Chapter 200 200 Two in One
Yue Hongmei was no longer concerned about whether Ding Guo would have a baby or not. She was now full of worries about whether she wanted to have a baby or not.
Pan Dingfeng hasn't come back to see the children for more than half a month. Normally, no matter how busy he is at work, he would never come back for more than two weeks. Yue Hongmei was a little anxious.
Even though she would praise Pan Dingfeng to Ding Jianguo and others, she was actually not completely confident in Pan Dingfeng.
She couldn't help but worry that Pan Dingfeng would hook up with other women while Nianjun was in labor reform, and her Nianjun would have no one to rely on when he came back.
"Don't you miss your son?"
However, the place where Pan Dingfeng worked was a little sensitive to her, so she didn't dare to take her grandson to look for him.
After she came to the city in her early years, she cut off all ties with her natal family, including the sisters in the village with whom she had a good relationship before, so she couldn't find anyone to help her ask.
Just as I was getting anxious, Ding Xiang and Ding Jiandang came over.
When Yue Hongmei saw them, her eyes lit up and she said hurriedly, "Jiandang, go find your eldest brother and ask him to come over when he's free. I'll ask him to run some errands for me."
After saying this, she saw the bruises on Ding Xiang's face. She was startled and asked in a lost voice, "What happened to your face? Did those two little beasts from the Jia family beat you up?"
Ding Xiang pouted: "We fought each other. They had bad intentions and wrongly accused me and Jian Dang. I called Jian Dang and a few of my former classmates to beat them up openly."
Yue Hongmei gnashed her teeth and said, "That's right, beat them hard and kill those two little bastards."
Dingxiang's personality was not gentle to begin with, but when her family encountered misfortune, she was still a little girl who had not experienced the dangers of the world.
Now I have suffered more hardships and have grown rapidly.
After suffering several losses at the hands of the Jia brothers and stepmother, she learned how to fight back openly without any guidance.
She is not smart enough and won't do it secretly, so I'll learn from my second brother's previous method and use my fists.
After a counterattack, there would be chaos at home, and then she would have two days of peace.
Ding Xiang was not moved by her mother's encouragement. She lowered her head and teased Hui Hui who was learning to walk, with a hint of mockery in her eyes. After a moment, she raised her head and asked, "Mom, is there anything you need to run errands for? I'll get it for you."
Yue Hongmei said hurriedly, "That's great. Go get me some soy sauce and some vegetables. If there are eggs, tofu, etc., buy some too."
Normally, she would take Huihui out to buy groceries, but it was inconvenient to bring a child with her, especially when they had to queue up, and she was worried that her grandson would be squeezed.
Now that her youngest daughter is here, she lets Dingxiang do the errands without any hesitation.
She asked Dingxiang to help Huihui continue to learn to walk, and went into the house to get money and tickets. After coming out, she said, "Take a ticket for one pound of meat. If you can find it, buy it. If not, forget it."
Dingxiang took it, counted it, nodded, and walked out.
I first went to the grocery store to ask about today's vegetable prices, then turned and left.
After many twists and turns, he finally entered the black market.
Not everything on the black market is more expensive than at the grocery store. It depends.
As for vegetables, if they are sold at a higher price than in the store at this time of year, no one will buy them. Dingxiang found two buyers and bargained with them hard, and finally bought a large bundle of vegetables.
The eggs and meat sold here are more expensive than in the store, so she would not buy them for her mother even if she didn't need a ticket. She went back to buy some tofu. The store didn't have many eggs, so she bought about ten eggs and some soy sauce. After returning home, she bought vegetables according to the store's price, deducted the difference, and gave the rest to Yue Hongmei.
After Ding Jiandang came back, the brother and sister had a meal at their mother's house and then said goodbye and left.
After leaving the house, Ding Jiandang asked quietly, "Did Mom ask you to buy groceries today?"
Ding Xiang nodded, took out the money from her pocket, and said, "I bought more vegetables for her, so I made eight cents."
Ding Jiandang: "Yesterday I earned six cents from my father, and today I earned eight cents from my mother. Oh, it's so hard to make money." He asked again, "Are you still picking up scraps?"
