Farmhouse Qiaofei

Chapter 158 The Moth from the Bai Family
"Enough, Wei'er, let's eat." Hearing Bai Wei's lowered voice, Bai Chuanbai frowned, and rarely reprimanded Bai Wei.

Bai Wei sticks out her tongue, quickly lowers her head to pick up the rice, then winks at Bai Shao.

The two sisters have been eating and living together for a long time, and their hearts have been connected for a long time. Now, in the blink of an eye, Bai Shao understands that Bai Wei is telling her, and will tell her in private later.

As for now, eating is the right thing to do.

In the tidy and bright pot house, three children and one adult all lowered their heads and earnestly cooked rice.

After about a cup of tea time, and seeing that everyone had eaten, Bai Chuanbai got up, filled two servings of rice and one serving of vegetables in a bowl, and took them to the room where Mrs. Gu was.

Seeing this, Bai Shao and Bai Wei hurriedly followed, even the very tired Bai Yunshi insisted on following.

In the newly cleaned room, the candles were blazing, Gu Shi half sat on the head of the bed, and Wu Shi lay beside her affectionately, whispering to her without knowing what to talk about.

Occasionally, they would laugh lowly, and occasionally, they would lower their heads and wipe tears together.

When Bai Chuanbai passed by, Mrs. Wu was wiping the corners of her eyes. Seeing him coming, she quickly took him by the hand, pointed to Mrs. Gu and said, "Mother, I wrote to my family back then, saying that Madam pointed me out to Mrs. Gu." He died. I was busy at the time, so I couldn't take him home to take a look... Later, I didn't go back to Wujia Village. Now, mother, take a good look... Speaking of it, it has been more than ten years. Mother just took a closer look at her."

What did you say that you couldn’t take it back because you were busy? It was nothing more than bringing news to Wu’s Village, but Mr. Wu asked for a lot of gifts. In a fit of anger, Wu simply didn’t tell them about the date, and went to Baichuan Baicheng alone. married.

Of course, Gu is very clear about this, so after seeing Bai Chuanbai, she was inevitably a little embarrassed, and Bai Chuanbai is indeed a good-looking talent, not to mention his appearance, so she repeatedly praised, "It's a good one, looks like this Even if you look good, the two children followed him, you are really handsome, Xiaohui, you have really good eyesight."

Wu Shi smiled a little embarrassedly, and didn't notice that Gu Shi said "two children" instead of "three children".

Bai Chuanbai noticed it, but he didn't expect the children to follow behind, so he didn't correct him, and just passed the food in his hands to Wu Shi and Gu Shi, "Xiaohui, eat first, or you can eat later. It's cold."

"Okay." Mrs. Wu was very happy that her husband and son-in-law were so caring, and after taking over the job, the two of them started muttering again.

Bai Chuanbai scratched his head, seeing that he couldn't get in the conversation, and standing beside him was awkward, so he simply thought of going outside to live out tomorrow's Liangpi's face.

After talking to Wu Shi and Gu Shi, Bai Chuanbai turned his head and left.

After receiving the door, he opened it, and the three children standing outside made Bai Chuanbai's face turn blue.

"Shao'er... Shao'er, you, why are you here?" He panicked and stammered.

"Father, we were afraid that mother would not eat well, so we wanted to come over to see if mother would like porridge, but just as soon as we came here, you came out." Bai Shao said with a very innocent smile.

"Ah, I just came here." Bai Chuanbai breathed a long sigh of relief, looked back at Guowu, and said in a hurry, "Your mother and the others are eating very well, you should go to rest quickly, the embroidery village may It's rather busy."

"Okay Dad." Bai Shao grinned at him, held Bai Wei with one hand, and Bai Yunshi with the other, and bouncing back to their room.

Bai Chuanbai stood where he was, seeing that Bai Shao was very happy all the time without any strange expression, and then he really felt relieved, turned his head, closed the door for Mrs. Wu and Ms. Gu, and went to the pot house and noodles, preparing for tomorrow The face to be washed.

As for the three Bai Shao siblings, they each went back to their rooms to rest.

As soon as the door was closed, Bai Wei, who had been curious for a long time, couldn't help asking, "Shao'er, why didn't you tell Dad that we followed him closely, why did you say that we just passed?"

"It's okay." Bai Shao knew that Bai Wei was a little careless, and probably didn't hear Gu's words, so she covered it up with a smile, "Sister, you should pay attention to grandma during this time."

"Ah, what's wrong with grandma?" Bai Wei was distracted by Bai Shao as expected, jumped up from the bed, and said with a surprised face, "Shao'er, do you also think it's not good for our grandma to stay?" ?”

"It's not bad, but why does grandpa insist on staying?" Bai Shao reminded, "Think about it, before he asked our mother for money, but if our mother didn't give it to him, he would sue us. After being taught a lesson later, I wanted to keep our grandma. If he had no purpose, why did he have to do this? Do you believe that he really loves our grandma?"

Judging from Mr. Wu's unhesitating kick in Jinse, and his unwillingness to give Gu Shi when eating, one can guess that he didn't love Gu Shi much at all. For her body, Neither Bai Shao nor Bai Wei would believe that Mrs. Wu had to take care of Mrs. Gu.

That being the case, there is only one reason left——for money.

"Mother is so close to grandma now, if mother finds out, how sad it would be..." Bai Wei quickly understood, and murmured, "I hope grandma won't do anything to disappoint mother, right?" .”

"I hope." Bai Shao sighed lightly, did not speak, took off her outer clothes, lay down on the bed, pulled the thin quilt to cover her stomach, and closed her eyes.

