Chapter 22 Someone came to propose marriage! (1)
In the next few days, Bai Taotao no longer went out.
She was afraid of missing out on that guy who came to propose marriage.
But there was nothing to do at home, so Taotao found a time when Song Zhi was at home and hugged Little Grapevine to chat.
Taotao, [Little Grape, can you ask grandpa for me? My second brother is somewhere else and there is a high possibility that he might get into an accident. Can you think of a way to protect him? 】
It took a long time for the little grape vine to answer, "Where is my second brother?" 】
Taotao thought for a while and said, "It's on the border. By the way, can you understand the language of plants in Vietnam?" 】
Little Grapevine: What did you say? @
Taotao patted her forehead: Plants don't communicate through language like humans do.
However, the little grape vine also quickly gave an answer, "Taotao, grandpa asked me to tell you that there is no problem with communication between us plants. However, the plants in far away places have never received any favor from the old man, so even if we pass the message to them, they may not be willing to listen to him. 】
Taotao thought: This is normal.
Little Grape asked again, "Taotao, what kind of danger will the second brother encounter?" 】
Taotao shook her head blankly.
She didn't know what had happened to her second brother, she only knew that the troops didn't even find his body - and this was second-hand information she learned from Sha Xingxing.
Taotao thought for a while and asked again, "Little Grape, I want to make a sachet, put the seeds of plants in the sachet, and send it to my second brother so that he can carry it with him." If anything happened to him, could those seeds save him? Just like when we are not at home, Brother Tiansun helps us look after the house? 】
After a long time, Little Grape replied: [Taotao, Grandpa said that there are several kinds of plant seeds that are more in line with your requirements. 】
There is a plant called false banana. The seeds of this grass only need sunlight and moist soil. They can grow to half a meter high within two days and bloom at the same time. A small amount of nectar will be produced in the flowers. Of course, this plant will produce banana-like fruits in the future, but it will take three months...
However, if you need to save your life in the short term, the flowers, nectar, leaves, stems, and stalks of the false banana plant can all be eaten by humans.
The other two plants, like the false banana, germinate quickly and can grow rapidly in a day or two, provided that they at least need water to nourish them.
Little Grape said again, "Taotao, grandpa also said that after you find these seeds, you have to awaken them just like you gave me the ability to communicate. Otherwise, we can't ask them to help the second brother at the critical moment. 】
Little Grape explained: The communication between plants is not as precise as that between humans. Only a very small number of old plants have the ability to communicate. The sweet bamboo shoots and bayberry in Little Grape's mouth are actually several hundred years old, and the banyan tree is more than two thousand years old...
Only little Grape, which is only one month old, has the ability to communicate because of the spiritual power nourished by Taotao.
However, it is even harder to say whether the seeds of plants can be awakened by peaches.
Taotao fell into deep thought.
——So far, there are only two plants that can communicate with her directly. One is the old grandfather and the other is the little grape vine. Of course, she also tried to infuse some spiritual power into other plants, but all to no avail.
So what the old man meant was that he could use his profound knowledge to help Taotao, but in the end, Taotao still needed to use her spiritual power to awaken these little seeds.
Taotao asked Xiaopuo to tell the old man that she was very grateful for his kindness.
No one knows what will happen to Brother Nansheng, and the old man’s advice is already very comprehensive. Now, all Taotao can do is to collect the seeds of these plants, awaken them, try to give them spiritual power, stuff them into sachets, and send them to her brother so that he can carry them with him.
I hope I can help him get rid of the disaster.
However, to find the seeds of these three plants, you need to go deep into the dense forest.
Taotao didn't want to go out these days, so she asked her elder sister for some scraps of cloth and needle and thread, and stayed at home to make sachets.
Xing Xing found out and asked her, "Fourth sister, why are you doing this?"
"Children's Day is coming soon, I will make a sachet for Brother Nansheng!" Taotao answered casually.
Bai Xingxing: June 1st...Children’s Day? ? ?
