Chapter 383 Visiting Neighbors
"Aunt Wu!"
One morning, Ye Rou, wearing a white dress with red polka dots, greeted everyone with full energy.
Her smile was bright and sunny, and Aunt Wu felt warm in her heart.
"Miss Ye!"
Aunt Wu responded happily.
Ye Rou: "What are you busy with?"
"I soaked some red mushrooms and stewed them with chicken for lunch." Aunt Wu was sitting on a small stool, picking out the soaked red mushrooms from the iron basin.
Pick out the bad or rotten ones.
"Let me help you." Ye Rou moved a stool and sat down next to Aunt Wu.
"No, no." Aunt Wu didn't dare ask her for help and kept saying no.
Ye Rou smiled and said, "Aunt Wu, don't underestimate me. I'm in Dahe Village and often go up the mountain to pick mushrooms."
Aunt Wu's heart softened. Ye Rou was Commander Liang's daughter. She should have lived in a military compound like Miss An Ning, loved by her parents. But she ended up living among the people and had a hard life for twenty years.
She didn't stop him, her voice softer.
"The water is cold, so pick the ones that have already been washed."
"Okay." Ye Rou noticed Aunt Wu's change and said with a smile, "Aunt Wu, you have been working here for many years, right?"
"Of course not." Aunt Wu picked out another bad red mushroom. "I've been here since Miss Ji Yan got married. It's been 1958, so many years."
"Oh." Ye Rou lowered her eyes and said with some sadness: "I thought you had seen my mother."
When Aunt Wu heard this, she immediately softened her heart.
"I'm sorry, Miss Ye, I wasn't here when your mother was here, but..."
Ye Rou's eyes lit up.
Aunt Wu said, "The last person who worked here should have seen your mother."
Ye Rou didn't expect that she would actually get something out of asking. She became interested and asked, "Do you know the previous helper?"
Aunt Wu shook her head. “I don’t know her, but I’ve seen her.”
She narrowed her eyes slightly and thought hard, "It was in 1958. I remember it very clearly. My wife had just been pregnant with Miss An Ning for two months. Just when she was being careful, a woman suddenly broke into the house and started making a fuss."
Ye Rou opened her eyes wide and asked in agreement, "Why is she making trouble?"
Aunt Wu: "He came to ask for money. It seems that he said that the money given by the madam was not enough."
"What happened next? Did that woman get the money?" Ye Rou asked.
Aunt Wu looked indignant. "My wife was pregnant at the time, and she was afraid the woman would go crazy, so she didn't argue with her. She gave her some money and drove her away."
Interest showed in Ye Rou's eyes.
interesting.
According to her understanding, Ji Yan is a domineering person and is least likely to be threatened. This woman can get money from Ji Yan, which means she must have something on Ji Yan.
Ye Rou didn't expect such a big surprise from just asking casually, so she quickly asked, "Aunt Wu, do you know the woman's name?"
Aunt Wu shook her head. "I don't remember, but Mrs. Ding next door should know. Their current aunt knew that woman. They seemed to be from the same hometown. I overheard when that woman was kicked out."
Mrs. Ding should be the Ding Shulan whom she met when she first came to the Liang family.
She remembered that Ding Shulan seemed to have a bad relationship with Ji Yan.
Ye Rou responded casually, but she had made up her mind to find time to meet Ding Shulan.
She said with some sadness: "Aunt Wu, old lady, does she dislike me?"
Aunt Wu hurriedly comforted her, "The old lady is a quiet person. She usually hides in her room to worship Buddha and rarely sees people."
Ye Rou nodded, "Aunt Wu, does the old lady have any favorite things or things she likes to do? I want to give her a gift."
"Miss Ye, you are so thoughtful." Aunt Wu thought for a moment, "The old lady doesn't seem to have any other hobbies except worshiping Buddha."
Ye Rou prompted: "If it's not a thing, then the old lady doesn't have any place she likes to go?"
"Oh! That's right!" Aunt Wu said, "How could I forget this? The old lady likes to go to the vegetable market."
"Wet market?" Ye Rou was bewildered. "There's a wet market in the military zone?"
