Chapter 2: Good boy go to sleep, when you wake up, we will split up the family.
Second Aunt Bai went to persuade the women who were watching the excitement to leave. Taotao’s sister-in-law, Tan Fenghui, came in with her pregnant belly. Bai Lili also carefully helped Bai Zhengqian into the house.
Bai Zhengqian leaned on his waist. As soon as he entered the door, he saw Bai Taotao crying with blood dripping from her arm. The family head immediately drew a breath of cold air and stared with a pair of rounded eyes.
Second Aunt Bai was talking to Tang Liren, “…Tao Tao was behaved today and didn’t go anywhere. I have been washing clothes in the yard, I don’t know when the fourth sister-in-law came in, I heard Taotao crying, came in to take a look…Oh, sister-in-law, take a look at Tao Tao , what’s wrong with her, so much blood…”
Tang Liren has already wiped her daughter’s arms with a towel while listening to her second sister-in-law. Seeing Taotao’s arms were smooth, white and tender, without any injuries, she turned her head and said to her husband: “Taotao is fine, there are no wounds on her hands.”
Bai Zhengqian breathed a sigh of relief when he heard his wife say that Tao Tao is okay. He sat on the bed and said to Bai Taotao, “Taotao, what’s the matter?”
He didn’t expect his stupid daughter to make things clear. He knew how stupid his daughter was. But he must ask, because he is the father and the backer of his daughter. Even if his waist is broken at this moment, he must stand up for his daughter.
Bai Taotao said crisply: “The fourth aunt is here to steal money.”
After she finished the sentence, the whole family was shocked!
Even the second aunt was stunned.
How can Taotao speak so clearly?
Bai Lili was even more surprised, “Little Taotao, you….. talk without knots ah?”
“You, you just knotted!” Bai Taotao replied.
Tan Fenghui slowly sat on a chair next to Taotao with her pregnant belly, and asked, “Taotao, how do you know that forth aunt is here to steal money? What did she say and do? How did you answer her? Just now, you, Why was there blood on your hands? Did she hit you?”
Tang Liren frowned, “Hui’er, don’t ask Taotao so many questions at once, she can’t answer them!”
Bai Taoji stammered and said: ” Fourth aunt asked me …… where my father’s compensation money was hidden. I said, I don’t know, fourth aunt beat me.”
The whole family was shocked again!
Although it is only a few words, the content is quite clear!
Bai Lili was so angry that she gritted her teeth and said “I’m looking for her”, then turned around and wanted to chase Forth Aunt.
“Stop!” Tang Liren shouted.
Bai Lili said anxiously: “Mom, don’t let my fourth aunt steal our money!”
Tan Fenghui asked Bai Taoji patiently, “Tao Tao, what did you tell her?”
Bai Taotao wanted to make it clear, but she found that this body was weak. It’s not enough to say a few more words. She squatted and panted, shaking her head.
Tang Liren frowned, “What are you panicking! Taotao may not know where our money is placed!”
In fact, Bai Taotao knew all about it.
The main reason is because she is a “fool” and everyone doesn’t guard against her.
Tang Liren discussed with Bai Zhengqian, “The owner, why don’t I deposit the money in the savings bank? It saves the trouble of keeping it at home.”
Bai Zhengqian nodded, “Okay.”
Tan Fenghui glanced at second Aunt Bai and thought that although the second aunt’s reputation is trustworthy, but after all, she is not a family member, so it is not good to talk about money in front of her. So she changed the topic, “Second aunt, Where are Hongdou and Huangdou?”
These two are the daughter and son born to her and her husband Bai Dongsheng. One is six years old and the other is less than four years old.
Today is the day when Bai Zhengqian went to the county hospital for a review. Her Mother-in-law Tang Liren borrowed an ox cart. It happened that Fenghui was also eight months pregnant. Tang Liren wanted her to go to the hospital for a checkup.
