Chapter 82 Clove Eating Meat
Hearing their daughter say that she had a plan, Ding Gui and his wife were about to ask about it, but unexpectedly a thin figure walked in at the door, and the childish voice was like a kitten: "Cousin."
"clove!"
Dingxiang's braids were not combed today. They looked like a chicken coop after a night of scratching. She had a typical face of an ancient beauty, with big eyes and a pointed chin. In terms of appearance, among her cousins, Dingxiang and Ding Xiaodie looked the most alike.
Ding Xiaodie loved this little girl the most, and she quickly ran over to hold her hand: "Dingxiang, have you had breakfast?"
At this time, Ding De was waiting for the old woman to get the sweet potatoes. When he saw his daughter suddenly follow him, he originally wanted to ask her to go back, but when he heard Ding Xiaodie ask her if she had had breakfast, he immediately swallowed the words that were about to come out of his mouth.
Although my daughter can't eat much, if she can have a meal here, it can save some money for the family.
Dingxiang was a simple-minded little girl who had no idea what her father was thinking. She just told the truth: "I didn't eat it."
"Then come with me quickly, we are having breakfast!"
Ding Xiaodie pulled Ding Xiang to the dining table, served her porridge, took out some sweet potatoes, and gave her the bacon in her own bowl.
Wow, meat!
The little girl's watery eyes suddenly widened. She hadn't eaten meat for a long time, except for the reward from the Lu family that day.
Looking at the little guy's expression, Ding Gui and his wife looked at each other, feeling sad and distressed.
The children of this generation are so pitiful. They are nothing like the children of the new century in the previous generation. They don’t want to eat meat even if there is meat on the table for every meal, and they still need the adults at home to chase them and feed them.
The couple tacitly gave all the meat in their bowls to Dingxiang, and the little guy's eyes widened even more.
"It's okay, eat quickly. After you finish eating, your cousin will take you out to play." Ding Xiaodie comforted her with a smile.
Zhang Xiu also said gently: "Dingxiang, eat. Remember what your aunt said. If you don't have enough to eat at home in the future, you can come to our house. As long as your cousin eats, you will have something to eat. Do you understand?"
Ding Xiang nodded, her eyes narrowed with a smile.
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"The food at my cousin's house is delicious. The fried sweet potatoes have a salty taste and there's meat."
After breakfast, Ding Xiaodie asked Ding Xiang to wait for a while while she went upstairs to get something.
While the obedient Dingxiang was waiting at the door, her father Ding De quietly pulled her aside to ask her. Although he was also at the third brother's house at the time, he was too far away to see clearly what they were eating, so he asked his daughter carefully.
After all, she had eaten at the same table with them, and she didn't expect Dingxiang to give such an answer.
Having meat is nothing. The third brother's family has a piece of bacon given by the Lu family as a reward. Everyone knows this, but there is salt in it. How is this possible?
Dinde couldn't believe his ears: "Are you sure it's the salt?"
Ding Xiang nodded: "Yes, it tastes like salt."
Oh, this third brother is amazing!
Ding De couldn't help but fall into deep thought. Salt must be so precious. When Ding Gui's family was in Aozi Village, they sometimes couldn't even afford salt. They had to go out and do hard labor for others for a few days to earn a few copper coins before they could go to the town to buy a bag of salt.
At that time, Ding Gui's labor was not even worth a penny. Whenever a boss hired someone and offered ten copper coins to others, he would only get three at most.
How could such a person hide his secrets and have salt to eat when he escaped from famine?
"Dad, what's wrong?" Dingxiang tilted her head and looked at her father, wondering why he asked these questions.
"It's okay, go play!" Ding De pulled his thoughts back from his trance, stood up and went home with his hands behind his back, but his thoughts were in a mess, very messy. He really couldn't understand how the third brother could suddenly become so capable.
As soon as he left, Ding Xiaodie came out of the house.
"Lilac, let's go!"
Ding Xiaodie planned to braid Dingxiang's hair first, and then take her for a walk, so that she could carry out her plan.
Just as she sat down to comb her hair for a while, Dingxiang heartlessly told her what had just happened, and asked her: "Cousin, why does my father ask about this?"
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Ding Xiaodie couldn't help but pause what she was doing. This child was so naive that she told others everything her father said behind her back. She was so naive that people found her adorable.
In fact, that bag of salt was taken out from the space.
People can live without oil, but not without salt, especially laborers like my father who follow the villagers to find water sources every day. Without salt, he will have no strength.
The most important thing is that Ding Xiaodie herself can't stand eating fresh water.
So when he took out the 30-gram salt packet that day, he told Wang Dafeng that he found it in the cracks of the kitchen wall. There was no other way anyway. The old woman believed it immediately. She also kept it secret and didn't tell anyone, for fear that someone would come to ask for the salt.
Dingxiang coming to their house for dinner today was not part of their plan at all.
After thinking briefly for two seconds, Ding Xiaodie reduced the risk level of Ding De asking about this matter to zero. He had the right to doubt, but their family's statement that it was dug out from the cracks in the wall was also true. Even if it was not true, outsiders did not lose anything to her family.
"Lilac, remember this: adults' affairs are adults' affairs. We shouldn't interfere. If we interfere too much, we'll only cause trouble. Do you understand?"
"I understand cousin."
"Okay, that's fine!"
Ding Xiaodie held Dingxiang's little head and looked left and right. She had a small bun on each side of her hair, which matched the little girl's face shape very well, making her look refreshing and cute.
As the two of them were laughing, Ding Xiang suddenly froze...
"Cousin, I forgot to tell you something!"
"What?"
"I came into your house just now because my eldest cousin Ding Xue said she wanted to see you."
"She wants to see me? Where?"
It turned out that this confused little guy was so focused on eating after he went in that he forgot what he was going to say.
But why did Ding Xue want to see me?
What other reasons could there be?
Ding Xiaodie already had the answer in her heart.
Ding Xue has been feeling romantic these days, but she had to watch Lu Chenhe come to talk to her, Ding Xiaodie, before he left. Didn't this make Ding Xue angry?
Jealousy makes people angry. She said Ding Xue wanted to find someone to vent her anger on, and Ding Xiaodie happened to be the one she had her eyes on.
At this time, Ding Xiang refused to say where she was. She shook her head vigorously and said, "I don't care where she is. Don't go there, cousin."
She was afraid that her cousin would suffer a loss, after all, the elder cousin was much taller than the younger cousin.
At this moment, several half-grown boys from the village happened to pass by. One of the naughty boys suddenly started to curse: "None of you Dings are good people."
Since he could say such things, he must be from the Miao family. Ding Xiaodie looked at Ding Xiang: "Are you okay?"
A flash of fear and panic flashed across Dingxiang's eyes, and she said firmly, "I'm fine."
The naughty boy was still making all kinds of faces not far away, and kept shouting: "Dingxiang Dingxiang, none of you Ding family members are good people."
(End of this chapter)
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