Countdown to Awakening

Sun Degui and Sun Jiacai, who had left the house, could only go from house to house to borrow money. Now they arrived at the door of Qi's house.

The two of them walked in front of Qi's house.

Although he knew Qi Yuanyuan was not someone he could easily mess with, he had no other options. After all, they had been brothers for many years. He just couldn't believe Qi Rongfeng would just stand by and watch him get into trouble...

Sun Degui hesitated at the door for a long time before deciding to go in.

Liang Xiaocui was sitting in the yard, turning over a small patch of early rice drying on the ground. She stopped her work when she saw them come in.

"Sister-in-law, can you call Rongfeng? I have something to talk to him about..." Sun Degui stammered.

"Wait a moment."

Although Liang Xiaocui also disliked Sun Degui and his wife, she couldn't just kick them out. If the Sun family made a scene, they would definitely be the ones in the wrong.

After a while, Qi Rongfeng came out of the house and immediately asked Sun Degui to come in and sit down.

"No need, Rongfeng...I..." Sun Degui hesitated for a long time and couldn't say anything.

"What's wrong?" Qi Rongfeng couldn't help but ask when he saw him like this.

"Rongfeng, I'll tell you the truth. Our family still owes Ma Hui two hundred yuan. Can you... give us some money to help us out of this urgent situation? I can definitely pay you back." Sun Degui's voice trembled as he said this.

Seeing Qi Rongfeng's embarrassment, he continued, "Rongfeng, I know you have difficulties too, but mine is even more difficult. Look at our brotherhood for so many years, you can't just ignore me, right? Don't worry, I will definitely pay you back as soon as possible. I won't delay. Really." After saying that, he chuckled.

Qi Rongfeng was thinking about the fifty yuan Sun Degui had borrowed from him last time, and he still had the IOU...

"Degui, it's not that I don't want to help. Look, my daughter also needs to go to college, and I can't afford to give you that much money. You should find someone else." Qi Rongfeng sighed after he finished speaking, indicating that he really couldn't do anything.

But Sun Degui persisted: "Rongfeng, I have no choice but to ask you for help. The money I owe is Ma Hui's. Apart from your daughter's tuition, your family must have some spare money, right? I don't believe you really have no money..."

Sun Jiacai also said: "Uncle Qi, please lend it to us first. When I become a high-ranking official in the future, I will definitely not forget you..."

"...Degui, you borrowed fifty yuan from me last year, and you haven't paid it back yet... Why are you asking me to borrow again now? I'm having trouble paying what I have..." Qi Rongfeng said what was in his heart.

This caused Sun Degui to be dissatisfied: "Rongfeng, isn't it just fifty yuan? Then I can pay you back together with this amount next time, okay? Just lend it to me. Just another sixty, just sixty. If it's not enough, I'll go borrow some from someone else... When I have enough and pay back Ma Hui's money, I'll pay you back first, okay?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Sun Degui saw a man standing behind Qi Rongfeng, looking at him with contempt.

"We don't have the spare money to lend you!" It was Qi Yuanyuan who spoke. When Sun Degui saw her come out, he immediately lost his confidence.

These words also interrupted Qi Rongfeng's thoughts.

Everyone says Qi Yuanyuan is hard to mess with, but I didn't know she was this way. The girls in every household in the village are all gentle and sensible, but this girl from his family is simply unreasonable! She's not sensible at all!

"We adults are discussing something, why are you, a little girl, butting in?" Sun Degui asked. Unexpectedly, Qi Yuanyuan didn't buy it. "If you want to borrow money, you should first pay us back the fifty or so yuan you borrowed last time. Otherwise, who knows if you have the money to pay it back?"

Sun Jiacai sneered, "It's just fifty bucks, is it that serious? It's not like I won't return it to you... You and my sister grew up together as good sisters, and you're going to hurt the relationship between our two families just for a few bucks?!"

"It's really that serious. I still say the same thing. If you don't pay back the more than one thousand yuan first, we won't lend you the money! Whose money comes from the wind? Besides, isn't it your own fault that you don't have the money to pay back? If you continue to stay here and don't leave, I will let the whole village see the faces of you and your son who owe money and don't pay it back!" Qi Yuanyuan said harshly and picked up a broom and walked towards them.

