branch plum blossom

Chapter 10 We Didn't
Hurrying quickly, Qin Yulan finally took Baimei and the others back, an hour later than expected.

Seeing that Bai Gui hadn't returned from the field, Qin Yulan was slightly relieved.

As soon as he stepped over the threshold, before he had time to put down the basket, Liu Shibi's angry voice sounded.

"I just came back now, I don't know where those few hid to steal something to eat."

Qin Yulan's eyes fluctuated a little, ignored her, rolled up her sleeves, put on her apron, and dragged Baimei into the kitchen.

After walking so much, Baifeng Baiyue has long lost his strength.

As soon as he entered the room, he slumped down on the tattered wooden chair in the main room and groaned.

"These little wild cubs, go out and secretly eat, and then come back to die!"

When Liu Shibi saw Bai Feng Baiyue sitting there slumped, she became very angry.

"What kind of evil is this? There are so many delicious and lazy wild guis in the house all of a sudden, what should I do?"

Liu Shibi took a small bench and sat at the door, beating her chest and touching her tears.

"This old witch, just shut up her stinky mouth sometime."

Baimei stuffed a handful of firewood into the stove, gritted her teeth and spat in the direction where Liu Shibi was sitting.

"Baimei, don't do this. After all, she is an elder, and her four daughters will come soon. You can't do this. Be careful if they hear it, they will come looking for us again."

While washing rice, Qin Yulan stretched her head to look outside the house, and after making sure that there was no one there, she whispered instructions to Baimei.

"Oh, I know."

Baimei pouted dissatisfiedly.

When the day comes, when she is capable and rich, she wants to say what she wants to say, regardless of what the old witch and the little bastard call her!
"Why are you crying here?"

Baimei heard someone talking to Liu Shibi outside.

She poked her head out and saw an old woman with gray hair walking towards Liu Shibi.

The old woman is still following the old bald head.

"Big sister, you're here? Oh, why am I crying? I'm crying for my own life. At such an old age, I still have to raise those wild ghosts. I raise them with good intentions, they are good, mothers They secretly went to the town to eat delicious food, and they didn't bring me a single bit of food."

Liu Shibi pouted her lips towards the main room as she spoke.

Bai Yulan glanced over, just in time to see Baifeng Baiyue lying on the chair and sleeping with her eyes squinted, her mouth still dripping.

Now the magnolia is fried.

It's okay, Bai Gui married a second marriage with three oil bottles, but she is such a shameless woman!

"Which old woman gave birth to this? What are you doing in the main room in broad daylight? Are you going to die?"

With her hands on her hips, Bai Yulan stood at the door of the main room, frowned, and cursed loudly.

Seeing someone helping her, Liu Shibi bent her mouth proudly, and then continued to cry.

"Oh, my life is so miserable, you short-lived Bai Cangyun, why didn't you take me with you? Leave me here alone to suffer."

"Mom, what's the matter with you, sitting here yelling?"

Bai Xinlan followed closely behind Bai Yulan and also arrived.

Seeing the scene in front of him, I felt a sense of disgust in my heart.

Before her mother-in-law passed away, she also behaved like this, sitting at the door crying and scolding at the top of her voice.

"What's the matter? Huh! It's all because of you, the goblin woman! If you insist on bringing that woman into our house, that's all right, as soon as she comes, she will bully me, an old woman!"

When Liu Shibi saw Bai Xinlan coming, she became very angry.

If she hadn't insisted on marrying Qin Yulan back then, she would never have let Qin Yulan into their house.

"Miss, what's wrong?"

Bai Xinlan looked at Liu Shibi, did not speak to her, and turned her head to Bai Yulan.

"What's wrong? Hmph! Ask your good sister-in-law you found!"

Bai Yulan, like Liu Shibi, crossed her arms, extremely arrogant and bitter.

Bai Xinlan didn't continue to ask, she turned around and went to the kitchen.

Qin Yulan scooped water into the pot with a ladle in one hand, and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with the other.

Holding the tongs, Baimei looked angrily at Liu Shibi and Bai Yulan outside the house.

The fire in the stove blazed fiercely.

"Fourth sister."

Before Bai Xinlan could speak, Qin Yulan choked up.

There were countless grievances in the voice.

