amaotonovel Chapter 1214 White Deer Plain
Chapter 1214 White Deer Plain
Chapter 1214 White Deer Plain
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I felt a sticky touch and just when I was about to open my eyes, I found my eyelids were as heavy as if they were pressed by a thousand-pound rock. The sound squeezed out of my throat turned into crying.
"Son, mother can't accompany you anymore..."
A shrill scream came from his ears, and then a pair of rough hands picked up Qin Hao's whole body, wrapped him in cotton cloth and carried him out.
"Bingdeda, a boy."
"He's a boy! Haha, the ancestors have appeared, my Bai family has a descendant!" Someone shouted with a rusty gong-like voice, making Qin Hao's eardrums numb.
Qin Hao then realized that this time he had traveled through time and space to the body of a newborn baby.
Soon, Qin Hao felt a group of people gathering around him, and some of them opened the swaddling clothes to take a closer look at his little bird.
After traveling through so many worlds, this was the first time that Qin Hao felt so embarrassed. He was feeling depressed when he suddenly felt the urge to urinate. He exerted force and sprayed the man in the face.
The onlookers burst into laughter.
"Zilin, it's okay. Boy's urine can help reduce internal heat."
Lu Zilin wiped the urine off his face awkwardly, muttering, "This is weird. So many people chose to pee on me. Are you bullying me together with your father?"
Qin Hao felt like he was being handed over to another person, and that person laughed loudly: "I have a baby, and it's a boy."
Lu Zilin curled his lips: "Jiaxuan, look at you, having a baby is worth laughing like this, my Zhaopeng is running all over the place."
Bai Jiaxuan still grinned foolishly: "Don't worry about it, I have a baby, I'm just happy."
Just as Bai Jiaxuan was feeling happy, the midwife hurriedly ran out.
"Oh no, the baby's mother is bleeding heavily, it will be fatal."
The originally lively atmosphere in the yard suddenly became silent, and everyone turned their eyes to Bai Jiaxuan and the baby in his arms, but in addition to sympathy, there were many inexplicable meanings.
Qin Hao heard someone whispering.
"Is Jiaxuan already his sixth daughter-in-law?"
"Alas, six of his wives have died in succession. Jiaxuan is so unlucky."
"It seems that the rumor that Chuan Jiaxuan has a poisonous sting is not just a rumor. He killed all six of his wives."
Bai Jiaxuan ignored the rumors and rushed to the delivery room holding Qin Hao. Soon, the sound of Bai Jiaxuan wailing could be heard from the delivery room.
Qin Hao only felt that his consciousness was becoming increasingly blurred. Knowing that the baby was too fragile, he fell asleep in Bai Jiaxuan's arms.
When he woke up again, he opened his eyes and found himself in a large tiled house, with an old lady holding him.
"My dear grandson, wake up! Look at him, so handsome, just like his mother."
Bai Jiaxuan, who was squatting on the side, held his head in his hands and complained: "Mom, Xianglian died so that we could continue the Bai family's lineage, but we didn't even set up a mourning hall for her. Isn't this allowing the people in the prairie to stab us in the back?"
Facing her son's accusations, Bai Zhao looked at her husband Bai Bingde, who was smoking a pipe beside her, and then said righteously.
"If we don't set up a mourning hall for her, it's probably because we're afraid it will disturb our child. Besides, what mother wouldn't love her own child?"
Bai Jiaxuan wanted to say something, but old man Bai Bingde tapped his pipe and said, "Okay, wait until the baby is one month old, and then find a few Taoist priests to perform a ritual for her."
"By the way, this baby hasn't been named yet. Will you name it or should I?"
Bai Jiaxuan looked at his son who had opened his eyes and looked at him, and his attention was diverted.
"Let my brother-in-law name the baby. He is a juren."
Bai Bingde nodded when he heard this: "That's good. Chenxi is very knowledgeable. We have only one child in the Bai family, so we need to give him a good name."
A feeling of hunger surged in his heart, and Qin Hao opened his mouth to remind the three people that there was a newborn baby here, but he started crying as soon as he opened his mouth.
"The baby is hungry. Listen to this loud sound..."
While coaxing Qin Hao, Bai Zhao asked Bai Jiaxuan to call a young wife with a swollen chest and take Qin Hao to the side room to feed him.
After eating, Qin Hao felt his eyelids becoming heavier and heavier, and he soon fell asleep.
When he woke up again, a middle-aged man in a gray cloth gown was holding him awkwardly.
A middle-aged woman at the side took Qin Hao with a smile, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"How can you hold a child like this? If you don't know, you would think the child has thorns on his body..."
Bai Jiaxuan's face changed, and the middle-aged woman realized that she had said the wrong thing and touched her brother's sore spot.
