Chapter 9 Chapter 9 Then it will become the new way of heaven!
night.
Bai's Restaurant.
The Bai family does not have a rule of not talking while eating or sleeping, but the atmosphere today is very quiet.
[Eel grilled with osmanthus, hmm... Is it because the Bai family's kitchen is too far from the dining table? If it was served earlier, the texture would be a little crispier. The osmanthus fragrance is too strong, I don't like it. ]
[The soft-boiled abalone tastes pretty good. ]
[Hmm! This beef is delicious, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. It must have been stewed for a long time! ]
Quiet... not really.
People were eating in a circle around the long table in extreme silence. Everyone held their breath and concentrated, their eyes unconsciously following Bai Qingqing's chopsticks, listening to her inner voice, one sentence after another.
The way he eats is quite elegant, but the inner voice is truly brilliant.
Ao Xinyi and the third and fifth brothers were already used to it, but Bai Shuting and the eldest brother Bai Yancheng, who had just returned home, were still not used to it. They didn't understand why they could hear Li Qingqing even though she didn't say anything...
Voice of the heart.
I guess this is what is in your heart.
The magical facts impacted the cognition of the past few decades. The father and son looked at each other and saw shock in each other's eyes.
Looking at the other people at the table, their eyes and expressions also changed along with Li Qingqing's thoughts.
Especially the youngest son Bai Songxu, who could not hide his thoughts the most and had an angry look on his face, as if he was extremely annoyed by his inner voice and was about to explode in the next second.
Only Bai Muning had red and swollen eyes. He ate rice grain by grain without raising his head. Tears fell from his eyes from time to time. He ate with a worried look on his face, as if... he knew nothing.
They already knew the situation at home before they returned home.
Both father and son have fought in the business world, and they were a little skeptical about this biological daughter/sister who suddenly appeared. But now that such a magical fact is before them, how can they still have any doubts?
[Eh? Ganmai Dazao Soup? The style is different from other dishes. ]
No one at the table was paying attention to dinner. Bai Qingqing was seen using her chopsticks to raise and lower her head, finishing a bowl of rice. She changed to a spoon and a soup bowl, and stared at the soup bowl for a moment.
The eyes of everyone at the Bai family table unconsciously drifted to the soup.
[Oh——The chef is thoughtful. Medicine and food have the same origin. This is to replenish Lin Daiyu's energy.]
Bai Qingqing glanced at Bai Muning who was still crying silently, frowned, and put down the spoon.
【It's really good at crying. 】
[Now that we've finished eating, can we leave? ]
[What are you looking at each other for? Is the Bai family so slow in eating? Or do you have something to say? Hurry up! Say it!]
Bai Qingqing was roaring in her heart, but she still looked obedient on the surface. The hands of the Bai family members holding the chopsticks trembled one after another. They didn't expect that the volume of her inner voice could be so loud.
Bai Shuting wanted to scratch his ears, but he held back. With a dark face, he looked at Bai Qingqing and said coldly, "Qingqing, when you return to the Bai family, find some time to get to know everyone in the family."
"Tomorrow at noon, have a meal with the whole family."
The commanding tone brought the already low atmosphere to the freezing point.
Even Bai Muning raised his head and looked at Bai Shuting, then put down his chopsticks.
Bai Qingqing didn't say anything, and just listened to Bai Shuting continue to speak coldly: "The second and fourth brothers are not in the country. I will notify them to come back. In a week, we will introduce you to our relatives and friends at the Bai family dinner. Don't run around this week and take care of your feet."
"Also, I heard that your previous family was not very good, so you should stop contacting your past family and just be a daughter of the Bai family in the future."
"You definitely can't use the last name 'Li' anymore. I'll change it back to Bai Qingqing tomorrow."
Every time Bai Shuting said something, Bai Muning tightened her hands on her skirt.
But she also knew that there was nothing she could do about it. Since Li Qingqing had returned to the Bai family, it was only a matter of time before she revealed her identity.
Until Bai Shuting uttered the last sentence, her hands that were tightly grasping her skirt suddenly relaxed, and she quickly lowered her head, curling the corners of her lips imperceptibly.
Li Qingqing, Bai Qingqing.
Dad really doesn't care.
A sneer sounded beside him. Bai Muning thought he had laughed out loud, and he was stunned for a moment and looked aside.
Bai Songxu's anger was calmed down a lot. It seemed that his family members could still distinguish between inside and outside. He said sarcastically: "Bai Qingqing, this name is good. Let's change it to a new one so that you won't be uncomfortable."
Bai Qingqing felt full and satisfied. She smiled and nodded.
[Bai Qingqing, it's good and convenient. ]
She touched her belly, thought about tomorrow's lunch, and nodded, "Okay, I like meat, I don't like too sweet food, and I don't like to drink flower and fruit tea."
Bai Shuting: "Okay."
Bai Songxu paused, turned to look at Bai Shuting again, and threw down his chopsticks in dissatisfaction: "But Dad, just introduce Li to the family, right? What do you want Ningning to do if we hold a dinner party?"
