"No."

Kong Siya looked at her and didn't ask any further questions. "Okay, if you have any worries, you can always find me and we can talk."

"I know."

Kong Siya was worried about Niu Niu being alone upstairs, so she urged her to go upstairs.

Returning to the bedroom upstairs, Ji Ling first saw the coat on the sofa. It was a beige windbreaker, the classic style that became popular in later generations.

Niu Niu was already sleeping in bed, leaning against the edge of the bed, with a pillow blocking the way to prevent the child from falling.

Ji Ling went to wash up and changed into clean home clothes before returning to sit beside the bed, staring at her daughter in a daze.

What she was thinking about was still what Kang Xiaohua had said that evening.

She was very angry at first, but now that she has calmed down and thought about it, she feels that she was indeed impulsive at the time.

Given the personalities of Zhu Yaowu and the others, if they knew Kang Xiaohua's thoughts, not only would Kang Xiaohua's legs be broken, but he would probably be crippled.

Thinking of this, Kang Xiaohua told it in front of her, and only told it to her, for one reason.

She is easy to bully.

She didn't have the courage to tell the Zhu family, so they bullied her as their daughter-in-law from outside.

It's a drop in value.

Ji Ling sneered. After thinking it through, she felt even more uncomfortable.

But Kang Xiaohua seized on this point. If she made a fuss, the news that Kang Shichang "admired" his mother-in-law would spread, which might be exactly what Kang Xiaohua wanted.

Ji Ling pursed her lips. It was really frustrating to know that the other party had done something wrong but not be able to do anything about it.

Perhaps this has been Kang Xiaohua’s mentality all along.

Ji Ling disagreed with Kang Xiaohua. It was shameless for her to blame others instead of looking for the reasons in her own family when her parents had relationship problems.

Thinking about how her grandmother was still so kind to Kang Xiaohua and how she loved him like a junior in her own family, Ji Ling couldn't help but want to call Kang Xiaohua an ungrateful person.

Lying in bed at night, Ji Ling suffered from insomnia for the first time.

She couldn't think of a better way. Beating him was useless and would only make Kang Xiaohua think that she was angry and humiliated.

We have to find a good way, a way that will make Kang Xiaohua afraid every time he thinks about it for the rest of his life.

With something on her mind, Ji Ling got up late. When she opened her eyes, she saw her daughter's innocent and clean eyes, looking at her ignorantly.

Ji Ling leaned over and kissed her daughter on the face, "Niuniu, you didn't bother mommy when you woke up? You're so good."

Niu Niu responded with "oh oh" and "ah ah", as if she was talking to Ji Ling.

Ji Ling happily held her daughter in her arms, fed her and burped her, then changed her clothes before carrying her downstairs.

The Zhu family got up early and were all busy with their own things in the living room. Except for Kong Siya, who was busy getting me ready with her aunt, the others were reading newspapers.

As soon as Ji Ling came down with her daughter in her arms, several people put down their newspapers and smiled.

"Niuniu is awake?"

"I didn't hear her cry today."

"When has our Niu Niu ever cried?" Father Zhu would not let anyone say anything bad about his great-granddaughter.

Ji Ling had already gone downstairs and handed Niu Niu to her mother-in-law who came out of the kitchen.

Ji Ling turned around and handed it to her father-in-law again.

Zhu Chuang hugged his granddaughter and said, "Wow, you look so energetic today."

"When I woke up, I found that she had already woken up. She didn't cry or make any noise. She was very well behaved."

Old Madam Zhu came over and teased her, "Our Niuniu is so well-behaved. During the day, your grandfather and I would hold her in our arms and walk around the yard. When people in the yard saw her, they all said they had never seen such a clean and beautiful child."

"How can the children of our Zhu family be bad?" Zhu's father said this with great confidence.

Zhu Heping came out of the house and said, "Being woken up by praises every morning is happiness."

"It's Niuniu's fault, not yours." Father Zhu snorted.

"I am also a child of the Zhu family."

Zhu's father glared at him, but Zhu Heping was not afraid and smiled, "Grandpa, you can't be partial. When you have a new person, forget the old one."

"What are you talking about? Go wash your face."

Finally, after being scolded by Zhu Chuang, Zhu Heping went to wash his face.

Today is the weekend and Ji Ling doesn’t have to go to school. After breakfast, she went to the store.

After arriving at the store, Ji Ling went straight to the back to make a phone call, first to Zhu Weidong. The call was answered, but the person said that Zhu Weidong had left. Ji Ling thanked him and hung up.

Wang Sanmei came in from outside. "You look worried. What happened?"

Ji Ling touched her face and asked, "Did you see that?"

"Anyway, you were frowning when you came in." Wang Sanmei sat down beside her. "This weekend, Wang Ermei asked me to go to Xu's house again. I didn't go, and Xu Ming even ran to the bottom of our dormitory and said that I was mean, selfish, and had no human touch."

Ji Ling sneered, "Don't bother with him. He will stop doing it on his own after he has tried everything he can to no avail."

"Well, Lin Hai came to me later and gave me the same advice." Wang Sanmei said with admiration, "Lin Hai seems to be very steady and smart. He didn't ask me why I went so far away from Wang Ermei, he just told me not to bother with Xu Ming."

"Lin Hai is not a bad person. If you need help at school, you can ask him for help. He won't refuse."

"What could possibly happen to me? I walked out of the dormitory with my roommates after school every day, never alone. Even when Ermei came to see me, I would open the door and stand at the door to talk to her." Wang Sanmei couldn't help laughing when she said this, "You didn't see that her face was distorted with anger, but she couldn't do anything to me."

"She doesn't know her mother-in-law's plan, does she?"

"You can't tell from her expression, because she said she didn't want to bother with me, but her mother-in-law asked her to invite me home, otherwise she wouldn't come to see me." Wang Sanmei pouted, "And guess what? Friday night after school, when I was packing up to go to the store, I met Xu Ming's cousin at the school gate."

"Zhu Yaowu's guess was correct. That person is a Pozi."

"He even came over to say hello to me and didn't try to hide the fact that he was crippled."

Ji Ling became curious, "Isn't he here to see you?"

"Well, he asked me out for dinner on the weekend, but I declined. I said I was working and going to school at the same time, and then I left."

Ji Ling, "It seems that he likes you very much."

"I don't look down on disabled people. I have worked hard until today. I will never marry a man with a lame leg who is related to Wang Ermei. Even if he is an old maid and can't get married, I can't marry him."

"You are right to think so. This has nothing to do with whether you look up to him or not. Who would find someone with problems for themselves? If you two have known each other since childhood and have feelings for each other, this is understandable. If you don't usually interact and the Xu family has calculated intentions, such a person cannot be considered. Besides, you are a good girl. After graduating from college and getting a job, you will naturally find someone with similar conditions and like-minded people to marry. Xu Ming's cousin runs a repair shop, right? Do you have anything in common with him?"

Wang Sanmei heard this theory for the first time. "You are right. If two people cannot agree with each other and cannot think of living together, then their life will naturally not be good."