Chapter 191191 Ding Guo is called "her Zhigang" by Aunt San
"Your mother's calculations are all out in the open. She doesn't hide them. If her calculations fail, she will feel that she has suffered a great loss, and she will bear a grudge against you. She looks down on whoever she looks down on, and she doesn't hide it from us. She is openly arrogant. The girl your father is looking for now looks gentle and speaks softly, as if she has no temper, but she is better at controlling people than your mother. If the two of them get together, your mother will definitely not be able to beat her!"
Ding Guo was very interested. He wrapped himself in a quilt and moved closer to his aunt, listening attentively.
"Your dad brought her back to his hometown to host a wedding banquet. If she didn't want to help, we wouldn't say anything. It was her first time back home, and no matter how ignorant we were, we couldn't let her do the work, right? If she didn't want to do it, she shouldn't have helped. But she insisted on helping in the kitchen, walked into the kitchen, stood there and took a look, then turned around and pinched her voice and called your dad in a pretentious tone..."
Peng Guihua pinched her throat and imitated Zheng Wenfang's tone and said, "Zhigang - come and see how to light a fire in this stove. I have never used this stove before, can you teach me?"
"I was just cutting vegetables nearby. I'm not deaf or dumb, I can hear and speak. You said she ignored me, a grown man, and called your dad out of the house to teach her how to make a fire. I didn't force her to make a fire for me. I even told her to stop getting involved and go to the house to rest. She didn't move, but just yelled!" Peng Guihua said unhappily, "It's not like there aren't any earthen stoves like this in the city. I don't believe she's never used one. If you haven't used one, have you seen one? Anyway, it's even more unbearable than the airs your mom puts on... I feel itchy all over when I see her like that."
Peng Guihua spread her hands, "I was embarrassed by her attitude. Your father must think that I ignored her or didn't teach her. I quickly said, 'Sister-in-law, don't bother. Go back to your room and rest. I'll do it later.' But she didn't hear me and didn't respond. She just stood there looking at your father, waiting for him to teach her."
Peng Guihua shuddered as she spoke, "At that time, I thought... should I leave?"
Ding Guo covered himself with the quilt and laughed so hard that his body shattered.
Peng Guihua sighed and continued, "I quickly stopped them and chased them to sit inside to drink tea and eat melon seeds. Your dad is also a man who can't tell what he is doing. He kept saying, 'Let your sister-in-law help you.' What can she do to help me? I wanted her to beat me up! She kept calling your dad, just like a baby who can't leave his mother."
"She didn't completely ignore me. She talked to me, asking about Dalin and his family, how much crops the village harvested each year, and about your grandparents' past... As she was talking, she turned her head away and said 'Zhigang—'. Later, whenever I heard her call me 'Zhigang', my scalp would go numb."
Peng Guihua shook her head: "Believe me, this guy is definitely just good at talking."
Ding Guo: “Hahahaha.”
Peng Guihua didn't know what she was thinking of, and couldn't help laughing: "Hey, but she's really good at talking! Doesn't your second aunt dislike cleaning the house? The house is always so messy that you can't even step foot in it. When your dad returned to his hometown with his new wife, he had to visit her, right? But he didn't stay at your second aunt's house for long and came back. I thought your second uncle and second aunt were not at home, and they just put their things down and came back. So I asked your dad, 'His second uncle is not at home?'"
"Before your father could say anything, his wife said softly, 'Everyone is at home. We went at a bad time. Your sister-in-law might be cleaning the house. It was a mess. I didn't want to delay her work, so we came back.'"
"I didn't think much of it at the time. When I saw your second aunt, I asked her why she cleaned up the house before the New Year. Your second aunt said, 'I didn't clean up the house?'" Peng Guihua laughed twice and then said, "Only then did I realize that people disliked your second aunt's house because it was messy, but they couldn't say it directly, so they gave your second aunt a nickname, hahahahaha."
Ding Guo also laughed.
Peng Guihua continued to chatter: "You don't know, those two are quite clingy. When she bit a bone while eating, she had to turn her head to tell your dad that she had hurt her teeth. What? She even had to ask her Zhigang to blow on her teeth?" Speaking of these things, Peng Guihua was speechless and amused, and her laughter trembled, "Even when she eats steamed buns, she has to stick to it. She used her arm to nudge your dad and said, 'The steamed buns steamed by his third aunt are chewier than mine, right? His third aunt has strong arms and kneads the dough well. When we go back to steam buns, you can help me knead the dough and we can steam them together.'"
