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Chapter 84 Ling Xin
One morning, Baitang won more than 500 yuan, earning all the round trip expenses.The banquet was set up, and the waiter invited everyone to the table.Baitang finds Bai's father and Bai's mother, and sits next to them. Xiao Xi sits between Bai's father and Bai's mother, so that the two elders can take care of him.

In addition to Baitang's family, the people at this table are her third uncle's family, second aunt and fourth uncle's family. The three brothers chatted while drinking a little wine, while Bai Ma, second aunt Bai, and two sisters-in-law chatted about women's affairs. topic of.

"This child is so cute and sensible!" Seeing Xiao Xi eating the food by herself, obediently and cleverly, the food would not fall on the dining table and clothes, the women couldn't love her more.

"Second sister-in-law, is this child your neighbor's child?" Both the third and fourth aunts knew that Bai's father and Bai's mother had a good relationship with the neighbors, so they adopted the neighbors as goddaughters, and the neighbor's children became theirs. dry grandson.

"No, this is Xiao Xi, and also our god-grandson. Xiao Kang stayed at home with his mother, not with us." Bai Ma picked up a chicken leg and put it into the child's bowl, telling him to eat slowly.

"Another grandson?" Third Aunt Bai smiled, "You want to have a grandson so much, why don't you let Tangtang have one?"

"Third Aunt, don't involve me if you want to hold your grandson!"
"Tangtang, it's not that the third aunt is talking about you. You are already 27, and you still don't have a boyfriend? You see, your brother and your sister are still studying, and they have already made several boyfriends and girlfriends."

"I've been together before, but we just broke up." Bai Tang said flatly, "I don't want to find just any man just to get married."

"This girl is a pick!" Bai Ma smiled and helped her daughter out, "We don't urge her to get married now, after all, it is more important to find someone who suits her heart. Let her find it slowly, anyway, we have grandchildren now. "

"After all, he is someone else's child." Third Aunt said.

"Xiao Xi is a child of our family except that her surname is not Bai." Bai's mother said.

The three women were surprised, Second Aunt Bai asked, "Where are the parents of the child?"

Although Xiao Xi is young, he is sensible. He knows his own life experience and does not mind what others say about his life experience.In his words, he lives an honest life and doesn't mind what others say about him.Therefore, Bai's mother didn't mind telling her child's life experience in front of her relatives. They adopted the child. To become a member of the Bai family, the child must be recognized by other Bai family members.This is also the purpose of Bai's father and Bai's mother bringing Xiao Xi to the birthday banquet, to introduce Xiao Xi to other people in the Bai family.

"The child's mother is dead, his father entrusted him to Tangtang, and he is no longer in this world. He only has us three relatives now." Bai Ma said, "He is the grandson of me and Lao Bai."

Third Aunt Bai, Fourth Aunt Bai, and Second Aunt Bai were all kind-hearted people. When they heard about Xiao Xi's life experience, they felt sorry for this cute and sensible child.

Second Aunt Bai blamed Mother Bai and said, "You didn't tell us earlier so that we could prepare a meeting gift for Xiao Xi."

Bai Ma laughed and said, "I didn't notify you in advance just to prevent you from spending money!"

"You, you are too polite!"

The topic turned a corner, Baitang put down his chopsticks and glanced at the child who sat on the chair obediently after eating the chicken leg.

"Have you eaten too?"

The child nodded.

Baitang raised his voice and said to the elders at the table: "Eat slowly, I'll take Xiaoxi out for a walk to digest food."

"Go, you can continue to eat after eating." Third Aunt Bai joked.

Baitang chuckled, picked up the little bun and walked out of the dining room.

"Auntie, I'll go by myself."

Baitang put down the little bun, took his hand and walked slowly.At noon, there were very few people in the park, and the chirping of birds and insects was very clear.

"Sugar Man!" Xiao Baozi exclaimed in surprise.

"Want?" Baitang asked.

Little Baozi nodded, blinking his big eyes and said cutely: "I don't want to eat, I just want him to blow a happy goat and take it out to Brother Xiaokang."

"Good boy!" Baitang took the little bun and walked to the sugar blower's booth.

The peddler of the sugar blowers sits behind a table, on which a wooden frame is supported. There are Monkey King, Zhu Bajie... There are also many sugar figures of cartoon characters.The hawker takes a little hot syrup with a small shovel, rubs it on his hands covered with talc powder, and then holds one end with his mouth. After a while, open the wooden mold, and a sugar figure in the shape of a goldfish is ready.

Xiao Baozi was dumbfounded and waved his hands in applause.

The vendor was an elderly man. He looked at the adorable child and showed a kind smile. He lowered his head and asked, "Kid, do you want to buy a candy man? What kind of candy do you want? Grandpa will make it for you."

Little Baozi glanced at Bai Tang and said to the vendor: "Grandpa, I want a Pleasant Goat candy man."

"Pleasant Goat? Okay, wait for a while, Grandpa will help Nian do it right away."

