Chapter 206 Two in One
No matter what Ding Zhigang said, all his appeals to emotion and reason were ineffective on Ding Dayong, who just shook his head in resistance.
Ding Zhigang was finally helpless.
I went back and told Zheng Wenfang: "Dayong has not been out of the farm for long, he is still too honest."
Zheng Wenfang was a little suspicious. He looked outside and saw Ding Xiang outside the house not paying attention. He whispered, "Is there anyone who works in transportation who doesn't secretly dump some things?"
Why is she so unconvinced?
"Dayong, are you unwilling to help us? Didn't you tell us to pay you?"
"I told you!" Ding Zhigang looked worried. "Who knows? Anyway, the situation in my hometown is not optimistic. I'm afraid they can't help us. Dayong is too timid. Now the food prices in the alley have gone crazy. What will we do if the food supply drops again next month?"
The price of food on the black market has risen so much that the couple’s combined monthly salary can’t buy much food and they simply can’t afford to eat.
Ding Zhigang let out a long sigh.
Zheng Wenfang poured a glass of water for Ding Zhigang and handed it to him. She stopped talking about her doubts and said, "Dayong is really timid, so we won't make things difficult for him. There are many experienced drivers in their company who travel all over the country all year round. They must have goods. Ask Dayong and ask him to introduce other people to us, and we can buy some from them."
After that, he smiled and said, "Dayong became a driver at such a young age, which shows that he is doing well in the company. We can also take advantage of our nephew and have more channels to buy food."
Having said that, Zheng Wenfang still didn't believe that Ding Dayong didn't find a channel to buy grain.
Being in that kind of environment, with everyone around him dumping things and buying food, it is impossible for Dayong not to be affected at all.
Only Ding Zhigang believes that people are timid.
Ding Zhigang's eyes lit up, and he smiled approvingly, "Why didn't I think of that? You're very thoughtful. I'll ask him tomorrow."
Zheng Wenfang gave him a gentle smile, then suddenly uttered a soft "ouch", and then said in a reproachful tone: "The child is kicking me again."
Ding Zhigang touched her belly with a smile on his face and said, "You naughty girl, you kicked your mother again."
While the couple was talking, Ding Jiandang came back sweating profusely. He didn't go into the house, but squatted beside Ding Xiang who was cooking, and whispered something. Ding Xiang's eyes lit up immediately: "Really? You came back early?"
Ding Jiandang nodded, looked into the room, squatted in a different direction, facing his back to the room, and whispered, "Really, my mother was so excited that she cried. I also told my second brother about the two Jia brothers bullying me, and my second brother said he would beat them up."
Ding Xiang's expression also brightened, and she said, "I'm going to visit my second brother at my mother's place tomorrow."
Before Ding Jiandang finished speaking, he added: "But the second brother asked us to promise him one thing."
Ding Xiang paused and asked, "What's the matter?"
Ding Jiandang glanced into the room again and said, "He was able to get his sentence reduced thanks to Sister Nianjun. He said... we have to apologize to Sister Nianjun and we must not make her unhappy in the future..."
Ding Xiang's face tensed up instantly, and an indescribable complex emotion surged in her heart. She was stunned for a long while before she asked, "Who is he really related to?"
She herself was stunned by what she said.
If this question had an answer, would Mom still be so partial to Ding Nianjun?
"No need!" Ding Xiang continued to cook, but two tears fell uncontrollably, "We don't have a second brother anymore!"
"What did you say?" Ding Jiandang asked without hearing the second half of Ding Xiang's sentence.
Ding Xiang shook her head, shedding a string of tears, and said, "Don't let Second Brother help us out!"
"Why?" Ding Jiandang was puzzled. Also, why was Xiangxiang crying?
Ding Xiang glared at him: "What did we do wrong that we have to apologize to Ding Nianjun? And we can't make her unhappy in the future. What did we do wrong?"
Ding Jiandang scratched his head, which was covered with sweat. He wiped the sweat on his pants and spoke after a while: "Brother won't help us, and dad won't support us. Who can we rely on in the future?"
"Rely on yourself!" Ding Xiang did not pour out the cooked dishes, but put the pot of steamed bread next to it on the stove and said, "Anyway, I will not agree to my second brother's conditions. He is as partial as my mother. I will never call him my second brother again."
Ding Jiandang was a little disappointed. He didn't think that an apology was a big deal. It was just a few words. If they really didn't want to reconcile with Sister Nianjun in the future and continued to keep their distance, could their second brother still force them to get close to Sister Nianjun?
