Chapter 40 40 Second Uncle and Second Aunt
Ding Guo slept comfortably until he woke up naturally.
My third uncle and aunt, Ding Dayong, and Ding Dazhu, who had just finished his summer vacation, went to work.
There was only one child in the family, Ding Dalin, who was 10 years old.
"Sister, you're up!"
Seeing Ding Guo coming out of the inner room, Ding Dalin hurriedly called out to him and said, "There are fried eggs with loofah, steamed buns and corn bread left in the pot for you. Mother steamed the corn bread this morning, fried shrimp paste, and cooked mung bean soup..."
This was what his parents told him before going to work in the morning, to wait for Ding Guo to get up and tell her what's available at home, so that his elder sister would not miss out on breakfast.
For this reason, he didn't go out to play.
Zhao Gangdan came to call him twice, but he remembered to greet his elder sister, so he stayed at home obediently.
He finished talking in one breath and said, "Big sister, I'm going out to play!"
Ding Guo's face suddenly turned red. The half-grown children woke up earlier than her. She forced herself to stay calm and nodded, saying, "Okay, go and play."
Ding Dalin ran out in a flash.
Ding Guo ate a steamed bun and two cornbreads with fried loofah with eggs and shrimp paste.
The steamed cornbread tasted exactly like the original owner's memory, and she ate it with great satisfaction.
Peng Guihua was working in the field when her sister-in-law Huang Meihua came over.
"Aunt San, what did your family do yesterday afternoon when you took leave?"
I heard that he even borrowed a bullock cart from the village.
Peng Guihua knew that she couldn't hide the fact that Ding Guo had returned, and there was no need to conceal it, so she said casually, "Dani'er is back, we went to the county town to pick her up."
Huang Meihua immediately imagined a thin figure with lowered eyebrows and submissive eyes, but she was still surprised: "Daniel? Why did she come back?"
Peng Guihua smiled and said, "Look at what my second sister-in-law said. She grew up in the village and hasn't been back for several years. Why doesn't she come back to visit?"
Huang Meihua: "Didn't she go to the countryside? Where did she come from?"
Peng Guihua was surprised that her eldest sister-in-law had not told her second sister-in-law that Ding Guo had returned to the city, so she said, "His uncle and aunt took her back to the city. Since she didn't have any work arranged for the time being, she came back to her hometown to stay for a while."
Huang Meihua smiled and said, "That's perfect. Let her work in the fields for a few days and help earn some work points."
Peng Guihua said unhappily, "It's rare for the kids to come back to work in the fields. What kind of work are they doing? We are short of those two work points."
Huang Meihua curled her lips, thinking that the third brother's family was stupid. They treated a little girl, not their own child, like a piece of cake.
She wants to cherish several daughters in her own family. She wants to raise as many as she can, but the third son's family is also weird. She only cares about the taciturn son of the eldest son.
Later she figured it out. They were trying to please the eldest family, but after trying for a long time, the eldest family still didn't like the third family, so they came to her to talk about it.
But my sister-in-law said that if the thing was successful, she would be given 50 yuan as a reward for her hard work.
Huang Meihua felt a little regretful when she thought of what her sister-in-law had entrusted her with.
She does have three daughters. The eldest, Ding Tao, is just the right age, but doesn't meet the other requirements mentioned by her sister-in-law, that is, she has to be tall and good-looking.
Ding Tao is not tall and looks just like me, nothing special.
The second and third children are not old enough.
Otherwise, this good thing would have fallen into her family.
"Hey, Dani'er is of the right age, why doesn't sister-in-law let Dani'er go?"
Huang Meihua murmured to herself.
Then I thought about Danier's personality, which made it impossible to get anything done even if I kicked her three times. Or maybe she didn't look that good, so people probably didn't like her.
Or it could be that it’s not easy for two sisters to live in the same family.
However, Danier, the taciturn girl, cannot be left idle. The third son's wife is reluctant to order her around, but she is willing to do so because she is just a girl.
Work for your own family and eat at the third brother's house.
Just thinking about it makes me laugh out loud.
She turned around and went to look for her eldest daughter, Ding Tao, and muttered a few words of advice to her, then pushed her: "Go quickly!"
"Ding Guo is back?" Ding Tao looked calculating, "Let her do the work, then I don't have to come anymore?"
"If you can, come with Danier. If you don't, I'll skin you alive." Huang Meihua said unhappily.
Ding Tao curled her lips and turned away.
She hasn't seen the elder sister from her uncle's family for a long time.
But the impression I have in my mind is that she was a taciturn person and was often called home by her mother to do housework.