"Make two Pleasant Goats." Baitang said.

Little Baozi looked up at Baitang in surprise.

Bai Tang smiled and touched Xiao Baozi's head: "Two Pleasant Goats, one for Xiaokang and one for you."

"Thank you, Auntie!" Xiao Baozi smiled happily, his eyes were curved like two crescent moons, very pretty.

The peddler also laughed, took out two molds, and started making sugar figurines. After a few minutes, two Pleasant Goat sugar figurines of different shapes came into Xiao Baozi's hands.Xiao Baozi loved it very much, and thanked the hawker sweetly.Attracted by Xiao Baozi's smile, a woman walked to the stall.

"Blow me a pair of New Year picture dolls."

"Ling Xin?" Bai Tang recognized the woman as her college classmate.

"Baitang?" Ling Xin also recognized Baitang, and greeted him with a light smile.

Let Xiao Baozi play by himself, and the two classmates who haven't seen each other for a few years found a seat to sit down and catch up.

"I heard that you went to Shanghai to work after graduating from university. Are you coming back to visit your parents now?" Bai Tang asked.She knew that Ling Xin had an older brother, so she didn't have to quit her high-paying job in Shanghai to return to Province C in order to take care of her parents.

"No, I quit my job, and I won't go to Shanghai anymore." Ling Xin sighed, with inextricable confusion and melancholy hanging on her brows.

"En?" Baitang was surprised.I heard that Ling Xin's work unit is a very famous foreign-funded enterprise, and the salary is very good, so she is actually reluctant to give up this job.

Ling Xin smiled wryly: "Because of some personal reasons, I don't want to stay in the company anymore. And I still have some doubts, so I just went home and asked my parents."

"Oh!" Bai Tang responded without asking the reason.Instead, Ling Xin spoke out on her own. Maybe it was too uncomfortable to suppress in her heart. Ling Xin wanted to find someone to talk to. She happened to meet an old classmate with a trustworthy character, so Ling Xin shared her troubles. Vomited it all out.

"I actually suffer from selective amnesia."

"Huh?" Baitang was surprised, didn't she see that Ling Xin lost her memory?She even remembered her old classmate whom she hadn't seen for a few years, so how could she lose her memory?

"It's true, I lost my memory for a year. I was actually a year older than you, but I had no memory for the year after high school, and until the next year when I went to college with you, I thought I Fresh graduates who are admitted to university!" Ling Xin said with her brows locked.

"Then you have recovered the memory of that year now?" Baitang guessed.

Ling Xin nodded, and looked into the distance, her eyes blurred.

"That year, I was just in my third year of high school. There was a high-end hotel near my home, where rich people and foreigners lived. On that day, I was thinking about the example questions of the college entrance examination that the teacher taught today while riding a bicycle, but I knocked down. One person. That person is Fuji, 25 or six years old, tall and thin, handsome, with a clean temperament, and a sunny smile that makes my heart flutter. I thought that the fate between me and him was just a collision , I didn't expect him to start chasing me. At that time, I was too young to even have a first love, so I simply fell into his love..."

"He is very sincere and caring. Even my parents and elder brother were touched by him. After graduating from high school, I married him and followed him to live in his country..."

"He took me around every corner of Kyoto, visiting the Kinkakuji Temple, Kiyomizu Temple, and Senyuji Temple; eating royal cuisine in the Kyoto Imperial Palace and tasting authentic sake in an izakaya; Asahikaika in the south of the square watches original Japanese dramas. He promised me that he would take me to Arashiyama every year to see cherry blossoms in spring and red leaves in autumn..."

"It's a pity that life is not a fairy tale. Even princes and princesses have their own troubles, let alone an ugly duckling who is not even Cinderella. Cinderella can become a princess at that time because she is also a nobleman with a good background and is the same as the prince. levels, and Fuji and I are not from the same world at all."

"Fujidao likes to watch Noh and opera, and I doze off when I see them; Fujidoji likes to listen to classical music, but I like pop music; we have huge differences in the taste of food .Fuji Daoji likes the traditional food of Neon Country, but I don’t like to eat anything except ramen... Apart from living habits and cultural differences, I don’t like the plethora of family rules and relatives who look down on others. The Fuji family is an old-fashioned aristocratic family in the Neon country. The family is rich and powerful, and all relatives and friends are of noble birth. Naturally, they look down on me, a foreign daughter-in-law who has no wealth at all. They always deliberately make things difficult for me. I perform tea ceremony and ikebana in front of them, which I don't know, and keep mocking; I deliberately discuss the fashion show in Milan in front of me, and show off the income from Sotheby's auction to let me know that poor people like me can't get into them The upper class of the society...hehe, it’s hard for me to bear it for so long.”

"And then?" Baitang asked.She believed that Ling Xin would separate from her husband or even lose her memory because of this matter. This girl had a tough temperament, and the above setbacks could not defeat her at all.

"Then..." Ling Xin showed a sad smile.

(End of this chapter)