"You can train with them, I will take Xiaocao back first." Bai Banxia said to Qi Zhen.
Qi Zhen nodded, put down the grass and handed it to her.
She held Xiaocao's hand and bowed to everyone, "Thank you for worrying about Xiaocao."
She signaled Xiaocao to also thank everyone. Xiaocao bowed in a choked voice and said, "Thank you, uncles and uncles."
Some people couldn't hold it back and their eyes turned red, "It's okay, just go back and rest."
Bai Banxia took Xiaocao's hand and returned to Bai's house. As soon as she entered the door, Zhang Lingzhi and Mrs. Li came to greet her, hugging Xiaocao and crying.
Xiaocao couldn't help crying again, and her eyes were swollen into peaches.
No one had the heart to talk about her and asked her whether she was hungry or cold.
Bai Banxia gave her warm water to wash her face and wipe her hands to check the wound. As Qi Zhen guessed, Xiao Cao had a scratch on the back of her hand. Fortunately, it was just a little skin break. Bai Banxia took an alcohol cotton ball to disinfect her.
"It will hurt a little. If it hurts, just blow it hard and it will feel better." Bai Banxia said softly.
"I'm not afraid of pain." Xiaocao said bravely.
Bai Banxia encouraged her with a smile, and then disinfected the wound.
Sure enough, Xiaocao didn't say a word. Thinking about the wounds she had suffered from being scalded by boiling water and some old scars from being beaten, this bit of broken skin was really nothing.
Bai Banxia felt distressed again, took Xiaocao back to the house, and applied medicine to her injured area.
"It's a little itchy." Xiaocao whispered.
"It will be like this when the wound is almost healed, but we have to keep using medicine to let the scar gradually disappear, so that our grass will be white and tender." She rubbed Xiaocao's head, and was worried that the scar would make it worse.
Xiaocao develops low self-esteem.
"It costs a lot of money to prepare medicine. Sister, don't waste it. You can't see it in your clothes anyway." Xiaocao said sensibly.
Bai Banxia glared at her, "That's not possible. If my sister tries to treat the disease, it won't be cured, but I can't ruin your reputation. So don't think about anything now, just sleep well, so that you can grow taller.
"
When Xiaocao fell asleep, Bai Banxia arranged the quilt for her before leaving the house.
The old lady leaned her head aside to watch quietly, suddenly met her eyes, and hurriedly turned around to go back to the house.
Bai Banxia walked over quickly and stopped her, "Grandma, I buy you sweets every day. Why don't you feel sweet?"
"You..." the old lady's voice rose a little, but in the end she was worried that she would wake up Xiaocao, so she lowered her voice again, "I was just so angry, how could I know she heard it."
"The whole village almost heard it, but the people in the house couldn't hear it?" Bai Banxia gave her a big eye roll, "Why are you so easily angered? You get angry when others say a few words. You are not afraid of making yourself angry.
Bad?"
The old lady's face turned red and she pointed at her and said, "You, you, are you brave? I am your breast, and you are talking to me like this?"
"No matter who you are, if you do something wrong, you have to change it." Bai Banxia said rudely, "Look, there wasn't much going on today, but if you insist on hearing it, you have to change it, even if we loaned money to my grandma's family.
, even if you borrow money, you will have to pay it back sooner or later, why are you anxious?"
The old lady opened her mouth and wanted to speak but was blocked by Bai Banxia.
"Don't tell me that my mother supports her parents' family. Did you ask my mother to bring things back to her parents' house during the holidays? On the contrary, every time my mother came back, my grandma's family gave you things. Even the neighbors are still very polite about reciprocity. What's more?
Are they in-laws?"
"Also, I'm already so old. Don't always say in public that you want to divorce my mother. How do you want me to behave with my father?"
The old lady's face turned even redder after being scolded by her, but she held back the curse.
At this time, the old man came out and said to the old lady: "What the child said is not unreasonable. You should go back to the house and think about it carefully. If you have something to do in the future, calm down. Don't keep making troubles for everyone to know."
The old lady snorted and went back into the house.
"Grandpa, why don't you come out and say a word today?" Bai Banxia suddenly asked.
She is actually a little dissatisfied with the old man. As the head of the family, the old man should not hide in the house all the time. It was understandable that he was not in good health before, but what excuse can he use now?
"At first, I think your grandma was just nagging a few words, but then she suddenly started to make a fuss. Should I come out to reprimand her in public, or criticize you?" The old man sighed, "Every family has its own scriptures that are difficult to recite, and I don't want you to do it.
Grandma is embarrassed, but if it really gets too much, I will speak up."
Bai Banxia frowned, did the old man indulge the old lady too much?
"When your grandma was young, the family situation was good, and our two families had a small marriage. Later, her father passed the examination and became a scholar, and she was also the daughter of a scholar, so the family wanted to find a better marriage for her.
But she insisted on marrying me at that time, saying that one must keep one's word."
The old man spoke slowly, "I swore at that time that I would be good to her all my life and never let her down."
"As a result, she got such a tricky temperament." Bai Banxia muttered in a low voice.
But the old man laughed and said, "After she married me, my family thought my family was poor and had little contact with her. The sisters-in-law ostracized her. Gradually, she learned to be fierce. It seems that only by being fierce can she have a stable life. She followed me.
It was a lot of hardships. Then there was a flood in the south. She, I, and your uncle and the second uncle fled here and suffered a lot. At the most difficult time, we even ate tree bark and grass roots."
Many families in Baoshan Village came to settle down after escaping hardship, including the Bai family, but it was the first time for Bai Banxia to hear the old man talk about the bitter past.
"Your second uncle was only six years old at that time, and he was almost snatched away... and eaten." The old man said, shaking his head, "You can't imagine that during the great disaster years, some people were so hungry that they exchanged their children with others and ate them.
If you call Yi Zi and eat it, the living child will be eaten separately."
Bai Banxia pouted, Bai Shui should have been eaten by others back then, so that he wouldn't do all the bad things now.
"He was also very frightened that time, and his temper has been a bit unstable since then. Don't blame him. The family should be more tolerant of each other." The old man sighed again.
"I want to tolerate him, but look at what he did. He wanted to send my father to the Mad Man Tower before, and then he wanted to burn Xiaocao's hair. Look, he doesn't stop now. What happened when he was a child is over.
It's been decades, can't he continue to harm people just because he has endured hardship?" Bai Banxia rolled her eyes, I sympathize with him, so who will sympathize with me?
The old man patted her head and said, "Grandpa didn't teach him well. I will talk to him carefully. Don't take it to heart. After all, we are a family."
Bai Banxia didn't refute this time, but she thought in her heart: People may not treat us as a family.
She would not be stupid enough to argue with the old man, but she would not forgive Bai Shui just like that.
Late at night, Qi Zhen returned from the foot of the mountain and greeted the old man, but did not rush back to the house. From the looks of it, he seemed to have something to discuss with Bai Banxia.
"I'm going to have a rest. You guys should go to bed early. We have to work at the stall tomorrow morning." After saying this, the old man returned to the house.
Bai Banxia looked at Qi Zhen questioningly. Qi Zhen frowned and asked, "Have you always been bullied before?"