Before leaving, Tan Fenghui told her children not to go out and stay at home with their fourth aunt, Bai Taotao.
Why are they missing now?
Second Aunt Bai said: “It was here just now! Ah, yes… Somehow there was a big disturbance at the educated youth station. They might have ran over to watch the fun.”
Hongdou and Huangdou ran back holding hands.
“Mom! Grandpa, grandma! third aunt, are you back? Good day forth aunt! Hello second grandmother!” The two little ones were so excited that after calling out to the people, they cracked up and shouted.
“Mom, there’s a fight at the youth station, and one of them beat a dozen people! That big brother is so powerful, he’s standing but the ones who were beaten had their front teeth knocked out.”
“Mom, (there is) a big brother – beating people! Big brother – angry, big sister – wow! Whoa! Crying!”
Hongdou is older and articulate. She speaks with a crackling voice without even changing her breath. Huangdou is only three and a half years old, and he still uses repetitive words in his speech with long milky voice.
Tan Fenghui was a little angry when she saw the dirty appearance of her son and daughter, “Hongdou, take your brother with you to wash his face and hands.”
The Hongdou is a big girl, knowing that the elders have entered the city today, they must have brought back something good.
Realizing this, Hongdou smilingly pulled her younger brother and ran.
Tang Liren motioned for Bai Lili to close the door. Then she took out a plastic bag from her satchel, opened the bag and counted, took out a few buns, putting them into the clean plastic bag that Bai Lili had handed over. She packed the buns and stuffed them to Aunt Bai.
“This is the meat buns we bought in the town. You also take some, one for each person in the family.”
Aunt Bai’s face turned red, “No, no, no! Eldest brother is in poor health, and Dongsheng’s wife is pregnant again. You eat, you eat!”
Tang Liren, “I bought meat bun for you in advance. Our family is also one per each person. However, if there is more, it will be gone! So you quietly take it and use your apron to cover it. If Li Cuier finds out, Don’t admit it! Don’t come to me either, I didn’t buy any meat buns at all!”
The second aunt Bai was amused, but she was determined not to accept the meat buns.
Bai Lili and Tan Fenghui persuaded second aunt Bai to take it.
Only then did Aunt Bai hide the meat buns with a red face, and said, “I’ve already made the batter soup for lunch today and put it on the stove, so hurry up and get it. Otherwise, I’m afraid it will be the third and fourth family who will do tricks again.” As she said, Second Aunt Bai hurried away.
Hongdou led her brother Huangdou to wash his hands, when smelling the aroma, she clapped her hands with joy, “Meat buns! I smell the aroma of meat buns!”
Tan Fenghui hurriedly put her finger to her mouth and said “hush”.
Hongdou understood, covering her mouth with her hand, and nodded.
Huangdou licked his lips and asked quietly: “Grandma, when are we going to eat meat buns?”
Tang Liren smiled, “When your dad gets off work, let’s eat together, okay?”
The little one nodded seriously.
Hongdou picked up the bag and counted the buns, “One, two, three…grandma, how come there are only nine buns?”
There are eleven people in the family. Even if the second uncle went to the army, there are still ten.
“Your second aunt won’t be back these few days, she went to her family’s house,” Tang Liren explained, “Wait a few days to pick her up with grandma, and then I will also buy buns back. Then I will give her an extra meat bun. Okay?”
Hongdou nodded.
Bai Lili suddenly asked: “Hongdou, where’s your fifth aunt?”
–Where is Bai Xingxing?
Hongdou curled her lips, “As soon as you guys left, little aunt left, saying that she was going to Fangfang’s house to see her friend.”
At this time, there was a clamor outside. It should be the production team returning from work.
Tang Liren said quickly: “Lili, let’s go to the kitchen to carry food!”
“Don’t move!” Tang Liren said, “You’ve had a bumpy day with your belly, you’ve suffered enough, hurry up and rest. Let me go bring the batter soup with curd and meat buns!””
