Chapter 98 Two in One
After arriving home, Ding Guo unloaded the things from the car and put them into the house with the help of Xiao Hong.
Xiao Hong looked at the solid food and 100 kilograms of radishes, and was once again impressed by the honesty of the other members of the Ding family.
Is it that the Ding family is the weird one, and she just happened to meet them?
Oh no, the other family I met today are not good people either. I just heard from Sister Ding Guo that they are jealous of Ding Dayong's job as a worker and are here to cause trouble.
Thinking of this, she said worriedly, "Sister Ding Guo, will your second uncle and his friends rely on you?"
Ding Guo was sorting out the things in Ding Dayong's canvas bag.
Ding Dayong said that it was filled with some dried vegetables and various pickles made by his third aunt, including large pickled cabbage lumps, pickled carrots, white radish strips and pickled cucumbers.
Hearing this, he smiled and said, "It's not right for them to blame me, but it's more reasonable for them to blame my parents. My parents ate a lot of food sent to them by the second wife, but I didn't have a single bite to eat from their family. When I was a child, I did a lot of work for them."
She put some radishes in a net bag and stuffed a handful of dried beans into it and gave it to Xiao Hong.
Seeing her packing things, Xiao Hong thought she was going to take them to her parents' house. But when she saw that they were for her, she quickly refused: "No, no, no, Sister Ding Guo, I can't take them. Why do you have to be so polite to me?"
How could she have the nerve to take what her brother brought all the way from his hometown?
Ding Guo rolled his eyes at her and said, "If I were being polite to you, I wouldn't have asked you to take time off to help me, and I wouldn't have kept you for dinner. I'm in a hurry to go back and watch the fun, so you have to take these carrots."
He stuffed it into Xiao Hong's hand without saying anything.
The original owner had stayed in the city for three years after returning. He already had some inferiority complex, and was deliberately suppressed by Ding Nianjun, resulting in the original owner not making any friends either in the staff quarters or at school.
She did have some colleagues at the food factory with whom she had a good relationship, but they were still a little short of friends, and she was embarrassed to ask them to take time off to help her.
Xiao Hong is Ding Guo’s first friend after he traveled into the book.
After seeing Xiao Hong off, Ding Guo hurriedly rode his bike to the steel plant’s staff quarters.
As soon as she got downstairs, she heard a noise coming from upstairs. The neighbor on the first floor who was listening to the noise saw her coming and waved to Ding Guo hurriedly, saying, "Ding Guo, you're back. Your relatives from your hometown are here and are arguing with your mother. I can't understand your hometown dialect because it's so fast. I only understood a few words, saying that your mother was cheating people and hurting people. How did your mother cheat people?"
In fact, she understood a few swear words, but they were too dirty and she was embarrassed to imitate them and tell Ding Guo.
Anyway, Yue Hongmei did something outrageous to her relatives in her hometown, and they came to settle the score.
Ding Guo smiled and said, "It's my uncle and aunt who are here. I'll go up and take a look."
There was the sound of a bicycle behind him. Ding Guo turned around and saw that it was Ding Zhigang with a gloomy face, and Ding Jianshe was with him. In the back seat of Ding Jianshe's car was Lu Xiaomei, who was resting at home today. She went to the steel plant to call her father-in-law and brother-in-law.
Ding Zhigang's heart ached when he saw his eldest daughter chatting and laughing with others.
The fight upstairs was almost a mess, but the eldest daughter could still smile. She really didn't want anything good to happen to this family!
When Lu Xiaomei saw Ding Guo, she was stunned for a moment. She didn't expect Ding Guo to come over.
Because of some preconceived impressions, Lu Xiaomei really disliked her elder sister-in-law.
After getting married, she often heard her mother-in-law, brother-in-law and sister-in-law complaining about the bad things about her elder sister-in-law. Her husband also complained from time to time, which made her impression of her elder sister-in-law even worse.
After all, the fact that so many people dislike him clearly shows that it is Ding Guo’s own problem.
Seeing her chatting and laughing with the neighbors, Lu Xiaomei jumped out of the car and said, "Sister, Mom is almost being bullied to death, why don't you come up to check on her after you come back?"
