"Brother!" Ji Ningzhi ran over excitedly.

Ji Yanjun glanced at Wen Qing.

Wen Qing remained expressionless as she put away her checkered bag and held the cash in her hand.

"Brother, I recognized your car from afar." Ji Ningzhi stopped mid-sentence, her steps halting as she stared at Wen Qing in the passenger seat, noticing the cash in Wen Qing's hand—it must have been over a thousand yuan.

"Ning Zhi".

"Brother, what is she doing here?" Ji Ningzhi asked, pointing at Wen Qing.

Ji Yanjun ignored her and asked instead, "What are you waiting here for?"

Ji Ningzhi glared fiercely at Wen Qing.

Wen Qing was too lazy to pay attention to her, so she simply closed her eyes and decided to avoid seeing her and getting annoyed.

"Brother! Why is she in the car?" Ji Ningzhi continued to ask.

Ji Yanjun looked displeased and said, "If there's nothing else, I'm leaving." With that, Ji Yanjun started the car.

Ji Ningzhi stepped forward and blocked the front of the car: "Brother, let her get out of the car."

Wen Qing narrowed her eyes, looking at Ji Ningzhi with a smile on her lips, ignoring both Ji Ningzhi and Ji Yanjun.

Instead, Ji Yanjun, his face flushed with anger, pushed open the car door, jumped out, and asked, "Ji Ningzhi, what are you doing?!"

"Brother, you're being mean to me!"

Ji Yanjun frowned: "Go home if there's nothing else."

"I'm not going back. Tell her to get off the bus!"

"What are you doing?" Ji Yanjun questioned.

"What did I do wrong?" Ji Ningzhi suddenly became angry, pointing at Wen Qing and saying, "Brother, do you know? She made Fangfang stay home for half a month, and made Fangfang sell her favorite tailor shop and clothing store to pay off her debts. And that's not enough. Fangfang's aunt came to our house today to borrow money, saying that they lent you three thousand yuan for your first car, and this time they're asking for eight different amounts. We have to help them out too. This, all of this is her fault!"

Ji Yanjun's face turned ashen. He suppressed his anger and asked with a stern expression, "Who told you that Wen Qing was wrong?"

"I don't need anyone to tell me, it's her!" Ji Ningzhi pointed at Wen Qing: "Brother, did you give her the money? Did you?"

In Ji Yanjun's memory, Ji Ningzhi was spoiled but not cute or unreasonable. He had always doted on her. Today, however, he suddenly felt that his sister was being unreasonable. Ji Yanjun had no patience to talk to her anymore. He reached out and pulled her aside, saying sternly, "Ji Ningzhi, don't make me angry."

Flames were already flickering in Ji Yanjun's eyes, and Ji Ningzhi dared not act rashly again.

Ji Yanjun turned and left, got into the truck, started the engine, and drove onto the dirt road.

Ji Ningzhi didn't dare to stop him anymore. Only after the truck entered the dirt road did Ji Ningzhi shout loudly, "Brother, drive Wen Qing home! I must tell Mom and Dad!"

As she spoke, Ji Ningzhi stormed home. Once home, she told Ji Yousheng and Liang Wenhua about it.

Liang Wenhua asked in surprise, "Your brother and Wen Qing are together again?"

"right."

Ji Yousheng sighed, "Can you two just shut up? Wen Qing said she'd rather die than come into our house, but now she's got her own skills and is no worse off than us."

"They're just as good as ours, that's why they wanted to kidnap my son."

“Exactly!” Ji Ningzhi chimed in, “Look at my brother now, he doesn’t even go home after his business trip, he goes straight to Wen Qing’s house. What does he mean by that?”

“Shut up,” Ji Yousheng said.

"Shut up! I think Wen Qing is a shrewd girl; she might just kidnap Yan Jun one day," Liang Wenhua said.

Ji Ningzhi agreed, "Mom is right."

"You forced me to run away!" Ji Yousheng said. "Wen Qing isn't going to stoop to your level anymore!"

"Dad, how can you speak up for outsiders?"

"Don't call me Dad, it makes me feel bad." With that, Ji Yousheng went into the main room.

At the same time, Ji Yanjun drove towards Shuiwan Village.

"I'm sorry, Ning Zhi, for what you said earlier." Ji Yanjun seemed hesitant to speak further.

"It's alright." Wen Qing opened her eyes and smiled. "She's just treating me as a hypothetical enemy. I've suffered no loss." Actually, she didn't care about Ji Ningzhi's situation. Instead, she felt a little sentimental. In her previous life, she was probably just as foolish and stupid as Ji Ningzhi in this life.

“I’m really bad at handling these kinds of relationships,” Ji Yanjun suddenly said, sounding utterly helpless.

Wen Qing smiled silently and didn't reply.

Before they knew it, they arrived at Shuiwan Village. Wen Qing handed the money in her hand to Ji Yanjun: "The fare, food and lodging for this trip are all in here."

Ji Yanjun looked up at Wen Qing, then put it away after a moment.

Wen Qing rolled down the car window and called out to Wen Peng, who was playing on the village's dirt road, "Peng Peng! Peng Peng!"

Wen Peng turned his head and saw the truck and Wen Qing's head peeking out, and he was overjoyed. He immediately shouted into the village, "Mom! Second Brother! Eldest Sister is back!"