"You just need to speak properly, but you have to lean your head closer, and you even want to put your chin on your father's shoulder. What's the matter? Her Zhigang is hard of hearing!"
Ding Guo: “Hahahaha!”
Peng Guihua couldn't help but sigh helplessly: "Although they are both half-buried in the ground, maybe they are newly married and have a good relationship. But no matter how good your relationship is, you, as an elder, can't do these weird things in front of the children."
"After treating them to a meal, I wanted to chase them away immediately. They were so annoying!" Peng Guihua gritted her teeth, "But I couldn't really chase them away. It was so cold, and there were several educated youth living in the old house. They didn't have time to come out. They didn't want to go to your second uncle's house. After serving them food, I had to take care of their accommodation. Seeing how clingy she was, I was afraid to hear her calling 'Zhigang' again at night. I quickly sent Dalin and Dazhu to live with your second uncle."
Ding Guo continued: "Hahahaha..."
"Your dad might as well not bring her back to his hometown to hold the wedding. Instead, I have to suffer the consequences." Peng Guihua's tone was full of helplessness.
Ding Zhigang gave the money and tickets for the formal wedding banquet, but it was not a big one, with only their three families, two village cadres, and two elders within the fifth degree of mourning attending.
But Peng Guihua was exhausted. She was busy all by herself. Huang Meihua's cooking skills were not good, and the hygiene was not good. The new sister-in-law looked at her with disgust and quietly ran to Peng Guihua to clap crickets. Huang Meihua did not say that she disliked it. She used the guests as an excuse and said to Peng Guihua: "Third sister-in-law, if it was just our family eating, we wouldn't care about these things. Today we have invited guests. Don't let his second aunt touch the food later. His second aunt..."
Then he gave Peng Guihua a look that said "you know what I mean" and continued, "You are different, Third sister-in-law. Many city people don't keep themselves as clean as you do. Really, I was surprised when I walked in yesterday. I thought to myself, this is nothing like the country people I heard them talk about. The house is too clean, and the two children keep themselves tidy too."
With her left hand, she flattered the second wife, and with her right hand, she flattered the third wife. She had figured out the strategy of sowing discord.
Peng Guihua: "But I think your father is quite receptive to this. Won't he be very strict with you in the future? Just wait and see! Your two little ones will have a hard time living under the care of this stepmother. By the way, you know how she takes care of the two sons, right?"
Ding Guo said with a smile: "I know, but I haven't seen it."
Peng Guihua: "You didn't follow me back home, so I casually asked her how old her two children were, what grade they were in, and why she didn't bring them back to play. I asked her such a polite question, and you should have just said, 'The children are in school and I don't have time.' Guess what she said?"
Peng Guihua didn't really let Ding Guo guess. She said directly, "The two kids lost a fight with Ding Jiandang and ran away to their grandmother's house in anger. ... Is she responding to my polite words or is she talking to someone else?"
"I said a few more polite words, saying that they were all teenagers and it was normal for them to fight. Then she said, 'My two boys are immature. If they don't behave, I will send them back home. Please help me take care of them, sister-in-law.' Then she turned around and shouted, 'Zhigang, you can't stop them when the time comes. Don't protect them just for my sake. You have to take care of them.'"
Peng Guihua nudged Ding Guo with her elbow: "Do you see what she's thinking?"
"We won't send them back home, but just wait and see. In two years, Dingxiang and Jiandang will be old enough, and neither of them can stay. We'll all be sent to the countryside." Peng Guihua snorted, "Your father is a confused person to begin with, and he'll confuse others even more this time!"
"She even asked me about you, asking me why you didn't go home and didn't want to get close to your father. She also said something like 'a daughter is a parent's sweet cotton-padded jacket, and I regretted not having a daughter. But now God has opened his eyes and given me two cotton-padded jackets at once', saying that you and Dingxiang are her sweet cotton-padded jackets!... I got goose bumps all over my body when I heard that!"
"She is so attached to Zhigang, I don't believe she doesn't know about the conflict between you and your family. She is talking to me, so that I can see her attitude and persuade you to get back together with your family. Oh, she is pure-hearted."
Ding Guo was so amused by Auntie's constant calling him "her Zhigang" that he was shaking with laughter while hugging the quilt.
Peng Guihua also laughed, and finally waved her hands in the dark night, saying: "I am now hoping that they will not come back to celebrate the New Year this year. I really want to thank her eight generations of ancestors!"
