Ji Ling slept for a long time because it was the weekend, and it was almost noon when she woke up.

She didn't rush to get up, but was still lying in bed thinking about the second child. In fact, she knew that she had already made the decision in her heart.

She still wanted the baby.

The bedroom door opened and Zhu Weidong walked in.

"woke up?"

"Um."

"Are you hungry? It's almost noon. Auntie is cooking. She made your favorite stewed eggplant. What else do you want to eat?" Zhu Weidong sat down on the bed and gently tucked the strands of hair behind his wife's ears. "I didn't notice it before, but your hair has grown so long."

Ji Ling felt embarrassed for a face-blind person who could say such words.

She turned sideways and said, "I have decided to give birth to the child, but there are many things to do with a second child. Will it affect you?"

"No." Zhu Weidong asked, "Don't decide to give birth to the baby just because you care about what your family thinks. Your feelings are the most important. From the time you got pregnant to the time Niu Niu was born, I wasn't around you much. Now that we have a second child, I don't want you to suffer too much."

"It was a bit hard, but the baby is here, in my belly, and is a member of our family." Ji Ling put her hand on her belly, "This is a life."

"Xiaoling, I'm sorry. Maybe I was wrong about Song Yiyi's matter." Zhu Weidong held his wife's hand and played with it. "I talked to Yaowu and the others last night, and I found that I was too simple-minded in some situations."

"Like what?"

"For example, Song Yiyi said she liked Wu. That was when she was a child. I always thought it was that kind of love. Until today, it was even my perception that allowed Song Yiyi to take advantage of it." Zhu Weidong raised his head, his brows slightly furrowed, "But she is an actress, and I have a family. I can't understand why she would do this."

"I think so too. Song Yiyi is a smart person." Seeing him admit his mistake, Ji Ling stopped being so arrogant. "The issue of work style is a very serious issue now. Song Yiyi is a smart person. She won't ruin herself."

"Does she have other purposes?" Zhu Weidong asked.

Ji Ling nodded, "It's just that I don't know her well, and I don't know why she does this. Her family is not as close to her as before, and I think she can feel it. After her mother's surgery, she moved out, which shows that she knows when to advance and when to retreat. But I can't figure out why she does this, knowing that this will make her family reject her."

"Let's go hiking tomorrow and see what happens. Yaowu and the others should go too." Zhu Weidong laughed softly, "They are filled with righteous indignation now. They are very unhappy that Song Yiyi played tricks on us brothers."

Ji Ling sat up and said, "That's your business. It has nothing to do with me."

She tilted her head and looked at Zhu Weidong, "Aren't you usually very smart? Why are you so stupid now?"

Seeing Zhu Weidong's face become stiff in an instant, Ji Ling felt relieved, "Zhu Weidong, this is the last time. If you provoke me again, I think we can consider whether to maintain this marriage."

"Okay." Zhu Weidong smiled.

What his wife said was that she had forgiven him.

The two went downstairs, Ji Ling went up to her mother-in-law, kissed her daughter, and then went to the kitchen.

Kong Siya called her son, "Are we going to climb the mountain tomorrow? Who's going?"

After hearing her son say that all the other sons in the family were going, she thought for a moment and said, "I remember when Yiyi was little, she played well with the other kids in the compound. Let Yaowu go and ask them. If anyone wants to go tomorrow, we can all go together. It will be more lively."

"Don't worry, my second brother called and asked about everything this morning." Zhu Weiyue came down from upstairs.

"Who is going?" Kong Siya looked at her eldest son before asking.

"Almost everyone at home is going, even Kang Xiaohua is going. Are you surprised?" Zhu Weiyue said excitedly, "Last time my eldest brother took all his flowers. I didn't expect him to go."

"Do you want Wu to call him?" Kong Siya asked.

"No, he found out from Pang Cong himself, and then he said he wanted to go." Zhu Weiyue sat down and stretched out his hand, "Mom, give me a hug."

Kong Siya smiled and handed her granddaughter over. "Don't lift her up too high. Niuniu is still young."

Zhu Weidong frowned, "You guys always hold it high?"

Zhu Weiyue raised his eyelids, "Brother, you are not at home, and you don't allow us to get close to Niuniu?"

Zhu Weidong pursed his lips.

Kong Siya smiled, "If you want your daughter to be close to you, then you should come back more often. Now your daughter always stares at you as if she were a stranger."

This is also something the whole family has discovered. Whenever a stranger holds her in his arms, Niu Niu will stare at the other person with curious eyes.

If it was a family member, she would either keep her eyes closed or look around curiously.

Although she is not shy, this small gesture warmed the hearts of the Zhu family. This child can tell who is far away and who is near. She is so smart.

Zhu Weidong opened his mouth and said, "She keeps staring at me. Doesn't she like me?"

Zhu Weiyue smiled without giving any face.

Kong Siya talked about her granddaughter's clever little actions, "Don't look at our Niuniu, she is only nine months old, but she is very smart."

Zhu Weidong asked, "Who is she closest to?"

"I'm close to all my family members." Zhu Weiyue replied.

"Is there no one closest to you?"

"Brother, what do you want to ask?" Zhu Weiyue didn't understand.

"Can't she tell the difference?" Zhu Weidong concluded.

And his words made the whole room quiet.

They only knew that Niu Niu was not shy and had a good temper, but they had never thought about the possibility of face blindness. According to what Zhu Weidong said, this might really be the reason.

Zhu Weiyue swallowed and said, "Sister-in-law."

Ji Ling came out of the kitchen, took her daughter in her arms and coaxed her. Her daughter buried her face in her arms, as if looking for something.

Ji Ling tapped her nose, then looked up and called everyone to eat, without continuing the previous topic. Zhu Weiyue also jumped up and went back upstairs to call people to eat.

Ever since Niu Niu was born in our family, I have to run upstairs when calling people for dinner, for fear that the noise will be too loud and will scare Niu Niu.

Kong Siya was a cultured person. She couldn't help but glare at her son. He always managed to easily ruin a good atmosphere.

Just because his daughter is close to his family, he concluded that she has face blindness.

The only thing I’m thankful for now is that my mother-in-law is not at home, otherwise I’d get angry again.

Old Mrs. Zhu and her husband went out to meet friends and ate outside at noon. Kong Siya thought it was a good thing, but she couldn't help but think that her eldest son seemed to be like her granddaughter when he was a child.

I got angry immediately.

This incident made the atmosphere in the Zhu family a little weird. Old Mrs. Zhu noticed it when she came back at night, but she couldn't figure out what was wrong.

The next day, Ji Ling and her group went to the gate of the compound at around seven in the morning to meet up with everyone else.

When she saw the people coming over, Ji Ling thought, everyone who could come has come. She finally understood what Zhu Weiyue meant by that.

(End of this chapter)