was mentioned, Jiang Nana was startled, sadness quickly welled up in her eyes, and tears condensed in her eyes:
"More than a month ago, my father came back from transporting goods and encountered bandits on the road. In order to protect the cloth, he fought with the bandits and was killed..."
Zi Ye was stunned.
He didn't expect that he accidentally mentioned Nana's sad point.
"Dad has only been gone for a month, and my second uncle wants me to get engaged to Fatty Wei, and also wants my mother to marry Boss Wei, saying it's a double happiness."
"What?!"
When Zi Ye heard this, he couldn't sit still anymore and jumped up.
The Jiang family is in the cloth business. They have two brothers. The eldest brother is Nana, and the younger brother is the middle-aged couple outside.
The eldest brother just died. Logically, Nana's mother should remain celibate for three years before remarrying. If she is deeply in love, she should remain a widow for life.
But the poor widow had only been dead for a month, and he was going to marry this middle-aged man with a big belly. It would have been fine if he had just married the widow, but he was also going to marry the four-and-a-half-year-old Nana.
How could such a thing happen in the world?
"Did your mother agree?" Zi Ye asked.
Jiang Nanai shook her head. "When Dad passed away, my mother swore in front of the Jiang family's ancestral temple that she would never remarry. But this matter was decided by my grandmother, and my second uncle agreed, so my mother would not refuse."
Mrs. Jiang was very young, only twenty-one years old, with a gentle and charming face, elegant and generous, and very charming; Boss Wei was nearly forty years old, with a protruding belly, a greasy face, yellow teeth, a pair of thin, squinting eyes, and looked as wretched as a pig.
His son is only eight years old, but he weighs more than 130 kilograms and is as fat as a pig.
"I... I don't like Wei Xiaopang either. He's a bad boy. He likes to bully other kids. He always takes my toys away and throws earthworms at me to scare me..."
The injury on her head was caused by Wei Xiaopang scaring her with a gecko half a month ago, and she rolled down the stairs and fell.
After hearing this, Zi Ye was furious and called the Jiang family inhumane.
At this time, there was a loud curse outside:
"No room for you!"
Old Madam Jiang was leaning on a cane, and she poked Madam Jiang fiercely with the sharp end of the cane, shouting and cursing:
"Your parents died early. You are my eldest daughter-in-law, so I am half your mother. Since ancient times, marriage is the order of parents and the words of matchmakers. How can you refuse?"
"Five days later, you will pack up and move to the Wei Mansion!"
"The Wei family is well-off, and you can enjoy a good life right away if you marry into their family. I am also thinking about you, so would I harm you?"
The old lady's voice was very sharp and mean.
Boss Wei clenched his hands and cast his lustful eyes on Mrs. Jiang's slender figure, almost wanting to strip her naked in public.
Mrs. Jiang had tears on her face. "Mother-in-law, I want to stay faithful to you. I am willing to serve you all my life and take care of you until the end of your life!"
Next to her, the second daughter-in-law rolled her eyes and said with a smile:
"Sister-in-law, I'll take care of mother-in-law. Now that my brother is gone, you and Nana can just marry into the Wei family and enjoy a peaceful life."