Ding Guo: “Hahahaha!”
Peng Guihua said unhappily: "You are still so silly and happy, you sweet little cotton-padded jacket."
Ding Guo: “Hahahaha!”
After talking about Ding Zhigang and his wife, the mother and daughter were happy, and Peng Guihua talked about going to the Song family: "I thought about coming here, and I have to meet my in-laws anyway. Dayong will come the day after tomorrow, and then we will go to the Song family. It's not a marriage proposal. The two children are not old, so there is no rush to get married. It depends on their wishes."
"I'll take a day off the day after tomorrow and go over there to play with you guys," said Ding Guo.
Peng Guihua did not refuse. She was a little scared of meeting her future in-laws.
Although I have met my future father-in-law before.
But the difference is that last time it was Song Yuling's father who helped the Pei family to propose marriage, and this time it is her son who is going to marry the daughter.
It feels different to be the man's parents and the woman's parents.
But I can't avoid meeting my in-laws just because I'm scared, so I have to go there anyway.
This kind of fear also affects the Pei family. Peng Guihua discussed with Ding Guo: "Your uncle and I are relieved to know that you are doing well. We will prepare to go back after visiting the Song family the day after tomorrow. Don't alarm your grandfather."
The old man holds a higher position.
Although he was very kind, they still felt uncomfortable in the presence of the old man.
Although it was a bit impolite not to meet the elders of the Pei family out of courtesy, compared with this, Peng Guihua felt that it was even more impolite to waste the old man's time and ask him to specially receive them.
Ding Guo said with a smile: "It's okay not to alarm you, but you guys have finally come here, why are you in such a hurry to go back? Stay a few more days and I'll take you out for a walk."
"Are you okay? It's so cold, and you're taking us shopping with a big belly?" Peng Guihua said angrily, "We'll come back later. You're here, and Dayong's father-in-law lives here. We'll have to come back later."
But unexpectedly, it happened to be such a coincidence. The next morning, when they were having dinner, the old man asked Xiao He to deliver two hairtails and a leg of lamb. It happened to meet Peng Guihua, who went back and told the old man about it.
So, Ding Guo's plan for hotpot was cancelled, and they went to a private room in the military guesthouse that night. Song Yuling also went with them, who came for the hotpot.
Song Yuling was not shy at all. She was no stranger to Mr. Pei and she had no qualms about having a meal with him.
Pei Yu and his family also came.
Peng Guihua was scared when she had never met the old man, but when she really met him, she could handle the situation.
The first time she met the two children from Ding Guo's elder sister-in-law's family, Peng Guihua gave each of them a red envelope.
There were two children chattering, making the private room lively.
After dinner, Peng Guihua and Ding Guo were still lying on the bed, and she sighed: "When you were a kid, those gossipers in the village always annoyed you, saying that your father didn't love you and your mother didn't care about you. Although I don't have good parents, I have a good in-law family. I will piss those gossipers off to death!"
Ding Guo searched through the original owner's memory and found several vague scenes of this kind.
She wrapped herself in a quilt and rubbed against Third Auntie, saying, "Who cares what they do? Just let them live their lives well."
Peng Guihua nodded: "That's right, live a good life with Xiao Pei, and you will have greater blessings in the future."
After talking for a while, the mother and daughter went to bed.
Ding Dayong arrived early the next morning. He shrunk his neck and stamped his feet while knocking on the door outside.
Peng Guihua and Aunt Qiao both got up early. When they heard the knock on the door, Peng Guihua guessed that it must be her eldest son coming. When she opened the door, it was indeed him.
Ding Dayong's nose was red from the cold, and he squeezed in stiffly: "This capital is too cold!"
Peng Guihua was also happy to see her eldest son. Seeing that he was so cold, she hurriedly said, "Go to the kitchen and warm yourself by the fire. Your sister and Yuling haven't woken up yet."
Ding Dayong was surprised and delighted, and asked tremblingly: "Yuling is here too?"
"Yuling came here last night. It was too late after dinner, so she stayed here."
Ding Dayong nodded, and without entering the house, he handed the bag to his mother, went directly to the kitchen, said hello to Aunt Qiao, sat down and helped to light the fire while warming himself by the fire.
While having breakfast, looking at the young couple sitting together and whispering from time to time, Peng Guihua somehow thought of her uncle and new sister-in-law again.
