Although Ling Jiang is a good guy, he also has a bottom line.

He could continue to support Li Li and Ling Jiale out of affection and morality, but he would no longer treat Ling Jiale like his son.

What's more, when he saw Ling Jiale's strong body and thought of the hardships and sufferings his daughter had endured over the years, how could he not feel resentful?

"If you don't get up I'm leaving."

Hearing Ling Jiang's words, Ling Jiale's mouth pursed and he immediately started to cry at the top of his voice.

Since childhood, whenever Ling Jiale cried, Li Li would obey him unconditionally, which gave him the illusion that he could accomplish anything by crying.

But this time his wish failed. Ling Jiang turned around and left without any hesitation or nostalgia.

Ling Jiale felt angry and aggrieved, and cried even louder, trying to keep Ling Jiang in this way.

Ling Jiang did hesitate for a moment, but the next moment, he saw his thin daughter standing next to the bicycle.

When he went out in the morning, he specially put a clean flowery cotton jacket on his daughter, but now, there was a conspicuous mud footprint on the hem of the jacket.

That was kicked by Ling Jiale.

Ling Jianglianji walked over, bent down and patted the mud marks on his daughter's body with his hands.

After cleaning up, Ling Jiang pushed his bicycle and said to his daughter, "Let's go, Chunhua, let's go to your grandfather's house."

Ling Chunhua looked at Ling Jiale who was still lying on the ground crying not far away, her big round and beautiful eyes full of confusion and bewilderment.

"Dad, are we going to ignore Jiale?"

"Well, he doesn't listen, so I won't care about him anymore."

Ling Chunhua followed Ling Jiang in a daze, looking back as she walked.

Ling Jiale lay on the ground howling for a long time, and Ling Jiang didn't come to comfort him. He sat up from the ground and found that there was no one around.

“Grandpa!”

After calling out twice without hearing any response, Ling Jiang guessed that no one was home, so he put the things he brought on the table, turned around and was about to go out to look for her, when he saw his ex-wife Li Li walking out of the room on the left, holding her waist.

Seeing that she looked unwell, Ling Jiang subconsciously asked, "Are you sick?"

"I twisted my waist a few days ago."

Li Li looked at Ling Jiang for a long time before she replied unhappily. Then she walked to the table and looked through the things Ling Jiang brought.

Ling Jiang was not a talkative person. He was silent for a while, then took out 20 yuan from his pocket and handed it to Li Li.

"This is this month's living expenses. I also brought rice, a total of 10 kilograms."

Li Li took the money, counted it, and then put it in her pocket.

Ling Jiang pointed at the things on the table and said, "My sister-in-law and Chuanzi asked me to bring the cotton-padded clothes to Dad. In addition, there are two pounds of pork and one pound of white sugar. It's my little gift. It's the New Year, and I hope you all are healthy and good."

Li Li glanced at him without saying a word. When she turned around and saw Ling Chunhua beside her, her face suddenly fell.

Ling Chunhua was wearing a brand new floral cotton jacket, which made her rosy little face look beautiful. One could tell from the looks of her that she was living a comfortable life.

In contrast, she and her son suffered from the cold in the countryside, eating only watery meals every day without even a bit of meat, and their faces were all sallow.

"Silly girl, you can't call me after not seeing me for a few days?"

As she said this, she raised her hand, wanting to teach Ling Chunhua a lesson like before. But Ling Chunhua no longer stood there foolishly and let her beat her. She turned around and ran behind Ling Jiang.

"dad!"

Ling Jiang also protected his daughter immediately and his face turned cold towards Li Li. "If you are not feeling well, take a rest. I have things to do, so I will leave first. Please say hello to Dad for me. I will bring Chunhua to see him next time when I am free."

After saying that, Ling Jiang took his daughter and walked out.

As soon as he stepped out of the main room, Ling Jiale ran back home.

"Dad, I want candy, I want candy!"

Looking at Ling Jiale, whose face was covered with tears and snot, Ling Jiang subconsciously reached into his pocket, only to find nothing.

Yun Mo bought the candy for Ling Chunhua. He grabbed a handful and put it in his pocket before going out. He had just given all of it to Ling Jiale and the group of little monkeys.

"Jia Le, I'll bring you some candy next time."

"No, no, I want candy now!"

Ling Jiale reached into Ling Jiang's pocket in disbelief, but found nothing. He immediately jumped up and down, crying and making a fuss.

"I want candy, I want candy..."

Ling Jiang was entangled and had no choice but to turn to look at Li Li, hoping that she could come over and coax Ling Jiale.

But Li Li stood there watching the show indifferently, with no intention of caring at all.

Ling Jiang had no choice but to speak, "Li, come over here and persuade the child."

"I can't persuade you if you have nothing in your hands."

When Ling Jiang was in trouble, Ling Chunhua took out two candies from her pocket and handed them to Ling Jiale.

"Jia Le, I'll give you mine."

"I don't want yours! Dad, I want candy, I want candy!"

He was still thinking about the handful of candies Ling Jiang had just taken out, so he didn't even look at the two pieces in Ling Chunhua's hand.

Ling Jiang took the candy from his daughter's hand and stuffed it into his hand, "Jia Le, these are all we have. I'll bring you more next time. Be obedient."

Ling Jiale raised his hand and threw away the candy that Ling Jiang stuffed into his hand, "I said I don't want hers!"

He gave these two candies to his daughter when he went out in the morning.

The daughter was reluctant to eat the candy she had in her pocket, so she took it out eagerly to coax her brother, but the brother was so ungrateful that he threw the candy away.

Ling Jiang couldn't help but feel a little angry, "If you don't want it, forget it, let go, we are leaving."

When Ling Jiale heard Ling Jiang say he was leaving, he was stunned.

While Ling Jiale was stunned, Ling Jiang took his daughter and continued to walk out.

Ling Jiale quickly came to his senses, turned around and chased the father and daughter out.

"Dad, I want to go back too! I want to go back with you!"

Although Ling Jiale was small, he was very strong. He held Ling Jiang's legs tightly and refused to let go.

Ling Jiang was cautious and didn't dare to use too much force for fear of hurting the child, so they kept on arguing like this for a long time until Li Dajun went home carrying the pig grass.

Li Dajun seemed particularly happy to see Ling Jiang and Ling Chunhua. When he heard that the father and daughter were leaving, he quickly spoke to try to keep them.

"It's almost noon, let's have lunch before leaving."

"No, I'm busy at home. Dad, take good care of yourself. I'll bring Chunhua to see you when I'm free."

Seeing that Ling Jiang was determined to leave, Li Dajun didn't want to keep him any longer and stepped forward to take his grandson home.

Ling Jiale wanted to follow Ling Jiang back to the city and was unwilling to give in. When Li Dajun touched him, he kicked and hit him with his hands and feet, and even opened his mouth to bite Li Dajun's hand, forcing Li Dajun to have no choice but to retract his hand and shout for his daughter Li Li to come out.

But Li Li pretended to be deaf and dumb and didn't say a word or come out to help.

In the end, there was really no choice but for Ling Jiang to stay for lunch.

(End of this chapter)