Chapter 70 You hit my mother, pay me two taels of silver.
Zhang Fang was speechless after being rebuked. She was also afraid that Liu Ye would really be angry and not let her come over again. If she didn't come to her house, how could she contact Brother Bai? She quickly tried to make amends, grinning with her buck teeth, her smile looking more like a grimace: "Oh, Liu Ye, don't be angry. I misspoke just now. I'm not blaming you, and I didn't mean to extort money from you. I just... I just got a little out of it from being beaten, that's why I was spouting nonsense. Please don't end up like me, I won't stay at your house anymore."
"Don't be angry anymore. If Brother Bai's mother comes in the future, I'll help you chase her away. So please don't hold it against me..."
As luck would have it, Bai Zilin returned just then. Seeing Zhang Fang there, he turned to leave, but Zhang Fang sprinted past him and stopped him. Pointing to her face, she said pitifully, "Brother Bai, look at my face! I got beaten up like this because of you! Brother Bai, sob sob, I'm so pitiful! Why did you leave as soon as you saw me?"
Liu Ye rolled her eyes speechlessly and quickly came to the front door: "Zhang Fang, are you done yet? What does your beating have to do with Brother Bai? You asked for trouble, we didn't force you to stand up for us. Just leave now and don't come to our house again!"
Zhang Fang still looked at Bai Zilin with a wronged expression, showing no intention of leaving. Bai Zilin couldn't stand being stared at by a ghost. He quickly changed his expression and said in an unfriendly tone, "I just heard that you hit my mother. I'm asking you, who gave you permission to hit my mother? My mother and I have a grudge, that's between us. Why are you meddling? Who gave you permission to hit her? Pay up! I heard you beat my mother quite badly. It won't be possible to get her treated without two taels of silver. Go home and get the money, or I'll report you to the authorities!"
Zhang Fang was shocked! Was there no justice in the world? She was clearly avenging him. But after thinking about it carefully, it seemed to make sense. Even if Brother Bai and his mother had a conflict, she would never hit his mother. Yet she did hit his mother. It seemed that she was indeed in the wrong...
Thinking of this, Zhang Fang panicked: "No, Brother Bai, please listen to me, I... I didn't think that much at the time, I just wanted to avenge you, that's why I hit your mother, I really didn't know... Brother Bai, please don't make me pay, I don't have any money, my parents will beat me to death if they find out, please don't make me pay, I'll go home right now, I'll go home right now, I won't bother you here anymore, I'll leave right now!"
After Zhang Fang finished speaking, she took off running towards the village and disappeared in the blink of an eye. Liu Ye gave Bai Zilin a thumbs up and praised him with a smile like a little fox: "Brother Bai, you're amazing! You're so amazing! I chased Zhang Fang for a long time but couldn't get her to leave. You scared her away with just a few words. You're so impressive. I really admire you."
Bai Zilin smiled and shook his head, then grabbed her hand and led her into the house: "Master, you flatter me. As the old saying goes, 'One who stays near vermilion gets stained red, and one who stays near ink gets stained black.' I learned all this from you."
Upon hearing this, Liu Ye thought, "Who are you calling a bastard? Ha, so you mean I corrupted you?"
Bai Zilin said with a smile, "That's right. I feel that the longer I spend with you, the more intelligent I become. My mind works faster, and my tongue is more fluent. This is all thanks to you. A good master teaches well, and a disciple learns quickly. I'm praising you."
Liu Ye thought to herself, "I don't believe you for a second. You're a scheming man. You're so good at exposing your mother's secrets. You've almost made your mother angry to death."
Three days passed in the blink of an eye. During these three days, Liu Ye's family was quite quiet. Wang Dani, Zhang Fang, and even Bai Wangshi did not come over. Bai Zilin's house was also being built quite quickly. After the foundation was laid, they started buying materials and building the walls.
In the past three days, Bai Zilin had earned another five or six taels of silver from hunting. However, the price of grain was getting higher and higher every day, which was quite worrying. Of course, it wasn't Liu Ye who was worried, as she had more grain in her spatial storage than she could eat. It was Bai Zilin who was worried. He handed the silver he had earned that day to Liu Ye and said, "The price of grain in town has gone up again. If it keeps going up like this, we won't be able to afford to eat even if we have silver. Sigh, when will this ever end?"
Liu Ye took the silver and stuffed it into her bosom before storing it in her spatial storage: "Brother Bai, don't worry, things will be better after the New Year. Tomorrow is the Beginning of Winter, right? I see the sky looks gloomy, like it's going to rain."
Bai Zilin counted on his fingers and realized, "Yes, tomorrow is the Beginning of Winter, and it's market day too. What do you want to eat? I'll buy it for you."
Liu Ye shook her head. She really didn't want anything to eat. He went hunting in the mountains every day, and the family always had meat, either pheasant or rabbit. She wasn't craving meat at all now. "Brother Bai, could you buy some more sauce? The sauce you bought last time is almost gone. We don't need anything else."
Bai Zilin nodded: "Okay, I understand."
The next day, Bai Zilin returned from hunting in the mountains and took three rabbits and two chickens to town to sell. But not long after he left, Bai Wangshi arrived. However, this time she did not go to Liu Ye's door to shout. She did not know Liu Ye and thought it was someone else's house. Instead, she stood at Bai Zilin's door and shouted and cursed.
Liu Ye heard the noise and came to the door. She saw that the girl's head was wrapped in a white cloth and her face was covered in bruises. She hadn't recovered from the beating she received last time.
With her hands on her hips, Madam Bai shouted loudly into Bai Zilin's courtyard, "Bai Zilin, you unfilial wretch, get out here right now! I'm here to ask you for money, you coward, get out here right now!"
Liu the bricklayer was thoroughly annoyed by her shouting. He put down his tools, walked impatiently to the door, and yelled at Bai Wangshi, "What are you yelling about? Bai Zilin isn't home. He went to the market. Go find him there!"
Bai Wangshi walked a few more steps into the courtyard, searching for Bai Zilin among the workers, but she couldn't find him. Furious, she gritted her teeth, stomped her foot, and sat down on the ground, throwing a tantrum: "I'm not going to look for him! I'll wait for him here!"
She saw Liu Ye standing at the gate, glared at her fiercely, and yelled at the top of her lungs, "You little slut, look at your mother's ass! You heartless, rotten thing, you even let two bitches beat me up, you immoral, despicable whore, I'll fuck your mother's little slut, you shameless ass, you've never seen a man throw himself at you in your 800 lifetimes, engaging in illicit relations, fine, fine, bastard bastard..."
Liu the bricklayer shook his head speechlessly and went back to work. Bai Wangshi sat on the ground cursing so hard that foam was coming out of her mouth, and the glass was sticky. Liu Ye didn't listen to her cursing. The glass was reflecting light and bouncing, and the light bounced off her.
She turned and went back into the house, leaving Liu the bricklayer and his colleagues to suffer, enduring Bai Wang's insults while they worked.
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