"You little girl..." Sun Degui was so angry that he couldn't speak, but he was a little scared when he saw the broom in her hand.

She will really do it!

"No, no, no, can we talk it over?"

Qi Yuanyuan thought about it. Sun Degui had borrowed a total of 57 yuan from their family last year. This had made their family even poorer.

Seeing Qi Yuanyuan's relentless insistence, Sun Degui decided not to play the emotional card. He could only point his finger at Qi Yuanyuan and curse, "You little girl, you have no conscience. You will never amount to anything in the future!"

Qi Yuanyuan raised the broom.

Seeing this, Sun Degui immediately took Sun Jiacai out of the Qi family's gate.

"Their family deserves to be extinct! They deserve to have no son! They deserve it for letting a little girl walk around at home like that!" Sun Degui was still cursing after he left the house.

After they left, Liang Xiaocui, who was standing next to Qi Rongfeng, finally dared to smile. "Girl, how dare you say that? And you're holding a broom..." she asked.

"What's there to be afraid of? Is there any reason for them not to pay back the money they owe? It's not easy for every family. If his family owes money, do we have to pay it back for him? It's not us who asked him to owe the money." Qi Yuanyuan was still confused.

What kind of relationship is this kind of person? When you borrow money, you are a grandson, but when you pay it back, you are a big boss.

Although this wasn't the world she originally lived in, since she had traveled here, she had to live her life carefully, both for herself and for her original owner. She wanted to live a good life in this unpolluted world. And while she was at it, she wanted to find a way to change the future...

It's 1998, and there's still plenty of opportunity to change...

She suddenly remembered the plague twenty-two years ago.

I've always had this thought in my mind: if we stop the plague, the world will slowly get better, otherwise...

Was that plague a turning point? If we could stop it, would it change the future? It had to be that way! Otherwise, why would I even subconsciously think about it?

There are still twenty-two years until the plague breaks out... there's still plenty of time!

She must find a way to stop it! It's a pity that she can't have a system like the heroines in the time-travel novels she's read... Otherwise, she would be able to do whatever she wants.

Qi Yuanyuan was lost in thought until Liang Xiaocui's "Yuanyuan" brought her back to reality. "What are you thinking about, Yuanyuan?" Liang Xiaocui asked worriedly, afraid she might make another mistake.

"Mom, I'm thinking about my future college life. Didn't I get the admission letter? I'm so happy..." She could only talk nonsense.

"Yes, speaking of this, I almost forgot. Yuanyuan is the first batch of college students in our village, so the banquet must be grand. I'm going to make suggestions to the village chief. These three children are the ones who have been admitted to key universities. It must be grand!" Qi Rongfeng smiled from ear to ear.

Qi Yuanyuan remembered her admission letter.

It seems that she and Sun Pandi both got into Youcheng University. In her time, Youcheng University was a very popular degree...

——The village chief’s house.

"Dad, is that money really what Old Man Sun left behind?" asked Zhao Fu, the village chief's son. The village chief understood what he meant and immediately put down his pen. "It was left behind by your Old Man Sun. Don't doubt it. Even if I were the village chief, I couldn't come up with so much money. After all, Pan Di is not my granddaughter. How could I use my own money to send her to college? That's what your Old Man Sun left behind."

"But how could Uncle Sun leave money for Pandi? Their family..." Before Zhao Fu could finish, the village chief interrupted, "He must have his reasons for doing so. You know that Uncle Sun and I have a good relationship. He left the money with me because he trusted me. Don't worry about it."

Zhao Fu felt that his father was hiding something from him. But seeing his father's attitude, Zhao Fu could no longer doubt it. He just thought that anything was possible.

"Dad, what are you doing now?" Zhao Fu asked, pointing at the paper on the table.

"Our village has produced three college students, two of whom are from key universities and one is from a police academy. The province has allocated some money as a reward for them. I'm writing it down. I'm afraid I'll forget." The village chief said as he continued to pick up the pen.

"Dad... they don't know about this policy anyway, so no one will know if you just put the money in your own pocket..."

The village chief was furious when he heard this: "Fuzi, what are you talking about! If everyone is greedy, what will happen in the future? I am the village secretary, and the villagers elected me as the village chief. How could I do such a thing? How can I be worthy of the trust they have placed in me?"