Reborn before the famine, kicking away the scumbag's family and living a carefree life.

104th veteran (2)

Qi Zhengyang stumbled over and rushed over to support his nephew.

His voice trembled: "An Rong... what happened to your leg?"

Qi Anrong remained silent, his haggard face filled with shame, frustration, and despair.

The two soldiers from the armed forces department said, "Let's go inside and talk about it!"

Qi Zhengyang helped his nephew into the house.

Keep all irrelevant people out of the door.

After Qi Anrong joined the army, he often corresponded with Qi Zhengyang.

Qi Zhengyang told him that he should perform well in the army and strive to make merits. Every time the army had a mission, it was the best opportunity to make merits. As long as he made merits, he would have the opportunity to be promoted.

However, he carried out many missions, and not only him, but all his comrades worked very hard and performed very well.

Everyone was able to complete the task successfully, so no matter how hard Qi Anrong tried, he didn't stand out, let alone make any contributions.

In his previous life, Qi Anrong earned two merits and became a squad leader within a year of enlisting in the army.

But this time, a year and a half had passed, and he had neither made any merits nor been promoted. Qi Zhengyang couldn't help but get a little anxious, so he urged him to find a way to make a merit.

That mission was to provide disaster relief in a village that had been hit by an earthquake.

The earthquake caused all the houses in the village to collapse, and many people were trapped in the ruins, from which faint cries for help could be heard from time to time.

Fearing secondary injuries, all the soldiers dug through the soil with their bare hands to rescue people. Everyone's hands were covered in cuts and scratches, but the progress was still very slow.

Everyone is racing against time to save lives.

Because of the continuous aftershocks, and the fact that the village is located at the foot of a large mountain, with each aftershock causing boulders to roll down the mountain, rescue efforts are temporarily suspended and people are asked to find shelter on the spot to avoid injury.

When another aftershock struck, Qi Anrong, driven by greed and recklessness, disobeyed orders and failed to take timely shelter, continuing to rummage through the rubble.

He was completely unaware that a huge boulder was rolling down the mountain and hurtling towards him.

If the squad leader hadn't rushed out and pushed him away, he would have been crushed to death by the boulder. However, his right calf was trapped under the rock because he couldn't avoid it in time, and Qi Anrong instantly fainted from the pain.

When the soldiers moved the stones away, his calf had been crushed into a pile of mud, the bones completely shattered, a truly gruesome sight.

When Qi Anrong woke up, he found himself lying in a hospital bed with his right lower leg, below the knee, having been amputated.

After a month of recuperation, Qi Anrong was sent back to Daben Township.

When the aftershock struck that day, the squad leader shouted for everyone to take cover, but Qi Anrong did not. The squad leader called him twice more, but he still ignored him.

He remained oblivious as the boulder hurtled towards him. The squad leader rushed out to save him, disregarding his own safety, but was also struck in the chest by the flying rock, resulting in a broken sternum.

Because Qi Anrong disobeyed orders, he and his squad leader were seriously injured. Originally, it was planned to punish him, but considering that he himself was also seriously injured and became disabled, the army held a meeting and decided not to pursue his mistakes, allowing him to be discharged from the army normally and return home, and giving him various subsidies totaling three hundred yuan.

After giving their instructions, the two comrades from the Armed Forces Department drove away.

Qi Zhengyang looked at his despairing and dejected nephew, his heart breaking.

Why is this happening? Why?

In his previous life, everything went smoothly after his nephew joined the army.

He rose from an ordinary soldier to a squad leader in less than a year.

Now, a year and a half later, he is still just an ordinary soldier, and he has also ruined one of his legs.

Where exactly did things go wrong? Could it be that there's something wrong with him, the reborn individual, and everyone around him is also experiencing problems?

Qi Zhengyang couldn't understand it, so he asked his nephew, "Anrong, why did it turn out like this?"

"I don't know why it turned out this way."

"Second Uncle, your dream was so beautiful, but a dream is just a dream. We were all so foolish to take a dream so seriously."

Qi Zhengyang was speechless.

He wanted to tell An Rong that it wasn't a dream, but real, something he had actually experienced in his past life.

As for why this life didn't follow the trajectory of his previous life, he didn't know why.

"Second Uncle, you should go back! I just want to be alone for a while."

Qi Zhengyang opened his mouth, having many questions, but felt that saying anything would be superfluous.

He could only say helplessly, "An Rong, it's good that you're back. As long as you're alive, that's better than anything else. You must try to think positively."

After returning home, Qi Zhengyang sat there blankly for a long time.

He lost his job, Du Mei lost hers, and his two nephews, the second and third sons, couldn't become private school teachers either. He pinned all his hopes on his eldest nephew, but now even his biggest supporter has lost hope.

At this moment, Qi Zhengyang deeply understood the cruelty of the phrase "misfortunes never come singly".

Since my rebirth, nothing I've done has been satisfactory.

Du Mei had another big argument with Qi Zhengyang because of An Rong's matter.

Her brother-in-law's family already had enough to worry about with five children, and now a cripple has come along too.

Another burden.

Du Mei requested to live separately, as she did not want to continue supporting her brother-in-law's bottomless pit of financial burden.

Du Mei, heavily pregnant, shouted at Qi Zhengyang.

"Qi Zhengyang, you can't even protect yourself, yet you're trying to be a good Samaritan, meddling in this and that. Don't you even know what you're capable of?"

“We’re living separately now. My eldest nephew is back. As the eldest brother, he’s like a father to me. With him around and us eating in the communal canteen, they won’t starve. Living separately is just a way for me to have a quiet pregnancy.”

“An Rong just got back and you’ve already caused this scene. What do you think he’ll think?” Are you rubbing salt into his wounds?

"I don't care what he thinks, I just want to have a few days of peace and quiet and give birth to my child smoothly."

At this moment, Qi Anrong's five younger siblings were gathered around him.

The fifth and sixth brothers had already told the eldest brother about the quarrel between their second uncle and his wife.

Anhua: "Big brother, my second uncle and second aunt are arguing almost every day. My second aunt wants to separate the family because she thinks we are a burden."

Anfu: "Yeah! Whenever Second Uncle is nice to us, that woman starts making a fuss."

An Rong: "Didn't you just say you wouldn't go hungry now? Since you're eating in the communal canteen and won't go hungry, then separate the family. I see you're all ragged and dirty. Even if we don't separate, she hasn't taken good care of you."

"But, brother, your leg?"

“My leg is crippled, but it only affects my ability to walk, not my ability to work. I can still earn work points. And Lao Si, An Gui, you don’t need to go to school anymore. You can already write your own name, that’s enough. Drop out of school and go home to earn work points.”

An Gui was stunned for a long time before he finally managed to utter a sentence.

"Big brother, I want to go to school."