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

"Mom, how is it?" Hu Mingchen, who had been waiting at the door, asked with concern as soon as he saw Jiang Yucai enter the door.

"Where are Yan Die and Yu Jiao, have you eaten?" Jiang Yucai sat on a small stool by the threshold, leaned against the door of the hall, and asked Hu Mingchen weakly.

"After eating, the pigs were also fed, Hu Xiaomin and Hu Xiaohua came to play with them just now, and they followed them to the sister-in-law's house. ”

Hu Xiaomin and Hu Xiaohua are Hu Dehua's younger sisters, and their father is Hu Mingyi, and their family lives in the bend under the small mountain beam in the west, slightly lower than Hu Mingchen's grandparents' house.

Hu Mingyi's family and Hu Mingchen's family are actually not the same family, and they have no blood relationship within the five suits. Hu Mingyi's family moved to Huangni Village from other places in his grandfather's generation, but because of the generation, although Hu Dehua is still two years older than Hu Mingchen, he also has to call Hu Mingchen uncle, and Hu Mingchen calls him his father Hu Mingyi's eldest brother, and his wife Long Cui'e Hu Mingchen is naturally called sister-in-law.

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

"In order not to worry them, I didn't say it. Actually, it's useless to tell them, 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 hesitated to suggest.

“...... It's fine, but it's ...... Your sister is big after all, if you don't tell her, I won't be at home during this time......" Holding the warm water cup handed to her by Hu Mingchen, Jiang Yucai was a little conflicted and couldn't make up her mind.

Hu Mingchen said something mature, which sounded reasonable, but 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 this news is only known to him, in addition to putting him under great pressure, it is also unknown whether it will be detrimental to Hu Yandie's care for his younger siblings.

"Mom, don't worry, we have all grown up, and in the future, we will not only take care of ourselves, but also take care of you and Dad. Since it doesn't help for the two of them to know, why bother? You don't have to worry about it at home, you just concentrate on taking care of your father, and when you get there, no matter what the situation is, bring a letter back. I believe that Dad Jiren has his own natural appearance and will be fine. ”

Listening to such heartwarming words from her son's mouth, Jiang Yucai couldn't control herself all of a sudden, hugged Hu Mingchen, and cried loudly.

Knowing that her husband had an accident in another province and went out to borrow money today and suffered some anger, Jiang Yucai suffered a lot of pain in her heart, and now she was stimulated by Hu Mingchen's warm words, she couldn't control her emotions anymore, and she vented it in an instant.

Listening to his mother's helpless and desolate cry, Hu Mingchen's eyes were also wet.

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

And the more this time, the more Hu Mingchen needs to stand up and show a strong and sensible side.

"Mom, you shouldn't have eaten yet, Donnie Yen still has some grain rice in it, I'll help you warm up a bowl." Two minutes later, his mother's emotions were almost vented, Hu Mingchen got out of her arms, helped him wipe the tears on his face and asked.

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

Jiang Yucai actually didn't have any appetite to eat, and at her eldest brother's house, she only symbolically ate half a bowl. No matter who this kind of thing happens to, it should be unpleasant to eat and unswallowable.

"You went to Jiangjiazhai?Mom, did the eldest uncle and second uncle borrow money from you?" Sure enough, as Hu Mingchen expected, his mother really put down her son and went to ask her in-laws for help, but she didn't know what the result was.

"Your grandparents borrowed five hundred, and your second uncle's family is about the same as ours, and there is no money at all, so your uncle borrowed four hundred. The third and fourth uncles are not married yet, and they can't come up with anything. ”

"Nine hundred yuan, a drop in the bucket. Hu Mingchen sighed.

"I also found your grandfather's family, they borrowed a thousand, the Xu family, your second family and the third family also went to the village, and I made up some of them. Saying that, Jiang Yucai disliked his coat, took out a bundle of money borrowed from the shirt purse inside, and pulled out two bills from the middle: "You take these ten yuan, and I will give the other fifty yuan to your sister, you can save some flowers during this time at home, and I will take the remaining three thousand yuan over there, and I don't know how much it will cost your father to be hospitalized." ”

"Mom, I don't want money, you can just give fifty yuan to my sister, you should bring the ten yuan, maybe you can be in a hurry." Hu Mingchen pushed back the ten yuan that his mother handed him.

"You take it, you've just recovered from your injuries, and when you're studying, you're hungry and you're hungry and you're buying something to eat on the street. If you don't have anything on you, in case you quarrel with your sister, I'm afraid you'll go hungry. Jiang Yucai stuffed the ten yuan into Hu Mingchen's hand again.