Ding Guo turned around and looked at her in surprise: "The people above are my second uncle and second aunt who came from my hometown, my real uncle and real aunt. They just spoke a little louder and used inappropriate words. How could mom be bullied to death? Are you saying that our Ding family bullies people?"
Ding Zhigang, who was driving the car over there, paused and felt a little upset.
She didn't want to admit that the bullies from her hometown came to her house, but her second brother's wife cursed her so dirty and her voice was so sharp that the neighbors in this dormitory building could hear the words she cursed Yue Hongmei without going out.
But if we talk about bullying, the second brother and his wife came to settle the matter because they asked someone from their hometown to find a "dowry" for Ding Nianjun last time. They were in the wrong in this matter, so the second branch cannot be considered bullying.
On the contrary, his eldest daughter's sarcastic words made him even more angry.
"Okay, let's all go upstairs and try to persuade them." Ding Zhigang said with a serious face.
Lu Xiaomei was embarrassed, but Ding Jianshe, who had parked the car, started to scold Ding Guo: "What mom said is true, you are a troublemaker, and you are the one who caused this trouble. If you hadn't been meddling in the affairs of Third Uncle's family, how could Second Uncle's family be attracted?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he fell on his back and let out a howl: "Ah——"
It was Ding Guo who used the prop 'Invisible Banana Peel' on him.
Ding Zhigang had already climbed several steps when he heard his son screaming. He turned around and asked with concern, "What's wrong? Are you okay?"
"No, nothing, I just fell down!" Ding Jianshe got up with a grin, rubbed his tailbone, and looked down at the ground to find out what he had stepped on just now. Why did he fall down so suddenly?
Ding Guo turned around and politely said goodbye to his neighbor: "Auntie, let's talk again when we are free."
It was bustling in the house upstairs.
Yue Hongmei's face was bruised, her hair was messy, and there were broken glass and ceramic slag on the ground. No one knew who had dropped them. Huang Meihua had just had a fight with Yue Hongmei, and now she was sitting on the ground, cursing at Yue Hongmei: "... It was you who asked me to help you find a virgin girl to marry a fool, and it was also you who said no. As soon as you open your mouth, I have to wipe your ass. Don't I owe it to you? You've made me lose face in the village..."
As Huang Meihua spoke, she raised her hand and slapped her old face, which trembled.
Yue Hongmei's lips trembled with anger. She never expected that the second brother and his family would suddenly come to Fengning.
"Give some judgment, are there people like Yue Hongmei? She has a daughter but she doesn't raise her. She brings a girl home to raise. Girls from outside are made of gold! That bastard hooked up with a man when she grew up. It's fine if she wants to marry a man, but she wants to find a girl from a good family to marry her man's idiot. How can that bastard be so cheap? She has to accompany another girl before she can get married. ... For a sister-in-law like Yue Hongmei, it's better to give her uncle a dog. I think calling a dog a sister-in-law is better than calling her Yue Hongmei."
Ding Zhigang's face turned black. Before he even reached the door of his house, he shouted coldly: "Ding Zhige, what nonsense is your wife talking about!"
Hearing his eldest daughter-in-law say that his second brother was also here, he knew that his second brother was a slow-witted person and he hadn't heard his second brother's voice just now, but he couldn't just shout out his brother's wife's name.
In the room, Yue Hongmei finally found someone to support her when she heard her man's voice, and she burst into tears.
Even though she cursed Ding Guo from time to time, she couldn't really say the dirty words that her sisters-in-law used, so she was directly scolded by the second brother's family.
As soon as Huang Meihua came in, she looked her up and down, suddenly rushed over and slapped her both in the face, then dragged her out by her hair, and started to curse her. Facing such a shrew, her fighting ability was not enough.
Ding Zhige was still a little in awe of his elder brother. When he suddenly heard his elder brother's voice, he hurried over and pulled Huang Meihua.
"Why are you pulling me? Am I wrong?" Huang Meihua ignored that and turned her head to shout towards the door. Although she hadn't seen Ding Zhigang's men yet, it didn't stop her from shouting, "Fuck him, why am I talking nonsense? People in our village say that the donkeys in our production team are not as stupid as you. You don't raise your own donkeys, but treat the one you brought home as a treasure. Ugh!"