She has accumulated these grievances from yesterday to today.

"what's going on?"

Originally, before Bai Xinlan stepped into the threshold of the kitchen, she was still a little angry.

After all, Liu Shibi is her own mother, crying like that, as a daughter, no matter how sensible she is, she will have the urge to seek "justice" for her.

She thought in her heart, I worked so hard to get you mothers in, you lived restlessly with Bai Gui and the others, and when you came here, you started to turn semen, I was wrong in the end!

She was ready to talk about Qin Yulan and tell her to be more honest.

But when she saw Qin Yulan's timid, cautious, hesitant to speak, most of the anger in her heart disappeared.

Qin Yulan's trembling "fourth sister" made Bai Xinlan completely surrender.

"What's the matter?"

Bai Xinlan took the ladle from Qin Yulan's hand and helped her scoop a ladle of water into the pot, her tone as gentle as possible.

"Fourth sister, we just went to the town to buy vegetables. This morning, Bai Gui said, you guys want to come, let me go to the town to buy vegetables. I can't carry it alone, so I wanted to ask Baimei to go with me .”

Qin Yulan said, pointing to Baimei.

"Fourth sister, this is my eldest daughter, Baimei. Come on, Baimei, she's my fourth aunt."

"Fourth aunt."

Bai Mei is a smart child, from Bai Xinlan's tone and Qin Yulan's attitude, she judged that this Bai Xinlan was different from Liu Shibi and the old woman outside.

She put away the angry expression just now, changed to a cute appearance, and respectfully called Bai Xinlan Fourth Aunt.

"Well, good!"

Bai Xinlan looked at Baimei and nodded.

This child looks very straight, and his skin is fair, but he is too thin, like a long deflated balloon.

"However, my family, Bai Feng and Bai Yue, insist on going with them... Fourth sister, you know, we just came yesterday, and the two children are not familiar with this place. If I keep them at home, I'm afraid I will cause trouble to my mother... So , I took them with me, Bai Yue was young and walked slowly, so we came back a little late."

Qin Yulan looked at Bai Xinlan timidly and whispered.

"I wrote down all the money I spent on buying vegetables on paper. When Bai Gui comes back, I will hand over the remaining money to him."

As Qin Yulan spoke, she took out a crumpled piece of paper, on which was slanted the account for today's grocery shopping.

"What are you doing? Would I not believe you?"

Bai Xinlan cast a cursory glance and told Qin Yulan to put it away quickly.

"Fourth sister, these three children followed me for several hours, and I was not even willing to buy them a glass of cold water."

As Qin Yulan spoke, she started to whimper softly.

In her mind, the envious expressions of the three children watching other children happily buying all kinds of things they wanted to buy in the market appeared in her mind.

Especially Bai Yue, who was so thirsty that she kept smacking her lips, but stubbornly shook her head and said that she was not thirsty.

The eager but helpless, mischievous and sensible expressions of the three children really made her, a mother, very sad!
I'm so useless!

Qin Yulan kept scolding herself in her heart.

"Fourth sister, we really didn't secretly eat delicious food in the town."

"Yulan, you can't be so hard on the child, how much is a glass of cold water worth? You still have to buy what you should buy!"

Bai Xinlan held Qin Yulan's hand and patted it lightly.

"Okay, I see, you don't need to pay attention to them, they are just like that!"

After Bai Xinlan finished speaking, she walked out of the kitchen.

Liu Shibi was still crying and howling outside.

"Mom, don't cry, I asked Qin Yulan, she didn't steal food at all!"

Bai Xinlan walked towards her and said calmly.

"Xinlan, do you trust an outsider and not our mother?"

Bai Yulan crossed her arms and sneered at Bai Xinlan.

Hearing Bai Yulan's encouragement, Liu Shibi, who had already started to silence, started crying again at a high decibel.

"what happened?"

Bai Gui came back from the field with a hoe on his shoulder.

"Why are you still outside, isn't the food ready?"

When Bai Gui saw that everyone was still standing outside the house, and none of the dishes had been served, the expression on his face suddenly changed.

A dark cloud covered his face.

"Qin Yulan!"

He shouted Qin Yulan's name loudly and ran towards the kitchen.

(End of this chapter)