Bai Banxia and Qi Zhen were left to have dinner by their grandma, but Zhang Tonglin soon discovered that no matter what he wanted to eat, his cousin could always grab it before he could.
Well, I didn't even get a bite of the fragrant meat, it was all snatched away by my cousin.
He looked at his cousin aggrievedly, but was glared at by his mother several times.
"Cousin, have I offended you?" Zhang Tonglin asked pitifully.
Bai Banxia smiled particularly brightly, "How could it be possible? You just passed the examination. It's not too late for me to congratulate you. What can't be offended?"
"But I'm... hungry." He muttered softly.
Niu hit his paw with a chopstick, "I've been thinking about eating all day long. I'll go to the county office tomorrow to learn some rules and don't get into trouble all day long."
Zhang Tonglin opened his mouth wide. What did he do again? Why was he scolded again? Is he his biological child?
Bai Banxia snickered and stopped bullying him, but he ate all the greasy meat. In the end, Zhang Tonglin ate more scrambled eggs with leeks, and the main part was leeks.
After the meal, Bai Banxia said that she had to go back to report the news, so as not to worry her parents, her grandma and aunt had to put a basket of eggs for her, saying that she had been tired and thin recently.
Bai Banxia really wanted to show them her feat of lifting the millstone. How could she be thin? She was healthy and slim.
On the way back, it was getting dark.
Qi Zhen pulled her sleeve again. She turned to look at him and asked, "Can't you see it when the light is dark?"
"Fortunately, I was afraid that you might not be able to walk steadily," Qi Zhen said.
She smiled and said, "My eyes are very beautiful."
"Then you were almost bitten by a snake last time." Qi Zhen laughed.
She rolled her eyes at him, "It's not that you can't see it, it's that I lost strength after giving you the injection and couldn't escape at all. Can you have some conscience?"
Speaking of which, the snake is still soaking in medicinal wine at home.
Qi Zhen's smile widened, "So be conscientious, I will protect you now."
There is nothing wrong with this, but Bai Banxia can't find any reason to refute it.
"By the way, did you remember anything?" she asked again.
Qi Zhen shook his head slightly, "No."
"You didn't think about your family at all? For example, your wife, your children, etc.?" She asked again.
The smile on Qi Zhen's face became weaker and weaker, and finally his entire face turned dark.
"At my age, I shouldn't have a wife or children."
"That's not necessarily true. In some places, people get married relatively early. I heard people get married as early as sixteen or seventeen," Bai Banxia said.
Qi Zhen's face turned even darker, "Definitely not, I have no impression at all."
"If you think about it more carefully, you might be able to remember something." She looked sincere. Qi Zhen had helped her a lot. She wanted to help him recover his memory from the bottom of his heart.
"Do you really want me to have a wife and children?" he asked in a muffled voice.
Bai Banxia was stunned for a moment, and suddenly noticed his depression.
"Well, parents, wives and children are the closest people and are usually the easiest to remember." She scratched her head, "I don't want to help you."
Qi Zhen said nothing and walked forward with his head lowered, but the little milk cat appeared in his mind. He seemed to have grilled fish for it. Maybe grilling fish can bring back some memories?
When the two returned home, Bai Banxia vividly told what happened in Maple Tree Village, but the old lady and the old man were both listening. She did not mention the money she lent to her second cousin, nor did she mention the twenty-tael gift.
"This is a happy event, you should prepare some congratulatory gifts later." the old man reminded.
Bai Tian nodded hurriedly, "I'll go to town in two days to pick up some cloth and send it back."
The old lady didn't object, and she was not as stingy as before. The main reason was that Bai Tian did not use his father's money to pull the cloth, but the family earned it from doing business early in the morning and working late at night.
Bai Banxia, who was familiar with the situation, took out two cents and gave it to the old lady, "Buy some sweets for grandma."
The old lady happily put it away, but then taught her a lesson: "Don't go to your grandma's house all the time. Look at how hard your father works, but you don't know how to feel sorry for him to do more work."
"Mom, I'm not working hard. Look, I have tendons now." Bai Tian rolled up his sleeves and showed his muscles. They are indeed darker and stronger than before.
"Okay, okay, I can't even say a word about your daughter for protecting her so well," the old lady said sourly.
After the meal, Bai Banxia went to prepare medicine. It was time to make some sunscreen ointment for her father.
When she was halfway done, there was a call at the door, and it was Doctor Xu who was here. Before she could put down the medicinal materials in her hand, Doctor Xu had already gone to the backyard to look for himself.
"Panellia, do you still have that painkiller? Do you want to sell it?" Dr. Xu asked straight to the point.
"Sell it!" Bai Banxia was short of money. She only had a little bit of money in her hand. She felt very insecure and was thinking about how to make more money.
As for the small piece of gold that Qi Zhen had given her, she didn't want to use it for the time being.
Doctor Xu spoke enthusiastically, "I went to town to treat people today. Guess who I met?"
"Who?" Bai Banxia asked.
"The little fat guy who had an affair with your stall before. Hey, a few days after he got slapped, he sneaked out to go to the restaurant and fell down again." Dr. Xu said, laughing loudly, "His butt is open again.
I had a flower, and then I was too angry after eating, and the pain in my big teeth was severe, so I had to get treatment and he bought me a painkiller."
Doctor Xu stretched out his hand and gestured, "Originally, I thought he deserved the pain, but he paid five taels of silver, so it would be good to make some money for him. When I left, he asked me if I had any extra painkillers and sold him a few more.
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When Chu Yuan was causing trouble before, the Baoshan Village Brigade came to the town to support the Bai family stall, and Dr. Xu was among them, so he had met Chu Yuan.
Bai Banxia burst out laughing, "He deserves it, making him make trouble without knowing the importance of it."
"What do you think, should I sell it to him?" Doctor Xu asked in a negotiating tone.
"Sell it, why not sell it? I'm short of money." Bai Banxia said and took three painkillers to Dr. Xu, "You can negotiate the price with him, but there will be no more."
There must be plenty of painkillers, but after all, Chu Yuan is the son of Brother Erlang's master, and she can't tease Chu Yuan too hard.
"Okay, I'll go tomorrow." Doctor Xu took the medicine and left happily.
After preparing the sunscreen ointment for her father, Bai Banxia went back to the house to think about what she would give her second cousin when he got married.
She thought about it, took the paper, and then took a charcoal stick, and started drawing by herself.
When Xiaocao returned to the house after washing her fragrance, she saw that she had drawn a particularly beautiful flower crown.
"Sister, is this also a flower on your head?" Xiaocao asked curiously.
Bai Banxia touched her little head and said, "It's a flower crown for weddings. Isn't it beautiful?"
In ancient times, people paid attention to phoenix crowns and harems, but where did the villagers get the phoenix crowns? When they got married, they just wore red flowers and a red hijab on their heads. Even silver and gold hairpins were very rare.
She couldn't afford a phoenix crown, but she could make a unique flower crown to make her second cousin the most beautiful bride.