"Go, of course!" Ding Xiang gritted her teeth, "Both our parents are unreliable. They don't care about their own children and prefer to raise them for others. We can't count on them and can only count on ourselves. Our dad doesn't seem to be in a clear mind. When we are old enough, that Zheng guy will definitely instigate our dad to send us away. You go to the countryside and I'll get married!"
Ding Xiang took a deep breath, her eyes reddened. "If it really comes to that, can you still expect them to give us money? Don't forget, when my eldest sister went to the countryside, my parents withheld most of the resettlement fee given by the street office and only gave her five yuan."
Ding Jiandang kicked the stones on the road and said, "No wonder my eldest sister hated our parents so much when she came back."
Dingxiang didn't say anything.
She couldn't tell what she was feeling at the moment.
Back then, my parents left my eldest sister's resettlement money and said they would buy a skirt and shoes for Sister Nianjun. She even shouted that she wanted one too.
I was young at that time and didn’t understand what it meant for people who went to the countryside to have no money. I was just happy that my parents got some money for free so that they could buy them clothes and delicious food.
In fact, she still can't fully understand her elder sister's situation at that time.
But after seeing the unfair faces of her parents, she will reflect, think about the past, and analyze some things in the past.
"My eldest sister didn't hate my parents before she returned to the city. She even sent things home. It was because my parents wanted to marry her to a fool that my eldest sister completely turned against them."
When she first learned about her parents' decision, she didn't react much. She didn't think about how she would live after marrying a fool. Instead, because she didn't like her elder sister, she thought she would be happier if her elder sister got married and there were no outsiders in the house.
But I don’t think so now.
In just one or two years, she now understands the horror of this kind of thing.
If her father and stepmother find her a stupid or disabled man for the sake of dowry in the future, she will definitely make life difficult for this family.
The two of them were walking down the street with their heads down, and they ran into Ding Tao.
Ding Tao raised her eyebrows. How come she met these two people who are not loved by their fathers and mothers?
She is working the night shift and had slept at home all morning. She wanted to go out to buy something, but she didn't expect it to be such a coincidence.
Seeing Ding Tao, Ding Xiang muttered uncomfortably and called out 'Sister Tao', then looked away.
Ding Jiandang also greeted Ding Tao: "Sister Tao!"
Ding Tao nodded in response.
Sure enough, I couldn't teach them any manners when I spoke to them rationally. At that time, they called her "mud legs" and "country bumpkin" all day long. Now that she has experienced the double hardships from her own parents, she knows how to be polite.
Ding Tao: "Where did you go to play?"
Ding Jiandang: "I went to my mother's place."
Ding Tao thought of the former aunt's evil nature, and her scalp tightened. She smiled and said, "That's good. It's good to go there often."
Saying hello doesn't mean you have something to say, after saying hello you just go your separate ways.
Ding Xiang walked some distance away before speaking to Ding Jiandang: "Have you noticed that Ding Tao has gained weight since moving out of the family compound?"
Ding Jiandang: "She has a high salary now and eats well, so she will definitely gain weight."
Ding Xiang pouted, "Since my eldest sister moved out, she's getting better and better. When Ding Tao lived in our house, she was almost as thin as the two of us, and she's getting better and better after moving out. You say..." She looked around, and when she saw that there was no one around, she whispered, "Are our parents unlucky?"
Ding Jiandang: "No way? Isn't this feudal superstition? Besides, our family was pretty good before. My eldest brother also moved out, and I didn't see him being much better. He also lost money and his bicycle."
"Brother has to support the family. The loss was caused by Ding Nianjun. The bicycle is ours..." Ding Xiang paused. Ding Nianjun is also unlucky, right?
Ding Jiandang: "But my parents said that our family got worse and worse after my eldest sister returned to the city. If there is any curse, it is my eldest sister who curses us."
Ding Xiang: "But the cousin from Third Aunt's family is doing very well now. He was brought up by my eldest sister. Although Ding Tao was brought to the city by my second uncle and second aunt, my eldest sister transferred the job to her and she is getting better and better. She also brought her younger sister to the city and was indirectly influenced by my eldest sister. If my eldest sister was unlucky, how could they be so good?"
