Ch.129 Dowry
Li Susu put A Mi down and walked to the man.
Over the past thousand years, she often dreamed of him. She sometimes dreamed that he was locked in purgatory. Sometimes, it was the scene when she switched the evil bone that year, and he held her with blood and tears falling drop by drop in his eyes.
She brushed aside her tears and touched his face lightly.
"Tantai Jin, is that you?"
Bai Ziqian raised his eyes and suddenly saw the woman's reddened teary eyes. He heard the unfamiliar name in her lips. He took away the hand on his face and said lightly: "You have the wrong person."
"What's the matter with you?" Liu Dongyan finally snapped out of her stunned state, and said to Su Su displeasedly, "Ziqian is my fiance, please stay away from him."
She opened her arms and stood in front of Bai Ziqian. Bai Ziqian's gaze fell on Su Su, silent and did not refute her.
A Mi has grown to such an age but she has never seen her mother cry. She was observing all of these and her soft voice said, "Mother, you are wrong, Uncle Bai is a mortal, not father."
A Mi grew up in the demon world, and since she was a child was told that her demon father, who is omnipotent, had used his own power to reverse the Same Path of Sadness, and let the dead return. How can he be a mortal?
Su Su looked at Tantai Jin with her divine pupils. He indeed has a common breath now, but was a demonic fetus. He had become a god when he died, and even if he reincarnated, he could not be just an ordinary mortal.
She doesn't know what happened to Tantai Jin over the past thousand years, but since she has waited for a thousand years, she doesn't care for a moment.
Su Su whispered: "Sorry, I got the wrong person."
Liu Dongyan breathed a sigh of relief when she said that. "It doesn't matter, just make it clear, you are A Mi's mother? You are so beautiful that your husband must have accompanied you here." Liu Dongyan smiled.
Bai Ziqian's eyes became dull and dim, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
Since Su Su had seen people like Bitchang, she naturally understood Liu Dongyan's intentions. The girl's hostility, which she thought was well hidden, couldn't be more obvious.
Su Su glanced at Tantai Jin, and said to Liu Dongyan: "Don’t mind me, I’m here to do business in Changle Town. A Mi was lost, so I came here in a hurry. Thank you for taking care of A Mi."
Susu raised her hand, and a yellow gold ingot was revealed in the embroidered handkerchief. "This is a thank you gift, please accept it."
Liu Dongyan stretched out her hand to take it. The man behind him said in a low voice: "No, I brought her here but I don't need your thanks. Now that you have found A Mi, you can take her back."
A Mi grimaced and said to Liu Dongyan: "Uncle Bai took care of me. You didn't take care of me. Mother should not give it to you."
Liu Dongyan retracted her outstretched hand, looking embarrassed.
Su Su smiled and said, "Then I will come to thank you again someday."
Bai Ziqian's lips moved, trying to prevent her from coming back, but for some reason, he didn't say anything.
Su Su took A Mi's hand and walked out the door. Liu Dongyan was annoyed by her own gaffe, and said, "If you accepted that ingot of gold, wouldn't it be enough for my bride price?"
Bai Ziqian coldly ignores her. He sat down and continued to wipe the bow and arrows, that he didn't even notice when Liu Dongyan left aggrievedly.
He touched the position of his heart. It was originally like a pool of stagnant water, but the moment he saw Su Su, it jumped and started beating very fast. Bai Ziqian never thought that he would have such a ridiculous reaction to a woman who he just met, not to mention that the woman had a husband, and even a cute child like A Mi. At that moment, he even felt a little jealous of that person.
Bai Ziqian stopped the bow and arrow. A Mi did say that her father had passed away. He remembered that the woman said she would visit his house another day to thank him. What day will it be?
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A Mi spent the whole night digesting that Bai Ziqian was her father Tantai Jin. At dawn, she said to Su Su a little coyly: "If he is father, why can't he recognize mother and A Mi? Doesn't father love us anymore?"
Su Su knew that A Mi has been longing for her father in her heart. She touched her little head and said: "Your father's memory has been sealed, and he must have suffered a lot for thousands of years, so he doesn't recognize us. A Mi knows how lonely and uncomfortable he must have been, right? When he accepts and remembers us again, he can go home with us."
