Bai Taotao has been observing Song Zhi.
Because she spent the entire night absorbing spiritual energy from Song Zhi, and then transferred it all to the dozen or so newly transplanted plants.
In the end, Song Zhi was a little depressed (maybe because he had been traveling all day and had fought two fights right after arriving at Ruyi Village?), and Taotao was also very tired (maybe because she was too sleepy at night?)...
Bai Taotao didn't know how she fell asleep.
Bai Taotao and her sisters were still lying in bed the next morning when they heard Tang Liren calling Bai Lili outside, "Lili, get up early and clean up the house. Someone from the TV station is coming to interview your dad today! I have to go to your second sister-in-law's house to pick her up in the morning..."
Bai Lili let out an "ah" and got up to go about her business.
Bai Taotao continued to sleep.
After a long time, Bai Xingxing ran into the house and woke Bai Taotao up, "Fourth sister, hurry up and get up! The people from the TV station have already entered the village, hurry...hurry up and get up!"
Bai Taotao then got up, rubbed her eyes, and asked, "Where's Song Zhi?"
"He left early in the morning! Our father has helped him solve the problem at the Youth League Station, so he might have gone to work now! Fourth sister, are you wearing the white one or the pink one?" Bai Xingxing said as she took out two pieces of clothes from the suitcase.
Bai Taotao looked at the two dresses and said, "I'll wear the pink one and you'll wear the white one."
The pink dress was washed to the point of being half-worn, the color had faded a little, the style wasn't nice at all, and it was all loose.
The white clothes are about 70% new.
But Bai Xingxing had been instilled with the idea of "putting silly sister first" by her parents since she was a child, so she hesitated and said, "Fourth sister, you should wear white. White is new!"
Bai Taotao pointed out bluntly, "This pink color is not pretty. I am the only one who can handle this color."
Bai Xingxing: ...
This statement is not very hurtful, but it is extremely insulting.
But who can blame her silly sister for being born beautiful and the prettiest among her sisters? ! Also, the silly sister gave her beautiful clothes, how touching!
"Fourth sister, you are so kind!" Bai Xingxing said with emotion, "But if mom comes back and says that I bullied you and gave you my old clothes while I wore new ones... she will definitely scold me, right?"
Bai Taotao, "No, mom only has eyes for me, she doesn't care what you wear."
Bai Xingxing: ...
Bai Taotao put on her pink clothes and ran to wash up, then saw Bai Lili busying around the house?
"Third sister!" She called out to Bai Lili.
Bai Lili was busy, "Taotao, hurry up and eat your breakfast. I'm waiting to wash the dishes! What if reporters come to our house later and see our mess? It will be embarrassing..."
"Third sister, what do reporters do?" Bai Taotao asked.
Bai Lili, "Reporters are people who interview people. Didn't our father bravely save someone? Reporters come to our house to report what happened, and then publish it in newspapers and on TV, so that people all over the country know about it... This time they came to do a follow-up report, to see our father's follow-up treatment..."
"What is a newspaper and what is television?" Bai Taotao asked again.
"Newspaper, doesn't our dad read it every day? There is no TV in our village, only radio. There seems to be TV in the town... Next time I'll take you to the town to watch TV! Taotao, have breakfast quickly!" Bai Lili instructed.
Bai Taotao sat down at the table on the kang and saw a bowl of bean porridge on the table.
The bean porridge doesn't look good at first glance, with more water than beans. There are a few pieces of broken scallion pancakes soaking in the porridge, and a boiled egg in its shell next to the bowl.
Tang Liren secretly raised five or six chickens in the cellar, but she couldn't get four eggs every day. Sometimes we can’t even eat red beans, yellow beans or eggs, but Bai Taotao can eat boiled eggs every day.
Bai Taotao stared at the scallion pancake in the porridge for a while, carefully finished the unpalatable bean porridge, put the egg in her pocket, and then took the "newspaper" that her father read every day and read it carefully.
The small square characters on the newspaper were quite different from the characters Bai Taotao knew before.
Bai Taotao's handwriting in her previous life was rounded and the strokes were more complicated. But the words on the "newspaper" are square, some are easy to recognize, while some have too simple strokes to be recognized.
But the problem is that I can recognize about 30% to 40% of the characters, but when they are put together I have no idea what they mean.
Bai Xingxing ran over and said, "Fourth sister, which of these two hairpins do you like?"
Bai Taotao took a look and saw that Bai Xingxing was holding two blue plaid bow hairpins with decent workmanship in her hands?
"Are they pretty?" Bai Xingxing looked at the two hairpins from left to right. The more she looked at them, the more she liked them. "These were given to us by the overseas Chinese our father rescued in the county town! She loved you very much and gave you many of these little things. Unfortunately, they were snatched away by those annoying people in the next door room. Only these two are left..."
Bai Lili came in just in time to clean up the dishes, and Bai Taotao saw that her third sister was still wearing patched clothes?
Looking at herself and then at Bai Xingxing, Bai Taotao thought - is my third sister so unrefined?
"Third sister! Where are the scissors?" Bai Taotao asked.
