branch plum blossom

Chapter 15
Baimei ran far away in one breath.

Tears kept bubbling silently.

How could this be?
She asked herself this question over and over in her mind.

God -

She raised her head, squinted her tearful eyes, and looked at the bright sun, feeling hesitant.

Where should I go?

On the branching paths, she wandered back and forth.

Finally, she returned to her home on the mountain.

That stone house standing alone on the hillside.

"squeak"

She pushed open the shabby door and approached the familiar house.

She sat on the bed where her father was dying, and tried hard to feel his breath.

If her father was still there, she would never be wronged today.

"Dad, woo woo woo."

Baimei threw herself on the empty bed, crying loudly.

She cried all afternoon.

It wasn't until the sun gradually disappeared towards the top of the mountain that the crying gradually stopped.

Xu Shi cried for too long, was tired, and his eyelids were fighting.

Baimei curled up on the bed and fell asleep in a daze.

At the foot of the mountain, Qin Yulan waited and waited until Baimei came back, feeling very uneasy like a monkey's paw scratching her heart.

Several times, when she was about to go out to find Baimei, she was choked back by Bai Yulan, and Bai Gui glared at her fiercely.

"This child, he has done something wrong, and he still refuses to admit it! He runs away in anger every now and then, it's really uneducated!"

Bai Yulan taunted Qin Yulan with her accent.

Qin Yulan hesitated to speak.

"It's okay, kid, she always loses her temper. She will come back after a while."

Bai Xinlan and Bai Junlan also took Qin Yulan's hand and comforted her kindly.

"Run? If you want to run, let her run away! Who cares about her! Still running? It's just right to run away, to save food! To avoid hacking around with a knife again! What a madman of the family!"

Liu Shibi scolded Qin Yulan at the top of her voice.

Qin Yulan snorted softly, and was about to stand up and turn back, but Bai Xinlan held her down.

"Yulan, don't be fussy like your mother, she's old, and sometimes she doesn't make decisions when she speaks."

"Yeah yeah."

Bai Junlan followed Bai Xinlan's tone and kept nodding.

"You worry about it."

Bai Xinlan took Qin Yulan's hand, talked for a while, and then went to talk to Liu Shibi.

"Mom, you're already so old. Let's say a few words less. Qin Yulan is gentle and gentle. It's not like we don't know the situation of our fifth son. Who can bear his temper? To be honest, If it wasn't for Qin Yulan's three children to raise, based on her appearance and appearance, would she have taken a fancy to our five sons?"

Bai Xinlan sat in front of Liu Shibi, quietly analyzing with her.

"Let's talk about it, our fifth child."

Bai Xinlan looked left and right, afraid that others would hear it, she lowered her voice, and attached herself to Liu Shibi's ear.

Although Liu Shibi is over 80, she is not like other people over 80 at all. She is neither blind nor deaf, has good teeth, and can chew dry soybeans.

Although her voice was low, Bai Xinlan listened to every word.

Qin Yulan was sitting on the courtyard dam not far from them. Qin Yulan heard what they said before.

She thought to herself, this Bai Xinlan is indeed a sensible person.

However, the last words were not heard.

After Bai Xinlan finished speaking, Liu Shibi's eyes fluctuated, and the arrogance she had just now subsided by half.

What made Liu Shibi so afraid?

Of course, her only seedling is Baigui.

Bai Xinlan's words were: Our Wu'er doesn't have any descendants yet, Qin Yulan is the kind of person that can be born at first glance, now, if nothing else, Wu'er can have a descendant.You don't want our family to end here at Wu'er, do you?

In fact, Bai Zhong is not Bai Gui's biological son. Bai Zhong's mother, Yang Daying, was pregnant with Bai Zhong when she married Bai Gui.

Only Liu Shibi and her four daughters knew about this matter.

Even Bai Gui didn't know it himself, so he always thought that the reason for Bai Zhong's thinness was due to premature birth.

Because Bai Gui has some hidden illnesses, his mind is sometimes a little out of control, he will go crazy and beat people at every turn, and he has never been able to find a partner. An ordinary good family, who would want to marry his daughter to a lunatic who can go crazy and beat people.

Liu Shipi asked people to talk about matchmaking everywhere, but there was no result, and she was already a little desperate.

Therefore, when the matchmaker told about Yang Daying's situation, Liu Shibi discussed with the four sisters of the Bai family and agreed.

It doesn't matter who his biological father is, as long as he is born in the Bai family, he is a descendant of Bai Gui, and he will always have to provide for Bai Gui until his death.

