His wife was sleeping soundly, lying on her side on the bed with her hair scattered on the pillow. Just looking at her, Zhu Weidong's troubled heart calmed down.

He carried his daughter to the bed, put her down first, then turned sideways and hugged his wife in his arms.

Ji Ling opened her eyes drowsily in her sleep, and saw Zhu Weidong closed his eyes again, so she squeezed into his arms.

She was too sleepy to think much, and with heavy eyelids she fell into a deep sleep again.

Downstairs, Old Mrs. Zhu invited everyone to dinner.

"Don't worry about your eldest brother and the others for now, let's eat our own food." Old Mrs. Zhu was also happy to see her grandson come back. As for why her grandson came back suddenly, she didn't have time to ask.

Song Yiyi was getting anxious, "If my sister-in-law and the others sleep now, how can they sleep at night? Why not wake them up?"

"Your sister-in-law is pregnant now and can sleep normally." Old Mrs. Zhu said with a smile.

"Oh, you're pregnant, that's a good thing, but isn't family planning implemented now? Will having a second child have any impact on my brother?" Song Yiyi looked worried, "I heard that for people who have jobs, this is strictly managed."

"Let's leave this difficult problem for the couple to work out on their own. Let's not worry about it with them." Kong Siya picked up some food for her, "Let's eat first."

Upstairs, Ji Ling finally woke up, not from sleep, but from starvation.

The second pregnancy was very different from the first. I could eat and sleep, and I could fall asleep just by sitting there.

She opened her eyes and found herself in someone else's arms. Her body stiffened for a moment, and she slowly raised her head and saw a familiar chin.

With a click, the bedside lamp was turned on.

The room suddenly lit up.

The handsome figure of the man in front of him became clearer. "When did you come back?"

When Ji Ling just woke up, her voice was still a little hoarse.

"Drink some water first." Zhu Weidong stood up and reached out to take the cup of water on the bedside.

Ji Ling drank half a glass of water, and her throat felt better. "Why didn't you call me?"

Zhu Weidong put the cup back and held her back in his arms, "Niuniu is asleep."

"Have you had your milk?"

"No, do you want to scream now?"

"It's better not to. If she's hungry, she'll wake up by herself. If she doesn't wake up, she'll sleep until dawn." Ji Ling tried to sit up, but was pushed back down. She looked up, "What's wrong?"

One of them was lying on the ground while the other was lying half on his side. He lowered his head so that the tip of his nose was almost touching the tip of her nose.

"Are you happy to see me back?" he asked in a low voice. There were obviously only two of us, but he insisted on staying so close.

Ji Ling pushed him, "Have you eaten at home? Did I sleep too deeply?"

"Are you still angry? I called Song Yiyi over and asked her to explain to you in person." Zhu Weidong lowered his attitude, "It's my fault. I shouldn't have been angry with you."

"Yes, actually I can't understand why you are angry with me. What did I do to offend you?" Ji Ling frowned. Since Zhu Weidong wanted to talk about it, the two of them should talk about it so that she could understand it.

"That man, Zheng Shi's cousin, sent you flowers." Zhu Weidong knew that he couldn't explain it to his wife, so he could only say what was in his heart, "I'm jealous."

Ji Ling opened her mouth slightly, and it took her a while to come back to her senses from her shock, "Rong Junjie is just an ordinary friend. You've only met him once, and you're jealous?"

Zhu Weidong couldn't open his mouth to admit it, and his cold and handsome face slowly turned red under his wife's gaze.

Ji Ling widened her eyes and looked at the slowly red face of the cold and calm man in front of her.

He was actually jealous, just because someone gave her a pot of flowers.

"You took the jade dew, right?" Ji Ling thought of the missing pot of flowers.

"He froze to death on the way to the northwest."

Ji Ling: Looking at this man, she didn't know what to say.

After a long pause, she said, "It's just a potted flower."

"You treat Rong Junjie differently." Zhu Weidong said bluntly.

Ji Ling: "How is it different? I have only met him twice, and he only gave me flowers."

"intuition."

"Ha, then I have a feeling that Song Yiyi has feelings for you, so what do you say?" Ji Ling raised her voice guiltily, and pouted when she noticed the man's gaze.

"Song Yiyi likes Yaowu. She is the same age as Yaowu, but Yaowu doesn't like her very much. After knowing that she came back, I called her and asked her to come as a guest, and she came."

"So her hugging you was also discussed beforehand?"

Zhu Weidong pursed his lips and said nothing.

"So it's not true." The smile on Ji Ling's face slowly faded. "Zhu Weidong, I can understand that you are jealous, but Song Yiyi came to visit our house without asking her to cooperate with you in advance, but she was so close to you. Do you think it's normal? Don't tell me that you grew up together. If Zheng Shi or Qian Xiangqian came over, we would hug each other, and you wouldn't be angry, then I wouldn't care about you and Song Yiyi."

"No." Zhu Weidong.

"Look, if it's you, you can't do it, then why can you?" Ji Ling pushed him away and got out of bed. "You don't realize what's wrong, so it's useless for us to talk about this matter. We're still going around in circles, making each other feel bad."

Picking up her coat and putting it on, Ji Ling turned around and said, "Zhu Weidong, I can pretend that I don't care, but I have been thinking a lot during these days of calm. We are husband and wife. If there is a gap between you and me, then we are no different from strangers. What's the point of living like this? I want to live a good life with you and cherish the relationship between us, even if we don't have any feelings for each other yet."

Looking at the stunned expression on the man's face, Ji Ling felt that she had made her point very clearly, so she turned around and opened the door, "Let's go eat first."

It was already past nine o'clock in the evening. Ji Ling went downstairs and found Song Yiyi still there. When she saw her coming down, she called her sister-in-law.

Ji Ling nodded with a smile, "When did you come here?"

"My brother went to pick me up." Song Yiyi stood up, moved closer to Ji Ling, and took her arm. "Sister-in-law, are you going to the kitchen? I'll go with you."

Song Yiyi had stayed in the Zhu family for quite some time, but Ji Ling was not very familiar with her. When they met at home, they would just say hello.

Song Yiyi was suddenly so enthusiastic, Ji Ling knew it was because Zhu Weidong brought her here.

The two entered the kitchen, and Song Yiyi whispered, "Sister-in-law, I like Zhu Yaowu, and my brother promised to help me. When you have a weekend off, let's go hiking together, otherwise I can't catch Zhu Yaowu."

Ji Ling smiled and said, "Okay."

Song Yiyi said sweetly, "I knew my sister-in-law is the best. Then sister-in-law, I'll go to the hospital first."

"Okay, let Yaowu take you there." Ji Ling took the initiative.

"Sister-in-law is still the best."

Ji Ling followed her out of the kitchen.

Mrs. Zhu smiled and said, "What did you whisper to your sister-in-law in the kitchen?"

"It's a secret." Song Yiyi replied mischievously, and then shouted upstairs, "Zhu Yaowu, send me away."

Her voice was very loud and she didn't lower it. Zhu Yaowu's voice didn't come through. Instead, Niu Niu upstairs was awakened and started crying.

(End of this chapter)