The people around my eldest sister are getting better and better, while the people around my parents are getting worse and worse. Who is the one who brings bad luck to them? Ding Xiang couldn't figure it out.
Ding Jiandang felt that this was a bit confusing, and he couldn't figure it out. He scratched his head and said, "Oh, this is all feudal superstition. Don't say that. If Aunt Wenfang or the two Jias hear it, they will catch you by the pigtails."
Ding Xiang said viciously: "Then continue to beat them."
The two left while talking.
Ding Jianguo went to his mother's house after get off work and received an order from her: "Jianguo, take a day off tomorrow and go to Dazhangzhuang to see what Pan Dingfeng is busy with."
What else can Pan Dingfeng be busy with? He is busy preparing for a job change.
Dazhang Village under Qianwang Commune.
After returning from a meeting at the commune, Pan Dingfeng rode his bike straight back to the dormitory arranged for him in the village. He parked the car, went into the house, took out a cigarette, lit it, frowned and took a deep puff, looking lonely and helpless.
Where is Pan Dingfeng's former glory?
Some of his overlong hair was tied up in messy wisps on his head, his clothes were wrinkled, and his skin had the rough and dark color common among farmers.
Almost a year of rural life had left him breathless.
Even so, he was still gritting his teeth and persevering, but now he can't hold on any longer.
"Xiao Pan!"
Someone was shouting outside the door. It was the village leader Liu Kaihe.
Pan Dingfeng closed his eyes, a hint of sarcasm appearing at the corner of his mouth.
Before going to the commune, Liu Kaihe called him "Secretary Pan", but now he calls him "Little Pan".
"Captain." Pan Dingfeng opened the door and went out.
Liu Kaihe held four or five duck eggs in his hand, looked at Pan Dingfeng's expression, and comforted him: "In our village, no matter what you do, you are serving the people. Although you have stepped down from the position of branch secretary, you should not be discouraged. The position of team leader is very important. Focus on production and serve the people. Don't have too much mental burden."
Pan Dingfeng's back teeth were almost broken, and his hands hanging on both sides were slightly clenched, but he had to force a smile on his face: "It's my own fault that I am not competent for the job of secretary. I'm sorry for causing trouble to everyone."
After arriving in Dazhangzhuang, he encountered repeated setbacks in his work and was tricked many times by the old foxes in the village, which led to him making frequent mistakes.
The wind is strong in spring. Just the day before yesterday, because he did not take corresponding preventive measures in time, several parts of the cowshed collapsed, injuring three people living inside.
The collapsed cowshed was proposed by him and he led people to rebuild it years ago.
He didn't understand this kind of construction, but didn't the young people in the village who were working there also understand it? Why did they put the blame on him when an accident happened?
He was called to the commune for a talk today, and his position was demoted from village party secretary to production team leader.
Liu Kaihe comforted her gently: "Don't say that. Practice well as a team leader. You will have a chance to continue to be our secretary in the future." He handed over the duck eggs in his hand, "Your aunt pickled duck eggs, to nourish your body."
When he turned around, Liu Kaihe opened his mouth and cursed silently.
A city kid, it’s hard for him to learn without any experience in growing crops. He always likes to give blind orders without knowing anything. I heard that he used to be a secretary to a leader in an official department of the capital. Is this the level of a secretary?
Last month, he condoned the educated youth in causing trouble and blindly instructed the modification of rivers and canals, which almost delayed farmland irrigation. He had just settled these two issues when an accident occurred in the cowshed that he had recklessly modified before the New Year.
There's not enough time to clean his ass every day.
Liu Kaihe shook his head and went to the scene of the accident to direct the work.
As soon as he arrived, the village women's director came up to him and asked, "Where's Secretary Pan?"
Liu Kaihe glanced at her and said, "Where is Secretary Pan? You will be the team leader in the future and take charge of production."
The director of the Women's Department was shocked: "In charge of production? What does he know about production... Hey, why is he not the secretary anymore? Has he been dismissed?"
