The sun has just set, the temperature is pleasant, and people are coming and going on the street. Most of them are families walking together to enjoy the beautiful scenery of Linxi City at night.
"Alas!" Zhang Yunfan sighed heavily. At this time, he was not in the mood to appreciate the beautiful sunset.
Looking at the sun-baked and lifeless vegetables in his third wheel, he sighed again. It seemed that these vegetables could only be eaten by himself.
Two years ago, Zhang Yunfan's parents were in a car accident. His father passed away after resuscitation efforts failed. Although his mother survived, she also suffered from paralysis and was unable to continue working. Because of her young age, her younger sister could not work, so life suddenly became extremely difficult.
As a sophomore in high school, he had no choice but to give up his studies and shoulder this heavy burden.
But after all, he is not a real farmer, and the vegetables he grows are not as good as those of vegetable farmers. Therefore, even if he leaves early and returns late every day, he can't make much money and can barely make ends meet.
Zhang Yunfan's family lives in Shanghe Village, about eight kilometers away from Linxi City. It is at the urban-rural fringe. Most of the young people in the village have gone to Linxi City or further to work. There are few people like Zhang Yunfan who farm.
I’m tired and haven’t made much money yet.
After riding his own tricycle for more than an hour, Zhang Yunfan finally walked back to Shanghe Village tiredly. It was already nine o'clock in the evening when he arrived at the village.
He rushed home without stopping, thinking that his mother was already starving. When he got home, he found that his mother was not at home.
Zhang Yunfan suddenly panicked. His mother had been bedridden for a long time and waited for him to come back to cook every night. Something like this had never happened before.
He hurried to his neighbor Lao Zhang's house and asked: "Fat Aunt, have you seen my mother?"
Fat Aunt is only 1.5 meters tall, but weighs a hundred and fifty pounds. She has a good temper, so people in the village jokingly call her Fat Aunt, but she feels quite friendly. Over time, everyone calls her that.
"I think you saw your mother going to see your uncle." The fat aunt was lying on the sofa watching TV and said with a smile.
"Thank you!" Zhang Yunfan said and strode out of Fat Aunt's house.
"Stay and have some food, we just have some food left," the fat aunt said with concern.
"No, I've already eaten." Zhang Yunfan smiled and closed the door of Fat Aunt's house. The moment he closed the door, Zhang Yunfan's face suddenly became extremely ugly.
Since the death of his father, the uncle has been determined to clear up the relationship between the two families, and even has no intention of paying back the money he owed before.
In the past six months, no matter how difficult the family was, the uncle had not given any help. The mother must have gone to ask for a debt this time, but with the style of the uncle's family, there was no way she could get anything good.
Regardless of how tired he was, Zhang Yunfan hurried to his uncle's house and saw his mother, Li Xiaoling, sitting in the yard of his uncle's house under the cover of night.
"Brother, look at the current situation in my family, it's almost impossible to open the pot."
As soon as I stepped into my uncle Zhang Zhongwen's yard, I heard my mother Li Xiaoling say sadly.
My mother has always been arrogant, and when her father was still alive, Zhang Yunfan's family was once the richest family in the village. Anyone who needed to borrow money would come to her mother. She had never been so groveling.
Looking at his mother's figure, Zhang Yunfan's heart seemed to be bleeding.
"Brothers and sisters, we have four people to feed in our family, and we really can't come up with money." The uncle said expressionlessly as he picked up a large piece of pork from the rice bowl and put it into his mouth.
"But, don't your family still eat pork?" The mother looked at the pork in Zhang Zhongwen's bowl and couldn't help but think that it would be great if the family could also cook some pork for Zhang Yunfan to replenish his body. It has been so long since the last time he ate meat.
It's been two full months.
"Brother and sister, what you said is wrong. You can't starve to death if you don't have money." He ate the pork with big mouthfuls, and the fat flowed from his mouth.
"But our family Qianqian really has no tuition fees. You have owed our family three thousand yuan for two years, so you should pay it back!" her mother begged.
