After two days of heavy rain, the sky finally cleared up.

Ji Ling did not go home for the past two days and stayed in school. On Friday, which was a holiday, the four roommates all went back home to live.

When Ji Ling returned to the gate of the compound, she was stopped by a short woman with a round face.

"Hello, are you Ji Ling?" The woman's voice was soft, and there were two dimples at the corners of her mouth when she spoke.

Ji Ling nodded, "What's wrong?"

She didn't know the other person, but the other person knew her. She looked around and didn't see anyone she knew.

"Hello, my name is Shan Wenting, and I'm Xu Qiuping's girlfriend." Shan Wenting stretched out her hand.

Ji Ling didn't raise her hand, "Are you okay?"

Shan Wenting was not annoyed by her impoliteness. She smiled and took back her hand. "Can I call you Xiaoling? Can you give me a few minutes?"

"There's nothing much for us to talk about. If it's about your in-laws, I think you should go to my grandma and her family." Ji Ling refused directly, "I have something else to do, please go ahead."

Shan Wenting was stunned for a moment, and quickly stopped Ji Ling on her way. "Xiaoling, I really have something to tell you. I'm pregnant, and my belly is already big. I can't wait any longer. Please help us. I know your cousin is not a good person, but for the sake of the child, please help me."

Ji Ling's face turned cold. "I respect you and I've made my words very clear. This is the main entrance with many people coming and going. If you're not afraid of losing face, you can stop me."

Shan Wenting was so scared that her face turned pale, and she instinctively stepped aside, "Xiaoling, I know this is embarrassing for you, and we shouldn't do this, but we have already invited the guests, and the leader only agreed when he heard that the Zhu family would come. If there is no Zhu family, what will happen to your cousin in the company in the future? This is our responsibility. Even if he is embarrassed and loses his job, it is his business, but the child is still young, and he shouldn't bear the consequences for the mistakes made by his parents. You are also a mother, so please pity this silent child."

Ji Ling glanced at Kang Xiaohua who was dawdling on the side and knew that he was watching the fun.

Thinking of Kang Xiaohua's dirty thoughts, Ji Ling looked over and said, "Are you here to watch the fun? Don't stand so far away, just come and watch."

Kang Xiaohua's face froze, and he said coldly, "You think too much."

After saying this, he strode into the yard and quickly walked away.

Shan Wenting knew that she had caused trouble for Ji Ling. "Xiaoling, I'm sorry. I didn't want to make things difficult for you. Your cousin didn't let me come over, so I came here secretly. I didn't come here for your cousin, but for the child. If I had known that your cousin was such a person, I wouldn't have been with him until today."

Shan Wenting was holding back her tears, her eyes were red, her face was full of anticipation, yet also a hint of despair.

Ji Ling was unmoved. "Whether Xu Qiuping loses his job or not has nothing to do with the Zhu family. He was assigned to the job, not because of the Zhu family's connections. Besides, the matter of in-laws should be handled by the parents of the man and woman. The Zhu family is my husband's family, and it has nothing to do with Xu Qiuping."

Seeing Shan Wenting's broken expression, Ji Ling strode into the yard and left without looking back.

Shan Wenting was speechless. She couldn't explain why Xu Qiuping was assigned the job because of the Zhu family's name. Now the leaders above had wanted to contact the Zhu family several times, but Xu Qiuping had always given them perfunctory responses. The leaders had become suspicious and felt they had been cheated.

They had no other choice, so they thought of taking advantage of the opportunity of meeting the in-laws to quietly invite the Zhu family over. When the leaders saw the Zhu family present in such an occasion, they naturally would not have any doubts.

Who could have thought that the Xu family was so unstable and the Zhu family went back on their word after making their promise?

After knowing the whole story, Shan Wenting was also very angry. The Xu family handled this matter wrongly. They should have called the old man and the old lady of the Xu family over. With the two old people around, they could have invited the old man of the Zhu family too. The old man of the Zhu family would not have regretted it.

Now, everything is lost.

Ji Ling did not tell Zhu Weidong about being stopped at the gate of the compound when she returned home, but the news soon reached Zhu Weidong's ears.

Zhu Weidong called in the evening and asked about this.

"Pang Cong's brother just happened to ask me for help, so he called me and told me about it. I heard that you scolded Kang Xiaohua?"

"How can that be considered scolding? He likes to watch the fun. I asked him to come closer."

Zhu Weidong smiled, "Well, to deal with someone like Kang Xiaohua, you really have to be direct. You are a woman, and he cares about his reputation, so it makes sense for him to say that you scolded him behind his back."

"He looks like a decent person, but he's full of bad intentions." Ever since she heard from Kang Xiaohua that Kang's father liked his mother-in-law, Ji Ling has been annoyed by Kang Xiaohua's rule.

Others may be just bad, but Kang Xiaohua gives people a cold feeling, like a poisonous snake in the dark, wanting to bite you at any time.

Such people are bad to the core.

Extreme and sinister.

Zhu Weidong asked, "Summer vacation is coming soon, right? When will you come over?"

"I'll go there during the summer vacation." Ji Ling said, "I'm considering whether to bring Niuniu with me."

The journey was too painful and they had to reverse. Ji Ling was afraid that her daughter would get sick, but they had been separated for so long that she couldn't bear to leave her daughter.

"Don't take Niuniu with you. If she really gets sick, it won't be easy to treat her here." Zhu Weidong had already thought about it. "Just leave her at home. You stay here for a month, and then go back for a month."

"Okay, then it's up to you."

Before hanging up the phone, Zhu Weidong asked, "Is it true that grandma doesn't need to go to the Xu family? After all, your grandpa and his family are still here."

Zhu Weidong knew how close his wife was to the two elderly people.

Ji Ling said, "If I send someone to go, it would be a slap in the face of my grandfather and his family. As children, they despise their parents. Fortunately, he is a leader and can do such a thing."

Zhu Weidong smiled, "Okay, I'll listen to you then."

Ji Ling had already decided not to let her in-laws interfere in Xu Qiuping's marriage. After Ji Ling's idea failed, Shan Wenting returned home and cried.

The single mother said angrily, "I told you not to go, but you refused to listen. This is the Xu family's business, so why should you step in if they don't?"

Shan Wenting didn't dare to say that she was pregnant. She murmured, "I thought that I was her future cousin-in-law, so she would definitely give me some face."

"Hmph, if she really cared about family ties, she wouldn't have made things like this." Shan's mother had never met Ji Ling and didn't have a good impression of her.

The bedroom door was opened, and Shan Chen walked out with a cigarette in his mouth, "Sister, you are easy to bully. Xu Qiuping is counting on you for everything. Go talk to him now, and don't cry."

"Stop messing around." The single mother scolded her son.

Shan Chen smiled and said, "Don't worry, he's my brother-in-law, I'll talk to him."

The single mother thought that her daughter always listened to Xu Qiuping, so she asked her son to come forward. "Okay, go talk to Xu Qiuping. If your dad gets home and gets angry, you should solve the problem as soon as possible."

(End of this chapter)