1970s: A hot-tempered wife who accompanied a soldier to the military compound and made a fortune.

Chapter 173 I have never dated her.

Zhang Yurong took a step back: "I heard that the second son of the Geng family had an accident and died."

"Who did you listen to?"

“Everyone outside is talking about this. Last year, he was transferred to a county under Jinshi as deputy county head. He was supposed to gain experience for a few years and then be transferred back to Beijing, but unexpectedly, this happened.”

"How did they die?"

"I heard that when he went to inspect spring plowing in the commune below, the cows in the field suddenly went crazy for some reason. There were a few children standing by the ditch. In order to save the children, he was knocked into the deep well used for irrigation by the cow. When he was pulled out, he was already dead."

Ding Runlan wasn't bad-looking, but she always had a pitiful expression as if someone had bullied her, which made her look unlucky for the family, so she really couldn't like her.

For a while, rumors circulated in the compound that her fourth son was dating her. She even asked her son about it, and he casually replied, "I have nothing to do with her. Don't listen to people's nonsense."

But later, when he encountered Ding Runlan following behind Lao Si's group of people several times, seeing her standing next to his son, he actually believed the rumors that they were dating. He thought that his son was just embarrassed to admit it, which was why he said that.

Not long after, people heard that Ding Runlan was getting married to Geng Rongsheng, the second son of the Geng family who lived in the military compound where her father-in-law lived.

She was depressed for several days because of that incident, feeling that her fourth son had been played. She even went to the army base to see her son in private, but her fourth son still had a cynical attitude: "I have never dated her, and I have rejected her firmly. It was all her own doing."

From then on, Madam Fu disliked Ding Runlan even more.

Thinking back to when the couple visited her father-in-law in the compound, they ran into Ding Runlan's second uncle, Ding Yuze, and second aunt, Zhang Huijuan, who had raised her. From their conversation, they learned that Ding Runlan was a scheming woman.

During the years she lived in their house, she often played tricks, making Zhang Huijuan, the lady of the house, afraid to say a harsh word, lest others gossip and she have nowhere to vent her frustrations. After all, she was particularly good at pretending to be obedient in front of her second uncle.

As time went on, her second aunt Zhang Hui felt it was pointless. Since her husband always protected her niece, she simply ignored her and stopped asking about Ding Runlan's affairs, treating her like she was invisible.

At first, Ding Yuze, the second uncle, thought that his wife couldn't tolerate his niece. He often argued with his wife in private because of his niece. After a while, he realized that there was a problem. However, his wife no longer had the warmth she used to have for him. They had become a couple who lived together in name only.

Pulling herself back to reality, she asked, "Did she go back to the Ding family or the Geng family?"

Zhang Yurong poured herself a glass of water: "This is what I wanted to tell you."

Mother Fu abandoned her work and stared at her gossipy third daughter-in-law: "Stop keeping me in suspense."

Zhang Yurong drank the water in one gulp: "She did want to go back to the Ding family for a short stay, but her second aunt said that a married daughter is like water spilled from a bowl, and besides, they were not her biological parents. It's just that her parents died early and had no choice but to take her in and raise her."

She did want to control her second uncle, but now that his cousin Ding Runhui was married, the room she and her cousin Ding Runhong used to live in had been divided into two small rooms. One room was for her cousin Ding Runhong, and the other was for Ding's youngest son, Ding Runjun. There was no room for her at all.

At this point, she got up to get the thermos: "No, no, I've talked too much today, and I'm still incredibly thirsty. I need to drink another glass of water."

Madam Fu didn't speak, but her brows remained furrowed.

(End of this chapter)