Chapter 60 The Bai Family of Three Arrives
Bai Zilin held back his tears, stuffed a dumpling into his mouth, and said indistinctly, "Tomorrow I'll go hunting in the mountains again. I'm going to earn lots and lots of silver to buy rice and flour for my little wife, and also to buy her nice clothes. My little wife, just wait and enjoy the good life with me."
Liu Ye nodded happily, and the dumplings tasted even better in her mouth. Bai Zilin was so good to her, and she would treat him even better in the future.
After finishing his meal, it was already dark outside. Bai Zilin went to the backyard to feed the cow some grass, and then went to sleep in the lower room.
The next day, just after the two finished breakfast, Liu the bricklayer arrived with his workers to start work. Bai Zilin went to his house to supervise the work. Although the work had been outsourced, he still had to keep an eye on things himself.
After tidying up the house, Liu Ye changed her clothes and took the dirty clothes to the well to wash. But before she finished washing them, she heard a commotion at the door. She could vaguely hear Bai Zimei's voice. Oh no, the Bai family had arrived! She threw the clothes into the basin and quickly ran to the front door.
She saw a crowd gathered in front of Bai Zilin's house. She spotted the Bai family of three and the Wang family, who were also watching the commotion. Bai Zilin was surrounded in the center of the crowd. Those damned Bai family members always bully Brother Bai!
She ran quickly to Bai Zilin's side, and this time she didn't pretend to be mute: "Brother Bai, are you alright?"
Bai Zilin, who had been keeping a straight face, noticed that Liu Ye's expression had softened and her tone was no longer as harsh as before: "I'm fine. A few mad dogs came and started biting people. I'll chase them away right away so they won't scare you."
The Bai family of three recovered from their shock. They never expected that the "big fool" could talk, and her voice was quite pleasant. She didn't sound like a fool at all. It turned out that the "big fool" was pretending to be a fool.
Bai Zimei pointed at Liu Ye, her face full of disbelief, and asked, "You big idiot, you can actually talk!"
Liu Ye tucked her hair behind her ears, revealing a small, dark face and big, bright black eyes: "You're the big idiot! Your whole family are big idiots! I have a name, I'm Liu Ye! Brother Bai has already cut ties with you all, so why are you still coming to see him? How can your family be so shameless? As the old saying goes, 'People need face, trees need bark,' how can you be so shameless? I'm embarrassed for you!"
"When Brother Bai injured his leg, you didn't treat him, you even wanted to starve him to death, you thought he was a burden, you even severed ties with him, and then you left him outside to fend for himself. These are all the things you did, how can you still have the face to stand in front of him!"
Bai Shuisheng snorted coldly and said, "Hmph! Mind your own business. What right do you, an outsider, have to interfere? Get lost! Don't think that just because you can talk, you're not a complete idiot. In our eyes, you'll always be that lowly idiot. You're not even worthy to speak to us!"
Bai Zimei chimed in sarcastically, "That's right, even if you can talk, you're still a big idiot. You still have the nerve to name yourself Liu Ye (Willow Leaf). You're the most shameless one. The Liu family has already expelled you from the Liu family and doesn't want you anymore. What face do you have to have the surname Liu? I think you should be named Sha (Fool) and called Da Sha Zi (Big Fool). That name is more suitable for you!"
Bai Zilin couldn't stand them bullying Liu Ye, and he roared, "Shut up! I won't allow you to bully Liu Ye! If you don't get out of here, I'm going to take action!"
Bai Shuisheng gave Bai Wangshi a wink, it seemed they had to use their ultimate move. Bai Wangshi nodded and knelt down on the ground, followed by Bai Shuisheng and Bai Zimei.
When Liu Ye saw that they were using this trick again, she looked at Bai Zilin with a worried expression. Bai Zilin winked at her, and Liu Ye thought that he had a plan, so she would wait and see.
Before she could even speak, tears streamed down Bai Wangshi's face: "Zilin, my son, the apple of my eye! No matter how many times we say it, it was all our fault back then. We shouldn't have driven you out of the house. We should have saved all the food for you, and your father and I would have just eaten some grass roots. Your father and I are kneeling down to apologize to you today. Please forgive us. Your father and I are kowtowing to you. My son, please forgive us!"
The fact that the Bai family of three knelt down as expected caused the villagers to point and whisper among themselves, discussing Bai Zilin. There were all sorts of opinions. Some said he was unfilial for making his parents kneel before him, while others said that he would not forgive his own son for kicking him out of the house after his leg was injured and then coming back to acknowledge him after he recovered.
Bai Zilin crossed his arms and looked at the three people kneeling on the ground. He said coldly, "Hmph! You are such good actors, why don't you go out and perform on the streets? You are such good at scheming, why don't you think about how much your conscience is worth? Do you think I will fall for your tricks again after I've been fooled once? When you wanted to kill me, Village Chief Zhao, you ran faster than anyone else and shouted louder than anyone else."
"How could you forget? I remember it perfectly well! Humph! What a joke. You can kneel here if you want. Liu Ye, let's go. Liu the bricklayer, you guys get back to work."
Bai Shuisheng retorted to Bai Wangshi, who gritted her teeth and kowtowed three times to the ground. Bai Shuisheng and his daughter followed suit, also kowtowing three times to the ground.
The villagers who had been watching immediately erupted in uproar, loudly criticizing Bai Zilin for being unfilial, making his parents kowtow to him, and asking if he wasn't afraid of being struck by lightning!
Hearing the surrounding whispers, Madam Bai felt quite smug. It seemed this tactic was working. She raised her reddened forehead, her eyes brimming with tears, and looked at Bai Zilin, saying, "Waaah, my son, it's all my fault, no matter what. If you're still not satisfied, then hit me. I'll take it all. After all, you're my child, a piece of my flesh. Waaah, my son, hit me, it's all my fault!"
Seeing that this old bastard was quite the actor, and now the villagers were all on her side, Liu Ye retorted to Bai Zilin, "Brother Bai, hurry up and send them away!"
Bai Zilin nodded and looked at the villagers who were talking amongst themselves, saying, "Fellow villagers, it's not that I don't want to acknowledge my parents, it's just that they are unworthy to be fathers and mothers. The woman kneeling on the ground is my own mother. She was fifteen or sixteen years old and still unmarried. Before she was even ready to be married, she had an affair with someone and became pregnant with me. She didn't even know who my biological father was!"
“All the men who slept with her, once they found out she was pregnant, rejected her. Nobody wanted to marry her, so she found me a cheap father. My cheap father is this man kneeling in front of you, the cuckold my mother found. Folks, do you think a woman like that deserves to be my mother?”
Bai Zilin's words caused the villagers watching to widen their eyes in disbelief, and they all began to condemn the Bai family of three, calling them despicable and shameless.
The Wang family was also shocked. The couple looked at each other and exclaimed, "My God, so Bai Zilin is actually... his mother's bastard child with another man! We don't want a son-in-law like that, it's too shameful!"
Aunt Wang pulled Wang Dani home quickly. Wang Dani hadn't seen enough yet, but she couldn't resist her mother's insistence on going home.
Hearing the insults from those around him, Bai Shuisheng turned green with rage. He jumped up from the ground, so ashamed he wanted to disappear into the ground. He hated Bai Zilin even more and wished he could kill him right then and there.
Seeing that her father had gotten up, Bai Zimei also stood up from the ground, her head bowed in shame, wishing she could find a place to crawl into. Her older brother was really too much; didn't he know that family scandals shouldn't be aired in public?
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