Chapter 140 140 System: "Congratulations host, the heroine gave birth to you...
When Ding Dayong, Ding Tao and the Xiao sisters came in one after another, the whole yard was filled with fragrance.
Others had already seen the bread cellar in Ding Guo's house, but it was Xiao Ling's first time seeing it. She felt curious and intrigued, and kept circling around the bread cellar.
When Xiao Hong heard that Ding Guo also used this stove to bake bread, she couldn't imagine how it was used to bake bread, and she kept saying that she wanted to come and see Ding Guo making bread again someday.
Ding Guo agreed readily.
Others were not idle either, and they all worked together to prepare dinner. When they saw the food on the table, Xiao Ling smiled sheepishly and said, "Such a sumptuous meal is much more expensive than what we brought. You are at a big loss."
Both of them brought New Year gifts, including cakes, canned food, twisted dough sticks, and a piece of sugarcane.
Sugarcane is not a native product here and is quite rare.
Ding Guo was also familiar with Xiao Ling. He glared at her speechlessly. How could you settle accounts like this?
Ding Tao was trying to make fun of it. She pointed at herself and said, "Sister Xiao Ling, there's someone eating for free here."
Several people laughed and it was quite lively.
Everyone ate and talked. If Xiao Haifeng hadn't come to pick them up, they would probably not leave until nine o'clock.
Ding Guo felt embarrassed and asked Xiao Haifeng to come in. He said, "I was just about to ask Dayong to go home and tell them that they are not allowed to go back tonight..."
When she invited Uncle Xiao that day, she told him that if the dinner party was late, she and Dayong would send the guests back together, or simply stay overnight at her house, and she would ask Dayong to come and tell his family at that time.
Xiao Haifeng was helpless: "Why don't you go back? You don't have to make your brother go back and forth in the middle of the night. It's just right for me to take them back."
The Xiao sisters said goodbye to Ding Guo with a smile. Ding Guo asked Ding Tao to stay at home. Ding Tao shook her head and said, "Uncle and aunt don't know I'm here. I said I'm going to a colleague's house for dinner and will be back later."
She said, "I'd better go back to the family compound."
Ding Tao now knows how bad the relationship between Ding Guo and his family is. She is worried that if grandpa and aunt know that they have Ding Guo's address, they will arrange some messages to make her embarrassed, or ask her for the address and come to her house to cause trouble for Ding Guo.
Ding Guo had no choice but to ask Dayong to send Ding Tao back to the family quarters. He watched the person go upstairs and enter the door before turning back.
The next day, Ding Guo received a letter from Pei Che.
Although the content of the letter was implicit, it was still full of affection. Ding Guo thought that the letters exchanged in the army were all checked by someone. Pei Che was thick-skinned, and she would not play tricks with him, so she picked up some trivial matters in life and how she packed and arranged the things she received from him through others, and mailed it the next day.
After two days of leisure in the factory, we received a production task, and the pace immediately returned to that before the New Year and became busy again.
Before the Lantern Festival, Ding Jianguo went to ask Ding Guo if he would go home for the New Year.
Ding Guopi asked him with a half-smile: "Who asked you to come?"
Ding Jianguo hesitated for a while before he said awkwardly, "Xiaomei."
Ding Guo smiled and said, "I won't go back for the Lantern Festival, and you don't need to come to me to mend your relationship. You don't pray at ordinary times, but you come to me at the last minute. You only know how to hold back when your heart is cold. What have you been doing before? I will not interfere in the division of the family, and I will never interfere."
How did the elder sister know that Lu Xiaomei asked him to come over and call people during the Lantern Festival in order to get closer to Ding Guo?
Ding Jianguo blushed when he heard this and whispered, "I don't want to split up anymore. Xiaomei still feels a little uncomfortable. I'll try to persuade her slowly. I just want you to come back for dinner."
When Nianjun left last time, he talked to him alone and did not recommend him to split the family.
He has been married for less than a year and his family has just encountered some difficulties. How will outsiders view him if he wants to split up the family now?
"Brother, I know my sister-in-law is upset, and she wants to split up the family. If we really split up the family, next time she gets upset, will she want to split something with you?" Ding Nianjun's words echoed in Ding Jianguo's mind. "Your parents raised you up and gave you a family, but you haven't shown much filial piety. When something happened at home, you want to split up the family. You are our eldest son and our eldest brother. Are you setting an example for us like this?"
Ding Jianguo was so upset by these words that he wished he could find a hole to crawl into. He felt that he was really confused.
Jianshe was just demoted, not sentenced to death and can't come back. How could Jianshe know what he was thinking of him?
Jianshe was just impulsive and cheated him out of a bicycle. Could it be that the friendship between brothers is not as strong as a bicycle?
When Xiaomei mentioned the issue of dividing the family again, he had a quarrel with Lu Xiaomei and expressed his attitude. If the family were not to be divided, he would take on the responsibilities of the eldest son and elder brother and help his parents raise his younger brothers and sisters.
