"Boom boom boom"

In the rain, the diesel engine roared, and an agricultural tricycle drove on the dirt road in the fields where potholes and water were accumulated from time to time.

Fang Chang'an hid under an umbrella, and sat on his butt with a narrow wooden bench, which was not stable, and he waved his body several times from time to time.

He grabbed the car with his hands, and the cold raindrops kept falling on the back of his hands, and the clothes and trousers on his shoulders, waist and back were wet.

A gust of wind blew from the side with water vapor, bringing a slight coolness. Fang Chang'an came back from his thoughts, took a deep breath, and looked into the direction of the village.

His eyes passed through the fields of farmland, the corn, cotton, and a large river lie far away from the road.

This was originally a stream behind the village. Due to the heavy rainstorm for several days, the rain continued to rise. I sent myself to the town to go to school this morning. When I crossed the stone bridge on the river, the water had already exceeded half of the piers.

This is the first time in my memory.

Even in my memory of thirty years later, it was the only time.

In the autumn of 2003, there were heavy rains and floods in the Huaihe River Basin. It was far away from the Huaihe River and was only affected by rain. It was considered good. However, even so, the river water will temporarily pass through the stone bridge tomorrow, and all the fields on the south bank of the river will be flooded.

However, what Fang Chang'an was thinking about was not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster that was about to happen in his memory!

"Damn it, is the water so high?"

The driver was my uncle Fang Luyong. He obviously saw the situation in the river there and said cursingly in the Jianghuai dialect here.

The third bus drove closer, and the father Fang Lujun, mother calmly, and aunt Wang Yuxiu, who were sitting in the carriage, all turned around and looked over the river.

Wang Yuxiu exclaimed: "So big water? Alas! God..."

The whole family has grown up in the inland plains since childhood, never climbed mountains or saw water, and for a moment I felt a little shocked and faintly instinctively fearful.

The tricycle suddenly shook, and the wheel on the side where Fang Chang'an was sitting was trapped in a mud pit. The uncle Fang Luyong, who was driving, used his arms to force his hands, skillfully grabbed the handlebars and stepped on the accelerator.

"Bang bang bang--"

The diesel engine roared violently and spurted black smoke. When Fang Changan sat in the car, he could feel the vibration caused by the engine's hard work, but the wheels were trapped in the mud and had no way to borrow the force. No matter how the engine roared, the wheels would idly rotated, it would be useless.

"I'll go down and push it!"

My father Fang Lujun helped him jump out of the car, and his mother calmly tried to hand him the umbrella, but Fang Lujun had already walked straight to the back of the car, and his thin blue shirt was soon wet by the rain.

"one two three!"

The brothers Fang Lujun and Fang Luyong worked together, one pushed the cart hard and the other stepped on the accelerator hard. Fang Luyong grabbed the handlebar and twisted his body hard, trying to make it easier for the tricycle to climb out of the pit by controlling the front wheel, but the engine roared for a while and still failed to climb out of the mud pit.

Seeing this, my mother calmly raised her umbrella and got up to get down. My aunt Wang Yuxiu stretched her neck and looked at it, then got up and jumped down.

Although calm and moving early, she was not as agile as Wang Yuxiu. Wang Yuxiu jumped out of the car quickly and was already standing on the side to help push the cart. She was still stretching her toes to find a point of focus.

"one two three!"

Fang Lujun pushed the car hard, gritting his teeth, his face turned red, and the car swayed, as if he was about to climb out of the pit, and then fell back the next moment.

Fang Chang'an also held an umbrella, looking at the mud and water mixed together, trying to find a place to get off. Fang Lujun saw it at a glance and shouted, "Chang'an, sit down!"

The little aunt Wang Yuxiu also said, "Just just sit down, you can't help even if you come down, it will get dirty later."

Just as he landed calmly, he also said, "Chang'an, don't come down."

Fang Changan didn't answer the conversation. He saw a piece of soil higher than the fields on the roadside, jumped up carefully, stood beside his mother, and helped push the cart with all his strength.

