Chapter 34 Envy
"Mom, they know we cooked meat yesterday!"
Ding Xiaodie saw through her cousins' cunning intentions at a glance. Their tracking skills were too poor.
Zhang Xiu thought for a while and said, "The mountain is not ours. If they want to go, they can go. They will make a living based on their own abilities."
Ding Shan was seventeen years old, not young anymore. He followed behind with his fourteen-year-old sister and ten-year-old brother, which gave people an inexplicable sense of insecurity.
Ding Xiaodie agreed with her mother. No matter how hateful they were, they couldn't bear to let anyone starve to death. Since there was food on the mountain, they could all eat it together.
However, we really have to be on guard against Ding Shan's gloomy look.
There happened to be two children on the roadside at that moment. Ding Xiaodie suddenly had an idea and called them along as well: "While we still have energy after drinking the porridge, it would be a good idea to go up the mountain and pick some mushrooms."
The two children were about ten years old and already knew they wanted to share the burden of the family, so they agreed immediately.
Afterwards, Ding Xiaodie turned around and called out calmly, "Cousins, do you want to go up the mountain with us to pick mushrooms? Let's go together."
Unexpectedly, she actually offered to go together. Ding Shan and Ding Xue felt a little embarrassed. Ding Hao, who was only ten years old and didn't know what embarrassment was, ran over happily: "Then cousin, let's go!"
Ding Xiaodie put her arm around his shoulders and turned around. Her cousin was two years younger than her, but he was as tall as her.
She deliberately asked, "What's going on? I see that my cousin and sister seem very unhappy. Don't they want to go up the mountain?"
"Yes, of course I don't. My father told us to follow you all the time when he left the house, and not to miss a single thing."
After he finished speaking, Ding Hao realized that he had let the cat out of the bag, and he quickly raised his hand to cover his mouth.
"It's okay, I didn't hear anything." Ding Xiaodie comforted him.
Children's minds are not yet capable of independent thinking, especially in this era when almost all children are illiterate. It is very easy for someone as old as Ding Hao to be led astray.
After hearing what his cousin said, Ding Hao followed her steadily.
As for Ding Shan and Ding Xue, they deliberately walked slowly behind and talked to the two children from the village. They wanted to follow them but were unwilling to have any communication.
Zhang Xiu saw it, sighed and shook his head. It was the evil done by the adults. Look at what kind of people they have turned their children into.
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At the same time.
Ding Gui is envied by all the men in the village.
"Ding Gui, what is that in your hand?"
"That looks good, huh? This way I don't have to touch dead people."
Ding Gui chuckled: "My wife made it. She was worried about it getting damaged, so she made it overnight."
"Hey, I didn't expect Zhang to have such good cooking skills."
"Exactly. She's very attentive and skilled. Unlike that damned woman in my house who just howls all day long."
Not to mention the men in the village, even the village chief Lai Fu came forward to check it out curiously: "Not bad!"
He thought hard: "It looks familiar."
Ding Gui was startled by this, but fortunately after a while Lai Fu said, "I remember that more than ten years ago when I went to the provincial capital, I saw a Westerner wearing a handbag like this."
Ding Gui finally breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the style of his gloves was the one-finger type. Except for the thumb, the other fingers were all together. This made it look simple and not too novel.
When everyone left, Ding Gui whispered to Lai Fu, "Brother, don't throw away the rabbit skin from last night. You can make two pairs of handbags after drying it in the sun."
There's nothing we can do. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. So he should just call me that!
Lai Fu's face lit up immediately. "You looked so honest before, but I didn't expect you to be quite creative. Okay, I'll go back and tell your sister-in-law."
Ding Gui smiled and raised his chin.
He is not honest, not at all. When it comes to these calculations, I believe that if he says he is the best, no one in Aozigou dares to say anything second to him.
But later when they were moving the bodies, the men in the village found excuses.
"Ding Gui, hurry up, you come and lift his head. You're not afraid because of the handbag."
"Ding Gui, come here, come here!"
Ding Guicai wasn't the punching bag he once was. He only took care of what needed to be moved by his group, and tossed the gloves to the others: "Put them on. You can do it too."
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The villagers discovered that Ding Gui was not as easy to control as before!
However, they didn't have time to think about the reason, as they all felt nauseous and retched.
They moved from one house to the next, and after all the bodies were moved, they had to go back to the room to disinfect it.
When the Lu family came to deliver breakfast, they left a bag of lime powder.
To prevent the plague from spreading, the lime powder must be spread very carefully.
When spreading lime powder, the three brothers Ding Gui, Ding De and Ding Rong were unexpectedly grouped together. He suspected that Village Chief Lai Fu did this on purpose, perhaps wanting the three brothers to have a good talk.
It’s a pity that the village chief meant well but ended up with bad results. One of the two brothers was insidious and cunning, and the other was extremely vicious. It was impossible to communicate with them normally, let alone have a rational chat with them.
So Ding Gui just kept spreading lime without saying a word.
Just when he was peeing hard, Ding Rong and Ding De exchanged glances, and the two of them blocked him from the front and back.
"Brother, second brother, is there something wrong?" Ding Gui knew what was going on, but he pretended to be confused and stopped what he was doing.
Ding Rong asked directly, "Third Brother, your family cooked meat for dinner yesterday, right? Tell me honestly, where did the meat come from?"
Ding Gui was stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing: "Brother, you're so funny, is it appropriate to talk about meat at this time?"
We just carried a corpse, how can we continue the conversation?
Ding De immediately growled: "Just tell me what I'm asking you, otherwise..."
"What else?" Ding Gui's face suddenly became serious, and a sharp light flashed in his eyes. At this moment, he was no longer the Ding Gui who had been timid for half his life.
This made Ding De stunned for a moment, but after recovering, he still said something harsh: "If you have anything to eat in the future, share half with me and my eldest brother, otherwise we will make your family suffer. Don't think you can get excited just because you know a little bit. I tell you, be careful with your wife and daughter."
"Brother, are you threatening me?" Ding Gui grinned amusedly. "You're saying that if I don't share the food with you, Xiaodie will be harmed, right? Well, let me tell you, first of all, the food is ours, we can eat it however we want, there's no need to share it with you. Secondly, although Xiaodie is still young, she's not to be messed with. If you don't believe me, take some time to go and see if she can help you. I guarantee she'll beat you to a pulp."
How is that possible, considering Ding Xiaodie looks so weak.
Ding De and Ding Rong sneered at the same time: "Third brother, listen carefully. If you are unkind, we will not be kind to you. Don't come to me crying and glaring at me. You'd better take care of yourself."
(End of this chapter)
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