Bai Lili, "What do you want the scissors for? You are not allowed to take them. It will not be fun if you poke yourself!" Then she took the dishes and went out.
Bai Taotao turned around and asked Bai Xingxing, "Where are the scissors?"
Bai Xingxing turned and ran away, and came back with a pair of scissors in her hand. "Fourth sister, what do you want the scissors for?"
Bai Taotao held the scissors and yelled, "Third sister! Third sister, third sister, third sister..."
Bai Lili was so scared that she ran over quickly, "What happened to Taotao?"
Bai Taotao stood up, forced Bai Lili to sit down, and took the scissors and cut off Bai Lili's two braids with two clicks!
Bai Lili and Bai Xingxing were frightened.
Bai Taotao trimmed the third sister's hair and cut a piece of bangs. Finally, she pinned the two plaid cloth bow hairpins on the third sister's bangs.
Bai Lili has pretty facial features, but her face is a bit square. In the past, in order to work more efficiently, she always tied her hair in braids, which did look refreshing, but made her face look particularly big. Now his hair has been cut short, covering his ears and half of his face, instantly turning his square face into an oval one, making him look much more delicate.
In addition, the forehead is half covered by the bangs, the eyebrows are half covered, and the eyes are still shining...
Bai Lili is like a completely different person!
"Taotao you..."
Bai Lili spoke with difficulty.
Bai Xingxing clapped her hands in admiration, and shouted with great joy, "Ahhhhhh! Third sister, you are so pretty! Much prettier than that shameless Yan Naqian who claims to be the most beautiful educated youth!"
Then he quickly fetched a mirror and said, "Third sister, look at yourself!"
Bai Lili was shocked when she saw herself in the mirror!
——Is she really that beautiful?
Bai Lili stroked her bangs and touched the two hairpins. She felt happy but a little embarrassed. "... I don't look like a farmer anymore..."
Bai Taotao, "Why can't people who do farm work be pretty?"
Bai Lili smiled and poked her silly sister's forehead with her finger, "She was really silly before, but now she's silly in a weird way!"
"I'm not stupid!" Bai Taotao was very unhappy, "...You are stupid!"
Then he threw away the scissors and ran out of the house with the newspaper. However, just as she ran out of the house, she suddenly remembered something, ran back quickly, picked up the pot of grape vines, and ran away again.
Bai Lili looked at her silly sister's back and scolded her, "You still say you're not silly! Last night she asked us to shake hands with her grape vines one by one, and she even insisted on sleeping with the grape vines in her arms at night..."
Bai Xingxing also found it a little unbelievable. "Third sister, I really think that Fourth sister, you said she is stupid, but she is really not stupid! But you think she has become normal, but it seems... not so normal..."
Bai Lili glared at the fifth sister and said, "Don't say that again! Go follow your fourth sister!"
Bai Xingxing stuck out her tongue and ran out.
Bai Taotao was sitting in the courtyard, holding a newspaper and asking Bai Zheng about this and that...
Bai Zhenggan knew that reporters would come to the village to interview him today. But he felt that the light in his main room was not bright enough, so he slowly moved out early in the morning and sat in the courtyard.
Now his silly daughter comes running over with a newspaper and asks him all kinds of questions?
Among all his children and grandchildren, Bai Zhenggan felt the most guilty towards this silly daughter. Now I see my silly daughter can actually recognize words? ? ? He was so surprised that he couldn't express it in words. He asked quickly, "Taotao, how come you can recognize words?"
Bai Taotao made up a story, "I hear you reading the newspaper every day! You stop after reading a few words, and I remember them. I count the words one by one according to what you read. After listening to you read many times, I can recognize them."
Bai Zhenggan was stunned, thinking that since he injured his waist for a month or so, he had been sitting at home with nothing to do every day, so he had to read the newspaper over and over again. The more he read, the more he looked up words in the dictionary... You can tell, he recognized more and more words.
But he never expected that his silly daughter could be so smart?
Bai Zhenggan suddenly became excited, and called Bai Xingxing to go into the house to get a dictionary, and then taught Taotao how to look up words in the dictionary and how to recognize words...
Hongdou and Huangdou also came over and expressed their own methods and opinions on looking up dictionaries.
When reporters Zhang Hongmei and Ma Wenli arrived at the Bai family compound, they saw this scene of peaceful and tranquility.
——In the clean and tidy courtyard, Bai Zhenggan sat on a chair with a wooden board tied behind his waist; several girls and children surrounded Bai Zhenggan, listening attentively to him reading the newspaper:
"... and other leaders, together with the people of the capital and foreign friends from five continents, celebrated the festival of unity and struggle of the working people of the world (note)..."
Bai Taotao couldn't help but ask, "Dad, what are the five continents?"
——Is there her hometown, Xuanye Ancient Continent?
Soybean, "I know, I know! It's duck porridge, lamb porridge..." What are the other three kinds of porridge? The little guy scratched his head and couldn't say anything.
Bai Lili reminded quietly, "There are also America, Europe and Africa!"
"Right!" Hongdou counted with her thin short fingers and said loudly, "The five continents are Asia, Africa, Europe, Oceania..."
Hey, why is there still one missing after counting so many times?
