Chapter Ninety-Nine: Shame
"Mother, what's wrong, what's wrong?" White Jasmine asked casually.
"I heard that there was a shame in the mountains this morning."
"Bang ......" The bowl in Bai Jasmine's hand fell to the ground and shattered.
She didn't care about this, and continued to ask with an unnatural expression.
"Lost ...... Shame on you? Mother, what do you mean by this? ”
"yes, what's the shame? Who lost it? Bai Qi also asked in wonder.
"It is said that the daughter-in-law of the old Zhang family heard that the herbs in the mountains can make money, so she took his son and daughter up the mountain together, but came back crying and said that the child was lost." Niu's gossip face spoke.
"Lost the child? Isn't it greedy to run away? ”
"I don't know, this old Zhang went to the village chief to tell him about it, and the village chief called on the big guys to go into the mountains to find people, but there is no news yet."
"Is it a girl or a son who is lost? Wait, how do they also know that herbs can make money? Do they know herbs? "Strange during the day.
"I heard that the two children can't be found, and I don't know what's going on, so I'm waiting for everyone's news. As for herbs, who knows how? Niu continued.
"By the way, didn't you go to the county? Why did you come back so soon? All those herbs were sold? ”
"I originally wanted to go to the county, but I didn't have a car on the way, so I walked to the town with Jasmine and found a pharmacy to sell all those herbs."
"How much did you sell?"
“……”
White Jasmine couldn't listen to the rest of the conversation because she was scared.
Niu Shi and Bai Bai Qi didn't know what was going on with picking herbs and selling them for money, she knew it!
When she came down the mountain after picking herbs that day, she was very proud to show off to many people.
Moreover, Sister-in-law Lin also knocked over her back basket and asked her a lot.
Could it be that the reason why everyone goes up the mountain to dig up the so-called herbs that can make money is what Sister-in-law Lin said behind her back?
The more she thought about it, the more she was sure of this guess in her heart.
In case of...... If there are really bandits or human traffickers in the mountains, will those people find her and blame her for everything?
Thinking of these white jasmines, she couldn't help but panic, and she didn't even hear Niu call her twice.
"Jasmine, what are you thinking, so distracted?" Niu simply reached out and patted her on the shoulder.
"Mother, I'm fine. You say, will the loss of the child of the old Zhang family have anything to do with the bandits that my sister-in-law said? White Jasmine asked nervously.
"I can't say for sure! What if the two children were playful and ran farther away on their own, or ran into a wild beast in the mountains or something.
What's the matter, Jasmine, you didn't cause the loss of that child, why are you so excited? ”
Hearing what Niu said, Bai Jasmine stopped panicking.
Yes, the loss of the child has nothing to do with her, why is she afraid?
She didn't let those people into the mountains.
Thinking of this, Bai Jasmine quickly put her heart in her stomach and took out the rouge she bought in the town today to show Niu.
"Mother, look, this is the rouge I bought in the town today, do you like it?"
"It's good-looking, my jasmine is already good-looking, if you can apply this rouge, it will definitely be more beautiful." Niu looked at his daughter and praised him without hesitation.
"Then I compare with my sister-in-law, which one is better?"
"Where can your sister-in-law compare to you? If it weren't for your grandmother's constant protection, she would have been invaded into the pig cage a long time ago. ”
Listening to Niu's words, Bai Qi said a little unhappily: "What nonsense are you talking about? Hasn't my little sister been doing well lately? If we didn't have her, where would we be able to eat such a good meal? ”
"Yes, yes, your mother is the best, and your sister is also the best, the girl I gave birth to is not good, and it makes your Bai family unhappy." The opening of the sour bovine of the bovines.
"That's not what I meant. The recent changes in pears are also obvious to all. Since she has become better, don't talk bad about her in the future, otherwise if her mother hears it, she should be scolded again. Bai Tianqi explained.
"Heh, in the end, it's a family, it's to help your own people speak. It's just our family of three here, if you don't say it, who will know?
Our mother is sad enough on weekdays, you don't know how to pity, and you teach us a lesson in turn, what do you mean? Your mother and your sister are important, and Jasmine and I are not important, right? Niu asked dissatisfiedly.
"No, that's not what I meant." In the face of such accusations, Bai Qi didn't know how to speak for a while.
"So what do you mean? You hate me and Jasmine, don't you? Niu asked unrelentingly.
"Really, I'll just say casually, why did you react so much?" Bai Tianqi said that he was helpless.
Why can't he understand Niu's brain circuits? I don't know what I'm thinking every day.
When his mother-in-law Li was there, Niu's was well-behaved and obedient, and she didn't make a fuss.
It's good now, I said these things inexplicably, and I lost my temper at him, why is this?
He didn't say anything wrong, did he?
"Jasmine, go, my mother will take you to try the rouge you bought, and let your father think about it for himself." Niu took Bai Jasmine's hand directly and walked into the house.
"Huh?" Bai Qi was even more confused.
"By the way, remember to clean up the bowl broken by Jasmine on the ground, if my mother comes back and asks, I will say that you broke it."
After Niu finished speaking, he pulled Bai Jasmine into the house and closed the door.
"......" Bai Qi was speechless for a while, and silently went to find a broom to clean up the mess.