With that, Tang Liren took Bai Lili to the kitchen to carry the food.
By this time, Bai Zhengqian had already chatted with Bai Taotao.
However, Tang Liren and the others hadn’t stopped talking just now, the room was so noisy that Bai Taotao couldn’t hear exactly what her father was saying. Relying on Bai Zhengqian’s repetition over and over again, she could barely hear, and then she slowly answered her dad’s questions word by word.
Until this time, Tang Liren took Bai Lili to the kitchen, and Hongdou and Huangdou were also temporarily no longer speaking, only then Bai Zhengqian heard the words of his silly daughter clearly.
“The fourth aunt said that I was retribution. My parents did something hurtful. That’s why I’m stupid. It’s a waste of my family to let me eat eggs. It’s better to raise a pig than to raise me. I should die so as not to implicate the reputation of my sisters. The eldest family work less and eat more. My mother is not filial…”
Of course, these words are not what Li Cuier said today. In fact, she said this every day behind the back of Bai Zhengqian and his family. Even if Bai Taotao is a fool, Li Cui’er also deliberately pointed to Bai Taotao scolding her, so as to vent her anger.
At this moment, Bai Taotao said all the things Li Cuier had said. Although she was stumbling, but the words were clear.
After she finished her complaint, Bai Taotao was in a state of lack of energy, and her mind became more and more dizzy, so she lay down on the bed and fell asleep.
Bai Zhengqian was so angry that his face was distorted.
Tan Fenghui was also furious, “What does it mean that we work less and eat more? When it comes to work, our eldest family has always contributed the most, but recieved the least. It is only in these six months that Nansheng joined the army, Lanfen (Nansheng’s wife) and I got pregnant, and Dad hurt his back, which delayed the work for a few days.”
As soon as the voice fell, someone opened the door and came in.
It was Bai Taotao’s eldest brother Bai Dongsheng.
He looked pale, and there was a person behind him.
And as soon as the door was pushed open, Li Cuier’s loud voice cursing in the yard clearly penetrated the ears of everyone inside the house.
“…There are eleven people in the house , a cripple and a fool, plus two children and two pregnant women, the rest are all who can’t carry on their shoulders or hands! Hmph, there is another one who said that it is honor to join the army! Knowing that there is little labor at home, he still had to go to join the army! “
” The family relies on one person to earn work credits, which is not enough to make ends meet, and in the end, we still have to spend the work credits we earned? Oh, we work so hard just to provide for others. We don’t have to live anymore.”
“That’s it, and they’re still yelling at us! Putting all the money saved in previous years into their own hands without giving a cent! They are so smooth in moving food and water to their own house, is there such a shameless person? I say let’s just split the family! Who can survive these days?.”
Bai Zhengqian was half to death in anger.
When his father died, he was only fifteen and his second brother was eleven. The two sons born to his stepmother were seven and four years old. He had to go to the production team to work alone.
It’s impossible for a thin and weak teenager to work as hard a day as an adult man!
However, if he does not go to work, the family of five members will not even be able to eat! There is no other way, just gritting his teeth and burying his head in the hard work. He did it for eight hours, and took rest when they had enough work points. Then he would work for ten hours, twelve hours, and fourteen hours. In short, he must be able to make up ten work points!
That kind of life passed for several years, until his wife Tang Liren passed through the door, and the situation was a little better. Tang Liren is also a capable person, high-minded and defiant, the couple worked hard to bring up their younger brothers. Only after the younger brothers married their wives, then the two dared to have children.
Speaking of it, the third and fourth child were raised by Bai Zhengqian. Now the fourth wife is still clamoring to split the family because she can’t steal the money?
Isn’t it that the eldest family has no use value anymore?
Bai Zhengqian was so angry that he was gasping for breath.
