Thanks for the invitation: In ancient times, people shared children

"I can't keep you here, otherwise you won't know what kind of trouble you'll cause in the future and bring trouble to the whole family.

We are father and daughter, so I paid to buy the pig from Shuanzi and let you take it away. If you really like the chickens, ducks and geese at home, you can also take a few.

You can take your jewelry and clothes. That’s all for today. Let Cuimei and Aunt Yu help you pack. I’ll take you back to your parents tomorrow morning.

You should be more sensible in the future."

This was probably the most calm Liu Renben had ever been towards the child. He even touched the little head that he always thought was sick.

He seems to be very easy to talk to, but what he says leaves no room for rebuttal.

When the child first came to the Liu family, she was always afraid that this kind of thing would happen, but now that it had really happened, she was stunned, yet felt that this was how it should be.

She didn't want to have a child for them, and they didn't like a child like hers, so they shouldn't be together.

"I understand." She tilted her head back against the light, so she couldn't see his expression, nor did she need to. She asked him, "Is there anything I can do for you?"

When I leave, I will inevitably miss their kindness.

Liu Renben paused, wanting to say it was nothing, but then he thought again and realized there was something wrong. He said solemnly, "Don't come back."

He was afraid the child didn't understand, so he said it very bluntly: "Once you leave home tomorrow, we will have nothing to do with each other. We don't need to be godparents anymore. Whether you live a good life in the future is your own business. Even if you suffer any grievances, don't come here."

Child:……

It was hard for her not to be disgusted: "I won't do that."

It was very cold in the yard, and after they finished talking, they separated.

As she was leading the pig to the backyard, she heard Liu Renben and Pei Zhu arguing.

It's so strange that she doesn't want to let her go.

The child always thought that Pei Zhu hated her more.

Maybe it’s because Liu Renben doesn’t pay much attention to her.

Shuanzi was waiting for her in the backyard, holding two taels of silver and a string of copper coins. He handed them to her as soon as he saw her:

"Here, the money the master used to buy the pig was originally yours. I shouldn't take it."

Seeing so much money, the child realized that he was not moved at all and gave it away easily: "Here you go. You helped me and I haven't thanked you yet."

After taking two steps forward, she stepped back and took the silver: "This belongs to the eldest sister of the Pei family. I have to return it to her. You can take the copper coin."

Shuanzi did not refuse. She asked him to give it to her, so he accepted it and said to her:

"Kid, see you again if we're lucky."

It seems more pleasant to call her Miss.

"Goodbye!"

The child returned the pig's blood to the pigsty. When she returned to the house, Pei Nangua was sitting at the door waiting for her. He sniffed around her with his nose raised, then sat down far away, as if thinking.

The little head is tilted, and it doesn't look very smart.

When the child saw that his bowl was empty again, he went to ask Aunt Yu for food.

She cooked noodles for the child and made two poached eggs. The child ate the two eggs and gave half of the noodles to Pei Nangua.

Aunt Yu usually would have said something, but today she didn't. She even sent Cuimei away while she was packing her things and wanted to grab something.

She stuffed the clothes she had just taken out to give to her niece back into the bag.

Child: “I don’t need it.”

"If you're short of money, it's okay to pawn it. This one isn't much smaller. You can ask your mother to buy you a piece of cloth so you can continue wearing it."

Aunt Yu didn't listen to her. She had her own ideas on how to pack the luggage. She had to take clothes and shoes, and also a few small items.

When Cuimei came back, she stuffed the teapot and teacups in, leaving only a pair of worn-out shoes.

Cuimei looked at Aunt Yu in confusion: "Where are the things?"

The child handed the shoes to Cuimei and said, "Here, this is for you. Mend it later and give it to your niece."

"Who wants this rag to give to a beggar?"

Her nose was not a nose, her eyes were not eyes, she turned around and walked out, slamming the door loudly.

The child thought thoughtfully: …She really doesn’t like me.

Aunt Yu really disliked her, snorting and scolding her: "It's like an opera singer touching her temples - fake and pretentious. She's so poor that she sells herself cheaply, and yet she thinks she's some kind of noble lady. If she doesn't want it, I'll take it back for my granddaughter to wear."

