Chapter 239
The old lady Bai didn't come out from Aunt Hu's house until noon.

When Bai Erzhuang was studying in the early years, the old man of the Hu family gave Bai Erzhuang a few copper coins and encouraged him to study hard.The year Bai Erzhuang was admitted as a scholar, the old man of the Hu family passed away, and now the son of the Hu family is sick, and life is quite difficult.

The old lady Bai was thinking of the Hu family's good, and sent two taels of silver to the Hu family to buy medicine for her son.

"Mother, you are back, I want to discuss something with you." Mrs. Zhen stopped the old lady Bai at the gate of the yard.

"Why are you in such a hurry?" Mrs. Bai asked.

"I want to tell my family about my past." Zhen Shi said bluntly.

The old lady Bai sighed, and said: "Alright, Da Zhuang and the others should know about it, sooner or later."

……

Going up the mountain to mine for two taels of silver in January, twenty catties of rice noodles, and two meals a day.

As soon as Village Chief Zhao announced the imperial mining remuneration, the villagers of Shenshu Village were excited.

You must know that going out to work for a month only costs a few hundred dollars.

Now they have money and rice and noodles, and they still take care of the food, and they don't delay doing farm work during the busy farming season.

The young and middle-aged male laborers scrambled to go up the mountain, and they were more active than those who fought the tiger.

The people on the mountain went wave after wave and didn't come back until evening.

"Father, you're back." Xiao Fuyuan saw the white wooden board from a distance, carrying a hammer in one hand and a straw hat in the other, and happily went up to him.

"Girl, look what good things I brought you." Bai Muban handed the straw hat to Xiao Fuyuan.

A straw hat full of red cherries.

"I found a cherry tree in the valley next to the mine. It's amazing that the drought on the mountain didn't affect the cherry tree at all. It bears a lot of fruit. I picked all the ripe ones for you. I'll pick it up for you tomorrow." Bai Muban looked at his daughter's smiling face cheerfully.

"Thank you dad." Xiao Fuyuan picked up the straw hat, "Go home and wash and eat together."

"Well, girl." Bai Muban called to stop her from behind.

"Father picked this for you, you eat by yourself. Your nephew and those boys are as hungry as wolves, and there is no shortage of these in the Feng family girl's house." Bai Muban rubbed his hands, "You eat by yourself , eat by yourself."

Xiao Fuyuan smiled.

She knew her father's little thought, not to encourage her to eat alone, but to let her enjoy it purely out of his own will.

After arriving home, Xiao Fuyuan put the straw hat filled with cherries in the room, and then took the handkerchief to the well in the yard.

The white board was washing the face.

Xiao Fuyuan wet the handkerchief with water and wrung it half dry, and gave it to the white board: "Father, wipe your face."

"Okay, okay, Daddy wipes his face, daughters are better than boys." Bai Muban cheerfully glanced at Bai Erzhuang and Bai Panmei from the corner of his eyes, and the brats didn't say anything when they saw Daddy coming from the mountain. He fetched water to wash his face, it was better to be a girl.

Bai Erzhuang: "..."

Bai Panmei: "..."

"Father, why didn't eldest brother and fifth brother come down the mountain?" Xiao Fuyuan asked.

"Hey, after all, it's my younger sister who is thinking about me, and will talk about it when I can't see my elder brother for a while."

Bai Dazhuang walked in from the outside with a black and gray face, also holding a straw hat in his hand.

Bai Dazhuang was moved.It's only been half a day, but my sister misses him so much.

Unlike Dalang and Erlang, two brats.

"Big Brother." Xiao Fuyuan called out sweetly, and looked behind Bai Dazhuang with her head, but she couldn't see Fifth Brother.

"Your fifth brother will go down the mountain later, he is with his master and General Meng."

Bai Dazhuang gave the straw hat to Xiao Fuyuan.

Full of purple mulberries.

"Your brother Qingpi and I came down from the mountain and saw a mulberry tree in the valley. He didn't find it, so I walked back to the village with him to pick it."

It turned out that this was the reason why the eldest brother came home late.

"Thank you, brother." Xiao Fuyuan said with a smile.

"Then you should wipe your face for elder brother too." Bai Dazhuang saw his younger sister wiping his father's face as soon as he entered the door, and he was envious in his heart.

Xiao Fuyuan washed the handkerchief and wrung it dry. Before she could wipe it for her eldest brother, her second brother Bai Erzhuang came out of the room and said, "Sister, wipe it for your second brother too."

