Back to the 70s: My Wife is Both Fierce and Crazy

Chapter 34 The old man is up to his old tricks again.
"If they didn't take it, why would they go to the commune? I hid it so well, and no outsiders came into our house. Who else could it be but them?" Old Bai was full of resentment.

He was 100% certain that his box of small yellow croakers was taken away by that good-for-nothing with those two sluts.

Even if he threw that thing away, he wouldn't give it to those ungrateful wretches.

"Go to the field and keep an eye on things, see what those people do. I'll have Zizhong keep an eye on things too. If it's really as you think, that they're taking things to exchange for money, then I'll go find them tomorrow." Seeing him get angry, Bai Pozi felt a tightness in her chest from her resentment.

"I don't believe that a few people who toil in the fields can cause any big trouble."

Old Bai smoked his pipe for a while, and after it went out, he tapped the pipe. "Alright, but remember, don't contact them."

"Okay, okay, go to the field."

Old Man Bai left home carrying his hoe.

Bai Zizhong was still sleeping, having a sweet dream, when his mother slapped him awake.

"Mother, what are you doing? I'm still sleepy." Bai Zizhong roared at his mother, full of resentment.

"What time is it? Get up! I have something for you to do." Old Mrs. Bai had some patience with her son, but not much.

"What?" Bai Zizhong knew his mother's temperament and naturally didn't dare to really provoke her. "It's so early in the morning, the dew on the ground hasn't even dried yet."

Looking at her unremarkable son, Granny Bai felt a little disgusted. If it weren't for... she wouldn't have married Old Man Bai, this country bumpkin. She just didn't expect that he also carried a big secret.

If they kept the secret well, their lives would be good. Unfortunately, those people started to turn the tables.

No, she had to suppress it; she couldn't let them cause any trouble.

If they find out the truth, her family will never have a good life again.

"Get up quickly." Seeing that her son had made up his mind, Granny Bai did not linger in his room any longer. "You have something to do later, don't dawdle, or you'll be in trouble."

After Bai Zizhong got up and ate breakfast, his mother gave him a task: to keep an eye on the second and third branches of the Bai family.

Bai Zizhong was naturally unwilling at first, as his injuries had not fully healed yet, and if he encountered that worthless person again, he would suffer new injuries.

"Mother, can't you wish me well for once? Do you think that wretched girl would be any better off than me if she knew?" Bai Zizhong said with a look of resistance.

Old Woman Bai naturally knew this, but she was also afraid. "If you don't go, do you expect me to go? I didn't ask you to go to their house, I just asked you to keep watch around. You were assigned to guard the fields, and you happen to be right behind that slut's house. It's just a side job for you to keep watch."

I don't know how that wretched thing got so much strength. It was fine for over ten years, how could it change so drastically all of a sudden?

If that thing weren't unusable, she would have taken it out and smacked her long ago.

I wouldn't put up with this nonsense.

"Are you really going to keep an eye on her without going to her house?" In the past, he would have been happy to search her house, but now, he didn't want to risk getting into trouble.

That bastard hits really hard.

"Yes, you don't need to go. Just keep an eye on when she comes back."

Old Mrs. Bai looked at her son with disdain, saying, "You're really useless. You're not even a fraction like me. You're just like your good-for-nothing father."

“I’m my father’s son, so it’s normal for me to look like him. Mother, you’re scared too, otherwise why would you ask me to go?” Bai Zizhong was scared, but he was used to arguing with his mother.

"You bastard, it seems I've been too good to you. Spit out what I gave you."

The mother and son had a big argument, and Bai Zizhong was chased out of the house by his mother.

Bai Jing and the others had no idea that their three families were being targeted again.

Even if they knew, Bai Jing wasn't afraid, since she kept all the good stuff in the system space.

No matter who comes to search for "i", they can't find a single trace of it.

At noon, the three families gathered again at Bai Jing's home.

"It's already noon and they still haven't come back. I hope nothing bad has happened to them." Aunt Bai was extremely worried because she hadn't seen her husband return.

He had been there before, but never for so long.

"Don't worry, Third Sister-in-law, Xiao Jing is here, everything will be alright," Aunt Bai immediately reassured her when she heard her sister-in-law's mutterings.

