When he went to join the army, his elder brother finally had time to worry about his marriage. He found a girl from a nearby village, got married and had a baby. Just when he thought life was going to get better, he encountered a three-year drought. With Hao Yuanchao's allowance, he was able to get through it. After the three-year disaster, the family was not in trouble, and Hao Yuanchao was ready to shift his attention to his own major life event. Who knew that at this moment, there was a heavy rain and a typhoon in his hometown in the summer. Logically, the Hao family's house was made of bricks and tiles and was not afraid of heavy rain and typhoons. After all, it was some distance away from the sea. It was just affected and would not be blown down by the wind or collapsed by the rain. However, Hao Jianguo had to go to help move the pigs out at night. These pigs were a task assigned by the superiors and had to be raised. There were two pigs in total. Who knew that he would sacrifice his life for these two pigs.

The pig shed was a converted, empty house left behind by a village family that had died. It had fallen into disrepair, and when Hao Jianguo went in to move the pigs, the house suddenly collapsed, burying him. When everyone dug him out, he was dead. His sister-in-law, who was pregnant, went into premature labor upon hearing the news. She cried all night in the delivery room, gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, and then died.

Suddenly, both adults in the family were gone, leaving behind four children. The eldest was only nine years old, and the youngest was very thin and small. The village party secretary felt guilty. Hao Jianguo lost his property for the village, and indirectly it could be said that his wife also lost her life because of the village. He immediately asked someone to take good care of the newborns. In this era, the neonatal mortality rate is very high. If you are not careful, you may die, especially premature babies who are only seven months old. You have to be more careful. The weather was clear the next afternoon, and he did not dare to delay and rushed the children to the hospital for examination. If the two children were also gone, it would be even more unfair to the Hao couple.

After sending the child to the hospital for examination, he immediately called Hao Yuanchao and informed him of the news.

The bad news stunned Hao Yuanchao, but he was a soldier after all, and had been in the army for so many years. He did not fall into grief. Instead, he immediately asked the village party secretary to help take care of the children, especially the two newborns. He told them not to be afraid of spending money on hospitalization and to keep them alive. He also told him some things and then bought a train ticket back.

Before returning home, he also visited his fiancée, Jiang Shuyao, to tell her the news and his decision. He would raise the four children and bring them to his home because he was their uncle and their closest family member. If he didn't raise them, the four children would likely die. Furthermore, considering how much his eldest brother had sacrificed for him in his early years, he couldn't make the decision to give the children to someone else.

So, after the eighteen-year-old Jiang Shuyao reluctantly sent the people away, she came back and told her parents about it and fell ill. Four children, not one, not two, but four! Two of them were newborn babies who were difficult to raise! Jiang Shuyao felt that her life had suddenly become gloomy. She was not prepared to be a mother at all. Even though she liked Hao Yuanchao, this love did not make her empathize with Hao Yuanchao. She could understand but it was not easy to accept. She was so worried that she fell ill when she slept with the window open at night. Then, Song Shuyao came through.

Song Shuyao had a headache. She had never thought that the time travel in novels and TV shows really existed and happened to her. From the 21st century to the 20th century, even though she was ten years younger, the span of a century made it impossible for her to cheer for her youth, especially when she was faced with such a major choice: to continue the engagement and not give people a chance to talk but still have to raise four children, or to cancel the engagement and face cruel and heartless accusations and rumors.

The rumors were nothing, it was just that the man she was engaged to was a soldier, and in that era, military marriages were not easy to divorce, nor were they easy to cancel. If the man took the initiative to cancel the engagement, it could be explained, but if the woman took the initiative to cancel the engagement, there would probably be considerable resistance. Moreover, she searched her memory and found that the man, Hao Yuanchao, did not tell Jiang Shuyao about canceling the engagement before he left. In other words, it was very likely that Hao Yuanchao was inclined to continue the engagement.

Song Shuyao rubbed her head and thought carefully about the expressions on Hao Yuanchao's face when he and Jiang Shuyao talked about this matter. Suddenly she realized that the face of Hao Yuanchao in her memory seemed vague. She didn't "see" what Hao Yuanchao looked like in her memory at all. She didn't know if it was a bug in the memory transmission or what.

Forget it, don’t think too much about it, just have a good sleep, and if you can’t go back to sleep after waking up, then think about this problem again. Anyway, she is not in the mood to talk about marriage for the time being.

Song Shuyao closed her eyes without caring about anything, and at the moment she fell asleep, a pair of sharp eyes opened on the train to Nanxi Village, like a sword drawn from its sheath.

"Second uncle, can you please ask Goudan not to live in my house when you go back? I want to eat egg custard every day." Shugen felt that Hao Yuanchao was his family and a supporter, so he couldn't help but ask. Although the second aunt said that Goudan was his cousin, he didn't like cousins ​​who would snatch food from him, oh, and even steal the rations of his younger brothers and sisters. He was also greedy and didn't dare to eat milk powder and malted milk. The eldest brother said that he would starve to death without his younger brothers and sisters, but Goudan didn't listen and ate it without him. The second aunt also said that it was okay to let Goudan eat a few bites. Shugen didn't understand, but his intuition told him that resistance was useless, so he could only talk to his second uncle. The eldest brother said that everything would be fine when the second uncle came back.

What the eldest brother said was right. Now that his second uncle was back, he had delicious noodles to eat. And his second aunt was so pretty. The way she looked at him made him feel much more comfortable than the way his second aunt looked at him. He always felt that the way his second aunt looked at him was strange. He had not been to school yet and did not know whether that look was sympathy or envy. Sympathy for him because he had no parents, envy for him because he had a good second uncle, and the good fortune he would enjoy in the future because he was a city dweller. He even felt a little jealous. Why didn't her Goudan have the blessing of being a city dweller and eating delicious food every day?

Shugen didn't understand all this. He just thought that his second aunt's eyes were strange. However, he was a carefree person and often forgot about it after a while. He told Hao Yuanchao this just because he didn't like Goudan stealing his food.

Hao Yuanchao didn't directly answer Shugen's question. Instead, he said, "I'm coming back this time to take the four of you away to live with me and your second aunt in the military district. Are you happy with that?"

"Live with uncle and aunt?" A puzzled look flashed across Shugen's little eyes, not quite understanding what this meant.

"Just like you lived with your parents before, you will live with me and your second aunt from now on."

"My parents are dead. Will you die too?" People in rural areas are not shy about talking about death in front of children, because death is very common in rural areas. In addition to death from old age and illness, every year there are people who die while swimming, or are gored to death by wild boars while climbing the mountains. In the past few years, there were also people who starved to death. Various kinds of death and death at any time and anywhere make rural people sad and accustomed to it. Even in an era without gossip and entertainment, death is still brought up as a topic of conversation after dinner, especially abnormal death. People will say it's a pity or bad luck, but they don't worry about whether the children will have any psychological problems after hearing it, or tell them with white lies that the dead are just sleeping/going on a long journey/turning into stars in the sky to protect them.