After the mother was reborn, she was deeply involved in the battle for favor between her sons

Ji Lanyue quickly jumped off Zhao Jiayan and hid behind him. "Shh, don't talk. Help me block it. If my eldest brother sees it, I will die miserably."

Zhao Jiayan nodded and quickly opened his hands to block her body as if trying to cover up his own mistakes.

"Don't hide, I've already seen you." Ji Tingyang exposed her mercilessly.

"..."

"If you don't come out and get punished by your father tonight, I won't help you." Ji Tingyang said again.

When Ji Lanyue heard this, she immediately came out from behind Zhao Jiayan and threw herself on Ji Tingyang. "Brother, can you keep the tree climbing incident a secret for me? I will give you a back massage tonight."

"It's good enough that you don't have to help you with your homework." Ji Tingyang said coldly.

Ji Lanyue has been having so much fun outside these days that she feels sleepy when doing homework at night. She even uses her pocket money to bribe Ji Zeqiu to help her with her homework.

However, Ji Zeqiu took away her pocket money and ran to complain to his mother.

The mother was so angry that she slapped her on the butt twice and confiscated all her pocket money.

"Second brother is a bad guy. I will never be friends with him again!" Ji Lanyue cried, raised her fists, and went up to beat him non-stop.

Ji Zeqiu dodged with a laugh.

I thought Ji Lanyue would become obedient later, but in the blink of an eye, she turned her attention to Ji Tingyang again.

Hearing his words, Ji Lanyue's cheeks reddened for a rare moment, and she muttered softly, "In the end, you didn't help me write it either. Overall, I finished it by myself."

"Stop quibbling and go back." Ji Tingyang skillfully grabbed her collar and took her home.

Ji Lanyue struggled to turn around and waved goodbye to Zhao Jiayan, "I'm going home first. I'll come see you tomorrow."

"If you dare to climb the tree again tomorrow, I will let mother spank you twice more."

Ji Lanyue was so scared that she touched her butt and shook her head in fear, "I won't crawl anymore. Don't tell mom."

At worst, I can just not climb the tree tomorrow and go fishing by the river.

She muttered in her mind.

Ji Tingyang originally wanted to take Ji Lanyue home before Ji Yanli returned home, but he didn't expect that Ji Yanli had already arrived home before they returned.

Ji Lanyue nervously moved closer to Ji Tingyang, raised her head, and looked at him pitifully, "Brother, if father gets angry, you must speak for me later."

"Are you scared now? Why weren't you scared when you were having so much fun outside?" Ji Tingyang stretched out his finger and flicked her forehead.

Ji Lanyue pouted and followed him in.

As soon as I entered the room, I saw Ji Yanli's face emitting a chill. His usually lazy and casual demeanor became cold and hard, and the aura around him became even more depressing.

This expression is too familiar. It looks like my father is furious.

Ji Lanyue became even more frightened. She held Ji Tingyang's hand and trembled, her voice also trembling, "Big... Big Brother..."

Ji Tingyang was also frightened by Ji Yanli. He thought his father was angry about his sister, so he tried to defend her, "Father, my sister..."

However, just as he opened his mouth, he was interrupted by Ji Yanli, "Take Lanyue back to the room first. I have something to say to your aunt."

aunt?

Ji Tingyang turned his head and saw a heavily made-up woman sitting next to the sofa. He immediately understood.

My aunt had come to our house several times before. Every time she came, my father always had a cold face and a chill around him.

Later, when he grew up, he realized that his father probably didn't like this aunt, so he was in a bad mood every time she came.

At this time, Lin Xu also came out of the kitchen with two cups of tea in her hands, and said to Ji Tingyang: "You go back to your room first, and wait for me to come up and call you downstairs."

Ji Tingyang nodded and took Ji Lanyue upstairs.

Seeing their figures disappear at the stairs, Lin Xu breathed a sigh of relief and walked to the sofa and sat down.

"Sister-in-law, you are so polite. You even poured me some tea." The woman smiled and reached out to take the cup.

Lin Xu dodged her outstretched hand, placed one cup in front of Ji Yanli, and put the other cup to his lips and took a sip.

"I'm sorry, I only have two hands and can't hold another cup of tea. But my sister also said that she is not a stranger, so you can pour a cup yourself." Lin Xu curved her eyes and smiled.

The woman's hand froze in the air for a moment, then she pulled it back awkwardly, "It's okay, I'm not thirsty now."

"Sister, what is the matter that made you come to see us this time?" Lin Xu asked.

Although the woman hadn't said anything yet, Lin Xu could guess why she was looking for Ji Yanli, and it was most likely related to money.

as predicted.

The woman's smiling face suddenly turned sad, and she sighed, "Actually, I didn't want to come to you, but you know your brother-in-law..."

"What's wrong with my brother-in-law?" Lin Xu asked in coordination with her.

"We saved some money before and planned to open a small factory. Although we can't say we will become rich, we hope to live a better life. But your brother-in-law knows nothing about running a business. It's been less than two months and the factory is about to go bankrupt. All our money is gone. How are we going to live in the future?" The woman wiped her eyes and sobbed softly.

However, she cried for several minutes without hearing a word of comfort. She raised her eyes and glanced at Ji Yanli quietly, only to see him drinking tea expressionlessly without any reaction.

The woman's crying gradually subsided. After a moment's hesitation, she got to the point. "I heard that the Ji family is doing very well now and has made a lot of money in recent years. Can you lend us some money so that we can make some money?"

Lin Xu lowered his eyes, looked at the tea in the cup without saying a word.

Ji Yanli's cold eyes swept over her, and the woman's heart trembled, and she felt a chilling fear.

"It is said that if you borrow, you must repay. It is not difficult to borrow again. Let's talk about it when you pay back the one million I lent you two years ago." Ji Yanli said in a calm voice.

"We have lost all the money we made from opening the factory and we really can't afford to pay you back. Besides, you earn so much money a month, do you still care about this one million?" the woman said nonchalantly.

"And when your parents passed away when you were a child, I worked so hard to raise you. Now you won't even lend me some money. You really are an ungrateful person." The woman began to complain again.

Lin Xu has heard this sentence over and over again for more than ten years. It's always the same sentence, without any novelty.

Lin Xu has always been indifferent to things like borrowing money or helping relatives at work, and he will just help when he can.

However, the Lin Xu now is no longer the Lin Xu of the past.

When she was reborn twenty years later and found that her aunt did not care or love her three children at all, she began to hate women.