Ao Xinyi had already thought about it, and quickly continued: "The two children are the same age, so just say that they are twins with Ningning, and one was accidentally lost that year, and then he found it."
Bai Shuting had a cold face and nodded silently, agreeing with his wife.
Bai Songxu disagreed: "No, after so many years, everyone knows that among the five boys in our Bai family, Ningning is the only little princess. Now talking about twins is not a slap in the face of Mu Ning, right?"
He spoke in a contemptuous tone, looking at Bai Qingqing with a half-smile: "Besides, does Li Qingqing look like a member of our Bai family? Who would believe that they are twins?"
Bai Lingcheng stopped him sternly: "Bai Songxu, where are your manners? Call me Qingqing, or sister."
The eldest brother taught his younger brother to be careful about how he addressed him, but he did not deny what he said.
"Okay! Bai Qingqing, Bai Qingqing, if she says she and Mu Ning are twins, no one will believe it."
Bai Songxu impatiently changed the topic: "Just say that she is the daughter of a branch of the Bai family, and will be fostered in our house in the future, so that the family members can get to know her. Anyway, food, clothing, and money are all the same, and we won't treat her unfairly."
After he finished speaking, he looked at Bai Qingqing who had remained silent the whole time: "Bai Qingqing, you have no objection, right? This is for your own good. You have never lived at our level, so you don't know how venomous the people in this circle are. I guarantee that if you attend the dinner, you will not have a good life in the next few years."
Bai Songxu was still thinking about the dinner party that Li Qingqing had mentioned before.
At the dinner, news came that my uncle had passed away.
He stopped it at the source, once and for all.
Bai Qingqing saw that Bai Shuting had finished making arrangements and seemed to have finished talking, so she prepared to get up and leave.
Now hearing what Bai Songxu said, he smiled and nodded: "Yes, I have never lived in your class, but I have seen how poisonous the mouths of people in your circle are."
"It seems that you are just a fool and a bad person. For the sake of this fake sister's face, you want to keep your own sister from returning home?"
She was really amused, and didn't understand the author's train of thought when writing Bai Songxu's character:
[Fool, you were used as a pawn by your own good sister. She shed tears and you helped her say everything. You will suffer in the future.]
The Bai family members looked at Bai Muning. She wiped away her tears without noticing, and her eyes were red and swollen.
The whole family looked disapproving.
Qingqing misunderstood, Mu Ning didn't mean that.
The family members she had lived with day and night suddenly became strangers. It was like being abandoned by the whole world. She was still a child, and of course she would be afraid when facing the fear of the unknown.
【Heh.】
[Fortunately, I am not a child anymore, otherwise, how helpless would I be when I see such a family? ]
[The Bai family is united against the outside world. Everyone is afraid that Bai Mu Ning will be wronged as their biological daughter. ]
[Li Qingqing, you are so pitiful. In this strange environment, no one protects you.]
Bai Qingqing felt an inexplicable lump in her chest.
I feel that being in the situation is much more frustrating than reading novels.
She also wanted to turn around and leave, but judging from the current situation, no matter what she did, the power of heaven and the plot would find ways to keep her.
Bai Qingqing stood up and stood beside the dining table, looking around at everyone present: "If you don't want me, you don't have to acknowledge me. If you want to acknowledge me, then you have to acknowledge me openly!"
Ao Xinyi was already panicking because of her voice, and now he was frightened by her cold look and immediately stood up and scolded his youngest son: "Bai Songxu, shut up!"
She turned to look at Bai Qingqing: "Qingqing, don't get me wrong, that's not what we meant."
"Okay, then you admit it. Then admit it well."
Bai Qingqing took a breath, withdrew her hands from the table, and finally asked, "Is there anything else? If not, I'll leave first."
Ao Xinyi hadn't recovered from the shock yet, and said to her softly, "Okay, okay, Qingqing, you should go to bed early."
Bai Qingqing left the restaurant without looking back.
The room was left with people who became even more silent.
The food on the table had gone cold and no one was eating.
Bai Muning sobbed silently, then couldn't help crying out loud: "Mom, Dad, brother, did I do something wrong? Does my sister not like me..."
Ao Xinyi, Bai Shuting: "..."
It was difficult for the Bai couple to comfort their daughter at this time.
Ao Xinyi felt annoyed. Qingqing was right about one thing. They had been comforting Mu Ning for too long today. The child he raised knew himself. With Ning Ning's character, she should have known that they would not abandon her...
But she is still saying this now.
Ningning grew up under their care, but her biological daughter had to endure hardships and was treated coldly when she returned home.
She understood that Mu Ning had some thoughts, but now, she didn't have the heart to comfort him anymore.
Ao Xinyi took a deep breath and pointed at her husband with a dark face: "Bai Shuting! Don't you know how scary you are when you have no expression! The child is home, don't you know how to smile?"
