Before dawn, Xiaobai took care of all the meals needed today, dressed neatly, and prepared to go to Huicheng to meet Lin Wenjuan, under the big banyan tree, Guo Zhaoyang was chopping wood with an axe, and neither of them mentioned what happened last night.

"You've got tomorrow right now, right?" Guo Zhaoyang asked.

"No, I'll catch the carriage and come back after seeing Wen Juan, but it may be the middle of the night, you don't have to wait for me, when you're done, just hurry up and wash and sleep."

"It's okay, I'll wait for you."

Xiao Bai smiled lightly, went to the front, as soon as the door opened, a carriage just stopped, the coachman was Lao Huang of the Chen family, Xiao Bai was a little surprised, could it be Lin Wenjuan sitting inside?

"Second Miss!" Ah Chun opened the door and jumped down, looking bitter and hateful.

Xiaobai put down the things in her hand and hurriedly greeted her, it was really Lin Wenjuan, she protected her stomach with one hand, covered her chest with the other, and her face was as pale as a piece of paper. "You'll come back half a day later, and I'll be there for you."

Lin Wenjuan took her arm and walked down, and said bitterly: "I didn't expect you to really come back, I heard the person you bought a few days ago say that you went to Xiyue to see the disease, it's really fresh, you also have a time when you are sick, look at your vigorous appearance, I really envy you." As he spoke, he looked disgusted and wanted to vomit.

"I'll make you a bowl of hot and sour soup."

"Don't!" Lin Wenjuan stopped her, "Why are you like that old woman, you can only make hot and sour soup?" ”

Ah Chun smiled helplessly: "Second Miss, the eldest lady wants to eat the sweet and sour lotus root you made." ”

"What if I don't have a lotus root here?"

Lin Wenjuan pushed her and sat on the stool, "Then eat a few pieces!" Go for it! ”

Xiaobai shook her head and went to the kitchen, through the window, Guo Zhaoyang was no longer there, and after a while, she went to the front with a large pot of sweet and sour lotus roots, just smelling the smell, she saw that Lin Wenjuan was a little unable to sit still, the wind was whirling, and she ate clean in a moment. Xiaobai held his chin and said, "The Chen family doesn't care about food?" Look you're hungry. ”

"When you live my life, you will know that it is not easy for me, I am not short of people to serve, but with that old woman, if there is one more girl and one more fruit in my house, the whole street will have to say that I am difficult to serve, and give my mother-in-law eye medicine! Aren't they just jealous? When they are pregnant, there is no girl to serve, so I have to be like them? What a reason! ”

"This is the so-called marrying a chicken and marrying a dog with a dog, the Chen family is not a rich family after all, and naturally it can't accept your eldest lady's pie."

Lin Wenjuan snorted coldly, "They want to ascend to the sky in one step, didn't they succeed?" What's the point of being angry at me? Am I the eldest lady of the Lin Mansion or am I wrong? Then don't let Chen Heng marry me in the first place! ”

Xiaobai was very helpless, she sighed and said, "I really don't know who you are complaining about!" It's clear that you're going to marry yourself. ”

"Don't be sneering, okay?" Lin Wenjuan glared at Xiaobai, as if she was going to swallow her alive, "If you are the daughter-in-law of the Chen family, you may be more annoyed than me!" has such a mother-in-law, but if Chen Heng is a little uncomfortable, I have to blame it! And Chen Heng! Since I didn't get mixed up with an official position, I've become more and more swoon! Just look at it and get angry! ”

"He listens to you in everything, and you still think he's a wretch, he's really pitiful."

"You're the best!" Lin Wenjuan turned her head away, looked out the door, and her words were full of complaints, "I feel pitiful every day, that pitiful, as if except for you, everyone in this world is just as vicious." ”

Xiaobai frowned and said, "I'm not kind, I'm unlucky!" Why every time you are wronged, I have to be your punching bag! You're also married, and you're about to become a mother, so why haven't you grown at all! Seeing the heavens, and the old lady is angry! How many people persuaded you before you got married, don't you understand in your heart? If you really marry Chen Heng, you can rest easy? Mrs. Lin has such a good temper, doesn't your mother dare to play tricks? How come it is that when I come to you, I have to do everything you want? There are only two people in the Chen family, Chen Heng never dares to provoke you, although his mother has a bad temper, but you really respect her as an elder, even if she is dissatisfied, those neighbors should also stand on your side to speak, but look, is there someone who speaks for you? Do you dare to say that you have a clear conscience in everything you do? With today's situation, isn't it time to reflect on your own mistakes! ”

Xiaobai said such a series of words in one breath, not to mention that Lin Wenjuan was stunned, even Ah Chun didn't dare to speak, since Lin Wenjuan got married, no matter how she complained to her family, or complained to Xiaobai, Xiaobai had never said such heavy words, Lin Wenjuan cried with a wow, "Even you bully me!" ”

"Miss, don't cry, watch your body." Ah Chun cried and wiped her tears with a handkerchief, and said to Xiaobai: "It's too much for the second miss to say that the eldest lady is really too much!" The Chen family is poor! But our eldest lady doesn't have to live a poor life with them! But what's wrong with eating a few more bowls of bird's nest and a few fruits? If the aunt and the old lady have a heart, the eldest lady doesn't want the Chen family to give her bird's nest shark fin, even if it is a bowl of japonica rice porridge!