Besides, when Nianjun comes back, he and Xiangxiang might have gone to the countryside, and they will have few chances to meet. What’s the big deal?
Ding Jiandang got up and went back into the house.
"Jiandang is back, what did you talk to your sister about?" Zheng Wenfang greeted her stepson with a smile. She didn't really want to ask him what he and Dingxiang were whispering about, but suddenly asked, "Jiandang, when you went to your mother's house, did she hear your mother talk about the reduction in grain production in the village?"
As Ding Zhigang's second wife, she naturally knew very well about the twists and turns of the Ding family's past.
Even if she hadn't heard it from Ding Zhigang, some gossipy neighbors in the family compound would have told her about it, so she also knew that Ding Zhigang's former adopted daughter and son-in-law served as village cadres in the village below Fengning. As people who have taken root in the countryside, they must be well aware of the decline in grain production.
But after such a long time, the stepson and stepdaughter didn't bring back any news on this matter.
Ding Zhigang also reacted and frowned.
Although he didn't want to mention his former son-in-law Pan Dingfeng again, he was indeed dissatisfied with his younger son and daughter's concealment of the family's affairs, so he also looked over.
Ding Jiandang was stunned for a moment: "My mother is not in the village, how would she know about the reduction in grain production in the countryside?"
"Did your brother-in-law tell your mother about this?" Zheng Wenfang asked suspiciously.
Ding Jiandang shook his head honestly: "I don't know, anyway, I haven't heard my mother say it."
He's been complaining about the reduction in commercial grain supply these days.
Ding Zhigang said impatiently: "Don't ask him. Even if the woman knew, she wouldn't tell him."
I'm just waiting to see the joke on them.
Zheng Wenfang gently pushed him and said, "Don't talk like that. She's Jiandang's biological mother. Jiandang and Xiangxiang also need to eat. How could a mother not remind them?"
After saying that, he looked at Ding Jiandang and said, "Right, Jiandang?"
It is obvious that he still does not believe what Ding Jiandang said.
Ding Jiandang was also a little impatient and said, "If you didn't say it, then you didn't say it. Do I need to hide this?"
"How do you talk to your Aunt Wenfang? Isn't your Aunt Wenfang doing this for your own good?" Ding Zhigang scolded.
Zheng Wenfang also smiled and said, "Okay, okay, I didn't say anything, I didn't say anything, kid."
Ding Zhigang glared at his youngest son.
Ding Jiandang was furious, then he suddenly laughed, with a hint of gloating in his smile, and said to Ding Zhigang: "Dad, but there is something I want to tell you, my second brother is back!"
Ding Zhigang's expression changed instantly. He was not happy, but showed a trace of inexplicable guilt and nervousness. He asked, "Your second brother is back? Isn't it time yet?"
Ding Jiandang snorted and said, "Sister Nianjun helped him reduce his sentence and ended his labor reform early."
Ding Zhigang looked more and more unnatural, and snorted, "Hmph, it seems that I have not raised her for nothing for twenty years."
What he meant was that he did not remember the favor, and that these things were what Ding Nianjun should do, just as a way of repaying his kindness in raising him.
"Tell your second brother to come over for dinner when he's free."
After having his meal at Yue Hongmei's place, Ding Jianshe took a shower, changed his clothes, and then went to the barber shop on the street to get a neat short haircut.
When he entered the room again, Yue Hongmei prepared a brazier for him to cross.
Afraid of being seen by passers-by outside, he closed the door and whispered, "Quick, step over."
Ding Jianshe stepped over helplessly.
Yue Hongmei was happy that he came back, as she finally had a backbone.
Of course, all the lawsuits that should be filed have been filed, the people who should be scolded have been scolded, and all the people who should be cared for have been cared for. Now the question is what the second son’s future will be like.
"If you really can't find a job, why don't you go to your brother-in-law's place?"
This was the only thing she could think of while her son was out getting a haircut.
He decided to go to the countryside and let Jianshe go to find Pan Dingfeng. On the one hand, he could help Nianjun keep an eye on Pan Dingfeng to prevent him from having any other intentions. On the other hand, it was really difficult to find a job in the city.
Although they went to the countryside, it was different now. The second son had experience in farm work. Compared with the farm, ordinary labor in the countryside was easier.
It is also not far from Fengning, making it convenient to travel back and forth.
Otherwise, if she couldn't find a job and stayed idle, she was afraid that her second son would go out and fool around again.