The other young men joined in, shouting, "Pengpeng's mom! Liangliang! Wenqing's back!"

"Pengpeng's mom! Pengpeng's older sister is back!"

As soon as the children shouted, Yao Shiling and Wen Liang appeared immediately.

"Wen Qing!" Yao Shiling, wearing an apron and with flour still sticking to her hands, ran out and called out, "Wen Qing!"

"Mom!" Wen Qing waved to Yao Shiling, smiling happily.

Wen Peng and his friends made way, and Ji Yanjun slowly drove the car to the entrance of Wen Qing's courtyard.

Wen Qing quickly pushed open the car door and jumped out: "Mom, Liangliang."

Yao Shiling smiled and said, "You've lost weight."

Wen Qing laughed: "Mom, every time you see me you say I've lost weight, but I've never actually lost weight." Then Wen Qing turned to Wen Liang and Wen Peng: "Liangliang, Pengpeng, there are some things I bought for you in the car, unload them first."

"Okay." Wen Peng was the first to respond, and then he grabbed the edge of the truck and stepped onto the wheels to get into the truck bed.

When the other children saw this, they climbed up too.

"Don't come up, don't come up! What if you fall? Get down, get down!" Wen Peng said, standing in the truck bed.

The children were all curious about the big truck, so they didn't listen to Wen Peng. Instead, Wen Liang climbed onto the truck bed and coldly scolded them to get off.

At this moment, Ji Yanjun also got out of the car, walked over to Yao Shiling, and respectfully greeted her, "Auntie."

Yao Shiling smiled politely and said, "You must have had a long journey."

"It's not hard work," Ji Yanjun said.

Yao Shiling stopped talking to Ji Yanjun and instead urged Wen Peng to unload the things.

"Mom, the TV! It's a TV!" Wen Peng shouted, but Yao Shiling glared at him. Wen Peng glanced at Ji Yanjun standing to the side and stopped shouting.

Yao Shiling knew that Liang Wenhua and Ji Ningzhi looked down on Wen Qing. Even though she knew that Wen Qing had said she would not marry into the Ji family, she did not want Ji Yanjun to look down on the Wen family because of their past poverty.

Wen Qing understood Yao Shiling's good intentions and felt a warmth in her heart. Seeing that there was flour on Yao Shiling's hands, she asked, "Mom, what delicious food did you make for lunch?"

"Your favorite white rice crust, stir-fried potato slices."

"Mom, you're so good to me." Wen Qing smiled happily.

Ji Yanjun glanced at it, then lowered his head.

"Mom, sister, it's all done." Wen Liang jumped out of the car first and turned around to help Wen Peng.

Wen Peng said, "Second Brother, I'll jump down myself."

"Slower."

"Okay." Wen Peng jumped down easily.

After checking that there were no belongings of hers in the carriage or the truck bed, Wen Qing said to Ji Yanjun, "Thank you for taking care of me along the way."

Ji Yanjun smiled and said, "It's alright, I'll be going now."

"goodbye."

Goodbye, Auntie.

Yao Shiling: "Goodbye."

Ji Yanjun glanced at Wen Liang and Wen Peng, then got into the truck, slowly turned around, and drove onto the dirt road. As soon as he got on the dirt road, he took out a cigarette case from his pocket. The case was full of cigarettes. He took one out, found a match, lit it, put the cigarette in his mouth, and drove towards the county town with both hands on the steering wheel. When he arrived at the county grain station, he stopped, smoked another cigarette to calm the conflicting emotions in his heart, and then started the truck again, honked the horn, and drove towards the Ji family.

At this moment, because Ji Yanjun had left and Yao Shiling hadn't glared at him, Wen Peng cheered with the children on the main road, "Pengpeng's family has a TV series now!"

What is a television set?

"It's something even more amazing than a radio. A radio picks up human voices, while a television picks up both human voices and people!"

"Wow! The TV is so small, and a person is so big, how can the TV fit a person inside?"

A group of children were puzzled, their eyes glued to the television, eagerly hoping to see a human image on screen so they could see what it looked like…

Wen Qing looked at the group of children and realized that in her previous life, she was afraid of watching war films. Whenever she watched TV with her second uncle, she would pull him away if a war film was playing because she was afraid that the Japanese devils in the war films would shoot the TV and then the Japanese would crawl out of the TV and do evil.

That's why she doesn't watch war films.

Looking back now, I realize that my thinking was just as foolish as Pengpeng's and the others'; I lacked experience.

"Why buy a TV? It's such a waste of money. I heard TVs consume a lot of electricity; how much will the electricity bill be every month?" Yao Shiling was disapproving of Wen Qing's spending again.

"It won't consume much electricity. Let's try it and see." Wen Qing laughed, then asked Wen Liang and Wen Peng to put everything they had just taken from Ji Yanjun's car into the main room.

Yao Shiling pulled Wen Qing aside and asked, "Wen Qing, you said on the phone that you and Ji Yanjun had a good talk. How did you two talk it out?"

Wen Qing took Yao Shiling's arm and recounted in detail what happened on the way with Ji Yanjun and how they talked things out.

At almost the same time, Ji Yanjun had already parked the truck outside the yard. After getting out of the truck and locking the door, she walked into the yard. But as soon as she entered the yard, she saw Zhang Fangfang's aunt greet her with a big smile: "Yanjun is back!"