Bai Xiao stood at the door of the yard for a long time, staring in the direction of the car leaving without moving.

Grandma opened the door and came out, followed Bai Xiao's gaze, and sighed, "Go in, it's windy standing outside."

Bai Xiao sat at the table but couldn't bring up his appetite. After taking two bites, he put down his chopsticks and said, "I'll go back to the house and take a nap."

The old man saw her red and swollen eyes and knew that she was really in a bad mood, so he didn't force her and nodded: "Go ahead and I'll call you during dinner."

She was really wrapped in a quilt and lying on the bed, but Bai Xiao didn't feel sleepy at all. She picked up her phone and almost called Yu Shaoting. If she used to treat Yu Jingxi because she pityed him for not having a mother, now her mood is complicated. She

I want to take care of him, but I am afraid of facing the thorns ahead.

In the afternoon, Bai Xiao received a text message from Qin Shousheng, "Sisters, I finally became a serf and became my master. Don't forget the little ones in the future."

Bai Xiao messed up her long hair. She was even more upset because of this text message. She got sick and put on her cotton-padded jacket. The old man was sitting in the yard folding beans. She pulled a small chair and sat down next to her grandma. The old man didn't even look at it.

She said, "Can't sleep?"

Bai Xiao softly said "Hmm" and wanted to help, but her grandmother slapped her hand away: "Stop messing with my beans, go back to the house and watch TV."

"Grandma, my mother...what kind of person is she?"

Grandma folded the beans for a moment, then returned to normal, "Why do you suddenly ask about your mother?"

"I miss her a little bit." Bai Xiao twitched her lips and looked up at the setting sun on the horizon, "Grandma, do you think she has..."

"Don't talk nonsense!" Grandma suddenly stopped her and her tone was very stern. How could you curse your mother like this?

"Why else would she never come to see you?" Even if she doesn't want me anymore, why not come and see you, your mother?

Bai Xiao paused, then looked at her grandmother and asked: "Grandma, am I really like what my aunt said, it's my mother and the man outside..."

Although her mother was taboo in this family, she still occasionally heard some gossip in the village when she was a child. Others just thought she was still a child and spoke without hesitation, but they didn't know that she, who was precocious, could already understand some of their words.

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They said that her mother was one of the few college students in their village at that time, but she brought a child back before graduating from college, and insisted that it was her child. No matter how her grandfather beat her, she refused to change her story, but

I don't want to say who the father of the child is.

They also said that her mother later became insane and could not recognize people, but she was beautiful and there were bachelors who were willing to ask her mother to be their wife.

Later, for some unknown reason, she was thrown into a cemetery on the mountain by her mother. From then on, her mother disappeared.

As for what the truth is, Bai Xiao has never asked her grandmother for confirmation. This is the first time she has talked about her mother.

Grandma's eyes were red, with tears glistening in her eyes, and she sighed faintly: "It's only your mother's fault that she was young and ignorant and ended up like this."

"Then she is now..." Bai Xiao asked eagerly.

Grandma shook her head, "I don't know either. Your grandpa went to the city that day and I was in the fields. She must have fallen ill and ran off to who knows where."

Grandma's helpless words were enough to prove that those villagers were not lying, and her mother was really crazy at that time.

Grandma and grandson didn't talk any more. Grandma picked up the basket and said, "I'm going to cook. By the way, are Jingxi and the others really going back?"

"...I don't know." Bai Xiao thought of Yu Jingxi's big black and bright eyes.

"Then go make a call. You follow your grandpa's bad temper and keep it to yourself whenever you want. You're not afraid of hurting yourself!"

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Bai Xiao went back to the room and hesitated for a while before dialing Yu Shaoting's cell phone.

After a few rings, the person answered, "Hello?" The deep, magnetic voice was definitely Yu Shaoting's.

Bai Xiao held the phone but didn't know how to speak.

"……What's up?"

"..."

"say!"

Bai Xiao bit her lower lip, "Where's Jing Xi?"

"……sleeping."

"You...returned to Fengcheng?"

"Do you care whether we go back or not?"

Bai Xiao's chest was clogged again, but she couldn't think of anything to say to refute him.

"...Is there anything else? I'm fine... Dudu..."

Bai Xiao threw her phone on the bed and turned over her face faster than flipping through a book. When she was getting off the bed, she accidentally tripped and fell to the ground. She felt a sharp pain in her knees. She rubbed the bruises and felt that everything was not going well for her recently.

, not long after, the phone rang again, and she quickly picked it up with her feet up.

