rebirth of cataclysm

At nine o'clock in the morning, my elder sister and younger sister went to school. Hu Mingchen had just recovered from his injury, so he did not need to go to school for the time being. Instead, he sat on a small bench in Tuyuanba to bask in the sun.

Sitting at the door of Hu Mingchen's house, he could see mountains on three sides. If it were not blocked by a mountain in the distance opposite, he could still see the streets in the countryside and the elementary school where he attended.

The place where Hu Mingchen's family is located is Huangni Village, Duge Township, Gaoshan County, Liangcheng City. Duge Township is one of the local poor townships. It is surrounded by mountains. The township government is on a small slope in the center of the mountain valley, next to

A Liangshui River flows through.

The reason why Duge Township is poor has a lot to do with its geographical environment. Except for Duge Village, which is close to the township government, the rest of the villages are scattered on the surrounding hillsides.

Such a geographical environment first makes transportation a big problem. Although there are currently three roads connected to the township government, unfortunately, none of them are cement roads or asphalt roads. Among them, the road closest to the county seat was just excavated last year.

come out.

In order to dig this road, the township had no money, and the county only supported some supplies. Most of the projects were completed by the work of surrounding villagers who violated family planning regulations. Hu Mingchen's father Hu Jianjun and mother Jiang Yucai once

A month was spent on this road dug along the dry ditch.

The poorer the place, the more difficult it is for family planning to be carried out normally. In Duge Township, 70% of families will violate family planning regulations to some extent. It is also because of poverty that the fines usually used are not big at all.

As a result, unless the township government wants to make all those villagers eat

Not having enough food can even lead to the death of the family. In addition, Duge Township is also a multi-ethnic town. In addition to the Han people, there are also many Buyi people, Yi people, etc., so the township government has no choice but to know who is so talented.

, actually came up with such a policy of using work instead of punishment.

The Duge Township government opened three dirt roads, which only indirectly opened the roads to three villages including Duge Village. However, because the local villages are usually not densely populated, and the villagers are scattered on the surrounding mountains, 100%

Village groups that are over 80 years old are actually only connected by small roads.

In Hu Mingchen's Huangni Village, all the village groups do not have a road that can pass carriages. Whether they go to each other or to the township government, they can only take rugged mountain roads.

It takes more than half an hour to walk from Hu Mingchen's home to the township government if you are empty-handed. If you carry grain, melons and fruits to sell, it will take less than an hour. Moreover, you have to wade through the small river in the main ditch.

Just fine.

During the dry season, the amount of water in Gangou is indeed not large. It is just a small river. However, when the water is high, because it is a canyon, the amount of water is not only large, but also rapid and violent. Not to mention people, even large livestock such as cattle and horses can also

Wash away.

These children living in Huangni Village have a privilege when the floods are high, that is, they do not have to go to school. Parents are afraid that their children will be in danger when crossing the river in Ganggou, so why shouldn't the school be worried? Tragedies have not happened before.

There was a child in Hu Mingchen's village who forcibly forded a river on his way to school a few years ago. As a result, he lost his balance and was washed more than a kilometer downstream. By the time he was discovered, the child was already in terrible shape.

Hu Mingchen wanted to change the situation of himself and his family, but the difficult reality created a strong obstacle for him.

Looking up, the surrounding fields are vast, the mountains are still green, the sky is also very blue, and the air blown by the breeze does exude a refreshing fragrance of the fields when it enters the nostrils.

Hu Mingchen leaned against a peach tree at the door, holding a small branch in his right hand and pulling it on the ground. Those who didn't know better thought he was playing a child's trick, but in fact, he was thinking about where to find a breakthrough for his own change.

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"Jiang Yucai, Jiang Yucai, Jiang Yucai..." Just when Hu Mingchen was silent in his thoughts, he heard someone calling his mother loudly.

Hu Mingchen stood up, followed the sound and looked down, and saw his grandma Zhong Ying standing next to her cowshed and shouting loudly.

Hu Mingchen's grandma's house lived more than 20 meters below his house, with a few pieces of land in between. After the separation, his grandparents lived with his unmarried third uncle. His uncle's family lived in front of his grandma's house.

Lower your head.

"Grandma, my mother is not at home, why did you call her?" Hu Mingchen asked loudly.

"Oh, where did your mother go again? I'm so anxious, go find her quickly. Hurry up, something happened to your father in the mine." When Zhong Ying heard that Jiang Yucai was not there, she slapped her thigh, anxious and angry.

complained.

As soon as he heard that something happened to his father in the mine, Hu Mingchen's heart sank and he secretly cried out.

Hu Mingchen's father was not at home at this time, but was helping others dig money in a tin mine in a neighboring province.

Although Hu Mingchen has never worked in a tin mine, there are many coal mines around them. An accident in this mine is usually not a trivial matter, and if it goes wrong, people will die.

