Word spread quickly from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred. In less than half a day, everyone in the compound knew about it.

The first person to come over was Tian Jing. After she got married, she cut her hair short to her shoulders and permed it into the most popular big curls. She wore a blue and white checkered woolen coat with a red sweater underneath. She was dressed very fashionably, but in just a few months, she had changed drastically.

Ji Ling usually doesn't stay in the store in front, so she went to answer the phone. Just as she hung up, someone from the compound came over and bumped into her.

It was a little after two in the morning when Tian Jing arrived. The days are short in the north in winter, especially around the New Year, when it gets dark after three o'clock.

Tian Jing came over and said that she wanted to invite Ji Ling out for dinner, so Ji Yong asked someone to go to the backyard.

According to the room Ji Yong mentioned, when Tian Jing pushed the door open and entered, Ji Ling was reading a book. When she heard the noise, she raised her head and glanced, then paused.

Ji Ling sat up and closed the book, "Come here."

Tian Jing walked into the house with a smile, closing the door behind her. The cold air behind her also spread to the outside of the door. "I heard from people in the compound that you are back. I had arranged to have dinner with Ma Hui, Dong Manhua and Wang Ermei. At the beginning, they said that you didn't come back, and they felt a little regretful. So this is God's will. Didn't you come back suddenly and catch up with them?"

When Ji Ling heard that it was a party, she found it quite interesting. Although she didn't like Tian Jing, it was still okay to meet Ma Hui and Dong Manhua.

She had never participated in it in her previous life, but in this life she has made a few friends who are likable to her, and it’s nice to sit together and chat.

"Then I'm lucky." Ji Ling smiled and got off the kang. "Is it for today? Do I need to get dressed now?"

"Yes, we booked a restaurant for 2:30 pm. When I heard you were coming back, I rushed over immediately. Ma Hui and the other three should have gone straight to the restaurant."

Ji Ling said, "Okay, I'll get dressed now and we can go."

Although the room was heated, you still had to wear thick clothes no matter how warm the room was in the north at this time. Ji Ling was wearing a black stand-up collar sweater. She took the black trousers beside her and put them on over the cotton trousers, put on a fur coat over the sweater, and picked up the black down jacket hanging on the wall and put it on.

The movements were quick and concise. Tian Jing watched the scene quietly. It was obviously just the action of putting on clothes, but she actually enjoyed watching it.

Her eyes fell on Ji Ling's slightly bulging belly, and she came back to her senses, "The baby is already four months old, right? The belly looks a bit big."

Ji Ling didn't know if she had any other meaning in what she said. After all, Tian Jing lost an adult when she got married because of Ji Ling. Ji Ling didn't think that Tian Jing had really forgotten all that.

She smiled and said, "It is a little big, maybe it's because I eat well."

Then he said, "Let's go."

The two of them left the house and ran into Ji Yong who was coming back from the front yard. He asked, "Where are we going to eat? What time do we leave tonight? I'll ask your eldest brother to pick you up."

"Dad, my eldest brother won't be back today, right?" It was almost dark, and there was still no sign of him.

"No, maybe they asked their friends to send them back. Besides, they didn't call home, so they should be on the way." Ji Yong said.

Tian Jing also told them which restaurant they were staying at and what time they would leave. Ji Yong told them to walk slowly, "It's snowy and the roads are slippery, be careful."

Ji Ling agreed and left with Tian Jing. Coincidentally, not long after she walked out of the furniture store, she met Dong Manhua and Ma Hui. When they saw Ji Ling, they immediately surrounded her.

"My mom told me that you're back. I was thinking of going to your house tomorrow." Ma Hui happily took Ji Ling's arm. "You're pregnant now. Please watch your step when you walk. I'll hold you for a bit."

Tian Jing raised the corners of her lips and looked at Ji Ling being supported in the middle by the two men. Jealousy flashed in her eyes, but she did not show it on her face.

Ma Hui just loved to talk, but she also had a look in her eyes and didn't ask Ji Ling why she went home for the New Year.

Everyone knows that a bride cannot return to her parents’ home in the first year of her marriage.

I'm afraid it's not a good reason for Ji Ling to come back at this time.

If he really treated the other person as a friend, he would naturally not bring it up at this time, but friends are also divided into categories. For example, Tian Jing can't stand seeing Ji Ling doing well.

When they arrived at the restaurant, they found that some people had arrived earlier, Wang Ermei and Liu Zilii.

This time, Tian Jing said it was a class reunion, but she didn't say that she would bring her family members.

Ji Ling and the others were not in Bei County, so they didn't know about the Liu family's affairs. But Ma Hui was repeating a grade in Bei City. Although she didn't go home very often, she would go home during holidays, so naturally she heard everything about the Liu family.

After Tian Jing married into the Liu family, their lives were in chaos. Liu Zili did not work properly at the factory and always skipped work to go out and drink with his friends.

Li Mei blamed the matter on Tian Jing, saying that she couldn't keep an eye on her man. She also scolded Tian Jing for making her son not like to go home. She said that her son was not like this before he got married, and that he didn't go home just to avoid Tian Jing.

Then, Tian Jing was one month pregnant without knowing it, and her mother-in-law pushed her in anger, causing her to fall and die.

Li Mei then realized that she was in trouble, but she refused to admit it and insisted that Tian Jing had deliberately harmed her and had even concealed her pregnancy.

In the end, Li Hua rushed over, protected her daughter, and slapped her a few times. Finally, Li Mei, the evil mother-in-law, behaved herself.

However, the resentment between the two families was formed, and after this quarrel, Tian Jing and his wife separated and lived on their own.

While Tian Jing and Liu Zili were ordering food, Ma Hui whispered in Ji Ling's ear, "They are now living in the house where your family used to live."

Ji Ling nodded, and seeing Wang Ermei looking over here, she smiled and said, "That's great. I've always liked that house of mine."

Under the table, she squeezed Ma Hui's hand, signaling her not to say anything more.

Ma Hui understood and smiled, "Yes, so seeing how energetic Tian Jing is now, I thought that when I get married in the future, I won't live with my mother-in-law."

Phew, Wang Ermei smiled and glanced up. To be honest, Wang Ermei looks very ordinary, but because she goes to school and stays in the capital, her temperament has changed. She is no longer as petty as before, and now she is generous and elegant. Even though she looks ordinary, among the several people sitting here, not counting Ji Ling, she is the most eye-catching one.

Especially when she smiles, she seems to know her own strengths, her eyes are curved like crescents, and she looks happy.

"Ma Hui, you should just focus on repeating your studies and consider your personal issues after you get into college next year. If you're eager to get married now, your mother might really marry you off first if she finds out."

Ma Hui didn't think much of it. "That's not bad. After all, many people continue to go to school after they get married."

She tilted her head and looked at Wang Ermei, "But you have changed a lot."