Old Dingtou knew a lot about the Ding family. He sighed deeply and said, "Don't worry, grandma, neither of us will talk about it until we die."
Mrs. Ding also said: "Grandma, we have no children. It is our fate that we are allowed to accompany you this time. It is also our luck that you take us in. When we leave, you will take us Bury them in the mountains, and burn some paper for us when you think of it. Don't let us become lonely ghosts. We old couple will be satisfied."
Old Dingtou and Mrs. Ding knelt on the ground and kowtowed solemnly to An Ran.
"If you think of me wholeheartedly, I will not let you down."
In the evening, Old Ding was smoking dry cigarettes and sitting cross-legged on the kang. Mrs. Ding said, "Stop smoking a few puffs. I can't stay in this room."
Old Ding took two long puffs, then knocked the ashes out of the pot and said, "Grandma seems to have changed into a different person."
Mrs. Ding told the story of how she spent the afternoon shut up in the house and crying bitterly.
"It's not that I'm hurt. Grandma is a good person. Who wouldn't feel bad if she married someone and then threw her into the countryside? Who would have thought that it was such a coincidence that she was pregnant with a child. Even for the sake of the child, Grandma has to stand up. .”
Old Dingtou thought of An Ran's indifferent expression and cold eyes in the afternoon. From the time he came out of the Ding family until now, An Ran has been easy to talk to and easy to discuss everything. Past experiences flashed through Old Ding's mind quickly.
"Old lady, I'm afraid we both made a mistake. Grandma is not a weak master, and she is not easy to fool. Please be more careful in the future."
Mrs. Ding also asked curiously: "The An family is in trouble without the man in charge. It is easy for the Ding family to cancel the marriage, but why do they still have to marry someone over? What's the matter in this?"
Old Dingtou sighed again and said: "Don't mention it. How can we know the real details? Don't talk about the rumors. It would be bad for grandma to know."
Mrs. Ding laid out the kang and said, "There must be something hidden. Isn't this a trap for Miss An's family?"
Old Dingtou thought to himself that if the man is not at home, the Ding Han family has the final say in the house. Even if the eldest grandmother stays in the house, life will not be easy.
This is all the business of the masters. I am just a slave. I don’t know what the use is.
At this moment, An Ran was lying on the kang, her hand gently stroking her belly. Since her child was here, it meant that they were destined for this life.
Then her child can only be hers.
How long can she hide it now? She doesn't want anyone in the Ding family to know about the existence of this child.
Especially when the master and uncle are away, Ding Hanshi dislikes her so much that he may not let her give birth to a child.
The weather was getting warmer, so Mrs. Ding circled a vegetable patch in the yard and asked the villagers for some vegetable seeds so that she wouldn't have to spend money to buy them in the future.
From then on, everything he had to eat had to be bought with money, and he had no financial resources, so An Ran only had a little more than three taels of silver left in his hands.
Enron is already very frugal, and I won’t buy anything that is useless. The broom for sweeping the floor and the broken wooden doors and windows were all repaired by Old Dingtou himself.
But after buying some necessary furniture, buying bowls, chopsticks, spatulas, and rice and noodles, these expenses add up to a huge amount.
The grain cannot be harvested until late autumn, and everything before that has to be bought with money, and there is still a child in the belly.
An Ran cried before, and even thought about dying. But now that she had survived, it was time to stand up and fight.
An Ran allows herself to cry and be vulnerable, but only once.
She calmed down and calculated carefully. She still had food to eat, a field of her own, a yard, and a relatively small amount of money. If she couldn't live well like this, then why not? It's so useless.
The most important thing is that she has a child who is completely her own, and she has no reason not to live well.
At the beginning of spring, when everyone was busy, people in Xiaxi Village were gossiping about neighboring villages.
It is also a tragic thing to say that the eldest daughter of the Chen family in a neighboring village was divorced by her husband's family. She was said to be lazy, unfilial to her parents-in-law, and not attentive to the men in the family, so she was divorced by her husband's family.
People who knew the truth said that it turned out that he disliked Sister Chen for being barren, and if he wanted to marry again, he could only divorce her and go home.
Sister Chen herself did not make any mistakes, so she was sent home to seek life and death, which made her brothers and sisters-in-law feel ashamed.
Within two days, the eldest sister-in-law of the Chen family quit working, and even scolded her openly. Sister Chen couldn't hold it back for a moment, and the two started fighting in the yard.
At first it was mainly tearing, and later it was punching and kicking.
The fight lasted for more than half an hour, and their clothes were torn. Finally, the eldest brother of the Chen family rushed home to separate them.
With such a commotion in her parents' house, Sister Chen had no place to go. The more she thought about it, the sadder she became, and she threw herself into the river at night.
Coincidentally, the eldest daughter-in-law, Aunt Hua, went back to her parents' house that day, and when she came back in the evening, she happened to meet her.
I had to save someone who was committing suicide, so I took Sister Chen back to Xiaxi Village.
No one was well off in the farm life, and no one was happy to have a large family, so the eldest daughter-in-law brought Sister Chen to An Ran again.
"Grandma, after all, you still stutter. Besides, Ding Bo and Ding Bo are too old to do any heavy work. Now that you have a child, it will become more and more inconvenient in the future, so I will leave you here to help you. Bar."
Aunt Hua often comes to An Ran, so she knows that she is pregnant, so she feels a little more sympathetic to An Ran.
Aunt Hua also had no choice. She was saved, but after she was saved, if she was allowed to go, she would still have to die if she could not save everything.
An Ran smiled, this Aunt Hua was really kind-hearted.
An Ran turned to look at Sister Chen. She was in her twenties and was wearing an old dress that Aunt Hua had probably found for her. She had a plain face and her hair had been combed again, and she still looked very neat overall.
Mrs. Ding was also on the side. She thought about it carefully and said, "If you want to enter the Ding family, you have to sign a contract of sale. You have to think about this carefully."
An Ran turned to look at Mrs. Ding, who blinked, and An Ran turned to look at Sister Chen.
Sister Chen lowered her head and said nothing, and An Ran said: "Auntie, take Sister Chen back first and let her think about it carefully, and then talk to me after she thinks about it clearly."
After the people left, Mrs. Ding said, "Grandma, I think it's better to buy someone in. After all, the old man and I are old, and we can't have no one around you. When the young master is born, he will have to be watched by someone, no matter what. What happens next, you have to find a helper."
An Ran thought for a while and said, "Then we have to understand her character first, otherwise, I would rather work harder myself."
Mrs. Ding smiled and said, "I have heard a lot about Sister Chen in the past few days. I will learn more about it in detail. She will consider it, and we have to find out whether it is true or not."
An Ran nodded and said, "Then please trouble Aunt Ding. If she is a capable person, then both of us can relax."
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Fangfang: A peasant girl who has gone to the mountains to collect herbs and worked in the fields since she was a child, how could she be a weak person? Otherwise, I would not have been able to support the family with my younger brother since my grandfather and father were gone.
