Chapter 255 Who are you family?
"This child, who ran away from home in anger, has finally grown up and gone home to visit his family!"
Mu smiled and said that Zhou Yu's casual excuse was that he was not satisfied with the marriage arranged by his family, so he ran away.
The family chatted and laughed for a while, and Bai Li noticed that although grandma said she was happy, she could not hide the fatigue in her eyes.
Yes, after traveling more than a thousand miles by boat and car, even young people would be exhausted, let alone an old lady in her sixties or seventies?
Bai Li arranged meals for his family and asked them to eat, wash up, and go to bed early.
The Bai family's original mansion had not been occupied for more than a year. They had just returned, and the mansion needed to be cleaned up before people could live in it, so they could only live in the Bai Li mansion temporarily.
The family went to bed, and Bai Li slept peacefully until dawn.
Early the next morning, before Bai Li got up, the doorman came to report to Wu Lanzhi that there was a guest at the door.
The doorman said that the master had not yet gotten up, but the visitor was very imposing and said that he was a member of the master's family and that he would be in trouble if he neglected him.
He couldn't afford to offend her, so he had to knock on Wu Lanzhi's door.
"Is your surname Bai?"
The doorman is called Gao Dalin, he has a slight limp and is a retired soldier.
Bai Li treated him as a family member and called him Uncle Gao.
Uncle Gao nodded and said, "He said it was the master's cousin, and he brought his family to visit."
"Are you carrying any gifts?"
“I haven’t seen that.”
Wu Lanzhi understood what was going on, nodded, and said to him, "Please invite them into the side hall first. I'll be there in a moment."
Uncle Gao took the order and turned around. Wu Lanzhi reminded him again, "Tell them to be quiet and not make any noise. The princess and Lord Bai haven't woken up yet."
"knew."
After a while, Bai Yue and others followed Uncle Gao into the Princess's Mansion.
Bai Yue looked at the doorman who was limping and sneered, his eyes full of contempt and a sense of superiority.
"Bai Li is truly blind. How could he use a disabled person as his servant?"
"She's a rough person to begin with, how could she take care of the harem? Just wait and see, I, your mother, will have to help her!"
Uncle Gao saw the greed and complacency in Mu's eyes.
Although the two of them lowered their voices, Uncle Gao still heard every word they said.
He arranged for a few people to sit in the side hall and wait, saying that he would go downstairs to arrange tea and then left. Bai Yue was so angry that she gritted her teeth, but she could do nothing.
When they walked in from the door just now, Bai Yue and the others saw that this Princess Mansion was even bigger than the General Mansion before.
The interior is luxuriously decorated, with winding paths, pavilions, towers, and rockery gardens.
The more Bai Yue looked, the more jealous she became.
Uncle Gao never showed up again after he left, and Bai Li and others did not come out to entertain the guests.
"Hold on, if you want to live here, you have to endure it!"
No one knows a daughter better than her mother. Mu knew what Bai Yue was thinking when she saw her gloomy face.
There were no outsiders around at the moment, so the family spoke without hiding anything.
"Just keep quiet, if you piss off Bai Li and force us to stop living in the Bai Mansion, you'll be in trouble!"
Bai Zongshen is as utilitarian and heartless as ever. He only shows some kindness to his daughter when she works for his benefit.
No?
Just wait for the verbal abuse and fistfights from the father and son!
Bai Yue said "hmm" coldly. She had long been accustomed to her family's coldness and disloyalty.
Her parents came to the capital to find her without saying a word, and started to say nice things about her father coming to the capital to look for opportunities to revitalize the Bai family, so that Bai Zongren and others would have to rely on him for their livelihood in the future.
They have been in Beijing for several months. Bai Zongshen and his son go out for social events every day, under the pretext of using their connections to find work. However, after several months, the father and son have not found any work at all. All they do every day is to open their hands and ask Bai Yue for money.
Bai Yue felt very sad. Her parents didn't even know what kind of life she was living.
In Shangguan Mansion, she was only slightly better off than the lower-ranking maids and servants, as she didn't have to do those rough labors.
But she had to carefully serve Shangguan Ying and her mother every day.
If she was not careful, she would be scolded and humiliated at best, or beaten with a stick at worst. She was not even as good as a maid.
But her parents scolded her for being useless, demanded money and other things from her, and shamelessly said, "If you had known earlier, you wouldn't have followed Shangguan Yu. He has nothing to offer you except the status of a concubine!"
Bai Yue gritted her teeth when she thought of this. Great, now that she knows Bai Li is fine, she wants to curry favor with him again. What were she doing before?
But she forgot that she was also such a person.
The family was hungry and thirsty and waited until noon, but the man still hadn't gotten up.
In order to block the way, they got up before dawn and walked over because they had no money to take a carriage.
I also wanted to come over early to have breakfast with Bai Zongren and the others, and take the opportunity to get acquainted with them.
Who would have thought that when he got to the mansion, he couldn't even get a glass of water to drink.
Looking at the sun outside and estimating that it was almost noon, Bai Zongshen couldn't help it anymore and got up and walked out.
"Hey, where are you going?"
A female cavalryman stopped them. There was no proper maid in the mansion, so all the serving and cleaning work was done by the female cavalryman.
Bai Yue could no longer suppress her anger and shouted angrily, "A princess's mansion doesn't even know how to treat guests. They left the guests alone for most of the day without even giving them a sip of water."
"No tea? Oh, maybe one of our people forgot. After all, the Princess's Mansion doesn't have any servants yet, and we soldiers don't know how to serve. Please forgive this young... uh, Madam!"
"Hmph! I want to see Bai Li. I'm her cousin, and these are her uncle, aunt, and elder brother. Please ask her to come and see us as soon as possible."
Bai Yue didn't know whether Bai Zongren and the others were still in the Princess's Mansion. She was afraid that they would have another excuse to make excuses, so she simply asked to see Bai Li directly. That wouldn't be the right thing to do, right?
"Bai... Princess Donghu..."
Just as the female soldier was about to find an excuse to shirk responsibility, she caught a glimpse of Bai Li coming over.
"Princess Donghu is here, tell me what you want to say!"
After the female soldier finished speaking, she walked out the door. At this time, Bai Li also arrived at the door.
The two exchanged glances, and the female soldier went out and closed the door gently.
"So it's you guys?"
"I thought it was some cats and dogs from somewhere, trying to get close to me, the Princess of Donghu!"
As soon as Bai Li opened his mouth, he made people so angry that they fell backwards.
Bai Yue bit her lips tightly, and Mu was gasping for air in anger.
"Niece, uncle just learned that you are in the capital, and that my elder brother and the others have also returned.
We are not thinking about breaking bones or tendons, we are still a family.
We've endured all the hardships together, and now that good times are here, our family should be together even more."
"Family? Who is your family?"
Bai Li looked confused, as if he didn't understand what they were saying.
"No, we've always been a family. We lived together before, and then we were exiled together... We are a family that has shared weal and woe, absolutely!"
"No, you are not."
Bai Li's eyes grew colder, and his smile faded as he looked at the few people.
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