At 90 o'clock in the morning, my sister and sister went to school, and Hu Mingchen did not have to go to school for the time being because he had just recovered from his injury, but sat on a small bench in the earthen courtyard dam to bask in the sun.

Sitting at the door of Hu Mingchen's house, looking into the distance, the mountains on three sides are in full view, if it were not for a mountain in the distance opposite, he could still see the streets in the countryside and the primary school he studied in the distance.

The place where Hu Mingchen's home is located is Huangni Village, Duge Township, Gaoshan County, Liangcheng City, which is one of the local poor townships. Surrounded by mountains, the township hall is on a small slope in the center of the valley, and there is a cool river flowing next to it.

The reason for the poverty of Duge Township has a lot to do with its geographical environment, except for a Duge village next to the township government, the rest of the villages are all distributed on the surrounding hillsides.

Such a geographical environment makes transportation a big problem in the first place. At present, although there are three roads in the township government, the tragic thing is that none of them are cement roads or asphalt roads, and the road closest to the county seat was just excavated last year.

In order to dig this road, the township has no money, and the county only supports some ** and other materials, and most of its projects are still completed by the villagers who violate the rules of family planning in the surrounding areas. Hu Mingchen's father, Hu Jianjun, and mother, Jiang Yucai, once devoted a month to the road dug along the dry ditch.

The poorer the locality, the more difficult it is for family planning to be carried out normally. In Duge Township, 70 percent of families have violated family planning rules to some degree. It is also because of poverty, the usual fine measures are not very effective at all, unless the township government wants to make those villagers hungry and even ruined, in addition, Duge Township is also a multi-ethnic township, in addition to the Han nationality, there are also many Buyi people, Yi people, etc., so ah, the township government that has no way does not know who is so genius, actually came up with such a policy of work instead of punishment.

The Duge Township Government has opened three dirt roads, and only three villages including Duge Village have been connected to the roads indirectly, but because the local villages are usually not densely populated, the villagers are scattered on the surrounding mountains, and more than 80% of the village groups are actually connected by small roads.

In Hu Mingchen's Huangni Village, all the villagers did not have a road that could pass through horse-drawn carriages, and they could only take rugged mountain paths to each other and to the township government.

From Hu Mingchen's house to the township government, if the adults are empty-handed, it will take more than half an hour, and if they carry grain and fruits to sell, it will be difficult to arrive in less than an hour. Moreover, you have to wade through the small river in the dry ditch.

The water volume of the dry ditch is indeed not large during the dry season, it is just a small river, but if the water is high, because it is a canyon, the water volume is not only large, but also turbulent and rapid, not to mention people, even large livestock such as cattle and horses can be washed away.

These children living in Huangni Village have the privilege of not having to go to school when the water is rising. Parents are afraid that their children will encounter danger when crossing the river in the dry ditch, so why not worry about the school. Tragedy is not unprecedented.

Hu Mingchen once had a child in his village who was forced to wade into a river on his way to school a few years ago, but he was unsteady on his feet and washed more than a kilometer downstream. By the time he was found, the child was miserable.

Hu Mingchen wants to change the situation of himself and his family, but the difficult environment has formed a strong obstacle for him.

Looking up, the four fields are vast, the mountains are still green, the sky is also very blue, and the air blown by the breeze penetrates into the nostrils and indeed exudes a fragrance of the fields.

Hu Mingchen leaned against a peach tree at the door, holding a small branch in his right hand and pulling on the ground. I don't know and think he's just playing a child's trick, but in fact, he's thinking about where to change the breakthrough for himself.

"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 voice and looked down, and saw that it was grandmother Zhong Ying standing next to her cowshed and screaming loudly.

Hu Mingchen's grandmother's family lives more than 20 meters below his house, with a few plots of land in between. After the family separated, his grandparents lived with his third uncle, who was not yet married. The uncle's family lives in front of the grandmother's house.

"Grandma, my mother is not at home, what do you call him?" Hu Mingchen asked loudly.

"Oh, where did your mother run away again, you should hurry up and find her, hurry up, your father had an accident in the mine. When Zhong Ying heard that Jiang Yucai was not there, she slapped her thigh and complained anxiously and angrily.

As soon as he heard that his father had an accident in the mine, Hu Mingchen's heart sank, and he secretly exclaimed.

