It’s the New Year.

Ji Ling received a call from Zheng Shi early in the morning. As soon as the call was connected and she heard her voice, she could feel Zheng Shi jump up through the phone.

"San Biao, why didn't you inform us when you came back? You are so heartless, you did it on purpose."

Ji Ling smiled, "It's not too late to know now. Aren't you coming back after the New Year?"

Zheng Shi sneered, "After the Chinese New Year? You wish. Qian Xiangqian and I have both returned home to celebrate the Chinese New Year. I will ask him to go to your place now."

The phone hung up with a click.

Ji Ling smiled, shook her head and hung up the phone. Ji Jianhua was used to it, "When they come over later, you have to tell them to go back to their own homes for the New Year."

"Have they ever spent the New Year at our house before?"

"It's not just celebrating the New Year, it's celebrating many New Years." Ji Jianhua said, "The food at our house is not as good as the food at his house, so why do they like to stay at our house?"

Ji Ling laughed loudly, and Ji Jianhua suddenly looked at her, "You didn't forget this too, did you?"

Ji Ling felt guilty. She touched her nose and said, "Brother, I had a serious illness before the college entrance examination and forgot a lot of things."

She was still wondering whether this reason could deceive Ji Jianhua, but the teacup in Ji Jianhua's hand fell to the ground with a crisp sound.

"Why didn't you tell me earlier?" Ji Jianhua looked at her angrily and painfully, "What else have you forgotten?"

Ji Ling just lied. She didn't expect that her eldest brother would have such a big reaction. She was so scared that she didn't dare to say anything. "It's just some things, some small things."

"Have you been to the hospital for a checkup? What did the doctor say?"

Just as Ji Jianhua was asking, Ji Yong came in from the outer door, "What fell?"

"Dad, didn't Xiaoling fall seriously ill before the college entrance exam? She forgot a lot of things during that illness, did you know that?" Ji Jianhua's eyes were red, and he pursed his lips, "Dad also stood in grandpa's yard for a whole day and got sick from the rain."

Ji Ling pursed her lips and said, "My eldest brother has passed away. I am glad that grandpa didn't agree. Otherwise, how could I have been admitted to university?"

"Yes, Xiaoling is right. It's all in the past." Ji Yong was stunned for a moment. After coming to his senses, he picked up the teacup and put it on the counter. When he looked at his daughter again, the sourness in his nose had been suppressed. "No wonder you became much quieter after that serious illness, and not as irritating as before."

"So sometimes bad things can be good things."

The daughter could laugh, but the father and son of the Ji family could not laugh.

Ji Ling had already gotten over this incident and was preparing for the New Year the next day. That evening, she heard a quarrel coming from her parents' room. Her mother shouted once, and then there was no sound.

Ji Ling sat up and listened for a while, but there was no sound of quarreling. She thought she was hallucinating. However, when she got up the next day, she found that the atmosphere between her parents was very bad and neither of them spoke. Then she was sure that they were really quarreling.

"Jianhua, take your sister to paste the couplets." Ji Yong handed the paste to his son.

Ji Jianhua called his two sisters to the front. Without their children present, Ji Yong looked at his wife and said, "I just talked to you about that matter, and you are unhappy? Can't you communicate now?"

"That's communication? I think you're blaming my dad. My dad didn't agree to arrange a job for Xiaoling, and she made trouble herself. Isn't it her own fault? How can you say my dad is heartless?"

Ji Yong didn't want to argue with his wife, but his wife's words made him feel uncomfortable. "Your father is heartless. Xiaoling is his granddaughter. Why can't he talk to her in a nice way? What did your father say? He said Xiaoling was ignorant and had wild ideas."

"He said that because he was angry."

"Okay, what about kicking people out on a rainy day?"

Ji Yong looked at his wife and smiled helplessly, "Xu Fang, can we be reasonable? Your father is just angry, and he should know better than to argue with a child. If it wasn't raining, it wouldn't be wrong to chase people out, but it's raining heavily outside. If he cared about Xiaoling at all, would he do this?"

"Look, aren't you blaming my dad?"

"Yes, I blame your father. I can endure his humiliation for my daughter, but I will never forgive him for what he did to Xiaoling. Xiaoling lost her memory and forgot a lot of things, which is still a light matter. How could she just die like this?" Ji Yong looked at his wife, "Xiaoling is your daughter. Don't you feel sad when you hear this?"

Facing her husband's questioning, Xu Fang could no longer refute. She turned away with red eyes, "You blame my dad, but I blame Xiaoling. I blame her for not living up to her expectations and making me lose face in my family. Even if I get into college and marry a good family now, what's the point? Can the shameful things I did in the past be erased?"

"Dad." Ji Jianhua's voice came.

The couple turned around and saw the three brothers and sisters of the Ji family standing not far from them.

Ji Jianhua's expression changed slightly, "Didn't I ask you to post the couplets?"

"It's finished." Ji Jianhua replied, looking at Xu Fang indifferently. Xu Fang thought of what she said and was too ashamed to look her son in the face.

"Then you guys go and have fun. Your mom and I will go cook now." Ji Yong was also panicked.

His three children must have heard what he just said. He doesn’t know how to face all this on New Year’s Day.

Ji Yong left, calling his wife.

"Brother, sister, I have an appointment with my classmates, so I'm leaving first." Ji Ke's eyes turned around and he trotted away.

Ji Jianhua pursed his lips and said, "If someone doesn't like you, no matter how well you do, it's wrong in their eyes. People don't live to please others."

"Brother, I'm fine." Ji Ling smiled, "I'm just worried that you'll be embarrassed. I'm used to it."

The words "I've gotten used to it" made Ji Jianhua feel ashamed.

I started to feel resentful towards my mother, "My mom isn't embarrassed, so why are you embarrassed?"

"Brother, today is New Year's Day." Ji Ling didn't want her brother to get angry with their mother because of her.

"Okay, go back to your room. Aren't you going to wait for Zheng Shi and the others?" Ji Jianhua took a deep breath, afraid that his sister would feel uncomfortable, so he didn't say anything more.

"good."

Ji Ling returned to the house and stared at it in a daze. She had never been close to her family, and only in Ji Jianhua and Ji Yong could she find the long-lost family affection. Zhu Weidong's confession also made her feel a sense of belonging to home.

People shouldn't be too greedy.

She has already got these, there are some things she can no longer ask for.

People need to learn to be content.

As for the problems that occurred between her and Zhu Weidong this time, Ji Ling didn't feel so bad after she got over her anger. When two people live together, they need to get used to each other's styles of doing things and habits in life.

There were noisy footsteps in the yard. Ji Ling curled the corners of her lips, thinking that it must be Zheng Shi and Qian Xiangqian. But the next moment the door was pushed open, and Ji Ling was stunned when she saw the people who appeared at the door.

"Why are you here?"

(End of this chapter)