"Xiuxiu, it’s all Bai Zhi’s fault. You saw it; she actually wanted to hit me, her father."
Bai Da looked at Ye Xiu with a wronged expression as if he had done nothing wrong and everything was Bai Zhi’s fault.
"If you hadn’t tried to hit Xingxing, would she have dodged? Now I wonder, when I’m not around, is this how you bully my Xingxing? Hitting her behind my back, aren’t you?"
The possibility made Ye Xiu even angrier, and even the look she gave Bai Da was filled with disgust?
How could such an expression appear on Xiuxiu’s face? How could Xiuxiu hate him; how could she?
Absolutely not. Compared to having Xiuxiu hate him, Bai Zhi was nothing.
He threw the stick away.
"Xiuxiu, I didn’t. I really didn’t. If you don’t believe me, ask her?"
Bai Da truly hadn’t. He had never hit the original owner; he simply treated her like air.
No, that’s not right to say; every day when he came back home, he would give the original owner a faint glance, then start asking Bai Yu and the others how their day went, if they had been good.
He was very tired; he left the household matters to them, and in the end, it all fell on the original owner.
"Yes, he hasn’t hit me. He just makes me do all the work, including farming. Every vegetable we eat in this house, including the corn fed to the pigs, was planted by me, seed by seed.
And the housework too; that’s why I don’t have time to study, to eat properly, or to have any new clothes."
As Bai Zhi spoke these words, she was actually very calm, simply narrating like she was talking about someone else’s life.
But to Ye Xiu’s ears, it was unbearably painful.
How could she have been oblivious to all of this?
"Bai Da, why don’t you go die? How can you treat your knowing child this way?"
Ye Xiu held Bai Zhi and screamed at Bai Da with heart-wrenching pain. How old was Xingxing to make her till the land?
At this time of farming, you have to first plow the field, and how do you plow? With a hoe, digging forcefully into the earth,
And that’s not all; after planting, you have to weed, right? How do you do that?
You have to use your hands; using chemicals is out of the question.
Ye Xiu couldn’t bear to think about how her little Xingxing managed to do all this.
Every time he asked, how could he have the face to say that he would take care of everything at home?
Why don’t you go die,
These were the harshest words Ye Xiu had ever said, for she was always a gentle woman. Even in arguments or disputes, she would say, "Let it end here."
But now, her words stirred up waves in Bai Da’s heart.
Did Xiuxiu truly despise him that much?
All because of this Bai Zhi. If only he had known, he would have...
But then, he suddenly laughed with a crazed smile,
"Xiuxiu, if I died, would you forgive me?"
Despair filled Bai Da’s smile, an overwhelming despair.
Ye Xiu’s heart lurched with a premonition of doom, and sure enough, the next second she saw.
"Xiuxiu, I truly love you. I am the person in this world who loves you the most, no one loves you more than I do,
And if you won’t forgive me, what’s the point of living?"
After saying that, Bai Da fiercely threw himself against the pillar.
Ye Xiu screamed in desperation.
How could Bai Da do such a thing?
Desperately, Ye Xiu closed her eyes.