But it was pleasing to the eyes to see the young couple being so affectionate, and that couple half buried in the ground... forget it, Peng Guihua quickly shook her head to get rid of the image in her mind, thinking about it any further would affect her appetite.
Song Yuling went back home after breakfast. She had to go home to help her mother prepare food for the guests.
Ding Dayong also tidied himself up and changed into neat clothes. At half past nine, the group took the bus to the Song family.
Peng Guihua and her husband brought some food for Ding Guo this time. Considering that they were going to the Song family, they bought gifts such as cigarettes, alcohol, sugar and tea in advance that were not easy to make mistakes.
Ding Guo also gave them two boxes of Beijing Eight Pieces and a large bag of apples and oranges that he had harvested not long ago.
Although common fruits are hard to buy on the market, they are not impossible to buy.
But the quality of what I bought was not as good as the ones in her space.
When the two families met, there was naturally some greetings, and their smiles were full of warmth.
Song Chengli held Ding Zhicheng's hand and said with a smile, "We meet again!"
Ding Zhicheng tried his best to suppress the nervousness in his heart, and tried to hold the scene, saying: "It's fate, it's the fate of the younger generation."
Wu Fang and Peng Guihua also shook hands and greeted each other, looking at each other calmly.
Wu Fang was naturally satisfied with Ding Dayong, her future son-in-law, but she still felt uneasy before meeting his in-laws.
Even though her husband had talked about his impression of his in-laws, and her daughter had said that her future in-laws were nice people, she had never met them in person.
It’s not that rural mothers-in-law are bad.
In fact, mothers-in-law are the same in both rural and urban areas. There are good mothers-in-law and bad mothers-in-law everywhere.
After all, I still need to meet and interact with her to have a general idea of my daughter's future life.
Peng Guihua cleaned up neatly, spoke fluently and had a kind face; Ding Zhicheng looked like an honest old farmer, with a simple and honest face, and he didn't talk much. He was the kind of woman who made all the decisions in the family.
After further contact, Wu Fang felt relieved when she heard Peng Guihua say that her two children would separate after marriage and that she would not interfere in their lives. She also said things like "children and grandchildren will have their own blessings", and she felt much more at ease.
Looking at Dayong's interaction with his parents, he did not have the subconscious impatience that most children have when talking to their parents, but he was not submissive in front of his mother either. While listening to them talk, he peeled an orange, carefully removed the rind, and handed it to Yuling. The young couple took turns eating the petals.
Wu Fang glanced at Peng Guihua out of the corner of her eye. Peng Guihua spoke as usual, with a smile on her face and no other expression in her eyes or eyebrows, as if she was very happy to see her son and his future daughter-in-law being so affectionate.
Is a person's expression pretended or comes from the heart? Wu Fang, who has experienced many hardships, still has this insight. The little worry she had left disappeared in an instant.
Song Chengli greeted Ding Zhicheng and asked about the situation in his hometown, whether pork was distributed in the village, how the work points were, etc.
Over here, Wu Fang finished her business talk with Peng Guihua, then she smiled and looked at Ding Guo, or to be exact, Ding Guo's belly, and said, "Have you been to the hospital for a check-up? Is the baby bothering you? By the way, I made two sets of small clothes for the baby, you can take them later."
Ding Guo and Wu Fang were also familiar with each other, so he didn't say any more polite words and said with a smile: "I checked it out, and everything is fine. Thank you Aunt Wu, I'm sorry for your expense!"
Wu Fang said angrily, "Why are you thanking me? You're still being polite to me. You've asked Yuling to bring me things many times."
After having lunch at the Song family at noon, Uncle San and Uncle Song had a drink.
Wu Fang asked Peng Guihua how many days she would stay here.
Peng Guihua had originally planned to leave after meeting her in-laws today. Her main purpose was not to cause trouble for the Pei family. Now that Mr. Pei knew about it and had hosted them, there was no need to rush. She changed her plans and prepared to stay for two more days.
Wu Fang smiled and said, "Yuling and Guoguo have to go to work. I will come to find you tomorrow and take you and Brother Ding out for a walk."
Song Chengli and Wu Fang are a few years older than Ding Zhicheng and his wife.
After the meal, the two became more familiar with each other than when she first came home, and Wu Fang found that she could get along well with her mother-in-law.
Peng Guihua also no longer felt the nervousness she had yesterday and agreed readily. The next day, the two in-laws went shopping.
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