Chapter 135 Are Bai Zhiqing and Meng Ge siblings?

Bai Nuo followed dejectedly beside Aunt Cui'e toward the brigade leader's house, getting scolded the whole way. Every now and then, Aunt Cui'e, who was getting angrier and angrier, would slap him. Even the Hei Feng family of four behind them silently slowed down, afraid of being blown away.

The captain stayed behind to deal with the large wild boar.

"Jiajia, come out quickly and check if Nuonuo is hurt." Li Cuie called her daughter as soon as she got home.

"No, no, I'm not hurt, Auntie." Bai Nuo quickly waved her hand. She had just deliberately dirtied her clothes on the way back to make herself look a little disheveled. There were no injuries on her body.

"Coming, coming!" Wei Jia ran out from the inner room. Seeing that her mother's complexion had improved a lot, she quickly grabbed Bai Nuo's little hand and walked into her own room. "Mom, I'll take my sister inside first."

"Go on, Nuonuo, stay home for dinner tonight, okay? You can go back after you finish eating." Aunt Cuie was worried that the child was being stubborn, so she still asked her daughter to take Bai Nuo inside to check on her.

"No, no, no, Auntie, it's still early. We'll be distributing pork later. I'll just go back to eat. Don't bring my food!" Bai Nuo quickly waved her hand as she followed Wei Jia into the room.

The living conditions in Qishui Brigade were indeed better than in some other places, but in those days, even if life in the countryside was good, you could only barely survive. Every household was short of food, and money was even scarcer. Even when relatives visited each other, they had to bring food rations; you couldn't just eat and drink for free.

The brigade leader and his wife truly treated Bai Nuo like their own daughter. Both of them were generous and magnanimous, and genuinely loved Bai Nuo; otherwise, they wouldn't have gone to such lengths.

However, Bai Nuo was not ungrateful. He could not stay for a meal for no reason. The brigade leader's family had a large number of people, and their food was not plentiful.

In the end, Bai Nuo had to persuade Hei Feng and his family of four to leave. Even so, Aunt Cui'e still packed a lot of things for Bai Nuo to take back with him, so much so that he couldn't refuse.

"Tsk tsk tsk, Mom, I didn't realize you treated Nuonuo much better than my uncle's daughter. Anyone who didn't know better would think she was your real daughter."

After watching Bai Nuo leave from the doorway and making plans to play together again next time, Wei Jia saw her mother turn to go to the kitchen and quickly followed her.

"Nonsense, how can you compare them?" Li Cuie rolled her eyes, getting angry just thinking about her younger brother's daughter.

"Although your uncle's daughter is my own niece, your mother has no taste for spoiling ungrateful children. If your uncle hadn't stopped her, I would have chopped the mother and daughter up with a knife."

You saw how much I doted on her when she was little, but that girl has become more and more of a scoundrel as she grows up. She hasn't learned a single good thing from her mother; all she does is think about taking advantage of others. She's even tried to take advantage of you and your brother. How could I possibly care about her? She's a one-way street, always taking without giving back. I've never eaten a single grain of rice from her. She can't even compare to half of what your other uncles' families have. Does she deserve to be compared to them?

Thinking of this, Li Cuie shook her head with a sigh: "So, whether it's finding a son-in-law or marrying a daughter-in-law, you have to keep your eyes open and look carefully. You can't be like your uncle. No matter what the family said, he insisted on marrying your aunt. Look at the mess she made of the family a few years ago. If your grandparents hadn't separated the couple, who knows what would have happened in the past few years."

"That's true!"

Wei Jia was also quite annoyed by her little cousin. She was ambitious but not capable of achieving her goals. All she did was daydream, and she was lazy and greedy. She wanted to take everything that belonged to others. Thinking about what happened a few years ago made her want to rush to her uncle's house and smash it up again.

“Back when there was a famine, she took advantage of your affection for her and dared to come to our house to steal my brother’s food. My brother was stupid and didn’t want to take away my and my older brother’s food, so he just endured it. If Grandpa hadn’t found out in time, he would have starved to death.”

During the famine, her father was the brigade leader. He was busy all day pacifying the villagers and trying to get food. He couldn't take care of his children, so he distributed the food to each of them and asked the eldest to look after it. As a result, that ungrateful wretch and her mother found an opportunity.

Wei Jia curled her lips, now feeling she hadn't gone easy on her. Why hadn't she pulled all of that brat's hair out back then?

It's also because she was too young back then. She only remembered that her little brother was almost killed by her uncle's stinky cousin who always got her beaten up. She pounced on her and pulled her hair. If that happened now, she would have smashed that brat to the ground.

While preparing dinner, Li Cuie glanced at her daughter and smiled: "People are all about sincerity. I initially felt sorry for Bai Nuo because your dad said that her parents were martyrs who sacrificed their lives. I felt sorry for her having such an experience, and that she had come all the way to our rural area, so I thought I would take extra care of her."

After all, your great-grandfather, grandfather, grandmother, and maternal grandfather all fought against the Japanese invaders. The good life we ​​have now is all thanks to those fearless soldiers and those who are still fighting on the front lines.

Their daughter came to our Qishui Brigade for rural work. If I let anyone be bullied here, would I even be human?

Li Cuie felt a pang of sadness at the thought, sighed softly, and then proceeded to teach her daughter about the principles of interpersonal relationships.

"Besides, don't be fooled by the fact that Bai Nuo has gotten into several fights in just a few days. Those were all provoked by others. It's just that Nuo Nuo is not easy to bully, and the other party can't beat her."

We need to look at things from multiple perspectives. The weak are not always right; you should understand this principle well, right? Didn't you suffer quite a bit at the hands of your little cousin when you were younger?

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