"The day after you called, grandma came to see me and told me about your call." Ji Jianhua was very happy that his sister came to see him. "Is school okay? Have you encountered any difficulties?"

"It's pretty good, and the classmates are easy to get along with." Ji Ling asked about the current situation of the soap factory. "According to your recipe, we are recruiting workers and purchasing materials these days. As long as we start working, we can produce soap. Don't worry about that."

"Brother, I have an idea too." Ji Ling told him what she thought about lavender.

Ji Jianhua took it seriously and listened to his sister before saying, "No one in the factory can leave right now. I'm the only one here. We have to wait until everything is back on track."

Ji Ling guessed that her elder brother was busy over there, "Brother, I'll go over to take a look when I have a day off. I'm not confident leaving this matter to others, so I'd better go over there myself."

"It's not safe for you to be alone. When you have a long vacation and want to go there, tell me and I'll make arrangements here as well."

Ji Ling agreed, but she had decided in her heart to go alone. Her elder brother was worried about her, and she couldn't do without someone at the factory.

After finishing the business, Ji Jianhua talked about family matters. "My brother-in-law went home to see my father. My father was very happy. He called me specially to tell you."

Zhu Weidong is very thorough in his work and there is no fault to be found in it. Ji Ling was surprised that he even thought about his parents.

"Are you and your brother-in-law okay? If you're wronged, tell your eldest brother."

"The Zhu family is very nice to me. Zhu Weidong just returned to H Province today. He came back these few days to do some work, and he came to the school to pick me up as soon as he came back." Ji Ling told the truth, but to Ji Jianhua, it sounded like a sister who didn't want to worry her family.

They separated after marriage and got married so quickly, how could it not be for dad?

"Everything is fine at home, you don't have to worry about it." Ji Jianhua thought about it and told her about Ji Ke's situation, "Ji Ke is repeating a grade."

"Repeat? Why?"

"She said she didn't like the major she applied for, so after discussing it with grandpa, she repeated her year. She decided on her major herself, and now she doesn't like it. She doesn't know how she will do in the exam after repeating for a year. What if it's not as good as this year? When I heard about it, Ji Ke had already returned to school to repeat her year, and she hadn't reported to the university yet."

Ji Ling: "It's a pity."

"I advised my mother to ask grandpa to find someone so she could go back to school. But my mother said that this mattered to her whole life, and even if she didn't like it, I wouldn't force her to do it." Ji Jianhua said this with obvious complaints in his tone, "Even if she is sick, we can't let her do what she wants."

"It's a lifelong relationship. You make your own choices and you won't blame others whether it's good or bad." Ji Ling avoided her evaluation of Xu Fang.

"It's good for you to go to college now and get married and live your own life." Ji Jianhua felt that his sister didn't want to talk about this, so he reminded her to take care of her health and call home if she had any problems, and then hung up the phone.

Ji Ling didn't think about Ji Ke. Just as Ji Jianhua said, she got married and went to school, and that family had nothing to do with her anymore.

She won't ask about it, whether it's good or bad is their own business.

At the Zhu family's old house, Zhu Weiming was the first to return home. He just happened to hear the phone ringing. After picking up the phone, he heard the voice of an unfamiliar girl.

"Is Ji Ling here?"

"She's not here."

"When will she be back?"

"Maybe he won't come back. Who are you?" Zhu Weiming thought that since the call could reach his old house, it must be someone familiar, so he asked another question.

"I'm her sister. I got the phone number from my brother-in-law. I'm on vacation today, so I thought I'd give my sister a call."

Zhu Weiming changed his posture, "Oh, my sister-in-law won't go back to the old house during the holidays, maybe she's at home, please write down her phone number."

Ji Ke thanked him and quickly found a pen and paper, and Zhu Weiming told him his phone number.

Then he hung up the phone.

The sister-in-law did not tell her younger sister the private phone number because she did not want to tell him, as it would be nosy for him.

Ji Ling's phone also rang. She thought it was the old house, but when she picked up the phone, she heard Ji Ke's voice, which surprised her.

"Sister, you are surprised to see that it was me who called, right?" Ji Ke complained in a delicate voice, "Brother-in-law only told me the phone number of the Zhu family's old house, but not your home's phone number, which caused me to call there just now."

Ji Ling frowned, "What do you want?"

Ji Ke paused with a smile on her face. "Sister, are you angry? Did I cause you any trouble? I'm just worried about you. Mommy can't let go of her pride, and Daddy doesn't want to quarrel with Mommy, so I thought of calling you to ask about your situation, and you can also tell Daddy."

"I'm sorry, I didn't realize that calling the old house would cause you trouble."

"Ji Ke, I didn't say that you were causing me trouble by calling the old house. I just asked what you wanted to talk about?"

"I'm glad I didn't cause any trouble to my sister." Ji Ke said cautiously.

Even though Ji Ling didn't see it, she knew what she looked like now. She said with a little displeasure, "I'm fine here. Tell dad my phone number and tell him to call me on Saturday if he has anything. I'm at home every Saturday."

"Okay." Ji Ke agreed, and hesitated to speak. When he heard Ji Ling said she was fine and hung up, he hurriedly called her, "Sister, can you lend me your college entrance examination review materials?"

Ji Ling said, "I was asked to sell all the review materials as scraps. My eldest brother also saw it at the time. You should ask someone else."

"good."

"Xiaoling?" Father Xu's voice came from the phone again.

"Grandpa."

"You have just entered college and you will be busy with your studies. Grandpa knows that this will disturb you, but I hope you can take some time to summarize some key points of the college entrance examination."

Ji Ling knew the content of the 1984 college entrance examination. If it were someone else, she would have made some estimate of the questions, but Ji Ke instinctively resisted.

Now that my grandfather had spoken, I thought of this upright old man and after some hesitation finally agreed.

"Grandpa, I just wrote down my thoughts. I can't guarantee whether it will be useful to Ji Ke."

"Grandpa knows." Father Xu asked about her life in college and then hung up the phone.

Xu family.

Ji Ke's eyes were red. "My sister is blaming me for calling the Zhu family's old house."

"Well, she just got married. The Zhu family is powerful. As a new daughter-in-law, you have to be careful in everything you do." Mother Xu comforted her for a while, and then said, "If you insist on repeating your studies, then just focus on studying. It's not easy to get into universities in the capital, but as long as you work hard, you have a chance to get into Jiaotong University."

Ji Ke nodded.

Father Xu got up and went back to the study. Seeing this scene, Ji Ke burst into tears.

But Xu's mother didn't know how to comfort her.

Ever since Ji Ke repeated her grade, her husband hasn't spoken to Ji Ke. She understood that her husband was disappointed in Ji Ke.

(End of this chapter)