Then she looked at her silly sister and found Hongdou's elementary school Chinese textbook in front of her. It seemed that she had pieced it together with embroidery cloth based on an illustration in the textbook? ? ?
By dinner time, everyone in the family heard that Taotao was going to give Nansheng a sachet to celebrate Children's Day.
Hongdou, "Fourth Aunt, where is my Children's Day present?"
Huang Dou, "Fourth Aunt, where is mine?"
Bai Taotao: ...
"Okay, I'll make a set of clothes for you two...well, and your little brother who's going to be born soon!" Taotao said.
Everyone looked at each other.
Tang Liren thought of something else. "Speaking of Nansheng, I remembered... the Dragon Boat Festival is coming soon. Since Taotao wants to send a sachet to Nansheng, why don't we make some rice dumplings and send them to him?"
Bai Zhenggan said, "It's so hot, it will take at least half a month to send a package to him. It won't go bad! Besides, by the time he receives it, the Dragon Boat Festival will have passed!"
Tan Fenghui, "How about we send him some dried bamboo leaves and glutinous rice and let him make them himself?"
Bai Dongsheng, "The army has everything, how can they be short of zongzi? Besides, he must be training every day, where would he have time to make zongzi!"
Song Zhi felt the same way. "Let's write him a letter. Each of us should write a letter. Letters are memorable. When he misses home, he will feel much better after reading the letters."
As soon as he finished speaking, Song Zhi was stunned.
——He actually participated in the Bai family’s family meeting? Would the Bai family... be disgusted by his casual remarks and discussion of their family affairs?
Just as I was thinking about it, I heard Bai Zhenggan clapping his hands, "It's decided! Tonight, everyone, write a letter to Nansheng!"
Song Zhi finally felt relieved, with the corners of his mouth slightly curved.
Tang Liren muttered, "Since I have to send a package anyway, I might as well give Nansheng a jar of sauce I made myself. Sauce is not afraid of spoiling and will be fine even if it is stored for two or three months... I'll make it tomorrow!"
Hongdou said, "Grandma, can you make that shrimp chili sauce? It's delicious! Tomorrow I will go to the river with Huangdou to catch shrimps!"
Tang Liren also agreed, "Okay! Let's make this! You can catch more river shrimps, small fish are also fine, I will make a few more jars of sauce, Song Zhi also likes to eat this..."
When Song Zhi's name was called, he couldn't help but lower his eyes, and the corners of his mouth widened a little.
Huang Dou also said, "Grandma, make a few more salted duck eggs for Second Uncle, and leave one for Huang Dou!"
——Before moving out of the ancestral home, Tang Liren secretly raised a few laying hens in the cellar. Later, he asked Third Aunt to secretly bring them back, and gave two more to Third Aunt.
Raising chickens doesn’t have to be so secretive now, but there aren’t many left. Now Tang Liren lets Taotao eat one boiled egg every day, and saves the remaining eggs to give to Tan Fenghui during her confinement.
When Grandma Seven heard about it, she secretly sent over a few half-grown ducks. Tang Liren asked Hongdou and Huangdou to go outside every day to catch some crickets and small insects to feed the chickens and ducks. Half a month later, two ducks laid red-heart eggs.
Huang Dou felt very proud. "I promise to catch bugs every day and feed the ducks. They will lay lots and lots of eggs! So many... that our whole house can't hold all of them. Then we will eat duck eggs every day!"
Hongdou was a little sad. "You like duck eggs so much, no wonder you always have to eat duck eggs in exams... Let me ask you, did you sing the folk song today?"
Everyone burst into laughter.
Huangdou pouted in grievance.
Two days later, Taotao's sachets were ready.
I'm just waiting for the time to go to the jungle to look for the seeds of false banana.
With nothing to do next, she found a few old clothes from her family and carefully cut them according to Red Bean and Yellow Bean's size...
It was Bai Lili's turn to do housework at home that day. She saw Taotao sitting on the kang and cutting a basket full of scraps of cloth. She picked up a piece and took a look. Did it look pretty good? So I asked, "Taotao, when did you learn how to make clothes?"
