"Because people in the countryside think that it is easy to give children cheap names such as dogs and cows, so that they can feed themselves without getting sick." Yun Tao explained.

"Then why don't you call it a big dog, call it a second dog, is your sister's name a big dog?" Curious baby Jing Ting still asked.

"No, my sister's nickname is Da Niu, and my name is Ergou, because there are elders in our village who are already called Da Gou, so I can't take this nickname, otherwise it will be a mess of generations." Yun Tao said.

"Hehe, your nickname in the countryside is so interesting, will your people here call me and Sister Zeng in the future, the second dog daughter-in-law or the dog daughter-in-law." Jing Ting asked.

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

"Why don't you like to be the daughter-in-law of the second dog?" Zeng Quan said jokingly.

"No, I want my classmates and friends to know that others call me the second dog daughter-in-law, and I want to be laughed to death by them." Jing Ting said a little depressed.

"Isn't this the second dog baby, I haven't seen your cub come back for a long time, are these two beautiful girls your relatives? I've never seen it before. ”

At the entrance of the village, an old man about seventy years old who was enjoying the shade under the big tree in front of his yard saw Yuntao walking towards him and said.

"Fifth grandfather, I'm Ergou, just came back, this is my daughter-in-law Jing Ting, this is my daughter-in-law's good sister Zeng Quan, Tingting, Zeng Quan, this is my fifth grandfather." Yun Tao introduced.

This fifth grandfather is Yuntao's grandfather's brother, but also the older generation of people with the highest level of education, in the village is very prestigious, when he was a child and Yuntao's grandfather served as a soldier, participated in the Liberation War, after the liberation victory, due to the young age, was sent back to study, and then has been in the county as a teacher, after retirement returned to the township old house to care for the elderly, his children do not live in the village, usually the younger generations in the village help take care of it, but these five grandfathers, seventy-year-old people, the body is very tough, I have nothing to do in the yard to grow vegetables, raise chickens, play chess with other old people in the village, chat, and live a very nourishing life.

"Hello Fifth Grandpa." Jing Ting and Zeng Quan hurriedly said hello.

"Two girls, hello, Ergou, your cub is good, bring such a beautiful daughter-in-law back, at first glance, she is a knowledgeable and cultural person, how polite she is, not bad, not bad. If the eldest brother is still there, I don't know how happy Lu Dao will be when I see your eldest grandson marrying such a beautiful daughter-in-law, he loves you the most" The fifth grandfather said with emotion.

"Fifth grandfather, you are here to enjoy the cold, we will go back first, and we will come to see you later." Yun Tao said.

"Let's go back, let's go back quickly, I guess the eldest daughter-in-law is in a hurry." The fifth grandfather said urgingly.

Yun Tao took Zeng Quan and Jing Ting to say goodbye to the fifth grandfather and walked to the courtyard of his house.

"Husband, why do you have so many parents, how come you meet all your elders." Jing Ting asked.

Jing Ting grew up in the city, and the relatives in the city are relatively far away, and it is generally difficult to meet relatives on the road, so she is a little incomprehensible to the phenomenon that people in the countryside are full of relatives.

Many people from the countryside to live in the city are not used to people, people living in the city, many people do not know the name of their neighbors all their lives, every day in addition to work, come back is to live in their own home on one side of the land, basically will not have any interaction with the neighbors, everyone has a strong sense of prevention, everyone is familiar with each other, knowing that the road is a community, meeting is to nod each other, the others are not clear to each other, and few people will go to the neighbor's house to sit.

I remember when Yuntao was in high school, the class cadres in the Teacher's Day class organized a group of classmates to give gifts to the head teacher Wang, and when they arrived at the floor where Teacher Wang's house lived, everyone knew that the head teacher of Lu Dao Teacher Wang lived on this floor, but I didn't know which one of them was, Yun Tao They asked the head teacher Teacher Wang's home door by door, and they asked four or five families, all of whom did not know Lu Dao, one of which was next to the head teacher's house, which shows that the neighborhood relationship in many places in the city is very indifferent, and there is no movement between each other, I don't even know the name.

In the countryside and in the city, it is just the opposite, many people in the countryside are the same surname, dating back to previous generations, everyone is the same ancestor, everyone often visits each other, who has a happy event or funeral is basically a village of people to help, you go to this village to find someone, whether it is men, women or children, as long as you can call out the name, you can ask a person in this village, he can tell you, where the person you are looking for live, what to do, how many people are in the family.

When a husband and wife quarrel in the city or 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 even a few people who watch the excitement, let alone count on others to help persuade you and so on. This is not to say that the people in the city are indifferent, but now there are too many "porcelain" and "blackmail" incidents, which make too many people in the city feel cold, and they don't want to help strangers, but they dare not help.

