Chapter 006 He's Not Worthy of Your Attack
"These candies, biscuits, and glutinous rice sticks are all yours, Wenbin. Take your brothers to share them. Each of you should get three bags."
The eldest nephew, Bai Wenbin, is from the eldest brother Bai Chenglei. He is eleven years old. He also has a younger brother named Bai Wenxuan, who is seven years old.
The second elder brother Bai Chengxiang has only one son, Bai Wenjie, who is eight years old this year.
The three children each got a bag of candy, a bag of biscuits and a bag of rice sticks, and they were extremely happy.
In the past, my aunt would bring them food every time she came back, but not as much as she does now, even more than during the Chinese New Year.
"Thank you, auntie, mom, mom, auntie is back!"
"Mom, my aunt is here."
When the eldest sister-in-law Liu Fang and the second sister-in-law Xu Yin heard the noise, they came out of the house with smiles on their faces. When they saw the food in their son's hands, their smiles became even brighter.
"Pearl is back."
"Why are you buying so many things? Just spoil these brats."
Bai Zhenzhu continued to take things out of the snakeskin pocket, smiling and saying:
"I have something to trouble you, big brother. Big sister-in-law and second sister-in-law, each of you can have one pork leg, and big brother and second brother can each have a cigarette."
"One can of malted milk per household, and two kilograms of brown sugar per household."
"The rest belong to my parents."
Seeing Bai Zhenzhu taking things out of the snakeskin bag one by one, Li Xiufen's face changed:
"Girl, you just came back, why did you buy so many things? Xiangyang doesn't make much money working outside, and you have to take care of the whole family at home and outside. You really don't know how to live."
Seeing that there were still two cans of malted milk, a large piece of pork belly, so many ribs, two bottles of white wine, a pack of cigarettes, and two kilograms of brown sugar left in the bag, Li Xiufen was terrified:
"How much money will this cost? If your mother-in-law finds out, she will find fault with you. How can you live like this? You don't need to worry about your parents' home."
Sister-in-law Liu Fang weighed the pork leg in her hand and estimated that it was almost ten kilograms.
"That's right, Pearl. Why are you buying so many things during this non-holiday season?"
The cigarettes cost 2.5 yuan a pack, and it was 1 yuan cheaper to buy a pack. This is a big deal. The big bag of things my sister-in-law brought back cost more than three hundred yuan.
White Pearl smiled and said:
"The busy farming season is coming soon, so I need to give some to my dad and brother."
The Pei family has a large population and has been allocated a lot of land, but the only ones who actually do the work are Pei Xiangyang's father and Bai Zhenzhu.
Every year during the spring sowing and autumn harvest, the Bai family’s father and son would go to the Pei family to help after finishing their own work.
When Bai Zhenzhu thought about what her parents and brothers had done for her over the years, her eyes became sore.
She quickly lowered her head and took out the malted milk from the snakeskin bag, not daring to let Li Xiufen see her acting strangely, otherwise the whole family would have no chance of having lunch.
"Zhenzhu is still caring." The second sister-in-law was straightforward and didn't hesitate: "Mom, didn't Zhenzhu say that she had something to say? Hurry up and let Zhenzhu come in and ask her what it is."
He called his son Bai Wenjie again and asked a few children to go to the fields to call the men back.
The three boys put candies and rice sticks in their pockets and ran away jumping like monkeys.
After her daughter came back, Li Xiufen asked her two daughters-in-law to help with cooking, and the whole family had lunch together at the old couple's place.
The Bai family's "冂"-shaped courtyard is home to Bai Chenglei's family on the left and Bai Chengxiang's family on the right. The old couple and the third son, Bai Jingsi and his wife, live in the main house.
Bai Jingsi is a math teacher at the town’s middle school. His wife, Zhang Minmin, is the principal’s daughter and teaches English.
The couple had a house in the town, and the old couple only left one bedroom for them. If they returned to the village during holidays, they would eat with the old couple.
After the two daughters-in-law started cooking, Li Xiufen wanted to pull Bai Zhenzhu to the main room to talk.
Bai Zhenzhu said there was no rush and she helped her sisters-in-law cook.
