“It’s a blessing that your daughter is filial, but your blessings are yet to come. I’ve watched Yaya grow up, and she’s a good girl.”
“It wasn’t for nothing that I doted on her,” Grandma Jiang laughed heartily. “That girl has a somewhat unconventional personality. I thought she had gone down a dead end, but I never expected things to turn out this way.”
In fact, the relationship between the mother and daughter had been problematic for the past two years.
Although her daughter didn't say it explicitly, Grandma Jiang could sense that her daughter was resenting her.
However, her daughter's current predicament is indeed related to her, and even if she resents her, she can only bear it.
Who would have thought that after receiving the divine favor, the daughter would have a complete awakening, not only changing her personality but also becoming much closer to her parents.
"No matter what, my sister-in-law has finally made it through. By the way, didn't my sister-in-law ask someone to pass on a message to me a few days ago, asking me to keep an eye on the Shi family girl?"
“Yes,” Grandma Jiang said seriously, “So, what happened to that girl later?”
"She ran away," the old woman next door said with a hint of disdain. "That girl ran away with a traveling peddler."
"What?" Grandma Jiang exclaimed in surprise, "Did she get her head caught in a door?"
Are young girls these days really this fierce?
You dare to go with a man so easily? Are you out of your mind?
If you really know the person's background, that's fine. But if that person is a kidnapper, you might as well become their concubine.
"Who knows what that girl was thinking," the old neighbor shook her head. "She just ran off with someone without a care in the world. Who knows what she might encounter?"
The old lady next door didn't think highly of the girl from the Shi family who ran off with someone else.
The so-called "betrothal as wife, elopement as concubine" means that the two people live together without even a marriage certificate. If the man has any bad intentions, there is really no way to deal with it.
"Whatever, it has nothing to do with our family anyway."
"Human hearts are treacherous," the old woman next door sighed. "What if this girl doesn't do well? She might blame your family for not helping her in her time of need."
"It can't be that bad," Old Mrs. Jiang squinted. "It's not my family's fault. We only asked a matchmaker to sound things out back then; nothing was even going to happen yet."
"It's always good to be wary of others, sister-in-law, you should be more careful."
"Okay, I've got it."
After seeing her parents off, Jiang Nuan was about to enter her spatial dimension when she suddenly heard a shout, "Mom, come here quickly."
Jiang Nuan walked into the hall and saw a young man dressed in mourning. "Yingying, who is this?"
“My brother,” Jin said, her eyes red, “Mother, my brother said my father has passed away.”
"What?" Jiang Nuan trembled in shock. "Are you serious?"
"Really, Mother, what should we do?" Jin looked at Jiang Nuan helplessly, wanting her to make a decision.
She never expected that she would receive news of her father's death after only a few days apart.
She was perfectly fine when she left last time. How could she just leave like that for no reason?
Although she disliked her father for being so frivolous, he was still her father, and no matter how frivolous he was, he was still her support.
"Don't panic," Jiang Nuan forced herself to calm down, "Let's find out what happened first."
"Nephew, why did your father disappear without a trace? Who told you?"
“Auntie, I don’t know either. My mother gave me the news,” the young man said, his eyes red and swollen, his voice hoarse. “I’ve come today not only to deliver the news of the death, but also to ask you to save someone.”
As the young man spoke, he knelt down and pleaded, "Auntie, the uncles at Wuweilou have been sold off by their master overnight. Please, save them!"
"What?" Even though Jiang Nuan was somewhat prepared, she didn't expect it to happen so suddenly. "Why is it so urgent?"
“I don’t know either,” Jin Yong shook his head. “It was Uncle Qiushan who sent a message saying that the master wanted human traffickers to sell them far away.”
"Don't worry," Jiang Nuan comforted Jin Yong. "I'll ask someone to take care of it right away. Sit down, have some water, and rest for a bit. Yingying, go make your brother a bowl of vegetarian noodles. He probably hasn't eaten yet."
"Okay, daughter-in-law will go right away."
After arranging these things, Jiang Nuan immediately took the silver notes to the old house.
After receiving the news, Huang Shi took the silver notes and his men to the county town to buy people. Fortunately, they arrived a little early. When they came, the human traffickers had already loaded the people onto a cart and were preparing to take them to other places to sell.
At first, the brokerage firm didn't dare offend the Jin family and didn't want to sell the person to Huang Shi. Huang Shi pleaded with them and secretly slipped them a purse, which finally allowed them to buy the person back.
When Jiang Nuan heard that Jin Yong had come to report the death without even seeing her father's body, she was furious.
Jin was also furious. "Brother, you didn't even see Dad's body, how can you be sure he's gone? What if he's perfectly fine? Aren't you cursing him?"
“Exactly,” Jiang Nuan said irritably, “There’s a saying that you should see the person alive or the body dead. How can you conclude that your father is gone based on just one sentence?”
This whole thing is so messed up, she simply doesn't know what to say.
Even if Old Fox Jin hadn't died, he would have been driven to the brink of death by his son's anger.
“This can’t be fake,” Jin Yong said in a low voice. “My mother told me herself, and the master released my and my father’s indenture.”
"Your mother told you that?" Jiang Nuan frowned. "What did she say?"
"They didn't say much, just that my father had an accident, and the master, remembering his merits, released our indenture so that my father wouldn't be left without a place to live."
“Something’s not right,” Jiang Nuan said thoughtfully. “Something’s very wrong.”
“Exactly,” Madam Jin chimed in, “Where did Mother get this information? How could someone who spends all day in the inner quarters watching over the young lady know these things? Did the master tell her? Why did he tell her?”
No matter how capable a servant is, he will never be respected by his master.
If Father's death was truly an accident, why would the Jin family do this?
He seemed to have a guilty conscience no matter how you looked at him.
"Yingying is right. Let's wait and see about the funeral. It's not even certain whether he's dead or alive yet. Why are you in such a hurry to decide whether your father is dead or alive? Let's find out the situation first."
"But, Auntie, Mother said that my father died a violent death and that he would bring misfortune to the living. We need to bury him as soon as possible, otherwise it will cause unrest in the family."
"Nonsense," Jiang Nuanzhen thought her mother-in-law was very strange. "Her life and death are uncertain, so how could she possibly offend a stranger? Even if she did offend him, he's your father. Would he really harm you?"
“That’s right,” Jin thought for a moment, then gritted her teeth and said, “You’d better not trust Mother too much. She was the lady’s dowry maid and also the young lady’s wet nurse. To her, all of us combined are not as important as her mistress.”
Kim realized this when she was very young.
But no matter how bad she is, she is still my mother. As children, we cannot speak ill of our parents; we can only keep these things to ourselves.
But today, she really couldn't take it anymore.
Does this woman really want her father to die out there?
What exactly did her father do wrong?
If you look down on him so much, why did you still marry him?
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