branch plum blossom

Chapter 25
"Aunt Bai, let Bai Yuan go to school with us."

Baimei followed Huo Xiulian, from the courtyard to the main room, from the main room to the kitchen room, from the kitchen room to the pigsty room, and finally from the pigsty room back to the yard.

He kept repeating this sentence in his mouth.

Bai Xinyou is the boss. Because of the friendship between Bai Wu and Bai Xinyou, Bai Mei worshiped Bai Xinyou as her godfather when she was born, so Bai Mei called Bai Xinyou Bai Daddy and Huo Xiulian Bai Auntie.

"Baimei, I've told you many times. I can't make the decision on this matter. It's not like you don't know that your daddy Bai has the final say in our family. Go and talk to your daddy Bai. "

Huo Xiulian quickly chopped pig grass on a wooden pier, then packed it in a basket, moved it to the stove, poured it into a pot, cooked it with some rice bran for a while, put it in a pig food bucket, and brought it to the pigsty. It fell into the pig trough with a "crash".

When Huo Xiulian talks to outsiders, she is always polite and does her best to save face.

"What an old sow!"

A look of contempt appeared on Baimei's face.

Bai Xinyou was forced by Huo Xiulian to go out to work with the engineering team half a month ago. This will make her go to Bai Xinyou, what is it if she didn't mean to talk nonsense?
Originally, after Bai Zhongkui retired from the supply and marketing cooperative, he planned to let Bai Xinyou take over from him. This is a fact recognized by the Bai family.

However, at the end, Bai Zhongkui changed his mind and let his younger son Bai Xinhua take over.Bai Zhongkui's reason was that Bai Xinhua was the shortest and weakest of the brothers, and his health was also poor. They were afraid that he would not be able to do farm work, so they decided to let him take over.

After Huo Xiulian found out, she acted like a madman, cursing pigs and dogs, biting and biting Bai Xinyou, kicking and hitting Bai Yuan for a full month.

The Bai family has become the talk of people after dinner.This made Bai Xinyou very embarrassed.He felt that Huo Xiulian was not virtuous and considerate enough, and gradually became bored with Huo Xiulian, so when Huo Xiulian mentioned part-time work, he immediately packed up his things and went out with others.

Actually, Huo Xiulian couldn't be completely blamed for this.

At the beginning, when the Bai family went to the Huo family to talk about marriage, they told the Huo family that Bai Xinyou would take over Bai Zhongkui's class in the future, otherwise, the Huo family would not easily marry their only daughter to Bai Xinyou.

Huo Xiulian is the veritable jewel in the palm of the Huo family. Huo Xiulian's mother Yu Fuying gave birth to nine sons, and it was not until the tenth that Huo Xiulian was born.

When Yu Fuying gave birth to Huo Xiulian, there was another episode.

It is said that thin people are flexible, able to resist and give birth, and this is true.

Yu Fuying is very short and thin, with big eyes that sparkle and sparkle.She never stopped working during her pregnancy. Sometimes she was picking mulberry leaves on the slopes, she was planting rice seedlings in the paddy fields, she was picking dung and drenching vegetables, and she was selling eggs and rice bran in the town.
She is busy everywhere in the fields, she does what normal people do, and sometimes she doesn’t show her pregnancy when she is about to give birth, so that people are very surprised, how she gave birth to so many children in a blink of an eye ?

After giving birth to the second child, I didn’t hire a midwife. I delivered the baby by myself. After the baby fell to the ground, I took the scissors soaked in wine, cut off the umbilical cord with a click, roughly wiped the baby, and wrapped it in a small torn blanket. Get up and it's over.

After Huo Xiulian landed on the ground screaming "Wow", Yu Fuying thought it was another son, wiped her body, wrapped her up, put her on the bed, and then went to cook for her.When Huo Xuetong came back from the commune, Yu Fuying had already finished eating and lay down next to Huo Xiulian.

"Is it born?"

"Well, I gave birth."

"Son again?"

"Do you think you are still a daughter?"

"Ugh."

Huo Xuetong sighed, squatting on the threshold, looking at the setting sun, weeping dryly.

Am I, Huo Xuetong, destined not to have a daughter in this life?
"Student, did Huo give birth? A son or a daughter?"

Huo Xiulian's grandma, Mrs. Zeng, came to their house after she had finished her work.

Huo Xuetong raised his eyes, looked at the expectant eyes of the old mother, and shook his head reluctantly.

Just as Mrs. Zeng was about to speak to comfort Huo Xue, Huo Xiulian's loud cry sounded.

"Don't worry, you will be born again in two years, there is still a chance, I will go in and see the child and your wife first."

As soon as Mrs. Zeng entered the room, she saw Huo Xiulian crying non-stop with a big mouth, and Yu Fuying lying next to her indifferently.

"Did you pee?"