In recent years, more and more cases of blackmail have been exposed, the vast majority of people who do good deeds have suffered injustice, social morality has been greatly violated, people in the face of fallen people, most of them have to carry out ideological struggle, whether to help or not, and even whether to call the police or not are controversial, because the police will leave evidence of you at the scene, you may have to waste time in court to testify, reply to all kinds of questions, all of them are, more than one thing is better than less one thing, how far to hide and how far to hide.

Sometimes you see someone on the street falling to the ground, and you don't help pick him up or take him to the hospital, at most the society condemns you for being indifferent, cold-blooded, and immoral, but if you go up to help pick him up or send him to the hospital, you may be "blackmailed", and in serious cases, you will be ruined.

On the contrary, in the countryside, basically the people in the surrounding villages, most of them are either related or bring the past, only what trivial things are in your family, and within a day the people in several villages know the Tao, and the women in the countryside also like to inquire about these things, and then publicize each other everywhere to polish the time.

If there is anything in the neighborhood that needs help, as long as you shout at the door, there can be many people, if anyone fights, it will be stopped by the people in the village in less than a minute, and fighting in the countryside is a big event, many elders in the village will come to mediate as soon as possible, at that time, the house is full of people, you want to fight, you can't fight, not to mention that there are so many elders such as this uncle and that aunt.

"80% of the people in this village are surnamed Yun, except for some women who marry into our village, there are basically few foreign surnames, all surnamed Yun can be traced back to ten generations ago, basically an ancestor, all fled from Fujian at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and multiplied here, so the people in this village are basically related to each other, but the relationship is far and near." Yun Tao explained.

"Sister Zeng, is it like this in the countryside?" Jing Ting asked curiously.

"Most of them are like this, my village is called 'Zengjia Village', and the people in a village are all from the same ancestor, all surnamed Zeng, and everyone traces back to the distance with relatives." Zeng Quan said.

……

In summer, the weather is relatively hot, and they have not met acquaintances on this section of the road at the intersection, Yuntao and they no longer have to stop to say hello, and they are getting closer and closer to the center of the village.

"Yongbao, have you eaten it?" Yun Tao said to the fifty-year-old man who was coming towards him.

In rural areas, people greet each other and like to ask others if they have eaten, especially in the time period of meals, when they meet acquaintances, they basically ask "have you eaten" and "have you eaten", not that you have not eaten, but please eat, this is just like Westerners greeting "hello" and "how are you", it is just a habit.

This stems from the habits of the previous generation, after the success of the revolution in the past, at the beginning of socialist China, our people ate "big pot rice", everyone's relationship was as good as relatives, and the society was in a state of not closing the door at night and not leaving the road behind; Later, after each family ate separately, they would greet each other when they met, "Have you eaten?" In order to maintain the cordial relationship and affection during the previous meals, and to reminisce about the past experience of co-creating communist ideals; Over time, it has become a habit of greeting, and this generation of people still use it to make opening remarks, and even polite words, and there is nothing to say.

"Eat, Uncle Ergou, you're back, who are they?"

Yun Yongbao looked at Zeng Quan and Jing Ting in some surprise and asked. After all, it is difficult to meet such beautiful women as Zeng Quan and Jing Ting anywhere, especially today Zeng Quan and Jing Ting also deliberately dressed up, so that Yun Yongbao had a feeling of seeing a fairy, and he couldn't understand how he, a very ugly "Uncle Ergou", could be with two such beautiful fairies.

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

"Ahh

Yun Yongbao exclaimed in surprise, although his "Second Dog Uncle" is much younger than himself, he is also in his thirties, this beautiful fairy-like girl, no matter how you look at it, she is only in her twenties, and his uncle is simply an old cow eating tender grass.

What's more, this uncle is so ugly, he is famous in this ten miles and eight towns, he has no object in his thirties, and he is the only single in his village who is thirty years old, and the women in the village have given him a lot of objects, but none of them can look up to him.

Now that he has brought back a fairy-like daughter-in-law, no matter how she looks at it, it looks like "a toad eats swan meat, and the fairy flower is inserted in cow dung", Yun Yongbao couldn't help but wipe his eyes, and recognized that this was still not his famous ugly "Uncle Ergou" who had no woman to want.

"Ahh Yun Tao said.

In the rural areas where the feudal etiquette outline is more serious, people are extremely particular about seniority, especially between their own families and clans, and they are even stricter. Although this Yun Yongbao is in his fifties, he is much older than Yun Tao, but he is indeed the eldest son of Yun Tao's elder brother, a young elder like Yun Tao, a young junior teaches the older juniors, this phenomenon is commonplace in this rural area with a strong clan concept.