rebirth of cataclysm

"It's okay, no need to discuss. I can still do this, so just feel free to take it. It's almost the Chinese New Year, so you have to be more generous."

"I'm single, and it doesn't matter whether I'm rich or not. Your grandparents have almost prepared everything I need for the New Year," Hu Jianqiang said.

"Haha, third uncle, so you have to find a third aunt as soon as possible." Hu Mingchen said with a teasing smile.

"Don't come here. Do you need to worry about this? Leave quickly and don't affect my work." Hu Jianqiang scolded Hu Mingchen. When he saw someone coming to buy tickets, he pushed Hu Mingchen out of the small pavilion.

Hu Mingchen left with a smile and walked towards the cinema.

I opened the curtain first and went in. I saw my father, Hu Jianjun, facing inside and watching a movie attentively.

"Ticket." Stimulated by the light, Hu Jianjun thought someone had bought a ticket to watch a movie, and stretched out his hand to Hu Mingchen without looking back.

"Ticket? What ticket?" Hu Mingchen said blankly.

Hearing the sound, Hu Jianjun turned around. When he saw Hu Mingchen, he naturally lowered his hand, with an embarrassed smile on his face.

"Dad, are you fascinated by this?"

"Haha, there's no one around now, so I just took a look." Hu Jianjun smiled awkwardly.

"It's okay to watch, but don't get obsessed." Hu Mingchen then told Hu Jianjun about his decision to give his third uncle a bonus of 1,000 yuan.

Hu Jianjun only remained silent for three seconds before agreeing.

Although one thousand yuan is a lot, it is for his brother, and during this period, Hu Jianqiang worked hard for the cinema, sleeping in the cinema almost every day. On the contrary, Hu Jianjun felt much more relaxed. Besides, after all, no matter what

Whether he was a ginger before or opened a movie theater now, it was Hu Mingchen who took the lead, and he raised the capital. If he decided that way, Hu Jianjun would certainly not be able to refute him.

"Dad, the Chinese New Year is coming soon, why don't you just put it aside and hit the roof of your house quickly? You have always said that you can't live at your elder brother's house to celebrate the Chinese New Year, but if you delay it any longer, you will really have to celebrate the Chinese New Year at someone else's house.

"After discussing the one thousand yuan bonus, Hu Mingchen turned the conversation to the unfinished house at home.

"I understand. I'm going to find someone to help with the construction. I've already bought the cement, sand and gravel. It can be done in about two days." Hu Jianjun stood up and nodded.

"Aren't you going to do it yourself?" Hu Mingchen asked Hu Mingchen after hearing that Hu Jianjun wanted to be the boss.

"Don't we need help here? Your third uncle can't do it alone. If you sell tickets, you can't collect them. If you collect tickets, you can't sell them. What if I don't help?" Hu Jianjun explained: "As for renting a house.

As long as we make an agreement with them about building the house, there won't be any problems. This is not the first time they have built a house."

"Then we can't just leave it all to others. You are the only one in our family who understands. If everyone is watching, what will happen if something goes wrong? After spending so much money, if the roof is uneven or leaks, wouldn't all the previous efforts be wasted?

?I can collect the tickets here since it's a holiday tomorrow. If it doesn't work, my mother can collect the tickets, but we won't be able to help at all over there." Hu Jianjun's reasoning simply doesn't hold water here.

In Hu Mingchen's view, Hu Jianjun's main purpose was not to help at all, but to watch movies openly.

During this time, Hu Jianjun became obsessed with watching movies. Sometimes he would even skip lunch in order not to miss the plot.

"Look what you said, if the cement roof is leaking, what are those people doing? Come on, don't look at me like that. I'll keep an eye on them. That's okay, right?"

"Halfway through Hu Jianjun's words, when he saw Hu Mingchen's face sinking, he quickly changed the topic.

Of course, Hu Jianjun cannot be afraid of Hu Mingchen. I am not afraid of my son yet. However, as Hu Mingchen gradually takes control of the family's financial power, his right to speak will naturally be different. What's more, what Hu Mingchen said is not unreasonable.

, On the contrary, Hu Jianjun still feels a little guilty about this matter. He is indeed addicted to watching movies these days.

"After the house is repaired and our Huangni Village has electricity, our family will buy a big color TV and a DVD to watch as much as we want. Now there are only twenty days left before the Chinese New Year. If we don't hurry up, the New Year will be over.

I can't move in." Hu Mingchen didn't expect his father to care so much about his face, so he softened his attitude and said.

The next day, New Year's Day, there were indeed many more people on the street than usual. Even if it wasn't as good as a day to go to the theater, the business of Doug Cinema was much better.

On this day, Hu Mingchen came to the street early in the morning to sell tickets, while his third uncle Hu Jianqiang went to collect tickets and show movies. Since they didn't study, even Hu Yandie and Hu Yujiao offered to help, but in fact there was nothing they could do for them.

Yes, they just came to play and take their close classmates and friends to watch movies.

Hu Jianjun and Jiang Yucai stayed at home to help build the house.