Seriously, whether it is in a previous life or in this life, when he is nine years old, it is the first time for Hu Mingchen to hold such a large bill in his hand.

Usually if you get a piece or two, it's a lot of money. The family was already poor, except for buying books, pens and paper, Jiang Yucai and Hu Jianjun never gave more than one dollar of pocket money at a time during their entire elementary school years.

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

Hu Mingchen told the truth, although he often had discord and quarrels with his sister and sister, but in his memory, his sister really never did anything harsh and excessive to him. On the contrary, it is her sister Hu Yujiao, if she is in a hurry, she will chase Hu Mingchen with a sickle.

"You better take it, I'll go this time, and I don't know if it's three days or two days or half a month and a month to come back. As long as you don't spend it indiscriminately, our family's money is not easy to come by. You go to your sister-in-law's house and call the two of them back, and I'll explain some things to your sister. ”

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

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

Kankan was close to the old house of Hu Mingyi's family, and Hu Mingchen heard the noise of giggling. It turned out that Hu Yandie, Hu Yujiao and the three brothers and sisters of Hu Dehua's family didn't know what happy things to talk about, and they were laughing back and forth.

"Sister, Yujiao, I'm home, my mother is back, and I'm telling you to go back to sleep. As soon as he entered the courtyard of Hu Mingyi's house, Hu Mingchen put a torch on the wall of his house and said to Hu Yandie and Hu Yujiao.

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

"Thank you Xiaomin, I won't sit down, my mother told my sister to go back. Hu Yandie and Hu Yujiao, who didn't know the situation, could sit down and laugh with them ignorantly, but Hu Mingchen was unable to do it now.

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

"Xiao Chen is here, sit and play, the artichoke is being boiled on the fire, and it will be cooked soon. ”

"Sister-in-law, thank you, we have eaten, I am here to ask my sister and Yujiao to go back, my mother has something to do with them. Hu Mingchen politely refused.

"What can I do, I'll talk about it when I go home later, if you want to go back, you can go back first, and we'll have to play again." "Hu Yandie, they are having fun, so they don't want to go home so soon.

What's more, they will be able to eat boiled potatoes soon, and Hu Yandie and Hu Yujiao don't want to leave now.

Artichoke is an ordinary food in ordinary people's homes, but in Huangni Village, in the Hu family, artichoke can't be late often. Because there is no local planting, you need to buy it on the street, and the price is relatively not cheap, which has a strong attraction to Hu Yandie and Hu Yujiao.

"That's it, if you like to sleep, you can go back to sleep by yourself, and we'll go home ourselves in a while. Sister Hu Yujiao followed and said to Hu Mingchen.

"Sleep is secondary, the key is that mom has something to do with you, let's go back quickly, and come to my sister-in-law's house to play another day." Hu Mingchen said patiently.

"There is something to do, there is a fart thing, nine or eight times out of ten, you are going to cheat and trick us into going back to mix coal, you have to be clear, it is your turn to mix coal today, will you die if you do your own thing? Don't expect me and Yujiao to help you at every turn. Hu Yandie thought that Hu Mingchen had tricked her into being a strong man again, and she was very unhappy.

The reason why this is the case is that he was bitten by a snake for ten years and was afraid of the well rope, and Hu Yandie was deceived by Hu Mingchen more than once before. In the end, Hu Mingchen will play tricks again, and Hu Jianjun and Jiang Yucai will most likely arrange things for her to do. In their words, who called Hu Yandie a sister, since she is an older sister, it is natural that she should let her younger brother help her younger brother.

"I'm not lying to you to go back and do things, I've done all my things myself...... Mom told you to go back because she wanted to ask about your school test. Hu Mingchen, who had a "bad record", was speechless, so he simply lied.

As soon as she heard that it was about the exam, Hu Yujiao, who was in the first grade, was first angry and lowered her head, and Hu Yandie's momentum was not so sufficient, and she was also a little weak-hearted.

When it comes to studying, Hu Yujiao is the worst, she is in the first grade, and she can't even add or subtract a simple amount. From beginning to end, from primary school to junior high school graduation, Hu Yujiao rarely passed the exam.

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

Hu Mingchen's studies are not very good, but he is favored at home, even if he is not very good in the exam, the degree of criticism is relatively not so strong. And Hu Yandie and Hu Yujiao are often scolded on this issue.

Hu Mingchen walked in front with a torch, Hu Yandie and Hu Yujiao were reluctant, so they could only hang their heads and follow Hu Mingchen home.