Tao Tao answered without even looking up: "I learned it from my sister-in-law!"
——Tan Fenghui’s belly is getting bigger and bigger, and her due date is approaching. Her family no longer allows her to go out. When she had nothing to do, she took apart some old clothes that the adults could no longer wear and made them into small pieces for her two children.
Bai Taotao watched for two days.
In her previous life, she was the Saint of Mei Sect. The most important thing every day is to dress yourself beautifully. Of course it's no problem to modify the clothes and jewelry.
Although there are no tools for hand lining now, this is just simple cutting and sewing, and at most you can match the colors with the limited choices...
What’s so difficult about it!
Bai Lili exclaimed: "You can already take the needle after just one look? Oh! Let me tell you, you have used up all your stupidity in the past 17 years. Are you no longer stupid from now on?"
"You are stupid!" Bai Taotao scolded her.
Lili walked away with a smile, and soon brought back two cups of tea, one next to Taotao and one next to her father. She pushed the window open a little and said, "Dad, Taotao, both of you look up, don't look too low, and watch your eyes! Here, dad has your ginger tea, and Taotao has your jasmine tea, six leaves and three half-opened flowers!"
Taotao looked up at her sister with a smile, picked up the jasmine tea and took a sip. She felt that the temperature was just right, the tea was light, and the jasmine fragrance was strong, just what she liked.
Taotao likes Sister Li Zi more.
"Third sister, what kind of in-laws do you want to find?" Taotao asked casually.
After hearing this, Bai Zhenggan couldn't help but raise his head and look at his daughter.
Bai Lili screamed "Ah", and was stunned for a moment before she reacted. Her face instantly turned red, and she scolded, "What do you know, silly girl!" Then she ran away with a red face.
"You are the fool!" Taotao was angry.
Bai Zhenggan was helpless.
Children at home are like this, they quarrel over a disagreement, and then they get over it for no apparent reason...
He took a sip of the ginger tea, drank it in one gulp with satisfaction, and then continued knitting.
Bai Zhenggan is very skillful and knows a little bit about masonry, carpentry and ironwork. Of course, he learned these skills because of the pressure of life. Even though he is recuperating at home, he can't rest. He asked Li Zi and Xing Zi to go to the mountain to cut bamboo, split it into bamboo strips, and pile them on the kang bed so that he could do some handicrafts every day.
Thinking that the weather would soon get hot, he weaved a few bamboo mats. Then, at Taotao's suggestion, he used the remaining small bamboo pieces to make various toys that the children would love.
There are dragonflies, butterflies, beetles and so on with wings that can move, and I even made a small bamboo whistle and glued it on top...
This made Red Bean and Yellow Bean so happy!
The family thought Bai Zhenggan's cooking skills were really good, so they planned to go to town and buy some chickens, ducks, fish, etc. to nourish her body after Tan Fenghui gave birth, and then they could sell these little things.
After hearing this, Bai Zhenggan has been doing these things non-stop these days.
"Is Dongsheng's father home?" Someone suddenly knocked on the door.
The father and daughter looked at each other.
Taotao was very alert: Is that person coming?
No, something doesn't seem right. The person knocking on the door was a woman?
Bai Lili responded, "My dad is at home, who are you looking for?" and then hurried out. After a while, someone came in.
The person who came was a middle-aged woman with a smile on her face. She looked unfamiliar and was not from Ruyi Village. She was dressed neatly and looked ordinary, but she wore a red velvet flower as big as an egg on her temples, which seemed a little out of place.
"Dad Dongsheng, I'm the daughter-in-law of Zhangjiatun. You can just call me Xiujuan!"
As she spoke, Xiujuan began to look around the Bai family's house, praising it as she looked around, "Tsk tsk tsk tsk, today when I entered our Ruyi Village, I asked people where Dongsheng's house was. They all said, look at which house in our village is the most impressive, that's where Dongsheng's house is! I walked around and took a look, and I knew immediately, our family is the most impressive family in the village!"
This person has a loud voice, an extremely enthusiastic attitude, and an exaggerated tone.