Lu Xiaomei was naturally very angry. The couple had been at odds for several days, and their relationship had only eased slightly in the past two days. Lu Xiaomei asked him to call Ding Guo home to celebrate the Lantern Festival, and sarcastically said, "Don't you have to take on the responsibility of being the eldest son? A harmonious family is also a responsibility. You should get this done first."
Let him persuade Ding Guo to get closer to his family so that he will have someone to discuss things with in the future.
Ding Jianguo had no face with Ding Guo, so he returned empty-handed.
He left dejectedly, and his name appeared in Ding Guo's backstage the next moment.
That night, Lu Xiaomei's name was added, and the couple was very happy.
After the Lantern Festival, a late spring cold snap arrived.
Ding Dayong and his convoy are heading to the Northeast again, but this time the mission is not urgent and they have two or three days to prepare.
The brother and sister were busy toasting dry bread, making steamed corn bread, stir-frying some pickled vegetables with shredded pork and chili peppers, frying some salted fish, and buying a dozen salted duck eggs from the system mall and stuffing them into Ding Dayong's bag.
Ding Guo fried some meat floss and steamed a big pot of rice. After the rice cooled down, he added the meat floss and chopped salted fish and made some rice balls.
"Bread and steamed bread have a long shelf life, but rice balls have a short shelf life. Eat the rice balls first and make sure they don't go bad."
It was Ding Dayong’s first time to eat meat floss. He ate two large rice balls before stopping, still unsatisfied, and nodded repeatedly.
He conservatively estimated that this trip would take about a month and a half, and was worried that Ding Guo would be bored at home. Ding Guo laughed and said, "There is a radio, and Ding Tao and Xiao Hong are here. As for you, your arm is fine, so don't be stubborn if something happens. Don't be reckless like last time. You must pay attention to safety."
Ding Dayong waved his arms and said with a smile: "Don't worry, sister, my arms have recovered very well, and I have been exercising a lot during this period."
Now that his arm no longer hurt, he had been practicing the military boxing taught by Pei Che.
He also remembered the experience and coping methods Pei Che taught him last time about long-distance running.
This time when he came back from his hometown, he also brought a jujube wood stick about one meter long, in case of special situations on the road.
Ding Guo knew that Ding Dayong's arm must have fully recovered. She had given him a lot of well water to drink during this period, but well water was not as good as the water in the teacup now. She pushed the teacup over and said, "It's easy to get angry in the spring, so I made some honeysuckle."
Hopefully the scent of the honeysuckle will cover up the smell of the strength-enhancing pills she put in there.
She spent a lot of time arguing with the system and exchanged the strength-enhancing pills for 30,000 internal consumption points.
She didn't dare to use it all on Ding Dayong. She pinched out a little bit the size of a rice grain and dissolved it into the honeysuckle tea to see how Ding Dayong's strength increased. She kept the rest in the space and would give some to Pei Che next time.
Ding Dayong suspiciously wrapped the cotton jacket he had not taken off yet, with a confused look on his face.
How can I get a fever in such a cold day?
But he still took the teacup and drank it, frowning.
He didn't like the taste of honeysuckle, but he drank it all in one gulp. He gave Ding Guo a few words of advice, asking her to be careful at home, checked the places on his body where money was sewn, hung two military canteens full of water on his shoulders, put on his shoulder bag, picked up his briefcase, and strode away.
This wave of late spring cold has ended, and I received a package from the northwest.
Sent by Shao Xunping.
In addition to local specialties, there is also a thick blanket. The wool is a bit prickly. If it is spread on the bed, another layer of sheets should be put on it. But Ding Guo knows that this blanket is very warm and cannot be used now. It can be used in winter.
She began to rack her brains to think of a way to return the gift to Aunt Shao.
I fried some dried fruits myself, and thinking that the meat floss that Dayong had fried before he went on a business trip tasted good, I fried some more, put them in cans, and packaged them together with the dried mushrooms, vermicelli and other things that Ding Dayong had bought when he was on a business trip a few years ago, and sent them out.
He also sent some dried fruits and meat floss to Pei Che.
Ding Guo's days were very fulfilling. In addition to work, he would go to various scrap collection stations during his breaks to find some textbooks and books. When he came back, he would read in his space. He would occasionally bake some bread and biscuits, and even made a cake that didn't need to be baked.
Sort of like a sponge cake.
It was the rice cooker cake that was very popular before she transmigrated into the book. She had learned how to make it before, but now she didn't have a rice cooker, so she used the small aluminum pot at home. She failed several times in a row, and Ding Guo felt like vomiting after eating the 'waste'. The last time it was perfectly formed, she cut a small piece and tasted it, nodded with satisfaction, and put it into the space to eat it again in a few days.
There has been some unrest in the Ding family recently.
Yue Hongmei took on a lot of matchbox pasting jobs from the matchbox factory and took her family with her to make matchboxes, working until midnight every night.
Lu Xiaomei was pregnant, and was also unhappy about not being able to successfully divide the family property. So she started complaining about feeling uncomfortable half an hour after finishing her meal. She ignored her mother-in-law's dissatisfied look and got up and left.
Ding Jianguo had no choice but to continue helping his mother make matchboxes.
