Chapter 2

Seeing that the eldest sister didn't reply and her expression kept changing, at first it looked like she hadn't gone to the bathroom for several days, but in the end she was looking at them with a look of amusement, just like watching the little monkeys in the zoo perform! Bi Xiahe and Bi Qiuguo looked at each other, confused and puzzled, and both frowned.

Bi Chunliu touched Bi Qiuguo's head with a smile on his face. "Little girl, if you tell me where the camera is, no, if you tell me where that guy Liu Xu, the one who pays you, is, I'll give you a little more performance fee, okay? Sigh, I don't know where Liu Xu found you. You and the girl next to you do look a lot like my former sister."

Bi Qiuguo looked at her third sister in bewilderment. What performance fee? Who was Liu Xu? Who was her former sister? Besides her and her third sister, her eldest sister actually had other sisters?!

Bi Xiahe was also completely bewildered. Various thoughts flashed through her mind.

It’s over, it’s over. This morning I felt that something was wrong with my eldest sister, as she was dazed. Now, there really is something wrong with my eldest sister! Could she be stupid? She had heard from her classmates before that her classmate’s third aunt’s sister-in-law’s cousin was originally a fool who could only drool and giggle. But one day, after taking a nap, he woke up and inexplicably returned to normal. He was even very smart and even skipped a grade to go straight to junior high school! There are definitely people who get smarter and there are also people who get stupider. Could my eldest sister be one of those people who has become stupid?

Bi Xiahe looked at her elder sister worriedly, feeling a little anxious. What would they do if her elder sister became stupid?

"Big sister, are you going to sit down or not?" the woman with the yellow headscarf interrupted. These three people were staring at each other. No, what were they doing staring at each other?! Even if they stared at each other, they couldn't use their eyes like that...

Bi Xiahe smiled at the lady in the yellow headscarf and said, "I'm sorry, lady, we haven't arrived yet. My legs must be numb from sitting so please take your time. Lady, it seems we will take a while to get there. I remember we have to cross a small hill before we can get there, right?" Bi Xiahe said as she carefully observed Bi Chunliu's expression.

The woman in the yellow headscarf nodded. "Okay, from what you said, you're almost there. We're just over the hill. Are you from Dashi Commune? Then we're not far away. My family is from Lingping Commune, and my eldest sister married into your Dashi Commune."

Bi Xiahe put on a polite smile and nodded politely in response.

Bi Chunliu listened to their conversation and felt as if something was choking her throat. Dashi Commune? Lingping Commune? Commune?!

"Big sister..." Tears slowly welled up in Bi Qiuguo's eyes, as if she had suffered a great injustice, and she was about to cry with her mouth open.

Don't!

Bi Chunliu reached out and pinched Bi Qiuguo's open mouth. She couldn't bear the sound of crying. She cleared her throat and said, "I'm a little stressed out by the crying. Can you please stop crying for now?"

Bi Qiuguo tried hard to hold back her tears and nodded to her elder sister, feeling worried and scared. What should she do? Since just now, why didn't she understand a word her elder sister said?

Bi Chunliu sat back in his seat and pinched himself quietly.

Hiss~It hurts!

What on earth was going on? This didn't seem like something Liu Xu could have come up with. He probably didn't know himself to this extent. The most important thing was that he couldn't possibly know what his long-dead sisters looked like, and she hadn't mentioned Dashi Commune to anyone else.

Bi Chunliu was shocked: "Could it be possible that a dead person could have hallucinations? That shouldn't be the case. Could it be that... she said she wasn't completely dead yet!"

What should I do now?

"Sisters, are you going home? Which production team of Dashi Commune are you from? Maybe I know someone there. My eldest sister married into the Tongxi production team of your Dashi Commune. My brother-in-law's surname is Zhang, and his name is Zhang Dazhu. Do you know him?" The woman with the yellow headscarf patted Bi Chunliu on the shoulder and asked very enthusiastically and talkatively.

Bi Xiahe looked at her and said, "We are also from the Tongxi Production Team. We don't know much about the person you are talking about. We don't come back often and we are not familiar with most people in the village."

It cannot be said that Tongxi Production Team of Dashi Commune is her hometown, after all, she was not born and raised in Tongxi Village.

Tongxi Village is Bi's father's hometown. According to him, his grandfather died young, leaving his grandmother to raise three children alone. Because of financial hardship, his eldest aunt was married off at just sixteen. Then, when he was sixteen or seventeen, his father gritted his teeth and, determined to die outside, ventured out into the world. Unexpectedly, by chance, he landed a job as a worker at the city's textile factory, a position he'd continued to maintain.

She still remembered what her father often said when he was alive. It was really not easy for him, a country boy, to come from such a remote village and become a worker in the city. That was really an honor for the whole family! The day he became a worker, I guess the ancestral graves in the family would be filled with smoke!

Thinking back, Bi Chunliu was puzzled. Even if it was an illusion, why would she want to go back to her hometown? She was not someone who liked to endure hardships.

This is unreasonable!

The eldest sister was still talking to her sisters enthusiastically.

"Really? That's quite a coincidence. Well, I can tell you're from the city. It's normal that you didn't know. I'll tell you something else and you'll know. My brother-in-law has a big matchmaker mole on his face, right here. You should know, right?" The woman with the yellow headscarf gestured on her face, sighing in her heart. No wonder these girls look so much fairer. The city and country kids are just different. But after going to the city, the younger generation doesn't recognize people from their hometown anymore, which is not good. How can a person forget his roots? It's not okay to forget one's roots!

Bi Qiuguo, who was sitting in the front row, was treated so lightly by her eldest sister for the first time. She felt very aggrieved just now, but she was generous. Seeing that her third sister didn't react and her eldest sister treated her the same as herself, she thought it was okay. She turned her head to look at the eldest sister with the yellow headscarf: "That does make some impression. Sister, are you going back to your mother's home or to your eldest sister's?"

"I'm going back to my parents' home. I haven't been back for a while. The last time I went was in February when my niece-in-law gave birth. Last time, my head of the family borrowed the brigade's ox cart. This time, our brigade has to use an ox cart to pick up the educated youth who went to the countryside, otherwise I wouldn't have to squeeze into the bus. It's only ten miles away, and I was thinking of walking, just to get up a little earlier, but my head of the family disagreed and insisted that I take the bus. Tell me, the bus fare alone cost me thirty cents, but my head of the family insisted that I not save this money."

Bi Chunliu: “…” He was hit by the dog food that was flying towards him.

Bi Qiuguo's mouth twitched, and he laughed dryly twice: "Is that so..."

Someone next to him took over the conversation.

"Wow, sister, your man is really good to you..."

"Hey, your man treats you well, doesn't he? It takes you two hours to walk ten miles."

The aunties and sisters in the car started chatting about whether their men were good to them.

"That's right. Isn't it good enough that I love you? My man, let alone send me off, he even let me take the bus. He was so eager to hurt my legs that he was afraid that I would spend money. Look, my daughter is in confinement and there is no one to take care of her, so he asked me to help. If my eldest daughter hadn't given me a dollar of private money at that time, my legs would be swollen and I couldn't even walk after this trip." said the woman holding the rooster.

"Oh, your daughter is very nice to you. She's a caring person. Why didn't your daughter let her mother-in-law take care of the child? And you have to take care of her during the confinement period? Does your daughter-in-law have any objections?"