Chapter 110110 Looking for Auntie
After watching Ding Nianjun and the others disappear into an alley, Ding Guo brought Ding Tao out again and pushed the cart towards home.
On the other side, Qian Youde looked as if he had lost his parents.
How could he be so unlucky that there turned out to be two scoundrels among the pigs he raised?
Unfortunately, something went wrong with Brother Yu, and the original plan to leave was shelved: the package was really lost.
Brother Yu said that there was more than just the money and goods in the bag.
At that time, for convenience, Yu Ge packed all his belongings and money together, and the big yellow croaker he had caught before, but they were lost, all lost. Damn, this year was wasted.
Listening to Ding Nianjun's words, which were openly reasonable but secretly sarcastic and suspected that he had betrayed them, Qian Youde himself began to wonder if he had also run into a game within a game.
They planned a conspiracy and slaughtered the fattened pigs. Am I also a fat pig in Yu Ge's place?
But it doesn't make sense. Brother Yu didn't run away. He stayed in Fengning and tried to get his things back.
"Brother Youde, we really don't blame you, but my parents are driving me crazy. You know a lot of people in the underworld, see if you can find out who took the things. What if it's really a flood that washed away the Dragon King Temple, and we are brothers in the same underworld?" Ding Nianjun cried pitifully, "Look, I'm still pregnant..."
Qian Youde became impatient after hearing the monk's chanting. He turned around and said to Zhao Jinbao with a cold face, "Jinbao, this is not the first time we have cooperated. When has your brother ever cheated you? It's impossible that I was your virtuous brother when you followed me to make money, but now I have no virtue. You got this woman here to nag and talk nonsense. Who are you talking to? You are also doing this, and you have been chased away like a grandson more than once, right? Don't you know how risky this business is?"
He raised his hand in the air, looking like a man who had to admit his bad luck: "Okay, it's bad luck for me to know you, let's keep out of each other's way from now on, see you later!"
Just when he didn't know how to perfectly get rid of this deflated pig without letting them know that it was just their own pig, this stupid woman built the ladder for him.
Qian Youde turned and left, but Zhao Jinbao panicked and quickly stepped forward to hold him back, apologizing repeatedly: "Brother, Brother Youde, don't be angry, don't be angry, Nianjun didn't mean that. I know this was an accident, but Nianjun...well, women are very cunning, and she's pregnant. She also invested such a large sum of money all at once. Half of the money was from her mother-in-law, and the other half was given by her mother. It's all gone down the drain. Who wouldn't be panicked? Don't mind..."
Qian Youde ignored his nagging and went down the ladder, and there was no way he could go up again.
If he missed this opportunity, who knows if there will be another idiot to give him a ladder next time. He turned away Zhao Jinbao with a cold face and strode forward.
Zhao Jinbao turned around and winked at Ding Nianjun, saying in a low voice: "Maybe we are overthinking it. Let's go apologize to Brother Youde. From now on..."
Ding Nianjun didn't think she was wrong. She felt uneasy on the day of the transaction. At that time, she thought it was caused by the pressure of the large transaction. Now the more she thinks about it, the more she feels that there must be something fishy. She said: "Why should I apologize? What did I do wrong? I just think that Brother Youde knows a lot of people in the underworld, so I asked Brother Youde to help us find out. After all, it's such a large sum of money..."
"Oh, stop talking. Can I call you ancestor?" Zhao Jinbao was still thinking about the cigarettes at the end of the year. If Ding Nianjun suspected the wrong person and offended Qian Youde, he would not be able to make money at the end of the year.
Zhao Jinbao dragged Ding Nianjun to follow him and shamelessly tried to get close to Qian Youde.
Qian Youde: Damn, are these two pigs like dog-skin plasters? I can't get rid of them.
In the end, they got rid of them. Not only that, they also sent Zhao Jinbao and Ding Nianjun to the police station.
The process was like this. Qian Youde saw that he was unable to shake off the two men and happened to see a few bicycles parked in front of the state-owned hotel. He strode over, took out a tool from somewhere, went forward, tinkered with it a few times, unlocked the bicycle, and rode away.