In the past, she was also in awe. After all, the eldest couple always looked glamorous and had their own aura whenever they went back. In addition, she was in awe of the people in the city, so she didn't dare to breathe in front of this sister-in-law. But today, when she came, she saw Yue Hongmei, who was dressed simply, wearing an apron, and looked haggard. Isn't she the same as her and the other women in the village?
What is she afraid of? He went up and slapped her twice, letting her vent her anger first.
Besides, this step has already been taken. Even if I close the business now, I will offend people. I have no choice but to take the risk.
Ding Zhigang's forehead was throbbing. He said to the old ladies gathered at the door of his house, "My dear aunts, it's time for dinner. Let's go. There's nothing to see."
The old ladies had been counting on the Ding family's melons to eat with their meals in the second half of this year. Today the melons were still fresh, so no one wanted to leave. But looking at Ding Zhigang's dark face, they thought that after all, they were colleagues of their son and daughter-in-law, and it would not be good to be too disrespectful to him. So they left the meeting, looking back every few steps. However, they all kept their ears perked up and discussed in a low voice to find out what was missing.
The main reason was that Huang Meihua spoke too fast when she got emotional. Some old ladies couldn't understand what she said, so they asked each other for help and filled in the gaps in the content. Now they checked the 'answers' again and then gasped in shock.
I really didn't expect that Yue Hongmei wanted her eldest daughter to marry a fool but failed. She actually asked her sister-in-law in her hometown to help her find one in the countryside.
"Why didn't you look for it later?"
"I don't know why either, let's listen later..."
Although the weather is getting colder day by day, everyone came to the corridor to cook today.
Look at how busy Old Ding's family has been in the past six months. He makes a fool of himself every now and then. If he makes a few more mistakes in the future, who knows, everyone may be able to celebrate the New Year by eating melons from his family.
Ding family!
Ding Zhigang sent away the onlookers and walked in with a gloomy face. Behind him followed Lu Xiaomei who went to inform someone, Ding Jianshe who was limping, and Ding Guo who was taking a leisurely walk.
Suddenly, the small hall became so crowded that it was hard to move around.
Ding Dayong saw Ding Guo coming in and waved to her. He was standing behind the sofa. Previously, he did this to avoid being affected and getting splashed with blood. Now that there were more people in the room, the seat he occupied seemed a bit spacious.
Ding Guo hurried over, stood next to him behind the sofa, and took out a handful of melon seeds from his pocket.
The room was not quiet at this moment. Huang Meihua was still cursing at the top of her lungs, Yue Hongmei was crying loudly, Ding Jianshe and Lu Xiaomei went to support Yue Hongmei, Ding Zhigang yelled at everyone to be quiet, so the sound of Ding Guo and Ding Dayong cracking melon seeds was not so conspicuous.
But Ding Tao, who was standing next to her parents, saw it and widened her eyes in shock.
Was she dazzled? What did she see? Auntie was torn apart by her own family. When Ding Guo came in, she didn't look at her mother, but went to the side to look at melon seeds, pretending to be watching the fun. It was obvious that something was going on, or it was something that her family didn't know about. She would have to tell her parents about it later.
Yue Hongmei knew that she was in the wrong for asking her sister-in-law to help find someone, but she sent money to compensate. Huang Meihua was blind for letting the village drunkard rely on her. She chose a rogue when there were so many other families to choose from. Can she be blamed?
She felt so wronged that she was beaten for this!
Ding Jianshe had no feelings for his relatives in his hometown. When he saw his mother being beaten like this, he immediately got angry and pointed at Huang Meihua and cursed: "You old bitch, how dare you hit my mother? Do you believe I will kill you?"
"Who are you going to kill?"
Ding Zhige is usually as quiet as the saw-mouthed gourd, but he is not dumb.
It was a pity that he had looked at Ding Jianshe with a loving look when he saw him come in just now. He was his nephew, after all, and although he had only met him once, the blood relationship could not be severed, so he still felt a little bit strange about him. However, his nephew now wanted to kill his wife, so he stopped him immediately and asked angrily in a muffled voice.
