Jin Hua and Zhou Ziyang were both stunned when they heard this.
Madam Xie rubbed her forehead: "I feel a little dizzy. Jinhua, her aunt, you should go back first! I'll come again in a couple of days."
Ye Caiping nodded: "Okay, then we'll be going now."
With that, he pulled Jinhua along and quickly went out.
"Hey..." Jin Hua stumbled as Ye Caiping pulled her along. She was completely bewildered and asked anxiously as she walked:
"Auntie, why did Aunt Xie suddenly agree? She even said... Ziyang isn't engaged? Is she trying to lie to me?"
Ye Caiping said, "What Mrs. Xie said is true."
"But... I feel something's wrong! Is she trying to get back at me?"
The two had already entered the hanging flower gate when Ye Caiping stopped in her tracks:
"Now that you can be his legal wife, you've achieved your goal. There's no need to know why, right? If you want to know, you can go back and take a look now! Maybe you'll see the truth."
As Jin Hua listened to Ye Caiping's words, a sense of unease arose in her heart.
I have so many questions and speculations in my mind...
"So, do you want to go home or go back to visit?" Ye Caiping asked.
Jin Hua gritted her teeth: "Let's go back and take a look."
Ye Caiping narrowed her eyes slightly; she knew it!
The two entered through the second gate, but instead of crossing the courtyard directly, they went back along the covered walkway.
The Zhou family has few servants, and there's no one around right now.
The two quickly returned to the entrance of the inner hall and hid to the side of the door. Xie's voice then came from inside:
“One should not be greedy. It is said that one should marry off one’s daughter with one’s head held high and marry off one’s wife with one’s head held low. I think Jinhua is very good. Besides, you like her. Since you like her, then marry her! In this life, it is such a lucky thing to be able to marry the person you like.”
Jin Hua was stunned by these words.
Aunt Xie actually liked her; her intuition was right...
But why...?
Zhou Ziyang's angry voice rang out: "I do like her, but she's just a lowly peasant girl. She's fine as a concubine. Does she deserve to be my legal wife? If my brothers knew I married a peasant girl, they'd laugh me to death!"
Madam Xie sat down in the chair and said angrily, "What do you mean she's not good enough for you? Who do you think you are, some high-ranking official or nobleman, that she's not good enough for you?"
"Scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants—farmers should be ranked before merchants, so why are you unworthy of them?"
"Besides, her family isn't just any ordinary farming household. Her parents both have jobs; I heard they supply several restaurants every day. If you marry her, you won't have to spend any money to help them out."
"She also has a brother who is still studying. In fact, they are a very respectable family of farmers and scholars. She herself is also ambitious and knows how to learn things at the cloth shop."
"Manager Yao also praised her for being smart, and she's also beautiful and charming. You won't be at a disadvantage. After you get married, you'll manage the accounts, and she'll manage the cloth shop business. What's wrong with that?"
Zhou Ziyang's face turned ashen: "Mother... what do you know! As the saying goes, people strive for higher positions, and water flows downhill! I want to marry a daughter from a noble family, is that not allowed?"
"Besides, I had already made arrangements. On your birthday, if you hadn't taken the initiative to invite them to our home, which made the Ye family wary, I would have..."
If it weren't for his mother's interference, their marriage wouldn't have been on the agenda. He would have had plenty of time to win her over first.
It never turned out like this.
Zhou Ziyang said angrily, "Originally, I could have both a wife from a wealthy family and a beautiful concubine, which was the best of both worlds. Why should I compromise myself and have to choose one of the two?"
"All my brothers are like this, why can't I be!"
To be honest, he really does like Jin Hua.
I liked it at first sight.
She is beautiful and striking, stubborn and feisty, yet also somewhat clueless.
A young girl's pure and sincere longing gaze is always captivating.
But this attraction was limited to being his concubine. She wasn't qualified to be his legal wife.
Xie leaned back weakly in her chair, eyes closed, elbows propped on the coffee table, rubbing her eyes, and sneered:
"Do whatever you want, you've been the one in charge of this family for a long time. But you should know that if you do too many immoral things, you'll always get your comeuppance."
As she spoke, she didn't even bother to look at him anymore.
She had already tried to persuade him, but he wouldn't listen. He even called on Aunt Liu and the maids in the house to deceive the young girl in her name.
They even fabricated a fiancée and a Miss Song.
Zhou Ziyang said irritably, "My marriage is none of your concern, Mother. You should just focus on getting better."
He absolutely hated it; Xie's use of the word "legal wife" had completely stunned him.
How should we handle this now?
Before he could come up with a solution, light footsteps sounded, and two figures walked out from the side of the door.
"Jin, Jin..." Zhou Ziyang's face turned pale when he saw Ye Caiping and the other person. "You...didn't leave?"
How much of what was said just now did they hear?
Jin Hua stared blankly at him: "That Miss Song... is also a fake, isn't she? You don't have a fiancée."
Zhou Ziyang's face turned ashen: "You... listen to me first."
He reached out to pull her up, but Jinhua shook off his hand and gave a sorrowful smile.
"I originally thought... that Aunt Xie disliked me and was preventing us from being together."
"I originally thought... it was because my parents were being difficult that I lost my position as the legal wife."
"Only now do I realize that it was you who thought I wasn't good enough for you!"
"To manipulate me, you even made up a fiancée! You clearly don't have a fiancée, you're clearly not engaged... But, to make me the mistress, you made up a fiancée! Hahaha!"
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