"Because people in the countryside think that it is easy to get sick and support children if they get a dog or a cow," Yun Tao explained.

"Then why don't you call Dadu? Ergou? Is your sister's nickname Dadu?" curious baby Jing Ting asked.

"No, the nickname of the old lady is Daniu. My name is Ergou. Because there are elders in our village who have already called Dagiu, I can't take this nickname, otherwise I will be confused." Yun Tao said.

"Haha, your nickname in the countryside is so interesting. Will the people here call me and Sister Zeng, Ergou's wife or dog's wife in the future?" Jing Ting asked.

"Haha, it's very likely." Yun Tao said with a smile.

"Why don't you like being Ergou's wife?" Zeng Quan said jokingly.

"No, I want to be my classmate. My friends know that someone calls me Ergou's wife, and I will be laughed to death by them." Jing Ting said with some depression.

"Isn't this Ergouwa? I haven't seen your baby come back for a long time. Are these two beautiful girls your relatives? Why have you never seen them?"

At the entrance of the village, a man in his seventies who was enjoying the shade under a big tree in front of his yard saw Yun Tao and the others walking towards him.

"Fifth Grandpa, I am Ergou. I just came back. This is my wife Jing Ting. This is my wife's good sister Zeng Quan, Tingting, Zeng Quan. This is my fifth grandpa." Yun Tao introduced.

This fifth grandfather is the brother of Grandpa Yuntao and is also the most educated person among the older generation. He has a prestige in the village. When he was young, he worked as a soldier with Yuntao's grandfather and participated in the Liberation War. After the victory of the liberation, he was sent back to study because he was young. Later, he worked as a teacher in the county town. After retirement, he returned to the old house in the village to support his old age. His children did not live in the village. Usually, the younger generation in the village helped to take care of him. However, the fifth grandfather, a person in his seventies, was very tough. He grew vegetables in the yard, raised chickens, played chess with other elderly people in the village, and lived a very comfortable life.

"Hello Grandpa Fifth." Jing Ting and Zeng Quan quickly asked hello.

"Hello two girls, you guys, Ergou, you are a good boy. When you come back with such a beautiful wife, you are a knowledgeable and educated person. You are so polite, good, good. If the eldest brother is still there, I don't know what you will be happy to see your eldest grandson marrying such a beautiful wife. He loves you the most," said the fifth grandfather with emotion.

"That fifth grandpa, you are here to enjoy the cool air. We will go back first and we will come to see you later." Yun Tao said.

"Go back, hurry up and go back. I guess the eldest daughter-in-law and the others are waiting anxiously." Grandpa Fifth said urged.

Yun Tao took Zeng Quan, Jing Ting and the others to say goodbye to Grandpa Five and walked towards their own yard.

"Husband, why are there so many elders in your family? Why do you meet your elders?" Jing Ting asked.

Jing Ting grew up in the city, and the relatives in the city are far away, so it is usually difficult to meet relatives on the road, so she doesn't understand the phenomenon of relatives everywhere in the countryside.

Many people who move from rural areas to cities are not used to it. Many people who live in cities never know their neighbors' names in their lives. Every day, except for going to work, they live on one side of their homes and basically don't have any interactions with neighbors. Everyone has a strong sense of prevention. Everyone looks familiar with each other and knows that it is a community. When they meet, they nodde to each other. The others are not clear about each other, and few people go to their neighbors' houses to sit.

I remember when Yun Tao was in high school, the class cadres of the class on Teachers' Day organized a group of classmates to give gifts to the head teacher, Mr. Wang, but when they arrived at the floor where Mr. Wang lived, everyone knew that the head teacher, Mr. Wang, lived on this floor, but they didn't know which one was. Yun Tao and the others asked the head teacher, which was the home of Mr. Wang. As a result, they asked four or five families, but they didn't know that one of them was next to the head teacher's house. It can be seen that many places in the city had very cold relationships with each other, and they didn't even know the name.

But the countryside is the opposite of the city. Many people in the countryside have the same surname. Dating back to previous generations, they are all from the same ancestor. Everyone often visits each other. Whenever there are happy events or funerals, they are basically from the same village to help. When you go to this village to find people, no matter whether you are a man, woman, old or young, as long as you can name them, you can ask a person in the village, and he can tell you where the person you are looking for lives, what they do, and how many people are there in the family.