Ding Tao was not an honest person either. It was obvious from the fact that she bullied the original owner when they were young. Those who dare to bully others are not the type to suffer losses. Without saying a word, she rushed up and grabbed Ding Jianshe's face: "Who are you scolding? Your mother is a shrew. Your mother has been to the Revolutionary Committee. Whose good family would be taken to the Revolutionary Committee for investigation? There is a thief in your family. You are the thief, right?"
After a few swishes, Ding Jianshe, who was temporarily unharmed, had a few blood marks on his face.
Ding Zhigang's face was so dark that ink could drip from it.
Ding Jianshe's face was so painful from being grabbed that he was furious. He couldn't beat Ding Guo, so how could he beat this country girl? He raised his hand and slapped Ding Tao all over her face. He even wanted to kick her, but he slipped as soon as he raised his leg and fell down again.
Because the house was crowded, there was not enough space for him to lie on his back, so after falling to the ground, he hit a bedroom door directly. The force was so great that it smashed the bedroom door down. The room was filled with dust and Ding Jianshe's screams.
Ding Guo sighed regretfully: "There is only one use of the banana prop left today."
Ding Zhigang roared, "Stop it, that's enough, Ding, Ding..." He couldn't remember his niece's name for a moment, so he turned to his second brother and roared, "Control your daughter."
Ding Zhige snorted coldly and said in a sullen voice: "Brother, you should also control your son. A nephew wants to kill his own aunt. He is really capable. In the past, my sister-in-law always said that you city people have good upbringing. I don't think he is that good. He even steals things!"
Ding Zhigang was suddenly furious.
"I wasn't stealing!" Ding Jianshe was slow to get up. His tailbone was aching so much and the country girl was still kicking him.
"I'll kick you to death, I'll kick you to death..." Ding Tao kicked him hard several times before giving up.
Ding Zhigang looked around the room and finally saw Ding Guo over there. He said angrily, "What are you talking about with your uncle and aunt?"
The second brother's family knew these things, it must have been passed back by Ding Guo.
Ding Dayong said quickly, "Uncle, it wasn't my sister who said that. It was me who said that. I thought that so many things had happened in your family, and it would be bad if you didn't tell the old family. If you tell them, if there are any problems that need to be solved, everyone can help you think of a solution together."
Ding Zhigang seems to be breathing out more than he is breathing in.
What can people back home do when they hear these things? It's almost the same as laughing at him.
Only then did Yue Hongmei realize that Ding Guo had also returned, and she gritted her teeth.
When did this troublemaker come back?
Also, the second brother's family bullied her, but this troublemaker didn't even come to help. Was she standing behind the sofa and watching the show?
Yue Hongmei had forgotten to be angry because of her son's screams, and now she was so angry that she began to see black.
"Okay, if you have anything to say, sit down and talk calmly." Ding Zhigang took advantage of the fact that the noise in the room had died down and quickly spoke. He looked at the second brother's couple and said, "You definitely didn't come here just for this matter. It's been a long time. If you really wanted to do this, you would have come here a long time ago. Tell me, what's the matter!"
It’s no wonder that even though the little green-headed turtle was angry, he still had some brains and grasped the key point immediately.
Huang Meihua got up from the ground and walked to the sofa and sat down, looking at Ding Zhigang and said: "Brother, you are wrong. I came here specifically for this matter. My sister-in-law cheated me, and now I can't even lift my head in the village, and the villagers are poking my spine..."
She was not a stubborn person. After she asked Ding Guo at the station and Ding Guo admitted it, even if she still had doubts, she couldn't just come to her uncle to ask for a job. She had to explain the job as compensation.
So I had no choice but to stick to this matter and demand compensation from the old family.
"I was too busy with the autumn harvest to come here before, but now I'm not busy anymore, so of course I have to come and settle accounts with my sister-in-law." Huang Meihua straightened her hair that was just messed up by Yue Hongmei, and said lightly, "We don't want more, so just find a job for our Ding Tao in the city."
"You're dreaming!"
Before Ding Zhigang could say anything, Yue Hongmei jumped up and screamed to stop him.
He came and beat her up, and ruined her reputation in front of the neighbors, and still wanted to work. How could the second brother's family be so shameless?
