Queen's Development

Chapter 4 is sold
It was already dark.

Bai Yuzhi had been crying and shaking the door in the West Room before, but she probably saw that crying was useless, now she finally stopped.

In the room of Baijiatang, the lights were like beans, and Bai Futang and Mrs. Bai were sitting at a broken square table against the east wall, discussing in low voices.

Mrs. Bai had wounds on her cheeks, chin, neck, and wrists from scratches and bites from Bai Yuzhi. She couldn't help but "hissed" and said, "Young girl Yuzhi is really a little mad dog. If you sell her, good morning. Otherwise, she might bite back at any time!"

Bai Futang hesitated, took a sip from the cigarette stick, and slowly let out a circle around his eyes.

Seeing that Bai Futang was still hesitating, Mrs. Bai was furious, and she said in a low voice, "Yuzhi, a girl who has grown up from a kid, has a lot of ideas! You forgot, we stopped her from going to school when she was seven years old. How did she do it? She ran to collect firewood, wash vegetables, and sweep the floor for the teacher’s wife, and begged her to continue studying with Yuhuai! If you don’t make up your mind, maybe she will run away tomorrow. Who is it, our bamboo basket fetched water in vain, Bai Sheng raised her!"

Bai Futang muttered for a long time before he said, "How about handing it over to Mama Yan and selling it to Xingping County Prince's Mansion? Qingzhou is not far from our Wanzhou, and Yuzhi can take care of us in the future!"

Mrs. Bai rolled her eyes, and finally said: "I'll listen to you this time, but you have to go out, go to the pharmacy in He Zhuang next door, and buy a pack of Mongolian sweat medicine. When the time comes, I'll cook a pot of porridge and put some locust trees in it." The nectar, even if you add Mongolian sweat medicine, Yuzhi can't taste it..."

Bai Futang couldn't bear it: "This is our own biological daughter, why—"

Seeing that her husband was disobedient, Mrs. Bai raised her eyebrows immediately: "If you don't sell Bai Yuzhi, how can our Yuhuai study and study? How can we enter Beijing to catch up with the exam? How can we honor our ancestors? It's all because you, a father, are incapable of crying and pretending to be a mouse." She is merciful and refuses to sell her daughter, if you are capable, you can earn a lot of money!"

Bai Futang was used to listening to Mrs. Bai's words, even though he was not happy, he didn't express any objection anymore, he sighed and got up and went out.

Yuzhi, who was locked in the west room, sat in the pile of firewood, silently thinking about the way to escape.

The night gradually deepened, and the night in the countryside was silent, except for the occasional dog barking, it was absolutely silent.

Yuzhi sat on the floor in front of the window in a daze, she was so hungry that she struggled even to move.

The cold moonlight poured in like water, through the wooden lattice on the window, and cast mottled shadows on Yuzhi's face, body and ground.

The empty stomach twitched, and the pain made Yuzhi's slender body bent into a shrimp, and her whole body shrank into a ball—except for the bowl of porridge that could be seen at noon, she hadn't eaten for five or six hours. It's over!
Yuzhi closed her eyes, trying her best to resist the pangs of hunger.

At this time, if someone could serve her a bowl of warm and fragrant porridge, that would be great!

As time passed, Yuzhi became more and more hungry, her eyes turned black and her whole body became weak.

She lay powerlessly on the ground, her whole body shrunk into a small ball.

At this moment, the west room door was opened with a "squeak", and a sweet porridge fragrance wafted to Yuzhi's nose.

Yuzhi sniffed her nose vigorously, smelling the tangy aroma of porridge, and suspected that she was dead—if she wasn't dead, how could she smell such a sweet aroma of porridge?

The voice of her mother-in-law Bai came from above: "Yuzhi, are you hungry? Mother cooked peanut, mung bean and lotus seed porridge tonight, it was so rotten, and she also put some acacia honey you collected last year, it's very sweet! "

Yuzhi opened her eyes, looking at Mrs. Bai who was holding an oil lamp close at hand, she felt a little moved: It seems that mother still loves me!If I persist, maybe my mother won't sell me!
Thinking of this, she resisted the convulsions and constriction of her stomach and intestines due to hunger, and looked at Mrs. Bai: "Mother, if you want to betray me, I won't drink any porridge!"

Aunt Bai knew that her daughter had always been a small ghost with a lot of thoughts, so she put the oil lamp on the ground beside her, held a porridge bowl and greeted Yuzhi with a kind face: "Yuzhi, do you want to feel sorry for your mother to death? Drink it quickly, I put a lot of Sophora japonica honey, if you don't drink it, I will drink it!"

