"Xu Fang, is your Ji Ling available to talk now? I want to talk to her alone."

Xu Fang was leading people into the house, but stopped when she heard Lian Qin's words. She turned around and said, "It's convenient."

"Come in with me."

"No, I'm not going in. Just let Ji Ling come out and I'll talk to her here."

Lian Qin insisted on doing so, so Xu Fang didn't hesitate to explain directly, "It's not that we don't want Xiaoling to come out. When she came back today, her in-laws helped her back, fearing that something might happen to her. I just cleaned up the outer room, and the ground is wet. Xiaoling is pregnant now, and it wouldn't be good if she slipped. How about this, you go in, and I'll call Ji Yong out."

After listening to this, Lian Qin hesitated for a while before nodding, "Okay then."

Seeing that she was still putting on airs, Xu Fang felt a little unhappy.

Even without Lian Qin telling her, she knew that it was aimed at Wang Sanmei.

After hearing from her husband that Wang Sanmei went to the capital to find Ji Ling, Xu Fang did not ask any questions, but she kept it in mind. Her husband also warned her not to tell anyone, but she thought that her eldest daughter was meddling in her affairs, and her pride came up, so she did not ask a single question.

Now that Lian Qin came to my house, I guessed it was related to Wang Sanmei.

After entering the east room, Xu Fang called her husband out, "Lian Qin wants to talk to Xiao Ling alone, come out, just in time to help me empty the dirty bucket."

Ji Yong responded, nodded to Lian Qin, and followed his wife out.

Lian Qin did not rush to speak, but made sure the door was closed. She heard the voices of Ji Yong and Xu Fang talking in the yard again, and then she looked at Ji Ling.

"I came here to tell you about Sanmei." Lian Qin thought for a while, "Sanmei had a quarrel with her family and ran away in anger. Her father and I looked for her everywhere but couldn't find her. Her father was mad at her for running away from home, so he spread the word that he didn't have a daughter like her. But there is no overnight hatred between father and daughter. It's just that we couldn't find her, and our family was very anxious. A few days ago, Ermei called and said that Sanmei was with you, so our family was relieved."

"Sanmei has a stubborn temper. She ran away from home because she had a quarrel with her family. She told you a lot of bad things about her family, right? Don't take it to heart. She is especially resentful of Ermei. She also took the college entrance examination, but Ermei passed and she didn't. Sometimes she always says crazy things, saying that she is Ermei. She was a little mentally abnormal when she left home. Now we heard that she ran away to the capital. Our family was quite surprised. Fortunately, she is fine."

Ji Ling didn't say anything, just listened quietly.

Wang Sanmei's mother was very smart. She said so much right away, and even tried to evade the blame for the truth that Wang Sanmei had said before.

Ji Ling felt displeased the first time she came into contact with him.

When she thought about how her own daughter had stolen her sister's opportunity to go to college, and how as a parent, she did not help her daughter to get justice, but instead threw dirty water on her wronged daughter, it was no wonder that Wang Sanmei felt heartbroken.

"Is Sanmei okay in the capital? She's been staying with you for half a year. Come back if you're okay. Food and lodging also cost money, right? I don't want to keep bothering you." Lian Qin finally stated her purpose.

Ji Ling uttered an "oh". "When I met Sanmei, she had just run away from a black shop. She was almost sold to the mountains. I don't know how she found my school. After I took her home, she didn't say a word for the first half month. Later, she started talking. I also tried to persuade her to go home, but she was very resistant and even wanted to leave on her own. I was worried that something might happen to her, so I stopped trying to persuade her."

These words were of course false. Ji Ling just wanted to scare the Wang family, but she didn't want them to bully their own daughter.

"When I heard her say that she was almost sold to the mountains, I was really scared. I asked her what wrongs she had suffered at home that made her want to run away. When she heard the word 'home', she became even more excited." At this point, Ji Ling nodded, "She seems to have mental problems."

Lian Qin: She said her daughter had mental problems and she didn't want Ji Ling to believe what her daughter said.

No one wants a mentally ill daughter.

Lian Qin said, "Ji Ling, you have figured this out. We are her relatives, what can we do to her? She was fine when she ran away from home, how come she has mental problems outside?"

"Eh? Didn't Auntie just say that she had some mental problems when she was at home? She kept saying that she was Ermei and that she was the one who got into college?"

Lian Qin was speechless because of her own words. "I was a little nervous at that time, so I said nonsense."

"She's already so mentally ill at home, how can she be mentally well outside?" Ji Ling asked back, "Auntie, you won't think that I took Sanmei in and made her a psychopath, right?"

"How could that be? You're overthinking it."

"That's good. My dad always told me that people shouldn't be too kind. Sometimes doing good things can make you a bad person. I was worried about this when I took Sanmei in. But she looked so pitiful."

"You are a good child. Thank you very much, auntie, for Sanmei's matter." Lian Qin no longer had the arrogance she had when she first came in. The initiative was in Ji Ling's hands, and she was led by Ji Ling.

"Aunt, look at Sanmei's current situation. She didn't come back and her mental state is not good. I wanted to wait until I was done with my work before telling you about this. Now that you've come to me, I've told you everything. Do you want to give me some money now and wait for me to go back to teach Sanmei, or should I go home and discuss with your uncle Wang and then give Sanmei some money?"

"Bring money, you have to bring this. Sanmei has been living and eating at your place for half a year, I can't let you support her." Lian Qin stammered, "After receiving Ermei's call, I rushed over to ask for help. I didn't bring any money with me, I'll bring it tomorrow."

Ji Ling said yes, and then asked, "How did Ermei and Sanmei end up at my place? I didn't tell Ermei."

"Ermei said your classmate told her." Lian Qin replied, "Xiaoling, then auntie will go back first and come to give you the money tomorrow."

"Okay, don't worry, Auntie. I'm going to stay here for four days. Just give me the money before I leave. I won't see you off."

Lian Qin said there was no need to see her off and left.

In the yard, Ji Yong's voice could be heard asking her what would happen in a few seconds.

Not long after, Ji Yong entered the house.

"Come to ask about Wang Sanmei?"

Ji Ling nodded. Xu Fang also came into the room at this time. "Lian Qin knew Sanmei was with you. She might have misunderstood that you asked Sanmei to be your nanny, so she came here to ask for money."

Ji Ling was stunned for a moment, "No way?"

Because Ji Ling knew what the Wang family was worried about, she thought her parents were overthinking it.

She was still hesitating whether to tell the truth when she heard her father talking.