Bai Dazhuang: "Second brother, you didn't go up the mountain, your face is so clean, why do you wipe it off?"

Bai Erzhuang: "I just sweated while reading in the room."

As soon as Bai Erzhuang finished speaking, the fourth eldest sister Bai Pan came out of the room and said with a smile: "Sister, you should wipe your fifth brother's face too."

Bai Erzhuang: "Fourth brother, why are you here to join in the fun, what will you do if your sister is tired."

Fourth Bai: "I'm a young student with a thin skin and tender face, so I can't get tired of my sister. I get sleepy from studying, if my sister wipes my face, I promise I won't be sleepy right away."

Xiao Fuyuan: "..."

Unexpectedly, the fourth brother who is a gentle scholar is such a naughty fourth brother.

Holding the handkerchief, Xiao Fuyuan looked at the eldest brother, the second brother, and the fourth brother.

The three brothers looked at her with burning eyes.

Bai Muban flicked the book in his hand, and chased the three sons like chasing sheep: "Go, go, have a daughter? Go find your daughter-in-law, my daughter-in-law will not serve you..."

Bai Laosi: "Didn't the eldest brother and the second brother hear what Dad said? Go find your daughter-in-law. I don't have a wife, so I don't need to look for it."

Bai Muban looked at the gloating Bai Laosi and said, "Even if you all find wives, you probably won't be able to give birth to daughters."

Bai Dazhuang: "..."

Bai Erzhuang: "..."

Bai Panmei: "..."

As for whose words in the whole family are the most heart-wrenching, it is naturally their own father.

Bai Muban was happy to see his sons deflated. His sons were not as good as him, and all of them had no life like their father-in-law.

He seems to have forgotten that his daughter was not born by himself, but by someone else.

But it doesn't matter, anyway, call him father sweetly, and be filial to him from the bottom of your heart.

The short drama of the Bai family's daily rivalry for favor has come to an end.

After dinner, when the lights for Mrs. Zhou's rest were turned off, the Bai family was summoned in the main room by Mrs. Bai, and even Qiuniang was called.

The atmosphere was quite tense.

Zhen Shi was sitting upright with a serious face, and Xiao Fuyuan snuggled up next to her, feeling as if Zhen Shi was about to announce important news.

"Your mother is from the capital, and your ancestors have made great contributions and were named Duke of the Town..." Old Madam Bai spoke first.

Everyone looked at Mrs. Zhen together.

Xiao Fuyuan raised her head to look at Mrs. Zhen, and the mystery in her heart was solved.

But he was also puzzled, how did mother, a daughter of the Hou family, marry father.

There can only be one reason, the family is in trouble.

As for the father, Xiao Fuyuan thought up a story about the son of a servant and the daughter of the Marquis Mansion.

"No, mother, isn't my grandma's house in Lijiazhuang?" Bai Dazhuang asked in shock.

"Your grandma is my mother's big servant girl." Zhen said in a deep voice, "Your aunt is my concubine sister. Only she and I survived in our family."

Everyone was shocked again!

"... High meritorious deeds, the master of the game, that's it." Zhen's expression couldn't be seen clearly in the light, she told the children exactly what happened in Zhen's mansion, and she breathed a sigh of relief.

It was similar to what Xiao Fuyuan thought, the only difference was that Bai Muban was not the servant's son.

Thinking of her mother being sold to Goulan by her cousin when she was young, Xiao Fuyuan's heart throbbed with pain.

She patted her mother's hand with her soft little hands to comfort her.

Xie Chuntao, who was sitting next to Xiao Fuyuan, couldn't help wiping away tears, no wonder her mother-in-law usually spoke and acted differently from the villagers, she turned out to be the eldest daughter.

It is said that a phoenix falling into the water is not as good as a chicken. Although saying this is disrespectful to her mother-in-law, Xie Chuntao can empathize with her mother-in-law's suffering.

"Both my mother and father died tragically in prison. If it weren't for the Bai family, I wouldn't know where I am now." Zhen continued, "It was your great-grandmother and your father who rescued me back then. Land, I sold it all for ransom, which made you suffer for so many years.”

Bai Muban said from the side: "Why are you mentioning this? My family used to be poorer, and those houses and land were not all your mother who didn't dislike our poor relatives and helped us."

(End of this chapter)

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