Mr. Zhu changed the subject when he saw this: "I have an idea of the name for this child."
Upon hearing this, Mr. and Mrs. Bai Bingde hurriedly asked, "What's your name?"
"Hao means righteousness and uprightness, and also implies vastness and depth. How about just calling him Bai Hao?" Mr. Zhu paced around the room with his hands behind his back.
Bai Bingde and his wife looked at each other and said, "Well, this name is well chosen, Bai Hao, it is easy to pronounce and has a deep meaning. Chen Xi is indeed the most learned person in our Yuanshang."
At this moment, Bai Jiaxuan also took Qin Hao from his sister's arms and hugged him: "Son, the name your uncle gave you sounds nice, right? When you grow up, you can study with your uncle and become a learned person."
Considering that the name had not been changed, Qin Hao smiled faintly, which immediately made several people happy.
A month later, the Bai family held a grand full-moon banquet. Although it was called grand, in fact, they just invited everyone in the clan to eat a few bowls of oil-splashed noodles.
Of course, in these turbulent times, being able to eat oil-splashed noodles is a treat comparable to the Chinese New Year.
On the happy day, Bai Jiaxuan also swept away the gloom of his wife's recent death, and paraded through the city holding Qin Hao. Before this, he had killed several wives, and people had often said behind his back, some even saying that the Bai family would have no descendants with him. Now that he had an offspring, he naturally wanted to show off in front of everyone.
Lu Zilin complained quietly to his father Lu Taiheng: "I said I couldn't come, but you insisted on coming. See, you just had a baby and you're already showing off to everyone. What's the big deal? The real thing is to have a promising future and bring honor to the family."
Lu Taiheng glanced at his son and said, "You are right. It would be a great honor if the child could succeed."
"Then our son Zhaopeng is definitely more promising than his son. Look at his name, Bai Hao. Nothing good can come of him just wasting time there." Lu Zilin said disdainfully.
Lu Taiheng shook his head, too lazy to pay attention to this uneducated son.
Suddenly there was a noise outside the courtyard. Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw a few ragged victims clinging to the door frame, staring at the oil-splashed noodles on the table. Bai Bingde frowned, stood up and called the farmhands: "Give them some noodle soup and a few steamed buns to share."
Bai Jiaxuan, however, held his father's hand and said loudly, "Today is my baby's full-month banquet, everyone who sees it can have a share! Bring a few bowls of noodles to these folks, too!"
Lu Zilin snorted coldly and muttered in a low voice: "Why are you pretending to be a good person..."
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Time flies. Five years have passed in a blink of an eye. Qin Hao has grown from a baby who could only lie in the cradle and cry for food into a chubby little boy.
Qin Hao was not too shy about his talent. The little bit of intelligence he showed astounded Bai Bingde and his wife, Bai Jiaxuan, and even Mr. Zhu was full of praise.
As the eldest and only son of the Bai family, both Bai Bingde and his wife and Bai Jiaxuan loved him very much. Bai Jiaxuan even resisted the pressure from his parents and did not remarry for five years.
But today there was no way to escape at all. Bai Bingde and his wife blocked the gate of the courtyard and refused to let Bai Jiaxuan go out. They insisted that he marry another wife.
"Don't force me anymore. I have children. Why do I have to marry another wife?" Bai Jiaxuan sat down on the doorstep covered in snow.
Bai Zhao was so angry that she gasped: "What are you talking about? Our Bai family is small, and we have only one son for three generations. If something unexpected happens, our Bai family will be extinct."
Bai Jiaxuan gritted his teeth and said, "Then I'll kill the sixth wife. Which good girl will be willing to marry me?"
"Then you don't care. These days, as long as you can afford the bride price, you don't have to worry about not being able to find a wife. Lu San, have you loaded the food into the truck?"
Lu San's dull voice came from the backyard: "Boss, everything is loaded, a full car."
Bai Bingde pointed at his son and said, "The matchmaker has already made a deal for you. One cart of grain in exchange for one daughter-in-law. Go and bring your daughter-in-law back."
Bai Jiaxuan stamped his feet and said, "What kind of business is this? Is this marrying a wife or selling a wife?"
"It's none of your business whether they marry or sell each other, as long as they are happy."
Seeing his parents' tough attitude, Bai Jiaxuan had to compromise and followed Lu San into the carriage.
They braved the wind and snow to arrive at a house, and heard a woman sobbing from inside the house.
The matchmaker's words were full of nonsense. The parents of the family looked at the full cart of grain outside and urged their daughter in the inner room to follow Bai Jiaxuan.
But Bai Jiaxuan couldn't stand it anymore, so he left the matchmaker and walked out. Not long after he walked away, he carried two bags of grain from the car and dropped them at the door of the family's house.
The matchmaker was so angry that she threatened to complain to Bai Bingde.
