Xue Zhaodi interrupted him directly: "Is Dad's condition serious? Is there anyone taking care of him?"

My little darling, please don't say that. Even if you don't live in Shanghai, you still need to leave a good impression. Your grandparents are still around, and they might come back to stay sometime. If something bad gets out and people start gossiping, the gossip can be devastating.

Don't underestimate people's memory these days. They have a deep-seated love for excitement, and as long as they can recall a name, they can match it to the events described.

Zhu Fanfan changed her tune: "Since I'm in the same room as your mother-in-law, I think a family should be all together."

So he attacked again, beating Fu Jing until she fainted from the pain, and then had her taken to the hospital. Anyway, the hospital wouldn't be able to find anything wrong, but she would continue to be in pain for a while.

Xue Zhaodi naturally sought help; she couldn't let her mother faint in the street, could she? Xue Yaozong remained hesitant to approach, terrified of Zhu Fanfan. Xue Zhaodi even felt an urge to punch him; her mother usually doted on him the most, but she hadn't expected him to be such a coward, not at all like a child of the Xue family.

Xue Zhaodi couldn't bear to watch the commotion at Widow Xin's house anymore; she had to take her mother to the hospital. But Zhu Fanfan saw it, and Old Master Ding seemed to have made up his mind. He took the two brothers back to the Ding family. As for Xin Mi, he told her that she had better behave herself, or he would give her the account book that had been used to subsidize their family for the past ten years.

Xinmi was both anxious and angry. Letting Old Man Ding educate the child was like sending a lamb to the slaughter. How could a child outwit Old Man Ding? That guy used to be a teacher, and when he retired, he was already the dean of students. He liked teaching students, not because he couldn't get promoted. She used to laugh at him for being stupid, for not being able to become the vice principal and insisting on being the dean of students.

The two children were always afraid of their grandfather and dared not go to his house. When they did go to his house, they would hide like cats and mice, and would confess everything. No matter how much Xinmi pleaded, it was no use. The children were taken away right before her eyes, and she cried anxiously.

Fu Jing's whole family is in the hospital, and Xue Zhaodi and her sisters are taking care of them. Zhu Fanfan is too lazy to ask about it anymore. Anyway, she'll go and give them a few more punches when they're almost fully recovered, so they'll stay in the hospital again.

Even at home, she wasn't idle. Tan Fuya taught her to make pastries, play the zither, and do needlework, saying they were the basic skills for a lady from a respectable family.

During this time, she went to the hospital and saw a joke. Xin Mi was scared and went to the hospital to find Xue Fu, but little did she know that Fu Jing was watching her! Ignoring her own injuries, she caught the two meeting in the stairwell and started a fight, successfully making all three of them lose face.

After educating the two brothers for a while, Grandpa Ding realized that they were fundamentally corrupt and beyond repair. He decided to take back the house and demand double the money he had spent on the two brothers over the past twelve years.

Xinmi naturally refused. Even if she were sold, she wouldn't be able to pay back the money, as it had all been stolen. However, Old Master Ding said that if the money wasn't returned, he wouldn't be so lenient. The two brothers would be reduced to living like rats in a ditch, unable to see the light of day. He had plenty of ways to make them despised and branded with shame for the rest of their lives.

Xinmi had no choice but to ask Xue Fu for help, since it was his child after all. Xue Fu was already in dire straits; he had no savings left, all of which had been stolen. Fu Jing was also watching him closely. If he dared to take even a penny, Fu Jing would tell the whole world that he not only stole his wife's dowry but also kept a mistress. He still had to live in Shanghai in the future, and he couldn't afford to lose face like that.

Fu Jing, for some unknown reason, became neurotic, constantly watching him and even following him to the toilet.

The Ding family pressured her relentlessly, and Fu Jing pressured her even more. In the end, Luo Xing had no choice but to sell her job to pay off some of the money. She needed the money to buy food, and her family still needed to live. As a result, the family had no income at all. None of the adults had any work, and Xue Fu was dismissed because his long leave of absence affected production.

The hospital is a daily farce. Zhu Fanfan has had her fill of gossip and is happy to see everyone in the Xue family in such a miserable state.

As for her eldest sister, she won't go hungry. She feeds her from time to time. As long as her eldest sister doesn't give in, she won't go hungry. She knows what she should do. Her eldest sister has excellent basic skills. She taught her a set of military boxing, and she has almost mastered it. Moreover, her eldest sister knows how to fight. She learned all the unorthodox methods on her own, but she hits people right where it hurts. She doesn't worry about her eldest sister being bullied.

Time passed by in such a pleasant way, and soon a month had gone by. Hang Siyuan had finished his work and informed Zhu Fanfan that he could leave. Zhu Fanfan was reluctant to say goodbye to his grandparents.

Even after boarding the train, Zhu Fanfan was still gazing longingly out the window. Hang Siyuan felt a pang of sympathy: "Next time I go on a business trip, I'll let you know and bring you along."

The child looked like he had been abandoned by the world, and his pitiful state made him feel uneasy.

Zhu Fanfan said with a pitiful look, "I can't bear to leave Shanghai."

This place is practically her lucky spot. Taking down a few of her old strongholds is enough to ensure she lives a worry-free life for the rest of her days. She can finally relax and rest easy. Naturally, she should be grateful to Shanghai.

Moreover, the Xue family's misery continued, and she still wanted to watch the drama unfold. Before she left, she had already spoken with Yuan Datou to keep an eye on the Xue family, and she had also spoken with Sister Xu to feed her eldest sister every day. She wasn't worried that her eldest sister would go hungry, and she had already made arrangements for things in Shanghai.

Hang Siyuan could only try to comfort him: "Your grandparents must miss you a lot. Don't you miss your grandma?"

Zhu Fanfan got angry: "I don't want Grandpa. Grandpa is too annoying. I only want Grandma."

Hang Siyuan spoke to his old friend: "Your grandfather often praises you, little girl."

Zhu Fanfan remained unmoved: "Grandpa will never praise me. He will only say that I am spoiled, lazy and have a bad temper. I need to be coaxed to calm down when I am wrong. This is not my granddaughter. Whose ancestor was reincarnated into the Zhu family by mistake?"

Hang Siyuan: ...You seem to know your grandfather very well.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Fanfan continued, "I also told others that he was greedy, loved to snatch snacks from children, and was petty and vengeful. If anyone offended him, he would throw water on people's clothes so they couldn't dry. His bad reputation in the compound was all because of me spreading those rumors."

This is called reciprocity. Her godfather had long told her that her grandfather complained about her every day, and she would also ruin her grandfather's reputation every day. Who's afraid of who?

Hang Siyuan shut up; the father and son understood each other quite well.

I had no choice but to change the subject: "I heard you did a great job in Shanghai. Qi Shan praised you highly in his report. You even beat the bad guys into submission and made them confess. You're a very good girl."

No wonder they are children raised by Zhu Jiabao.

Zhu Fanfan finally asked the question that had been bothering her: "Grandpa Hang, why do you all think I can handle things on my own? Can you please respect my age?"

It's as if whatever she does is her duty. Don't they think a five-year-old can do all that? They really have a strange kind of confidence in her.

She's just a child, five years old! Five years old! A five-year-old child is still playing in the mud, and a group of adults treat her like an adult, speaking to her as if she were an adult. Didn't they ever consider that she might not understand what they were saying?