Zeng asked softly, and she couldn't blame Yu Fuying.After giving birth and cooking again, she must be tired, plus she has another son, so it's no wonder Yu Fuying is like this.

Mrs. Zeng is a kind person. Although she is the tenth child, Mrs. Zeng is not impatient and still helps as before.

She was busy changing Huo Xiulian's diaper.

When she changed the diaper, she felt that something was wrong underneath the baby.After she took a closer look, she let out a cry of surprise.

"Oh, my mother, this is a daughter!"

"God opened my eyes, I, Huo Xuetong, finally have a daughter!"

Huo Xuetong, who was squatting outside the house with his head down, jumped up and down like a seven or eight-year-old child, and the sound of cheers spread throughout the village.

From grandma Zeng Shi down to nine elder brothers, all of them regard her as a treasure. Huo Xiulian can be said to be a collection of thousands of pets.

Bai Xinyou and Huo Xiulian are classmates in junior high school, and Bai Zhongkui and Huo Xuetong both eat public meals. For some reason, the two families talked about their marriage.

Originally, Yu Fuying was not very willing. She felt that Malihan was an outsider and might have done something bad. She was afraid that Huo Xiulian would be implicated after marrying.

"You only see Bai Zhongkui eating at the public house. You don't know who Ma Yifang's father Malihan is? I heard from my father that Malihan is not a good person. He came here to hide from his enemies. The skin is tender and tender, as if it has never been exposed to the sun. It is not like us ordinary people. Think about it, if there is something shameful in their family. We have a daughter like Xiulian, you have the heart to let her Marry into such a family?"

Yu Fuying pulled Huo Xuetong, but refused to die, and Huo Xuetong was a little shaken by what he said.

Seeing this, Bai Zhongkui hurriedly patted his chest to make sure that in the future, after he retires, Bai Xinyou will take over his duties.

In the end, under the stalking of the Bai family, Huo Xiulian married Bai Xinyou.

In the first few years of marriage, Bai Xinyou made offerings to Huo Xiulian like a god, and never let Huo Xiulian do things like washing and cooking, transplanting rice seedlings and harvesting grain.But as Huo Xuetong retired, Yu Fuying suffered a stroke, Huo Anyong, the boss of the Huo family, was imprisoned for corruption after taking over, and the other sons of the Huo family got married and were put to death by their wives. Huo Xiulian lost the support of her natal family. Her status is no longer as noble as before, and she has become no different from ordinary peasant women.

She watched eagerly for Bai Xinyou to take over, so as to restore the former glory.

But in the end, Bai Zhongkui gave the job to Bai Xinhua without promise, and Huo Xiulian wanted to die.However, my natal family can no longer support her, and she can only eat Coptis chinensis dumb.

She vented all her anger on Bai Yuan, beating and scolding her at every turn, and Bai Yuan's body was always bruised and purple.In the end, she felt that Bai Yuan's study was a waste of money, so she refused to let Bai Yuan go to school.

In fact, with the reform and opening up, people in the village went out to work one after another. Those who earned money to build a house, and those who bought a TV to buy a TV, all went the better, but Bai Xinyou’s family seemed to go back more and more. Seemingly inferior to others everywhere, Huo Xiulian was very jealous when she saw other people's good life.While forcing Bai Xinyou to go out to work, she is going to stop Bai Yuan's studies. She plans to drive Bai Yuan out to work in another two years.

"Daddy Bai isn't at home?"

Baimei was not reconciled and continued to deal with Huo Xiulian.

"Then just wait for him to come back."

Before Baimei could finish speaking, Huo Xiulian went to the bedroom and slammed the door shut with her backhand.

Could it be that Bai Yuan really couldn't go to school?

When Baimei thought of how Baiyuan would be trapped in the countryside and in this ravine forever, her heart felt like a knife and she couldn't stop crying.

"Baimei, what are you doing standing here? It's getting dark, if you don't go back, be careful your mother is looking for you again."

Ma Yifang lived in the few rooms next to Huo Xiulian. When she saw Baimei, she came to talk to Baimei as if she could see through Baimei's mind.

"Bai San Po, please, please, help Bai Yuan, let her go to school, her grades are so good, she will definitely be admitted to a good university in the future, and when she is admitted to a good university, she will definitely do well. Filial piety to you."

As if grasping at a straw, Baimei knelt down to Ma Yifang involuntarily.

"Ugh--"

Ma Yifang sighed long and lifted Baimei up.

"I'm her grandma. If I have money, can I not help?"

Ma Yifang said in embarrassment.

"Oh, anyway, Bai Yuan is not your family's biological child, so how could you let her study?"

Baimei wiped away her tears and yelled at Ma Yifang, looking extremely desperate and angry.

After Baimei shouted, she ran away.

"Baimei—"

Ma Yifang ran a few steps behind her, as if he had something to say.

But Baimei didn't want to look at that family anymore.

(End of this chapter)