Bai Taotao was deflated when she heard that Xuan Ye Ancient Continent was not among the five continents. But then she thought, she was not alone here, Song Zhi was there too! He must know a way to get back! Although it seems that he didn't recognize her at all at the moment, and she looks exactly like a native here, what if his memory is restored one day?
Thinking of this, Bai Taotao wanted to find Song Zhi again.
As a result, before she even stood up, she just turned her head towards the gate and saw two middle-aged women whose temperament and dress were completely different from those of the local villagers. One of them is holding a notebook and a pen, and the other is holding a small black box (camera)?
Bai Taotao was stunned for a moment and thought, these two are the reporters who came to interview her father?
But before Bai Taotao could remind him...
Her step-grandmother Chen Juxiang suddenly howled in the inner room, "I'm going to die! I'm going to die!!!"
The voice was so loud and the tone was so tragic, as if the sky was falling and the earth was splitting apart!
Everyone in the courtyard was frightened and stunned, and the two female reporters were also frightened and dared not step into the yard.
At this time, Chen Juxiang ran out of her room with disheveled hair, shouting angrily, "Who the hell stole my money?"
There was total silence between heaven and earth.
Chen Juxiang roared, "I have earned half my life's fortune, and that's only five hundred dollars!"
Bai Taotao noticed Fourth Aunt Li Cui'er's figure flash by and closed the doors and windows tightly.
It seems that Li Cui'er has succeeded? ? ?
Bai Zhenggan asked, "Mom, you lost your money? When did you lose it?"
Chen Juxiang's eyes slowly swept over everyone in the courtyard and said, "It was still there before I went to bed last night! But when I checked again this morning, it was gone! Someone in this family must have taken it. Who was it???"
"It was Fourth Aunt who stole it!" Bai Taotao said loudly.
At this moment, Li Cui'er, who was hiding in the house, was so scared that she broke out in a cold sweat and cursed Bai Taotao in her heart.
Everyone in the courtyard opened their mouths in surprise.
"Taotao, don't talk nonsense." Bai Zhenggan said.
Bai Taotao, "I'm not talking nonsense, it's true!"
Chen Juxiang rushed to Bai Taotao and asked, "How do you know it was your fourth aunt who stole it?"
Bai Taotao answered confidently: "Because Fourth Aunt asked me, 'Taotao, you stay in your milkman's room every day, where do you hide your milkman's money?'"
She learned it perfectly.
Chen Juxiang's face darkened. "So how did you answer?"
Bai Taotao said loudly: "I said - all my grandma's money is hidden in the drawer of the desk! Count down to the third drawer on the right, on the left!"
Chen Juxiang opened her mouth wide and couldn't utter a word for a long time.
——It turns out this little fool knows everything!
At this time, Li Cui'er rushed out of the house, "Baoyingzi, you are talking nonsense!"
As she said that, she bared her teeth and claws and wanted to hit Bai Taotao a few times!
Bai Lili and Bai Xingxing stood up in tacit understanding early in the morning, one pulled Taotao aside, and the other stepped forward to block Li Cuier.
"Aunt Fourth, please talk nicely. You are our elder, so why do you just start a fight?" Bai Lili said.
Chen Juxiang glanced at Li Cui'er, as if analyzing whether Li Cui'er had taken her money.
Li Cui'er was very afraid of her mother-in-law, so she pointed at Bai Taotao and said, "Which eye of yours saw me stealing money from your nursery? But you are so dishonest! Humph, you are like your parents!"
Chen Juxiang couldn't make up her mind for a moment.
——The Dafang family has always been upright and it is unlikely that they would do such a thing. But Li Cui'er was her most beloved daughter-in-law, and she didn't believe that Li Cui'er would be disloyal.
Li Cui'er saw her mother-in-law's uncertain expression and became anxious. She pointed at Bai Taotao and said, "Since you know where your grandma kept her money, maybe you stole it?"
There is some truth in this.
Bai Taotao covered her nose, "Aunt Four stinks! She smells like duck shit!" When Chen Juxiang came back last night, she also smelled like duck shit!
Li Cui'er was stunned, her face flushed, and she waved her hand and said, "You ghost, if you keep talking nonsense, I will beat you to death!"
Chen Juxiang's face turned gloomy.
——Yesterday she went to work, and her job was to collect duck droppings from the production team’s duck pen and use it as fertilizer for the vegetable garden.
Chen Juxiang grabbed Li Cui'er's hand, sniffed it, and indeed smelled a faint odor of duck shit?
Li Cui'er panicked, "Mom, it has nothing to do with me... It's really none of my business!"
"What's going on?" someone said lightly.
Everyone turned around and saw Tang Liren standing at the gate of her yard.
Tang Liren's face didn't look good, and there were four people following her - two young women, and two middle-aged women.
One of the two young women was pregnant. She was Bai Nansheng's wife, Chen Lanfen, and her face was pale at the moment. The other was Chen Juxiang's younger relative, Sun Xiumei, and there was also anxiety in her eyes.
The two middle-aged women were Sun Hongmei and Ma Wenli, two female reporters who had interviewed Bai Zhenggan before.
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