Mrs. Bai didn't come out of Mrs. Hu's house until noon.

In the early years, when Bai Erzhuang was studying, the old man of the Hu family gave Bai Erzhuang a few copper plates and encouraged him to study hard. In the year when Bai Erzhuang was admitted to Xiucai, the old man of the Hu family died, and now the son of the Hu family is sick, and life is quite difficult.

Mrs. Bai thought of the good of the Hu family, and gave the Hu family two taels of silver to catch medicine for her son.

"Mother, you're back, I want to discuss something for you." Zhen intercepted Mrs. Bai at the gate of the courtyard.

"What's the matter so anxious?" Old Lady Bai asked.

"I want to tell my family about my past." Zhen said bluntly.

Old Lady Bai sighed and said, "It's okay, it's time to let Da Zhuang and them know, sooner or later." ”

……

I went up the mountain to mine two taels of silver a month, twenty catties of rice and flour, and managed two meals a day.

As soon as the village chief Zhao announced the treatment of the imperial court mining, the villagers of Shenshu Village were excited.

You must know that it is only a few hundred dollars a month to go out to work.

Now they have silver and rice and noodles, and they take care of the rice, and they do not delay the farm work when they are busy.

Young and middle-aged men strive to rush up the mountain first, and they are more active than fighting tigers.

The people on the hill went in waves and did not return until evening.

"Dad, you're back." Xiao Fuyuan saw Bai Muban from a distance carrying a hammer in one hand and a straw hat in the other, and happily greeted him.

"Girl, look what good things I brought you." Bai Muban handed the straw hat to Xiao Fuyuan.

A straw hat full of red cherries.

"I found a cherry tree in a col next to the mine. It's amazing that the drought on the mountain has not affected the cherry tree at all, and the fruit is so much that I have plucked all the ripe ones for you. I'll pick it for you tomorrow. Bai Muban happily looked at the girl's smiling face.

"Thank you, Dad." Xiao Fuyuan hugged the grass hat, "Go home and wash it and eat it together." ”

"What, girl." Shiraplank shouted to her behind her.

"This is what your father picked for you, you can eat it yourself. Your nephew's boys can't be fed like wolves, and the Feng family's girl doesn't lack these. The white plank rubbed his hands, "You eat by yourself, eat by yourself." ”

Xiao Fuyuan smiled.

Daddy's careful thinking she knew that it was not to encourage her to eat alone, but purely to let her enjoy it alone.

When he got home, he put a straw hat full of cherries in the room, and then took a handkerchief to the well in the yard.

The white plank washes the face.

Xiao Fuyuan wet the handkerchief with water and twisted it half-dry to the white wooden board: "Dad, you wipe your face."

"Okay, good, dad wipes his face, the girl is better than the boy." Bai Muban was happy, and out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Bai Erzhuang and Bai Panmei in the house, and the stinky boys didn't say that they would fetch water for him to wash their faces when they saw their father coming from the mountain, and they were still good girls.

Bai Erzhuang: "......"

Bai Panmei: "......"

"Dad, why didn't the eldest brother and the fifth brother come down the mountain." Xiao Fuyuan asked.

"Hey, in the end, my sister is thinking about me, and I will talk about it when I can't see my eldest brother for a while."

Bai Dazhuang walked in from outside with a black and gray face, also holding a straw hat in his hand.

Bai Dazhuang's heart was moved. I haven't seen him for a long time, and my sister is so worried about him.

It's not like Da Lang and Erlang, two stinky boys.

"Big brother." Xiao Fuyuan shouted sweetly, looked behind Bai Dazhuang, and didn't see the fifth brother.

"Your fifth brother will come down the mountain a little later, and he will be with his master and General Meng."

Bai Dazhuang sent the straw hat to Xiao Fuyuan's eyes.

It's full of purple-red mulberries.

"I came down from the mountain with you, Brother Qingpi, and saw a mulberry tree in the col. He didn't notice it, and I walked with him to the village before I turned around and picked it up. ”

It turns out that this is the reason why the eldest brother came home late.

"Thank you, big brother." Xiao Fuyuan said with a smile.

"Then you can also wipe your face for the eldest brother." As soon as Bai Dazhuang entered the door, he saw his sister wiping his father's face, and he was envious in his heart.

Xiao Fuyuan washed the handkerchief and wrung it out, and before she could wipe it for her eldest brother, her second brother Bai Erzhuang came out of the house and said, "Sister, you can also wipe your second brother."

