The matter that Ma Yongming wanted to discuss with Yan Fei was neither big nor small.
It was small in the sense that they were expecting some guests for dinner at their house tomorrow, but big because of the identity of those guests - they were the family of Ma Yongming's peculiar daughter-in-law.
In this day and age, not holding a wedding banquet and taking someone else's daughter to live at home is considered quite a breach of convention. However, Ma Yongming was pretty influential in town, so no one criticized him for this, and everyone accepted that she was his daughter-in-law.
But it was wrong in name and in principle, especially when the child was about to be born. The family of his daughter-in-law couldn't sit tight. The matter was settled, but they couldn't just abandon their daughter.
This daughter-in-law's name was Wang Yue. So, a while ago, under Ma Yongming's 'sincerity' of visiting them three times, the Wang family agreed to their marriage.
