After dinner, Ji Ling was sent back to the compound by the three men. After watching her enter the compound, the three men left.
When Ji Ling returned home, she heard Mrs. Zhu tell her, "Xiao Ling, your family called and asked you to call them when you get back."
Ji Ling asked, "Grandma, did you say anything?"
"It seems to be about your sister getting admitted to university, which sounds like a good thing." Old Mrs. Zhu said, "It was your mother who called and asked about your current situation and said she would come over before you give birth."
When Ji Ling heard this, she thought that not coming over would be more of a help, so she smiled and said that she would go back upstairs to make a phone call, then went upstairs.
After going upstairs, she washed up and changed into home clothes before calling home.
Ji Yong answered the phone. "I only found out about your mother calling you later. Didn't that scare you? Nothing happened at home. Ji Ke was admitted to Peking University and will report there in mid-August this year. Your mother meant that you would be giving birth at that time, and we would also be there, so we went there early."
Ji Ling raised her eyebrows, "Ji Ke did well in the exam."
"I was also surprised. I didn't expect that she would really pass the exam." Ji Yong was happy, but he didn't dare to show it in front of his eldest daughter. "We will have a banquet in a few days. I don't want to have too many banquets. We won't stay in the county in the future, so we don't need to give too many gifts."
Ji Ling just listened, after all, it had nothing to do with her.
Ji Yong was silent for a while. "Your elder brother hasn't come back yet. Has he called you? The factory is so big, it's not a good idea for him to be away for so long. If he has done everything well over there, persuade him to come back earlier."
Ji Ling, "My eldest brother called me yesterday. He took the train today and will be home in the next few days."
"I'm glad you're back." Ji Yong was relieved when he heard that someone had returned. "Is everything okay with you living with your in-laws?"
Logically speaking, these questions should be asked by the mother, but since it is about the relationship between his wife and daughter, only Ji Yong can ask.
"It's fine, Dad, don't worry about me, just take care of yourselves."
"Well, if there's nothing else, just hang up. You should get more rest."
Ji Ling said, "Dad, you guys can just stay at my house when you come over. I'll clean it up in a few days."
"This is not a good idea. Let's just find a guest house outside."
"I have an empty house here. It won't look good if you don't live in it and live outside. So let's just leave it that way." Ji Ling hung up the phone.
She forced a bitter smile. Her father was not a nagging person, but he didn't want to hang up the phone today and there was nothing else to do. Ji Ling guessed why her father was hesitant to speak.
It is rare for relatives to be so polite to each other.
After Ji Yong hung up the phone, he felt very guilty. This was why his wife called him. She wanted Ji Ke to adapt to the environment there as soon as possible. On the other hand, their daughter was about to give birth, and it would be bad if they didn't go.
But it was not good to live outside in the past, and his wife couldn't bring herself to ask for it, so she gave it to him.
Ji Yong didn't want to talk about this. After arriving there, he would find a guesthouse to stay in and let outsiders say whatever they wanted.
"How was it? Did she say it on her own initiative?" Xu Fang asked.
Ji Yong said with a stern face, "I told you to let us stay at her house."
The daughter lived with her parents-in-law, and after they got married, her parents-in-law bought them an apartment, so they naturally lived there.
Ji Yong looked up and said, "Xiao Ke should just live in the college. Many out-of-town students don't do this. We're not from the capital, so why should she be treated specially?"
Xu Fang's smile froze for a moment. "I was just asking. I didn't ask Xiaoke to live with her."
Ji Yong glanced at his wife and said, "When we get there, if you don't want to talk, just say less. Please be more sympathetic when the child is giving birth."
"Look at what you said. I'm not a stepmother and I've never been mean to her." Xu Fang didn't like to hear this.
Ji Yong said nothing, just got up and left.
In the next few days, the Ji family set up a banquet. It happened that Ji Jianhua also came back from outside that day, so the family set up a banquet once in the city and once in the county.
Those in the county have already been displayed, and those in the city are relatives from both the Xu and Ji families.
We met last time after Ji Ling got married, and haven’t met again since then.
This time, the Ji family had two daughters admitted to Peking University, so the congratulations were even louder.
Xu Fang and her daughter were surrounded by relatives. Ji Ke called people obediently and praised them all the time.
Li Luo, who was sitting at the guest table, looked at Ji Jianhua from afar as he sat at the other side and didn't come over to him, and he felt a pang in his heart.
Ji Jianhua was the one seeing the guests off, so when he saw Luo Li, he smiled and said hello, "There are too many people today, so please forgive me if the hospitality is not good enough."
Luo Li smiled and said, "Do we still need to be so polite to each other?"
Ji Jianhua said, "I just came back today. I will come to see you tomorrow."
After Luo Li heard this, the bitterness in his heart faded a little, "You go ahead and do your work. I'll wait for you tomorrow."
The two nodded and then separated.
Ji Yong saw this scene from afar. After sending all the guests away in the evening, he planned to tell his son about it, but he didn't expect that Old Lady Ji mentioned it first.
"Jianhua has been dating for more than a year. Now Xiaoke has been admitted to university, so it's time for Jianhua to get married."
When Xu Fang heard what her mother-in-law said, she looked up and became suspicious. It was a known fact that her mother-in-law didn't like her son, so why did she suddenly start to take the initiative to care about him?
When something is abnormal, there must be something wrong.
Xu Fang hid her thoughts, "The two children are still together, and their personalities are not suitable for each other right now, so we haven't talked about marriage yet."
"Not suitable in personality? How can it be? I think you are just bored. In the past, people didn't even know what the other person looked like when they got married, but they just got married and lived together for a lifetime, and everything was fine." Old Madam Ji snorted coldly, not looking at her daughter-in-law, but at her eldest grandson, "Jianhua, when do you say you are going to get married?"
"Grandma, we still need to get to know each other better. There are a lot of things going on at the factory right now, and we can't spare the time to get married." Ji Jianhua also knew that his grandmother must have some calculations by suddenly bringing this up, but he just didn't respond.
Old Madam Ji snorted coldly, turned around and said to Old Man Ji beside her, "No one listens to me, so you should speak."
Old Man Ji knocked the ashes out of his pipe, took out some tobacco and stuffed it in, then he spoke, "Since the child doesn't want to get married, then don't get married. Young people nowadays think differently from us, and they value freedom of marriage."
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