Ding Jianshe: "Mom, I won't go to the countryside. I will try to find a temporary job in the next two days."
He finally came back, how could he still do farm work?
He thought that Sister Jun had arranged a development path for him to return.
Although Ding Nianjun fell into speculation and profiteering, she was very determined that there was nothing wrong with this approach.
If you want a high income, you have to bear high risks. Besides, Ding Jianshe himself has made profits from reselling goods, so he also wants to make some money as soon as possible.
"I'll find time to go over to my brother-in-law's place."
He had to do something before that.
While his mother was washing clothes outside, Ding Jianshe went to the utility room, looked around, walked to a corner, moved the jar in the corner, squatted down, knocked on the wall one by one, selected a position and pressed inside with his hand, and found that the brick was movable.
He pressed his hands on it, shaking it left and right and pushing it a few times. After the brick tilted outward, he dug out a corner and slowly moved the brick outward, revealing a hole not much bigger than a fist. He reached in and took out something wrapped in brown paper. He quickly filled the brick back in, wiped it on the wall, and moved the jar back.
This is the private money that Sister Nianjun hid here, two hundred yuan in total, and neither my mother nor my brother-in-law knows about it.
Sister Nianjun said that half of the money was for him to use as he pleased, and the other half was her investment. He should spend some money on it and keep it secret so that his mother and Pan Dingfeng would not know.
Ding Jianshe was very touched. Sister Nianjun showed such great trust in him.
Neither my mother nor my brother-in-law can compare to him.
Ding Jianshe collected the money, said something to Yue Hongmei, and went out.
Ding Jianguo had just returned to the workshop after lunch when he heard someone looking for him. Confused, he went out and saw Ding Jianshe standing there leaning against a tree trunk and smoking.
"Build?"
After such a long time, the resentment about having his bicycle stolen had long dissipated. When he suddenly saw his second brother whom he hadn't seen for a long time, Ding Jianguo was shocked but also happy from the bottom of his heart.
"You came back early?"
The little brat has become darker and thinner.
Compared to Ding Jianguo's excitement, Ding Jianshe looked indifferent. He took a long puff of his cigarette, threw the cigarette butt on the ground and kicked it hard, then took three or two steps forward and swung his fist to give his brother a loving blow.
Bang!
Ding Jianguo staggered after being hit, and a sweet and fishy taste instantly surged in his mouth.
"Ding Jianshe, what's wrong with you?" Ding Jianguo said angrily.
"Your wife harmed Sister Nianjun, you deserve this beating."
Bang!
Another punch hit Ding Jianguo's stomach hard, and Ding Jianguo's body instantly bent like a shrimp.
He would not beat Lu Xiaomei. Sister Nianjun said that she would deal with Lu Xiaomei herself when she came back. But he could beat his eldest brother to vent Sister Nianjun's anger first.
Even though Ding Jianguo is the eldest brother, he really cannot beat Ding Jianshe in a fight. Moreover, Ding Jianshe has been doing farm work for more than a year and has developed a lot of strength. Ding Jianguo has no room to fight back.
After one of them was beaten and the other had beaten someone else, the two brothers stood there and talked calmly.
Ding Jianguo spat out a mouthful of blood foam and said angrily: "It wasn't me who instigated Lu Xiaomei to report Nianjun. I didn't know about it either. Why did you hit me? You are sick!"
Ding Jianshe has his own theory: "You are her man!"
Ding Jianguo was furious.
He also had a quarrel with Lu Xiaomei because of this matter, although the ending was very embarrassing.
Forget it, I can’t explain this to Jianshe clearly, he’s just a fool.
Besides, he had already been beaten and he didn't have the ability to fight back, so he could only ask about his situation on the farm and about coming back early.
"Sister Nianjun helped me plan this. From now on, Sister Nianjun is my life. Whoever dares to let her suffer any injustice will not be let off by me." Ding Jianshe said with a sinister expression.
Ding Jianguo said nothing.
This is indeed a great favor.
They were unable to get Jianshe back, but unexpectedly, after Nianjun went to the farm, he found a way to reduce Jianshe's sentence.
"What are you going to do next? You know about Dad's remarriage, right?"
Ding Jianshe nodded with a sinister look on his face.
"Planning..." He sneered, "You will know soon."
Ding Jianshe left and went to the textile factory.
Lu Xiaomei, who came out of the factory with a big belly, was startled when she saw Ding Jianshe suddenly.
