Chapter 44: Chapter 44 I believe Cousin Bai Fei will definitely forgive you all Chapter 44: Chapter 44 I believe Cousin Bai Fei will definitely forgive you all The current Bai Zhi had changed, no longer the brainless girl who could be appeased with just a candy.
Previously, it was easy to placate her, perhaps just a lollipop was enough, but since that push, Bai Zhi seemed to have become a different person. She became exceptionally sharp, harboring hatred towards them.
Bai Yu felt some resentment, but that was all he could feel.
Meanwhile, the group pet looked pityingly at Bai Ye’s bleeding hand.
“I…”
Just as Bai Da was about to speak, Bai Dan shot him a glare.
“Shut up, Feifei did nothing wrong. This is a matter among children. Let them settle it themselves.”
Bai Dan wasn’t worried about his granddaughter at all. In his eyes, she had done no wrong. With so many onlookers, if Bai Da tried to make a move, he would kick him out.
“Actually, I have nothing more to say. The person Bai Ye wants to hit is Cousin. So, Bai Ye, please apologize to your cousin. Cousin has said nothing wrong, it’s just that you can’t accept it because it’s too pretentious. Surely we shouldn’t be hit just for stating facts?”
Bai Zhi, with a hint of confusion in her eyes, seemed to question when she looked at the others.
“Bai Zhi is right, Bai Ye, Bai Yu, you must apologize today, or I will not forgive you.”
Bai Fei blinked, immediately put her hands on her hips, and stomped her foot, angrily looking at them.
Inside, Bai Ye felt incredibly frustrated. It was clearly he who was hurt, yet he was the one who had to apologize? Why?
Even if he had wanted to rush forward at that time, he was the one who got hurt!
“Apologize!”
Bai Dan’s face hardened as he looked at Bai Ye—who would get it if he didn’t apologize.
“I…” Bai Ye felt reluctant and unwilling, not to mention extremely stifled, especially when he looked up to see Bai Zhi’s smirk. Was she mocking him? Bai Zhi was seeking revenge!
“It’s alright, I believe Cousin Bai Fei will forgive you, right, Cousin Bai Fei?”
Are you just better than White Lotus? I know that game too, standing on the moral high ground, then striking preemptively.
Bai Zhi glanced at Bai Fei, her lips curling up ever so slightly, her eyes blinking unintentionally. To Bai Fei, she looked cool, which reminded her of the moment Bai Zhi had turned around with her.
She nodded involuntarily. Whatever Bai Zhi said was correct.
“Um, as long as you apologize, I will forgive you.”
As everyone’s gaze softed when looking at the two clever and sensible girls.
Bai Guang was very frustrated, fiercely waiting for Bai Ye, fists ready as if about to strike any minute.
“I…I’m sorry!”
Eventually, Bai Ye could only squeeze these words out through clenched teeth, his face full of reluctance, his gaze toward Bai Zhi and Bai Fei cold and piercing.
For Bai Zhi, it didn’t matter. No matter what she did, they wouldn’t have a good impression of her. Had the original owner not tried enough? To have sacrificed everything, short of enshrining them, and what was the outcome? She preferred a simple and rough approach—if something couldn’t be explained, then why not just settle it directly?
Today had proven that this method was effective. At least Bai Ye no longer presumptuously assumed her to be the ever-obliging Bai Zhi.
Thus, the farce concluded.
It should be said that on the surface, it appeared that way. Bai Da left with three people, followed closely by Bai Guang, with no clear intention, while the children continued to sweep the floor.
Bai Dan walked over to Bai Zhi, wanting to wait for her. That damn Bai Da, how could he be so blinded?
“Grandpa, you should go play too. We’ll be back home in a while. I want to play with Cousin and them, is that okay?”
Bai Zhi blinked her large, twinkling eyes, which seemed as though they could speak.
This was the first time Xingxing showed a desire to play with other children, melting Bai Dan’s heart, who immediately nodded in agreement.
“Very well, but in the future, if Bai Ye and the others bully you, you should fight back, Xingxing. When you come across unreasonable people, you need to be even more unreasonable than them, otherwise they’ll think you’re easy to bully. If it gets rough, I’ll take responsibility!”
Bai Dan spoke with such command, feeling that Xingxing was simply too kind, which is why she had always been bullied, used by them like a servant. Dream on.
The protective grandfatherly demeanor successfully brought a smile to Bai Zhi’s face, with Bai Fei also nodding in approval with her little fists raised.
“Second Grandpa is right, fight back!”
Bai Zhi burst into laughter and vigorously nodded her head.
“Okay, Grandpa, I understand. Fight back.”
However, she remembered that Bai Ye and Bai Yu later, because of saving someone as a group pet, had taken a master and learned some boxing, becoming exceptionally powerful and hence became the right-hand man of the group pet.
When exactly was it? She seemed to have forgotten, but this did remind her of something important – she must become stronger.
Is the group pet the one who just goes up a mountain and ends up saving the male lead, digging up ginseng just like that?
But then, Bai Zhi thought about the mountains here; she could believe there were wild fruits, but ginseng?
Are ginseng’s growing places so arbitrary? And that so-called space, she felt that it was impossible. Either this is not the novel world she remembered, or perhaps it adhered to that framework, but all things that didn’t align with reality, like the supposed space, wouldn’t exist. However, the group pet was still a group pet.
In the deepest memories of the original owner’s soul, it seemed similar to the novels she read, randomly saving the male lead, then apprenticing and becoming an academic superstar, finding her powerful biological father…
There might be issues with the memories of the novel, but what about the original owner’s?
The most frustrating part was that those memories often fragmented, blurry, and just plain useless, truly irritating.
“Bai Zhi, why did you let Bai Ye off so easily? They treated you like that, and you don’t hate them?”
As soon as Bai Fei asked this, she regretted it, wishing she could slap her own mouth. She had asked this before, but what did Bai Zhi say again?
“Cousin, don’t say that. I’m their biological little sister. They treat me well. You shouldn’t sow discord; whatever I do is only right.”
“What nonsense, what child has to do so much? Truly foolish.” In the past, she wouldn’t bother, seeing it as helping the hopeless Ah Dou.
But things were different now. She had become Bai Zhi’s best sister—self-proclaimed, but surely a lifelong relationship. Bai Zhi, being naïve, naturally required her to worry more on her behalf.
“Let them off? I haven’t.”
Bai Zhi swept all the trash into the dustpan, her gaze fixated on the garbage inside.
Sometimes, it seemed like letting go, but in reality…
Bai Yu, Bai Ye, and the group pet had always been popular in the village, praised for being sensible and hardworking, going out in the scorching heat to dig up fish mint to supplement the family income.