But Bai Nuo refused to give it to him even at the cost of his life, which meant there was no hope.
"Then how do you know that Bai Nuo and Bai Yu have it?" Chen Qiuling was speechless. She thought Bai Dalin was really stupid. He promised to help people find something he had never even seen before, and now he didn't even know where to look for it.
Bai Dalin recalled for a moment, "From the description, it is that bead. I saw it at Bai Nuo's place. It is exactly the same, except for the color. I think Bai Nuo has the color that Miss Li wants."
The couple were talking when they arrived at their doorstep. When they got there, Chen Qiuling suddenly stopped and didn't move. Bai Dalin walked ahead and only realized that Chen Qiuling hadn't followed when he went up the steps. He turned around and saw Chen Qiuling standing at the bottom.
"What's wrong? Why aren't you coming in? We're home." Bai Dalin asked, puzzled.
Chen Qiuling ignored him and just looked at Bai Nuo's house next to her.
Bai Dalin didn't understand what Chen Qiuling meant, but he still came down and looked at Bai Nuo's house. "What's wrong? Don't go in. I never want to go into this lousy place again in my life."
"Are you stupid!" Chen Qiuling said coquettishly to Bai Dalin. "Didn't you say Bai Nuo had beads here? Now that Bai Yu isn't home and Bai Nuo isn't home either, isn't it perfect for us to go in and look for them?"
“But…” Bai Dalin hesitated. Bai Yu’s lesson to him was too profound. “Although the two siblings are gone, my mother is still here. Even if my mother sees us, it will be difficult for us to find her.”
Bai Dalin now truly believes that neither his mother nor Bai Nuo and her brother are easy to deal with. If his mother were to do something like this at home and run away outside, he would have no way to explain himself no matter how hard he tried.
“You are your mother’s son, you came out of her womb. No matter how close your mother is to Bai Nuo and the others, there is still a distance between them. You are still the closest to her. No matter what your mother does, she will never be the same as Bai Yu. As long as you say you have difficulties, your mother will not stand idly by.”
Chen Qiuling comforted him, "Don't you want to find that bead? The county magistrate even called you back to find it, which shows how important that bead is. If you don't find that bead, will you lose this job? Dalin, we don't have much money. I'm pregnant, and the whole family is pinning their hopes on your job. You can't lose your job."
Bai Dalin, having hit a nerve with Chen Qiuling, gritted his teeth and said, "Fine, I'll go in and look. You stay outside and keep watch. If anyone comes, just yell at me, okay?"
"No one will come!" Chen Qiuling took the lead and pulled Bai Dalin inside. "Let's hurry up and find it quickly. Who would be walking around in the middle of the day? It's so hot it'll kill them."
The old woman lay quietly on the bed. When she heard someone come in, she turned her head with difficulty and saw Bai Dalin and Chen Qiuling. The light in her eyes immediately dimmed.
Bai Dalin and Chen Qiuling also saw her, and for once, their thoughts were in sync: this old woman is so comfortable in her old age; while they were scorching in the sun outside, she was sleeping here.
The two men were completely unaware that the old woman was paralyzed; Bai Dalin even forgot that he had pushed her quite forcefully.
Forgetting this incident means forgetting how much pain the old lady was in at the time.
"Mom, are you sleeping?" Bai Dalin called out, looking around with his eyes scanning the surroundings.
It was hot, and when the old woman woke up, she found that Bai Yu had already gone out. She waited for a long time but Bai Yu did not return. However, the old woman's mouth was so dry that her voice was very hoarse. "What are you doing here? Where is A-Yu?"
When Bai Yu was mentioned, Bai Dalin didn't want to talk anymore. It was Chen Qiuling who answered, "Mother, A-Yu is at the village chief's house."
Chen Qiuling also started searching around.
The old woman then realized they were looking for something and immediately became anxious, but she couldn't move, so she could only tell them to stop, "What are you doing here? Don't touch anything here. Nuonuo arranged this for a long time, don't mess it up."
Bai Dalin searched everywhere, even looking on A Yu's bed, but he couldn't find what he was looking for. In order not to let Bai Nuo and the others find out that he had been there, he put everything back before jumping down.
“Mother, we’ve come all this way, why aren’t you getting up? Why are you lying here?” Bai Dalin searched around Grandma’s bedside again.
"I can't move!" The old woman couldn't stop Bai Dalin's reckless behavior. She couldn't move at all and could only say helplessly, "What are you looking for? Don't touch anything here. Dalin, you promised the village chief that you wouldn't interfere with anything here. Now you can leave."
"Can't move?" Bai Dalin was very surprised. "No way, Mother, how come you can't move? You're lying to me, right? Don't worry, I won't forget what I said. Bai Nuo and the others aren't here, are they? I definitely won't come in when they are."
"What are you looking for?" The old woman looked at Bai Dalin. She knew her son well, and she knew that there must be something Bai Dalin wanted here, otherwise he wouldn't have gone to such lengths.
"I'm looking for a bead!" Not finding it on the bed, Bai Dalin simply grabbed a stool and sat down beside his grandmother's bed. "Mom, it's one of those round beads that Bai Nuo had. Do you know where she put it?"
The little rascal hid it so well that he couldn't find the bead even after digging three feet into the ground.
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