The anger he had just felt when his second brother questioned his ability had long since dissipated, and he pulled the fourth and fifth brothers out of the restaurant in disappointment.

Zhu Weidong stopped what he was doing only after everyone had left. Ji Ling handed him the last clean bowl, and seeing that he was in a daze, she gently nudged him.

"Lost?"

Zhu Weidong came back to his senses and met his wife's smiling eyes. He nodded, "I know they will grow up one day, and I don't have to worry about them anymore. When it comes to this time, I still can't help feeling lost."

Ji Ling, "They have been taking care of you since you were a child, right?"

This guy might have forgotten about his face blindness.

Zhu Weidong's mouth twitched invisibly, "Almost."

"It's a far cry from that. You look like an abandoned child now." Ji Ling joked with him and advised, "Everyone has his own life to live, and shouldn't live for others. Wei Yue did nothing wrong. You should talk to Yao Wu later and don't let there be any rift between the brothers."

Zhu Weidong said, "It's useless for me to persuade them. They have to figure out some things themselves."

Ji Ling: He was using her words to criticize her, but it sounded reasonable. But why did she feel that Zhu Weidong was just angry?

Several people kept Zhu Weiyue's matter a secret and did not tell their elders in the family.

After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Zhu Weiyue returned to the northwest and Ji Ling also went to work.

After the unpleasantness in the kitchen on the 14th, Zhu Yaowu went back home to live. Ji Ling worked in the same unit as him, so the two of them could go together, and Ji Ling didn't have to drive.

On the way, Ji Ling glanced at Zhu Yaowu's face and said, "If you pull it again, your face will droop to the ground. My dear brother, why are you still angry for so long?"

Zhu Yaowu didn't say anything.

Ji Ling smiled and said, "If you and Wei Yue continue to quarrel, I will feel even more uneasy because I will create a rift between you brothers."

"Sister-in-law, this is not because of you." Zhu Yaowu said seriously, "I am annoyed that he disregards family affection for the sake of profit and ambition. From childhood to adulthood, our family was well-off and we never lacked anything. Now that he is older and has profit, he can abandon everything. It's disheartening."

Zhu Yaowu smiled bitterly, "He has the ability to make himself live a good life, I am happy, but..."

Zhu Yaowu couldn't say the following words, his heart was filled with bitterness.

Ji Ling asked him, "If one day you like a girl and I don't like her, will you give up on her just to make me, your sister-in-law, unhappy?"

Zhu Yaowu opened his mouth to speak, but even though his mouth opened, no sound came out.

Ji Ling smiled and said, "See, you are hesitant too. It seems easy when it doesn't happen to you, but it becomes difficult when it really happens to you and you are asked to choose the responsibility."

Zhu Yaowu said slightly annoyed, "Matters of feelings cannot be confused with interests."

Ji Ling smiled. Zhu Yaowu seemed to be quite impulsive, but he was actually smart and remained calm when faced with difficulties.

She just wanted to confuse him, but he didn't ignore it just because he was in a bad mood.

"Have you ever thought that Wei Yue is not doing this for personal gain, but just wants to prove himself?" Ji Ling asked him.

"I have a lot to prove myself, but I can't touch anything that touches my bottom line." Zhu Yaowu also has his own principles.

When they arrived at the office, Ji Ling was unable to persuade him, so she decided to wait a little longer and hope that he would come to his senses by then.

Brothers will never be unhappy with each other because of this matter.

The company went back to work on the fifth day of the first lunar month. Ji Ling took ten days off and used all her annual leave. After returning to the company, there were a lot of things waiting for her to decide and sign.

I was so busy that day that I met Rong Junjie in the cafeteria at noon. I just nodded and said hello and didn't have time to talk to him.

"Director Rong, if you have anything to say, just call me over. Why did you come here in person?"

Rong Junjie could hear the joking in her words, but he had something important to do today and didn't have time to say more. "Zhu Yaowu asked for leave this afternoon. I see he's worried. You should try to persuade him. The higher-ups are coming to review these few days, so it's not good to ask for leave all the time."

Ji Ling was surprised, "How many days off did he take to go to work after the New Year?"

“Almost every day.”

Ji Ling frowned, "I know."

If it wasn't too extreme, Rong Junjie would not have been able to find her.

Rong Junjie glanced at her face and said as he left, "When you are not busy, let's get together."

"Okay, I'll treat you." Even though it was Zhu Yaowu's matter in front of him, he was also very grateful to Rong Junjie.

Rong Junjie didn't say anything polite and said he was waiting for her letter and left.

Next, Ji Ling became a little absent-minded. After get off work, she immediately went out. As a result, when she left the office, she saw Zhu Heping.

"Sister-in-law." Zhu Heping also saw her.

Ji Ling walked over and asked, "Looking for me?"

Zhu Heping smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, grandma and I said we should go out for dinner tonight, let's get in the car."

Ji Ling guessed that it was related to the matter of Zhu Weiyue and Zhu Yaowu, so she got into the car without asking any further questions.

There were no outsiders in the car. After the car was on the road, Zhu Heping talked about how tense the relationship between Zhu Yaowu and Zhu Weiyue had been in recent days.

"After we moved out, we usually get together every two days. Since we found out that Third Brother was dealing in antiques, we haven't gotten together again." Zhu Heping looked ahead, "Sister-in-law, you have to step in and help persuade them. It's just a small matter. Third Brother has his own ideas, so let him go. If he's fine, we'll be happy for him. If he's not, he'll change his mind. Don't you think this makes sense?"

"I tried to persuade your second brother this morning. He wasn't angry because your third brother was into antiques, but because he didn't care about his family for the sake of profit." Ji Ling told him the truth, "It's not that I didn't want to persuade him. A large part of the problem was because of me. I certainly don't want them to be like this."

Zhu Heping said awkwardly, "Sister-in-law, this is not your fault. It's because they are ignorant."

Zhu Heping felt guilty about what he said, as he did think that it was his sister-in-law's fault.

Now that his sister-in-law said it herself, Zhu Heping felt embarrassed again. How could he blame his sister-in-law for this?

The second brother was right. For the sake of profit, from this point of view, he was also angry.

"I'll try my best to persuade them." Ji Ling was also exhausted. "Did you invite both of them out tonight?"

"I made an appointment with the third brother, and the fifth brother made an appointment with the second brother." Zhu Heping said, "I didn't dare to tell them that I made an appointment with both of them."

Ji Ling was stunned for a moment. After hearing what Heping said, it seemed that the two of them had indeed had a fierce fight.

She also had to take it seriously.

Half an hour later, the two stopped at a restaurant. Ji Ling waited for Zhu Heping to park the car, and the two walked in together.

As soon as I walked to the entrance of the restaurant, I saw from a distance that Zhu Weiyue was pointing at Zhu Yaowu angrily and said, "You have to force me, right? If you don't let me live a good life, then no one will live a good life."

(End of this chapter)