Aunt Zhao couldn't hide the truth. After watching the excitement for the whole afternoon yesterday, she came over early this morning to chat with Zhu Cuilan, holding a two-year-old girl in her arms.
The little girl is called Tianniu, and she is Aunt Zhao's granddaughter. Aunt Zhao also has a five-year-old boy at her family. At this age, he loves to fight. Yesterday, her daughter-in-law came to find her in a hurry because the two children in the family were arguing over a piece of crispy candy.
The two children grew up with their grandmother. When encountering problems, it is more useful to ask their grandmother for help than to ask their mother. In order to prevent the two children from fighting again today, the daughter-in-law took the boy to the field to find his father, and Tianniu was brought here by Aunt Zhao.
Tianniu lives up to her name. Despite her young age, she has red lips, white teeth, and a round body, just like the dolls in New Year pictures.
She didn't speak much, but she wasn't shy at all. She patted the door with her little hands and called out in a sticky voice, "Grandma Cuilan, I'm here."
Zhu Cuilan's heart melted when she heard the sweet girl's voice. She teased her through the crack in the door: "You're here? Who are you?"
Tianniu saw that her mother was only taking her brother out, so she cried and wanted to go with her. Aunt Zhao made a malt sugar ball for her with a small wooden stick to entertain her. At this moment, Tianniu was in high spirits and her words were also vague: "I am Tianniu~ Grandma, please open the door~"
Zhu Cuilan opened the door, made a "wow" sound to make the sweet girl happy, then stretched out her arms and asked softly: "Hey, little sweet girl, come here, grandma will hold you, okay?"
The sweet girl stuffed all the candy into her mouth and couldn't take it out for a while. She could only puff out her lips and nodded, obediently changing arms.
"Finally, someone's holding me for a while now. I can finally relax a bit." Aunt Zhao followed Zhu Cuilan into the yard, jokingly scolding the little man who was happily eating candy: "You've been giving me a hard time today. You don't know how to be obedient at all."
Zhu Cuilan is about the same age as Aunt Zhao. Now Aunt Zhao has all her grandchildren, but she still has nothing to do. Bu Nian is a little envious: "It's good to be able to do things. I don't even want to do anything."
"It will be soon. When Fang Yu gets married tomorrow, you can just sit back and wait to be a grandmother."
Things are not peaceful outside now, so Zhu Cuilan detained Yang Donghu and Zhao Fangchu at home. There is no rush to pick wild vegetables in the next two days. They can go out after things are almost settled.
Once the gate was closed, whispers from inside couldn't be heard outside. Aunt Zhao lowered her voice; gossip behind people's backs always had to be a little bit toxic. "We had a commotion for ages yesterday, but nothing came of it. I guess it's going to keep going for a while longer. Da Taohong's daughter-in-law is really tough. When her mother-in-law was earning money, she was polite in her words and deeds. Now that she's just fallen ill, she won't even pay for her medicine. She's been hanging around the Ding family's door like crazy. Da Taohong can't move. Last night, her daughter-in-law found a wooden board and put her at the Ding family's door. She refused to take her home even after nightfall, insisting that the Ding family pay for her mother-in-law's treatment."
"How can the Ding family afford to treat her? They can't even afford food, and the most valuable people in the family are just those three people."
"It's no use not having money to treat him. After all, the man from the Ding family beat him up. If you don't pay, even if you take him to the government, it will be a waste of time. Her daughter-in-law said that if the patient can't be cured, she will ask the Ding family to send someone to treat him. But she just threw her hands up and didn't care about anything."
Zhu Cuilan felt a little sympathy for the old couple of the Ding family. When the land was divided, his family did not get a good place. The land was fertile, but it was a bit low. A heavy rain washed away more than ten acres of good farmland. Three acres of the Ding family's five acres of paddy fields were flooded. The remaining food was only enough to barely make ends meet, and there was not even enough food left to exchange for money.
Now that something like this has happened again, and she doesn't know how she'll get through the rest of her life, Zhu Cuilan sighed, "Old Ding and his wife have such a hard life."
Aunt Zhao nodded in agreement: "Who said it wasn't?"
Living in the same village, the people of the Ding family are all kind and honest. If Da Taohong hadn't done something so ruthless, the current situation wouldn't have happened.
"By the way, do you still remember Zheng Lan from Xiaoli Village?" Aunt Zhao loved to ask questions and had heard about that incident. When something happened to Da Taohong, people couldn't help but think of Zheng Lan.
Zhu Cuilan would definitely not forget what had happened. Hearing this, she nodded, "What's wrong?"
Aunt Zhao saw Zhu Cuilan's face change when she heard Zheng Lan, and she knew she still had something on her mind. She thought to herself, "I heard someone say the other day that Zheng Lan's daughter ran away with the family money. Her son, who was not doing his job, was beaten and had his arms and legs broken. He fell into a jar in front of her and disappeared. Zheng Lan couldn't bear the blow and was paralyzed in bed, unable to get up. Her health is getting worse. A few days ago, someone in her village was kind enough to feed her, but she choked and died immediately. No one was willing to take on this hot potato, and her family didn't care either. In the end, it was the village chief who made the decision and dug a hole on the hilltop to bury her. The matter was finally settled."
Zhu Cuilan had a grudge against Zheng Lan and had never specifically inquired about her family's affairs. She hadn't heard from Zheng Lan for a long time since her son was taken away last time. She never expected that when she suddenly heard the news, it was actually her death. It really proved the saying that life is unpredictable.
"As you sow, so shall you reap. It's not unfair to her. It's so early in the morning. It's really unlucky for her to die or not. I'll have to pick two peach branches and hang them on the door to ward off evil."
"Well, that's right. Why are you talking about this?" Aunt Zhao laughed twice and didn't continue. She reached out and pinched the face of the baby in Zhu Cuilan's arms: "Now Fang Yu is settled. When the new daughter-in-law comes home, will we all have a good life?"
Zhu Cuilan shook the little figure on her leg and said with a smile, "That would be great. Then I'll give birth to another baby like Tianniu. That would make grandma happy, right, Tianniu?"
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