When A Mi thought about how pitiful her father was, she no longer felt awkward, and quickly told Su Su how the mother and daughter of the Liu family treated him. Su Su listened carefully to A Mi's words.
The Liu family not only failed to support and take care of the Bai family's youngest son, but instead often taunted him and took the things of the Bai family. The mother wanted to break the betrothal contract but the daughter doesn't want to.
Susu assured A Mi that she has a way. Everything has changed, and it also feels like things hasn't changed at all when you like someone. As long as this deep love is still there, no matter how far he is, he will eventually return to where she is. This time, she will take him home.
Su Su found a house next door to Bai Ziqian the next day, and she bought a wine shop in the town. On the wine shop's opening day, she brought two pots of the best wine, and took A Mi to Bai Ziqian's house.
Bai Ziqian was about to go out with a bow and arrow, but when he saw the mother and daughter, he quietly put down the bow and arrow.
Su Su smiled and said, "On that day, Mr. Bai did not receive our gift of appreciation. Today I brought two jugs of wine from the wine shop. Please accept it. Our wine shop will open tonight. If you think the wine is good, please join us."
Bai Ziqian took two pots of wine and said, "Yes."
He didn't say whether he will go or not.
A Mi rushed over and hugged him: "Uncle Bai, did you miss A Mi?"
Bai Ziqian evaded and did not answer: "Since you have returned home, don't run away in the future."
A Mi nodded obediently.
After giving the thank you gift, Su Su took A Mi and left. A Mi was very nervous: "Will Father come?"
Su Su's eyes twinkled: "Yes."
However, to their surprise, when the wine shop opened in the evening, the guests came but Bai Ziqian was not seen.
Susu is not in a hurry.
The beauty of the wine shop proprietress spread throughout the town in a day, and there were a lot of gangsters who patronized the wine shop. When Su Su was carrying a flask to entertain guests, some men wanted to molest her. She pretended not to know but a hand that almost caressed her arm was suddenly grabbed by another pale hand.
"Oh, it hurts!"
Su Su looked back and saw Bai Ziqian wearing an ugly expression. With a quick twist, the ruffian's wrist was broken. How ruthless he is, how annoyed he is.
"Sorry, I beat up your guest."
Although it was an apology, there was no regret in his chilly tone.
Su Su said: "You were helping me, how can I blame you."
She beckoned and motioned to the hall to greet the guests. She smiled and said to Tantai Jin: "I invite Mr. Bai to drink with me."
Bai Ziqian knew that he shouldn't have anything to do with her.
On the day he became conscious, there was a voice in his divine consciousness, telling him not to pursue it, and to spend his life as a mortal in Changle Town. In this life, no wife, no children, no princes, no rights.
Earlier, he stopped in front of the wine shop. He didn't intend to come in, just take a look from a distance. But he couldn't stand someone belittling her, so he interfered.
Bai Ziqian understands what it feels like for a man to be eager for a women. He felt this way for the first time in 20 years. It was like something lost in an empty heart, and one day he ran back. He couldn't help but want to take another look and another look.
Now that he is here, it seems to be overwhelming. Bai Ziqian followed Su Su and followed her inside.
Su Su poured wine for him, the candlelight of the wine shop swaying, and she supported her chin to look at him. After a thousand years, she was finally able to get to be like this with him again.
Her eyes were clear but hot, and Bai Ziqian could not bear such a look. He gritted his teeth to hold back the burning of his ears and the shameful joy of his heart.
"Why does Miss Li look at me like this?"
Su Su said: "You look like an old friend of mine."
Bai Ziqian was silent for a moment: "Is it the husband of Miss Li?"
Su Su smiled frankly: "Yeah."
He squeezed the cup tightly: "Miss Li loves that person very much?"
He laughed in his heart, how could he ask such a ridiculous question, with her appearance, the princes and generals were probably vying to get married to her. If she doesn't love him, how can she not marry someone else?
"I didn't love him a long time ago. At that time, I was always calculative with him. Later, when I loved him, I lost him."