When couples quarrel or have something at home, sometimes it is difficult for you to find someone nearby to help. After all, everyone is not familiar with each other, and sometimes there are not many people watching the fun, let alone expecting others to help and persuade them to fight. This is not to say that the people in the city are indifferent, but that there are too many "bumping" and "blacklist" incidents now have made too many people in the city feel disappointed. It is not that they don't want to help strangers, but they dare not help.

In recent years, more and more cases of blackmail have been exposed. Most people who do good deeds have suffered injustice and social morality has been greatly violated. When facing people who fall, most people must first engage in ideological struggles, whether to support or not, or even controversial about whether to call the police. Because calling the police will leave evidence of your presence, you may waste time in court to testify and answer various inquiries. Most people are, it is better to have less trouble than to do more, and hide as far as you can.

Sometimes when you see someone lying on the street, you don’t help help him up or take him to the hospital. At most, society condemns you for being indifferent, cold-blooded, and unethical. But if you go up and help help him up or take him to the hospital, you may be "blacklisted", and in serious cases you will be ruined.

On the contrary, in the countryside, most of the people who are attached to the villages are either kinship or accustomed to the old ways. Only the trivial matters in your family are known to you within a day. Rural women also like to inquire about these things and then spread them everywhere to polish their time.

If there is anything that needs help in the neighborhood? Just shout at the door and there are many people who can come. If someone fights, they will be held back by the villagers in less than a minute and they will not be beaten. Fighting in the countryside is a big event. Many elders in the village will come to mediate the first time. At that time, there were people all over the room, and if you want to fight, you can't fight, let alone so many elders like this uncle, that aunt, etc.

"80% of the people in this village have the surname Yun. Except for some women who married into our village, there are basically few other surnames. All the surname Yun date back to ten generations and are basically from the same ancestor. They escaped from Fujian in the late Qing Dynasty and reproduced here. Therefore, the people in this village basically have relatives, but their relationship is only close." Yun Tao explained.

"Is Sister Zeng like this in the countryside?" Jing Ting asked curiously.

"Most of them are like this. My village is called 'Zengjia Village'. The people in a village are all from the same ancestor, all with their surnames. Everyone goes back and forth, they are related to their relatives." Zeng Quan said.

...

The weather is quite hot in summer, and I never meet any acquaintances on this section of the intersection. Yun Tao and the others no longer need to stop and say hello, and they are getting closer and closer to the center of the village.

"Yongbao, have you eaten?" Yun Tao said to the old man in his fifties who was walking towards him.

In rural areas, people greet each other and like to ask if others have eaten, especially during meal time. When meeting people they know, they basically ask "did you eat" or "did you eat". It's not that you didn't eat, but that means treating you to dinner. This is just like the Westerners saying hello, "Hello" and "How are you?", it's just a habit.

This stems from the habits of the previous generation. After the success of the revolution, socialist China just started, our people ate "big pot meals". Everyone's relationships are as good as relatives. Society is in a state of not closing doors at night and not picking up leavens on the road. Later, after each family divided the kitchen and met, they would greet each other, "Have you eaten?" to maintain the friendly relationship and emotions of the past when they had eaten, and remember the experience of creating communist ideals in the past. Over time, it became a habit of saying hello. This generation of people also used it to make opening remarks for speaking, even making polite words and having nothing to say.

"I've eaten, Uncle Ergou, you're back, who are they?"

Yun Yongbao looked at Zeng Quan and Jing Ting and the others in surprise. After all, it is difficult to meet a woman as beautiful as Zeng Quan and Jing Ting, especially today Zeng Quan and Jing Ting dressed up specifically, which made Yun Yongbao feel like seeing a fairy. He couldn't understand how the ugly "Uncle Ergou" could be with two such beautiful fairies.

"Oh, let me introduce you to you. This is your uncle, my wife, and this is your aunt's good sister." Yun Tao pointed at Zeng Quan and Jing Ting and introduced.

"ah…"

Yun Yongbao shouted in surprise, although his "Uncle Ergou" was much younger than him, he was still in his thirties. This beautiful girl, who looked like a fairy, was only twenty years old. His uncle was simply an old cow eating young grass.

What's more, this uncle is so ugly that he is famous for his countryside. He has no match for his thirty years and is the only bachelor of his age in his village. The women in the village have arranged for him many times, but none of them are worthy of him.

Now that I finally brought back a fairy-like wife. No matter how you look, it looks like "a toad eats swan meat, and fairy flowers are inserted on cow dung". Yun Yongbao couldn't help but wipe his eyes, deciding that this was not the ugly "Uncle Ergou" that he was famous for not wanting without women.

"What ah, I can't call you. Why are you old?" Yun Tao said.
Chapter completed!