"Yes, there's a small market near the small gate in the southwest. People often come to the gate with vegetables they grow themselves. The military district used to manage it, but the families of soldiers in the compound found it convenient and cheaper to buy vegetables there, so they kept it. It's been like that for many years."
Aunt Wu continued, "The old lady usually takes a small basket to the vegetable market to buy some fresh vegetables."
Ye Rou pretended to be confused and asked, "The old lady went to buy vegetables herself?"
Aunt Wu seemed to have been dissatisfied with this matter for a long time.
"Isn't it? I'm already so old, and the small market isn't close to here. It takes more than ten minutes to walk there. What if something happens on the way? I told you I'd go buy some vegetables, but the old lady wouldn't let me. She said the vegetables I bought weren't fresh."
Aunt Wu felt that the old lady just didn't trust her and was afraid that she would embezzle the money for buying vegetables, so she was deliberately on guard against her.
But I can't say this to Miss Ye, after all, we are family.
When Aunt Wu thought of this, her interest in chatting waned. She just said that the red mushrooms were enough and asked Ye Rou to leave the kitchen.
Ye Rou, however, reaped a lot of rewards.
The first thing: Ding Shulan’s aunt and the aunt who had served Zheng Lili before are from the same hometown.
The previous aunt was specially invited back by Liang Yushan to take care of the pregnant Zheng Lili.
Watching Zheng Lili being slandered, she must have been bribed by Ji Yan to know things she shouldn't know, which is why Ji Yan was threatened by her and gave her money to keep her mouth shut.
The second thing: Tian Zihui often goes to a small market to buy vegetables, and has never stopped over the years. There must be something fishy.
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Ye Rou's method of using internal force supplemented by acupuncture has shown initial success. The ten patients she initially treated have all seen results and their conditions have been alleviated a lot.
Secretary Du, seeing the effect, no longer hesitated and agreed to let Ye Rou use this method to give the old leader acupuncture.
But the old leader is in poor health, and it is unclear whether he can withstand the strong internal energy, so Ye Rou has to take care of the old leader's health at this stage.
She will be starting school the day after tomorrow and cannot stay in the hospital to watch over him, so I wrote a detailed nursing process for the old leader to recuperate.
She made time and specifically found the time when Ji Yan returned to her parents' home and knocked on the door of the house next door.
"Here they are, who is it?" Ding Shulan's voice was particularly loud.
When I opened the door, I was stunned to see a pretty girl standing at the door, whose beauty seemed to be glowing.
After realizing what was happening, Ding Shulan, who remembered Ye Rou's identity, became even more confused. "Ms. Ye, what are you doing?"
Ye Rou smiled and said, "I've moved back to the Liang family recently. My father told me to visit and meet the neighbors."
She handed over the malted milk and two bottles of white wine she had bought from the supply and marketing cooperative.
Ding Shulan took the gift and smiled.
"Miss Ye, you are so polite. Why would you bring a gift when you come?" She opened the door. "Please come in."
Ye Rou entered the yard.
Unlike the Liang family, this family has a particularly lively atmosphere. There are no flowers planted in the yard. The soil has been dug up and used to plant cabbage, potatoes, and peppers. There is also a grape rack under the corridor, and green plants are climbing all over the rack.
"Your yard is so beautiful." Ye Rou's compliment was sincere. Every corner of the small yard was used, without any waste, yet it didn't look messy. It was obvious that a lot of thought was put into it.
Ding Shulan immediately burst into laughter.
She is the one who cleaned up this yard. She came from the countryside and tinkered with these things when she had nothing to do in this yard.
But her neighbor on the left is Ji Yan, who prides himself on being elegant and looks down on her for carrying manure to grow vegetables in the yard.
The neighbor on the right is the Chi family, who just returned to Beijing. Meng Chunping is even more picky and can't appreciate her yard.
Ding Shulan finally met a kindred spirit, so she was in no hurry to go into the house. Instead, she stood in the yard and began to introduce him to Ye Rou.
The loud voice became louder and louder in excitement, and suddenly a window on the second floor was pushed open, and a round-faced, pale little girl poked her head out from inside.
"Mom, you're so noisy!"
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