First, acquaintances meet, then relatives meet.
The new educated youth site was extremely lively on this day.
Lin Yian left after playing with Guaiguai for a while. Although she really wanted to hear the gossip, they were not that close yet so she had to give up reluctantly.
Ding Shiye first took an extra portion of his own ration and gave it to Sun Hongshan, who was in charge of cooking today. He didn't know why the kitchen was so crowded today that there was no room to step.
"Tokiye, does your cousin have any dietary restrictions?"
Ding Shiye did not stubbornly refute that Jiang Li was not his cousin as before. He thought for a moment and said, "He doesn't eat spicy food, but he eats everything else."
Sun Hongshan thought about it and decided to make fried tomato and eggs as a snack in the evening: "Okay, I got it."
The kitchen was not very big to begin with, and four people were already the maximum number of people squeezed in, so Ding Shiye simply stepped out and went to play with Guaiguai in the yard.
When there is one more person who eats for free, he has to find a way to earn more work points, otherwise he will not be able to eat enough.
Jiang Li tidied up briefly and saw his stubborn little cousin sitting alone with a big dog in his arms, just like when he was a child.
Suddenly, he missed his cute little cousin from childhood. But before Jiang Li took a few steps closer, the boy who was originally quietly held by Ding Shiye started to bar his teeth.
Jiang Li finally noticed something different about this dog: "Is this... a wolfdog?"
Ding Shiye comforted the child in his arms: "It's okay, he's not a bad person, go back first."
Guaiguai sniffed Jiang Li's scent for the last time before walking towards his doghouse. Ding Shiye dusted himself off and stood up, his face looking sour: "Let's talk."
Jiang Li had wanted to talk to his cousin for a long time. His aunt had clearly said that she would take his cousin abroad with her, so why did she appear in Linjia Village?
The two of them came to a secluded place outside the yard. Ding Shiye took out a cigarette and held it in his mouth without lighting it: "I know what you want to ask. That woman brought me to Country M, and as soon as I got off the ship, she bought me a ticket and sent me back, and she left with a man from Country M."
Jiang Li was so confused that he finally asked, "Why don't you go home?"
Ding Shiye couldn't help but take out a match to light the cigarette in his mouth: "My last name is Ding, not Jiang. She still had some maternal love back then, and gave me some money. Later, when she spent all the money, she came to the countryside."
Neither the fact that his aunt abandoned his cousin nor the fact that he eloped with someone else was as big a blow to Jiang Li as Ding Shiye's words.
"What's the use of having a surname of Ding or not? You are my younger brother. You know my mother has been talking about you all these years. She has a whole box of sweaters made for you! Every year when we have the New Year's Eve dinner, your bowls and chopsticks are always placed at home. You..."
Ding Shiye was very annoyed and threw the cigarette in his mouth under his feet and stomped it out before finishing it.
"I'm going back first. Hurry up and prepare the rent."
What Jiang Li didn't know was that Ding Shiye was actually able to find the Jiang family with his own intelligence, but the words the woman said when she threw him on the ship remained unforgettable to this day.
"Xiao Ye, Mom is going to pursue her own happiness. You won't stop her, right? Don't go look for your grandparents when you return home, because you are a burden."
Ding Shiye still can't figure out why that woman could say such words to her son.
It was clearly she who abandoned him first for seven years, then came back inexplicably and said she wanted to take him away, and then abandoned him again.
The thorny Ding Shiye now can’t let it go, and the seven-year-old Ding Shiye back then was even more unable to let it go.
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