He ran away, but the people chasing him from the state-owned restaurant next door wouldn't let him go.
The unlucky uncle glanced inadvertently outside while eating inside, and saw Zhao Jinbao and the other two talking. He lowered his head to drink a few mouthfuls of porridge, and when he looked up again, he saw a person standing next to his bike. Before he could react, the other person rode away on his bike. He felt something was wrong, so he chased after him without even putting down the bowl of porridge he was holding.
"Car thief, you will die!"
Since they couldn't catch up with the one who ran away, they naturally couldn't let go of Zhao Jinbao and Ding Nianjun who were standing there in a daze and hadn't reacted yet.
The uncle who lost his bike sneered and pointed at the three bicycles next to him: "Oh, there are too many bikes to choose from. It delayed your escape, right?"
The waitress from the state-owned restaurant also chased out. She was after the bowl. She snatched the bowl from the man's hand, rolled her eyes and went back into the house.
Zhao Jinbao and Ding Nianjun reacted and hurried to explain, but it would be strange if people listened to them and shouted in the street. Three or five enthusiastic people came out of the restaurant and surrounded Zhao Jinbao and Ding Nianjun and sent them to the police station.
In Zaohua Lane, Ding Tao watched Shi Guanghui and his team working on the construction. Ding Dayong, who was also resting at home, waved his uninjured arm to help Shi Guanghui and his team and learn from them. Even though he didn't learn the key things, he was able to gain some knowledge.
Ding Tao couldn't help but sigh as she watched: "Dayong is really hardworking."
He was also famous for his diligence in the village. He used to throw his schoolbag away after school every day and go to the fields to take over from his third aunt. He swung the hoe vigorously. The old people in the village said that he was better at working in the fields than a mule.
Ding Guo agrees: "He is not only diligent, but also loves to study. However, he is very biased in his studies. He cannot concentrate on the formal textbooks, but is very studious when reading books on car repair."
During this period, Ding Guo was familiarizing herself with the textbooks of this era. She wanted to teach Dayong. Knowing that Dayong was not a good student, she thought of teaching him slowly from now on, hoping that he could get into a university after the college entrance examination was resumed, which would bring honor to the family and ancestors. However, this guy would fall asleep after reading only two pages, or when Ding Guo glanced at him, he would secretly start reading books on repair and the like, and he was obsessed with them.
Ding Tao didn't understand what the construction workers were doing, so she went over to ask Shi Guanghui and the others. Shi Guanghui casually said, "Build a big furnace."
Ding Tao didn't understand why it took so much effort to build a furnace, and why so many workers were involved.
Her father also knew how to build a stove. He would put a pot on the ground and cover the outside with a layer of yellow mud mixed with wheat straw. When it was set, he would turn the stove over, take out the pot inside, and then randomly assemble a few legs on it. After it dried, he would stand it up and use it to make fire and cook.
After looking at it for a while, she began to understand. You could tell from the base of this stove that it was larger than an ordinary stove, but she couldn't find such a large pot to help shape it, so it would be difficult for one person to do it.
She turned around and asked Ding Guo: "Sister, what are you cooking on such a big stove? How big a pot must be to sit on it!"
The chassis of the bread kiln had just been formed. Ding Tao had never seen the drawings and did not know the complete structure.
Ding Guo explained to her: "This is a furnace specially used for baking. I work in a food factory, and I also like to research bread and desserts. If I have any inspiration, I will try it at home."
Ding Tao's simple eyes were filled with confusion: "Is it so hard to work in a food factory?"
Her job at the paper mill was the best; she didn't have to study anything after work.
Ding Dayong said, "You may not know this, but several types of bread on the market were invented by our sister. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the new mooncakes she developed were so popular that we couldn't even keep them in stock."
The worker working nearby turned his head suddenly and asked: "This year, the food factory has newly released egg yolk mooncakes, and those mooncakes with flowing fillings?"
Ding Dayong nodded proudly: "My sister invented it and won an invention award from the factory."