Everyone was preoccupied with their own thoughts and forgot about Ding Jianshe over there. He stood up with the help of the door frame. There were a few bloodstains on his face and the rest of his face was pale. He had cold sweat on his forehead, but he still firmly agreed: "Don't even think about it!"
It was just that his tailbone was hurting so badly and his face was burning with pain, so his words were so weak that no one heard him.
Huang Meihua said calmly, "Then I won't leave. Anyway, there is no work in the fields at home right now, so we three won't leave. We will live in your house and sleep in your bed and dream."
Ding Zhigang turned around and glared at Ding Guo. He was no longer happy that his nephew could stay in the city. He just felt that Ding Guo had brought him endless trouble.
Ding Guo responded to the little green-headed turtle's glare with a smile and added, "Dad, Dayong got a permanent job. Are you happy?"
Ding Zhigang's gloomy face suddenly turned into shock, and he suddenly looked over.
Yue Hongmei also looked over in disbelief. Really? She didn't believe it!
Ding Jianshe, whose face was pale and had several blood marks on it, was also full of astonishment!
Ding Guo is not boastful. With her second uncle's family around, if she doesn't say it now, the whole family will be in trouble later. It would be better for her to announce the good news in person and reap some internal friction at the same time.
Ding Dayong said with a half-smile, "Although I don't know who ruined my job before and didn't want me to stay in the city, fortunately my eldest sister loves me and resettled me and even made me a regular employee. From now on, I can eat commercial grain in the city."
A trace of guilt flashed across Yue Hongmei and Ding Zhigang's faces.
Huang Meihua and Ding Zhige grasped the key point together: "Dayong, someone ruined your job before?"
Then he arranged another one for me. Isn't it easy to work in the city? Then the uncle didn't raise his nephews and nieces in his hometown for so many years.
The second couple looked at Ding Zhigang even more unfriendly.
Ding Dayong glanced at Yue Hongmei, then nodded and said, "Well, I used to be a loader in a garment factory. I was fired after working for a few days. They said I offended someone. I had only been in the city for a few days at that time. If I had offended anyone, it was just a quarrel with an old lady or an old man..."
Ding Zhigang stopped him and said, "Dayong, what nonsense are you talking about? I am your uncle, how can I harm you?"
Ding Guo smiled. The little green-headed turtle was quite good at choosing words. Why didn't he include his beloved wife when he said this?
Seeing Yue Hongmei didn't say anything, Ding Guo said, "Mom, Dad has expressed his opinion, do you want to express your opinion too?"
Yue Hongmei was furious: "Why should I express my opinion, you troublemaker..."
"Oh, by the way, Mom, you said that the troublemaker reminded me..." Ding Guo was in no hurry to let her mother express her opinion. She interrupted her and turned to say to her second uncle and second aunt, "Just now downstairs, Ding Jianshe also said that I am a troublemaker and that I cause trouble for the family. Second uncle and second aunt, Ding Jianshe meant that you are the trouble. He said that if I don't take care of Dayong from my third uncle's family, you won't be attracted here."
Yue Hongmei's voice split: "Ding Guo!"
Ding Jianshe's face turned red with anger, and he glared at her.
Huang Meihua was already speaking in a sarcastic tone: "Oh, this is the upbringing of you city people, sister-in-law, this is how you raised your son. Your son has such a good upbringing, he became a thief and was fired from the factory, yet he still has the nerve to complain about our poor relatives in our hometown and think we are troublesome. Why didn't he think we were troublesome when he was eating our food?"
"Who is the thief? You are the thief!" Ding Jianshe was so angry that golden stars started to float in front of his eyes.
Being fired from the factory was a painful thing that Ding Jianshe could not get over. Today, he was repeatedly beaten to death by the country bumpkin in his eyes. He was so ashamed and angry that his blood rushed to his head. His eyes turned black and he fell backwards.
"Construction!" Yue Hongmei screamed and rushed over.
There was a sudden commotion in the room.
Scared, Ding Guo quickly checked how many times the banana peel prop had been used. Fortunately, she said that she did not do it, and this time it was Ding Jianshe who fell by himself.
Ding Jianguo got a call from his father and asked for leave from his boss. He rushed back home and opened the door. He saw Ding Jianshe fainted. Wait, that was Jianshe? What happened to his face?
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