Ji Yong had already been informed by Zhu Weidong. When he saw his daughter coming back from afar, he quickly took a few steps to meet her.

"Mother-in-law, thank you for your hard work."

Kong Siya smiled gently and said, "Thank you for being so polite, my dear relatives. I will have to trouble you in the next few days. I will send Xiaoling back, so I won't bother you any more. I will take the children back first. The old lady is still waiting over there."

"Okay, okay." Ji Yong saw this and had no idea what was going on, so he took his daughter from her in-laws.

Looking at the Zhu family's actions, you can tell how much they value their daughter now.

Kong Siya looked away when she saw that the man was helped to stabilize himself. She greeted Xu Fang who had just come over and said that she would visit again tomorrow. Xu Fang smiled and said a few more polite words, then took the bag from Zhu Weiyue's hand and watched the Zhu family leave.

Kong Siya looked back every few steps, urging Ji Ling to go back to the house quickly before she caught a cold.

Seeing the Zhu family like this, Ji Yong had to express his opinion. He took the bag from his wife, supported his daughter, and asked Xu Fang to see them off while he took his daughter home first.

At this time, neighbors also came out, and as soon as the Zhu family left, they all gathered around.

Everyone was talking at once to congratulate him.

Ji Ling smiled and said thank you, and Ji Yong invited everyone to his home, and the Ji family became lively for a while.

Ji Ling sat on the kang in the east room, and her clothes were hung up by Ji Yong. He often ran outside, and he knew at a glance how valuable his daughter's coat was, so after entering the room and his daughter sat on the kang, he hung up the clothes first.

There were many people coming to the house, asking many questions at once. Ji Ling answered them one by one with a friendly attitude, without showing any impatience. In everyone's eyes, they felt that Ji Ling had good character and did not look down on them even though she married into a wealthy family.

Now that Ji Ling was pregnant and they had two more days to travel, everyone tactfully did not stay any longer and got up and left.

After sending everyone away, Ji Ling breathed a sigh of relief.

Ji Yong smiled and said, "Today, only some neighbors from the compound came. We will be even busier tomorrow when relatives from home come over one after another."

Ji Ling smiled and said, "Dad, thank you for your hard work."

"What are you talking about? This is what parents should do."

Xu Fang had just returned from sending the people away. She and her husband had been in a cold war because of the last incident. Her husband only came home because of her eldest daughter's wedding. The two did not communicate when they were together and mostly talked about the wedding.

In just over a month, Xu Fang had become so thin that she looked unrecognizable, as if she had just recovered from a serious illness and was trying hard to stay awake without getting enough rest.

It looks pitiful.

Xu Fang said, "You two can talk while I go cook."

As usual, Xu Fang hid away again.

Ji Ling watched her father go up, Ji Yong shook his head and said, "Ji Ke and Jianhua are both in Taipei. They will be back tomorrow, bringing your grandma and grandpa with them."

Afterwards, Ji Yong said that the guesthouse had also been arranged. It was arranged by the Zhu family. It was located in the Land Bureau Guesthouse. Usually, many people would eat there. There were restaurants and accommodations, so it was convenient to entertain people.

"The Zhu family arranged everything properly. We didn't do any of this. Your brother-in-law was the one who took care of it." Ji Yong praised Zhu Yaowu. "He looks and speaks like a child, but he is very steady in his work. He thinks about everything very carefully and meticulously."

Ji Ling smiled and said, "I heard from grandma on the phone that Dad doesn't need to be polite to him."

"I'm not polite to him. He gets along well with me now. Sometimes he even drinks with me and calls me man."

It gets dark earlier in the north, and it will be dark around 3:00 a.m. when the Chinese New Year is approaching, so every family has two meals, and dinner is around 1:00 a.m.

Ji Ling had been pregnant for just two months. She had lost some weight due to morning sickness. In the evening, Xu Fang cooked braised pork, roasted fish, and mixed some cold dishes.

As soon as the fish came up, Ji Ling felt a little nauseous, but she couldn't show it in front of her parents. Fortunately, her morning sickness was not too severe now, so as long as she didn't touch anything that made her nauseous, she wouldn't vomit.

As a father, Ji Yong was not in a position to ask since his daughter was pregnant. However, he could see that his daughter did not like fish. When he was about to take the fish away, he found that his wife had noticed it first and stood up to take the fish away.

Not long after, he heard the sound of cooking in the outer room. Ji Yong and his wife were still in a cold war and did not go out to see. Not long after, he saw Xu Fang bringing in a plate of stir-fried cabbage. The cabbage was stir-fried with vinegar and the sour smell was pungent.

"Would you like to try this?" Xu Fang put the dish down and sat down at the same time, "Spicy cabbage fried with vinegar."

"Thank you, Mom." Ji Ling thanked her and picked up a piece and put it in her mouth. The sour and spicy taste made it very appetizing and suppressed the feeling of vomiting.

After swallowing it, she smiled and said, "You can eat this."

Ji Yong said, "Then eat more. You're so thin. The food you eat at school is always unpalatable, right?"

"I can't eat the food I buy outside, so my brother-in-law brings me porridge and boiled eggs every day."

"How can we get enough nutrition just by eating these two?" Ji Yong frowned. "These are chickens we raised at home. Can you eat them?"

Ji Ling only ate the mushrooms in it. She didn't want her father to worry, so she took a piece. Maybe it was because she had eaten the spicy cabbage with vinegar, she didn't feel like vomiting after eating the meat.

Ji Yong saw it and advised her to eat something.

Perhaps seeing that his daughter was able to eat more, Ji Yong also responded and picked up a piece of meat for his wife, "You should eat more too, you have lost so much weight."

Xu Fang paused with her chopsticks, lowered her head and ate the meat silently. It was rare for a family of three to eat together in such a warm and cozy manner.

After the meal, Ji Ling wanted to help clean the table, but Ji Yong stopped her, "Hurry up and sit on the kang. Your mother and I will clean up these dishes and chopsticks."

Ji Ling smiled and said, "Dad, I'm fine. I just need to move around more."

"No, your mother-in-law handed you over to me today, so I have to keep an eye on you. She didn't say it, but I can tell that this is what she meant."

When Dad mentioned this, Ji Ling was speechless for a while. She talked about how the Zhu family protected her like a piece of porcelain after she became pregnant. Ji Yong smiled even more deeply when he saw it and just said that the Zhu family did a good thing.

All parents in the world are the same, and Ji Ling knows that this doesn't make sense with them.

Although Xu Fang was cleaning the outer room, she was also listening attentively. When she heard her eldest daughter's funeral, she felt relieved.

At this time, Xu Fang heard someone talking in the yard. When she turned around, she saw Lian Qin walking in.

Xu Fang smiled and said, "Come here."

Lian Qin was Wang Sanmei's mother. She had a very square face, and the people in the agricultural compound nicknamed her "Horse Face" behind her back. Because she was stingy, she rarely interacted with others in the compound.

It is precisely because she is good at "housekeeping" that the children in the family can go to school. From another perspective, it is also admirable.

(End of this chapter)