Bai Taotao said too much just now, and her mind was dizzy. When her elder brother came back and opened the door, she was awakened by the cold breeze and heard the vulgar curses of the fourth aunt in the courtyard, so she vaguely said to Bai Zhengqian:
“Dad, Dad …… split the family, split the family! We live a good life by ourselves.”
Hearing this, Tan Fenghui and Bai Dongsheng looked at Bai Zhengqian in unison, with hope in their eyes.
The third and fourth families have been fighting to split up for a long time, but Bai Zhengqian, who prides himself on being the patriarch of the family, sticks to old thinking and feels that “As long as parents are alive, there should be no separation of families”. Even if his mother is a stepmother at all.
In the past, no matter who mentioned this matter, Bai Zhengqian would be angry.
But Tao Tao is different.
She is the heart and soul of the Bai Zhengqian couple, who carefully held her in their palms. No matter what she said, Bai Zhengqian felt that the daughter is really good, the girl is so nice to speak, and the girl is really pitiful.
This time the same, Bai Zhenggan looked at the silly girl curled up into a ball like a cat. She was very pitiful, with a tired look on her beautiful and delicate face. He couldn’t help but feel very distressed, so he coaxed her and said: “Okay! When you wake up, we will separate. Ah, my dear, don’t talk any more and recuperate.”
Tan Fenghui and Bai Dongsheng were ecstatic in their hearts, their pupils shook.
The young man following Bai Dongsheng suddenly spoke up and said, “Big Brother Bai, I’ll… go back first!”
Only then, everyone realised that there was another person who came in with Bai Dongsheng- only to see this man who was dressed in a half old white shirt, but the collar and sleeves were ripped apart, the whole body was covered with a lot of mud spots, his face and hands were painted with purple bruises, they were everywhere, and there were blood stains on the corners of his mouth.
Everyone was stunned.
–Who is this man?
Bai Dongsheng quickly introduced, “Dad, he is the new educated youth, Song Zhi. He came to the village to report on the first day today.”
Bai Zhengqian let out an “Oh”, remembering the recent notice from the county that a group of urban youths would come to the countryside recently to experience life and build a new modern village.
But-
Bai Zhengqian looked up and down at Song Zhi, thinking that this young man looked quite upright, so how come he looked so messy?
Hongdou and Huangdou also stretched their necks to look at Song Zhi, said in unison:
“Big Brother fights really good!”
“A dozen of them together can’t beat big brother!”
Bai Zhengqian: ? ? ?
Song Zhi pursed his mouth tightly, did not speak, and looked gloomy.
Bai Dongsheng winked at the family, meaning, not to ask about it now, and then told his wife, “Hui’er, go get iodine and the red potion!
Bai Zhengqian had been injured some time ago because of saving people’s lives, so the family had a lot of wound medicine on hand. She answered and went to the next room with her big belly to look for medicine.
Bai Taotao, who was dozing off in the corner of the bed, suddenly opened her pair of cat like eyes and winked!
Aura? Rich and fragrant aura! ! !
Where did the aura come from?
Song Zhi felt a little uncomfortable at this time, and whispered: “Brother, I, I better not trouble you guys.”
Bai Dongsheng stretched out his hands, pushed Song Zhi’s shoulders letting him sit on the bed, and said: “Don’t worry, treat the wound first, then have a meal at our house and rest.”
Bai Taotao finally found the source of her aura, and from the other side of the bed, she quickly crawled to Song Zhi’s side and pressed her little paws on his back.
When Song Qian sensed it, he turned his head, but suddenly froze.
He saw a face as beautiful as a peach plum.
But Bai Taotao took a deep breath, and then breathed again.
The young man in front of her was wrapped in a thick layer of aura, which fell in Bai Taotao’s eyes, who saw everything as a blur, like a walking aura mass.
Now, the endless stream of wonderful aura emanating from him enveloped her whole body. After only a few breaths, she felt clear-headed, clear-sighted, and light-bodied after only a few sips!
Bai Taoji finally saw the face of the first person after she had worn in this world.