"Ow money?" Uncle Zhang Zhongwen immediately stopped the chopsticks in his hand.
"It is true that I owe my brother three thousand yuan, but that is all my brother's money. What does it have to do with you, a woman?" He sneered and said lightly.
An angry look appeared on Zhang Yunfan's face. Not only was he his uncle, but he was also a neighbor. He had made it clear that he wanted to deny it. What's more, with the current situation of his own family, everyone in the village would turn to him if something happened.
The money I owed before was paid back, but my uncle kept delaying it, and now he started to default on it!
"Even if it has nothing to do with me as a woman, it must have something to do with the two children." The mother said in a low voice.
"Which of those two children looks like my brother? Who knows which family's bastard he is?" Zhang Zhongwen said disdainfully.
"Your" mother was furious. For a woman of a family, this was already the greatest insult to her.
Beast! Zhang Yunfan looked at his uncle Zhang Zhongwen and clenched his fists tightly, not even noticing that his nails were digging deep into them. What qualifications does such a person have to call him his uncle?
He was completely angry. No one had ever dared to insult his mother like this. Since his father's death, although his family had lived in poverty, at least they lived with dignity. He couldn't stand being insulted like this by his uncle no matter what!
Taking advantage of the dusk, he slowly walked to the corner, picked up a bench outside the yard, walked behind his uncle Zhang Zhongwen, and smashed the bench down on Zhang Zhongwen's back!
"No!" Mother Li Xiaoling noticed Zhang Yunfan's appearance and exclaimed when she saw his actions.
"What don't you want?" Zhang Zhongwen was confused.
The next second, he felt a stinging pain in his back, and he almost fainted.
"Beast, who are you calling a bastard?" Zhang Yunfan looked at him angrily. In his heart, he had great respect for his mother. Her mother always had rules in doing things and everyone in the village was very polite to her. How could she do such a thing.
Zhang Zhongwen stood up, and the stinging pain on his back made him grin. Then anger burned in his heart, "How dare you hit me? You're looking for a slap, kid!"
As he spoke, he picked up the bowl in his hand and threw it directly towards Zhang Yunfan's head.
Li Xiaoling was immediately stunned by the scene in front of her. She was so worried that she could not speak. She wanted to rush forward to protect her son, but she could only sit in a wheelchair.
"What's wrong with hitting you? I, Zhang Yunfan, will not let go of anyone who humiliates my mother!" Zhang Yunfan snorted coldly, picked up the bench and threw it at him too.
With a "peng" sound, the porcelain bowl hit the bench with too much force and turned into pieces. The bench in Zhang Yunfan's hand also fell on Zhang Zhongwen's arm again.
The movement outside alarmed Zheng Xiuhua at home, who was also Zhang Yunfan's aunt. She ran out anxiously, looked at Zhang Yunfan and her son and cursed angrily: "How can you fool around like this? He is also your uncle after all. Why do you beat your uncle?"
Have you gained any education?"
"I don't have an uncle like him. Also, pay back the money you owe our family first before you talk to me about education." Zhang Yunfan said coldly.
"Money, money, money, I know money. Have you forgotten the help we gave you when your family was farming?" Zheng Xiuhua said with her hands on her hips.
"Yes, you helped me, and I borrowed a piece of land from my dad, and I haven't returned it yet." Zhang Yunfan continued to sneer.
Zheng Xiuhua's face was a little helpless, and then she supported her husband Zhang Zhongwen and asked carefully, "How are you doing? Do you want to go to the hospital?"
Zhang Zhongwen immediately understood what she meant and hurriedly said: "I have a severe headache. I'm afraid I'll have to take a film."
"You still want our family to pay back the money. Dream on. It's best not to find out anything in the hospital, otherwise you will be waiting to go to jail." Zheng Xiuhua said coldly, and then helped Zhang Zhongwen to prepare to go home.
"Also, you two, get out of here, you are not welcome here." She said angrily.