Ding Tao opened her mouth in surprise.
Shi Guanghui smiled and said, "Oh, Comrade Xiao Ding, you are a capable person. This year, our family bought the new mooncakes from the food factory. The elderly and children in the family can't get enough of them. Especially my mother, in previous years, she would feel sick after eating half a piece of mooncake, but this year, for the first time, she still missed the last bite after finishing it."
Ding Guo smiled sheepishly and said, "As long as you like it. The supply and marketing cooperative has also launched other new products, such as biscuits, butterfly cakes, walnut and date cakes, etc. We developed them after attending an exchange meeting some time ago, and they are all delicious."
A worker said hurriedly: "My wife has bought butterfly cakes and date cakes. They are delicious, but they are often out of stock."
Everyone was talking about the grand event of grabbing mooncakes during this year's Mid-Autumn Festival.
Ding Tao was confused at first, but later she gradually understood that not only had Ding Guo's personality changed, but he was now a very capable person.
But why was such a capable person sent to the countryside by the old men and women?
It can be seen that capable people are not always smart, there are times when they are stupid.
Ding Tao helped with the work for a whole day.
Ding Guo didn't let her go when taking out the garbage.
Dayong wanted to help, but Ding Guo refused.
Ding Dayong whispered: "Sister, what if..."
Ding Guo said sternly, "It's okay. We have nothing to hide. If we hide it, it will make us look guilty. You don't have to be so nervous. I didn't do anything to that guy. He can't go back and cause trouble for everyone he saw on the way, right? Besides, you are not as good as me."
Ding Dayong: …
I haven't seen his sister boxing for a few days, and I forgot that she is a kung fu practitioner.
Ding Guo went out several times and didn't find anything unusual.
Just because there is nothing unusual today doesn't mean there won't be trouble in the future. With so many things, that person will definitely not give up. Maybe the situation outside is tense and the other party doesn't dare to come over for the time being.
At noon, Ding Guo made a big pot of stewed cabbage and put slices of pork belly and tofu into it. In addition to the three siblings, as usual, a lunch box was given to each person who worked.
Shi Guanghui felt a little guilty when looking at the big piece of meat in the lunch box. When Ding Dayong came to help him in the afternoon, he told him some knowledge about setting up a kang.
He had long noticed that the boy was trying to learn their skills. Before, when the kang was not finished, he would come back from get off work and eagerly come over to them, with one arm hanging down to help with this and that, but his ears were perked up and his eyes would glance over from time to time to observe. Today was the same, he was busy while staring at them while they worked.
However, he knew that Ding Dayong had a formal job and would not quit his job just to compete with him for this job. Since the young man was curious, he told him more.
Anyway, you can't learn how to build a kang just by listening. If you haven't practiced it seriously, cracked a few kangs, and reworked them a few times, you will never learn it.
It won't hurt to teach him a little.
In the afternoon, Ding Tao excitedly returned to the steel plant's staff quarters with a bag of snacks.
"Huh? No one?"
Where is her aunt who has been idle at home and has a gloomy face these days?
Have you gone grocery shopping?
When Ding Xiang and Ding Jiandang came back from school, her aunt had not returned either.
"Where is my mother?" Ding Xiang stared at Ding Tao and asked.
After so many days, she still didn't like this country bumpkin. Even though they slept in the same bed, there was always tension between them.
Ding Tao rolled her eyes and said, "How would I know? Maybe the family lost all their money and they can't afford to eat, so they went out to pick up rotten vegetable leaves."
This was not her way of slandering her own aunt. Yue Hongmei hated her for coming to compete with them for food rations. She often threw things and fought in front of her, saying that there were so many mouths to feed at home and they were almost out of food and couldn't afford to buy vegetables. Maybe one day they would have to go out to pick up rotten vegetable leaves to eat.
Ding Xiang was angry. She glared at her and told Ding Jiandang to do his homework.
