Chapter 36: Aunt San's Family
Ding Guo looked at Ding Dayong, a teenager. He was tall, with dark skin from years of hard work, but he was not strong and sturdy, and he looked a little silly when he cried.
Compared with those ungrateful people at home, Ding Dayong was more like the original owner's biological brother with the same father and mother. He called her "big sister" with real feelings, and the affection in his eyes was genuine, which made her come back from thousands of miles away worthwhile.
"Silly boy, you are all here, how can I not come back?"
"Dani'er, is it Danier?" Another anxious voice came, and Ding Guo followed the voice and saw a somewhat familiar face.
The face that exists in the original owner's memory is really Third Aunt Peng Guihua!
It’s just that the face in my memory seemed younger. The face of Peng Guihua in front of me had a few more wrinkles and the tatters of years of hard work.
After all, we haven't seen each other for six years.
When Peng Guihua saw Danier whom she hadn't seen for several years, tears welled up in her eyes. She rushed over and looked her up and down, saying, "Your damned parents, how could they torture such a good child like this?"
She hugged Ding Guo as if she was hugging a skinny skeleton. She felt so heartbroken that she could no longer hold back and burst into tears.
Peng Guihua gave birth to three sons but no daughter. She particularly loved the well-behaved and pretty Ding Guo. Her love for her was genuine. She didn't even love her nieces from her mother's side that much. In the words of the old people, it was a fate. She had a connection with the daughter of her eldest uncle's family.
Ding Guo's nose suddenly felt sore, his eyes were hot, and he hugged Peng Guihua back, crying, "Aunt San, I'm fine, nothing's wrong!"
This is an instinctive empathy. She is not that heartless.
A middle-aged man came up, with a silly smile on his dark and thin face, his eyes slightly red, and murmured: "It's good that you're back, it's good that you're back!"
"Third Uncle!" Through tearful eyes, Ding Guo recognized the man who came over, his third uncle Ding Zhicheng.
Peng Guihua cried for a while, not bothering to wipe the tears from her face. She held Ding Guo's thin shoulders and looked at her carefully, smiling and said, "You've grown taller. It's good to be tall, but you're too thin. This time, Third Aunt will have to give you some nourishment."
"Aunt San, I can actually eat a lot, but I just can't gain weight." Ding Guo was deeply touched when he saw Peng Guihua crying and laughing. A deep warmth flowed in his heart.
Peng Guihua hit her lightly and said angrily, "Don't make excuses for your parents. I don't believe there is a child who can't be fattened up! And you, I'm not saying anything bad about you, you're so stupid. They asked you to go to the countryside, so you went. How could you be so stupid!"
"Okay, the child finally comes back..." said the third uncle.
Ding Guo listened silently, not annoyed. She was not so stupid as to not be able to distinguish between good and bad people. Third Aunt loved the original owner from the bottom of her heart, which was why she was so disappointed in him.
It’s a pity that the original owner of the book lived up to this love.
She said solemnly, "When I was young, I thought many things were simple. I thought that as long as I was sincere, my parents and my brothers and sisters would be sincere to me as well. But after going to the countryside for a few years, I realized that it was not the case. In addition, I met an aunt in the countryside who was as good as Third Aunt. She taught me a lot of things and I benefited a lot. This time when I returned to the city, I saw through their calculations. I will not make stupid mistakes again in the future, and I will not make Third Aunt worry anymore."
When talking about this matter, Peng Guihua became even more furious. She scolded Ding Zhigang and Yue Hongmei one after another, and also scolded Ding Nianjun a lot.
Ding Zhicheng didn't stop them this time. What his elder brother and sister-in-law did was really unkind. How could they bear to let such a good daughter marry a fool!
Peng Guihua kept holding Ding Guo's hand and was reluctant to let go.
She also lamented the changes in Danier that she hadn't seen in a few years, but she thought the change was good, so she spoke out when she was dissatisfied, and no longer kept everything in her heart like she did when she was a child.
Ding Guo had been worried that her personality was too different from the original owner and that Third Aunt would become suspicious. In fact, she was overthinking it. After all, there had been six or seven years between them. Peng Guihua would only have the feeling that "Danni had grown up and become a grown-up girl", and she had no other unusual guesses.
