The cold war between Mr. and Mrs. Zhu was interrupted because Ji Ke ran to the Zhu family.
It was snowing heavily. Ji Ke walked into the house with snow all over his body. His face was pale as if he had been frozen in an ice cellar for several months. When you looked closer, you could see a layer of frost on his face.
Old Mrs. Zhu was frightened and said, "How long have you been freezing outside, kid? Come in and warm up."
Ji Ke seemed to have lost his soul, and was pulled by Old Lady Zhu to sit in the living room.
Seeing the man in a daze, Mrs. Zhu was also worried that something might happen. "Sit down first, I'll call your sister."
The two sisters don't have a good relationship and have had no contact over the years. Today, Ji Ke came to the house without any warning, and in such a state, Grandma Zhu was afraid that something might happen.
After receiving the call at work, Ji Ling said she understood and rushed back immediately. After hanging up the phone, she called her hometown.
Ji Yong answered the phone. Before Ji Ling could talk about Ji Ke, Ji Yong asked directly.
"Did Ji Ke go to your place?"
"Dad, you know?"
"Don't worry about her. It's up to her whether she lives or dies." Ji Yong was not speaking in anger, he was really disappointed. "You know, she talked about studying abroad before, I thought she really wanted to change her environment, but as soon as Chen Jingming came back, she immediately refused to leave and even shouted that she wanted to stay in the capital. With her grades, it is impossible for her to be assigned a job. She doesn't even want a formal job and said she wants to work in the capital."
The feud between the Chen family and the Ji family started with the incident when Ji Ling was admitted to university. The Chen family plotted to take Ji Ling's university place and caused a car accident to force her to move. It was when Ji Ling married into the Zhu family that the Ji family's problem was solved.
Ji Ling was not surprised. "Since she was good at English and was going abroad, I guessed this was the possibility."
"Did you guess it?"
"She liked Chen Jingwen back then. She even went to see Chen Jingwen several times after the incident. She chose foreign languages as her major in college and was only interested in that subject. I had a vague guess."
Later, her family tried to stop her from being with Jiang Yihang, so Ji Ke simply stopped pretending and said she wanted to go abroad.
Now that Chen Jingming is back, naturally something has changed.
"You're raising an ungrateful person." Ji Yongqi was very cruel.
"Dad, then I know what to do." After finding out the reason, Ji Ling was no longer worried.
"Xiaoling, Ji Ke is hopeless. She only lives for herself and has no one in her selfish eyes. You don't have to take care of her for the sake of me and your mother."
"I see."
After hanging up the phone, Ji Ling still asked for leave to go home early. Her grandmother had called her and she had promised to go back. She couldn't break her promise.
Besides, Ji Ke was there, and Ji Ling didn't understand why this happened, so Ji Ke ran to find her.
When we got home, it was already past two in the afternoon. There were not many people in the compound. Niuniu from the Zhu family was making a fuss about wanting to go to bed, so Old Mrs. Zhu took Niuniu back to the house.
When Ji Ling entered the house, only Ji Ke was sitting quietly in the living room.
Hearing the noise, Ji Ke looked up and looked at Ji Ling, her brows furrowed.
Ji Ling took off her coat and hung it up, then put her bag on the shoe cabinet, changed her shoes, walked over to sit down opposite Ji Ke, and leaned back on the sofa.
"Tell me what's going on."
"Chen Jingming is back."
Ji Ling stared at her without saying a word.
"Chen Jingming is married."
Ji Ling raised her eyebrows, "And then?"
"It's all your fault. If it weren't for you, Chen Jingming wouldn't have gone abroad, and we wouldn't have missed each other."
Ji Ling smiled, "Ji Ke, I'm really confused about how you got into college with your brain? Not to mention Chen Jingming going abroad, even if he didn't go abroad, he wouldn't marry you. What do you have? What's so good about you? Your parents run their own business, and in their eyes, you're just an inferior person. If you come from a family like this, do you think they will accept a daughter-in-law with your background?"
"Why not? You can marry into the Zhu family, why can't I?" Ji Ke's eyes turned red.
"So you admit that Zhu Weidong is ill?"
Until now, people have been saying that Zhu Weidong has health problems, otherwise how could he marry a wife from the countryside? The couple spent less time together and eventually divorced, and such rumors have never stopped.
In the final analysis, everyone thinks that Zhu Weidong is sick.
"Get out." Ji Ling didn't tolerate her. "Ji Ke, look carefully at where this is. How you usually act wild is your business. I don't care about you. Now you come to the Zhu family to make trouble. Who do you think you are?"
Ji Ke laughed and said, "Are you angry because of what I said? Ji Ling, you are nothing special. You really think you have landed on a high branch. You just married a problematic man."
As she spoke, she stood up and smiled more arrogantly, "Seeing that you are not doing well, I feel relieved. Chen Jingming will definitely be very happy too."
"Psycho." Ji Ling sat calmly on the sofa, not angered by her words at all.
Ji Ke left with a crazy laugh.
The bedroom door on the first floor just opened, and Mrs. Zhu walked out, "Ji Ke, do you want to go to the hospital?"
The sound was so loud that she couldn't help but listen.
Ji Ling sighed, "She's been spoiled by her family. She wants everything to go her way, and if she can't get it, she wants to destroy it. Don't bother with her."
Sooner or later, she will have to bear the consequences.
Old Mrs. Zhu didn't say much, after all, it was Ji family's business, but she secretly made a note of it for her grandson.
She called Zhu Weidong privately and blamed him for not being at home enough and making Ji Ling suffer from the rumors.
Zhu Weidong was completely confused.
Old Mrs. Zhu said, "You have been at home for so long that outsiders would think you are ill."
"Grandma, you misunderstood what was wrong with my body."
"What do you think?"
Zhu Weidong thought about it, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help twitching, "I know."
If a man marries a woman from a low-income family and is away from home most of the time, I'm afraid there's something wrong with him.
Old Mrs. Zhu pointed at him, "Can you come back for the New Year? Spend more time with your wife, and the rumors will be broken on their own."
"Grandma, this won't work. I have a solution. Don't worry."
Mrs. Zhu was stunned when she heard this, and hung up the phone before she could ask any more questions.
She murmured, "What can the brat do?"
Ji Ling and her family didn't know about this. Old Mrs. Zhu only told the old man about it.
Mr. Zhu narrowed his eyes and said, "I'm afraid this is going to get bad."
"Do you know what Weidong is going to do?"
Mr. Zhu lowered his head and read the newspaper without saying a word.
When Mrs. Zhu saw that he was putting on airs again, she knew that he was still waiting for her to give in because of the Miao family's matter.
She muttered, "Small-minded old man."
Mr. Zhu smiled with the corners of his lips curled up.
The relationship between the old couple eased, but the rumors about Zhu Weidong spread to their family within a few days.