rebirth of cataclysm

As night fell, my mother finally dragged her exhausted body back home.

"Mom, how are you?" Hu Mingchen, who had been waiting at the door, asked with concern when he saw Jiang Yucai entering.

"Where are Yandie and Yujiao? Have you eaten?" Jiang Yucai sat down on the small stool by the threshold, leaning against the door of the hall, and asked Hu Mingchen feebly.

"We have eaten and the pigs have been fed. Hu Xiaomin and Hu Xiaohua just came to play with them, and they followed them to the sister-in-law's house."

Hu Xiaomin and Hu Xiaohua are Hu Dehua's sisters, and their father is Hu Mingyi. Their family lives in Wanwan under a hill ridge in the west, and the terrain is slightly lower than Hu Mingchen's grandparents' house.

Hu Mingyi's family and Hu Mingchen's family are actually not the same family. They have no blood relationship within the five servers. Hu Mingyi's family moved to Huangni Village from other places during his grandfather's generation. It was just because of the seniority relationship, even though Hu Dehua was older than

Hu Mingchen is two years older, so he has to be called Uncle Hu Mingchen, while Hu Mingchen calls his father Hu Mingyi brother, and his wife Long Cui'e Hu Mingchen naturally calls her sister-in-law.

"You didn't tell them?" Jiang Yucai asked.

"In order not to worry them, I didn't tell them. In fact, telling them is useless, so I think... it's better to keep it a secret from them for the time being." Hu Mingchen poured a glass of water for his mother and then suggested hesitantly.

"...That's fine, but...your sister is older after all. If you don't tell her, during the time when I'm not at home..." Hu Mingchen handed the hand

Warming a cup of water, Jiang Yucai felt conflicted and a little undecided.

Hu Mingchen said mature words, which sounded reasonable, but when Jiang Yucai thought about it, he was only nine years old, and he always had to be taken care of by others at home. If only he knew the news, it would not only put him under pressure

In addition to being serious, it is also unknown whether it will be detrimental to Hu Yandie's care for her younger siblings.

"Mom, don't worry, we have all grown up. In the future, we will not only take care of ourselves, but also you and dad. Since it won't help if they know more, why bother? At home, you

There is no need to worry, just concentrate on taking good care of dad. When you get there, no matter what the situation is, just send a message back. I believe dad is a lucky man and everything will be fine."

Hearing such heart-warming words coming from her son's mouth, Jiang Yucai couldn't control herself, hugged Hu Mingchen and cried loudly.

Knowing that her husband had an accident in another province, and going out to borrow money today, Jiang Yucai suffered a lot of pain. Now stimulated by Hu Mingchen's heart-warming words, she could no longer control her emotions, and suddenly

Just let it out.

Listening to his mother's helpless and sad cry, Hu Mingchen's eyes became wet.

It is difficult for him to understand his mother's current mood and difficulties, and he can even better understand his mother's worries and concerns.

And at this time, it is even more necessary for Hu Mingchen to stand up and show his strong and sensible side.

"Mom, you haven't eaten yet. There's still some corn rice in Zhenzi. I'll heat up a bowl for you." Two minutes later, his mother's emotions were almost exhausted. Hu Mingchen got out of her arms and helped him.

He asked, wiping the tears on his face.

"No need, I ate at your uncle's house." He replied after blowing his nose from crying.

Jiang Yucai actually didn't have much appetite to eat. At her eldest brother's house, she only ate half a bowl as a token. No matter who this kind of thing happened to, they would probably be unhappy and unable to swallow.

"Did you go to Jiangjiazhai? Mom, did your uncle and uncle lend you money?" As expected by Hu Mingchen, the mother really put down her dignity and went to seek help from her husband's family, but she didn't know what the result would be.

"Your grandparents borrowed 500 yuan. Your second uncle's family is similar to ours and has no money at all. Your eldest uncle borrowed 400 yuan. Your third uncle and fourth uncle are not married yet, so they can't get anything out."

"Nine hundred yuan is a drop in the bucket." Hu Mingchen said with emotion.

"I also went to your eldest grandpa's house, and they borrowed a thousand. I also went to the Xu family, your second mother's house, and Sanjiazhai, and I scraped together some money." Jiang Yucai said that he disliked the coat and took the shirt and purse from it. He took out a bunch of money that he had borrowed today, and took out two bills from the middle: "Take these ten yuan, and I will give the other fifty yuan to your sister. You can save some money during this time at home, and the rest will be spent." Where will I take the three thousand yuan I paid? I don’t know how much it will cost for your father to be hospitalized."

"Mom, I don't want any money. Just give fifty yuan to my sister. You'd better take these ten yuan with you. Maybe it can help with emergencies." Hu Mingchen pushed back the ten yuan his mother handed to him.

"Take it, you have just recovered from your injury. When you were studying, you were hungry at noon and bought something to eat on the street. If you don't have any on you, if you and your sister quarrel, I'm afraid you will starve." Jiang Yucai said again. Put the ten dollars into Hu Mingchen's hand.

