Qin Nan continued pruning the branches. "Boss, if Zhou Miao insists on keeping Zhou Xuan's name, will Zhou Miao's father agree?"

Bai Hao: "Of course he will. Zhou Miao won't explain why, but his father feels guilty towards him, so he won't object to anything he does."

Qin Nan: "Then, wouldn't that be... the same as what he did to his mother?"

Bai Hao: "Do you believe his mother has truly forgotten the past?"

Qin Nan paused, then turned to look at Bai Hao. Bai Hao smiled, and Qin Nan's lips twitched. It was a complicated feeling. He thought of Chen Qizhu. It was a pity that Yang Zizhong and Zhou Miao's father made different choices, but neither of them had a good marriage, and both hurt their children.

Qin Nan: "Zhou Miao doesn't know, but he insists on calling him Zhou Xuan. His mother must be very heartbroken. So, she won't abandon the child, will she?"

Bai Hao: "Who said he didn't know?"

"..." Qin Nan didn't want to talk anymore. He was exhausted. He felt like a fool. Everyone knew each other's secrets, but they kept them to themselves, maintaining this so-called family by pretending to be deaf and dumb. No wonder Zhou Miao didn't want to go back. He hoped that Zhou Xuan's arrival would allow Zhou Miao to redefine his family.

Bai Hao looked at Qin Nan's dejected face and kept one thing to himself. If he told Qin Nan, she would probably be even more desperate: Zhou Miao's mother's accident had nothing to do with that woman; it was all part of her own plan.

Zhou Miao wouldn't talk about Zhou Xuan, but his mother couldn't refuse, because if she chose to forget, she had to bear the pain of forgetting.

The person suffering the most is Zhou Miao. He knows everything his mother and father did, and the only thing he can hold on to is to let Zhou Xuan live again and grow up like a younger brother.

Zhou Miao probably didn't have such deep feelings for Zhou Xuan, but Zhou Xuan was the only person who gave him the affection of family and blood ties. Zhou Xuan treated him like a brother and protected him with all his might, a feeling that Zhou Miao had never experienced before.

This is what he thought family members should have—a bond and protection for each other. So he placed his expectations for his family on Zhou Xuan. Of course, Zhou Xuan had not disappointed him before, and he would not in the future!

That evening, Qin Nan prepared mutton soup, shredded pork with shredded vegetables, shredded pork with garlic sauce, lotus root sandwiches, four-happiness meatballs, hot and sour shredded potatoes, yam and purple sweet potato porridge, and cornbread. Everyone, including Bai Hao, ate to their heart's content.

After the meal, Qin Nan directed the two children to busy themselves in the kitchen washing dishes and pots. Qin Nan hadn't intended for them to help, but they insisted that they couldn't eat for free.

Chi Wei also emphasized that he couldn't help before because he couldn't transform into human form, but now he must help as much as he can. However, the two are not very familiar with each other, so Qin Nan is giving him pointers from the side.

Bai Hao, unusually, wasn't watching TV dramas but was instead watching the news. After Qin Nan finished explaining the precautions, Chi Wei and Pi Yuan pushed her out of the kitchen. Qin Nan glanced at the clothes in the yard, picked up the clothes basket, and put them away. Seeing Bai Hao watching the news, she suddenly remembered a question, put down the clothes basket, and walked to the sofa.

Qin Nan: "Boss, you know everything, but when you watch TV dramas, aren't you just spoiling the plot? How can you watch them?"

Bai Hao was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at Qin Nan, "Knowing everything is an innate ability, I can choose to use it or not."

Qin Nan: "So it was controllable, but how come you didn't know that Lü Zeqi would push the door open and come in?"

Bai Hao paused for a moment upon hearing this, then turned to watch TV. It was only because someone was around that he was worried about Zhou Miao, who was in contact with Qin Nan, and forgot about the other one.

Qin Nan was puzzled by Bai Hao's somewhat angry expression. Was there something wrong with his question?

Qin Nan: "Well, boss, when will we have new customers? I think I can rest for a few days. I want to stock up on more nuts to make snacks. Also, in about ten days, the vegetables in the field will be ready to harvest. I need to start organizing the warehouse to make room for storing vegetables."

We also need to buy some more apples to make dried fruit. And as for the little Xuanwu you mentioned, we need to prepare clothes for him. Mythical beasts shouldn't be afraid of the cold, but we can't make it too unusual; his clothes should be appropriate for the season.

Upon hearing this, Bai Hao thought about it carefully for a moment, "About seven or eight days later. I haven't decided on the exact time for them to come yet. If you put it that way, then let's say ten days later."

Qin Nan: "You asked them to come?"

Bai Hao: "I'm not the only one who does things related to the Yin and Yang worlds. There are also humans who do it, and some of them are very skilled, like the one who made the birdcage last time. So it's not possible for anyone to come for a while."

Qin Nan: "Speaking of which, why can mythical beasts exorcise ghosts?"

Bai Hao: "Ordinary divine beasts would not, but my master is Di Ting."

Qin Nan: "Di Ting... is Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's mount?!"

Bai Hao chuckled softly, "That's just human fantasy. How could a divine beast be content to be subservient to a human? It's just that Di Ting admires and respects Ksitigarbha as a human, so it follows him all the way, just like my ancestor presented a map to the Yellow Emperor. It's simply that the Great Dao leads to the sage."

Qin Nan: "Ancestor? Isn't there only one Bai Ze?"

Bai Hao: "Of course not. Bai Ze is the general name of our clan. We just look exactly the same in beast form, so humans thought there was only one of us. Later, our clan all transformed and mingled with the human race. We lost all contact with humans, so humans thought we were just legends."

Qin Nan nodded, feeling that she had gained some strange new knowledge.

Qin Nan: "Boss, if you can know everything, can't you also change other people's fates?"

Bai Hao glanced at Qin Nan indifferently, "If that were the case, my clan would have ceased to exist long ago. We can know and avoid disaster, but we cannot disrupt the destiny of Heaven. Only by using human methods like this can I intervene in some matters."

Qin Nan thought about it and agreed. If a group of Bai Ze kept changing everyone's fate, things would really get out of control.

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