But my uncle was unhappy because of the bye, and he wronged the old man for not helping him, and he poured all his anger on the eldest lady and ignored the eldest lady! That old lady is even more excessive! What do you say about sour and spicy girls, send hot and sour soup to the eldest lady every day! As long as the eldest lady doesn't eat, she still complains to those neighbors, saying that the eldest lady is two-faced and three-faced, and when she sees that her uncle has no future, she changes her face!

The eldest lady felt uncomfortable, and she couldn't go back to cry with her wife, thinking that she could come to the second lady to relax, do you know how long we have been bumpy on the road? How uncomfortable is the eldest lady? How can you say that about Miss? ”

Xiaobai is really angry and can't cry or laugh, is the Chen family a tiger's den in Longtan? Even Ah Chun, who had the least words, was forced to be like this, "I won't say anything, okay?" Just the two of you, even in front of Mrs. Lin, she can't say that you have half a typo, the cause of your own planting, no matter how bitter the result is, she can swallow it herself, okay? ”

"I'm not having a hard time!" Lin Wenjuan cried and slapped the table.

"Then didn't Chen Heng also take a step to the sky!" Xiaobai was finally anxious, "You like his scholar's Gao Feng Liangjie!" and disdain the ordinary days of the Chen family! Anywhere can be good for you to occupy! Know it sooner! Is it that when Chen Heng went to your mother to propose marriage, he should have recruited him as a son-in-law! ”

"Don't mention my mother! Forget! ”

Xiaobai sneered: "What? Regretted it? Do you think about why Mrs. Lin didn't do it in the first place, or it was better to refuse directly! ”

"Shut up! How dare you? How dare you say that? Lin Wenjuan's face turned paler.

Xiaobai also realized that she had said the wrong thing, what right did she have to question Lin Zhang's words?

Lin Wenjuan wiped away her tears, stopped crying, and was not annoyed, she stood up, glanced at Xiaobai calmly, and asked, "Let me ask you, the last time you went to look for me, did you bump into Ah Yun?" ”

"Why did you remember to ask me this? She ran out of your house crying, and I didn't want to see her. ”

"You saw her crying?"

Xiaobai nodded, didn't the two of them mention this last time, wasn't it just to avoid embarrassment? What's going on here? "Wen Juan, I know that I am not qualified to persuade you, but what happened to Ah Yun has happened, can you stop being angry? Who hasn't made mistakes? What's more, both of them are your relatives.

Sometimes I think, how can it be Ah Yun? But fortunately, it's Ah Yun, even if she has Chen Heng's child in the future, according to Ah Yun's meaning, she is willing to be by your side and let that child recognize you as a mother.

She knows you better than me, she knows, you are a knife-mouthed tofu heart, and you will definitely take good care of that child, let that child go to Taixue as the concubine of the Chen family, and win glory for the Chen family in the future. ”

Xiaobai really wanted to persuade Lin Wenjuan, but Lin Wenjuan's eyes were cold, and her heart was even colder, Ah Yun still had this plan? Is it that when she really has a child, she can replace herself? If you want that child to win glory for the Chen family, is this in your stomach destined to be a waste? Fortunately, none of this can happen, because Ah Yun is already dead, just the night Xiaobai left.

She looked at Xiaobai, sometimes she really felt that her feelings for her were very strange, just like in the matter of Ah Yun, she thanked Xiaobai for solving her troubles by mistake, but she felt that Xiaobai's kindness was actually nosy, why? Ah Yun is his own girl, whether she is dead or alive, she should be in charge.

But she still couldn't ask, what did Xiaobai say to Ah Yun, so that Ah Yun didn't even want such hope all of a sudden, she suddenly remembered her grandmother's words, only Chen Heng's future and Xiaobai's help are true, but where does Chen Heng have any future? As for Xiaobai's help, she didn't want it, she was a dignified lady of the Lin family, why did she have to ask an orphan with a miserable background to help her?

"Ah Yun is really pitiful." Xiaobai bit his lip and sighed: "I'm sorry just now, in this world, no mother will not think about her children, I don't know what happened between you, you shouldn't say that." Maybe Mrs. Lin just wants to make you happy. ”

Lin Wenjuan walked to the door, and the moment she stepped out of the threshold, she said, "I don't care, anyway, you don't have a mother." ”

This sentence is very hurtful, at least when Guo Zhaoyang heard this sentence, he almost accidentally split the persimmon trees in the yard, those persimmons were hanging on the branches, and they were already ripe. When he walked into the hall, Xiaobai was packing up behind the counter, and he didn't look strange at all, why wasn't she angry? Not even sad?