Luo Chunhua was also worried. That was her daughter. Although she was strong, she couldn't fight back against someone who would use dirty tricks. She was just a young girl who had never been out in the world before. How could she not be worried?

But she couldn't voice her worries, after all, her third brother was selling meat for the family.

Ugh.

Lunch was eaten amidst everyone's worries.

In broad daylight, I didn't dare make anything too fancy, so I just made some minced meat stewed with eggs. These eggs weren't laid by our chickens, but were wild eggs I found in the mountains yesterday.

Although small in size, it is still meat, so it is naturally a good thing.

They ate in silence, none of them daring to go back, for fear of missing the news of their return.

Even after the afternoon work announcement came over the loudspeaker, no one had returned, so the group took their farm tools and went to the fields again.

He was noticeably quieter than he was in the morning.

She waited until the end of the workday, until dark, but the two still hadn't returned. This time, Luo Chunhua cried out in alarm.

"Why don't we go and meet them on the road? Maybe they're on their way back." Luo Chunhua was very worried and wanted to go out and look for them.

As soon as she said that, the adults immediately agreed.

"I think so. Let's go together."

They left Aunt Bai to look after the children, and the three of them took torches and headed out of the village.

However, they did not notice that three figures were hiding at the foot of Baijia Mountain as they descended the mountain.

"Mom, where are they going?" Bai Zizhong had been watching all day but hadn't found anything. However, the aroma of meat in the house made him dizzy. When he went back and told his mother, she didn't expect that she would bring him here to feed the mosquitoes right after dinner.

But when he saw the group of people leaving home and going down the mountain, he asked his mother with a puzzled look on his face.

"Enough nonsense." Granny Bai was now certain that the thing had been taken by that wretched girl.

Otherwise, why wouldn't they be back by now? They must have gone to town.

The commune's stuff doesn't fetch a good price; it can only be sold in the county or town.

If they haven't come back this late, there's only one possibility: they've left the commune.

Old Woman Bai looked at Old Man Bai and said, "It seems you guessed right. I'll go to the commune tomorrow."

Hmph, she'd rather lose the stuff than give it to those worthless bastards.

Old Bai's face was gloomy. "Hmm, go find Captain Li. He's good at this kind of thing." Old Bai said a name.

Old Lady Bai opened her mouth. That boy was very cunning. If things went well, all would be fine, but she was afraid that if things didn't go well, he would turn on her.

But don't worry, at worst...

"Okay, that kid's ruthless."

Bai Zizhong didn't understand what his parents were talking about, but all he wanted to do now was go back.

"Mother, shouldn't we go home now?"

Annoyed by her son's nagging, Granny Bai slapped him twice and said irritably, "What are you nagging me for? Are you trying to kill me? You useless piece of trash, you can't even do a little thing properly."

Old Bai immediately objected when he heard his wife scolding their son. "Why are you scolding Zizhong? How can a young man like him endure such treatment? Let's go home."

“Your loving father, if you hadn’t been so bad at farming, he wouldn’t be in this state. If he were like his mother, he wouldn’t be suffering in this rural area.” Old Mrs. Bai disliked his protectiveness of his son.

Compared to those people, her son is like a piece of trash.

Who wouldn't want their child to succeed? But her son has no talent whatsoever.

She couldn't even come up with anything decent to offer.

I'm afraid of being laughed at.

Back in the day, she was the third-in-command.

Old Bai immediately shut up when his wife started arguing; she felt she had wronged herself by marrying him.

"My son is still young, we'll teach him well, and he'll start working when he turns eighteen," the old man said in a somber tone.

Throughout the journey, the elderly couple kept speaking softly about their plans for their son's future, while the person they were talking about didn't seem to care at all.

He already knew in his heart that his parents would arrange for him to leave the village after he turned eighteen, so he wasn't in a hurry at all.

From a young age, he knew that his family was well-off, at least better off than most families in the village.

His mother taught him from a young age that good things should be hidden away, so he hid quite a few things.

He has enough to live a happy life with what he has, so he doesn't really need that little bit more.

(End of this chapter)