She praised the house and the yard, then the table and the cabinet, and finally even the pair of shoes with holes in them that Bai Zhenggan placed in front of the kang bed. She said that the shape of the holes particularly resembled copper coins, and that the toes of most people's shoes would not be so damaged, so they were really not as good as the Bai family.
As she was praising him... Xiujuan looked at Bailili, then at Taotao, and said with a smile: "I knew long ago that Dongsheng has three sisters who are as beautiful as fairies! That's right!"
Then he looked at the two sisters carefully, pointed at Lili and said, "This is the third sister!", and then pointed at Taotao and said, "This is the fourth sister! Right?"
Pear and Peach nodded.
Xiujuan clapped her hands and praised, "Oh, Dongsheng dad, how did you raise such a beautiful daughter!" Her eyes were always fixed on Bai Lili, and she looked at her carefully.
Bai Zhenggan stared at the big red flower on Xiujuan's temples for a while, then looked at his two daughters.
Bai Lili was so embarrassed that she pulled Taotao off the kang bed and ran out with Taotao.
Taotao: What’s going on! ! !
Bai Lili brought Taotao all the way to the kitchen, took a deep breath for a long time, and then calmed down by stroking her chest.
Tao Tao asked curiously: "Third sister, what did you do?"
Bai Lili waved her hand, poured a few cups of tea, went to her eldest brother's room, called out Tan Fenghui, and whispered a few words to her.
Tan Fenghui followed Bai Lili to the kitchen. She supported her lower back with one hand and placed the tea that Lili had already poured on the enamel tray with the other hand. She said with a smile, "What's the big deal? Girls have to go out when they grow up! Don't worry, I'll go over and find out for you who has taken a fancy to our little fairy!"
Bai Lili blushed and was worried about Tan Fenghui's big belly. "Sister-in-law, can you carry the tray?"
Tan Fenghui found it funny and said, "What's the big deal? I'm not the daughter of a capitalist family!" Then she took the tray and left.
Tao Tao seemed to understand, "That Xiujuan with a big red flower on her head, is she the matchmaker?"
Bai Lili hummed.
Tao Tao thought for a moment and asked, "Third sister, do you have someone you like?"
Bai Lili's face turned red, she felt embarrassed, twisting the corners of her clothes nervously with her hands, and looking towards the main house from time to time.
"Third sister, do you have someone you like?" Bai Taotao asked again.
Bai Lili bit her lip and nodded barely audibly after a while.
Bai Taotao, "Who?"
"Why are you asking this?" Bai Lili said shyly.
Bai Taotao, "Let me see if I recognize him."
"I won't tell you."
"That must be someone I know!"
“You, you…”
"If you don't tell me, I'll just guess!"
"Taotao, stop talking nonsense!"
"Jiang Hongzhi?"
Bai Lili's eyes widened in shock, "H-how did you know?"
Tao Tao was also stunned, "Is it really Jiang Hongzhi???"
She really just... made a random guess, and she actually guessed it right.
Of course, this is also because the young men of marriageable age in Ruyi Village are almost all cut from the same cloth - farmers who don't care about their appearance, and plus, they have all known each other since they were wearing open-crotch pants and grew up together, so they are too familiar with each other and don't pay much attention to each other's image.
Jiang Hongzhi is one of the only two handsome young men in Ruyi Village.
Song Zhi is the best looking one, but he is cold and taciturn, and he looks like he is keeping everyone at a distance, especially when it comes to young women.
Jiang Hongzhi is enthusiastic and can get along with anyone... He is a true friend of women. Maybe for this reason, all the girls in the village like Jiang Hongzhi.
Taotao wondered, maybe Sister Li Zi liked Jiang Hongzhi just because she wanted to follow the crowd?
After all, Sister Li Zi doesn't seem to pay much attention to Jiang Hongzhi.
result--
Bai Lili said shyly: "He is a very nice person. Once when we were working together, my hand was cut by the grass... We are farmers, who cares about this! It's just a small cut, the pain will go away after a while. But he said that if a girl is injured, she is injured and must rest. He also supported me as I walked, as if my legs could not move after the cut on my hand..."
