That night was like a nightmare.
When the earthquake came, the wooden beams of the house made a loud cracking sound. Then, with a bang, the thick mud roof collapsed.
Xu Yunfei and Xiao Ji were pushed from the bed to the bottom by their father in their sleep. When Xu Yunfei realized what had happened, his father was holding the edge of the bed with his arms and using his body to build a living space for him and his sister.
At that time, her one-year-old sister was crying out of fear.
In the darkness, Xu Yunfei felt drops of warm liquid dripping onto his face. He realized what it was and cried to ask his father what was wrong. His father smiled and comforted him,""Son, it will definitely be fine. Someone will come and save us in a while!”
At dawn, the villagers finally used their hands to pry open the thick mud roof and the beams and wooden frames below to save them.
Xu Yunfei and Xiao Ji were unscathed, but his father was seriously injured and left this world forever before he could be sent to the hospital.
That day, it was raining. It was hard to tell how many tears Xu Yunfei shed, whether it was tears or rain!
A father was a child's sky. Now, the sky had collapsed and turned into a cold corpse.
Fortunately, her mother stayed at a relative's house that day and escaped the disaster.
With the help of the villagers, Xu Yunfei's family cleaned up the collapsed roof and added some wood to repair the house.
Without his father as the pillar of the family, there was no source of income. The family had little land, and the food produced in the land was only enough for food. It was not enough to maintain their lives.
If this continued, the final result would be that they would not be able to cover their bodies. Moreover, if they did not have the money to buy fertilizers, seeds, and other agricultural materials, they might even be unable to eat. Such examples were not uncommon in remote rural areas.
In desperation, her mother chose to work in a big city outside the province, so Xu Yunfei and his sister became left-behind children.
Although his mother had left the two children at home without anyone to take care of them, there was nothing to worry about. The remote mountain village environment was relatively closed. As long as they did not leave the village, there were basically no problems with traffic safety, human trafficking, and so on.
In the first few months after their mother left, Xu Yunfei and his sister received money orders every month. Although the money was not much, it was enough for them to maintain their lives.
However, suddenly, for a month, the money transfer was interrupted. The green receipt that represented the living expenses that Xu Yunfei and his sister had been looking forward to never appeared again, and their mother lost contact with them.
If the father was the child's sky, then the mother was the child's land. Without the sky, Xu Yunfei and his sister would not even have the land!
Indescribable grief, misery, worry, sorrow…
All kinds of bad moods entangled the young Xu Yunfei for a long time, causing his young heart to be greatly damaged. He could not understand why disasters always happened in his family.
The young him didn't know what the Matthew effect was. Good things could easily become better, and bad things could easily become worse!
Why? He often looked up at the starry sky at night and shouted in the depths of his heart!
In the next few years, Xu Yunfei read a lot of books. He read all the books he could find, hoping to find the answer to fate in the books.
Of course, the answer to fate was not so easy to find, and the books had inadvertently enriched his soul.
Sorrow was still so heavy. As he grew older, this feeling did not always show on his face, but was deeply branded into his heart.
"Why haven't you made your move yet? Quickly kill this vole!" Han Tuo urged.
Xu Yunfei grabbed Blackie, who was about to bite Voley, and turned to Han Tuo.""Let's take the food and let them go!”He grabbed the fur on Little Black's neck and threw it out of the pit.
Blackie seemed to feel that its master was a little unhappy. It lowered its head and looked at the delicate little vole in the cave. It swallowed its saliva and then stretched out its red tongue and kept wagging its tail at Xu Yunfei. It looked like it was begging for mercy.
Han Tuo saw Xu Yunfei's gloomy face and looked at the nest of voles. He immediately understood.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that Han Tuo and Xu Yunfei grew up in the same bed. They had been playing together since they could crawl. The courtyard was their little world. They played with mud together.
When they were older, the vast fields became their playground. They went fishing together, caught rabbits together…They went crazy and spent the whole day in the fields without going home. As long as they had a match in their pocket, they would light a bonfire and roast corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, grasshoppers, and even a snake…
These were all delicacies that they could not enjoy.
Many nights, Han Tuo and Xu Yunfei were unwilling to be separated. Either Xu Yunfei slept at Han Tuo's house or Han Tuo slept at Xu Yunfei's house.
As Xu Yunfei's best friend, Han Tuo could completely understand his feelings at this time.
Sometimes, whenever Han Tuo thought about the tragic experience of Xu Yunfei and his sister, he couldn't help but cry.
He also mentioned to his father that he would let Xu Yunfei and Xiao Ji come to his house for dinner. His father was silent for a long time, and finally asked him to send some food to Xu Yunfei and Xiao Ji when they were unable to cook.
Later, Han Tuo also understood.
His family was not rich, and his grandparents were sick. If his family had two more children, they really could not afford it.
In the end, they didn't touch the nest of voles, and Xiao Ji didn't clamor for the voles anymore. They quietly took out the food from the voles 'hole and put it into bags.
Xu Yunfei wanted to give half of the food to Han Tuo, but Han Tuo waved his hand and said,""Forget it. I have a lot of pigs at home, and they are all fed with pig feed. This bit of food is not enough to fill the gaps between their teeth.”
Just as Xu Yunfei and Han Tuo were packing up and preparing to go home, a loud roar suddenly came from behind them.""Hey, who told you to dig up voles here?”
Xu Yunfei and Han Tuo turned around and saw that it was Wan Jinliang again.
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