Ding Tao went around the kitchen. All the good things were locked up inside, with only a few steamed buns placed outside. There was no room for her to do anything. She took a steamed bun and went back to the bedroom, ate it, and ate some snacks, and continued to wait.
Another hour passed, and her dear grandpa and aunt and several cousins had not returned. Ding Xiang and Ding Jiandang were a little panicked.
Ding Tao had a feeling that something was wrong, so she opened the door and asked, "Could it be that Master or Ding Jianshe is in the hospital again?"
Ding Xiang felt that Ding Tao was mocking someone, but she had no evidence. However, it was already late and the adults were not home yet. She was a little panicked and didn't care whether Ding Tao was pleased or not. She asked, "Let's go to the hospital?"
Ding Tao sighed: "You two stay at home, I'll go check. I'll go to Brother Jianguo's house first, maybe they are there. If there's no one there, then someone must be in the hospital again."
She turned around and went back to the house to put on a coat. As she walked out, she muttered, "You city people are so fragile. I came to a city as big as Fengning, but I haven't been to the so-called parks, I haven't visited many of your department stores, and I haven't even been to the movie theaters that are only available in the city. Yet I went to visit a hospital."
Dingxiang left mumbling, her face stiff with anger, but she couldn't refute.
In the past six months, the frequency with which my family members have gone to the hospital has indeed become ridiculously high. What kind of family is it that has to be hospitalized from time to time?
Ding Tao first went to Ding Jiandang's place, but the door was locked. Then she turned around and went to the hospital that the Ding family often visited to ask the nurse.
The nurse asked her what diseases her family members had. She didn't know who in Old Ding's family had what diseases or injuries, so she asked tentatively, "Did anyone break their tailbone?"
Nurse:……
Ding Tao suddenly had an idea. She didn't mean to curse anyone, but she was really worried. There were two pregnant women at home, so she asked, "Is there anyone with the surname Ding who can help with the pregnancy? Or anyone with the surname Lu who can help with the pregnancy?"
Nurse: "...Comrade, are you here to cause trouble?"
After being scolded several times in the hospital, she still couldn't find the suspected case of Old Ding's family that she could think of. After coming out, she hurried back to the family quarters in the cold wind, pushed the door open, and met two little faces full of expectations.
Ding Tao: "Are they back?"
Ding Xiang: "Have you found my mom and the others?"
The cousins, who had been looking at each other coldly, spoke at the same time and then shook their heads at the same time.
The half-mute Ding Jiandang next to him muttered, "Where on earth did they go?"
Ding Tao poured herself half a cup of water and drank it all up, saying, "Did you ask the neighbors?"
Ding Xiang said: "I just asked, and they said that my dad came back in a hurry in the afternoon and took my mom out. I don't know where they went."
Ding Tao thought of Ding Nianjun whom she met during the day and took a deep breath: Could it be that Ding Nianjun was arrested for speculation?
"I know where to find them!"
The fifth and sixth children looked over hopefully and asked, "Where are we going?"
Ding Tao said with certainty: "Prison!"
"Ding Tao!" Ding Xiang's face turned red with anger and she shouted sharply.
"You're talking nonsense!" Ding Jiandang was so angry that he clenched his fists and said angrily.
Ding Tao rolled her eyes: "Didn't your brother just yell at the dinner table yesterday that he wanted to engage in speculation? He is also impatient. He said yesterday that he would do it today. He speculated in the morning and was suppressed in the afternoon. Was I wrong?"
After successfully making the fifth and sixth children cry, Ding Tao went out again in the cold wind: "This family can't live without me!"
He went out with great confidence, but suddenly became scared when he arrived at the door of the nearest police station.
She would rather walk in the dark for an hour to Zaohua Lane to find Ding Guo than go into the brightly lit police station ahead.
Is this a place for good people to come in?
The idea of going to Zaohua Lane was just a thought. She didn't dare to walk in the dark for an hour, nor did she dare to go to the police station to inquire. Finally, she slipped back to the steel plant's staff quarters in a cowardly manner. Just wait, there are several people in the family, and they will definitely come back one day. She can't let them all be wiped out.
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