Zhang Yunfan was about to say something, but his mother stopped him. She sighed and said, "Let's go."
His mother had already spoken, and Zhang Yunfan could not say anything, so he had to push his mother's wheelchair home.
He silently swore in his heart that not only would he get back the three thousand yuan, but he would also make these people who looked down on him unable to afford it.
"Mom, if you know the kind of people in their family, don't ask for the debt." Fortunately, nothing happened to his mother, and Zhang Yunfan felt relieved.
"Your sister has no money. If we don't give her money, she will starve. There is no better money than us outside, so even if you don't have money, you can make do with it. Isn't there nothing I can do about it?" The mother sighed, looking at her back, Zhang Yunfan
My heart was severely pinched.
I remember that when my father was still alive, although my mother was nearly forty years old, she hardly worked in the fields and took good care of herself. She looked like she was only in her early thirties. But now when I look at my mother, she has not only lost a lot of weight, but also lost a lot of weight.
My hair has also turned a lot grayer. In one year, I look more than ten years older.
"I'll figure out a way to deal with the money. If it doesn't work, my classmates and I will borrow some more." Zhang Yunfan felt bitter in his heart. Those classmates had long been afraid of borrowing money from him. Who would dare to lend money to him, but his mother must not worry about this matter.
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"Hey, when will days like this end?" Mother sighed and stopped talking.
Back home, Zhang Yunfan cooked dinner for the two of them. It was already ten o'clock in the evening after dinner.
After washing his face, he noticed that his forehead was hit by the fragment of the porcelain bowl and there was some blood. However, Zhang Yunfan, who grew up in the countryside, didn't care at all. He put away the dishes and chopsticks for a while, then lay on the bed and slept tiredly.
It’s on.
He didn't notice that the ancient red jade left by his father on his chest was also stained with his blood.
While he was sleeping, the piece of ancient jade suddenly emitted bursts of fiery red light, as if it was burning. After a while, the red light became so powerful that it illuminated the entire room where Zhang Yunfan was sleeping.
But he and his mother had already fallen asleep, and no one noticed this.
That night, Zhang Yunfan had a very strange dream.
In his sleep, Zhang Yunfan felt that he had come to an extremely empty place, with nothing around him, and above his head, there was a big golden book. The book was bigger than Zhang Yunfan, and it had the words "Shen Nong's Sacred Scripture" written on it.
The four words are extremely clear.
"Where is this?" Zhang Yunfan asked.
"This is your consciousness space." An old voice came, and then a faint figure appeared on the golden book, wandering like a ghost.
Zhang Yunfan was startled by him. Suddenly he realized that it was just a dream. There was nothing to be afraid of.
"Then who are you?" After thinking about this, Zhang Yunfan felt very interesting in his heart that he would actually have such a dream, and he sat directly on the ground.
"I am Shennong." He said.
"I am still Emperor Xuanyuan." Zhang Yunfan said disdainfully. This dream seemed to be real.
"What do you want from me?" Zhang Yunfan was a little impatient. This dream seemed different from his previous dreams. It was the first time that he had maintained such a clear consciousness while dreaming. He could even remember what happened in the past few days.
stand up.
"Are you willing to be my successor?" He asked slowly, his rich voice resounding throughout the space.
"Sorry, I have to sell vegetables tomorrow." Zhang Yunfan said unhappily.
Shennong obviously did not expect Zhang Yunfan to reject him so quickly. His face froze, looking at Zhang Yunfan's rogue look, he said calmly: "That's all!"
The next moment, Zhang Yunfan disappeared from the conscious space and fell into a deep sleep.
That night, he slept extremely comfortably. Even though he had not slept for three days and three nights, he suddenly found a pillow. What was even more wonderful was that there was a beautiful woman waiting next to him.
"Zhang Yunfan, wake up, the sun is shining on your butt!" His mother Li Xiaoling's voice sounded, and Zhang Yunfan jumped up from the bed in alertness, and then found that the sun had already risen very high.