Daji: ...there are differences between men and women, it is not clear what is done between men and women, men and women do not sit on the same table at the age of seven... Forget it, they haven't followed it anyway.
Daji pretended that he was out of sight and turned around to feed the horse.
Bai Shan found a handkerchief from nowhere and gave it to Man Bao, and asked, "Do you want me to get some water for you to wash your face?"
Man Bao also felt that crying looked ugly, so he nodded.
Bai Shan ran out to get her a basin of warm water, watched her wash her face, then pulled a chair and sat across from her, asking, "What's wrong with you?"
Man Bao turned around and ignored him.
Bai Shan sat aside and waited for her, neither leaving nor asking any questions.
After Man Bao calmed down, he pulled the longevity lock out of his collar and told her everything from the day she met Magistrate Tang to the words she just saw.
Bai Shan turned the longevity lock around her neck, then simply stretched out her hand and said, "Take it off and let me take a look."
Man Bao untied it and showed it to him.
Bai Shan looked up and down, and looked inside carefully against the light, and found that there was indeed something engraved inside, but he couldn't see it clearly with his eyesight.
Bai Shan thought for a while, lit a candle and looked. He looked hard for a long time, and finally vaguely saw the word "zhou". He closed his sore eyes, turned over and continued to look. It took a long time to see
There was a word, but it was very blurry and black. He could not recognize the word at all, but he was sure that it was not the word "zhou".
Bai Shan put down the longevity lock, looked at Man Bao, and said tangledly: "So your mother's surname is Xia? But your mother loves you very much."
It's not like they are biological children, and even though Bai Shan has seen little of her, he doesn't think the eldest wife would be very kind to the child born to her concubine.
Bai Shan thought for a moment and asked cautiously: "Can your father afford a concubine?"
Manbao:……
She was so angry that she grabbed the pillow on the bed and slapped him, "Why are you so stupid? Can my family afford such a good long-life lock? So this is definitely not given to me by my father. I, I might not be
My father gave birth to her."
"But there is also the word 'zhou' in it."
Only then did Man Bao remember this. She had been so sad just now. She blinked and asked, "Then my father's surname is also Zhou?"
Bai Shan: "How can you be sure that you are not your biological child? What if your parents picked up this longevity lock on the road and gave it to you?"
Manbao thought for a while, shook his head, and said: "If I had picked it up, my mother would not have put it around my neck. She would have sold it for money long ago. Even if I kept it, my fourth brother lost the money in gambling and the family took it.
If I don’t have the extra money, I said I would pay for it with a longevity lock, but my mother didn’t even agree.”
Manbao rubbed the longevity lock and said, "When I was younger, my mother would touch the longevity lock around my neck every night before going to bed. One time, I thought it was too heavy, so I took it off and put it aside.
Then I couldn’t find it, so my mother was so anxious that she spanked me. That was the first time I was spanked in my memory.”
"Also," Man Bao glanced outside quietly, and then whispered to Bai Shan: "Since I was little, my brothers have said that I am very smart, like my father, but..."
Before Man Bao finished speaking, Bai Shan understood.
Because old Zhoutou is really not smart.
Man Bao said: "I always feel that I am like my mother, but my brothers always say that I am like my father..."
In the past, Manbao would not take such words to heart, because she felt that there was no difference between being like her mother and being like her father, but now her son thought about it again, and the difference was too big.
Because her father is definitely not smart, so why do the eldest brother and the others insist that she be like her father?
Manbao burst into tears and cried, "I'm not my father's daughter..."
Bai Shan was also stunned. It was the first time he saw her crying so sadly, so he could only stuff the handkerchief back into her hand.
Man Bao wiped his tears and cried uncontrollably. Bai Shan could only comfort him awkwardly: "Maybe you are overthinking, who are your parents or your parents?"
"Then tell me, where did my longevity lock come from? It can't really be that my father snatched it from somewhere, right? How serious is my father about giving the stolen longevity lock to his daughter?
"
Bai Shan also nodded, "Besides, your father doesn't have the guts either."
"That's right, my father has always been timid."
Bai Shan looked outside. He heard Zhou Lang and Zhou Lijun coming back. He lowered his voice and asked, "Do you want to ask your fourth brother?"
Man Bao thought for a while and then shook his head, "My fourth brother will definitely not tell me."
"We let Daji scare him."
"My fourth brother's hands are good. It's better not to scare him," Man Bao said disappointedly, "And I think that even if you scare him, he won't say anything."
Man Bao said: "I'm so smart, and my family kept it from me for so long. How could I tell them as soon as I asked?"
Bai Shan was worried about her and asked, "What should we do?"
Man Baoqiang cheered up and said: "For now, don't worry about whether I was born to my parents or whether it is the case that County Magistrate Tang and the others are investigating. I don't know what case my father is related to. I asked Magistrate Tang and he
Don't tell me at all."
Bai Shan stood up and said, "You can ask Brother Zhou about this. If he is willing to tell us, we can piece it together ourselves and maybe we can guess your life experience."
Man Bao's eyes brightened slightly and he nodded: "I thought so too, but how do you ask this? You can't tell Fourth Brother exactly what County Magistrate Tang told me, right?"
Bai Shan rolled his eyes and said, "Don't worry, I'll tell you. You wait."
Man Bao looked at Bai Shan and nodded.
Seeing that her mood had stabilized, Bai Shan smiled and said, "Okay? Your fourth brother and niece are back. Wash away the tears on your face first, and don't let them see it."
Man Bao nodded and stood up. Zhou Lijun opened the door and came in. Hearing voices in the compartment, he poked his head in and was stunned for a moment when he saw Bai Shan in his sister-in-law's inner room.
Seeing that my sister-in-law's eyes were red and swollen, Zhou Lijun immediately walked around the screen and said, "Sister-in-law, Master Shan, are you fighting again?"
Bai Shan: "...No."
Zhou Lijun didn't believe it, "Then why is my sister crying?"
Man Bao looked at Bai Shan.
Bai Shan: "...Forget it, just say so."
Zhou Lijun immediately said: "Master Shan, you are already old, how can you still fight? Besides, you are a boy and you are very strong. You can beat my sister-in-law to tears."
Bai Shan opened his mouth to argue, but then stopped when he thought of something. He lowered his head and looked at Man Bao thoughtfully.
Man Bao sat on the chair and shook her legs guiltily. After Zhou Lijun muttered several words, she said: "We didn't fight, at most we just quarreled."
Bai Shan nodded perfunctorily, "Yeah" and asked, "Where's Brother Zhou?"
"Outside."
Bai Shan walked out and said, "I'm going to talk to Brother Zhou."
Zhou Lijun stared blankly at him as he ran away. He turned around and said to Man Bao, "It's really strange. He made you cry, my sister-in-law. If you don't avoid your fourth uncle, why are you still chasing him?"
Man Bao looked at the window and said nothing.
Zhou Lijun felt that my sister-in-law was particularly quiet today, so he couldn't help but took two steps forward and asked softly: "Sister-in-law, what's wrong with you?"