With his height of more than 1.8 meters in his later generations, he could get out of the car without jumping. Unfortunately, he was only twelve years old now, and his height of nearly 1.6 meters is quite conspicuous among his peers. However, as the only child, as the only child, he could not play any role in whether he was tall or strong.

But it is also good to lose a little weight.

What's more, for Fang Chang'an, the greatest significance of jumping off to push the cart is not at all how much help it can provide to the push cart.

But he got out of the car!

There is probably no one in this world who can understand his complex mood these days, especially today, such as anxiety, fear, expectation, excitement... all kinds of emotions have always tortured him.

From a few days earlier, he tried to change what was going to happen today, and he tried to do whatever he could.

Before going out, I said that the rain was too heavy today and the school would postpone the start of school, which was useless! From grandpa, uncle to parents, no one agreed to not go to the town school today because of the rain.

When I came back, I said that the rain was too heavy today and the river behind the village was not safe. It would be better to change the road. The bridge over Sunlou was newer and higher, and it was a highway. Although the road was broken just a few years after the construction, it was safer than the dirt road behind Majiagou...

It's useless, no one listens.

As a child who has just graduated from elementary school and is about to enter junior high school, and has been withdrawn and taciturn and silent since childhood, no matter how good his grades are and how much he is valued by his elders, he has only the right to be taken care of, and has no advice or decision-making power.

In rural North China in 2003, few parents would ask for consultation and pay attention to a child's ideas. Even unless he showed it very clearly, no one would pay attention to his mood.

For today, sending him to school reports is the biggest thing in the hearts of all elders, and the greatest responsibility. Not to mention rain, hail, you have to go!

"One! Two..."

The rain hit the face, and the water droplets were sliding down the cheeks. Fang Changan also shouted with his father, pushing forward with all his strength.

I don’t know if it was because everyone had come down, the burden was reduced, or the strength of everyone in partnership was too strong, the tricycle was pushed up.

Fang Changan was not surprised because he remembered that he was sitting in the carriage in his previous life and the tricycle was pushed out.

But it seems that it will be pushed longer than at this time - perhaps it is the illusion brought by psychological hints, and he is not sure.

But no matter what, in the same situation, I made different choices...

God gave me a rebirth once, giving me a chance to make a new choice. There is no reason why the old Fang Chang'an is doing worse than the twelve-year-old Fang Chang'an?

When the tricycle was pushed out, Fang Changan staggered because of his strong force, and almost fell down. Although he stood firm, his clothes were covered with mud and water.

He didn't care about this, and gently brushed it with his fingers, then raised his head, saw his mother looking at him calmly, showed a bright smile at her, and crawled back to the carriage and sat.

The diesel engine roared again, and the tricycle carried five people to the front of the village's rear bridge. From a distance, you could see an unprecedented "massive" turbid river rushing eastward. The stone bridge on the water, which was also covered with potholes, stood quietly.

The bridge was still standing safely until twenty years later, but the dirt roads on both sections of the bridge were flooded by water at this time. The water continued to gather from the ridges of the fields and then continued to flow into the river, looking quite turbulent.

Although the road cannot be seen, there are farmland in Henan and Hebei. This road is almost every day. Even Chang'an, who rarely goes to the ground, is very clear about the road situation.

Fang Luyong was worried that the tricycle would be trapped in the mud and water again, so he would be troublesome. He turned around and shouted loudly: "Come down and go, otherwise he would fall into it again."

Fang Lujun naturally knew this and turned to Fang Chang'an and said, "Go down, take your trousers and walk over."

Fang Changan responded and jumped out of the car.

The rain seemed to be much lighter. Fang Luyong hung up the first gear and drove into the water in a tricycle. His body tilted left and right along the body. He carefully grabbed the handlebars and drove towards the bridge according to the familiar road.

