Many basic misconceptions regarding multiplications can be dispelled if you just remember that multiplication is a type of addition, written in shorter form.

If you have 1+2×3, you don't have one plus two, followed by times-three, but, broken down, you have one, plus three times two (or two times three)

Thus, 1+2×3=1+2+2+2 -how many times you have the number two? Three times. Or, 1+2×3=1+3+3. -how many times you have the number three? Two times. Both sets of addititon thus equal 7.

For the same reason, you can't "multiply" irl an actual object or set of nultiple ojects by zero, because in that case your definition is erroneous.