"Then big brother, you better treat her well and don't let her get hurt." Ji Ling said seriously.

"Don't worry. After the New Year, the family will hold a wedding. If you can't come back, you don't have to come back. After the wedding, Sanmei will go back to the capital to go to school."

"That's a good thing." Ji Ling was also very happy that her elder brother was so clear-headed and gave Sanmei relative freedom. "Brother, please tell Sanmei for me and wish you happiness. When you set a date, let me know and I'll try to get back."

One is her biological brother and the other is her good friend, so Ji Ling still wants to participate.

Ji Jianhua smiled and said, "Okay, I'll tell her tomorrow."

After hanging up the phone, Ji Ling remembered that she had forgotten to ask about the Wang family's attitude.

Then I thought I'd talk to you in detail over the phone tomorrow.

It was getting late, and Ji Ling thought that Zhu Weidong had gone to bed, so she resisted the urge to call.

Her daughter is now more than five months old and is awake more often. Ji Ling played with her daughter for a while and finally fed her milk powder before coaxing her to sleep.

The next morning, the first thing she did when she got up was to call Zhu Weidong.

Zhu Weidong was in the office. After hearing Ji Ling's concerns, he said, "Brother is steady and won't do something stupid. Maybe there is something else between him and Sanmei, but it's not convenient to tell you."

"If your feelings for Sanmei are real, then I'll be relieved." Ji Ling's fingers were wrapped around the phone line. "Are you still so busy over there?"

"Well, some things happen every day, but they are all minor ones, but they still require people." Zhu Weidong was silent for a long time when he talked about this. "Xiaoling, have you thought about which unit you will choose in the future?"

"Is this a choice? Doesn't it depend on allocation from above?" Ji Ling asked.

"It's like this for others, but in our family, you can choose what you like. Just tell grandpa where you want to go, and he will arrange it."

Ji Ling let out an "oh".

Zhu Weidong didn't wait for anything else to say. He opened his mouth and asked, "What do you think of the Railway Administration?"

Ji Ling suppressed her laughter and pretended to be angry and said calmly, "It's not bad. It's quite busy there. I heard that others envy those who are assigned there, but it's also the hardest job."

"It's not that hard actually. It will be fine once you get used to the job. Besides, it will only be for a while, and you can take annual leave at the same time."

Facing the temptation from Zhu Weidong, Ji Ling was not fooled, "I haven't seen you take a New Year's holiday yet."

"There have been a lot of major national projects in the past two years, and they were all rushed together, so your work here is different from mine, and you won't be as busy as I am."

"Oh, then I understand." Ji Ling knew what he was talking about, but the man was a little bit repressed and didn't say it directly, so Ji Ling kept pretending to be stupid.

"Xiaoling, if you come to work at the Railway Administration, we can be assigned together and won't be separated."

When Zhu Weidong said this, Ji Ling felt relieved for him.

Ji Ling smiled and asked, "Oh, so that's how it is. Then you could have just said it directly instead of going in such a big circle."

Zhu Weidong: Even if she didn't see him, Ji Ling could imagine how red Zhu Weidong's face was at that moment.

He has a cold temper, doesn't talk much, and is a very upright person. It was really difficult for him to suddenly make such a request, even out of selfish motives, and say it out loud.

"Xiaoling, I don't want to interfere with your freedom, but I want to see you every day."

"Well, I'm a fool." Zhu Weidong laughed softly, "Then I'll wait for you."

"It will take several more years." When Ji Ling thought about the fact that she still had three years to go, she felt that it was too long.

"You can come over during the winter and summer vacations, and bring Niuniu with you. Niuniu is old enough now."

"I'm afraid I'll be sent back home once I get there."

"No, never again."

Hearing the panic in Zhu Weidong's voice, Cheng Hong smiled, "Okay, I won't tease you anymore. I will bring Niuniu to see you as soon as it is convenient."

Three years feels like a long time ago, but time is also the fastest thing.

A few years ago, Ji Ling received a call from Ji Jianhua, and the wedding date was set for the 16th day of the first lunar month. Ji Ling discussed it with her mother-in-law and decided to rush home before the 14th day of the first lunar month so that she could spend the 15th with her family.

Ji Ling didn't care about this, but her husband's family didn't agree with her being on the road on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Old Mrs. Zhu also discussed this matter with Ji Ling in private. "You and your mother are not close, but they are your family after all. If they know they are wrong and want to ease the relationship, then you should not keep resisting. It is not that simple to sever the relationship between relatives. There is no blood feud, right?"

Ji Ling opened her mouth, thinking that she was not the original owner. She had paid back for what the original owner's family had done to her.

But faced with her grandmother's persuasion, Ji Ling didn't know how to express her thoughts.

"There are no parents without selfish motives. Just like your mother-in-law has five sons, but does she really love them all equally? In our family, Weidong is favored the most because he has prosopagnosia. Usually, my family pays extra attention to him. It seems that they are not partial to him, but they tolerate everything about him. People have five fingers, and the lengths of the five fingers are different, so the partiality of parents is the most confusing thing."

After Mrs. Zhu left, Ji Ling was still thinking about what she said. She was also thinking that now the Ji family was her biological parents. When faced with her biological mother selling her college admission letter, would she choose to forgive? She would not forgive, but she would not hate her for the rest of her life.

She and Xu Fang were not close, and Xu Fang felt that she was not wrong because she was standing from the perspective of a mother, but what about her? She was standing from the perspective of an outsider.

Not a daughter.

After this conversation, Ji Ling couldn't sleep that night.

Looking at her daughter's tender face, she was wondering if Xu Fang, as a mother, had ever been kind to her daughter when she was not partial.

In Taipei City, the Ji family's factory opened. Luo Li went to the factory but found that no one from the Ji family had come, only the management staff were there.

What shocked her even more was that she heard that the Ji family was preparing for the wedding, so they would not come over in the next few days.

Luo Li didn't know how she got home. She sat on the bed in a daze. It was only after her mother called her several times that she came to her senses.

"Your hands are so cold. How long have you been standing outside?" Luo's mother warmed her daughter's hands. "Your face is so pale too. Are you feeling unwell?"

"Mom, Ji Jianhua is getting married." The bride is not her.

"Getting married? Then why didn't you come to our house?" Luo's mother was halfway through her words when she suddenly got stuck, as if someone had grabbed her neck for an instant.

There was panic in the eyes of both mother and daughter.