It was also a rainy night, with lightning, thunder, and violent storms.
Gu Mingnan was soaked to the skin and shivering in the rain. He looked around and found that he was walking towards the grain depot.
"You're here." A familiar voice pulled him behind the straw pile with one hand.
Gu Mingnan looked up and saw Wang Mazi.
He frowned and wanted to leave. He didn't understand why he had to brave the rain to find Wang Mazi in the middle of the night. He had promised that his eldest brother would not get along with Wang Mazi.
Big brother?
Gu Mingnan felt that he seemed to have forgotten something.
Seeing that he was dumbfounded, Wang Mazi impatiently urged: "Whether you want to do it or not, just tell me, if you don't do it, get out of here."
Gu Mingnan heard himself gritting his teeth and replying: "Do it."
Wang Mazi was then satisfied: "I put medicine in the water in the grain depot. When he falls asleep, you go and steal it, and I will help you keep watch outside."
Gu Mingnan stared in the direction of the grain warehouse, and his stomach suddenly growled.
He felt very hungry and his stomach was burning, as if he hadn't had a full meal in a long time.
Wang Mazi smiled sarcastically and threw him a piece of sweet potato contemptuously: "I said your eldest brother is a waste. If your wife dies, you will have to live. If this continues, your whole family will starve to death."
After speaking, he patted Gu Mingnan on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, if you follow my uncle, you won't be hungry."
Gu Mingnan lowered his head and finished the sweet potatoes in three gulps. He wiped his mouth and found that his arms were extremely thin, with only a layer of skin and bones left.
He shouldn't be like this, Gu Mingnan thought, but the feeling of hunger in his belly made him lose the ability to think.
He said in a sullen voice: "We agreed that we would only do it this once."
Wang Mazi looked at him with a smile: "What? Are you scared?"
Gu Mingnan lowered his head: "It's illegal to steal things."
Wang Mazi snorted coldly and looked at him sideways: "Then do you want to do it or not."
Gu Mingnan stared in the direction of the grain depot: "But I can't let my two nephews starve to death."
"Hey, that's right. You can sneak in quietly later. We only need the confiscated grain on the ground and steal it before leaving. They can't find so much grain and they can't even notice it."
Time passed bit by bit, and slight snoring came from the direction of the grain depot.
Wang Mazi pushed Gu Mingnan: "You are fast asleep. Go quickly."
Gu Mingnan hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and rushed over.
A wave of anxiety and worry surged into his heart, and he wanted to tell himself to stop, but he watched helplessly as the much thinner half-grown boy in the dream rushed into the grain depot.
After being caught stealing food, Wang Mazi ran away first when he heard the noise. The panicked young man ran away desperately.
More and more people were chasing him. Gu Mingnan was breathing heavily, his heart aching. He wanted to find a way out in the rainy night.
Suddenly, he missed his footing and rolled down the hillside. He hit a rock hard on the back of his head and lost consciousness completely.
"Ah!" A scream woke up the Gu family in their sleep.
Gu Sanmei next door looked at the sky and couldn't help but cursed: "It's not even bright yet, Gu Laoer, why are you yelling and screaming!"
The second brother Gu forgot to argue with his sister for the first time, and he groped the back of his head in a hurry.
The real pain in the dream seemed to follow the dream and come to reality, making him feel pain in his forehead.
The back of the head was naturally uninjured. Gu Erdi stretched out his hands, which were completely different from those in the dream.
Since the death of his sister-in-law, the eldest brother has suddenly matured and is always thinking of ways to get food for them to eat. Not only is it full every meal, but every meal is at least 70% full, and occasionally there is meat.
Over the past few months, although the upright and adolescent Gu Mingnan has not gained weight, he looks thinner in clothes and more muscular when undressed. He is in better condition than most of the members in the brigade.
He had his height measured a few days ago, and he has grown two centimeters this year. He will definitely catch up with his elder brother in two years.
I touched my stomach again, but there was no pain of extreme hunger.
"It's a dream, just a nightmare." Gu Mingnan finally regained his composure and lay back on the mat, breathing heavily.
After lying there for a while, the despair in his dream gradually disappeared from his body.
Gu Mingnan was tossing and turning, unable to sleep. He suddenly got up and tiptoed to Gu Mingdong's room.
The house of Lao Gu's family is a mud house, spacious, but each room is only covered by cloth curtains, which can be opened by reaching out.
Gu Mingnan gently opened the curtain and poked his head inside.
Gu Mingdong was naturally not awake at this point.
Seeing that he didn't respond, Gu Mingnan quietly moved inside again, getting closer and closer until he was squatting in front of the bed and staring.
Unexpectedly, before he could take a few more glances, Gu Mingdong suddenly opened his eyes, turned over and pushed him directly to the ground.
"Ouch, it hurts, it's me, the big brother!" Gu Mingnan shouted repeatedly.
Gu Mingdong realized something was wrong when he pushed the person down. When he saw it, it was not his stupid brother who was howling.
He stood up: "It's not even bright yet, why are you sneaking into my room?"
The second brother Gu rubbed his arm and said bitterly: "Brother, you are too cruel. My arm must be blue."
Gu Mingdong kicked the person on the ground and said, "If it wasn't for the kiss, it wouldn't be a matter of having a blue arm right now. I would give you a discount directly."
When he started to do it, he heard a familiar voice, and then he calmed down.
"Tell me, what are you doing here so early in the morning without sleeping?"
The second brother Gu was a little shy. It wasn't until Gu Mingdong became impatient, his eyebrows raised, and he looked at him with a fierce look in his eyes that he said, "I, I just had a nightmare."