To be honest, whether it was in his previous life or this life, when he was nine years old, it was the first time that Hu Mingchen held such a big banknote in his hand.

Usually, if you get one or two yuan, it is a huge sum of money. The family is already in a tight situation. Apart from buying books, pens and paper, Jiang Yucai and Hu Jianjun never gave them more than one yuan in pocket money at a time throughout their elementary school years.

"Mom, my sister is actually very good. You think too much." Hu Mingchen defended his sister Hu Yandie.

What Hu Mingchen said was quite true. Although he and his sister often had disagreements and quarrels, in his memory, his sister never did anything harsh to him. On the contrary, it was his sister Hu Yujiao who made him angry. If so, she would still chase Hu Mingchen with a sickle in hand.

"You'd better take it. When I go this time, I don't know if it will take three days and two days or half a month and a month to come back. As long as you don't spend it arbitrarily, our family's money is hard to come by. You go to your sister-in-law's house to bring them two Call me back, I'll explain some things to your sister."

To go to Jiuzhou from Duge Township, you have to walk to the township early in the morning before dawn, take a passing shuttle bus to Xianwei City in the neighboring province, and then transfer from Xianwei to Jiuzhou. So if Jiang Yucai wants to If there is anything to explain to the children, it will only be at night.

Hu Mingchen lit a small torch and walked along the path to Hu Mingyi's house.

As he approached the old house of Hu Mingyi's family, Hu Mingchen heard the noise of laughter and laughter. It turned out that Hu Yandie, Hu Yujiao and the three brothers and sisters of Hu Dehua's family were chatting about something happy and laughing.

"Sister, Yujiao, you have gone home. Mom is back and asked you to go back to bed." As soon as they entered the courtyard of Hu Mingyi's house, Hu Mingchen stuck a torch on the wall of his house and said to Hu Yandie and Hu Yujiao.

"Uncle, it's too early to go to bed now, sit down and play for a while before leaving." Hu Xiaomin from the Hu family brought a stool to Hu Mingchen and invited him.

"Thank you Xiao Min, I won't sit down. My mother asked my sister and the others to go back." Hu Yandie and Hu Yujiao, who didn't know the situation, could sit down and joke with them without any worries, but Hu Mingchen found it difficult to do that now.

At this time, sister-in-law Long Cui'e walked out of the hall.

"Xiaochen is here. Come sit down and play. The potatoes are cooking on the fire. They will be cooked soon."

"Sister-in-law, thank you. We have had dinner. I came to ask my sister and Yu Jiao to go back. My mother has something to do with them." Hu Mingchen declined politely.

"What can be the matter? We can talk about it later when we go home. If you want to go back, go back first. We have to play some more." Hu Yandie and the others were having fun and didn't want to go home so soon.

Besides, they will be able to eat boiled potatoes soon, so Hu Yandie and Hu Yujiao don’t want to leave now.

Potatoes are an extremely common food in ordinary people's homes, but in Huangni Village and the Hu family, potatoes are not often late. Because they are not grown locally, they need to be bought on the street, and the price is relatively not cheap.

Hu Yandie and Hu Yujiao have a very strong attraction.

"That's right, if you want to sleep, you can go back and sleep by yourself. We will go home in a while." Sister Hu Yujiao then said to Hu Mingchen.

"Sleeping is the next best thing. The most important thing is that mom has something to do with you. Let's go back quickly and come back to my sister-in-law's house to play some other time." Hu Mingchen said patiently.

"Something comes up, no matter what. In all likelihood, you are going to cheat and trick us into going back to mix the coal. You must know that it is your turn to mix the coal today. Will you die if you do your own thing?

Don't always expect me and Yujiao to help you." Hu Yandie thought that Hu Mingchen was tricking her into becoming a young man again, and she seemed very unhappy.

The reason for this is that after being bitten by a snake, she has been afraid of well ropes for ten years. Hu Yandie has been deceived by Hu Mingchen more than once before. In the end, if Hu Mingchen acts coquettishly and cheats, Hu Jianjun and Jiang Yucai will probably arrange things for her. With them

In other words, who calls Hu Yandie a sister? Since she is a sister, it is natural that she should let her younger brother and help him.

"I'm not lying to you to go back and do things. I've done all my work myself...Mom asked you to go back because I wanted to ask you about the school test."

A lie.

As soon as she heard that she was asking about an exam, Hu Yujiao, who was in the first grade, was the first to get angry and lowered her head, while Hu Yandie was not as energetic and felt a little guilty.

When it comes to studying, Hu Yujiao is the worst. She is in the first grade and she can’t even do a simple addition or subtraction. From the beginning to the end, from elementary school to junior high school, Hu Yujiao rarely passed the exam.

Hu Yandie's studies are the best among the three siblings, but she is not good enough to be proud of.

Hu Mingchen's studies were not very good, but he was favored at home. Even if he didn't do well in the exam, he was not criticized so much. Hu Yandie and Hu Yujiao were often scolded on this issue.

Hu Mingchen walked in front holding a torch. No matter how reluctant Hu Yandie and Hu Yujiao were, they could only follow Hu Mingchen home with their heads hanging down.