The house built by Hu Mingchen's family this time is not big. There is a main room in the middle, a small room behind the main room, and two rooms at the front and back on both sides of the main room.

During the construction, we considered the lack of funds, so we did not build the kitchen, pigsty, kitchen, pigsty and toilet. We could only build it with stones and then cover it with asbestos tiles. However, this is much better than before. The original mud courtyard dam

This time I plan to make the floor concrete.

Everything seemed so smooth and beautiful, Hu Mingchen had already thought about buying a pig to kill after the house was built.

In the local area, every family has to kill a pig every New Year. If any family does not kill a pig during the New Year, it will be considered to be extremely poor and their life is really difficult. Otherwise, as long as they can still manage and cannot kill big pigs,

I also need to kill a pig weighing about 200 pounds and eat it.

Although Hu Mingchen's family is not the poorest in the local area, they have never been well-off. Even so, his family has to kill the New Year pig almost every year. They either feed their own pigs or buy pigs from others. Even if they are

I don’t have any money, so I have to buy a half-big pig on credit.

On the one hand, killing pigs is to celebrate the Spring Festival. On the other hand, it is also to prepare food that can be used throughout the year. For example, the fat meat of pigs can be boiled in oil, which saves half a year of not having to buy oil, and the meat can be kang-made into bacon.

, if a relative comes to the house as a guest or asks someone to work, there will be dishes available, and part of the meat can be made into refined meat residue. If you save some food, you can last all year long.

Although the house fell down this year and a lot of money was spent to repair it, luckily Jiang's business made a lot of money, and later the movie theater could earn hundreds of dollars a day, so this New Year Pig must be killed no matter what.

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However, life is like this. When you are in good times, you never know when episodes of adversity will appear, just like Hu Mingchen’s family sold dried ginger during the day and the house was washed away by rain at night.

It took several days to finally build the roof of Hu Mingchen's house, but before the boards could be removed, a depressing thing happened. A man who was helping him to build the roof actually fell off the shelf.

It's causing trouble.

On January 5th, after Hu Mingchen finished his final exam, he left school and planned to go to the cinema to help out. However, as soon as he walked to the door of the township government, he saw his father carrying a person on his back towards the health center.

Rushing, behind him were Hu Mingyi, Jiang Yucai and an unknown woman.

Seeing this scene, Hu Mingchen's heart skipped a beat and hurriedly stepped forward to greet him.

"What's going on? What happened?"

"..." Hu Jianjun gasped for air but didn't say a word.

"Go to the health center first. I'll tell you later." Hu Mingyi said eagerly as he helped hold the man on Hu Jianjun's back.

No matter how stupid Hu Mingchen was, he knew something was wrong: "You go first, I'll get some money from my third uncle."

Hu Mingchen ran to the cinema, took all the proceeds from ticket sales throughout the day, and then returned to the health center. Even when Hu Jianqiang asked him why, Hu Mingchen couldn't explain it.

When Hu Mingchen arrived at the health center, the man had been removed from Hu Jianjun's back and carried to the small single bed in the consulting room. A doctor and a nurse were examining the man.

Before the examination could reveal anything, the health center asked him to pay 500 yuan first. Hu Mingchen didn't have time to ask, so he went and paid the money first.

"What's going on?" Before the results came out from the doctors and nurses, Hu Mingchen squatted down and asked Hu Jianjun, who was sitting on the stool with sweating head.

"It fell...he accidentally fell off the shelf and hit the gravel." Hu Jianjun said dejectedly.

"Who is that person?" Hu Mingchen asked next.

It was almost dark when Hu Mingchen came home every day, so he never saw that person.

"I helped build the house for your house. How could I know that something like this would happen again after the roof was built?" Hu Mingyi said from the side.

"Your family must be responsible. My man fell while helping to build a house for your family. Your family must not be irresponsible." At this time, the woman who came to the health center with her turned around from the door of the clinic and said in a bad tone.

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"Third sister-in-law, my family is irresponsible. If someone was injured, didn't my family send them to the hospital immediately? My family also paid the money. You said it as if we were trying to escape. Logically speaking, your family should help mine.

We paid for the building, if something happens, you have to bear it yourself." Jiang Yucai said unhappily.

It was unlucky to have something like this happen, and Jiang Yucai would naturally be very dissatisfied with this woman's tone.

He accidentally stepped on it and fell, and no one harmed him.

"Don't talk about that. I haven't received my wages yet. Anyway, if it falls on your house, your family will have to bear the responsibility. There's nothing to talk about." The woman stretched out her hand and said.

When Hu Mingchen's family first repaired their house, many people came to help voluntarily. However, as his movie theater opened and business was good, fewer people helped for free.

Others will have a mentality, that is, if your family makes money, you can no longer take advantage of it for free.

Some people were paid to build the wall, but Hu Mingyi was the only one who volunteered to help from the beginning to the end. When laying the cement roof, he even gave the family his wallet. As a result, before the frame was removed, this unfortunate incident happened.