Li Qiulan hadn't expected that a simple complaint from her would trigger such a response from her second daughter. She was stunned for a moment, "Zhenzhen, that's not what I meant..."
Bai Ruozhen had a faint smile on his face, but it clearly didn't reach his eyes. "Mom, what do you mean?"
"I..." Li Qiulan was stunned. "I was just complaining. Mom didn't want you to go to Guizhou."
Bai Ruozhen smiled again and suddenly felt annoyed. Li Qiulan and Bai Ruozhen were very good to her and gave her the maternal love she had never felt before, but Li Qiulan and Bai Jiansheng were also Bai Ruoxin's parents. It was understandable for parents to love their children, but she just couldn't bear to hear anything about Bai Ruoxin.
It's true that she's living well now, but this isn't something she should thank Bai Ruoxin for tricking her into going to the countryside; it's the result of her own hard work. If Bai Ruoxin had gone to Xiahe Village, would she be able to date Gu Changqing? Definitely not.
If she wanted to go to Guizhou, could she go? No. Because Pei Guohong had said at the beginning that she had already made arrangements, and they would both go to the same place.
"Mom, you know, Pei Guohong told me back then that she'd already made an agreement with her aunt to send us both to the same place," Bai Ruozhen said. "Pei Guohong's at Shanghe right now, very close to the provincial capital. She can always get time off to come back on weekends."
Li Qiulan frowned and sighed, "Zhenzhen, don't be angry. Mom didn't mean anything else. I just..." She was so anxious that tears were about to fall. "No matter how bad she is, she was born from my belly. I know everything she did was deserved. I shouldn't mention her, but my heart..." She shook her head. "You can hate her, and I don't blame you, but I can't bear to do this. You may not understand me now, but one day when you have your own child, you will understand."
Bai Ruozhen didn't want to understand at all, so he just nodded and continued making dumplings.
The mother and daughter did not discuss Bai Ruoxin anymore, but no one took the initiative to speak, and the room was silent.
From time to time, the noise of children could be heard outside. Li Qiulan finished wrapping the last dumpling and began to pack up. "Mom shouldn't have mentioned her. It's New Year's Day. Can you please stop being angry with me?"
Bai Ruozhen hummed and smiled, "I'm not angry with my mother."
In fact, just now, Bai Ruozhen had been thinking a lot. She thought about her parents in her previous life. Her mother was the eldest princess, the emperor's aunt, and her father was the Duke of Chu. However, because the Shangzhu had been mediocre all his life, her mother was too overbearing to allow her father to take concubines. Her father had also rebelled in his youth and fathered a son and a daughter with another woman. To ensure the safety of the brother and sister, he even raised the two children outside for more than ten years without anyone knowing.
Later, her mother found out and held her and her brother's hands and cried all night. Then, the next day, she killed her two half-brothers and half-sisters whom she had never met. From then on, her father never set foot in her mother's room again.
As for her mother? From that moment on, she aspired to be a superior person, and then, instead of caring about the position of queen, she began to plan for her to enter the palace.
In the past, she couldn't understand why Xiaoli said that her mother had known the emperor's plan for a long time, but she was killed by the emperor before it was resolved. Now, she thinks that her mother may have abandoned her, wanting to use her to exchange for the emperor's life and then push her brother to power.
Compared with his mother's coldness and ruthlessness, Bai Ruozhen suddenly felt that Li Qiulan was a real mother.
No matter how bad the child is or how much she is despised by others, she will never disown her daughter. Even though she was once mad at Bai Ruoxin and trembling with anger, she would still worry when she learned that Bai Ruoxin was not living a good life.
Bai Ruozhen understood that this was a mother, and her former mother...
She smiled bitterly and shook her head. Those were things from her previous life. Although Li Qiulan in this life was not perfect, he still loved her.
"Mom, I'm not angry." Bai Ruozhen repeated it again, and the thorn in his heart was finally put down.
Seeing that her smile did not seem fake, Li Qiulan felt relieved. She didn't know what the situation was like for her eldest daughter, but her second daughter was about to get married, and she couldn't be unhappy before her wedding.
The two of them picked up the dumplings and leaned together to eat peanuts and melon seeds and chat. There was no TV or radio in their house, so even on the boring New Year's Eve they could only lean together to eat peanuts and melon seeds.
At around ten o'clock, Bai Jiansheng and Bai Liqiang came back. Bai Liqiang's face was full of joy. "Second sister, I'm lucky tonight. I won a dollar playing poker."
Bai Ruozhen was no longer sleepy, "So amazing?" Every year during the Chinese New Year, those who had nothing to do would get together to play poker and chat. The stakes in their poker games were actually very small, so winning one dollar was truly amazing.
Bai Liqiang was very proud, "Of course not, I'm very lucky."
"Okay, go wash your hands. We have to pay our respects to our ancestors later." Li Qiulan yawned and started to boil water.
Bai Ruozhen stood up and said, "I'll go get Ruoyun and Lishan back."
"No need to call, they'll be back soon," Bai Liqiang drank a cup of hot water, "I saw them when I came back just now. Ruoyun was so greedy that she came back just by smelling the food."
Bai Ruozhen was about to laugh when the door was pushed open. "Mom, are the dumplings ready?"
Bai Liqiang spread his hands, meaning that it was indeed like this.
Bai Jiansheng is in a rare good mood and said cheerfully, "It seems that my Yunyun will have to find someone to be a cook in the future."
"This is worth considering." Bai Ruoyun came to this conclusion after thinking seriously.
This made Bai Jiansheng laugh out loud, and Bai Ruozhen and the others laughed too. It seems that Bai Ruoyun has a lot of ideas, and she should be described as a foodie.
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