The ground on both sides of the dirt road was slightly higher, and some ground was still exposed on the left, so the four of them got off the car from the left, Fang Lujun jumped out, slightly tied his trouser legs, and did not hold an umbrella. While paying attention to the situation of his younger brother driving through the water, he walked towards the bridgehead first from the side of the road.

Fang Changan was wearing sandals, just rolled up his trouser legs. He was very serious when he rolled up his trouser legs, and he was holding an umbrella in one hand, which was a waste of time. When he stood up, his mother, who had gotten off the bus behind him, had calmly walked to him first.

The four of them went from front to back, followed by Fang Lujun, Wang Yuxiu, Congyun and Fang Chang'an.

Fang Chang'an walked at the end and finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this scene. He looked at the connection between the stone beams of the bridge and the road surface. The soil on the side of the road was hit by the water flow and the water was rushing down to flow into the river.

He took a deep breath.

——No one knows what this moment means to him!

In the last life, when the twelve-year-old Fang Chang'an walked over, he slid his feet and was hit by the current of the water that flowed into the river. He staggered and stepped on the soft mud beside the gap, falling down into the water.

For farmers, every penny of land is life. People on the river bank want to plant crops into the river. This is also farmland, but now it is all flooded, and the corn seedlings near the river bank cannot even see their heads.

Fang Chang'an's small body is not good at swimming, and if he falls down, he will definitely be washed into the middle of the river by water!

Seeing that his son was about to fall, Congyan, who was walking behind him, immediately rushed up and grabbed him.

Congrong is almost the only only daughter among her peers in the countryside. Her grandparents are strong and she has never even asked her to mention water since she was a child. Although she went to work in the fields after marriage, she still has no strength.

She rushed up and grabbed her son, but she couldn't save her, but instead fell into the water.

The little aunt Wang Yuxiu, who was walking in front, reacted quickly and calmly. She was used to farm work since she was a child, but she was not short of strength, but she was unable to grasp the weight of the two people. She staggered and stepped on the soft mud at the edge of the road gap. The three of them were swept into the river together.

Seeing the three of them falling into the water, Fang Lujun, the timid and cowardly father who had been in a half life, had no idea where the courage came from. In panic, he jumped directly at the bridge to save people.

As a result, Fang Chang'an and the other two fell into the river, lucky enough to catch the flooded poplar branches on the ground, and were eventually rescued. Although Fang Luyong would follow a large group of men in the village to jump into the river to take a bath in the summer, the water was only at his waist, and the water was very loose and ordinary.

Now there have been heavy rainstorms for several days, the river water has surged and the water flows faster. Fang Lujun jumped down and didn't have time to swim. He just fluttered and saw his wife and children grab the branches, and was washed away by the flood.

When he was found the next afternoon, there were no vital signs.

This incident directly changed the fate of the family. Fang Changan always lived in uneasy and guilt for this, and his mother pulled the brother and sister to grow up alone, not to mention the hardships and sorrows during this period.

And now, he has the opportunity to change all this!

After accepting the reality of rebirth, Fang Changan has been thinking about this matter and has certain expectations for the fact that he might not be able to stop him from sending him to study in the town today.

The dad and aunt who were walking in front both passed the gap safely, which means that as long as you avoid the dangerous edge and do not slide, it is safe to pass through other locations.

If it weren't for a series of changes caused by your failure to stand firm, even if you walk here again, this disaster could have been avoided!

Before today, Fang Chang'an had already previewed countless times in his mind for the moment in front of him, and repeatedly reasoned to confirm that this disaster could be avoided.

But even so, he still hopes that there will be different changes in formation than in previous lives, which will increase his confidence in changing his destiny.

"Chang'an, come ahead."

Just in front of the roadside gap, he suddenly stopped and turned around to signal his son to walk forward.

"It's okay, mom, come over!"

Fang Changan saw his mother standing in front of the gap, and his heart almost jumped out, fearing that the butterfly effect would cause other changes, so he tried to remain calm and let her go quickly.

Standing calmly without moving, urging him, "Come here quickly."
To be continued...