Bai Lili blushed as she recalled the past.
Taotao's alarm bells started ringing!
——For Bai Taoji, the Saint of Mei Sect, the thing she saw the most in her life was men. There is an imbalance between men and women in the world of cultivation, with the ratio being about 99:1. And we have seen men of all ages, looks, dress styles, personalities, and types. What she has learned throughout her life is how to deal with men.
So after coming to this world, apart from her own father and brother who liked her, she felt that only Song Zhi was barely acceptable.
Now I heard from my third sister that she fell in love with a greasy guy like Jiang Hongzhi?
Taotao fell into deep thought - is it because the third sister has been trapped in this small village and her vision has been limited that she cannot see other better men? This won’t work. We have to find a way to broaden the horizons of our sisters.
Bai Lili said nervously and helplessly, "Taozi, tell me, um, um... was it Jiang Hongzhi who asked her to come?"
Taotao sighed.
——Silly sister, didn’t you hear the matchmaker say that she is from Zhangjiatun? If Jiang Hongzhi really likes you, he would probably send a matchmaker from the village to propose marriage to you.
No, Jiang Hongzhi is an educated youth. He probably wouldn’t look for a matchmaker for something like marriage. Asking a matchmaker to come to your house to meet someone is a typical local practice.
etc……
Jiang Hongzhi was an educated youth, so he would not marry a rural girl unless it was absolutely necessary. What's more, Jiang Hongzhi has been flattering Yan Naqian for a long time. Although in Taotao's eyes, her third sister is better looking than Yan Naqian, Yan Naqian is indeed better in temperament.
Taotao felt that Sister Li Zi might be disappointed.
Soon, Tan Fenghui came over, holding her waist.
Bai Lili looked nervous and her pretty face turned red.
Tan Fenghui was a little uncomfortable and smiled, "I'm from Zhangjiatun, and I came here to propose to... Taotao."
Pear and peach were both stunned!
Bai Taotao was so angry that she jumped three feet high, "Who is tired of living - ugh!"
Lili was so frightened that she quickly covered Bai Taotao's mouth and begged, "My little ancestor! The person hasn't left yet, please be quiet!"
Taotao was so angry!
——She has only encountered such a good family in two lifetimes, and everyone in the family loves each other. But after less than two months here, someone is already targeting her?
Humph, please don’t let it be the one who sneaked into the cornfield that day, otherwise she will beat him so hard that even the mice in his own house won’t be able to recognize him!
Bai Lili thought the boss was boring, so she lowered her head and said, "When is that matchmaker going to leave? I still have to cook!"
Taotao held onto Tan Fenghui's hand stubbornly, with a fierce look on her face, "Sister-in-law, tell me, who came to propose to me?" I promise not to beat him to death!
Tan Fenghui was helpless, "You don't know him! You've never been out of the house..."
"I've been out of the house, I've been to the city!" Bai Taotao asked stubbornly, "Sister-in-law, tell me, who came to propose to me?"
Tan Fenghui had no choice but to say, "It should be the eldest son of Zhang Jianzhang from Zhangjiatun."
Bai Taotao was completely confused.
Tan Fenghui, "I told you you don't know him!"
"Why does he come to propose marriage when he doesn't even know me?" Bai Taotao looked unhappy.
Tan Fenghui laughed, "Although it is a new society now, there are many people who marry blindly! But Taotao, don't worry, this marriage will definitely not be successful!"
Bai Taotao was still very unhappy, "What if he loves me too much?"
Bai Lili: ...
Tan Fenghui: …
After a long while, Tan Fenghui finally spoke with difficulty: "Taozi, we girls need to be more reserved. This, this... this, whether you love or not, please don't talk too much in the future."
"Is it not okay for me to love my sister-in-law?" Taotao pouted.
Tan Fenghui's heart softened immediately, "Okay! Okay! Sister-in-law likes Taotao too!"