Liu Kaihe shook his head: "Let him take charge of production. After all, the team leader is just to assign tasks to everyone, and he doesn't need to guide the planting of crops. It's better than being a secretary. As a secretary, he relies on his power to insist on scientific pig farming, saying that the pigpen is too small and expands the area to leave room for the pigs to move around."
"Well, when he expanded the building, the bad elements living near the pig sty had to move. He tried to build a new shed. I didn't dare to stop him because he was the secretary. If I stopped him, it would mean that we didn't support his work. Well, the shed collapsed in a gust of wind. The place we had arranged for the bad elements before was broken and let in air, but it was solid. Look how happily those pigs are running around in it."
Three of the people who moved to the newly built shed were injured, one seriously and two slightly.
Liu Kaihe finished his endless complaints, lit a cigarette and took a puff. He was still angry after thinking about it, and couldn't help cursing: "What a fool, you want to go crazy just by reading two crappy books, and you just cause trouble for us every day."
After Liu Kaihe finished cursing, he asked, "How are the wounded?"
"One is still in the clinic, and the other two have temporarily moved to the dilapidated house behind Zhang Shengkui's house. They can't go to work for three to five days. I thought that Pan Shu... Captain Pan would come over after the meeting. Is he busy guiding the work?"
"The old hen is sitting at home sitting on brooding." Liu Kaihe walked towards the temporary accommodation for the wounded, cursing.
The director of women's affairs was stunned: "Why are you so ignorant?"
The injured people did not complain, and of course, those people did not dare to say anything.
But as a village cadre, Pan Dingfeng couldn't just ignore it, and he felt wronged!
Bad elements are despicable, and there are ways to punish them, but no one should be hurt because of a wrong decision.
Here, as soon as Liu Kaihe left, Pan Dingfeng carried the duck eggs and went back to the house. He stood there for a long time, then suddenly threw the eggs in his hand heavily to the ground: "You old fool!"
Come and laugh at him!
At night, Pan Dingfeng was sleeping soundly when he suddenly felt suffocated. Before he could struggle, fists rained down on him.
"Who? Let me go!"
The man remained silent and just punched one after another until the person on the bed gradually stopped moving. He spat fiercely, turned around, opened the door and left.
Pan Dingfeng felt like he had slept for a long time and seemed to have a dream in a daze. In the dream, nothing happened to the Pan family, his father still held a high position, his mother was a respectable cadre of the art troupe, his family was happy, Nianjun was virtuous, and his son who was a few years old was lively and cute.
In the dream, even the direction of the entire country has changed. Private transactions are no longer speculation, but have become a permitted livelihood.
Ding Nianjun had a keen sense of the wind direction and made his first fortune by going into business.
He accepted his wife's advice, gave up the government work which he was not good at, left the unit, and learned business from his wife.
With a smart wife and a strong network of connections at home, their business flourished and they soon emerged in the old city and became famous elites in the business world.
Nianjun was very sensible. She gave him the glory and respect, and gave him advice behind his back. He was able to accurately grasp the wind direction every time, allowing their company to be like a giant dragon, tossing and turning in the business world.
Those scenes are so beautiful, so good that they make people greedy and want to possess them at all costs.
But he still woke up.
When Pan Dingfeng opened his eyes, what he saw was not the blackened beams above the dormitory building, but the snow-white walls of the commune clinic and an IV in his hand.
“It was just a dream!”
That kind of beauty was still there, and there was even a light in his eyes that had not completely disappeared when he sighed, but as he opened his eyes, everything in the dream quickly dissipated.
In the dream, he, who was dressed in a suit, wearing gold-rimmed glasses and holding a fountain pen and was a big shot in the business world, exploded like a cloud of smoke and became indifferent.
The face of Nianjun, who was also dressed appropriately, gentle and virtuous, gradually became blurred, so blurred that he forgot what she was wearing. He only felt that she looked capable and exquisite, but he could not remember some of it.
Oh, he also dreamed of someone, Ding Guo. The Ding Guo in the dream was his sister-in-law, but Ding Guo's face was always blurred in the dream. He only felt subconsciously that she was very honest, just as Nianjun had described before, like an old ox.
In short, he just felt that everything was beautiful and everything went smoothly, completely in line with his and Nianjun's wishes. It was so beautiful that it seemed unreal, but he really yearned for it.
