She suddenly opened her eyes. It was already daybreak. The bed was empty. There was only her, not Zhu Weidong or her daughter.
No daughter.
Ji Ling sat up suddenly and almost opened the door at the same time as the person outside also pushed the door open.
Zhu Weidong was wearing plaid pajamas, holding his daughter who was chewing biscuits in his arms. The two of them, big and small, were looking at her together.
Ji Ling: It was a heartwarming scene, but her reaction was totally out of place.
"Seeing that you were sleeping so soundly, I took Niu Niu downstairs. Grandma said she was afraid that you wouldn't see Niu Niu when you woke up, so she asked me to bring her up again," Zhu Weidong explained.
Ji Ling took her daughter over, but she dodged and buried her head in Zhu Weidong's arms. Ji Ling was slightly stunned.
At this time, Niu Niu stuck her head out again and stretched out her hands for Ji Ling to hug her. When Ji Ling wanted to hug her, she snuggled back into Zhu Weidong's arms.
Ji Ling: Zhu Weidong laughed, "Niuniu has learned how to play hide-and-seek."
Ji Ling was also amused by her daughter, and she also wanted to tease her daughter. She pretended to hug her, and her daughter went to Zhu Weidong's arms. Ji Ling did not give in and put her hands on her daughter. Her daughter became anxious and straightened her body to climb onto Zhu Weidong's shoulders.
Seeing her daughter kicking her calves hard and her buttocks wiggling, which was so cute, Ji Ling smiled and stopped teasing her.
But she glared at Zhu Weidong. Why was her daughter sticking to him in just one morning?
How could Zhu Weidong dare to say that he had lifted his daughter up and taken her to eat delicious food this morning? This was all the result of coaxing.
After her daughter was found, she didn't stick to her for the first time. Ji Ling felt a little disappointed, but this result also meant that her daughter was slowly forgetting the hurt she had caused her, and she was very happy to see this result.
"I'll go wash up and go downstairs to help with cooking. You take care of our daughter first." Ji Ling handed her daughter directly to Zhu Weidong.
When Niu Niu saw her mother leaving, she pouted and was about to cry. Zhu Weidong immediately lifted her up high again and took his daughter downstairs.
There were many people at home, and each of them held Niu Niu for a while. They all held Niu Niu in their arms, and soon Niu Niu forgot to look for her mother.
When the family was about to have breakfast, someone came to visit.
Zhu Weiming went to open the door, and when he saw her coming, his face darkened, but Chi's mother rushed over first.
Zhu Weiming dodged instinctively, and Chi's mother knelt on the ground, blocking the door and stopping Zhu Weiming from closing it.
"What's going on?" Father Zhu came out of the study. Before he entered the kitchen, he heard some noise at the door and looked over. He saw one person kneeling and another following behind.
He paused slightly and walked over.
Another voice came from the door, "You are Zhu Weidong's father, right? Please forgive Fang Ping just once. That child has a miserable life. After her daughter passed away, she became mentally unstable. She is crazy. Seeing others living happily, she did such an impulsive thing. Zhu Weidong was her classmate and knows all this. Just let her go."
While Chi's mother was speaking, she kept kowtowing.
The woman following behind her was Chi Fangping's aunt Yu Guangxia, her eyes sparkling.
"We didn't want this to happen. Fang Ping is a really pitiful child. She already knows she was wrong. Your child is fine too. I beg you to show some mercy and let her go."
"From what you said, just because she is pitiful she can hurt others and do illegal things?" Father Zhu was neither angry nor annoyed, he looked at the two of them calmly.
But people who are familiar with him know that he is a smiling tiger. He never loses his temper and smiles at everyone, but his methods are the most cruel.
When Zhu Weiming saw his father coming to deal with the problem, he turned around and went to eat.
He was carefree, and when his grandfather asked him what was happening outside in the restaurant, he calmly told him what happened while eating with chopsticks.
Everyone: Zhu Weiming looked up and asked everyone with a confused look on his face, "What's wrong?"
Kong Siya stood up and said, "You guys eat first, I'll go out and take a look."
You know your own man well. If you really leave him to deal with it, it will really spread that the Zhu family does things without leaving any way out for others, and even the family members will be retaliated.
Zhu Weidong also stood up and said, "I'll go over and take a look too."
Grandpa Zhu was holding Niuniu in his arms, feeding her egg cake carefully. He said without even looking up, "Go ahead. If you're still soft-hearted, don't say you're my grandson."
Zhu Weidong went out with a smile.
Old Mrs. Zhu peeled the eggs and put them in Ji Ling's bowl. "Let's eat ours and let them deal with it."
After struggling, Ji Ling finally put down her chopsticks and said, "Grandma, I want to go out and take a look too."
How could their family have the face to come and make trouble when Chi Fangping did such a thing? My father-in-law is a cultured man, and Zhu Weidong is also a tongue-tied person, so I don't think he can say anything tough.
"Go ahead." Old Madam Zhu agreed. When the others stood up and walked out, she said, "It's not worth getting angry with someone like that. Don't take anything he says to heart."
Ji Ling walked in a hurry. After she answered, the person had already left.
Niu Niu saw her mother go out and waved towards the door. When she saw that her mother didn't come back, she looked up at her great-grandfather and kept saying "ahhhh", pointing at the door with her little hand and trying to move towards the door with her little body.
Everyone was amused by her little action.
Old Mrs. Zhu broke off a piece of egg yolk and stuffed it into Niuniu's mouth. "Eat first. After you're full, grandma will take you to watch the fun."
Niu Niu smacked her lips and did not forget to smile at her great-grandmother.
Mrs. Zhu's heart melted into a puddle of water because of the cuteness, "Niuniu is so good."
At the door, when Ji Ling came over, Kong Siya was chasing people away, "You guys go back, Chi Fangping is an adult, after she did these things, she knew what kind of consequences she would face, killing someone means paying for one's life, this is a matter of course, it's useless for you to beg us now."
"Weidong, you used to feel sorry for Fang Ping and knew she was pitiful, so why don't you give her a chance to start a new life? Xiaoru is gone, and Fang Ping is in jail again. As an old woman, I have no desire to stay, so I will die with her."
"If you want to die, die outside. Don't make a fuss here. I think you're just reluctant to die." Ji Ling strode to the door and looked at Chi's mother coldly. "Chi Fangping did these things. How dare you say you didn't know? You don't have to pretend to be pitiful here. Your daughter is still being interrogated inside. Think about how to exonerate yourself now."
"Also, don't even mention kneeling here. Even if you kneel at the gate of the compound for everyone to see, our family is not afraid of being criticized. It's you who are embarrassed, and it has nothing to do with us."
Ji Ling looked up and saw Kang Xiaohua not far away. She sneered, "What? Want to complain?"
Kang Xiaohua pursed her lips and walked over. "Chi Fangping was wrong, but that doesn't mean her family is wrong. Don't go too far."