"Okay, grandma, I'll look for him right away. I'll go right away. Grandma, how did you know?" At this time, Hu Mingchen couldn't think about anything else. There was nothing more important than his father's safety.

"I just went to the street. The eldest father of Sanjiazhai asked someone to come back later to talk. Don't wait any longer and go find your mother quickly."

In the local dialect, eldest father and uncle mean the same thing, and aunt is equated with aunt.

"Okay, I'll look for it right away, look for it right away..." Hu Mingchen threw away the small branch in his hand and ran towards the path next to the wing.

Hu Mingchen actually didn't know where Jiang Yucai had gone, whether he was working in the fields or visiting other people's homes. Anyway, he didn't see his mother after he got up, so he was basking in the sun alone in the courtyard.

But Hu Mingchen has a basic judgment, and it is also a judgment that is not consistent with his current age.

Since grandma was shouting below, but mother did not appear, but stood up and responded by herself, it means that mother is not at the uncle's house below, nor in the field below. There is only one possibility left, she is either on the mountain

In the fields, or visiting other people's houses in the mountains, only in this way will she not hear her grandma's call.

This kind of judgment seems simple, but it is quite difficult for a nine-year-old child to make a clear judgment in an instant.

"Mom, mom, mom..." Hu Mingchen ran up the path, shouting loudly as he ran.

Hu Mingchen was only sure that his mother should be on top, but he was not sure where Jiang Yucai was, so he could use the propagation of sound to cast a net.

Hu Mingchen's family's land is located under the land and on the hillside, distributed in several places. Moreover, the houses on the hillside are also one in the east and the other in the west. Basically, there are no more than three households connected together.

"Mom, Mom, where are you? Mom, where are you?" After running for three to four hundred meters on the path and shouting countless times, Hu Mingchen still didn't hear Jiang Yucai's response.

"Hu Mingchen, what are you doing looking for your mother?" Just when Hu Mingchen was standing on a small ridge shouting and looking out, Jiang Yucai did not appear. Instead, the second aunt of the Tong family walked out of the cornfield under the sill.

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"Second aunt, have you seen my mother? I have something urgent to do with him?"

It's all because we didn't have mobile phones at this time. If we had mobile phones, we wouldn't have to yell and ask questions.

"What's the emergency?" Hu Mingchen said in a hurry, but the second aunt of the Tong family didn't seem to notice and asked calmly.

"My dad...Oh, second aunt, have you seen my mom? I'm really in a hurry." Hu Mingchen originally wanted to tell the truth, but now he doesn't know what happened to his dad, or what happened?

Without further ado, I put an emergency brake on my words.

"I saw it. I had a few words with her just now. She should have gone to the Xu family above. I heard that she was going to the Xu family..."

Hu Mingchen didn't even listen to what the second aunt of the Tong family had said, and ran up to the Xu family.

"This baby...I haven't even finished what I said. Why are you running away? Maybe your house collapsed." Hu Mingchen ran away, but left the second aunt of the Tong family behind, shaking her head and joking.

For now, the house of Hu Mingchen's family is relatively poor in this area. Although generally the people in the village are not as wealthy as any other family, at least their house looks like that. And the house of Hu Mingchen's family,

Many places are broken,

Even the room where my elder sister and younger sister live and the room separated as the kitchen often leaks. Therefore, behind the scenes, there will be some people in the village making fun of and making fun of Hu Mingchen's house behind his back. In fact, it is a bit

I despise and look down upon his family.

Hu Mingchen ran to Xu's house in one breath and saw Jiang Yucai chatting happily with the Xu family's aunt at the door of Xu's house.

"Xiaochen, why are you running up here? You are better off, you should stay at home, why are you running up here?" Seeing Hu Mingchen's appearance, Jiang Yucai put away her smile and asked strangely.

"Oh, don't worry about why I ran up here. Come on, come home with me. Grandma has something to ask you."

"What can happen to her?" Jiang Yucai seemed to be asking Hu Mingchen, but also seemed to be talking to himself.

The aunt of the Xu family also became curious: "Xiaochen, what's going on at your grandpa's house? Is there something going on? I heard your mother say you go away, is it better?"

"Aunt Xu, I'm almost healed. Mom, go away quickly. Grandma asked me to come find you. She's still waiting in front of our house. If it takes too long, she might scold you again." Hu Mingchen responded.

After saying something to Aunt Xu, she urged Jiang Yucai.

In the Hu family, Zhong Ying is a very strong person. Whether it is her grandfather Hu Erhua, her uncle, or Hu Mingchen's parents, she rarely has anything nice to say. She will scold and make noises when provoked.

"Sister-in-law Xu, I'll go back first." Hearing that Zhong Ying was still waiting at home, Jiang Yucai couldn't sit still anymore, so she stood up and said goodbye.