Ding Zhigang was impatient to do these things. After only two days, he made the excuse that his eyesight was not good and went back to his room to sleep after a while.
Ding Xiang and Ding Jiandang used to finish their homework early, but after they started pasting matchboxes, the time it took to complete their homework became longer. They either procrastinated and could not finish it, or avoided it by making excuses such as memorizing.
Ding Tao knew that her family was in financial difficulty, so she refused to pay her salary and ate and drank at home. When the old lady suggested that she make matchboxes to improve the family's meals, she felt embarrassed to refuse. But after a week, she could not bear it any longer and took the initiative to reduce her "overtime" time. At ten o'clock, no matter whether Yue Hongmei was happy or not, she would "get off work" on time and go back to her room to sleep.
After the first batch of matchbox income was settled, Ding Tao did not see her share of the income. At the same time, she found that the family's food had not improved. She asked Ding Zhigang about it in front of her without hesitation. Ding Zhigang looked very unhappy, and Yue Hongmei's face was also gloomy. She said, "Sister Nianjun and your sister-in-law are going to give birth in a few months. Shouldn't the family save some money?"
Ding Tao just quit the job.
What does Ding Nianjun giving birth to a child have to do with her?
My cousin’s wife gives half of her salary to her family, keeps the other half for herself, and never gives the other half to her.
It's not that she didn't give any subsidy to her family. Although she didn't pay any salary, her parents sent food here before the New Year. After the New Year, Ding Dayong brought her some food. Although she kept half of it in the factory, if she ate the food she brought back, it would be enough for her to eat for one or two months.
Not to mention the food that my parents mailed to my uncle's house in previous years, but there was no return at all.
Besides, keeping her in the city this time was her aunt's compensation for the trouble she had caused to her family, so it was natural for her to have food and lodging.
Since the old lady had lied to her and hadn't used the income from making matchboxes to improve the family's living standards, and she had also indulged the youngest sons in laziness, not to mention being a hands-off boss, why should she stay up late with them?
Yue Hongmei was extremely angry.
Ding Guo was somewhat happy and depressed. She was happy because Yue Hongmei was like a madman, concentrating on her backstage to increase her income from time to time. She was depressed because she hadn't provoked her recently, so why was she so resentful?
Then he unfolded the letter and package sent by Yu Shaofen.
Yu Shaofen sent her two pieces of new fabric produced by the Capital Textile Factory so that she could make some spring clothes. She also sent her several tin boxes of canned meat and specifically told Ding Guo to just write back to tell her about his recent situation and not to return the gift.
She sent things to Ding Guo because she wanted to. If it had to be a back and forth exchange of gifts every time, it would have been better for each of them to keep their own money.
Ding Guo found it funny but didn't buy anything else. She had been stir-frying pork floss quite often recently. It was delicious whether eaten with steamed buns, rice, or on homemade bread. So she packed two cans of the freshly fried pork floss and sent them over to Yu Shaofen for her to try.
Yu Shaofen did not mention Ding Nianjun in her letter. I don’t know whether she didn’t want to mention it or Ding Nianjun no longer insisted on recognizing her biological mother.
Ding Guo didn't ask when he replied.
Ding Dayong came back from a business trip and was so tired that he slept for two days at home before he recovered.
Ding Guo sorted out the things he bought this time, put a few ginsengs into the space, as well as a wide variety of dried mushrooms, fungus, pine nuts, and also brought back a batch of food. Ding Dayong asked for 100 kilograms of rice.
After he rested, when the brother and sister were having dinner together, Ding Dayong whispered, "Master Zheng from the other car got a tiger skin this time, and my master is jealous."
He was also very jealous.
But even if he really encountered one, he would feel embarrassed to accept it because his master was around.
Ding Dayong hopes to be able to work on his own and has set a goal for himself: "I have now officially entered the learning period. My master said that he will get me a learning permit in the next few days. I will strive to complete the internship by the end of this year and officially enter the internship period next year!"
Ding Guo knew before that it was not easy to get a driver's license in this era. After Dayong joined the transport team, she realized that it was even more difficult than she imagined.
It takes about a year to learn and practice for a few months, and this is based on the premise that you pass the test. If you fail, you have to wait another year. If you pass, you can get a learner's license. After getting a learner's license, there is still a one-year internship period. You can get a formal driver's license after the internship period.
If everything goes well, it will take about two years in total.
During this period, the master's guidance is crucial.
And whether you can pass the internship period depends mainly on your master.
Ding Guo baked a few loaves of bread, fried some meat floss, and asked Ding Dayong to bring them to his master when he went to work.
"Although you have saved your master, you can't always rely on this favor. You still need to show your filial piety to him."
Ding Dayong was aware of this point. He served his master in the same way as other disciples did, and never took advantage of the small relationship to put on airs.
Ding Dayong went on two or three long missions, and it was the Dragon Boat Festival in May.
When Ding Guo was thinking about what flavor of rice dumplings to make, she received a house sent by the system.
System: "Congratulations host, the hostess has given birth to a small courtyard for you."
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