"Brother Dingfeng, are you awake?"
The voice completely shattered the last remaining fragment of the dream. Everything completely dissipated, and Pan Dingfeng's efforts to remember anything were in vain.
He tilted his head slightly and looked at the person who spoke with dissatisfaction, wanting to see who broke this beauty.
As a result, I saw a girl named Zhang Mingru in the village.
By the way, this girl seems to be somewhat related to Nianjun. She is Nianjun’s cousin from his biological father’s side.
It was only after Pan Dingfeng was transferred to Dazhang Village that he realized that it was the village where Nianjun’s father’s hometown was.
However, since Nianjun had no contact with that family, he pretended not to know.
But later, the Zhang family somehow found out about Nianjun’s existence and came to look for him several times. When Nianjun went to the village to take care of him, they also looked for Nianjun, but Nianjun did not acknowledge them as his relative.
People from the Zhang family also came to him, but he turned them away.
He is too lazy to have any dealings with people who can't help him.
"Why are you here?" After saying that, he couldn't help but take a breath. It hurt, his whole body hurt.
Yes, he is in pain. Why does he hurt so much?
Pan Dingfeng remembered that he seemed to have been beaten up last night.
Now I am fully conscious, with burning pain all over my body, especially under my left ribs.
Zhang Mingru's eyes widened innocently: "The captain asked me to take care of you."
Pan Dingfeng endured the pain in his body and said coldly: "How could the captain let a female comrade take care of me? Also, please call me Comrade Pan."
Zhang Mingru pouted, feeling a little aggrieved: "Brother Dingfeng——"
"Comrade Zhang!"
As he was talking, the village accountant pushed the door open and saw that he had woken up. He asked, "Captain Pan, you are awake? What happened yesterday?"
Pan Dingfeng was late for work this morning, and everyone thought he was too embarrassed to come out to lead the work of their team because he was demoted. The team leader arranged for someone to call Pan Dingfeng, but after knocking on the door for a long time, there was no response. Worried that something had happened to him, he called two young men to climb over the wall and take a look. Unexpectedly, something had really happened.
Pan Dingfeng's face was covered with bruises and he was lying unconscious on the bed.
He was sent to the infirmary for a checkup and was found to have bruises all over his body and a broken rib.
After the accountant finished speaking, he saw Zhang Mingru next to him and asked, "Why are you here?"
Zhang Mingru explained: "The team leader asked me to watch Comrade Pan and told me to go back to the village and let him know when he wakes up."
Why did the captain let a girl guard Pan Dingfeng?
The accountant frowned and said, "You go back. I'll stay here and look after Captain Pan."
Zhang Mingru pursed his lips and wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything and got up and left reluctantly.
Pan Dingfeng stared at the roof and said, "Call the police. I was beaten up by a black boxer last night. Call the police."
This matter is indeed serious. It is an attack on village cadres.
However, the accountant did not dare to make a decision on his own. He glanced at the IV drip he was still receiving and said, "Can you stay here alone?"
Pan Dingfeng gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, we must report it to the police."
He remembered that before he was beaten last night, it seemed like something covered his mouth and nose. It seemed like he wanted to kill him.
Compared with the pain of being beaten, the suffocating feeling of being unable to breathe made him more panic. Pan Dingfeng was so scared that he had to report to the police and let the comrades in the police station investigate who had done the evil to him.
The accountant left and rode back to the village first. He told Liu Kaihe about it. Liu Kaihe frowned and said, "Call the police? Aren't there enough embarrassing things in the village because of his dereliction of duty? Why report to the police? Let him take good care of himself, and the village will reimburse him."
The accountant thought it was a good thing that he came back and asked, and the captain indeed did not support reporting to the police.
But he said, "Captain, why are you arranging for the Zhang family's daughter to take care of him? They are alone, and if there is another romantic scandal, it will make people laugh at them."
Liu Kaihe was surprised: "When did I arrange for Zhang's daughter to look after him? Didn't I ask Zhang Aiguo to look after him there?"
The accountant was speechless: "When I went there, Zhang Mingru from the Zhang family was guarding there and said you arranged it."