When she was a child, she often ordered her around. She asked Ding Guo to help with the work assigned to her by her mother. In her mother's words, Ding Guo was the older sister and should take care of her younger siblings.
Although I haven't seen it for a few years, there shouldn't be much change.
Ding Tao walked towards his uncle's house.
The door of the house was ajar, and Ding Tao pushed it open and walked in.
Ding Guo finished his breakfast and washed the pots and bowls. He was looking for something to fill up the mung bean soup to take to the fields for his uncle and the others when the door was pushed open.
She thought Ding Dalin had returned, and was about to turn around to tease him, but it turned out to be a girl who seemed familiar yet unfamiliar.
"Are you Ding Guo?" Ding Tao saw the tall and thin Ding Guo as soon as she entered the room, and immediately felt a little unfair.
How come Ding Guo is so tall?
"Who are you……"
Ding Guo recognized Ding Tao through the original owner's memory, but he was a little unsure.
"I'm Ding Tao. Oh, you don't recognize me, a country girl, after returning to the city?" Ding Tao said sarcastically.
According to Ding Guo's personality, she had basically controlled the person with just this sentence, and then she had to perform well to prove that it was not what she said.
Ding Guo chuckled and said, "That's strange. He recognized Dayong at first sight yesterday, but why didn't he recognize you? It seems that it has nothing to do with whether he is from the countryside or not. Maybe he is not that familiar with you."
After saying that, he continued to clean up with his head down. Ding Tao was choked and stood there in a daze, his face flushed.
After not seeing each other for a few years, Ding Guo has become sharp-tongued.
"Um...my mother wants you to come over!"
Ding Guo found a piece of cloth to cover the basket, and went to get a few bowls. He smiled and said, "I just finished breakfast. Isn't it a bit early to go to your house for lunch at this time?"
When the second aunt was a child, she was used to ordering the original owner around, so it was clear without any doubt that calling her that would mean something bad.
Ding Tao laughed angrily: "Who said you were asked to go home for dinner? My mother asked you to go to the fields..."
"Ah!" Ding Guo interrupted her hastily, "I came back from a long distance, why didn't Second Aunt invite me to her house for dinner? You can't ask me to help with your housework, right? No way, Second Aunt would do such a thing?"
Ding Tao choked again.
Of course her mother asked Ding Guo to help earn work points for the family, but after hearing what Ding Guo said, she found it difficult to admit it.
"Of course not!" Ding Tao reacted quickly, "My mother just hasn't seen you for several years and misses you, so she asked you to go over and talk to her."
When they got to the field, her mother instructed Ding Guo, and she didn't believe that Ding Guo would dare to say no.
When she was a child, Ding Guo was most afraid of her mother.
"Where is Second Aunt?" Ding Guo asked with a smile.
Ding Tao's face flushed a little: "In the ground."
Ding Guo chuckled and raised his chin towards the door: "Lead the way."
Ding Tao turned around and walked away. After taking two steps, she suddenly became annoyed.
What is Ding Guo’s attitude?
What do you think you are?
He immediately quickened his pace and rushed to the field angrily.
Ding Guo followed slowly behind with a basket on his shoulder.
Ding Guo knew where Third Aunt and the others worked without Ding Tao leading the way. The land in the village was divided according to teams, and each team was responsible for its own land.
The original owner returned to the city when he was thirteen years old, not three.
When she arrived at the field, Ding Tao turned around, snorted triumphantly, and went to complain to her mother.
Ding Guo accurately found his third uncle and aunt who were working and called out to them with a smile.
A neighbor next to Peng Guihua heard the noise and looked over, asking, "Is that Danier?"
Just now, the sisters-in-law Peng Guihua and Huang Meihua were talking to each other without avoiding each other. In addition, yesterday afternoon, none of the Ding Laosan family went to work and borrowed the village ox cart to go to the county, which caused a sensation. Today, people learned that the eldest daughter of the Ding Laosan family, who was a worker in Fengning, had returned.
Peng Guihua couldn't suppress a smile on her face: "Yeah, he's not short, right?"
The neighbor sighed, "But he's not short, he's quite tall, but too thin."
"Third Aunt!"
As Ding Guo walked over, several neighbors who recognized her came to greet her. Ding Guo also called people according to her memory, and came to Peng Guihua and said, "Auntie, have some mung bean soup."
The neighbor next door praised Ding Guo for being sensible. Ding Guo smiled and said, "My third aunt got up early to cook it. I just borrowed it to offer my gratitude."
The neighbors were surprised again, thinking that children still need to be raised by their biological parents, because look, the child can speak more fluently than before.
