Her husband's words were like a stone, blocking Li Li's throat.

She opened and closed her mouth for a long time but no sound came out, her face full of disbelief.

"Lao Ling, what did you just say? You want to divorce me?!"

"Li Li, if you still want to continue living together, then go home now and be honest. I will explain to you where I have been and what I have done these days. If you don't want to continue living together, I have nothing more to say. Let's get a divorce as soon as possible and live our own lives."

Hearing this, even Yun Mo who was standing beside her was surprised.

When Ling Jiang mentioned divorce last time, she thought he was just saying it out of anger, but now seeing Ling Jiang's calm look, it seemed like he was serious.

Li Li was so angry that she pointed at Ling Jiang's nose, tears streaming down her face. "Okay, Mr. Ling, you said this yourself, don't regret it!"

After saying those harsh words, Li Li left crying.

Looking at Ling Jiang's awkward silence, Yun Mo didn't know how to persuade him. Just as Ling Chuan came out, she left the space to her brother and went home first.

Ling Chuan glanced at Li Li's back as she walked away, and said to Ling Jiang, "Brother, why don't you go catch up with my sister-in-law first? I'll deliver the goods to you later."

"No need, she can make a scene if she wants. She won't feel comfortable if she doesn't make a scene for a day anyway!"

Li Li was so angry when she saw that her husband did not come to pursue her. As soon as she got home, she packed her things and took her son back to her mother's home in the countryside.

It was almost dark when Ling Jiang carried the goods home. His daughter Ling Chunhua was sitting alone under the eaves. When she saw him, she immediately ran up to him happily.

"dad!"

"Hey, Chunhua, be good. Daddy bought you some delicious food. Come on, let's go inside."

"Um!"

When he entered the main room, he saw that the whole house was dark, without a single light or movement. Ling Jiang put down his things, turned his head and asked his daughter in a low voice, "Where's your mother?"

"Mom took Jiale to grandma's house."

Hearing the grievance and disappointment in his daughter's voice, Ling Jiang hurriedly comforted her: "It's okay, Dad is at home, Dad will cook you some egg noodles later, okay?"

Ling Chunhua clapped her hands happily, "Great!"

Ling Jiang took out the sweet cakes he bought from Urumqi from the bag to fill his daughter's stomach, and then went into the kitchen to cook dinner.

Ling Chunhua took a bite of the cake and put it in her pocket, then ran into the kitchen, "Dad, I'll help you."

Seeing his daughter's well-behaved appearance, Ling Jiang smiled with satisfaction and said, "Okay, then wash some shallots and green leaves and we'll put them in the noodles."

"Um!"

Ling Jiang originally planned to cook a bowl of egg noodles for himself and his daughter, but there was only one egg left in the cupboard.

After the noodles were cooked, the father and daughter sat face to face in the main room to eat dinner.

Ling Chunhua picked up the golden fried egg in the bowl with chopsticks and took a careful bite.

It smells so good and tastes so good. She hasn’t had fried eggs for a long time.

Thinking of this, Ling Chunhua looked happily across the table. Only then did she realize that there were only vegetables and noodles in her father's bowl.

"Dad, where are your fried eggs?"

Ling Jiang looked at her with a smile, "There is only one egg at home, you eat it first, and then you can eat it when dad buys a new one tomorrow."

Ling Chunhua pursed her lips and thought for a while, then cut the fried egg in her bowl into two and put the extra half into Ling Jiang's bowl.

"Dad, this is for you."

"Chunhua, eat yours..."

"Dad, if we each take half of an egg, we can all have it."

Seeing his daughter's innocent and kind face, Ling Jiang felt as comfortable as if he had drunk honey water, and his face was full of wrinkles. "Okay, let's eat together! We'll buy more tomorrow after we finish eating."

The next day, as soon as the sky brightened, Ling Jiang took the goods to sell and took his daughter Ling Chunhua out.

The kindergarten didn't open so early, so Ling Jiang took his daughter to a hardware store and bought two iron nets and a small circle of iron wire.

"Dad, what are you doing?"

Seeing Ling Jiang using wire to wrap small hooks on the iron net, Ling Chunhua asked curiously.

Ling Jiang answered his daughter while working, "Dad is making shelves. See these little hooks? When the time comes, hang the pretty hairbands on them so that others can see them at a glance."

Ling Chunhua nodded, not quite understanding.

After finishing the shelves, Ling Jiang went to the hardware store and bought two taels of white paint, and evenly painted the shelves with two layers.

After finishing the painting, the sun was already high in the sky. Ling Jiang temporarily left the shelves, whose paint had not yet dried, in front of the door of the hardware store, and rode his bicycle to take his daughter to kindergarten.

Arriving at the kindergarten gate, Ling Jiang parked his bicycle, bent down to help his daughter pack her schoolbag, and reminded her: "Chunhua, listen to your teacher at school. Dad will pick you up after school this afternoon."

After saying that, seeing his daughter standing there motionless, Ling Jiang gently pushed her and said, "Go in, you'll be late soon."

Ling Chunhua pursed her lips and said nothing, and refused to go to the kindergarten.

His daughter had always been well-behaved and sensible, and never had a bad temper. Ling Jiang found it strange, "Chunhua, did someone bully you in kindergarten?"

Ling Chunhua quickly shook her head.

"Then go in, and be obedient."

Ling Chunhua looked up at the kindergarten sign and shook her head again.

"What's going on? Chunhua, tell daddy if you have anything to say."

After Ling Jiang's repeated questioning, Ling Chunhua finally spoke up and said that the reason she didn't go in was because she didn't attend this kindergarten.

Ling Jiang was confused. "If it's not this one, then which one? Isn't it Qi Zhuo?"

Ling Chunhua shook her head and pointed her little finger diagonally across.

Ling Jiang looked over and found that it was a kindergarten called Duoduo. Judging from the scale and environment alone, that Duoduo Kindergarten was several levels lower than the Qizhuo Kindergarten.

After some inquiries, Ling Jiang found out that in order to save money, Li Li only enrolled her son Ling Jiale in Qizhuo's kindergarten, and sent Ling Chunhua to the cheapest Duoduo kindergarten, and did not allow Ling Chunhua to tell Ling Jiang about this.

Ling Jiang knew that Li Li was partial, but he did not expect that she would go against his will and secretly embezzle the tuition money he prepared for his daughter. One can imagine how angry he was.

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On the last day of the holiday, Yun Mo slept in, tidied her room inside and out, changed her clothes, and prepared to take Dabai and Erbai to the market to buy vegetables. As a result, when she opened the door, she saw a police car parked at her door.

Yun Mo's heart just skipped a beat, and the next second, she saw Wan Yuanbai getting out of the car.

"Yun Mo, are you going out?"

Seeing Wan Yuanbai smiling kindly, Yun Mo's heart slowly settled down.

"Captain Wan, I'm going to buy some groceries. Are you here to do some business or..."

"I'm just passing by, and I have something to talk to you about."

Yun Mo hurriedly said, "Then please come in and sit for a while."

Wanyuanbai waved his hand, "No need, I'll just say a few words and leave."

"Please go ahead."

(End of this chapter)