There is a trick

Chapter 49: The Second Surname Bai (Please read on!)

"father……"

Bai Xiu'e looked at the man with a weather-beaten face, who was only in his thirties but already hunched over and as thin as an old man, and tears immediately flowed from her eyes.

If there wasn't someone in this home that really made her want to stay, how could she possibly turn back no matter who tried to persuade her?
Her father was the only person she cared about in Baijiafen.

Bai Xiu'e's father's surname was not Bai. He was a refugee who married into the family.

During these many years, it was his father who took care of everything inside and outside the house and raised Bai Xiu'e to adulthood.

"Let's go!"

The old father deliberately lowered his voice, pushed Bai Xiu'e to go outside, and turned his head to look towards his own house in fear - the more he worried about something, the more likely it would happen.

The man pushed Bai Xiu'e, and before they had taken a few steps outside, they heard the sound of a door slamming behind them.

Immediately afterwards, a tall man walked out from the central hall.

The man was wearing a white inner garment. He was standing on the steps at the door of the main room. He unbuttoned his pants and was about to urinate towards the bottom of the steps.

At this time, he found Bai's father pushing Bai Xiu'e outside, and immediately pulled up his pants and shouted at Bai's father: "Old man, what are you doing?!

Who is that woman? !”

As they were talking, a young man who looked about the same age as Bai Xiu'e jumped down the stairs in his cloth shoes, kicked open the courtyard gate made of woven branches, and caught up with Bai Xiu'e and her father in a few steps.

He took a closer look and saw Bai Xiu'e's face. His face suddenly turned pale with horror and he staggered back in fear, almost falling to the ground!
“You you you—ghost ghost ghost!”

"Oh my God!"

"Mother! Mother! There's a ghost!"

"Bai Xiu'e has turned into a ghost and is back to take my life!"

The young man crawled back to the main room. As he screamed like a pig being slaughtered, a woman who looked quite charming came out from the room. She was wearing clothes and had her long hair lifted from her forehead.

The young man hid behind the woman, stealing glances at Bai Xiu'e.

"She and mother...actually live in the same room?" Bai Xiu'e looked at the man and woman who walked out of the main room one after another, with an expression of disbelief in her eyes, and looked at her father beside her.

The old father looked sad and sighed, "The ancestral hall said that your mother was his wet nurse and her kindness in raising him was just like that of his biological mother. Living with mother and son, I'm afraid people will gossip about us..."

"Jing Bai family is bullying us too much..." Bai Xiu'e muttered to herself as she watched the approaching man and woman.

In the Bai family cemetery, except for the male descendants who were married into the family from outside, all the people have the surname Bai.

But the surname "Bai" has two different origins.

The women here, Bai Xiu'e, were born into the local Bai family who had lived around Qingyi Town for generations. In Baijiafen, people like them were called "Bian Bai", which means the Bai family of the border town.

There is another group of people called "Jing Bai Clan" who originated from Yanjing.

These Jingbai people originally had a prominent Manchu surname - Yehenala. More than a hundred years ago, this group of people suddenly moved from the capital to Baijiafen and lived next to the Bianbai people.

Since their arrival, the Bian Bai family began to decline in population, with almost every family giving birth to only baby girls and very few baby boys.

Even if a baby boy is born, most of them will die halfway.

Due to the lack of young laborers, the Bian Bai family became increasingly dependent on the Jing Bai family. As for now, the two Bai families appear to have merged into one, but in fact, the gap in their bones has never been eliminated.

The Jing Bai family's genealogy in the Bai Family Tomb Ancestral Hall never includes the names of the Bian Bai family members.

The ancestral halls that the Bian Bai family had managed to build several times were all destroyed due to various natural and man-made disasters. As of now, the Bian Bai family no longer has its own ancestral hall and family tree.

All the women of the Bianbai clan, from birth to death, are commodity resources that the Jingbai clan can sell at will.

The men of the Bian Bai family were in an even more miserable situation than the slaves and servants of wealthy families.

"Mom, she's a ghost!