"Nightmare?" Gu Mingdong raised his eyebrows slightly.
Seeing that the eldest brother did not throw him out directly, the second brother Gu said hurriedly: "Yeah, it's strange that I have such a nightmare."
"In the dream, our family had no food to eat. I was so hungry that I would do it like a grown man, so I believed Wang Mazi's words and went to steal food together. But we were discovered. Wang Mazi ran away first. I ran away, and the people behind me I kept chasing and chasing, but if I wasn't careful, I would fall to death."
At this point, he was still a little frightened and touched the back of his head: "This nightmare was so vivid that when I woke up, I thought I was really dead."
From his face, you can still see some fear and fear of dreams.
This dream was unexpected, and Gu Mingdong couldn't help but take another look at him.
The second brother Gu said hurriedly: "I thought it was ridiculous even when I woke up. Brother, you are so powerful, how could you let us starve?"
Gu Mingdong raised his eyebrows slightly and reached out to hold his ears: "Does it hurt?"
"Oh, it hurts. Brother, please be gentle." Gu Erdi hurriedly begged for mercy.
Gu Mingdong snorted coldly: "It only hurts, it's just a nightmare, is it worth waking me up in the middle of the night, huh?"
The second brother Gu saved his ears, rubbed them and said, "Brother, I know I was wrong. I will go back to sleep right now."
After walking a few steps, he turned back and asked, "Brother, can I sleep with you?"
The answer was a ruthless rejection, and Gu Erdi had no choice but to go back to his room to sleep.
Strangely enough, when he woke up just now, Gu Mingnan felt his heart pounding, and the despair in the dream lingered, making his heart beat with fear.
But when he saw Gu Mingdong, Gu Erdi felt his heart calmed down again.
The eldest brother is still here. It's good that the eldest brother is here. Gu Mingnan has the Dinghai Shenzhen in his heart and feels that he is not afraid of anything.
He left, but Gu Mingdong didn't sleep directly. Instead, he found this strange.
The second brother Gu was not involved in stealing food at all, but he had a dream like this at night. It was not so much a dream as it was something that should have happened in the original timeline.
In that world, the original owner was in dire straits, and the old Gu family only relied on three underage children to survive, and their life was definitely not as good as that of Widow Liu's family next door.
Hunger can make people crazy. Gu's second brother listened to Wang Mazi's advice and went to steal food. In the end, he lost his footing and fell to his death.
It's just that Gu Mingdong couldn't understand why his second brother would dream about things that didn't happen at all.
Is this also the butterfly effect brought about by his time travel?
The second brother Gu will follow Wang Mazi to steal food and fall to death. Gu Sanmei and Gu Simei will end up miserable. But everything has changed. The twins were both fat and white after he raised them. Will these things in the original plot still happen?
Gu Mingdong was lying on the bed, and a warning line suddenly rose in his heart. If his time-travel was not the only one, he had to be careful to avoid exposing his mistakes.
Early the next morning, the sky was cloudless and clear. If the ground hadn't been wet, it would have been impossible to tell that it had rained heavily last night.
Gu Mingdong drank his porridge and looked at Gu Mingnan vaguely.
However, Gu Erdi seemed to have completely forgotten his dream last night, and drank his porridge with a slurp, without any trace of panic or despair.
After Gu Sanmei finished her porridge, she stared at him and asked, "Why are you yelling and screaming in the middle of the night?"
"Who is yelling? You heard me wrong." Gu Erdi refused to admit it and said with a pinched neck.
Gu Sanmei sneered and snorted coldly: "Axing, Achen, don't imitate your second uncle in the future. It's okay to wake up from nightmares. How dare you do it?"
Looking at the two nephews' big round eyes, Gu Erdi growled: "Do you have any evidence? You talk nonsense all day long."
After saying that, he glanced at his elder brother with a guilty conscience, hoping that he would not expose him.
Gu Mingdong naturally had no intention of exposing him.
Second brother Gu hurriedly finished his breakfast in a few mouthfuls, stood up and said, "The sun is shining. I'm going to ask third uncle if he's going to pay the public rations today."
After saying that, he ran away.
Gu Simei and the two also heard about what happened last night: "Such a big thing happened in the brigade, and there is water on the road. Most likely, we can't go to the town, right?"
"Not necessarily. Maybe the captain will feel it is safe to hand over the rations early. Who knows if there will be a second Wang Mazi."
At this time, Gu Sanmei raised her head and asked, "Brother, if you go to town this time, would you like to visit my sister-in-law's house?"
"Sister-in-law?" Gu Mingdong was stunned for a moment. He was not the original owner. He had memories, but there was always a layer between them.
"Yes, she came back during the Chinese New Year last year. I saw that my sister-in-law's face was not very good. My uncle and cousins didn't come back. I wonder if they had a quarrel."
Gu Sanmei wanted to marry in the city and she had the best relationship with her sister-in-law. However, there were so many things going on this year that she finally remembered this matter after the autumn harvest was completely over.
After being reminded by Gu Sanmei, he remembered that the old Gu family did have a sister-in-law named Gu Xiuxiu. She was the younger sister of her father who died young. She was married to the city as a daughter-in-law in her early years and had a son and a daughter.
At that time, their parents passed away one after another, and their sister-in-law Gu Xiuxiu often came home to help. It was not until Gu Mingdong grew up that she came less often.
Thinking about it carefully, the last time Gu Xiuxiu came back was for the New Year last year, and there was no one there.
Gu Mingdong looked through the memory of the original owner. In the following years, this sister-in-law also completely disappeared and never appeared again.
He couldn't help but frown.