No one looks down on Taotao and the Bai family anymore.
Therefore, even if she did see him doing something evil today, as long as the target was a bad guy, Bai Taotao still thought that this second brother was a good person.
Bai Nansheng stood outside the courtyard wall, his silly sister's words made his eyes instantly red.
Then Tang Liren said, "Okay, okay, it's Mom's fault. Mom will never say bad things about your brother again, okay? Hey, why hasn't Nansheng come back yet? There are so many elderly people at home, they can't starve... Why don't you save some food for Nansheng and we can eat first."
But Taotao refused, "Then save some food for me too! I will eat with my brother when he comes back!"
"Oh, why are you so stubborn, kid!" Tang Liren muttered.
Bai Nansheng quickly raised his chin and blinked desperately, only then was he able to suppress the heat that was about to burst out of his eyes.
He took a deep breath—
Then he took a long step, stepped into the yard, and shouted: "I'm back! What's for dinner?!"
His silly sister rushed over, "Brother!"
Bai Nansheng smiled and rubbed his silly sister's hair, tears in his eyes.
Tang Liren asked, "Did you go to the hospital?"
Bai Nansheng smiled and said "hmm".
Tang Liren looked surprised.
Taotao was already chattering happily, "Brother! Third sister made chicken soup tonight, it's golden yellow! There were two chickens, and they stewed them with a lot of mushrooms! The chicken was chopped apart and mixed with ginger and scallions... It was delicious!"
"Okay! Let's go eat! Wait, Taotao, look, what is this?" Nansheng took out the hairband he had just bought.
Bai Taotao's eyes lit up!
——In the eyes of Taotao, who owned at least 10,000 pieces of exquisite jewelry in her previous life, those plastic hairpins given by the overseas Chinese were so crudely made that she didn’t even like them! However, the hair ties that my second brother brought back looked handmade and were quite delicate.
Taotao liked them very much. She carefully picked out the three she liked the most from her second brother's hands for a long time. Then she said to Nansheng with a smile: "Thank you, brother. Taotao likes these three."
Bai Xingxing teased her, "The hairpins given by overseas Chinese are so beautiful, but I've never seen you take them so seriously!"
Taotao thought her sister was really silly. "How are they the same? These three are obviously handmade. Each one is unique in the world. Compared to the hundreds, thousands, and tens of thousands of identical hairpins in the world, I just like these three!"
Bai Xingxing choked and said after a moment: "Brother, let me see it quickly. I want to pick out a unique hairband in the world."
The hairbands that Nansheng brought back made all the female relatives excited. In the end, even Grandma Qi got one. Of course, Chen Juxiang, Li Cui'er and the like were too embarrassed to come and join in the fun...
The whole family sat together at two tables in the yard.
One table for the old and one table for the young.
Tang Liren was eating at the same table with the elders. She was worried about Taotao, so she came over to check on her. Then, Nansheng pulled her back and said, "Mom, please sit with me."
Tang Liren was a little surprised, but still sat down next to her son.
Bai Nansheng said, "Mom, I have to trouble you with Lanfen and I's divorce. The agreement has been signed, and we don't have much property to divide. We just need to go to the Civil Affairs Bureau to get a seal, return the marriage certificate, and then get a divorce certificate... So I have to leave tonight and go back to the company."
Tang Liren: ...
"Why are you so anxious?" She was a little anxious.
Bai Nansheng lowered his head and said, "The army is urging me to go back! I was only given three days off when I came here, and today is already the fourth day..." He was talking nonsense. When he came here, the company commander told him that if there was an emergency at home and he couldn't go back for more than a month, he should send him a telegram.
But he couldn't wait to return to the company, wanted to make merit, wanted to be promoted, and wanted to be supported by his family.
Tang Liren felt anxious, her nose felt sore, she held her son's hand, and her eyes turned red.
Bai Dongsheng advised: "Mom, Nansheng's career is more important."
Tang Li was confused, "I originally wanted to go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy you two sets of clothes..."
"The army distributes clothes, not just clothes, but everything!" Nansheng said with a smile.
Tang Liren choked up a little, "But I still want to make some of your favorite sweet potato cakes and white sugar cakes..."
"I'm grown up now and don't like to eat those things anymore. Mom, please make them for Taotao." Nansheng turned his head away, afraid that his mother would see his red eyes.
But when he turned around, he saw Taotao staring at him curiously?
Nansheng smiled, took out a roll of something from his jacket pocket and handed it to his mother, "Mom, keep this money...it's my salary."
Tang Liren refused. "You are out here alone, there are plenty of places to spend money! Mom doesn't want your money. I'll give you a little more. You can use it for self-defense..."
"Mom, take it!" Nansheng raised his voice a little, "If you don't want to spend the money, then keep it. You never know when you'll need to spend money. Taotao is getting better now, and she's so smart. Why don't we buy some teaching materials and let her and Hongdou and Huangdou learn to read and study hard!"
Tang Liren looked at her son, feeling somewhat relieved. She tightly grasped the roll of banknotes her son handed over, but scolded him angrily, "If only... you were always so obedient and sensible, and didn't hit people randomly."
Nansheng smiled.