Guo Zhaoyang hesitated for a moment, walked over, and said casually: "Are you an orphan, or the second lady of the Lin family?" ”

"It's all, the Lin family is kind to me, and when the old lady of the Lin family wanted to recognize me as a granddaughter, I didn't refuse." Xiaobai didn't look up and concentrated on the work at hand.

"That's why you're so tolerant?"

Xiaobai was slightly stunned for a moment, and started to do things again, perhaps in the eyes of outsiders, no matter what kind of attitude she has towards the Lin family, it is very strange, "Not all, there is also gratitude, after all, without the Lin Mansion, I may die." ”

"Is it also gratitude?" Guo Zhaoyang smiled and thought of himself.

Xiaobai felt that he was very strange, but he didn't ask, looked up and smiled: "Actually, I'm angry too, but what can I do?" It's really difficult to get along with people like us, who are like family members, but in fact, there is no blood relationship, but in this relationship, there are also many things worth cherishing, no matter how much unhappiness we have, in the end, we will choose to be considerate of each other. ”

"What if I can't forgive?"

"Then I don't forgive." Xiaobai smiled, "Wait a few years, forget it, besides, every day is so hard, where is the energy to hate anyone?" Not tired, huh? ”

"I'm tired." Guo Zhaoyang took a deep breath, as if he had untied some knot, "I'll go around the field and remember to leave me food at night." ”

"Okay."

......

After Geely and Ah He left, they appeared one after another, one with a carriage of things to greet them, and the other with a carriage of things to make amends, but they all said the same thing, in order to raise the fetus, Lin Wenjuan had already returned to the Lin Mansion.

The welcome is back on track, but there is one more Xiao Er named Ah Yang, but this Ah Yang is not good at words, and always looks like he rejects people thousands of miles away, which makes people can't help but remember the warm and polite Xiao Yu before.

Guo Zhaoyang stayed for a while in the welcome guest, still a picture of not caring for people, but flawless, don't mind his rudeness, since I heard that Xiaobai is back, every three or five to help, and Guo Zhaoyang is almost close, nagging about the trivial matters of the Lin Mansion, Mrs. Lin has been in poor health recently, Dr. Nan prescribed several pairs of medicines to no avail, and he did not let people enter the courtyard. The Lin family is busy with the affairs of the Lin family brothers and sisters, one is pregnant and makes trouble every day, and the other is busy with the affairs of the Chamber of Commerce and does not go home all day.

It suddenly rained heavily that day, and I didn't go back, and after a few glasses of wine, Guo Zhaoyang had the idea of teasing her, either being unreasonable and flawless, or squeezing her everywhere, and I was so anxious that I almost cried.

Xiaobai helped Wufang to go back and said, "Okay, Ayang, don't bully her, she has served by the old lady's side for so many years, but she has never lost her temper." ”

"Who said that!" There was no time to retort, "That day, the eldest lady talked back to the old lady, saying that Ah Yun committed suicide, and he was forced by the second lady, so I threw a teapot in anger." ”

Time seemed to stand still all of a sudden, and Xiao Bai asked in a sneering voice, "Ah Yun... Committed suicide? ”

"I'll hide it from you! I'm afraid you're too careful! The eldest lady doesn't want to think about it, who in this world can tolerate her so much except you! She's always jealous of you! Watch out for you! In fact, in this matter, she should hate Chen Heng the most! You must not have imagined that Chen Heng buried Ah Yun in the ancestral grave of the Chen family! Ah Yun is a concubine! Because he is a scholar, the ancestral rituals have been read into the dog's belly. After finishing speaking, he spread it on Xiaobai and fell asleep.

Guo Zhaoyang patted Xiaobai's head lightly and said with a smile: "This girl is a person worthy of your deep friendship." ”

Xiao Bai's pale face recovered a little, nodded, and said, "I know." ”

"You know what?" Guo Zhaoyang couldn't help laughing, his eyes, which were always blinded by exhaustion and fog, flashed with touching tenderness.

After settling down, Xiaobai is going to prepare the next day's meal, Guo Zhaoyang looked at this busy figure, and there was a warm current in his heart, his life looked colorful, but in fact, it was cold and damp, and the one thing he wanted to do most when he grew up was to experience what real family affection was like the ordinary people in those ports, but after meeting Xiaobai, he understood one thing, not only blood relatives will have family affection, those who are not relatives but are better than relatives are also worth cherishing.

"You girl is really with my heart."

"What?"

"I mean, if you want, you can go back to the county king's mansion with me."

What does that mean? The firewood in the stove hole thundered loudly, shaking Xiaobai's brain.