"Where did my money go?" Chen Qiuling plopped down on the ground, wailing, "My money!" She had planned to save some money on the side, and now it's all gone!
"Uncle Bai, Mom, can you please stop arguing?" Chen Zhi, who was listening from the side, found it extremely boring and yawned. "It's so messy here, where are we going to sleep?"
"Can't you tidy up yourself? You're such a grown man, do you have to ask us for help even when you're sleeping!" Bai Dalin roared, glaring angrily at Chen Zhi. This was the first time he had ever yelled at Chen Zhi. "Bai Nuo didn't even move the bed away, can't you tidy up yourself?"
"Why are you yelling at the child?" Seeing Bai Dalin yell at Chen Zhi, Chen Qiuling immediately stopped crying, but she was also unhappy that Bai Dalin yelled at Chen Zhi.
"Still a child!" Bai Dalin said irritably. "How old is Bai Nuo next door? What can Bai Nuo do? Bai Nuo can do everything. And him? He's sixteen years old, about to get married, and he can't even make a bed, yet he keeps going to brothels!"
"Ultimately, you just think your child is better than mine!"
"That's not what I meant!" Bai Dalin said helplessly, feeling a terrible headache. He rubbed his temples and then seemed to come back to his senses. "Wait, Chen Zhi, did you take those two hundred taels of silver? The day your mother had her accident, you smelled of rouge and powder all over. Where did you get the money to go to a place like that?"
"No?" Chen Zhi was very unhappy. "Uncle Bai, you can argue all you want, what does it have to do with me? Why are you talking about me?"
"Chen Zhi!" When Bai Dalin said this, Chen Qiuling also came to her senses and pounced on Chen Zhi. She grabbed Chen Zhi's ear and said fiercely, "You better tell me honestly, did you take the money?"
"It's really not!" Chen Zhi's eyes darted around, stubbornly refusing to admit it. "Mom, you can't just blame me for losing money! You don't have any evidence!"
"Don't I know you?" Chen Qiuling said fiercely. "You crawled out of my belly. I can tell whether you're pooping or peeing right away. I know you better than you know yourself. That day, it was just the two of us at home. Who else could it be but you?"
"It really isn't!" Chen Zhi vehemently denied it!
"Are you going to talk or not?" Chen Qiuling suddenly released Chen Zhi's ear. Just when Chen Zhi thought he was about to get away with it and be free, Chen Qiuling picked up a piece of clothing and hit him hard. "Are you going to talk or not?"
Although the clothes were light, they still hurt a lot when they hit him. Chen Zhi immediately covered his head and ran away. Chen Qiuling chased after him. Chen Zhi was beaten until he had no choice but to run out the door and disappear into the darkness.
"If you've got the guts, then don't come back!" Chen Qiuling shouted as she chased him to the door, hands on her hips.
That's all the commotion at the old house. Bai Nuo listened to the chaos coming from the side and curled her lips in a mocking smile. This is already starting to cause a ruckus? There will be plenty more days like this in the future.
Later, the sounds from the old house next door gradually faded away. Bai Nuo only heard Chen Qiuling mutter something like, "How can anyone sleep in a place like this?" and then she fell into a deep sleep.
**
"Girl, we've dug this big pit for you too. What are you going to use it for?" After many days of hard work, Bai Nuo and her brother, along with the Long brothers, finally finished digging the pond after more than half a month.
The pond is six meters in diameter and one meter high. The soil inside is black and looks very fertile. Bai Nuo not only dug a fish pond, but also dug a row of vegetable plots around the pond to grow some vegetables and fruits in the future.
"I'm using it to raise fish. From now on, whatever fish you want to eat, just come and catch it from my fishpond. Whether it's big or small, I can satisfy myself," Bai Nuo said with a smile, not hiding the true purpose of the fishpond—he just didn't finish the story.
"What's so good about fish?" Long San pouted. He hated fish the most; it was fishy and didn't taste good at all.
Bai Nuo smiled but did not respond.
Long put down his hoe and said with a smile, "We're going back today. We've been following you for so long, but we haven't found the bead. It's clear that it's really gone. But could you tell us where you got the bead? We'd like to go back and explain!" Otherwise, after following you for more than half a month, just helping you with the work, we still haven't found the bead, and we won't be able to explain ourselves when we go back.
It's not just that it's hard to explain to the young lady, it's also difficult to explain to the young master. The young master already knows that the brothers came out this time.
“An old man gave it to me when I was in town!” Bai Nuo said sincerely. “I don’t know where he got it, but I haven’t seen that old man for a long time.”
Long Yi was overjoyed when Bai Nuo first said that, but when he heard Bai Nuo say that he couldn't find the old man, he was immediately disappointed and quickly asked, "What kind of old man is he? Tell us, and the Zhang family can send people to look for him."
“Long beard! Ordinary face, rather short, lame, and holding a gourd in his hand!” Bai Nuo thought for a moment and said.
"Then he must be a reclusive master!" Long San exclaimed. "Such an old man might indeed have the pearl, but these kinds of people are all reclusive masters. Where should we look for him?"
I still feel there's no hope, so I might as well not say anything.
“Anyway,” Long Yi said in a deep voice, “it’s better than having no hope and not knowing who it is. Thank you!” Long Yi clasped his hands in a fist salute.
The group returned to the Bai family home. The Long brothers packed their belongings. As they left, Bai Nuo gave the three Long brothers fifty taels of silver as travel expenses, saying it was their wages for the past few days. The three Long brothers accepted the money and left.
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