Chapter 670: Chapter 442: Child Bridegroom
Wei Ziang comes home for two days a month and naturally gets treated like a king, not even needing to pick up chopsticks. Once he washes his hands, he’s immediately called to the table by Second Aunt.
Jiang Yu secretly rolls his eyes, especially when he hears Wei Ziang repeatedly calling "Dad" and "Mom." It always seems like this guy is getting all the benefits while playing innocent.
At the same time, he can’t help but sigh quietly. He wants to ask if Mom and Dad are aware of Wei Ziang’s insidious intentions.
Their little daughter is about to be whisked away, and they haven’t noticed at all?
But sometimes, he thinks that his parents aren’t foolish.
Especially after the previous experience with Liu Ze, the big bad wolf; they shouldn’t be blind to Wei Ziang’s motives.
Speaking of these two, Liu Ze was very proper and respectful before his engagement with Xiaoxue, not stepping out of line at all.
As for Wei Ziang, taking advantage of being considered half a son too, and Xiaomi’s brother, he openly hangs around all the time.
Especially in recent years, even the way he addresses them has changed.
He used to call them Uncle and Aunt politely, but now he calls them Mom and Dad very cheerfully every day.
Whenever there’s a chance, he’s sure to be stuck with Xiaomi.
To the extent where Wei Ziang’s intentions are as obvious as Sima Zhao’s to the public.
At this point, combined with the fact that Wei Ziang isn’t young anymore, if this were in the village, he would’ve probably already married and had kids.
But the parents haven’t mentioned this at all, not even in casual conversation.
Are the parents really uninterested in Wei Ziang’s marriage prospects?
That doesn’t seem possible.
Thinking about this, Jiang Yu glances at the table, where Mom is picking beef for Wei Ziang, feeling sorry that he’s not eating well in the army and telling him to eat more meat.
A saying suddenly comes to mind.
A mother-in-law views her son-in-law, and the more she sees him, the more she likes him.
This thought surprised Jiang Yu, but the more he thought about it, the more suspicious it seemed.
Could it be that the parents are really treating Wei Ziang as a foster son-in-law?
Jiang Yu couldn’t hold it in and, unusually, laughed out loud at the dinner table.
Immediately, all eyes turned towards him.
Xiaomi reacted first: "Big brother, you’ve been zoning out while eating, and now you’re suddenly laughing. Did you think of something funny?"
Jiang Yu let his gaze sweep around the table, and sure enough, everyone was looking at him strangely.
Finally, Jiang Yu smiled and looked at Xiaomi: "Xiaomi, do you know what a foster bride is?"
Xiaomi nodded: "It’s when you raise a wife for your son, right? What’s up?"
"Nothing, I just suddenly thought, since there’s a foster bride, do you think there could be a foster son-in-law?"
Xiaomi completely didn’t catch what was wrong with the question, and blinked: "Foster son-in-law? What’s that? A husband raised for a daughter?"
Jiang Yu shrugged: "Who knows, it just crossed my mind."
Second Aunt looked at him: "You, not eating properly. What’s on your mind?"
A small episode, and apart from Jiang Yu himself, probably no one knew why he suddenly brought it up.
However, Liu Ze and Wei Ziang exchanged a glance.
If we’re talking about foster sons-in-law, they both seem to have grown up in the Jiang family...
The only difference is that Liu Ze’s family paid monthly living expenses, but Wei Ziang didn’t, being completely raised by the Jiang family.
So, there’s no need to ask who he’s talking about.
Wei Ziang’s expression didn’t change, continuing to diligently pick food for Xiaomi.
Who cares if he’s a foster son-in-law or not, big brother just gets to enjoy a little verbal teasing.
After eating, Xiaomi and Wei Ziang volunteered to wash the dishes, and Xiaoxue brought out the grapes left from the morning.
They ate chilled grapes under the eaves, enjoying the coolness and taking a break before going back to their rooms for a nap, continuing with the afternoon as usual.
In the afternoon, Wei Ziang and Xiaomi didn’t go far, just wandered around nearby, checking on the potato and watermelon seedlings.
When there was nothing else to do, they also took farm tools to work, though Second Aunt wanted Wei Ziang to rest more, he couldn’t sit idle.
Mainly, Xiaomi couldn’t sit idle.
And so, two days quickly passed by. Wei Ziang left quite early, and Xiaomi didn’t get up to see him off.
But a few days after Wei Ziang left, Xiaomi sent Ling’er to deliver a message.
Ling’er prepared some beef jerky in the space, so Wei Ziang could bring some back next time he returned home.
There wasn’t much beef jerky, so there wasn’t enough to share with everyone, but she asked Wei Ziang to have someone bring a cart with oilcloth to take it back when they returned.
The fish in her space had become an overwhelming abundance, so she used Wei Ziang’s return as a chance to bring lots out for everyone to eat.
Six to seven hundred people, they could each eat a couple of pounds of fish without any problem.
Sometimes Xiaomi thought that having one more person know the secret was actually pretty good. At least with two people covering it up, the family could enjoy some of the things from the space.
No, actually, three people knew.
Although Big Brother never says anything and doesn’t know the specifics, Xiaomi felt that Big Brother definitely suspected something but just never asked or confirmed it.
As long as big brother doesn’t speak, no one else will think too much about it.
And so, almost every time Wei Ziang returned, he would bring back a large amount of meat, the kind you couldn’t buy outside, so delicious.
Processed chickens, ducks, and geese, over a hundred pounds of eels, a whole cart of fish, and so on.
Xiaomi was worried that the cart was too slow, but Wei Ziang didn’t use any cart at all. He just rode two horses, pulling a cart’s worth of goods.
Ling’er would leave early and go to where Wei Ziang was. When Wei Ziang was near the village, she’d quietly fly back to find Xiaomi.
By then, it was usually quiet late at night. Xiaomi used Spiritual Power to sneak out, fill up the cart, and return in less than the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, completely unnoticed.
This continued until November when Xiaomi confirmed that the potatoes were ripe, and the vines had turned yellow. Xiaomi wandered around, taking Xiaowei up the mountain for a picnic.
It wasn’t that she wouldn’t take Wei Ziang; he just hadn’t returned. And now that it’s cooling down, with the canola and wheat already planted in the fields, it’s too cold for others to want to come out.
After thinking it over, she decided to take her brother Jiang Wei along for the picnic.
She specifically took Jiang Wei to the place where potatoes were planted and asked Xiaowei to gather firewood while she went hunting.
"Sis, why are we out eating in the cold weather? Wouldn’t it be better to eat the piping hot food at home?"
Jiang Wei casually pulled up a clump of wild grass, and Xiaomi’s cheek twitched. That was a dried-up potato vine.
But she didn’t say anything. Today, she brought Xiaowei out just to let him discover the potatoes.
Whether others believed it or not, she’d make sure Xiaowei discovered the potatoes were edible and very tasty, then have Xiaowei tell everyone else.
Anyway, there were lots of potatoes nearby, plenty of vines, and since the fields were planted, the guards had some free time too.
When the time comes, everyone will be out searching for potatoes all over the mountains!