Chapter 49: Chapter 49 Let’s Go Apologize Chapter 49: Chapter 49 Let’s Go Apologize “I really didn’t want to go, but since you invited me so earnestly, I’ll go,” Bai Fei said as she hopped and skipped ahead. Bai Zhi saw this scene and her eyes softened unconsciously. Isn’t this what a little girl should be like?
The distant gate opened, and Bai Zhi’s glance fell upon it unintentionally. Bai Da must be leaving for work.
But today, so late? Could it be that Bai Ye is directly ill?
If that’s the case, then she really is delicate.
Compared to the original owner, what does this count for?
“Bai Zhi, hurry up? After breakfast, let’s go to the mountain. Let’s dig up some bamboo shoots. Heizi and the others said yesterday they’re already sprouting.”
Bai Fei had gone far ahead and turned back to find Bai Zhi still standing in the same spot, barely able to restrain herself from calling out.
“Okay, I’m coming,” Bai Zhi quickly followed. Were the bamboo shoots those mountain delicacies? If so, she was really looking forward to it. After all, in the real world, a pound of bamboo shoots could sell for twenty yuan.
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It wasn’t because of Bai Ye and Bai Yu that Bai Da was getting up late. Even when Bai Ye and Bai Yu were being extremely cautious and apprehensive, Bai Da acted as if nothing had happened.
The lateness was simply because he needed to cook breakfast, prepare pig food, leave it in the pot for Bai Ye and the others to feed, and cook sweet potato porridge—just throw in a few sweet potatoes, add some rice, and it would be ready by the time they got up.
With some homemade pickles, it wasn’t bad. Sometimes he even steamed bread, but only if he could return early.
However, this meant he had to get up at five in the morning; the lack of sleep was severe. Bai Tian was already in low spirits, and the work afterwards made it impossible for him to handle cement. This couldn’t go on.
Bai Yu and Bai Ye got up exceptionally late today, intending to wait for Bai Da to leave, because they were afraid he would ask where they had gone the previous night.
But to their surprise, after they got up, Bai Da didn’t ask any questions, acting as if nothing had happened.
They quickly ate and took fifty yuan out, leaving it on the table.
“Bai Yu, take Bai Ye to the village entrance to buy some ointment later, he hurt himself falling yesterday. And buy some candy for Xingxing. Take good care of your sister at home and wash the clothes.”
Bai Da later found that, without instructions, these two troublemakers wouldn’t do anything. They’d leave their clothes in the basin just the same, and if the ground was dirty, they wouldn’t sweep it—worse than Xixi. Xixi at least knew to help wash the dishes.
After giving instructions, he hurriedly left, creating the scene Bai Zhi had witnessed.
As soon as Bai Da left, Bai Yu and Bai Ye finally breathed a sigh of relief. Bai Ye still hurt a great deal, feeling as if he were falling apart and put back together. But today, when Bai Yu looked, there were surprisingly no bruises?
That was impossible. But when he looked himself, there were none, yet the pain persisted.
“Brother, let’s eat quickly and then take Second Brother to buy the medicine. I’m sorry, Second Brother, it’s all because of me that you ended up like this.”
Xixi put down her chopsticks without eating, her eyes misty with pain as she looked at the wound on Bai Ye’s hand, her eyes so fogged they barely showed their depths.
“It’s okay, Xixi, it has nothing to do with you, it was that girl Bai Zhi who hit me.”
Seeing the group pet about to cry, Bai Ye couldn’t care less about the pain, hurriedly coaxing the group pet.
“No, no,” the group pet said, shaking her head with tears.
“I was thinking last night, all this, it’s my fault. If it wasn’t for me, you wouldn’t have ignored sister, she wouldn’t have gotten so angry, wouldn’t have hated us, and wouldn’t have left home. And she wouldn’t have hit brother, right?”
The group pet suddenly grabbed both Bai Ye’s and Bai Yu’s hands, looking at them sincerely.
“Shall we go and apologize? Would that be okay?”
The group pet’s eyes, because of these words, became bright and shining. She thought this idea was really great; as long as they apologized, if her sister forgave them, then everything could go back to how it was before.
“We apologize to Sister, ask for her forgiveness, and then we, we can return to how it used to be. The whole family together, happy and joyful, right?”
Bai Yu reached out his hand to wipe away the group pet’s tears, his eyebrows slightly furrowed.
Apologize? To Bai Zhi, it wasn’t something that a simple apology could fix anymore, and the grudges from last night, both he and Bai Ye could never forget.
But his sister was crying so heartbrokenly…
“Sister, Bai Zhi won’t agree, she’s not the Bai Zhi from before anymore. Back then, although Bai Zhi was a bit foolish, she could still understand reason. Now, she’s sharp-tongued.”
Bai Ye snorted coldly, apologizing—aside from that, unless he got to thrash her, that would be more like it!
“What should we do?” The group pet’s eyes became even more misty, her vision blurred with tears, “Sister won’t be like that. As long as we sincerely apologize, and you brothers stop ignoring Sister.
Believe me, as long as Sister is willing to forgive me, I’ll do anything, okay? I don’t want you guys to struggle so much, and I don’t want Sister to be upset because of me. We’re a family!”
The group pet grabbed both their hands, pulling harder and harder as if she would keep crying if they didn’t agree.
Bai Ye and Bai Yu said nothing, their gazes turning to the pickles.
There weren’t many pickles left at home, at most enough for one more week, and there was also pigweed to harvest.
“Brother, please, I beg you.”
The group pet hadn’t given up, tears flowing like free-flowing water.
Seeing this made the two brothers feel distressed, and finally, out of sheer helplessness, they nodded in agreement.
“Alright, we’ll give it a try, but Xixi, don’t get your hopes up too high. If she continues to be unreasonable, we won’t agree, and if she has the guts to leave this house, then she should never come back.”
Bai Ye laid it out harshly, as if Bai Zhi was particularly eager to come back.
Some people just have too much confidence, and when it’s excessive, it becomes arrogance. That’s a sickness, and it needs to be cured.
That kind of cure requires Bai Zhi to face, preferably a good beating.
Hearing Bai Ye say this, the group pet finally broke into a smile, quickly wiping her tears with a tissue.
Yes, that’s how luxurious it was; while Bai Zhi’s family only had that kind of paper rationed by the cut in the toilet, they were already using tissues. Directly for wiping away tears…
Hearing Bai Ye’s words, the group pet finally cheered up, wiped her face, and showed a smile.
“So when shall we go? I’m already missing Sister.”
The group pet’s gaze turned to the sweet potato porridge on the table. It wasn’t that it tasted bad, but eating it every day, sometimes you still feel the hope for a change.
But she was someone who, once they started cooking, would end up scorching everything. Every time it was either burned during frying or overcooked during boiling.
“In a little while, after we clean up and feed the pigs, let’s go.”
Bai Yu looked at the messy table, a gleam of light passing through his eyes, and it seemed he finally capitulated.
“Mhm, mhm, let’s eat quickly.”
The group pet and the others started to eat hastily, directly picking up pickles to put in their mouths, following with a gulp of porridge before swallowing it down.