When she was with her grandmother, Ding Guo wasn't so eloquent.
Peng Guihua smiled and said, "I make mung bean soup every day, but none of the boys at home come to borrow flowers to offer to Buddha, so it's the daughter who is so considerate."
She drank the mung bean soup and glanced at the second brother's house. After the neighbor who was talking in front of her left, she whispered, "Just now your second aunt came to ask me about you. I saw her go back and talk to Ding Tao for a while, and then Ding Tao left. Not long after, you came to the field with her. I guess your second aunt is planning something. If she wants you to help her work in the field, don't listen to her!"
Peng Guihua also knew the character of the second son's family, so she gave them some advice.
Ding Guo smiled and said, "Don't worry, I'll go and deliver mung bean soup to Uncle San and Dayong."
"Don't go. Your uncle and aunt have seen you coming. Go and say hello to them first." Peng Guihua reminded him again, "If they say something unpleasant, just pretend you didn't hear it."
Ding Guo put the basket on the ground, turned around and walked towards Huang Meihua and his second uncle Ding Zhige with a smile.
When Ding Tao saw her coming, she rolled her eyes at first, then waited for the show with a gloating look.
Huang Meihua had already listened to her eldest daughter's complaint and her face was looking grim when she saw Ding Guo coming over.
The corners of her mouth suddenly sank, and she turned her head away pretending she saw nothing, deciding to give Ding Guo a warning first.
Ding Guo also pretended not to see her and smiled at Ding Zhige, "Second Uncle, I haven't seen you for a few years, but you don't look old at all. You look younger than my dad."
Ding Zhige just heard Huang Meihua say that Ding Guo was back. He was a little unhappy that she had greeted the third family in advance but not her own family first.
Although I know that this child has been close to the third brother's family since he was a child, I am his second uncle. During the years when my eldest brother was away from the village, he is an important person in the Ding family. Shouldn't I respect him first when there is something going on?
Therefore, he didn't want to give her a good face.
Ding Guo smiled and said this, which made him feel embarrassed to keep his cold face, so he forced a smile and said, "What time did you arrive last night?"
"It's lunch time anyway, and I didn't feel comfortable going home because it was lunchtime." She glanced at Ding Tao with a smile and raised her voice, "Ding Tao just came to my house to find me and said she wanted to stew meat for lunch and asked me to come over. Second uncle, don't stew meat. We're all family, why would you kill a chicken and stew meat? You and Second Aunt are too polite!"
Ding Zhige's expression suddenly froze.
The people working in the fields were not far away. They all heard what he said and laughed, "Wow, this second uncle is a good one. When the eldest niece comes back, she will kill chickens and stew meat to entertain her."
Huang Meihua dared not remain silent any longer, so she turned around and said with a stiff smile: "Daniel..."
Ding Guo turned around, looking surprised: "Second Aunt? You are in the field too. I didn't see you when I came over just now. I thought you had gone home to work! Fortunately, you haven't gone home yet. I just want to say a few words. I just came back to see you. We don't need to entertain you in a big way."
Huang Meihua was so angry that she felt suffocated. She thought to herself, who wants to entertain you? Do you deserve to be entertained?
She gritted her teeth and forced a smile, saying, "Yes, we don't have to be so polite when we are family, but you still have to come to my house for a meal. In the afternoon, Second Aunt will cook a few dishes, and you can come to my house and sit down."
Ding Guo scratched his head with an embarrassed look on his face and said with a smile: "Okay, when I was a kid and I was working for your family, Second Aunt always promised to treat me to this and that, but I never got to eat once. This time I have to go to Second Aunt's house and have a good meal."
When Huang Meihua was a child, she asked the original owner to work for her family. She made big promises to the original owner, such as 'I will save a few dumplings for my eldest daughter during the Chinese New Year'; 'When Second Aunt's family steams white flour buns, I will save one for you'; 'Next time Second Aunt makes lard, I will save half for you for frying, and don't give it to anyone else, just my eldest daughter'.
After drawing these big cakes, she would either bring a pile of clothes for the original owner to wash, or hang a backpack on the original owner, put a sickle in her hands, and ask her to cut grass for her family and feed the pigs when she comes back; or ask the original owner to collect firewood for her.
In short, the original owner worked hard but didn't get any of the rewards he promised.
Huang Meihua's face suddenly froze.
Just now, when she heard Ding Tao complaining to her, she didn't take it seriously. She thought to herself, she is just a sharp-tongued person, she has become more eloquent after living in the city for a few years, but no matter how sharp she is, can she dare to confront her?
Well, Ding Guo didn't confront her, every word he said was hurtful to her.
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