After a simple rebirth

When she was serving her second bowl of rice, someone came in. Fu Ying turned around and saw that it was Sister Ling from next door.

"Aunt, your family is just having dinner too?" Aunt is my younger aunt. Sister Ling is of the same generation as me, so Aunt Fu becomes my elder.

Fu Zhe and Fu Ying greeted Sister Ling, and Fu's mother quickly and enthusiastically called her to come over for dinner.

"The dishes are ready, come sit down and eat together! My second sister and I went to Zhangjiagou to dig comfrey today. We came back late, so we just cooked some dishes instead of stir-frying them."

When Fu's mother spoke, Fu Ying quickly moved the stool to the side to make room for Sister Ling.

Sister Ling sat down without hesitation and picked up a piece of vegetable with chopsticks. Since she was close to Fu Ying, she dipped it in Fu Ying's sauce.

"Why does your dipping sauce taste different? It's a little sweet?"

Sister Ling took a bite of the dish and found that the taste was different, so she asked Mother Fu.

"It's Fu Ying. She eats like a jerk all day long. I don't know where she learned this. She had to make two dipping sauces. Hers must have sugar in it. If you're not used to it, try mine."

Fu Ma pointed to the dipping sauce over there and continued, "This is the chili we have here."

Fu Ying's mind: Fu Ma must have secretly dipped her dipping sauce while she was serving herself rice, otherwise how would she know it was a little sweet, and she didn't see Fu Ying mixing the sauce. But in front of outsiders, Fu Ying didn't argue with Fu Ma.

Sister Ling waved her hand and said, "It's okay. I just haven't eaten this before. It's good to eat something fresh."

He also asked about Fu Ying, "Fu Ying, you have learned a lot in Guangdong Province. Why don't you go home for dinner?"

Fu Ying shook her head. "We ate lunch at school in Guangdong Province and took the school bus home at night. Many of my classmates were from Guangdong Province, so I learned a little bit of everything."

Anyway, if there is anything that does not conform to local customs, ask and say it was learned in Guangdong Province. It’s just that she has learned it in East Guangdong and the Pearl River Delta, and she has learned too much.

Sister Ling didn't ask any more questions, ate two more bites of food and left. Fu Ying didn't know whether she continued to visit other people's homes or went back to her own home.

As a result, just two minutes after the meal, another person came in. It was Fu Ying's fourth aunt, who was also Sister Ling's mother-in-law.

Although people in the countryside love to visit each other, commonly known as "visiting people's homes", and if they don't stroll around for a day, it seems like something is missing, but there are really not many families who stroll around and visit each other while eating. In this area, only Fu Sigu, Lingjie, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and Fu Ergu would stroll around the most during mealtimes.

In fact, Fourth Aunt Fu has no blood relationship with Fu Ying's family. She is just addressed according to the generation of Second Aunt Fu, which involves the relationship with the older generation.

Father Fu and Second Aunt Fu are half-siblings. Second Aunt Fu's father has lived in the local area for generations. He is a cousin of Fourth Aunt Fu's father, whose surname is Li. In other words, Second Aunt Fu and Fourth Aunt Fu are cousins.

Fu's father, Fu Ying's grandfather, was an outsider. He was a traveling doctor. He stayed in Gumang to avoid the war. Later, he married the widow Fu Grandma, but in fact he was just a son-in-law. The Fu family was from the same city but different county.

Grandma Fu and Grandpa Liu had two sons and two daughters, but only two daughters are still alive, namely Aunt Fu Da and Aunt Fu Er. After remarrying, Grandma Fu and Grandpa Fu had two sons and one daughter. It is said that the daughter, Aunt Fu San, died of poor health after giving birth. So Grandma Fu's death, in addition to physical reasons, also had the pain of the old sending off the young. The eldest son and the second son left first, and the youngest son left home, leaving only Dad Fu by his side. Grandma Fu and Aunt Fu Er were particularly biased towards boys over girls.

Fu Ying, who didn’t understand the so-called human relations and why people were taken advantage of before, now has some understanding.

Grandpa Fu was an outsider, so logically his children had no way to participate in the land distribution. At most, they would have a homestead, and the Fu family was not rich enough to buy other land. And according to Grandma Fu, there was no reason either, as Grandma Fu was also a married woman from the Miao ethnic group in the deep mountains.

In the early years, the land in the rural areas was divided according to the number of people, and the children inherited it after the division. Only Grandpa Liu was eligible to divide the land, and the land under his name should be given to his children. The eldest and second uncles did not leave any children, so only the eldest and second aunts of Fu had a share, but the eldest aunt of Fu married too far away and never came back to farm. It was not heard that any piece of land belonged to her, so it was equivalent to that all the land under the name of Grandpa Liu was divided to the second aunt of Fu.

Grandma Fu's daughters born after marriage were not considered, but she still had two sons. Before her death, Uncle Fu had left home for many years, which meant that only Dad Fu was around. So if Grandma Fu considered Dad Fu, she would definitely want to give him some land, which means that the land of the Fu family was actually divided from the name of Second Aunt Fu.

Why not consider Second Uncle Fu? Because Second Uncle Fu is not a local either, he seems to be from a village farther away, but I have never heard of him going back. In fact, it is a bit like marrying into the family, but Second Uncle Fu has a bad temper and has a pension. The child has his last name Wang, so he will not be humble at home, so he is like the head of the family.

Perhaps the villagers also took into consideration the special circumstances of the two families, and coupled with the willingness of Second Aunt Fu and the desperate efforts of Grandma Fu, Father Fu was allocated a considerable amount of land.

Fu Ying didn't know when the Fu family divided the land, but Grandma Fu passed away in 05. Fu Ying remembered that her family had been farming that year. It was when they were working in the fields that they suddenly heard the news that Grandma was dying, and Dad Fu rushed home. The house they live in now was built in 04. Grandma Fu asked for two more luxurious rooms, even with tiled floors, to be left for her uncle who had disappeared without a trace, which meant that the land should have been divided around 04.

No wonder Fu's second uncle and Fu's cousin Wang Jun have always disliked Fu Ying's family and even encroached on some of their land. Fu Ying has 6 pieces of land, totaling three or four mu. If she had bought it from someone else, it would have been a different price.

Fu Sigu, who is also from the Li family, has a lot of land under the name of her son, Kui Ge next door. It is said that his family does not need to go out to work and does not lack money to spend, because when he is short of money, he sells the land, and when he has money, he lends it out to earn interest. However, when Fu Ying heard about it in the previous life, because Kui Ge sold too much land in his early years, there was actually not much land left when Li Xingyun inherited it.

How can the Wang family be happy when they divide up other people's property and their descendants inherit less land?

These are Fu Ying's guesses, but they are almost right. Fu's mother is also a hot-tempered person. No matter what, she has never cut off relations with the other party. In addition to being the closest relatives, there should be this reason. The support from the second aunt's family, the personal connections, and the real land are all reasons for Fu's mother to endure.

While sorting out the relationships between the families in her mind, Fu Ying did not forget to call on Fourth Aunt to sit down. She was also thankful that she did not sit back in the middle of the stool after Sister Ling left, otherwise it would have been very troublesome to move.