Chapter 1378: Fourth Aunt

Top-grade Dongding Oolong is not meant to be drunk like this; it requires careful sipping and slow tasting to truly appreciate its flavor.

This type of Oolong tea has an extremely low yield; even a family like the Jian Family can only obtain two or three jin each year!

Lady Jian loved this tea most while she was alive, and Jian Yixin and her younger brother would order it from the place of origin every year to give to their parents.

Now that her mother had just passed away, her tea was being used to entertain such a vulgar woman, and Jian Yixin felt a sense of revulsion from the bottom of her heart.

"Who is this woman?" She furrowed her brows, covered her nose with her hand, and made no effort to hide her disgust.

"Yixin, you're back?" Jian Xiansheng was slightly stunned to see his daughter, but he quickly reacted and introduced the two to each other.

"This is your Fourth Aunt; she came during your mother's funeral. Greet her, don't be so impolite."

Where did a Fourth Aunt come from?

Jian Yixin had absolutely no impression of her.

Jian Xiansheng did have some relatives in his hometown, but they rarely kept in touch. They must have heard the news from somewhere and came for Lady Jian's funeral.

At her mother's funeral, Jian Yixin had been crying uncontrollably and couldn't pay attention to anything; as for what relatives had come, she had no idea.

But since she was an aunt, she shouldn't be some disreputable woman.

Jian Yixin still politely greeted her: "Hello, Fourth Aunt."

"Oh! So this is Yixin? Tsk tsk! I saw you once when you were little; you were pretty from a young age. So many years have passed in a flash, and you're still so beautiful. You're thirty this year, right?"

"You're joking; I'm already over forty."

Although she knew full well that Fourth Aunt was spouting nonsense, no woman could resist someone praising her for looking young, and Jian Yixin was no exception. She felt much better about this vulgar Fourth Aunt she had never met before.

Over the next half day, her impression improved even more.

Although Fourth Aunt looked low-class and loved to brag, she was very good at talking; she didn't just boast about herself, she also boasted about others.

She chatted in a flattering way, exaggerated but not annoying.

Fourth Aunt was not only good at chatting, but she also cooked a good meal. It wasn't particularly refined, just home-style cooking, but the taste was good and quite down-to-earth.

She encouraged Jian Xiansheng to go out more and not stay cooped up at home, saying that even a healthy person would get sick from staying home all the time.

It was only now that Jian Yixin learned that for the month since her mother passed away, her father hadn't gone fishing for a single day!

Fishing had been his hobby for many years, yet he had quit just like that.

The reason Jian Xiansheng didn't go fishing was that he had been fishing when his wife had her episode; he believed that if he hadn't gone fishing that day, his wife would have received treatment immediately and, of course, would not have passed away.

He blamed himself deeply and even dismissed the servants.

After the servant returned from grocery shopping and failed to discover Lady Jian's episode, he had also vented his anger on them.

In the huge house, there was only him, empty and desolate.

Over the month since his wife passed away, it was thanks to his Fourth Younger Sister from his hometown coming over several times to keep him company and cook him hot, home-style meals that the cold house had a little bit of warmth.

"Big Brother, I don't think you should live alone in such a big house anymore; it's so cold and lonely. Come back to the countryside with me for a few days and let your brother-in-law take you fishing!"

"No, that would be too much trouble for you," Jian Xiansheng refused.

His daughter persuaded him: "Dad, you should go. It would be good to go to Fourth Aunt's house to clear your mind. I'll go help you pack."

She walked into her parents' room; the room's layout was exactly as it had been, with no changes at all.

The pillows on the bed were still a pair, and her mother's medicine bottles were still placed on the nightstand.

Her nose tingled, and she almost shed tears!

At the same time, she felt very guilty, deeply guilty.

She had only been concerned with her own bad mood and feelings, fearing that returning to her parents' home would stir up sad memories, yet she hadn't thought about how her father, living in this house every day, was supposed to cope with his repressed emotions.

Jian Yixin quickly packed her things and walked out of her parents' bedroom with the suitcase; she even brought her father's fishing rod.

She made a phone call, asking her husband to buy plenty of food and daily necessities, filling the car to the brim.

Just before getting into the car, she stuffed twenty thousand yuan into Fourth Aunt's hand: "Fourth Aunt, please take this money. I'm entrusting my father to you; please, I'm counting on you!"

"Oh my, that's too much. I can't take this much money."

Fourth Aunt declined, her eyes filled with both joy and trepidation.

She declined because it was too much; she wanted it, but it was too much to dare accept.

Even if he stayed for a month or two, an ordinary family wouldn't spend that much on living expenses in a month.

Not to mention that Sheng Zerong had packed the car full of all sorts of expensive daily necessities and food, many of which she hadn't even heard of; she had already profited just from this carload.

Although Fourth Aunt had a calculating face, she was actually quite simple and honest, and not greedy.

In the end, the money was stuffed into her pocket, and Fourth Aunt kept promising, promising that Jian Xiansheng would definitely live well at her house and that she wouldn't let him suffer any grievances...

One month later.

Jian Xiansheng returned, and upon returning, he called his children to the house to announce a "happy event"!

He was getting married.

"What?"

Jian Yining widened his eyes, unable to believe it: "Dad, you're joking with us, right? Are you okay?" He was nervous, fearing that his father had developed mental problems due to his mother's sudden passing.

Jian Yixin was much more composed than her younger brother; she didn't believe it at all.

How could she believe it?

Her mother and father had been exceptionally close while she was alive and almost never argued.

Even during the years Lady Jian went through menopause, she only tormented others and never made things difficult for Jian Xiansheng.

Now that her mother had only been dead for two months, her father was getting married?

Impossible.

She gave her younger brother a look, then stood up, preparing to go outside to make a phone call to coax her father into getting a psychiatric checkup.

"Stop!"

Jian Xiansheng called out to his daughter.

The son did not react in time, but he saw it.

"Where are you going?"

"Ah? I'm not going anywhere, I just remembered there's something at the company I haven't handled yet, I'm going to go handle it." Jian Yixin wanted to brush it off.

Unexpectedly, she was exposed: "Forget it, stop trying to fool me. You want to call the psychiatry department and trick me into getting a check-up, right?"

"You two siblings are exactly the same, don't think I don't know."

Jian Xiansheng said again: "My mental state is fine, and I wasn't joking with you just now. I am serious. Xiao Wu will come over this afternoon. We won't make a big fuss; the whole family just eating a meal together will be enough."

"Are you serious?"

"Are you serious?"

The siblings spoke in unison.

"Nonsense, of course I'm serious. Who would joke about this kind of thing?" Jian Xiansheng was displeased.

After confirming that their father was not joking but was being for real, the siblings' reactions were vastly different.

Jian Yining was relatively calm; he wanted to ask his father where he met this so-called Xiao Wu and what she did for a living.

How old was she, and what was her level of education?

Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will win every battle.

Of course, the ultimate goal was to prevent their father from remarrying.

Before he could ask, his sister Jian Yixin had already exploded!

"No, I don't agree!"