At this time, my second sister-in-law Xu Yin was also pregnant with her second child, but it was still early and she wasn't showing any signs of pregnancy.
Bai Zhenzhu took the machete from Xu Yin:
"Second sister-in-law, you go and take a rest. I'll chop the ribs."
Xu Yin is a jokester:
"A married girl is a guest of honor when she returns to her parents' home. Mom, it's Pearl who wants to work. It's not that I, her sister-in-law, don't love her."
Li Xiufen gave her a glare:
"You're the only one who talks too much. Hurry up and light the fire and cook. There's an old pumpkin at home. We'll cook the pumpkin for lunch. Add more rice."
Xu Yin took over the conversation:
"Mom, I see you have a lot of eggs in your basket. Why don't you make some fried eggs with chili peppers? I've been craving spicy food lately. The baby in my belly must be a beautiful little girl like her aunt."
Li Xiufen loved to hear this, as the whole family wanted a little girl.
With a wave of his hand:
"Fry it. Fry as much as you want."
Over there, Bai Zhenzhu chopped up a whole rack of ribs with deft hands and feet, while sister-in-law Liu Fang prepared to cut the meat:
"Pearl, how do you eat this meat?"
Bai Zhenzhu is a good cook. She can cook different dishes with the same ingredients. She is usually the one who cooks the main dishes.
"Cut half of it and make braised pork."
Liu Fang felt a little distressed: "This pork belly is good, not too fat or too lean. Isn't half too much?"
Bai Zhenzhu scooped up some water to clean the ribs and said with a smile:
"Not much. I bought it to eat. It's too hot to keep it."
Li Xiufen also said: "Listen to Zhenzhu and let the children eat to their heart's content."
Although she said this, Li Xiufen was very worried in her heart.
Her daughter was acting so abnormally, so something must have happened. She worriedly put the two cans of malted milk and the other half of the pork belly back into the snakeskin bag, preparing to let Bai Zhenzhu take them home to feed her grandson.
He also thought that the Pei family planted few potatoes, so they should be gone by now. Bai Zhenzhu's bicycle happened to be empty, so he filled it with a bag of potatoes and took it back.
Bai Zhenzhu was actually very happy.
She was the only daughter in the family and had been favored since childhood. Even her third brother, who was her twin brother, had been pampering her like her other brothers since childhood.
But she had never done anything for them in her previous life, and could not help when something happened at home. Instead, she worked like a slave in other people's homes and died young in the end.
It was just a little meat. She would buy them more meat in the future, take them to eat delicacies from land and sea and live in a big house.
The lunch was quite sumptuous, with a pot of shiny red braised pork, a pot of spicy and fragrant potato braised pork ribs, a large plate of scrambled eggs with peppers, a large plate of stir-fried sweet potato tips, and a pot of loofah egg drop soup.
Although there are only four dishes and one soup, the portions are large.
People no longer go hungry in this day and age, but they can only eat meat to their heart's content during festivals and holidays, as people who have lived in hardship have become accustomed to being frugal. The whole family was happy that Bai Zhenzhu had returned, and everyone enjoyed the meal very much.
Seeing that everyone had almost finished eating, Bai Zhenzhu asked Bai Wenbin to take his younger brothers out to play.
She looked at her parents, brother and sister-in-law, and said with a firm look in her eyes:
"Dad, Mom, eldest brother and his wife, second brother and his wife, I'm divorced."
The Bai family: “…”
It was Xu Yin who reacted first, but she couldn't believe her ears:
"Pearl, what did you say? Divorce? That divorce?"
White Pearl continued:
"Pei Xiangyang came back this morning with a woman. He wanted to divorce me, and I agreed."
After he finished speaking, Old Man Bai, who was usually a man of few words, stood up with a bang. Then Bai Chenglei and Bai Chengxiang also stood up. The three of them, father and son, had gloomy faces and were about to walk out.
Bai Zhenzhu rushed over and knelt down in front of Old Man Bai:
"Dad, don't go. I don't want that beast anymore. He's not worth your effort."
Li Xiufen finally reacted and rushed over to hug Bai Zhenzhu and started crying:
"Damn Pei Xiangyang, my pearl, your life is so miserable!"
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