"Xiaobai... I miss you so much, and I'm so hungry. I want to eat the scrambled eggs with spring bamboo shoots made by my grandma!"

Listening to Yu Jingxi's aggrieved sobs, Bai Xiao's heart throbbed, "Have you returned to Fengcheng?"

"No." Yu Jingxi sniffed, "Dad took me to stay in a hotel."

"Which hotel?" Bai Xiao asked eagerly.

"I don't know those words, but there is a big fountain at the door, and there is a RT-Mart supermarket next to it."

Bai Xiao immediately thought of the five-star hotel where she and Yu Shaoting spent the night last night. As Yu Shaoting, she would only choose there.

"Xiaobai, I'm so hungry, I want to see you."

"Where is your father?" When Bai Xiao heard that he was hungry, she felt as anxious as if she hadn't eaten in three days.

Yu Jingxi blew his nose with a tissue, "He went out just now, so I called you secretly."

Before Bai Xiao answered the call, the caller suddenly hung up. When she called again, the person who answered the phone had already changed.

"Jing Xi won't have to worry about Miss Bai from now on, that's all." After saying that, the phone was put down.

He hung up smoothly and decisively, without giving her a chance to speak.

In the morning, Xiaoxiao was heard from the left and Xiaoxiao was heard again, and now she has become Miss Bai again...

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Grandma was cooking, and she cooked exactly what Yu Jingxi called "spring bamboo shoots and scrambled eggs."

"What do you mean? Are you coming back for dinner?"

Bai Xiao sat behind the stove to light the fire, "I probably won't come."

Grandma glanced at her and said, "Did you have a quarrel with Xiao Shao? Young man, is there anything you can't say openly?"

Bai Xiao wanted to say that it was only because he spread it out that he got to this point.

There was a sudden knock on the door outside. Grandma wiped her hands and was about to open the door. Bai Xiao stood up quickly and said, "I'll go and you look at the dishes."

Opening the old-fashioned wooden door with its red paint peeled off, Bai Xiao raised his head and his heartbeat stopped for a moment.

Pei Qiyou stood at the door and was about to turn around when he seemed to hear the sound of the door opening and turned around again. When he saw her, there was a slight smile on his lips.

"I thought there was no one there." His handsome features were reflected in the halo of the evening sun, and his eyes were gentle, as if looking at an old friend he hadn't seen for a long time.

But Bai Xiao was not immersed in this beautiful mood, because she remembered that she had just met him and his fiancée at noon.

"Is something wrong?" Bai Xiao asked very calmly, without any emotion, but with some politeness.

Pei Qiyou glanced behind her, "Are there any guests at home?"

His inquiry was probing, and Bai Xiao had no time to guess his intentions, "No, what do you want?"

Pei Qiyou outside the door looked at Bai Xiao, who was facing him calmly, and felt a moment of emptiness in his heart. There was no resentment towards him in her eyes or eyebrows, and there was no ups and downs at all. It was as if the past entanglements between them had never existed.

This discovery made Pei Qiyou feel indescribably disappointed.

For some reason, he felt vaguely uneasy despite being disappointed. He was wondering if Bai Xiao would forget him after a while?

That text message was still lying quietly on his phone, and he read it no less than ten times on the way here.

But when he really saw her, he couldn't open his mouth to question her...because he was afraid that her answer would not be what he wanted to hear.

Pei Qiyou glanced at the kitchen and smiled at her in the sunset: "Is grandma cooking?"

"Xiao Xiao, come in and bring all the dishes." Hearing her grandmother's shout, Bai Xiao ignored Pei Qiyou and turned around to go into the kitchen.

When she came out with the dishes, Pei Qiyou hadn't left yet, but he didn't come in either and was standing outside the threshold.

One step outside the door and one step inside seems to be a light-year away.

Bai Xiao didn't invite him in, she just did whatever she needed to do, completely treating the man outside the door as a transparent existence.

However, when grandma came out after cooking, she noticed Pei Qiyou and said hello with a smile, "Qiyou? Why are you here?"

Pei Qiyou was stunned. Facing the old man's kind smile, he didn't dare to look into her eyes. He twitched his lips and said, "Grandma."

"Come in and sit down."

Bai Xiao looked at Bai Xiao in confusion, but grandma didn't look at her. She said to Pei Qiyou: "You haven't had dinner yet, come in quickly."

Pei Qiyou glanced at Bai Xiao's position and really came in.

Almost as soon as he stepped in, Bai Xiao turned around and entered his room, and the door closed in front of him.
To be continued...