Chapter 36
"Sister Yuanyuan, you're here!" Bi Chunliu came to greet her. Just now on the way, she was still thinking about making chili sauce. Xiaojun had already prepared the chili, so Fang Yuanyuan was probably almost done too.
Fang Yuanyuan smiled and took Bi Chunliu's hand, jokingly saying, "Here you are! I never thought that the alley where you live is the famous Plum Blossom Alley."
Bi Chunliu was embarrassed for a moment: "..."It's not because of any good thing that she became famous... "Sister Yuanyuan, let's go to my house." Bi Chunliu had already seen that everyone in the yard was looking at them secretly.
"Hahahaha...Okay, your home is in the Second Hospital, right?" Fang Yuanyuan leaned sideways, "Hurry and bring it in."
A mischievous-looking, dark and thin child, carrying a lot of things in each hand, appeared from behind Fang Yuanyuan.
"This is my little brother Fang Heping," Fang Yuanyuan introduced, then lowered her voice, "This kid is a good guy. He heard me saying I was coming over here and volunteered to help me get something."
Bi Chunliu: “…”
Fang Heping's hands were weighed down by things, so he could only smile and greet Bi Chunliu, "Hello, Sister Bi!"
"Heping, hello." Bi Chunliu greeted, wanting only to take Fang Yuanyuan and Fang Heping home quickly. Now everyone in the courtyard was looking at them.
Du Ling looked at the things the two people brought. Someone else came to deliver something to the Bi family. She asked curiously, "Chun Liu girl, who is this relative of yours? I haven't seen them before."
Bai Xingzi glanced at the bag in the boy's hand and nodded in agreement, "I haven't seen it very often."
"You are not here to check the family tree, how can you know all the relatives of others?" Liu Xiaoyue rolled her eyes. These two people are really troublesome!
Du Ling took two steps forward and peered into the bags Fang Heping was carrying. Fang Heping subconsciously blocked her view, allowing Du Ling to clearly see what was in one of the bags: a ton of chili peppers. "Tsk...that's it? I thought it was some kind of good thing. Chili peppers can't be eaten as a meal."
Fang Yuanyuan called out, "Sister Xiaoyue, you live here too?"
Liu Xiaoyue: "Yes, Yuanyuan, so you and Chunliu also know each other? Come to my house later and visit me?"
"Okay, okay, Sister Xiaoyue, then I won't be polite with you. So, my brother and I will go to Chunliu's house first." Fang Yuanyuan thought that there were a lot of things to do living in this compound, and it seemed to be more troublesome than their tube-shaped building.
Bi Chunliu took Fang Yuanyuan and returned to his home.
"Sister, you're back?" Bi Xiahe was doing homework.
Bi Chunliu asked in surprise: "You guys are out of school? Where did they go?"
Bi Xiahe put the homework on the table into her backpack, revealing an indescribable expression. "They both went straight to Cai Xiaorong's house."
Bi Chunliu: "..." In other words, when will this matter fade away from everyone's life...
"Xia He, this is Sister Yuan Yuan and her brother Fang Heping." Bi Chunliu introduced them and then said to Fang Yuanyuan, "Sister Yuan Yuan, this is my third sister Bi Xia He. You and Heping, please take a seat."
Bi Xiahe obediently greeted Fang Yuanyuan and the others. Fang Yuanyuan pinched Bi Xiahe's pigtails, then sat down on the stool and said enviously, "I said that younger sisters are the best. You see, they always speak in a soft and gentle voice, so sweet and soft, and they make people feel happy from the bottom of their hearts. Unlike this brat, he is so stubborn and disobedient." As she said that, Fang Yuanyuan hit Fang Heping with a "pa" sound.
"Sister!!" Fang Heping said in a low voice, "You are so irritable. Even if you have a sister, she won't be as gentle as me..."
Fang Yuanyuan turned and glared at him. Hey, this kid...
Bi Xiahe happened to bring two glasses of water to the Fang siblings. Bi Chunliu quickly changed the subject, "Hey, Sister Yuanyuan, how many chilies did you prepare? I'll start making them for you tomorrow."
Fang Yuanyuan gestured to Fang Heping to open the bag, "I've prepared a total of 15 kilograms of chili peppers, and I've also brought the white wine you mentioned, as well as peanuts, sesame seeds, and a kilogram of meat. You can cook as you like. By the way, the other bag of things is for you." Fang Yuanyuan pointed to the bag that Fang Heping had not opened.
Without waiting for Bi Chunliu to refuse, Fang Yuanyuan said, "Don't be polite. I have a feeling that my family will not only need this chili sauce from you once or twice. We will trouble you a lot in the future. We can't let you work for nothing. Just keep it. Share some with your brothers and sisters. Don't forget to let your sister eat more. Look at how thin sister Xia He is. Her wrists are thin, only slightly thicker than chicken feet. A little girl should have some meat to look good..."
Bi Xiahe looked down at her wrist. Then she thought about the chicken claw and wondered uncertainly, her wrist... must be much thicker than a chicken claw...
Fang Heping quickly covered Fang Yuanyuan's mouth. This sister's problem came back again. When she saw a pretty girl, she thought she had to make her fat. Who could afford that nowadays? "Sister Chunliu, my sister sometimes has convulsions. When she has a convulsion, she advises people to eat more."
Bi Chunliu's mouth twitched. "Okay, then I won't be polite. Thank you, Sister Yuanyuan. I'll do it as you watch. By the way, do you need to adjust the spiciness?"