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

Although Hu Mingchen has never worked in a tin mine, there are many coal mines around them, and if something happens in this mine, it is usually not a trivial matter, and if it is not done well, it will kill someone.

"Okay, grandma, I'll go find it right away, I'll go right away, grandma, how do you know?" At this time, Hu Mingchen didn't think about anything in his mind, and nothing was more important than his father's safety.

"I went to the street just now, and the big dad of Sanjiazhai asked people to come back and talk about it for a while, don't rub it off, hurry up and find your mother. ”

In the local dialect, daddy and uncle mean the same thing, and aunt is correspondingly equated with aunt.

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

Hu Mingchen actually didn't know where Jiang Yucai went, whether he went to the field to farm or went to other people's houses, anyway, he didn't see his mother after he got up, so he was alone in the courtyard to bask in the sun.

But Hu Mingchen has a basic judgment, and it is also a judgment that does not correspond to his current age.

Since the grandmother shouted below, and the mother did not appear, but stood up to respond, it means that the mother is not at the uncle's house below, nor will she be in the ground below. There was only one possibility left, she would either be in the fields on the hill or visit someone else's house on the hill, and only then would she not hear her grandmother's cries.

Such a judgment may seem simple, but it is still quite difficult for a nine-year-old child to have 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 it, but he was not sure where Jiang Yucai was, which could be used to cast a net by means of sound transmission.

There are also under the land of Hu Mingchen's house, on the hillside, and distributed in several places. Moreover, the houses on the hillside are also one in the east and one in the west, and there are basically no more than three families connected together.

"Mom, Mom, where are you?Mom, where are you?" ran three or four hundred meters on the path, shouting countless times in his mouth, but Hu Mingchen still didn't hear Jiang Yucai's response.

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

"Second aunt, did you see my mother, I have something urgent to find him?"

It's all because there is no mobile phone at this time, if there is a mobile phone, there is no such problem of looking for someone to yell and ask.

"What's the urgency?" Hu Mingchen said urgently, but the second aunt of the Tong family didn't seem to see it, and asked lightly.

"My dad...... Oh, second aunt, have you seen my mother, I'm really in a hurry. Hu Mingchen originally wanted to tell the truth, but when he thought that he still didn't know what happened to his father, he still didn't make a fuss, so he verbally put on the emergency brake.

"See, I chatted with her just now, she should have gone to Xu's house above, I heard that she was going to Xu's house......"

Hu Mingchen didn't listen to the second aunt of the Tong family finish speaking, and ran to the Xu family.

"This doll ...... I haven't finished my words, what are you running, it's hard to make your house collapse. Hu Mingchen ran away, but left the second aunt of the Tong family shaking her head behind her back and teasing.

At present, Hu Mingchen's house is relatively poor around here. Although the people in the village are generally not very wealthy, at least the houses of other people still look like that, and Hu Mingchen's house is broken in many places, and even the one where my sister and sister live and the one that is separated as a kitchen will often leak rain. Therefore, behind the scenes, there will be some people in the village who talk about and ridicule Hu Mingchen's house behind their backs, but in fact, they are a little disgusted and look down on his family.

Hu Mingchen ran to Xu's house in one go, and sure enough, he saw Jiang Yucai chatting with the aunt of the Xu family at the door of the Xu family.

"Xiao Chen, why did you run up? You are fine, you should stay at home, what are you running up for?" Seeing Hu Mingchen's appearance, Jiang Yucai put away her smile and asked strangely.

"Oh, you don't care why I ran up, let's go, come home with me, grandma has something to look for you. ”

"What can she do?" Jiang Yucai seemed to be asking Hu Mingchen, and seemed to be talking to herself.

And the aunt of the Xu family was also curious: "Xiao Chen, what's wrong with your grandfather's house? Is there something wrong? I heard your mother say that you are here, is it better?"

"Aunt Xu, I'm almost fine. Mom, let's go, grandma told me to come to you, she's still waiting at our door, if it drags on for a long time, she will scold you again. After Hu Mingchen dealt with Aunt Xu, he urged Jiang Yucai.

In the Hu family, Zhong Ying is a very strong person, whether it is to her grandfather Hu Erhua or her uncle, or to Hu Mingchen's parents, she rarely has good words, and she will scold and quarrel when she is in a hurry.

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