Bai Wei at the side called her several times, but seeing that she didn't move, she thought her sister was asleep, so she blew out the oil lamp and fell into a deep sleep.

In the darkness, Bai Shao gently opened his eyes, glanced at the sleeping Bai Wei, and then at the crescent moon outside, heaved a long sigh, and turned over.

Gu's attitude, the "two children" in Gu's mouth, and Bai Chuanbai's hesitation to speak, all became a mist covering Bai Shao's heart, making people feel a little uncomfortable, but helpless .

In the same deep night, under the same dark moonlight, at Bai's house in Shilipu, there was also a person who tossed and turned uncomfortable and couldn't fall asleep.

At first, the people around me didn't speak, but after tossing and turning for a long time, the people around me couldn't take it anymore, so I couldn't help but whispered, "Old woman, what are you doing, you keep tossing and turning, and are you still sleeping?"

"Sleep, you know how to sleep." Mrs. Liu reprimanded Mr. Bai in a low voice, "Do you know that Mrs. Wu's family lives in Izumo Town."

"Just stay here, what's the matter?" Mr. Bai frowned and said impatiently.

"What's the matter? I haven't lived in the third child's house yet, so I let those shameless people live in it!" Liu raised her voice angrily, "I'm her serious mother-in-law, she didn't say Invited me to live, but when her mother came, she let her mother live. What do you mean by that? Even the old people of her Wu family can live in. Why can't I live in? Why, why? What!"

"Why, please keep your voice down, the children are all asleep!" Seeing this, old man Bai hurriedly lowered his voice and shouted, "Why is the Wu family also the natal family of the third daughter-in-law, if they want to live, they can live there, you This mother-in-law can live here if she wants to, why is she crazy here?"

"I... I'm not going to live here." As soon as she said this, Liu's confidence suddenly weakened, "I'm angry at anyone who cares about living in her place, and the third daughter-in-law, including the third, didn't come She asked me a few words, but her mother suddenly moved in and didn't say a word to me. As far as her Wu family's nest is concerned, I... I'm just afraid that my son will suffer!"

After finishing speaking, she was still a little perplexed and gave a "bah" in the direction of Izumo Town, as if this was the only way to get rid of the bad breath in her heart.

"Oh, it shouldn't be possible. There is the fifth sister here. She is smart and will always protect the third child and his wife." Speaking of this, Mr. Bai propped up his hands and sat up from the bed. , said with some concern, "However, the Wu family is not easy to provoke. In the past seven years, the third daughter-in-law did not dare to contact them. Now that the fourth daughter-in-law has been stabbed out, the Wu family knows that the third daughter-in-law is back. I'm sure I won't let them go easily, that's the whole family drinking blood..."

"Yes, that's why we can't let them bully the third child and his wife like this." Madam Liu suddenly clenched her fists and said viciously, "Let the third child keep the money for me, so that we won't be afraid of the Wu family. If you are not convinced, let Wu Laolai tell me, I won't believe it, and I can't cure him."

"..." Mr. Bai glanced speechlessly at Mrs. Liu beside him, and lay back down again without saying a word.

"The youngest couple are soft and easy to bully. If Wu Laolai gets involved with this, the whole family will definitely be drunk. No, he is also my son. Giving it to me is better than giving it to Wu Laolai... ..." Mrs. Liu muttered beside her.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door of the east room. Bai Laozi put on his clothes and sat up, and said in a low voice, "Who is it?"

"It's me, Dad." Bai Chuanqiang's low voice came from outside the door.

"Oh, boss, come in." Old Master Bai stood up, unscrewed the door, let Bai Chuanqiang in, and then lit the kerosene lamp in the dark.

The moment the light came on, Bai Chuanqiang closed his eyes. After his eyes got used to the light, he opened his eyes, looked at Mr. Bai, and said in a low voice, "Father... well, I have something to ask you."

"Tell me." Mr. Bai sighed, "Is it because the lotus root hasn't been sold recently? Alas, the best opportunity has been lost. At the beginning, the local lotus root in Xieyang County didn't come up. It was the best time to sell it. If you are asked to find a few restaurants to sell them, you don’t want to go, so you just set up a stall in the market, how many can you sell? It’s already September, and the lotus roots in Xieyang County have begun to be picked up. It's really hard to sell."

"Father, that's the thing. We also bought the lotus root at a not-so-low price, and it looks like it's rotten at home. We have to sell it, or it will get cheaper as time goes on, and the lotus root will rot. ..." Bai Chuanqiang lowered his head, and said with an aggrieved face, "I also want to sell these lotus roots in restaurants, but they don't trust us, and they are not willing to use our lotus roots... Now they really can't sell them, unless It's very cheap, but the loss is too big, more than 200 taels, and the loss is less than 50 taels. This is all the money of our Bai family, even the wheat money collected this year is in it, dad, I Sorry..."

After talking about it, Bai Chuanqiang suddenly burst into tears.

It seems that the pressure is indeed not light.

Old man Bai hugged his son distressedly, patted him on the shoulder, and sighed, "It's really not possible, you should stop doing business, boss, after so many years, I can see that you are not the material, from now on we The family farms honestly, and the grain can be sold for a hundred taels of silver every year, which is enough for the family to eat comfortably..."

"No." Upon hearing this, Mrs. Liu immediately retorted fiercely, "I don't agree. If you don't do business, what can you do with the family's ten acres of land? Pay a hundred taels of silver, that's a good income Under the circumstances, if it is not good, there are often 30 taels, which is enough for the family to eat? Do you really want us to be the hairpins of the family by then? "

(End of this chapter)