"Ding Jianshe, you're finally back. You're such a heartless man that you even dared to cheat your elder brother." Lu Xiaomei was still thinking about the bicycle that was cheated from her family.
"Stop talking nonsense to me. The car has nothing to do with you. Lu Xiaomei, listen carefully. I don't care what you come up with, just find me a job in the factory. In the winter of 1973, two pieces of cloth were lost in your warehouse..." Ding Jianshe looked at Lu Xiaomei.
Lu Xiaomei's face changed drastically, her heart pounded so hard that it almost jumped out of her throat, and she hurriedly said, "Ding Jianshe!"
Ding Jianshe sneered: "I am not here to discuss work with you, I am here to inform you. If you dare to cheat me, a letter of denunciation will be sent to your leader, in addition to the winter of 1973, there will also be the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival in 1973..."
"Ding Jianshe!"
Lu Xiaomei was so nervous that her face turned red. She quickly looked around and loudly stopped Ding Jianshe from continuing.
How did Ding Jianshe know these things?
Ding Nianjun said that?
But how did Ding Nianjun know about it? She didn't ask Ding Nianjun to join forces with her on those two occasions. She got the goods out of the factory by herself. When did that bitch Ding Nianjun know about it?
"Are you scared now?" Ding Jianshe spat, "Arrange a job for me as soon as possible, otherwise..."
He sneered twice, turned and left.
The steel plant’s family compound was in an uproar.
The second son of the Ding family who had been sent to a labor camp came back and asked someone about the location of his father's new home.
Seeing his gloomy face, the neighbors immediately smelled the fragrance of the melon and followed him quietly.
As soon as I got closer, I saw Ding Xiang and Ding Jiandang being driven out, and all kinds of clanging and smashing sounds soon came from the house.
When Ding Zhigang hurried back from the factory after hearing the news, his house had already been smashed.
His second son, who had not been seen for a long time and had become very dark and thin, was sitting on a small stool with his legs stretched out. He sneered at him, "It's only been a short time since you divorced my mother, and you've already found another one? You're even planning to have another bastard, Ding Zhigang. Aren't you afraid of dying on a woman in the middle of the night?"
When the people watching the fun outside heard this, some of them couldn't help but burst out laughing.
I haven't seen the second son of the Ding family for a long time, and he is still as hot-tempered as ever.
He came back to vent his anger for his mother.
Ding Zhigang hadn't recovered from the news that his house had been smashed yet, but he was furious at his second son's words. His face flushed red, "You bastard, how can you talk like that? Your brother and sister are still here!"
Ding Xiang and Ding Jiandang were just at the door. When Ding Jianshe came back to smash the house, they just watched but didn't try to stop him.
Dingxiang was helpless.
The house was smashed like this, and the final job of cleaning up had to fall on her and Ding Jiandang.
This second brother is really... even a round of hard labor didn't change his temper.
He was just trying to vent his mother's anger and act like a filial son, without thinking about her and Ding Jiandang's situation.
Ding Jianshe glanced at Ding Xiang and Ding Jiandang. They were two heartless kids. Mom and Sister Nianjun really loved them in vain.
But my younger siblings are still young and don’t understand things. I will teach them well later.
"You're capable of this, and you're afraid of what I say?" Ding Jianshe stood up and glared at Ding Zhigang. "No matter how wrong my mother is, she gave birth to four or five children for you, washed your clothes and cooked for you. She has made contributions to this family, but you've rewarded her with such a ruthless heart..."
Before he could finish his words, a pregnant woman pushed through the crowd and rushed in. Seeing the mess in the room, she was frightened and could not help but let out a scream. Then, as if she was afraid of something, she immediately covered her mouth and looked at Ding Jianshe in panic.
"Why the hell are you covering your mouth? I didn't tell you to eat these things." Ding Jianshe said sarcastically.
As soon as the woman came in, he knew that she was the woman his ungrateful father married.
After all, there was only this pregnant woman at the scene, and she rushed in directly.
If it’s not that woman, then who could it be?
Zheng Wenfang's expression froze, and he was unable to react for a moment, then looked at Ding Zhigang for help.
"Jianshe!" Ding Zhigang suppressed his anger and said, "This is your Aunt Wenfang. The conflict in our family has nothing to do with your Aunt Wenfang. Please be careful with your words."
"I don't care. What happened before has nothing to do with this woman. What about the case where this woman's son wrongly accused your own son?"