"Can the spiciness be adjusted?" In Fang Yuanyuan's more than 20 years of life, chili sauce has always had two options: spicy and non-spicy. She really doesn't know how to adjust the spiciness.
"Well, it's just a matter of how much toppings to add." Bi Chunliu explained that adjusting the spiciness wasn't as sophisticated as Fang Yuanyuan imagined. "If it's spicy enough, use more chili sauce. If it's not that spicy, use more of the other ingredients."
Fang Yuanyuan hesitated for a moment, "What was the spiciness of the one you made before?"
"That kind is basically medium spicy, and the chili peppers in it are processed by me."
Fang Heping said from the side, "Sister Chunliu, can we have them all? My mom wants spicy food, but she can't stand the spiciness. She's the one in my family who can't handle spicy food the most."
Bi Chunliu thought about it and nodded, "Okay. Then I'll make you two dishes this time: mild spicy and medium spicy."
Fang Heping smiled and bowed to Bi Chunliu, "It has to be Sister Chunliu."
"Big sister! Big sister! Do you know what happened?" Bi Qiuguo yelled as she entered the house. Seeing two other people at home, she immediately restrained her behavior, swallowed the words she hadn't said, and asked in surprise, "Fang Heping? Why are you in my house?"
Fang Heping jumped up from his stool excitedly. He had heard Bi Qiuguo and Cai Xiaorong talking about these things at school that morning, but they hadn't let him hear them, which had made him restless all day. He had originally wanted to come here to inquire about it himself, but then his sister said she was also coming to Meihua Hutong, so he came with her.
Fang Heping shook Bi Qiuguo's shoulders and asked excitedly, "What happened?" He then looked back and forth at Bi Chunliu, Bi Xiahe, and Bi Qiuguo, and slapped his head, "Sister Chunliu, Xiahe, Qiuguo, so you and Bi Qiuguo are from the same family? Bi Qiuguo, then we'll be half-brothers and half-sisters from now on!!"
Bi Qiuguo: “…”
Bi Chunliu: “…”
Fang Yuanyuan covered her face speechlessly. What was wrong with this little brother? I had never seen him hanging out with gossipy people... How could he be so shameless?!
Seeing Fang Heping had gone crazy, Bi Qiuguo pulled his hand away. She had more important things to do. She stared at Bi Chunliu with shining eyes, extremely excited. "Sister, we really did a great thing!"
This makes no sense. Bi Chunliu has no idea what she is talking about and his head is full of question marks.
"Sister, didn't we say yesterday that we should be careful of that doctor who stole children? Then the police went to blow him up, and guess what? This isn't the first time he's done this!" Bi Qiuguo said indignantly, "What's more, in order to get a lighter sentence, he turned his mother in. It seems like his mother did it first, and he learned it from her. These two are really not human beings!"
Fang Yuanyuan said "Pooh!", "They really are the same old thing. As the saying goes, if the top beam is crooked, the bottom beams will be crooked too."
Bi Xiahe asked anxiously, "Have they been caught?"
"They've been caught. The fourth brother and I went to the police station with Cai Xiaorong and the others to check on them. They'll be transferred to the Public Security Bureau tomorrow. A police officer said this is a major case in Nanshan and must be dealt with seriously. These mother and daughter are truly wicked! I heard that the woman sold at least a dozen children. If the parents asked about the children, she would deliver them and then say they were dead at birth. It also seems that she swapped a few other children." Bi Weiguo frowned tightly and continued, "No one would be able to endure this kind of thing. Those children are so pitiful. How can someone be so inherently evil?"
Bi Chunliu nodded. Isn't that right? A dozen children, that's a dozen families. Who could have imagined that the healthy baby they gave birth to would not only die, but also be sold by the midwife?
"Did the police tell us what to do with those children? Can they still be found?"
The voice came from outside the house. Bi Chunliu turned around, startled. Huh! Four or five people were hunched over his window: Bai Xingzi from the Nie family, siblings Nie Xiangbei and Nie Xiangnan, Hou Zhiqiang, and his socially anxious wife, Wu Sanmei. The one speaking was Bai Xingzi.
Bi Weiguo shook his head. "I don't know. The police didn't tell us and didn't let us ask, so we came back."
Bai Xingzi got up from the window, straightened her clothes, and cursed, "You are worse than pigs and dogs! What a sin! You are bringing shame to us female comrades!"
Bai Xingzi prided herself on being a respectable person, and Nie Xuesong, the elder brother of the family, who often reminded the family to be mindful of their words and actions, was truly intolerant. Delivering a child was such an important job, and yet someone exploited such a noble profession for such a thing. Cursing her family for the same fate!
Seeing that there was nothing more to learn, Bai Xingzi called out to Nie Xiangnan to go home quickly and cook. She wanted to go to the front yard to ask Aunt Liu and the others about the two bastards who sold the child.
Hou Zhiqiang took Wu Sanmei back home.
Fang Yuanyuan watched as everyone outside the window left. She exchanged a few more words with Bi Chunliu, agreeing that she'd tell her at the supply and marketing cooperative when Bi Chunliu finished making the chili sauce. Then she quickly grabbed Fang Heping and left. She wanted to go home. She remembered her mother saying a cousin had given birth in that hospital, and the doctor who delivered the baby had also said it was dead and lost. Could that doctor have been behind this?
The same question arose in the minds of many people in the know.
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