Bai Lili asked, "Sister-in-law, why can't this marriage be completed?"
Tan Fenghui, "Think about it, the other party is the eldest son, can our Taotao be the eldest sister-in-law?"
Bai Lili: ...
Bai Taotao: ...
Okay, I get it.
After a while, Bai Zhenggan yelled in the main room, "Hui'er! Hui'er? Come and help me see your Aunt Xiujuan off!"
"Hey, here it comes!"
Tan Fenghui held her waist and walked out slowly.
At lunchtime, when everyone came back, Bai Zhenggan talked about this matter at the dinner table, "... Today, Zhang Jianzhang from Zhangjiatun asked a matchmaker to come to our house and said he wanted to find a wife for his eldest son..."
Everyone's eyes turned to Bai Lili.
"...he has taken a fancy to our Taotao." Bai Zhenggan continued.
Everyone was stunned.
“Crack—”
Song Zhi, who was holding the bowl and eating potato jelly madly, was so shocked that he bit a piece of the porcelain bowl!
Everyone: ...
Tang Liren, "Hey Song Zhi, is it okay?"
Song Zhi held a half-piece of porcelain bowl in his mouth. He was stunned for a long time before he came to his senses and quickly spit out the porcelain piece. "I, I'm fine. I'm sorry, auntie. This bowl..."
"It's okay! It's okay as long as you didn't cut your mouth!" Tang Liren ordered Lili, "Xingzi, bring another bowl!"
Bai Xingxing ran over to get an empty bowl and handed it to Song Zhi. Song Zhi murmured "thank you", took the empty bowl, was silent for a while, and then started to eat.
Everyone stared at Song Zhi.
——Doesn’t he know that he is eating from an empty bowl?
After a while, Song Zhi realized that he was holding an empty bowl, and hurriedly tried to move the potato jelly in the bowl that was not emptied. However, he ended up holding the wrong bowl, and poured the sauce bowl into his own bowl.
Everyone: ...
Everyone looked at the angry Bai Taotao, and then at the distracted Song Zhi...
I don't know why, but everyone fell silent.
The atmosphere is quite weird.
Bai Zhenggan and Tang Liren exchanged glances.
The family had just finished lunch, and Lili quickly took away the dishes and chopsticks.
"Taozi! Is Taozi at home?" someone shouted outside.
Bai Taotao recognized that the person coming was her cousin Bai Zhenzhu from her third uncle's family.
Uncle San had four daughters. The two older cousins were already married, and Taotao only had vague memories of them. The other two who are still unmarried are the third one, named Zhenzhu, who is the same age as Taotao, and the fourth one, named Feicui, who is the same age as Xingxing.
Taotao didn't like these two, so she hung her head, said nothing, took the sewing basket again, and prepared to do needlework.
Tang Liren, "Hongdou, go and call your Aunt Pearl in."
Hongdou ran out and called Bai Zhenzhu over after a while.
Bai Zhenzhu smiled and greeted everyone, "Hello, uncle, aunt..." After looking around, she asked, "Brother Song Zhi is not here?"
——Song Zhi is a rather introverted person and doesn’t like interacting with others. When he heard Bai Zhenzhu knocking on the door just now, he went back to his room.
His family knew his character and didn't take it seriously.
Tang Liren explained, "He wants to read and study!"
Bai Zhenzhu said "Oh" but didn't care. After all, she was not here to find Song Zhi, she was here to find Bai Taotao.
Taotao loves beauty.
But the family was too poor and there was no money to let her dress up.
At this moment, she tied her hair into a loose big braid, and tied a few thin braids on both sides of her temples, which were all gathered into the big braid at the back of her head. At the end of her hair was a hairband given to her by her second brother, with a few very delicate wooden beads hanging on it.
The clothes Taotao was wearing were just ordinary old clothes. She sewed the old and torn collar neatly with needle and thread. Because there were some holes that could not be mended, she cut an old plaid shirt and sewed the simplest wood ear lace on it. She also added a border to the cuffs where the threads were unraveling, and sewed an elastic cord into them...