As a result, Bai Bingde made Bai Jiaxuan kneel in the ancestral hall as punishment that night.
Just when Bai Jiaxuan's knees were aching from kneeling and his stomach was so hungry that his chest was sticking to his back, a bowl of fragrant noodles appeared in front of him. He turned around and found that his son was standing behind him.
"Did your grandparents ask you to come?"
Qin Hao smiled and said, "If they had let me do it, they wouldn't have asked you to kneel down as punishment."
"You little brat, you're going to make a fool of yourself, right?" Bai Jiaxuan cursed, but a relieved smile appeared on his face.
Qin Hao dodged his father's "face pinching" and asked seriously, "Da, is it because of me that you don't want to marry a wife?"
Bai Jiaxuan ate his noodles while laughing and scolding: "You are such a smart kid, where did you hear that?"
"My aunt said that you were afraid that my stepmother would bully me after she came into the family, so that's why you refused to marry a wife." Qin Hao directly put the blame on his aunt.
Hearing this, Bai Jiaxuan smiled and said, "Don't listen to your aunt's nonsense. Da is tired and doesn't want to get married."
Qin Hao did not doubt that Bai Jiaxuan was lying. Even if it happened in modern times, if six wives died in succession, one would have to doubt whether he was a wife-killer, let alone in the late Qing Dynasty.
Bai Jiaxuan finished his noodles, wiped his mouth, and reached out to rub Qin Hao's head, but Qin Hao dodged him. He couldn't help but smile bitterly. His son had been very smart since he was a child, and he was sensible and filial. However, he had one bad point: he was too fond of cleanliness. He would take the quilt out to dry after a while, take a bath every one or two days, and only drink boiled water. As a result, the family had to consume a lot of firewood every month.
This is the treatment only the eldest grandson of the Bai family has. If it were Bai Jiaxuan himself, his father would have hit him on the head with his cane.
"Hao'er, don't listen to their nonsense. Having you as my child is enough for me in this life."
As they were talking, the door of the ancestral hall was pushed open, and Lu Zilin walked in lazily with his hands behind his back. When he saw the scene of loving father and filial son, he immediately said sourly.
"Jiaxuan is fine. Life is like this. Even if I get punished, my son will bring me food."
Bai Jiaxuan said unhappily: "It's none of your business, what are you doing here?"
"Look at what you said. We grew up together. How could I not come to see you when you were punished?" Lu Zilin said.
Before Bai Jiaxuan could speak, Qin Hao said, "Zilin, you came to see me empty-handed?"
Lu Zilin was speechless for a moment, hesitating: "I...I forgot because I left in such a hurry."
"Oh, so I forgot. I thought you came here empty-handed to make fun of me."
"How can you talk like that, kid? Jiaxuan, don't you care?"
Seeing Lu Zilin getting angry, Bai Jiaxuan laughed happily and said to Qin Hao: "It's too late, you should go back first."
"Oh."
Looking at Qin Hao's departing back, Bai Jiaxuan and Lu Zilin had different expressions.
Bai Jiaxuan's eyes were full of love and pride, while Lu Zilin's eyes were full of jealousy.
On the surface, the Bai and Lu families are as close as one family, but in fact, they have been scheming against each other behind the scenes. The Bai family has always been superior to the Lu family, and the patriarch of Bailuyuan has always been from the Bai family.
For Lu Zilin, his biggest wish in this life is to climb over Bai Jiaxuan's head.
Before this, Bai Jiaxuan had married six wives, all of whom died due to bad luck. Lu Zilin thought he could suppress Bai Jiaxuan and even make the Bai family extinct. From now on, Bai Luyuan would be completely ruled by him, the one with the surname Lu.
But since Qin Hao was three years old, his intelligence completely crushed his son Lu Zhaopeng.
This made Lu Zilin very unhappy.
"I heard that you went to buy a wife with food again today?"
Bai Jiaxuan said unhappily, "Why are you always staring at me when you have nothing to do? You are just idle."
Lu Zilin was not angry either. He finally caught Bai Jiaxuan's weakness and said, "You are getting anxious again. I heard this from others. You have married six wives and someone dares to marry their daughter to you. Isn't that selling yourself?"
Bai Jiaxuan was so angry that he pushed Lu Zilin away and said, "If you keep talking nonsense, I will tear your mouth to pieces."
Lu Zilin was also experienced. He dodged it with a quick move and taunted Bai Jiaxuan as he ran.
"Jiaxuan, don't be unconvinced. My wife is pregnant again. This time she will definitely be smarter than your Hao'er."
Bai Jiaxuan did not pursue her and was too lazy to continue arguing with Lu Zilin. He thought that his son was so smart and it was time for him to go to school. He would not waste his time by fooling around with those kids on the prairie all day.