This cake doesn’t look cheap at first glance, so Ding Xiang can’t bear to eat it.
Qi Huilan was reluctant to eat it. The cake was made very delicately, so she just wanted to look at it.
Qi Mengmeng was a little amused and helpless. This cake was made to be eaten, so how could she just look at it? She took the knife and cut a piece despite the two people's attempts to stop her.
"Mom, how does this cake taste?"
Qi Huilan knew that Qi Mengmeng meant well, so she picked up a piece and put it in her mouth reluctantly.
Qi Mengmeng also took a piece and gave it to Dingxiang. Dingxiang held it in her hand and looked at it for a minute before reluctantly putting it into her mouth.
"Delicious, really delicious." Dingxiang kept nodding her head and could only use this one adjective.
Qi Mengmeng looked at Qi Huilan, and Qi Huilan nodded: "It's delicious."
Since both of them approved of the cake, Qi Mengmeng handed the two cakes to Ding Xiang: "Ding Xiang, take this cake to the birthday cake shop to see if it's okay. If she thinks this cake is good, I'll make a big one tomorrow morning."
However, Qi Mengmeng didn't have a suitable container to put the cake at home, so she found two clean ceramic jars that were just the right size to put it in.
Dingxiang carefully took away the two birthday cakes in ceramic jars. She believed that the two cakes could be sold for a good price.
Qi Mengmeng put the other untouched cake away separately.
"Mom, I have to go to class first. You can let Aunt Ling taste this cake later."
Since Zhang Meiling came every day, she often brought things for the two children, or bought meat and vegetables for the family. She was no more than an aunt.
Qi Huilan put the cake away, preparing to give it to Zhang Meiling later, but it was not until after ten o'clock that Zhang Meiling came over with a sullen face.
"What happened?" Qi Huilan asked worriedly.
During this period, Zhang Meiling was smiling every time she came. She rarely had a frown on her face, and almost never had a gloomy face like she did today.
Zhang Meiling twitched the corners of her mouth, wanting to say something but not saying it. Finally, she shook her head, looking as if she couldn't say it.
Qi Huilan didn't ask any further questions and turned around to take out the cake that Qi Mengmeng had made in the morning.
"If you don't want to tell me, then don't tell me. This is the cake Mengmeng made this morning. It tastes like a birthday cake. Try it."
Zhang Meiling took the cake with a wooden face and tears suddenly started flowing down.
"What's wrong, Sister Ling?" Qi Huilan was shocked, thinking that the cake had touched upon her sorrow, and she quickly wiped her tears with a handkerchief.
Kang Kang was playing with toys. When he heard the noise, he looked over here and then climbed onto Zhang Meiling's body: "Grandma, no, grandma, no..."
He casually stroked Zhang Meiling's face with his little hands.
Zhang Meiling's tears flowed even more happily. Qi Huilan sighed. Although she didn't know why, she could feel her sadness. She didn't try to persuade her anymore, but just stuffed the handkerchief into her hand.
An An tilted his head to look over here, then crawled over, leaned next to Zhang Meiling, and hugged her arm.
Zhang Meiling was coaxed by the two little ones and cried for a while but couldn't cry anymore.
Qi Huilan went to the side and poured a glass of water for Zhang Meiling, and put it in her hand: "Drink some water."
You shed so many tears, drink more water.
"Huilan, you are so lucky. Mengmeng is so filial, and your two children are so well-behaved." Zhang Meiling did not drink the water, but said quietly.
Qi Huilan nodded: "Mengmeng is very filial."
The most filial thing was to let Kang Kang have the surname Qi, so that the Qi family would not be cut off. In this way, she could explain to the ancestors of the Qi family when she was in the underworld.
Zhang Meiling smiled bitterly: "Huilan, tell me, did I do a lot of bad things in my previous life, so I don't have a good daughter."
After hearing this, Qi Huilan remembered that Zhang Meiling had a daughter, but she heard from Qi Mengmeng that this daughter had long since severed ties with Zhang Meiling.
"I only have one daughter, Nannan, and I raised her like a treasure. I didn't want her to suffer any injustice, so I chose my son-in-law based on her preferences. But when the movement came, she cut off all ties with us."
"Other children just cut off ties with their parents in a formality and went to see their parents in private, but Nan Nan really pretended not to know us. When she occasionally met us on the street, she would tease us."
"I'd rather not have a daughter like this..."
The tone of Zhang Meiling's voice changed from sad and heartbroken to angry. She was really heartbroken.
"It's been almost a year since Lao Jiang and I came back, and Nan Nan has never come to see us. I don't believe she didn't know we were back. Even if she didn't know, there would always be someone to tell her. She actually came to blame me today, saying that I didn't come to see her after I came back?"
"If it weren't for Mengmeng, we wouldn't know if we could come back. Huilan, how could she have the audacity to say such a thing?"
Zhang Meiling's eyes were red again. If she was disappointed with her daughter before, after today, she was completely desperate about her daughter. She admitted that she had not disciplined her daughter well.
What could Qi Huilan say? She didn't understand the situation yet. She could only pat Zhang Meiling's hand and say, "Sister Ling, the child is grown up. We can't take care of him anymore. You have to take care of yourself first."
"Huilan, do you know why my ungrateful daughter came to see me?"
"Aren't I here to ask for your forgiveness?" Qi Huilan asked subconsciously.
"She came to ask me to give her the house. She said that her father and I are old and the house is empty anyway. It will be hers sooner or later. She wants to move in first."
Zhang Meiling showed a hint of sarcasm in her mouth: "How does she know that the house is hers? We have no relationship now, and I have never thought of giving the house to her."
In fact, Zhang Meiling thought that as long as her daughter changed her mind, she would leave the house to her daughter.
But today, when she saw her daughter coming to her house, she didn't ask how they were doing or how they were doing recently. Instead, she asked if the house was back and asked for the key because she was living too crowded at her husband's house.
Zhang Meiling's momentary joy vanished into thin air. She said no directly and wanted to kick her daughter out.
Her daughter Jiang Shengnan definitely didn't want to agree. The mother and daughter argued at the door for a long time. The neighbors couldn't stand it anymore and persuaded them a few times. Only then did Jiang Shengnan leave and say that she would come again after her father got off work.
"Come if you want. Even if she comes, Old Jiang won't give her the house."
Zhang Meiling recounted what happened this morning and then summarized it in one sentence.
After returning to Beijing, Professor Jiang reminded her that they no longer had a daughter, and that Jiang Shengnan would be a stranger whenever he came over.
However, what neither of them expected was that it was almost a year since they returned that Jiang Shengnan came to visit them for the first time, and the purpose of his visit was again because of the house.
Zhang Meiling's tears flowed again. She really regretted that she had spoiled her daughter too much in the past and turned her into an ungrateful girl.
An An tried her best to stretch out her hands in Zhang Meiling's arms to wipe her tears: "Grandma, don't cry, An."
What he meant was that Zhang Meiling shouldn't cry because An An was there.
Zhang Meiling said to Qi Huilan, "Look, that ungrateful bastard is worse than An An. I will give my house to An An from now on."
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