With such an idea, Liu Shibi and the four sisters of the Bai family married Yang Daying.

But life will not be brighter because of having a new daughter-in-law.

A person like Liu Shibi is not a kind person by nature, although he agreed to this marriage, but when he thinks of Yang Daying eating her family's food with other people's seeds, he feels very resentful in his heart.

After Yang Daying came in, Liu Shibi was always looking for trouble, scolding pigs or sheep, which made the family run wild.

Bai Gui also beat Yang Daying from time to time until he ran around the room screaming "Aww".

Yang Daying was originally a high school graduate and a knowledgeable person, but he was accidentally deceived by someone, and he had a child in his stomach, which he was reluctant to abort.

Otherwise, she wouldn't marry Bai Gui who didn't graduate from primary school and has a strange temper.

In order to find a decent home for the child in her belly, Yang Daying, under her mother's persuasion, married Bai Gui with tears in her eyes.

Unexpectedly, she was tortured after marriage.

On a torrentially raining evening, Liu Shibifei said that Yang Daying stole her eggs and took them back to her mother's house, crying and clamoring for Yang Daying to pay.

"Who cares about your eggs! One day even if you die, I won't want your eggs!"

Yang Daying was lighting a fire in the kitchen with her big belly about to give birth, and replied to Liu Shibi with dissatisfaction.

Alright, this time it's time to poke Liu Shibi's hornet's nest.

Grasping this point, she dragged Bai Gui to his death.

"Look at your good daughter-in-law, how often do you curse me to death? Ah! You're happy when I'm dead! No one bothers you, you're happy! Ouch, Bai Cangyun, the dead ghost—do you see that? You This silly son, he forgot his mother when he had a wife—what happened to our Bai family, marrying such a goblin—oh, hello—my mother is also—oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo”

Liu Shibi looked at Bai Gui's face that turned from green to pale, and secretly laughed in his heart, crying louder and louder.

Bai Gui got up, walked to the kitchen, and dragged Yang Daying, who was as big as a basket, to the courtyard dam with punches and kicks.

Strands of blood flowed out from under Yang Daying's motionless body, and flowed into the gutter along with the rain.

"Oh, Bai Gui, who killed you today, what are you doing?!"

This scene happened to be seen by Huang Jiuju, Yang Daying's mother who came to deliver eggs to her daughter.

Bai Gui often beat her daughter. Several times, Yang Daying's arm was broken. She didn't know it.

If Yang Daying hadn't been pregnant with someone else's child, she would have gone to the village chief and the police station long ago.

Huang Jiuju glared fiercely at Liu Shibi who was watching the fun with grinning corners, and quickly helped Yang Daying, who was unconscious, to his feet.

"Daying, my daughter, wake up!"

Huang Jiuju pinched people and pinches, and finally woke Yang Daying up.

"mom--"

Seeing Huang Jiuju, Yang Daying poured all his grievances into the "Mom".

Hearing this, Huang Jiuju burst into tears.

"Girl, I'm sorry for you!"

"I want a divorce!"

Yang Daying looked at Bai Gui and Liu Shibi, and said these words weakly.

"This—my daughter."

Huang Jiuju looked at Yang Daying's stomach, his eyes became hesitant.

"Ouch--"

Yang Daying held his stomach and cried out in pain.

"What's wrong? I'm about to give birth?"

Huang Jiuju seemed to be speaking to Liu Shibi and Bai Gui, her voice was surprisingly loud.

"Are you going to give birth?"

Bai Gui, who was still fighting Yang Daying just now, changed his mood instantly, and his voice was full of joy and expectation.

Liu Shibi's eyes also burst into light.

After a day and a night, the exhausted Yang Daying left this world with hatred.

"Wow!" Bai Zhong lost his mother as soon as he fell to the ground, crying.

Everyone said that Yang Daying died in childbirth.

Bai Gui also thought so, so there was always an indescribable feeling in the dialogue with Bai Zhong. He felt that most of Yang Daying's death was due to Bai Zhong.

Only Liu Shibi loved Bai Zhong for the first time, and she felt that he was her own grandson.

But the four sisters of the Bai family, especially Bai Xinlan, never stopped trying to find Bai Gui a child who really belonged to him.

In case Bai Zhong's biological father came back one day and recognized him, wouldn't Bai Gui be in vain?

Bai Gui, after all, should have a purebred child of his own.

After all, the Bai family should have its own pure roots.

Liu Shibi sometimes thinks this way.

This is also the most important reason for her to accept Qin Yulan who has three children, not one of them.

(End of this chapter)