The weather is good now and many people are climbing the mountain.

But most of them are older people, walking up the mountain in groups.

Ji Ling yawned, her legs seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, and she fell far behind the others.

Only Chen Jingming looked back from time to time and noticed, then he led everyone to slow down their pace and wait for her to catch up before continuing up the mountain.

With Ji Ling lagging behind, it was almost noon when the group reached the top of the mountain.

In the morning, Ji Ling showed her tough side. Others did not dare to express their opinions. However, Lin Hai was like an invincible cockroach. His eyes flew towards Ji Ling with anger. If his gaze could become arrows, Ji Ling estimated that she would have been shot into a sieve by him.

Ji Ling found a nearby stone and sat down, looking at Lin Hai provocatively, "Can I ask you something?"

Lin Hai looked alert, "Ji Ling, don't play tricks here."

Ji Ling ignored him and asked, "Can I ask how to get to your heart?"

She smiled as she watched Lin Hai's face slowly turn red from his daze, and said, "Lin Hai, look, if you provoke me again, I will tease you like this, how about that?"

"Shameless." Lin Hai said after a while and left angrily.

Everyone was shocked in the morning and they were shocked again at this moment.

They could see that Ji Ling was deliberately trying to provoke Lin Hai, but how did she come up with such explicit words? On the top of the mountain, everyone went their separate ways, and Chen Wanting secretly asked Ji Ke, "How could Ji Ling say such embarrassing words? Don't your parents care about her?"

Ji Ke said, "My sister is just unhappy that Lin Hai is targeting her. She is not usually like this."

Chen Wanting uttered an "oh" and his eyes flickered. "Xiao Ke, she did so well in the exam, why does she always complain about her poor grades? Is she deliberately letting you down? Is she afraid that if she says she studies well, you will work harder to surpass her?"

"Wanting, I know my sister has gone too far. I hope you won't say these things in front of me in the future. We are good friends, and I don't want to be unhappy because of these things."

Chen Wanting apologized immediately, "Xiao Ke, don't be angry, I just asked, mainly because I am worried about you. After all, is your mother very happy?"

"My parents were very happy and gave each of us a Hero pen."

Speaking of the fountain pen, Chen Wanting bit his lower lip. "Ji Ling called my eldest brother to get the money back for the fountain pen. My eldest brother refused to tell me at first, but I only found out when he borrowed my New Year's money from me. In fact, it would be better to return the money to her. Otherwise, she would always use the excuse of giving her something to my eldest brother, and I would be afraid."

Ji Kewei opened her mouth, hesitating to speak, "Actually, it's not my sister's fault. My sister borrowed money to buy it. Those people went to our house to collect the debt. My mother was very angry when she found out. Maybe that's why. Tell your eldest brother not to blame my sister."

"She borrowed so much money? She's so brave. I told you she's different from us. How could we be so brave?" Chen Wanting's eyes widened with a gleam in them, as if he had discovered some shameful truth.

"Wanting, don't tell anyone else. It's not good if this gets out."

"Don't worry, I won't tell anyone."

Chen Wanting agreed, and while everyone was looking for a place to have a picnic at noon, he told Chen Jingming about this.

Also present was Lin Hai.

Chen Wanting glanced at Lin Hai and said, "Don't tell anyone. I promised Xiaoke that I wouldn't tell anyone."

Lin Hai said disdainfully, "I always say that she is too good at pretending. Now that she can't cover up the truth, she simply stops pretending."

"Anyway, she doesn't look like a decent person." Chen Wanting glanced at his eldest brother, and seeing that he remained silent, he didn't dare to say anything more. He said he was going to find Ji Ke, and turned and left.

Lin Hai held a dogtail grass in his mouth and glanced at Chen Jingming beside him, "Why? You don't really like her, do you?"

It is obvious who this "she" refers to.

Chen Jingming lowered his eyes, "Ji Ling is fine."

Lin Hai looked at his friend for a long time without saying anything, and in the end he really said nothing, but from the expression on his face, it could be seen that he felt extremely uncomfortable.

How could someone like Ji Ling dream of such a person? The picnic was held on a flat ground with trees on the top of the mountain. Many people chose to have a picnic here, but Ji Ling was not interested in it. After she confronted Lin Hai twice in a row, no one came over except Ji Ke who came over from time to time to show her sisterly love.

Ji Ling simply told her to stop working, "Don't worry about me, there's food here, go and play with everyone."

Ji Ke comforted her, "Sister, everyone just doesn't know you well, they are not ostracizing you."

"I know." Ji Ling didn't want to argue about this with Ji Ke.

The facts are right in front of us. Even though it's so obvious, Ji Ke still wants to be a peacemaker. Ji Ling doesn't like her way of doing things, but she won't comment too much. Everyone has their own way of living, and she doesn't have that much patience to worry about others.

In return for being excluded by everyone, Ji Ling could use the tablecloth she brought with her, eat buns alone and enjoy the quietness.

The steamed buns stuffed with white flour, leeks and eggs can be eaten cold without affecting the taste. There were no steamed buns last night, obviously Xu Fang had steamed them early in the morning.

As a mother, even though Xu Fang is highly educated, she is not that pampered when it comes to taking care of her children.

As for the relationship with the original owner, Ji Ling felt that the original owner's problems accounted for a large part.

At the moment, it seems that they can live in peace.

That's it.

As for receiving maternal love, Ji Ling had never thought about it deeply.

After lunch, Ji Ling felt it was almost time to go down the mountain, but Chen Wanting took out a camera and said he wanted to take a picture of everyone.

Seeing that Ji Ling didn't come over, Chen Jingming waved to her, "Ji Ling, come over and take pictures."

The originally noisy scene suddenly became silent.

Several people took their seats, but Ji Ling was not left out. Chen Wanting bit her lip and said, "Ji Ling, please help take a group photo for all of us."

She took the initiative to walk up to Ji Ling, carefully placed the camera in her hands, and told her how to use it. When she was about to leave, she repeatedly reminded her, "Be sure to hold it well. This camera is very valuable. You can't afford to pay for it if it breaks."

Ji Ling didn't wait for her to leave, and stuffed the camera back into her hands, "It's so expensive, I don't dare to take it, you should find someone else to take the photo."

Chen Wanting stood there in a daze, looking at Ji Ling, his eyes slowly turning red.

The five people were also stunned for a moment, and they came over and stopped Chen Wanting and comforted him in a low voice. Chen Wanting lowered his head, wiped his tears and said nothing.

Ji Ke stood there with an embarrassed look on his face.

Ji Ling's indifferent attitude made the others, except Chen Jingming, also show dissatisfaction.

"Why are you like this?"

"That's right, I didn't say I wouldn't take you with me when taking the photo, I just asked you to take a photo for us first, and you got angry?"

"It seems that you really want to embarrass Ji Ke."

"Ji Ke is so unlucky to have a sister like you."

The other two boys who came out this time are the one wearing glasses named Zhou Wei, whose parents both work in the design institute; the slightly chubby one is named Chen Zilie, whose parents are middle school teachers, and both live in the staff housing complex.

Before, only Lin Hai targeted Ji Ling, and the other two boys had been silent. Along the way, Ji Ling could see that these two boys liked Ji Ke, and they always looked for opportunities to be around Ji Ke. It seemed that they did not target her for Ji Ke's sake.

At this time, everyone attacked Ji Ling.

(End of this chapter)