"Mother."

Xu Fang looked up and saw her daughter. She sized her up, then felt relieved and put on a serious face again when she saw that she was fine.

Ji Ke approached her cautiously and said, "Mom, I am worried about my sister, but I don't dare to go over. I am not afraid of my sister scolding me, but I am afraid of seeing the look in my sister's eyes that shows she hates me."

Ji Ke pursed her lips and started crying.

Xu Fang felt sad as well when she heard this.

A heart full of scolding finally turned into a sigh.

"Your sister doesn't hate you. She just yelled at you a few times. Don't take it seriously. That's just her temper."

"Mom, I'm sorry. It's all my fault. I shouldn't have told you about my sister and brother. It's all my fault. If I hadn't told you, our family wouldn't be in such a mess." Ji Ke threw herself into Xu Fang's arms and burst into tears.

"It's okay. I don't blame you. It's their fault. As older brothers and sisters, they are wrong to make our parents worry."

Ji Ke cried and laughed, raised her head, "I know mom is coaxing me, it's all my fault, I'm so old, but I still make mom feel embarrassed."

Xu Fang's words were indeed meant to comfort her daughter, but they were also true. Her daughter did nothing wrong. If they hadn't done it, Ji Ke wouldn't have made up the story.

Now that she heard her daughter consider other people's feelings, Xu Fang felt a little comforted.

People are like this. After experiencing something, they grow a lot.

After Xu Fang coaxed the girl into submission, Ji Ke dared to ask about what happened in the hospital. When she heard that her mother did not enter the ward, she opened her mouth in surprise.

"Mom, my sister must be very sad."

Xu Fang was alone at home just now and thought about all this. She knew that what she did was wrong, but she couldn't bring herself to admit it, and she didn't want to admit that she was wrong.

Hearing her little daughter's words, she instinctively said, "She must be happy that she can't see me, how can she be sad?"

Ji Ke pouted, "Mom, let's go see my sister together tomorrow."

Xu Fang looked at her daughter's expectant eyes, and her originally troubled heart finally settled at this moment. She had just nodded when she heard the door open.

Then, Xu's father and his family of three walked in.

When Ji Ke saw the people coming back, he immediately stood up and called out, "Grandpa, grandma, uncle."

After calling out to them, he realized that the three people looked unwell. They stood there for a while, at a loss as to what to do, and asked Xu Fang.

Xu Fang knew that her parents went to the hospital, and when she saw Xu Wangting following behind them, she didn't think much about it, "Brother, is this the place to do some work?"

Xu Wangting looked at her and shook his head.

Father Xu sat on the sofa where he usually sat and looked at Xu Fang, "Has Ji Yong been here?"

Xu Fang shook her head, "Isn't he in the hospital?"

"He took Xiaoling out of the hospital." Mother Xu looked at her daughter worriedly. She could feel her husband's anger along the way and hoped that her daughter would be more sensible and stop talking nonsense. "After we arrived at the hospital, we heard that she had been discharged. She just needs to go to the hospital every day to get medicine. Since she didn't come to the compound, maybe she stayed in a hotel."

After pointing her daughter, Xu's mother said to her husband beside her, "Ji Yong has always been careful in his work. If he can't come in person, he will call us. Let's wait a little longer."

Father Xu could see what his wife was thinking, and snorted coldly, "It's already this time, and you still want to smooth things over?"

In all their years of marriage, this was the first time that Xu's mother was scolded by her husband in front of their juniors. She didn't react for a moment. Thinking of the embarrassing incident in the hospital today, she felt her face burning and she couldn't sit still. She could understand her husband's anger at this moment.

The temperature at home dropped from thirty degrees above zero to thirty degrees below zero.

Xu Fang's face turned pale. He looked at his mother and elder brother who dared not say a word, and his daughter who shrank in fear, and then he stepped forward.

"Dad, have Ji Yong and the others been discharged from the hospital?" Xu Fang asked, feeling more aggrieved.

Does Ji Yong really care about her as a wife? He does things without consulting her, and now her father thinks that she is an incompetent mother and wife.

"Do you feel wronged?" Father Xu stared at his daughter.

Xu Fang pursed her lips.

"I now understand why outsiders can see that you are biased and treat Xiaoling badly." Father Xu looked at his daughter with sharp eyes, "What I can't understand now is that your mother and I have never let go of our education, so why did you grow up in a wrong way?"

Having said that, he looked at Xu Wangting standing beside him.

Xu Wangting shrank his neck in fear and stood there obediently, "Dad, I was wrong."

"No, you are not wrong. I was wrong. I knew it was wrong, but not only did I not stop you, I even made the same mistake with you." Father Xu waved his hands weakly, looking old. He closed his eyes and said, "Xiao Ke, learn from what happened at home yesterday."

Before going to the hospital, he thought that no matter what the mother and daughter had quarreled about, both sides were at fault. No matter how wronged they were, they should not have run out at night. It was his own fault that almost caused a disaster.

But reality really taught him a lesson. It was not a slap in the face, but it hurt more than a real slap in the face.

Ji Ke bit her lip and looked at Xu Fang, her eyes full of pleading.

Xu Fang's face had long lost all color. "Dad, it's my fault. Jianhua sold his job without permission. He wanted to start his own soap factory. I knew it was Xiaoling who came up with the soap recipe, so I beat Xiaoling in a rage."

"Soap recipe? Where did Xiaoling get it?" It was profitable, Xu Wangting asked.

Feeling a chill coming from the front, he immediately lowered his head.

Father Xu asked, "Jianhua was also beaten?"

Xu Fang gritted her teeth and shook her head.

Father Xu laughed angrily and said to his wife beside him, "The children who made mistakes are fine, but the ones who didn't make mistakes will be beaten. Look, this is really a highly educated person."

Xu's mother was also angry and scolded, "Xu Fang, you are confused. Girls should be pampered, and Xiaoling did nothing wrong, how could you have the heart to do that? Your father scolded you and you deserved it. I wouldn't stop you even if he spanked you a few times today. You are wronged because Ji Yong didn't discuss it with you, you are so biased that even your father can't stand it, and you still don't know how to reflect on yourself?"

"Mom, I was just angry at that time, and I regret it now. I am her biological mother, how can I not feel sorry for her?" Xu Fang endured it for a whole day, and finally couldn't bear it anymore and started crying with her hands covering her face.

"Cry, cry, cry. If the child really doesn't want you as a mother, I don't think you can even find a place to cry." Mother Xu covered her chest in anger, "Leave now, go find Ji Yong and the others, and apologize to the child, otherwise I will have no daughter like you."

Ji Ke was so scared that she started crying, "Grandma, it's my fault. If I hadn't told mom that it was my sister's recipe, mom wouldn't have hit my sister. You scold me, it's my fault."

Mother Xu was even more troubled after hearing this. "The big one is worrying, and the small one is also restless. You guys keep making trouble. Sooner or later, this family will be broken up by you."

"Mom, calm down first. It's my fault." Xu Fang was frightened when she saw her mother covering her chest. She didn't care about her face anymore and kept admitting her mistakes.

Xu's mother had a heart disease. After all this noise, her purple lips only slowly turned red after nine o'clock in the evening. The whole family was so frightened that they broke out in sweats.

I found something funny. I found the wrong words and read the sentence aloud. The word "mama" here is pronounced with the tongue rolled up. You can try it and you will know what tone it sounds like. It sounds like a dialect. Hahahaha

(End of this chapter)