Bai Dazhuang: "Second brother, you didn't go up the mountain, your face is so clean, what do you wipe?"

Bai Erzhuang: "I just sweated when I read a book in the room."

As soon as Bai Erzhuang's words fell, the fourth Bai Panmei came out of the house and said with a smile: "Sister, you can also wipe your fifth brother's face."

Bai Erzhuang: "Fourth, what are you doing here, what should you do if you are tired of your sister."

Bai Laosi: "Xiaosheng, I have thin skin and tender face, and I can't get tired of my sister." I'm sleepy when I study, and if my sister wipes my face, I promise that I won't be sleepy immediately. ”

Xiao Fuyuan: "......"

I didn't expect the gentle fourth brother of the scholar to be such a naughty fourth brother.

Xiao Fuyuan took the handkerchief, looked at the eldest brother, looked at the second brother, and looked at the fourth brother.

The three brothers looked at her with burning eyes.

Bai Muban shook the book in his hand and picked up his three sons like a sheep: "Go and go, do you have the ability to give birth to a girl?" Go to your daughter-in-law, my daughter won't serve you. ”

Bai Laosi: "Didn't the eldest brother and second brother hear what my father said?" Go to your daughter-in-law, I am a person without a daughter-in-law, I don't need to look for it. ”

Bai Muban looked at the gloating Bai Laosi and said, "Even if you all look for a daughter-in-law, it is estimated that you will not have the ability to give birth to a daughter."

Bai Dazhuang: "......"

Bai Erzhuang: "......"

Bai Panmei: "......"

On who in the whole family has the most heart-wrenching words, it is naturally their own father.

Bai Muban was happy when he saw his sons eating deflated, his sons were not as good as him, and they all had no father-in-law.

He seems to have forgotten that his daughter was not born by himself, but by someone else.

But what's the matter, anyway, he calls him dad sweetly, and he is filial to him.

The Bai family's daily competition for favor was staged.

After dinner, when the lights of Zhou's rest were extinguished, the Bai family was summoned to the hall by Mrs. Bai, and even Qiu Niang was called.

The atmosphere was tense.

Zhen sat upright, with a serious face, Xiao Fuyuan snuggled next to her, feeling as if Zhen was about to announce major news.

"Your mother is from the capital, and her ancestors have made great contributions and have been named the Duke of Zhenguo......" Old Lady Bai spoke first.

Everyone looked at Zhen in unison.

Xiao Fuyuan raised his head and looked at Zhen, and the mystery in his heart was solved.

But I wondered how my mother, the daughter of the Hou Mansion, could marry her father.

There can only be one reason, the family is in the middle of the road.

What about the father, Xiao Fuyuan made up a story about the servant's son and the daughter of the Hou Mansion.

"No, mother, isn't my grandma's house in Lijiazhuang?" Bai Dazhuang asked with a shocked expression.

"Your grandma is the big girl next to my mother." Zhen said in a deep voice, "Your aunt is my sister-in-law, and only she and I survived." ”

Everyone was shocked again!

“…… The merit is high and the master is shaken, and the rabbit is dead and the dog is cooking, that's it. Zhen's expression couldn't be seen clearly in the light, and she told the children what happened in Zhen's mansion as it was, and she breathed a sigh of relief.

is similar to what Xiao Fuyuan thought, the only difference is that the white plank is not the son of a servant.

Thinking that his mother was sold to the hook bar by his cousin when he was young, Xiao Fuyuan's heart throbbed and hurt.

She patted her mother's hand with her soft little hand to show comfort.

Xie Chuntao, who was sitting next to Xiao Fuyuan, couldn't help wiping her tears, no wonder her mother-in-law spoke and acted differently from the people in the village on weekdays, it turned out to be a young lady.

It is said that the phoenix that falls into the water is not as good as a chicken, although it is disrespectful to the mother-in-law to say this, but the suffering suffered by the mother-in-law Xie Chuntao can feel the same way.

"My mother and father both died tragically in prison, if it weren't for the Bai family, I wouldn't know where I would be now." Zhen continued, "It was your grandmother and your father who saved me back then, and the Bai family originally had property and land, but they sold it to redeem me, so you lived a hard life for so many years. ”

Bai Muban said on the side: "What are you doing with these, my family used to be poorer, and those houses and land were not all because your mother didn't dislike our poor relatives and helped us."

(End of chapter)