Bai Ruozhen glanced at him and curled his lips. Bai Liqiang had already come to terms with it these past few days and was very annoyed by Bai Ruoxin's behavior. He leaned over to take a look and then said in surprise, "Mom beat up my eldest sister."
Sure enough, Bai Ruoxin's screaming voice came from the inner room.
Li Qiulan was determined to give Bai Ruoxin a beating. She didn't care that she was a grown-up girl and the wounds would look ugly. She just beat Bai Ruoxin with a broom.
After beating her daughter, Li Qiulan felt better. She cleaned the house and did other things. In the afternoon, she even washed Bai Ruozhen's clothes and didn't let Bai Ruozhen lift a finger.
Of course Bai Ruozhen was very happy that she didn't have to do anything. She was the queen back then and was raised as a queen since she was a child. Not to mention washing clothes, even washing handkerchiefs would require someone to do it. If she didn't need to go to the toilet and wipe it, she would feel embarrassed to ask the servants to do it. I'm afraid that this matter has had to be done by maids since she was a child.
Bai Ruoxin didn't come out all afternoon, crying in the inner room all afternoon. In the evening, Bai Jiansheng's factory was closed for the day. Their factory was a large one in the province, and the benefits were good. Everyone was given an extra two pounds of pork belly. Bai Jiansheng was very happy, "Don't touch this meat. Make it into meat sauce and take it with you when Zhenzhen goes to the countryside."
Li Qiulan naturally had no objection and took the meat and put it in the kitchen.
In the inner room, Bai Ruoxin pricked up his ears and cried even harder when he heard his father's partial words. He felt like a little cabbage that no one cared about.
Bai Jiansheng had been extremely annoyed with his eldest daughter recently. When he heard her crying, he didn't think anything of her and asked Bai Liqiang, "What's wrong with your eldest sister?"
"My mother beat her." Bai Liqiang whispered, "She said my second sister would be blown into the sea by the sea breeze, so my mother beat her."
Bai Jiansheng glanced at his second daughter and sighed. It was pitiful that such a good daughter was going to the countryside, while his eldest daughter, who had given him a headache, was still not quiet. "Good job."
Bai Jiansheng's voice was quite loud. Bai Ruoxin in the inner room didn't dare to cry when she heard it, for fear that Bai Jiansheng would come in and beat her again if he was unhappy.
Bai Ruoxin didn't come out for dinner that night, and no one in the family went to call her. Bai Ruoyun's eyes rolled around, and she smiled and said to Bai Ruozhen, "Second sister, when will you go to the countryside to be an educated youth?"
Bai Ruozhen glanced at her and said, "We'll leave on the fifth day."
Bai Ruoyun nodded, then said, "Second sister, I will miss you."
"Yeah, I'll miss you too." Bai Ruozhen didn't look up.
Bai Ruoyun pursed her lips, put down her clean bowl, and said, "Second sister, do you think there are any good things in Yancheng?"
Bai Ruozhen shook his head and answered honestly, "I don't know."
"Oh." Bai Ruoyun was a little disappointed, and after a while she said, "Second sister, I will miss you. I will write to you when the time comes, and you must write back to me."
"Okay." Bai Ruozhen said indifferently.
If you can't read, you should be able to write letters.
Li Qiulan found the two sisters' conversation amusing. "It's not like I won't be back. It's convenient for me to come back during the holidays. Maybe I can come visit you when I'm free."
"I'm going too." Bai Lishan, who had been playing the invisible man, suddenly spoke up, "I'm going to see my second sister too."
Bai Ruozhen glanced at him and said with a smile, "Okay."
In the original owner's memory, the eldest sister and eldest brother were of the same mind, the youngest sister was as cunning as honeycomb coal, and the youngest brother, although in poor health, was the kindest one and the friendliest one to her among her brothers and sisters.
Bai Lishan sat up straight, looked at Bai Ruozhen seriously and said, "Second sister, I will study hard. When I have the ability, I will bring you back and let you live a good life."
Bai Ruozhen felt inexplicably sad. She smiled and said, "Okay."
"Lishan is such a good boy." Li Qiulan almost cried because of what he said. The second child was only seventeen years old after the Chinese New Year, and he went to the countryside to be an educated youth at such a young age. Being an educated youth is not like being sheltered from the wind and rain in school. Being an educated youth means working in the fields. I heard that if you don't do your job well, you won't even have food to eat.
Alas, it seems that we have to save money on food at home in the future and share some of the burden with the second child when necessary, otherwise what will happen if a little girl goes hungry in the countryside?
Bai Ruoxin felt her teeth ache at the sight of their deep affection for each other. She was just hoping Bai Ruozhen would get some good things for them after going to the countryside. Why was she pretending so much? She didn't even think about what good things a rural village could possibly have. She looked down on them for that, which was disgusting. And then there was Bai Ruozhen's awful behavior. She pretended to be generous, but everyone knew she was stingy.
On the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, Li Qiulan started steaming buns. Since there wasn't much flour at home, she mixed in a lot of cornmeal and sweet potato flour. But because Bai Ruozhen was leaving, she specially steamed six big, plump, white buns. As soon as they were steamed, she said, "These are for Ruozhen. If anyone dares to eat them secretly, I'll break their legs."
Bai Ruoxin became even angrier, and she wanted to eat the steamed buns immediately so that Bai Ruozhen would have nothing to take away.
But Li Qiulan was very cautious and locked the steamed buns in the cupboard as soon as they cooled down, so Bai Ruoxin had no chance to make trouble.
Amidst the chaos, the Spring Festival of 1973 arrived.
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