I'll call someone to burn her!" The young man, hiding behind the woman, spoke to her in a low voice.

The woman was Bai Xiu'e's mother.

She gently patted the back of the young man's hand to comfort him. When she looked at Bai Xiu'e, she was a little surprised and doubtful, but when she saw that the coward was standing next to Bai Xiu'e, the fear in her heart dissipated a lot.

Bai's mother approached Bai Xiu'e, she carefully looked at Bai Xiu'e's face, and called softly: "Xiu'e..."

Seeing her mother's gentle and kind expression, Bai Xiu'e's disgust towards her suddenly dissipated. Her mother was also a miserable person who had no choice.

She sighed softly in her heart and called the woman softly, "Mother."

"Hey."

Bai's mother's heart was moved, and her eyes turned red. She grabbed Bai Xiu'e's slightly cold little hand and said, "Xiu'e, it's my fault. I made you suffer..."

Father Bai on the side opened his mouth, and suddenly his shoulders slumped as if he had lost all his strength.

"This is a ghost, mother, tell someone to burn her to death--" The young man was still chattering, but Bai's mother suddenly turned her head and glanced at him. He immediately stopped talking like a rooster with its neck strangled.

"How could Xiu'e be a ghost?
Can't you see that she is alive and well?" Bai's mother wiped her tears with a smile and pulled Bai Xiu'e into the house. "Your brother actually doesn't have any bad intentions, Xiu'e, don't blame him.

Just now when I saw you, I was a little nervous.

When you get to know each other better, you will find that he actually has a good heart..."

Listening to what Bai's mother said, Bai Xiu'e pursed her lips and said nothing.

Her so-called younger brother has no blood relationship with her.

He was born in the Bai family of Jing, and his mother Bai and he were only given the title of "wet nurse".

Does the "good heart" of this Jingbai man mean that he is good at climbing into his wet nurse's bed?

Bai Xiu'e was furious, but she dared not say a word.

She was led into the west wing by Bai's mother, who busied herself cleaning the room and making the bed for her, as if she really wanted to welcome her married daughter back to live with her.

There was no mention of her past experiences.

The room was cleaned, Bai Xiu'e sat on a stool, and her father stood at the door.

"Xiu'e..." The old father looked at his daughter in the room with worry, "Can you still walk now..."

Before he could finish his words, Bai's mother's voice calling him was heard from behind him.

The father hesitated at the door, refusing to move in response to his wife's voice.

At this time, Bai's mother simply came over and said to Bai Xiu'e, "Xiu'e, let me discuss something with your father."

After saying this, he took his father away.

When leaving, he closed the door for Bai Xiu'e.

Bai Xiu'e sat in a daze in this room which had never been so tidy and clean. Listening to the sound of chains being fastened outside the door, she suddenly sighed softly.

"What are you going to do?" Bai Ma asked her.

"I don't want to marry Master Wen."

"Ok?"

"They must think I'm a ghost...burning me to death in a fire like this is what I want...but maybe my mother still feels a little sorry for me?"

"Still dreaming?"

Bai Xiu'e heard Bai Ma's mocking words, she lowered her eyes, her eyes timid: "If it doesn't work, I want to use myself... to exchange for my father to leave the Bai family tomb."

Upon hearing this, Bai Ma pursed his lips and fell silent.

There was a rustling noise outside the door.

Bai Xiu'e in the room opened the small bag she carried with her. The animal skins and insect skins that she had sewed with lotus root silk were neatly stacked in the bag.

She lowered her head, her fingertips moving like silk threads, and began to sew the pieces of animal skin together.

Bai Ma watched Bai Xiu'e's actions quietly for a while, and suddenly said, "He has coaxed you away, and you are still helping him sew the beast clothes?"

"He is a good man, and he has his own difficulties." Bai Xiu'e replied softly. "Uncle Zhou said that the beast coat can suppress evil spirits. I will sew faster, and I should be able to finish sewing this coat today.

When the time comes, please help me deliver it to him."

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　There is another chapter in the afternoon, please read it!
　　
　
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