"You have granddaughters?"

They had lived together for so long, but the child never knew about them. She asked Liu Lianhua about it, but she refused to tell her.

Aunt Yu laughed heartily: "I am already this old, how could I not have a granddaughter? My eldest grandson is about to get married."

She thought for a moment before continuing, "I'll treat you to a feast then."

The child agreed readily and asked her when it was.

"After the autumn harvest this year, I'll go to your house and pick you up."

"it is good."

The child thought about it and took out a handful of copper coins as a gift, but Aunt Yu refused to accept them.

"Keep it for yourself. It may come in handy someday."

Among all the people the child has ever come into contact with, she is probably the one who looks most like her grandmother, but unfortunately she is not her grandmother.

The children also eat dinner by themselves.

Baifu sent it to her, and she was about to cry, as if she was very reluctant to let him go: "You are leaving."

"Ah."

"still coming back?"

"No," the child thought for a moment, "I might come to play with Waiya, but I won't come back here."

Looking for Waiya, that’s for sure. To be honest, she hasn’t told Waiya yet!

The child is a little distracted.

Baifu started to cry: "What's the difference between that and being dead?"

Child:……

She tentatively asked, "The difference is... I'm still breathing?"

Baifu: ...

She couldn't cry anymore, so she took out her precious earrings and gave them to her because she couldn't bear to part with her bracelet.

"This is for you. You can wear it after you get your ears pierced."

The child would rather never wear these things in his life than suffer that pain.

But she thought Baifu might cry if she said this, so she didn't say it, but coaxed her: "I will, I will think of you every time I wear it in the future."

If the child is willing, she can speak very nicely.

Baifu cried loudly: "Sister, why do you say such things!"

Her grandparents, who had cried for a long time, now had to cry for her too.

Everyone around her was leaving her.

Will her brother die too?

Baifu felt even sadder when he thought of this.

Child: ...I really shouldn’t have said that.

The new clothes were dirty and the child wanted to cry. Baifu saw the tears in her eyes and cried even harder.

She was tired of crying, so she went to bed and fell asleep.

Suddenly, a head appeared in Pei Nangua's arms, and it was so frightened that it jumped far away.

He yelled at the child twice in dissatisfaction and changed places.

The child went to say goodbye to Waiya, but Waiya didn't take it seriously at all: "Okay, I'll come play with you when I get better."

She knew the way anyway.

She still felt pain all over, and her hands were whipped. Yu Meng had originally cut the bamboo to make something for her, something that would slip under her feet in winter, but now he was using it to whip her, which seemed like a good idea.

Waiya, who had just been beaten, thought for a moment and said, "When he goes to town, I asked him to take me with him so that we can see each other more often."

"that would be great!"

The child breathed a sigh of relief and went back happily.

The next day, just after dawn, Liu Renben asked Shuanzi to harness the car, and after dinner, he took her away.

Even though Aunt Yu packed so hard, all her luggage only consisted of two bags.

There were living creatures of all ages, including a pig, a cat, the smallest chicken among the chickens, ducks and geese, and its ferocious mother.

Liu Renben was particularly generous and asked her if she wanted ducks and geese.

The child refused, but he still took two and prepared to give them to Boss Pei as a snack.

The child waved to the person who sent her there.

The ox cart moved forward.

She left gifts for them.

Changsui was given a bag of money, Baifu was given two silver anklets, and she put her nicer clothes on Aunt Yu's pillow. As for Peizhu and Liu Renben, she had nothing to give them.

Everything she has was given by these two people.

Although there is nothing satisfying...

The child left the shuttlecock and a handkerchief she brought from the mountain nunnery outside their window.

There was a purple flower embroidered crookedly on it.

She thought it was an iris, like the one she had picked to give to Bae Joo to put in her hair.

But she herself doesn't think so.

Anyway, that's it...

Perhaps they would never see each other again. When Liu Renben left the Pei family, the child said to him, "You are a good donor and a good person, but I don't like you to be my father."

Liu Renben said with a sympathetic heart, "Me too."

He also doesn't want to be a father to a child.

Boss Pei didn't want to either, and didn't say anything in front of Liu Renben. Afterwards... he had a big fight with Aunt Pei.