Bai Ziqian drank a cup of wine, his black eyes sinking.
Su Su blinked and suppressed a smile: "What about Young Master Bai, I heard that Young Master Bai and Ms Liu has a marriage contract. You should have been married two years ago. Why did Young Master Bai not marry Ms Liu yet?"
Bai Ziqian said: "My parents' jokes in the past cannot be taken seriously." Before his mother died, she had already said that this marriage contract was void, but Liu Dongyan never followed it.
"Really? Is there no other reason?"
"No," he vetoed.
Su Su drank with him, and the atmosphere was harmonious. In the evening, the wine shop was closed, and Su Su's cheeks were faintly peachy.
After leaving the hall, she closed the wine shop and found that Bai Ziqian was still waiting for her.
The night in Changle Town is not safe, especially for women like her. She looked at him, her heart went soft.
She suddenly missed that year with Tantai Jin when they subdued the Peach Blossom Fairy in the small town. At that time, he was dressed in a woman's wedding gown, his brows were cold and his face was impatient, but he was carried her on his back to see the dead soul under the peach blossom tree.
She has been missing him for a thousand years.
Su Su said, "Why don't Mr. Bai help me go back home?"
With an unpleasant smile, he carried her back without saying a word and walked towards Su Su's house.
Su Su looked at the overlapping shadows under the moonlight with a slight smile in her eyes.
She hugged him lightly, and whispered in his ear with a low laugh: "Young Master Bai, it only takes a couple of silver to marry me."
When she spoke, she scattered a light floral aroma in the night. It sounds like nonsense drunkenness, but it makes his heart skip a beat.
"Don't talk nonsense."
"It is not nonsense." Her voice was clear and light, but she seemed right and confident, "A Mi needs a dad, and I also need husband. Do you mind that I had been married before?"
She lay on his shoulder and turned her head to look at him. Bai Ziqian's throat moved and did not speak.
Mind, how could he mind? At that moment, he was almost crazy with joy. But he was afraid that these were all jokes.
Sometimes love is a very wonderful thing, there are things a person can cover up, but love cannot be covered up.
Even if they don't talk to each other, that kind of subtle affection will continue to spread.
Su Su smiled, even though he did not answer, she was not disappointed. He had been given up too many times, and he is already bruised all over. This time she is patient and will wait for him to go home with her.
The next section of moonlight is the time when Susu has the most peace of mind in the past thousand years.
However, when he approached the door of her house, Su Su saw the sky full of flames.
She watched in surprise as Mother Liu ran out of her house in a panic: "It's not me, it's not me, I didn't mean it!"
Bai Ziqian put down Susu: "Where's A Mi?"
Su Su said: "Inside."
Bai Ziqian's face changed, and he rushed into the burning room.
Su Su knew that her daughter was okay, and the fire in front of her was nothing. A Mi scared Mother Liu by setting off the fire. A Mi is a divine body, even if she catches fire, she won't be injured.
She followed Bai Ziqian in, and he looked back and said angrily: "What are you doing here, get out! I will bring Ami out!"
She was stunned, and smiled: "Okay."
Bai Ziqian didn't expect that she would believe in him so much. He stopped talking, went in and ran out with A Mi in his arms.
A Mi looked dumbfounded, looked at her mother, and reflected on her mistake.
Su Su sighed, took her daughter, looked at Bai Ziqian, and said: "We have nowhere to go."
A Mi is very cooperative, showing a pitiful expression.
Looking at the two faces, one big and one small, Bai Ziqian was silent for a moment: "If you don't mind, you can stay at my house and rest for the night."
A Mi almost cheered. Su Su smiled.
Bai Ziqian took Su Su and A Mi to the room where A Mi lived before.
Before Su Su could close the door, he suddenly stopped it. Su Su looked up at him. Her hands dropped down after he put something heavy on them.
"It doesn't matter if what you said is true or not, I take it seriously." He took a deep look at her, ignoring the warning voice in his head, and said with a mocking stubbornness and warning, "Don't lie to me, otherwise... "
Su Su opened the bag in her hand.
——It is more than five hundred taels of silver.
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