Only Liu Hongsheng's lover Li Mei and Liu Zili were at home.

Li Mei is forty-eight years old and half of her hair is already white.

It was ten years after she married Liu Hongsheng that she gave birth to a child. She only had one son, Liu Zilii, and she held him in the palm of her hand since he was young.

Seeing Xu Fang coming, Li Mei also guessed something. She didn't go to work and usually stayed at home. In recent days, the family compound was talking about the things about her family Zili and Ji Ling, and she had heard some of it.

Ji Ling has a bad temper and Li Mei doesn't like her, but she can't help but her son likes her so she just turns a blind eye. After all, it's not the boy who suffers.

"Come in quickly, don't stand at the door. What urgent matter is that requires you to come out in the rain?" Li Mei is used to being flattered, so she always speaks in a sarcastic tone.

In the entire family compound, Xu Fang disliked her the most, but today she was offered a slap in the face, so even if she didn't like her, she could only endure it.

She stood at the door without moving, and took out the prepared money from her pocket, "Sister Li, please count, here is a hundred yuan."

Li Mei cried out, "Xu Fang, what do you want my old Liu to do for you? You have to explain clearly first, otherwise I dare not accept the money."

"Sister Li, I'm not asking your brother Liu to do something for me. A few months ago, my Ji Ling asked your Zili to borrow 100 yuan. The child borrowed the money to help her grandmother recover. We kept it a secret until your Zili told me today. I just found out. I'm really sorry. Look at what this has caused."

Li Mei exclaimed, then smiled and clapped her hands, taking the money directly. "It's nothing. You came here in the heavy rain to pay back the money. We live in the front and back yards. It's the same if we pay it back after the rain stops. It won't take too long."

"Xu Fang, please don't argue with me if I say more. You just care too much about your reputation. It is said that distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. Everyone has their share of problems. You made such a fuss about something as trivial as borrowing money."

While she was talking, Li Mei had counted the money in her hand twice. "One hundred yuan is not too much, nor too little. If someone else borrowed money, I would be surprised. Your family's financial situation is also one of the best in our courtyard. You just said you want to pay back the money, which scared me. Ji Ling is not only filial and knows how to respect the elderly, but also has a promising future. She passed the provincial exam. This is a good thing. Do you want to set up two tables at home?"

"Ji Yong is not at home, so I can't make the decision on this matter. I have to wait for him to come back to discuss it."

Li Mei smiled and said, "Your Ji Yong dotes on his children the most. I bet you that he will immediately start making arrangements when he gets home."

Xu Fang smiled, said she had to go to work, and walked away in the rain.

The rain flowed into her neck through the edge of her hat. Xu Fang couldn't help but shiver, and her heart was even colder.

During her lifetime, the proud Xu Fang never thought that a rural woman like Li Mei could be laughed at by people who could not even read or write.

The one who caused all this was his own daughter.

Braving the rain, we rushed to the department store.

Manager Wang saw that her hair was wet and hurriedly asked her to wipe it off. "Don't catch a cold. Our two daughters are counting on you to go to college. You can't fall down in the next few years."

It is indeed a huge pressure for an ordinary family to have two children go to college. Even if the school provides subsidies, the family still needs to provide some.

But the Ji family is different. Ji Yong can earn money, and Xu's family is well off and has two college students. So even if there is pressure, it is sweet.

Manager Wang was praising Xu Fang. Under normal circumstances, Xu Fang would have been happy to hear this. However, she just couldn't be happy at this moment. She forced a smile and walked away under the pretext of wiping her head.

As for Ji Ling, she did not go out during the heavy rain. Although Ji Ke was at home, the two sisters did not communicate with each other. In the evening, when Xu Fang came back and prepared dinner, she did not call Ji Ling, but Ji Ke was the one who called.

Xu Fang's face was so dry that it looked like it could fall on the dining table, while Ji Ling was just eating.

Xu Fang had been holding it in for the entire afternoon, and when she saw her daughter eating without a heartbeat, she became extremely angry.

"Ji Ling, what happened to the boy who pulled you to run away this morning?"

Ji Ling looked up, "Mom, do you want to quarrel again?"

Ji Ling thought to herself that your reflexes are quite slow, and said, "A friend."

"Which friend? He doesn't look like a serious person. In the future, you should avoid associating with such people. You should learn from your sister and read books at home. Don't think that you can get by just by getting into college. If you don't study hard in college, you will not be able to get a job when you are assigned."

"good."

Xu Fang: To describe Xu Fang's feelings at this moment, she wanted to have a big fight so that she could vent the anger in her heart. As a result, she had the illusion that she had set the stage but the other party did not respond to the challenge.

Ji Ling ate the rice in the bowl in a few big mouthfuls and put down her chopsticks. "I'm done."

After saying this, he turned and left.

Xu Fang let out a long breath.

"Mom, let's eat." Ji Ke bit her lip, thought for a moment, and said something that Xu Fang liked to hear, "Mom, August is coming soon. I heard that our university admission letter will arrive on the 5th. Then you can go to the city with me to pick it up."

"I just asked for leave a few days ago. My company may not approve it. I'll give it a try." Xu Fang didn't want to make her little daughter worry, so she forced a smile.

The meal was tasteless. Early the next morning, Xu Fang went to work and only left some biscuits for her younger daughter, and didn't even think about the older daughter.

The sky cleared up, and Ji Ling planned to continue going to the brick factory to move bricks today. In the morning, she saw that there was no food at home. Just then, Ji Ke came out of the east room with biscuits in his hand.

Ji Ke handed it over without hesitation, "Sister, have this in the morning."

Ji Ling paused and refused, "I'm not hungry. I'm going to work first."

"Sister, are you going to move bricks?"

Ji Ling strode out of the yard without answering Ji Ke's words.

Apart from moving bricks, he has no capital at the moment, so he can only wait for Ji Yong's father to come back, borrow some capital, and then make money from the money to pay off the debts and save some money for himself.

Walking all the way to the brick factory, Ji Ling was thinking about something until someone called her. She looked over and saw a man standing on the side of the road pushing a bicycle. When he saw Ji Ling looking at her, he called out again.

"Is it Ji Ling?"

Ji Ling: Are you pretending not to know me? I just saw him the day before yesterday, okay? She walked over, and when she got close, she glanced at the bicycle, "What's wrong? Is the chain broken again?"

"It's you."

Ji Ling puffed out her cheeks.

After Zhu Weidong confirmed that it was him, he took out 500 yuan from his pocket and said, "This is the reward for reporting the clues. Take it."

Ji Ling was shocked. Five hundred dollars was too important to her. But after struggling for a while, she finally looked away.

"Is this alms? Or is it compensation for letting me be bait the other day? No matter which reason it is, I will not accept this money."

"You kept looking at me, you obviously wanted it, why did you refuse?"

Ji Ling: Give me the knife!

(End of this chapter)