Seeing Yuzhi's big eyes staring at her for a moment, Mrs. Bai scooped up some porridge with a spoon and put it in her mouth: "It's so sweet!"

She hated iron and steel: "Okay, mother won't sell you anymore, get up and drink the porridge!"

"Really?" Yuzhi couldn't believe her ears. She stared at Mrs. Bai with round eyes, and hurriedly said, "Mother, if you don't sell me, I will work hard, earn more money, be filial You and my dad!"

Mrs. Bai smiled and nodded: "It's really not for sale!"

Yuzhi looked into Auntie Bai's eyes and still couldn't believe it: "Mother, are you really not going to sell me?"

"Of course it's true!" Mrs. Bai said with a smile, "When did I stop talking?"

Yuzhi thought about it, and felt that it was her biological parents. Although she was a little selfish, she was still reluctant to sell herself.

She took the porridge bowl, scooped some up with a spoon and tasted it, and found that it was really sweet, sweet and glutinous, it was so delicious!

Yuzhi had never eaten such a sweet and delicious food, so she immediately ate one spoon after another, and quickly finished half of the bowl of peanut, mung bean and lotus seed porridge.

Sister-in-law Bai smiled and watched her daughter eat porridge: "Yuzhi, isn't it very sweet? Let's get you another bowl!"

She knows that Yuzhi loves sweets very much, and all the honey in the house is brought back by Yuzhi digging out beehives.

It's just that she kept all the honey at home, and only when her son Bai Yuhuai came back did she make tea for him.

Seeing that the mother who treated her so stingyly was so generous tonight, Yuzhi was very puzzled, put down the spoon, wiped the corners of her mouth with her hand, and resolutely refused to eat any more.

Auntie Bai looked at the empty bowl in her hand, smiled slightly and glanced at Yuzhi, and said in her heart: Forgive your little girl for being so wicked, you must also take your mother's sweat medicine!

Yuzhi was about to stand up against the wall, but felt her head was dangling and dizzy, her eyes could hardly be opened, her body began to weaken, her bones seemed to be brittle...

She wanted to speak, but her throat seemed to be stuffed with a ball of cotton, and it seemed to have become woody, so she couldn't make a sound at all.

Yuzhi tried her best to reach out to grab her mother's hand, but in vain, she tried her best to open her eyes, and found that her mother, Mrs. Bai, was looking at her proudly and smiling...

After that, Yuzhi didn't know anything.

The next day, before dawn, the door of Bai's house opened with a "squeak".

Bai Futang drove the family's ox cart out of the gate.

The ox cart was covered with quilts, and Mrs. Bai was sitting on the cart, covered with a quilt, holding the sleeping Bai Yuzhi in her arms.

After locking the gate, Bai Futang sat on the shaft of the car, looked back at Mrs. Bai, and said, "Leave now?"

Aunt Bai hugged Bai Yuzhi tightly in her arms, and said, "Father Yuhuai, hurry up, let's set off now, when we arrive at the west gate of Wanzhou City, it's time to open the gate!"

Bai Futang always listened to his wife, flicked his whip, yelled "Drive", and the ox cart started slowly.

The dirt roads in the countryside are uneven and full of potholes. Mrs. Bai sat on the bullock cart, twisting her body to and fro, which was really uncomfortable.

If the road is bad, the ox cart will go very slowly.Mrs. Bai hugged Yuzhi, feeling very impatient, for fear that Bai Yuzhi would wake up in the middle.

Although she and her husband had already tied Bai Yuzhi up with a straw rope, if Yuzhi woke up and yelled, it would be ugly.

Yuzhi is good at everything, but she has a strong personality and is very stubborn.

In fact, a girl, since she was born as a girl, she just obeyed her parents' arrangements in An An, and exchanged a sum of money for her elder brother to study. In the future, the lintel will be honored, wouldn't the whole family be honored?Why make a fuss!
This is all fate, and it is impossible for people not to accept fate.

Baijiaying is located in the hills to the west of Wanzhou City. On both sides of the road from Baijiaying to the city, there are wheat fields, ponds, poplars, and high and low thatched houses. They are all common sights for Mrs. Bai. There is nothing to see and boring. very.

Mrs. Bai hugged Bai Yuzhi tightly, shivered in the cold early spring wind, and said to herself: After getting the price of Yuzhi, the first thing to do is to go to a silk shop in the city and grab some good ones. Materials, making two decent Confucian robes for Yu Huai, after all, he is a scholar...

In the howling cold wind of early spring, Yuzhi closed her eyes tightly and huddled in her biological mother's arms, ignorantly walking towards the strange and unknowable road of life.

(End of this chapter)