The old clothes that were originally loose and ill-fitting now have exquisite details everywhere and look more fitted and exquisite than before.
Bai Zhenzhu praised: "Taotao looks so pretty today!"
——This is why Taotao hates White Pearl and White Jade. It's bad enough that he's a smart student, but he also likes to take what's ready.
Sure enough, Bai Zhenzhu's next words were -
"Taotao's dress looks great today! I'm going back to my uncle's house tomorrow, so can you lend me this dress? I'll return it to you when I get back!"
Tao Tao replied without even looking up: "No!"
The Caibao sisters "borrowed" so many things from their home and never returned them! Even if they were urged to return the money, when they returned it, it was mostly destroyed by them on purpose.
White Pearl: ...
Tang Liren tried to smooth things over, "Pearl, wear your aunt's clothes! I'll lend you my aunt's clothes!"
Bai Zhenzhu looked down on it - who would care about middle-aged women's clothes!
"Taotao, you are being too formal," Bai Zhenzhu said in a self-righteous and generous tone, "After all, we are still a family. If we are respectable outside, the other sisters at home will also be respectable, right?"
Tao Tao, "We have already separated!"
White Pearl: ...
Everyone held back their laughter.
Bai Zhenzhu was not amused, so she quickly changed the subject and asked, "By the way, I heard that the matchmaker came to your house today. Is it you or your third sister who is getting married soon?"
Tao Tao said without even looking up: "I'm here to propose marriage to my grandma."
Bai Zhenzhu widened her eyes:! ! !
Bai Dongsheng was choked and coughed repeatedly, Tan Fenghui tried to hold back her laughter until her face turned red, Bai Zhenggan and Tang Liren looked up at the sky and the ground respectively, both trying their best to hold back their laughter.
Bai Xingxing laughed out loud, "Hahahahahaha..."
Tang Liren glared at her younger daughter fiercely.
Xing Xing was so scared that she stopped laughing immediately, but she stopped laughing too quickly and started hiccuping.
Bai Zhenzhu understood that Taotao was teasing her, and then she looked at the needlework in Taotao's hand and made small talk, "Taotao, what are you doing?"
Tao Tao, "I'm making clothes for my soon-to-be-born nephew!"
"If you have the time... why not help me make one that's the same as the one you're wearing?" Bai Zhenzhu pouted. "Why are you in such a hurry to make a child? Why don't you wait until your sister-in-law gives birth? What if it turns out to be a money-losing piece?!"
Everyone stared angrily.
——Bai Zhenggan and his wife also love their daughter, so the family has never discussed whether the baby in Tan Fenghui's belly is a boy or a girl.
Wouldn't it be nice to have a girl? Which of your girls is not good, and which one is not popular?
But the three words "money-losing goods" are really vicious.
Tao Tao was unhappy and looked up at Bai Zhenzhu angrily, "When are you going to compensate me? When you become a money-loser, I will make another one for you, and it will be considered as my compensation to you!"
After thinking for a while, Tao Tao asked Tang Liren again, "Mom, when Sister Zhenzhu loses money, do I need to pay her back?"
"You don't need to! You're not her mother, why do you need to pay me back?" Tang Liren was also very angry. "Besides, she just calls me auntie, right? I'm not her real mother. Humph, I won't give her even one needle in the future!"
Bai Zhenzhu finally realized that she was annoying, and stood up awkwardly, "I, I have something else to do at home, I'm leaving..."
Before leaving, he took one more look at Taotao's clothes and the hairband. He was still unwilling to leave, so he angrily cursed her as a "stingy guy", stomped his feet, and ran away.
Song Zhi hid in his room.
When Bai Zhenggan let him live in this room, he said, "This room was originally prepared for Nansheng, but you know his situation. Why would he come back in the future? To be laughed at for being cuckolded? Well, I guess he won't come back... So just live here with peace of mind and don't have any psychological burden."
Having said that, Song Zhi still likes it here.
——Strictly speaking, this is his first home, his first house.