Bai Shuting touched his face and before he could say anything, Ao Xinyi looked at his youngest son angrily again.
"And you, Bai Songxu, Qingqing is your biological sister, what do you think of her? I don't know where you get so much hostility from! I know you have a good relationship with Ningning, and I'm afraid that Ningning will be wronged, but that won't happen!
Have I ever been biased against any of you six people? Qingqing and Ningning are both my daughters, and I can't bear to see either of them suffer! You must apologize to me tonight! Apologize sincerely! "
Bai Songxu originally wanted to comfort Bai Muning, but he was scolded into silence.
In the restaurant, the whole family didn't dare to breathe loudly. Bai Muning stopped crying, but he couldn't stop his tears from falling.
The third brother Bai Siqi gently touched his sister's hair and helped her wipe her tears.
"No, you didn't do anything wrong. Qingqing just came to our house and she's still a little uncomfortable. It will be fine once she gets to know you."
Bai Siqi frowned.
He said that he would never let his sister cry in this life.
But the tears Mu Ning shed today were more than she had ever shed in her life.
He broke his oath and he was not a good brother.
Bai Lincheng looked across the table, wiped his lips, called Uncle Yan over and whispered, "Go check Li Qingqing's past and report every detail. Also, ask Ms. Xu to prepare another master bedroom for her to move into."
"Mu Ning didn't eat much tonight, so I'll send some midnight snacks to her room later."
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Bai Qingqing took the elevator upstairs and returned to the guest room. She didn't hear Ao Xinyi's performance at all.
After leaving the restaurant, I felt refreshed, and even the depression in my chest was gone.
She looked at the sky and attributed her previous feeling of depression to the power of the heavenly plot.
After all, Li Qingqing in the original text was much more panicked than she was just now. To be more precise, she was afraid.
Faced with a family of strangers who called themselves relatives, she still didn't understand why she couldn't just recognize her parents directly, but in a few words she was classified as a relative of a branch of the Bai family.
Even a fool could see the hostility and xenophobia towards her from her brothers. Li Qingqing, who had been accustomed to being isolated since childhood, was even more familiar with such exclusion.
But fortunately, she is Bai Qingqing.
She didn't care about these so-called family members at all, and she had no psychological burden about tomorrow's dinner and the dinner party afterwards.
He locked the door neatly, threw on his shoes, got on the bed, and sat cross-legged with his eyes closed.
The moment you close your eyes, all distracting thoughts fade away and your mind becomes quiet.
All the difficulties she is currently facing are caused by the way of heaven, so...
Just become the new Heavenly Dao!
As long as the Heavenly Dao is solved, all her problems will be solved!
The room on the other side of the circular corridor.
The evening breeze blew across the flowers on the windowsill, bringing the sweet fragrance of the flowers into the girl's room.
Bai Muning threw himself on the soft big bed with red and swollen eyes, sniffed and frowned fiercely.
It was all because of Li Qingqing who suddenly appeared.
She cried for too long today and she became upset and now she has a headache.
And there was that big fool Bai Songxu. Why did he suddenly run out of the training camp for no reason? Otherwise, he wouldn't have bumped into her.
The promotion of her new drama is imminent, and her agent also said that he would arrange a variety show for her during the summer vacation. After that, she will enter university, and during this period, there will inevitably be waves of promotion.
Bai Muning sat up from the bed with a headache, closed his eyes and rubbed his forehead, thinking carefully about what to do next.
She is not worried at all about her parents and brother. The daily life they have lived together for so many years cannot be replaced by blood ties that suddenly appear. The problem is in front of her friends and fans.
She knew too well what everyone liked about her.
She is recognized as the jewel in the crown of the Bai family in the wealthy circle. Her family background and appearance are both top-notch in the circle. Her parents are loving and her family is happy. She should have been envied, but because she has five brothers who are the pride of heaven, many people in the circle are attentive to her.
In front of her fans, she is the only daughter of a wealthy family, the darling of her five brothers and the whole family. There is no one else like her in the world with such a background.
Fans love her because of her uniqueness.
At this critical moment, a biological daughter of the Bai family suddenly appeared? But she has nothing to do with the Bai family?
Even if she and Li Qingqing were really twins from the same mother, if she told others about it now, people would laugh to death.
Li Qingqing just came home, she can't touch her so quickly...
The ringing of the phone interrupted her thoughts.
Bai Muning looked impatient. He touched his phone and when he saw the caller ID, he wanted to hang up, but after thinking about it, he picked up the phone.
As soon as the video call was connected, he looked flustered, sniffed, and exclaimed in a low voice: "Ah...how did it get through?"
Her voice was faint, and her red and swollen eyes flashed across the screen. Bai Mu Ning turned the camera upside down on the bed and said in a muffled voice: "Fu Fu, I'm sorry, it's a bit inconvenient for me to answer the phone now..."
Bu Yufu's loud voice rushed out from the receiver: "Mu Ning! Are you crying?! Tell me who provoked you, and I will help you fight!"
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