Bai Ruoxin was a little flustered by her question. She glanced at Li Qiulan and her husband and whispered, "We're not leaving."
As soon as she finished speaking, the room fell silent. Bai Ruozhen feigned surprise and asked, "You're not leaving? You're allowed back to the city? Why is that so good? Why can't I come back?"
Bai Ruoxin's face was embarrassed, and she mumbled, "I'm not leaving. It's too hard. I don't want to go back."
"That won't do." Bai Ruozhen frowned, put down his chopsticks, and said righteously, "Back then, we responded to the country's call and volunteered to go to the countryside to receive education from the poor peasants. Although the Digital Gang has been defeated, we still have to contribute to the construction of our motherland, right? Big sister, you don't want to contribute to the motherland. Life in the countryside is very hard, but why didn't you tell me back then? The countryside is so good, at least I can have enough to eat. Otherwise, why would you be so generous and let me go to the countryside first?"
While Li Qiulan wasn't worried about Bai Jiansheng and Bai Ruozhen, she had to remind her soft-hearted mother not to leave Bai Ruoxin behind. That would be a real problem. So she felt it was crucial to remind her mother why she'd gone to the countryside in the first place, considering she wasn't even seventeen when she went.
As expected, Li Qiulan felt very sorry for her second daughter after hearing this. She said to Bai Ruoxin, "Look at this house, where do you live?"
Pei Guohong had been silent before except for greeting Bai Ruozhen's family. Now she frowned very discerningly and said, "Mom, we have a deal. If you let my eldest sister and her family come back to live with me, I will immediately divorce Liqiang and return to my parents' home."
Li Qiulan was anxious, "I didn't say to let them come back."
Pei Guohong nodded, "This is the best."
"Mom," Bai Ruoxin said aggrievedly, "How could you bear to let me suffer in Guizhou? You don't know where I was sent to work in the mountains. I was so poor that I couldn't even get enough to eat."
Li Qiulan fell silent. Bai Ruozhen said, "Going to the countryside to work in the fields is bound to be hardship-free. I wasn't even seventeen when I first went, so how did I manage to persevere?" She made up a complete lie. "Going to the countryside isn't easy to begin with. If you knew all that, why did you lie to me and ask me to go in your place? Big sister, this isn't the right way to bully someone."
"But you didn't go to Guizhou. It was your turn to go to Guizhou. I went there to suffer for you." Bai Ruoxin said anxiously. If she had gone to Yancheng and Bai Ruzhen had gone to Guizhou, maybe she would be the one marrying Gu Changqing and Bai Ruzhen would be the one marrying Zhang Fuqiang.
Bai Ruozhen raised an eyebrow, "Are you saying that I was tricked into going to the countryside, or that I deserved it?"
Bai Ruoxin fell silent. Li Qiulan smiled awkwardly and said, "Eat first, eat first."
"Yeah." Bai Ruozhen responded and lowered her head to eat, but she felt someone was looking at her. When she looked up, she saw Zhang Fuqiang looking away.
Bai Ruozhen's face turned cold. Zhang Fuqiang's eyes were really disgusting. He stared at her straightly...
"Eat." Gu Changqing patted her hands and said, "Don't worry."
Bai Ruoxin on the opposite side looked at Gu Changqing and shuddered, suddenly remembering what this man had said.
After the whole family finished their meal, Li Qiulan said, "You must be tired from the car ride. Why don't you go to the inner room and rest for a while?"
Bai Liqiang stood up quickly when he heard it, "Guohong, come with me to make the bed for my second sister."
Bai Ruozhen smiled and said, "It's not busy, we can just stay at the guesthouse. It's better to stay at the guesthouse than to make so much noise at home."
Li Qiulan understood what she meant and only hummed. Bai Jiansheng said, "Liqiang, take your second sister and brother-in-law to the guesthouse to rest."
Bai Liqiang responded, and Bai Ruoyun and Bai Lishan also stood up, "Let's go too." They didn't want to face Bai Ruoxin's family at home.
After the New Year, Bai Ruoyun and Bai Lishan were already thirteen years old and in junior high school. They were no longer children.
Bai Ruoyun secretly said to Bai Ruozhen, "Second sister, take me out. I don't want to stay at home. That eldest brother-in-law is always secretly looking at me."
Bai Ruozhen was startled, "Secretly watching you?"
Bai Ruoyun hummed, "That look was scary. I didn't dare tell Mom."
Bai Ruozhen frowned, "You have to tell Mom, you have to tell Mom about this kind of thing, otherwise what if he bullies you by relying on his age?"
The thirteen-year-old girl vaguely understood something. After hearing what Bai Ruozhen said, she hummed, "Okay, I'll tell Mom, but I'm afraid she won't believe me."
Bai Ruozhen sneered, "What if I tell Mom too?"
Bai Ruoyun's eyes lit up, "Second sister, you are so smart."
Bai Ruozhen touched her head and said, "Come on, go to the guesthouse with us. I'll take you out to buy some delicious food this afternoon."
Bai Ruoyun became happy and pulled Bai Lishan along to follow her.
After the group of people left, only Bai Jiansheng and his wife, as well as Bai Ruoxin's family, were left at home. Bai Ruoxin said quietly, "Liqiang and his family used to be the closest to me, but now they don't even want to call me big sister."
Li Qiulan pretended not to hear and took the two bags of things that Gu Changqing brought into the inner room.
Bai Ruoxin poked her head in and asked, "Mom, what good things did Zhenzhen and the others bring?"
"There's nothing good there." Li Qiulan said. She originally planned to take the things out and put them in the cabinet and lock it up, but seeing Bai Ruoxin looking at her eagerly, she simply put them aside, thinking of sending the whole family to the guesthouse later.
Bai Ruozhen said aggrievedly, "Mom, are you so wary of me?"
Li Qiulan hummed, "Don't you know what you've done? Do you really need me to tell you?"
Zhang Fuqiang said cheerfully, "Mom, don't bother with her."
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