When he was young, he stayed at Guan's house and lived in the same room with Guan Qinghai. Later, his adoptive mother passed away and the Guan family became chaotic. He always stayed in school, living in a large dormitory with 40 to 50 people in one room. Later, I took the postgraduate entrance examination and the accommodation conditions were better, but it was still a four-person room.
Taotao cleaned his room.
In other words, Taotao cleans the whole house.
The little girl is very clever and she loves beauty very much.
When building this house, time was tight and the task was heavy. Although the house was completed within one day, in reality only the basic construction was done. On the first night, the whole family slept in the main house - because only that house had a floor, while the other rooms still had rammed earth floors.
Bai Dongsheng hired several people to slowly build the furniture and lay the floor...
To this day, the whole house is still filled with a fresh scent of wood.
Taotao decorated the room one by one.
Song Zhi's room was very simple. There was only a bed, a cabinet, a desk and a chair in the empty room.
Taotao placed many pots of green plants in his room.
There are three pots in total, one big and two small, placed in each of the two corners. There is also a pot beside the bed and another on the desk, but it is a small pot of tender sprouts. He didn't know what it was, so he asked her, but she didn't tell him. She smiled and replied, "It would be boring if I told you! Just let it accompany you, and let it slowly bloom for you to see."
So Song Zhi only knew that the green plant on the table would bloom.
He didn't know what kind of flowers would bloom.
He is willing to wait and is very much looking forward to it.
Taotao would also weave wreaths with grass and wild flowers and hang them in any corner of the house, changing them every three or four days.
She hung two wreaths on the wall of his room - they were not round, and the style was a bit strange, but the grass leaves and small wild flowers dotted around made the whole room bloom with the beauty of life.
Taotao also went to the river in the village and picked up a lot of strange stones, calling them "candlesticks", and she also emphasized the direction in which the "candlesticks" were placed. But in Song Zhi's eyes, he thought it was just a stone and it didn't matter how it was placed. He even felt that her way of placing it was not that reliable.
Until at night, when he lit the candle on the "candlestick"...
It turns out that half of the stone wall can collect the faint light of the candle, making the empty and spacious room brighter; it turns out that the stone wall "candlestick" is so beautiful after being illuminated by candles!
Just as she said, every candlestick she picked up was excellent and one-of-a-kind in the world.
She placed seven or eight such candlesticks in his room. He tried to light all the candles at night; after lighting them, the whole room was as bright as day, and the furnishings in the room were reflected...
Song Zhi didn't know how to describe his house.
Well, it’s like being in a fairyland, probably!
According to Bai Dongsheng, Taotao's house was like a real fairy cave, but Song Zhi didn't dare to set foot in a girl's room, not even to think about it.
Now, such a good girl...
Someone came to propose to her? ? ?
Bai Zhenggan always says that Taotao is still a child. So even though Taotao has the beautiful appearance of a seventeen-year-old girl, Song Zhi still tries his best to treat Taotao as a child.
That--
Would she really marry another man?
no! ! ! Don’t even think about it! ! !
As soon as this strong thought popped into his mind, Song Zhi was shocked.
Is he... really so against Taotao marrying someone else?
Pictures flashed through my mind:
——He remembered Taotao kneeling on the kang, holding a small pot of grape vines, and asking him to shake hands with the grape vines in a delicate voice. He was at a loss at the time because he didn't know where the grapevine's hand was. Later, Bai Dongsheng took the lead and pinched the only two small leaves on the grapevine, and he followed suit...
She was so happy that she gave him a bright and sweet smile.
——He remembered Taotao lying on the kang bed, stepping on his buttocks mischievously with her feet. He ran away and she chased him. He was left with no way to escape, so he just sat there and did not move. She also stopped and continued to step on the ground at a leisurely pace.
Later, Song Zhi realized that she was singing a little tune and tapping the rhythm on his buttocks with her feet!
He couldn't help but wonder: What kind of little song is she singing? Her voice is so sweet, she must sound good when she sings, right? I really want to listen to it...
——He remembered to sit for a long time
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