In the afternoon, news came that the two lost children of the old Zhang family had still not been found.
The village chief mobilized most of the adults in the village to go into the mountains to search, and searched for a noon and an afternoon, but found no trace of them.
Seeing that it was getting dark, the villagers who had gone to look for them had also returned home.
Wang, the second daughter-in-law of the old Zhang family, cried and went to find the village chief, knelt down and asked the village chief to send someone to the mountains to continue looking.
If the child is lost, it is a big deal, if she can't get it back, she is afraid that she will be beaten to death by the people of the old Zhang family.
The village head, Ji Ping, frowned, and looked at the breathless woman who was kneeling in front of him and crying with some impatience.
"Wang, it's not that I didn't send someone to find it, you also saw that most of the people in the village didn't go to the field in the afternoon, and all of them went to the mountains to find someone for you.
But after looking for so long and not finding it, you can't be so selfish and let the big guys not sleep at night to help you find someone? ”
"Village chief, please, those two children are the life of our old Zhang family, you must help me."
Wang cried and refused to get up, nor did he listen to the village chief.
"Why didn't I help you? Now is the time to be busy with farming, and I called on everyone to put down their work and find someone, which made everyone very unhappy, what do you want me to do? ”
"Didn't I tell you before, there are bandits and bad people in the mountains, so don't let you go into the mountains, you have to listen, you have to go in, what can I do?"
"Did I tell you that if you have to go into the mountains, you will be responsible for any problems? You're all taking my words for granted, aren't you? Saying that, Ji Ping was also a little angry.
"Village chief, we don't want to, but we can't help it? We can't live anymore, we need money! It was only when Sister-in-law Nalin said that there were herbs in the mountains that could be sold for money, so we went. ”
"Even if there are herbs in the mountains that can be sold for money, what's wrong? Knowing that there is danger, you still go into the mountains for herbs, who is to blame? Ji Ping continued to scold.
"Village Chief, you are the most powerful person in our village, you must help us. As long as we find those two children, we will never go into the mountains again, really, we will listen to you! Wang opened his mouth and reassured.
"It's not that I won't help you, it's really dark, the road in the mountains is not easy to walk, and there are many dangers, I can't encourage everyone to venture in the mountains just because you are alone."
Ji Ping took a hard breath, suppressed the irritability in his heart and continued.
"If you are really in such a hurry to find someone, then find someone from your own clan, or you can find a way to beg others to see if others are willing to go into the mountains with you at night to find someone."
"Yes, ask someone else for help, and I'll let the child's father beg someone else."
Wang saw that the village chief really refused to let go of his help, so he had to listen to his advice and find someone else.
Seeing that the Wang family was finally gone, Ji Ping rubbed his eyebrows and sat on the stool on the side with some tiredness.
Xiao Fang walked out from behind the door with a bowl of tea.
"Boss, take a sip of tea, it's no wonder to you for this, you have indeed done your best."
"Well, if I could, of course I would like nothing to happen, so that I can be idle, and I don't mean not to help." Ji Ping complained.
"Well, I know everything. Speaking of which, thanks to you listening to Bai Jinli's words, you notified the people in the village in advance, otherwise those people wouldn't know how to find you. Xiao Fang's sighed with emotion.
"Hmm." Ji Ping didn't refute either.
In fact, he didn't believe it at all after Bai Jinli said it, if it wasn't for Master Yang who also came to him to talk about it, he would not have been able to summon all the villagers to inform him of this matter.
But now, if someone comes to him after something really happens, he can have an excuse to block it.
"What's going on with that sister-in-law Lin? I said in public that I wouldn't let everyone go into the mountain, and I wouldn't let everyone go into the mountain, why did she trick everyone into going into the mountain to dig herbs? Now it's okay, people are lost, and things are getting bigger. Ji Ping couldn't help but complain.
"In charge, Sister-in-law Lin is just a woman's family, and her mouth is usually broken, where does she know any herbs? Are you so sure that you can make money by picking herbs? After Xiao Fang said the question in his heart, he continued to analyze.
"However, even if Sister-in-law Lin said something, she can't be blamed for losing the child, and she didn't beg the Wang family to go into the mountain."
"Well, okay, don't worry about this, maybe the child is just playful and lost for a while. If their Zhang family has a heart, they will send someone to find it, maybe they will find it tomorrow. ”
"Well, hopefully." Xiao Fang nodded.
That night, the people of the Zhang family carried torches into the mountains overnight to search, and it is said that they searched for a whole night, but still to no avail.
Not to mention the child's figure, not even the slightest information has been found.
After dawn, everyone also took their leaves and went about their own business.
After Wang got this result, he fainted from crying.
The people of the old Zhang family woke her up again, and all kinds of accusations and denunciations came again, and said that the child was lost by her, and if she couldn't find it, they would let the child's father divorce her.
Poor Wang gritted his teeth and went into the mountain by himself, calling the names of the two children as he went.
When Bai Jinli heard these news, she couldn't help but sigh a little.
The child was lost in Wang's hands, which was indeed Wang's carelessness.
But as the mother of the child, she should be more desperate and sad than anyone else when she learns that the child is lost.
The people of the Zhang family not only didn't comfort her, but they were also too cold-blooded to treat her like that.
Well, Bai Jinli and Mrs. Li have returned home.