"Bullshit! Which branch of the Zhang family is Zhang Mingru from?"
"Zhang Shenghong's second daughter, the wife Pan Dingfeng divorced earlier, is Zhang Shengkai's daughter. She drugged pigs and destroyed collective property. She is still undergoing reform in the Northwest."
Liu Kaihe was annoyed: "What kind of crap is this on my stall? His father-in-law used to harm the pigs in our village, and now he, the former son-in-law of the Zhang family, is harming the people in our village!" He then shouted, "Bring that little bastard Zhang Aiguo here, I'll kick him to death!"
The accountant was speechless: "Most of the Zhang family members are good, but there is that one weirdo."
After saying that, he turned around and went to look for someone.
capital!
After seeing off Third Aunt, Ding Guo also prepared to go to work.
But she couldn't delay breastfeeding during work, so Aunt Qiao said, "How about you squeeze the milk from the bottle, and I'll go get it every two hours?"
Ding Guo: "I'll come back and feed him."
The company provides this benefit, but this old mother has to make more trips.
She could also add formula milk, but now she can still feed two children, so she is not in a hurry to add formula milk. She will add formula milk when the two children's appetites increase and breast milk can no longer supply them.
Anyway, my workplace is not far from home, and it’s not difficult to ride a bike back and forth.
Aunt Qiao: "When the weather gets warmer, Chunhua and I will take the child to your workplace to accompany you."
Some units do this these days, but Ding Guo smiled and said, "Then we should give them some milk powder. There's no need to go through so much trouble."
My goodness, when she goes to work, Aunt Qiao and her husband have to carry the child to accompany her. Isn’t that tiring enough?
Before she officially started work, Pan Dingfeng launched a round of internal attacks backstage.
Ding Guo was shocked: "What did I do to hurt him? I didn't provoke him!"
System: “Undetectable!”
Before Ding Guo went to work, Aunt Qiao and Wang Chunhua took turns going home.
Today is the day Aunt Qiao returns home and Wang Chunhua is cooking in the kitchen. Ding Guo is sure that she will not come into the house for a while, so he takes the two children into the space.
Dabao and Xiaobao have just finished feeding and are very energetic now.
Ding Guo bought the thinnest embroidery needle from the system mall, scalded it with freshly boiled water outside, disinfected it with alcohol, pinched Dabao's index finger and stabbed it... The first try was unsuccessful, so Ding Guo put on the brakes.
I can't do it!
"Mouse, come here." She turned her head away.
System: "Master, I really don't have this function. Just prick it lightly, just like a mosquito bite, and squeeze out a little blood."
Ding Guo took a deep breath and said, "Dabao, don't cry. It was your system auntie who asked me to do this. Old mother is also very sad. Just think of it as a mosquito bite. Don't hate old mother. Hate your system auntie instead."
After saying that, he quickly poked Dabao with his fingertips.
She couldn't think about this kind of thing. She had to get rid of all distracting thoughts and just act without thinking. That was why she kept muttering to herself to distract herself, otherwise she wouldn't be able to do it again.
System: "...Isn't it good to be a human being?"
"Wow……"
Dabao's loud cry rang out in the space. The system was lucky that it had no hair on its body, otherwise it would have been so excited that its hair would stand on end.
Ding Guo did it in one go. He took out the jade pendant engraved with a dragon and quickly pressed it on Dabao's slightly red fingers. The dragon pendant flashed a soft white light and disappeared.
Dabao's crying suddenly turned into grunting, his dark eyes were filled with clear tears. He looked at the place where the white light had just flashed with grievance, his little face confused.
Xiaobao was curiously looking at the new environment that had suddenly changed. He was attracted by his brother's crying. He turned around and looked at his brother in confusion, making two "ah" and "oh" sounds.
Ding Guo felt as if this needle had pierced the tip of her heart, but her heart still needed another needle.
Xiaobao was comforting her brother with baby talk, and then her fair and tender face suddenly froze. She turned her head to look at her little hands in disbelief, and then looked up at her mother.
Ding Guo smiled at his daughter guiltily: "Hey, your system aunt did it!"
Xiaobao: “Wow——”
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