"Mom, you must keep those IOUs from the Chen family that I gave you. Remember, you must go to the Chen family every month and get back as much as you can. If they dare to attack you... just send me a telegram and I will come back and kill them." Nansheng said.
Tang Liren stared at him, and after a long while she asked, "I haven't asked you yet, are you injured today?"
Bai Nansheng, "No."
"Really?"
Bai Nansheng was a little helpless, "Mom! I'm not bragging, I'm the champion of the military competition in the army!"
"Brother is bragging!" Bai Taotao stuck out her tongue playfully.
Nan Sheng was stagnant.
Bai Taotao said: "Actually, my brother is injured... his right foot. It should be because he kicked someone that his toes hurt. My brother usually walks fine, but now when he walks, the toes of his right foot always pull inwards..."
Nansheng looked at his lovely silly sister, and his heart felt warm and full.
Tang Liren urged: "Take off your shoes and socks quickly so I can see——"
Then he turned around and called his eldest daughter-in-law, "Hui, where is our safflower oil?"
"Mom, I'm fine!" Nansheng said word by word.
Tang Liren glared at her son.
"I am a man!" Nansheng stood up and went to the next table to say goodbye to his father.
Bai Zhenggan was also very shocked, "Leaving tonight?"
Nansheng smiled and said, "There is a train to the provincial capital at 10:30 p.m. I will catch that train and arrive in the provincial capital just in time for daybreak, which will make it convenient for me to transfer to the train."
Bai Zhenggan was speechless for a long time.
He looked at his son and nodded, "I know everything. You are doing this for the good of the family... You think that since you are not here, you beat them to death when the Chen family incident happened. You play the good guy so that we can play the good guy. But son..."
Bai Zhenggan was stunned for a long while before he said, "In the future, when you are in the army, you must listen to your leaders and behave properly. Don't be so easily deceived as before. Look at you. If there is anyone who is a little bit nice to you, you would give your life to her... Hey, try to join the party as soon as possible, and stay in the army as much as possible. Don't come back..."
——If you come back, you will be laughed at for the rest of your life.
Nansheng felt sad. He nodded, greeted the elders of the clan, then took his small bag and left.
Bai Xingxing chased to the door and watched her second brother leave alone.
Reality has gone against her dream. Even Chen Lanfen's fate has changed. So will her second brother's fate also be rewritten?
In her dream, her second brother came back only after Chen Lanfen died. Chen Lanfen died of childbirth complications. Her death was a bit horrific, and my second brother must have been traumatized by it.
In order to cover up the truth, Chen Juxiang sowed discord and implicitly accused Tang Liren of praising Chen Lanfen to death. She said that Tang Liren knew that pregnant women should not eat too much, but she deliberately let Chen Lanfen eat more. She cried and said Chen Lanfen was so pitiful. Her husband was not around and she was pregnant with her first child. She didn't even know that pregnant women shouldn't eat too much...
So whatever Tang Liren gave Chen Lanfen to eat, Chen Lanfen ate foolishly. As a result, she gave birth to a giant fetus, which eventually took her life.
Finally, Chen Juxiang also threw out a piece of solid evidence: Tan Fenghui was also pregnant, and even more advanced in pregnancy than Chen Lanfen. Then why was Tan Fenghui fine? All this was caused by Tang Liren!
At that time, not only was Bai Nansheng, who had no experience with pregnancy and childbirth, frightened, but even Bai Xingxing was at a loss... If she hadn't stayed with her mother the whole time, she might have thought that what Chen Juxiang said made sense?
In addition, Li Cui'er was fanning the flames, and the Chen family was also making a fuss -
Bai Nansheng really misunderstood at that time. He stood beside Chen Lanfen's coffin for a while, looked at Tang Liren coldly, and left with his luggage without saying a word.
More than half a year later, the family received a letter from Bai Nansheng.
He wrote only three sentences:
Mom and Dad, I'm sorry. Wait for me to come back. I will honor you well.
Later, Tang Liren wrote several letters, but they never received any response. Finally, Tang Liren went to the town and called his company, only to find out that he had already gone to the front line.
Later——
Then came the news of his death.
Thinking of this, Bai Xingxing got a little nervous and shouted loudly: "Brother! You must not go to the battlefield!"
Bai Taotao looked at her silly sister, then at her second brother, and looked thoughtful.
Nansheng was stunned, then he stood still, turned around and looked at his little sister, laughing, "Xingzi, stop joking! I'm just a new soldier, it's not my turn to go to the battlefield... But if the superiors ask us to go, then I will definitely go! Brother will become very powerful! So powerful that... no one will dare to bully you anymore!"
Bai Xingxing was anxious, "Brother——"
Nansheng smiled, "Don't worry, Xiao Xingzi, I know you are worried about me, I will protect myself, you... take good care of Xiao Taozi, listen to your parents, it's best to go to school and learn some culture... I'm leaving!"
He waved to his family, then turned and left.
The road ahead was dark, and the dim street lights emitted a dim light, illuminating a dark corner of the street. Nansheng's lonely figure was stretched out thin and long, and finally disappeared into the night.
Bai Taotao fell into deep thought.
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