"You are Jianshe, right?" Zheng Wenfang didn't expect that Ding Zhigang's second son would be like this. She was a little overwhelmed and smiled stiffly, "Anping is the elder brother. He didn't think highly of Jiande at the time. He is indeed responsible..."
"Shut your stinky mouth. Did I talk to you?" Ding Jianshe was too lazy to listen to this woman's nagging. He looked at Ding Jiandang and yelled, "Are you mute?"
"That incident was Jiandang's own fault." Ding Zhigang suppressed his anger and yelled at Ding Jiandang who was at the door, "What did you tell your second brother? How could you say such nonsense?"
Ding Jiandang stood up and said loudly: "If I didn't do that, then I didn't do it. It was obviously Jia Anshun who did it. Why are you wrongly accusing me?"
Ding Xiang said, "Dad, have you ever thought that if Fifth Brother had not really suffered a great injustice, he would not have gone to Second Brother to tell him about his grievances as soon as Second Brother came back. He can't count on his own father, he can't count on his eldest brother, and he can't count on his mother either. The only one he can count on is Second Brother."
Ding Zhigang was stunned for a moment, as if he had been hit hard in the chest, and he felt suffocated and breathless.
Did he really wrongly accuse his youngest son?
Ding Jiandang didn't cry just now, but after listening to Ding Xiang's words, tears fell from his eyes.
Zheng Wenfang caught a glimpse of Ding Zhigang's expression, and her heart tightened. Without waiting for Ding Zhigang to speak, she hurriedly pulled his sleeve and whispered, "Don't quarrel with the child. Forget it, just think of it as Anshun's doing. When he comes back, I'll make him admit it. It's up to you whether to beat him or scold him."
Ding Jianshe, look here.
He finally understood why Jiandang and Xiangxiang had suffered so much injustice in this family. This woman is so scheming!
He shifted his gaze and looked at Ding Zhigang, wanting to hear what his father had to say.
Ding Zhigang moved his lips twice, then looked at his younger son who was wiping his tears with his hand. Is this really not the founding of the Party?
But… He looked at Zheng Wenfang again. His wife’s eyes were red, as if she was enduring great grievances. Then he looked down at her belly. Ding Zhigang took a deep breath and frowned, “Alright, it’s been a long time. Besides, no one in the family compound would gossip about it. Let’s stop arguing about it.”
Dingxiang seemed to have expected this, so her expression did not fluctuate, not even a hint of disappointment.
Ding Jianshe looked at his father in disbelief.
When he heard his mother cursing the heaven, the earth and his father, he thought some of the words were really harsh. Now it seems that the curses were not too mild.
Ding Jiandang stopped crying, looked at his father several times, turned around and ran out.
Ding Jianshe sneered and said, "Very good, Ding Zhigang, you'd better pray that those two bastards with the last name of what the hell are able to provide for you in your old age."
After saying that, he looked at Zheng Wenfang deeply again, kicked away a wooden stool that was lying beside him, and walked out while shouting, "With a stepmother, there is a stepfather. All uncles, aunts, grandpas, and ladies, Ding Jianshe wishes you all a long life. Just wait and see what happens to my dad in the future."
After saying this, Ding Jianshe took a deep breath, suppressed the tears welling up in his eyes, and strode away.
He was angry, but he also felt indescribable pain in his heart.
That's their biological father!
He would rather favor outsiders than his own children, which makes him feel uncomfortable as if a thorn was stabbed in the heart!
At this moment, Ding Jianshe completely forgot that he thought it was natural when his parents favored Ding Nianjun and treated Ding Guo harshly.
It is both the cycle of cause and effect and the special character of this pair of parents that is rooted in their bones.
Ding Zhigang in the room was so embarrassed that his face turned red, but he could only yell at his second son's retreating back: "Ding Jianshe!"
Zheng Wenfang was really angry. She didn't expect that her second stepson would be such a scoundrel.
It was rare that I was so angry that I was shaking all over and my stomach felt a little tight, and then I was sent to the hospital.
Dingxiang looked at the mess in the room, sighed, and started to clean up.
The two brothers of the Jia family naturally witnessed Ding Jianshe going crazy. Even the eldest brother, Jia Anping, turned pale and did not dare to go out.
When their mother was sent to the hospital, the two of them followed because they were afraid that Ding Jianshe would return.
Ding Guo didn't know that Ding Jianshe had finished his labor reform early and had returned to the family compound to make a scene. She was at the station to pick someone up.
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