Following them out of the station, I saw Ding Dazhui, the second son of my third uncle, standing guard next to the ox cart.
Dazhu is 14 this year. He was only seven or eight years old when the original owner returned to the city. He cried heart-wrenchingly while chasing the ox cart. His third uncle Ding Zhicheng hugged him around the waist, and he struggled like a calf to prevent his elder sister from leaving.
Now, after a few years, he has grown into a grown man, but he has become shy and is a little embarrassed to call me "big sister"!
Ding Guo smiled and said, "The big pillar is this high."
Ding Dazhui blushed in embarrassment and secretly looked at the elder sister in his memory.
It felt like his elder sister looked different from what he remembered.
Ding Zhicheng borrowed the ox cart from the brigade. He hurriedly asked Ding Guo to get on the cart and said with a smile, "It's the same ox that brought you and your parents to the county last time."
Peng Guihua was unhappy to talk about the past: "Why bring this up?"
Thinking of Ding Guo's return to the city, her heart ached as if it were fried in oil; but thinking that her uncle and aunt were the biological parents of the child, which child would not want to follow their biological parents? So she had to endure it no matter how uncomfortable it was.
If she had known that Danier would be wronged and suffer if she returned to the city, she would have risked offending the old couple rather than let them take Danier away.
Ding Dayong had already taken Ding Guo's handbag and put it on the car board. He asked Dazhu to sit with his parents while he drove.
Peng Guihua held Ding Guo's hand and asked her about her situation in the past few years in the countryside, her life after returning to the city, and the follow-up of that incident.
It refers to asking her to marry a fool.
Ding Guo said everything with a smile.
Then Peng Guihua talked about something, saying, "By the way, Danier, your mother sent a telegram to your second uncle and second aunt a few days ago. After receiving the telegram, your second uncle and second aunt went to the commune post office to call Fengning. We don't know what they said. But your second aunt has been running around these days. She has been going to Ding Ergou's house more frequently in the past one or two days. People say that she has taken a fancy to her daughter Ding Erya and wants to find a husband for Erya. I wonder if it was your parents who asked her to do it? Did their colleagues in the factory ask her to help find a daughter-in-law from our village?"
City workers don't look for city wives, but instead look for wives from the countryside. It's possible that the wife has some disease or physical defect, or at worst, she may be a second-time, older man!
This kind of thing is common in rural areas.
Single young men with urban household registration, who are lame, blind, or remarried with children, will look for girls from the countryside. They only look for girls who are good-looking and have a good figure.
Most of the girls' families are willing to do so. After all, if the girls marry into the city, they will also benefit from it. Moreover, the betrothal gifts given by such families are generous. After receiving the gift money, they will have enough money to build a house or marry their son.
Ding Guo's heart moved. She remembered what Haozi said about the plot having completely deviated, as well as what Yue Hongmei said out of the blue that day.
"Haozi, have they not given up on finding a dowry for Ding Nianjun? They just stopped targeting me?"
System: "Master, we cannot detect plots that completely deviate from the main path."
Ding Guo lowered her eyes and thought, she felt that she should be right.
Yue Hongmei and the others have changed their target!
"The report letter should have arrived, right?"
The ox cart swayed along for nearly two hours. When we entered the village, it was almost dark and smoke was rising from every household.
"Sister, do you still remember that big locust tree?" Ding Dayong pointed at the big locust tree over there, turned his head and asked with a grin.
During the journey, Ding Guojing dug up the original owner's memory. He rolled his eyes when he heard this: "How can you not remember? Which idiot fell from up there? He got so exhausted from the fall that he cried loudly after he recovered."
Peng Guihua and the others laughed, and Ding Dazhu gradually became familiar with Ding Guo again. He didn't know this, so he asked, "Who fell down?"
"Your brother climbed up to pick locust flowers, but he fell down and cried like a wolf. You were only two or three years old at that time."
The family walked into the village talking and laughing.
When the ox cart stopped in front of Ding Zhicheng's house, Pan Yuanzheng, from the capital, walked into the house with a frosty face, holding an envelope.
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