Chapter 906: Actually They Are All the Same

As the head of a poor county, no one knows what hard work is better than me.

Yu Dongcheng sorted out the files in front of him, looked at the yellowed leaves outside the window, and sighed slowly.

I haven't been home for more than three years. Although I often talk to my family on the phone, I still feel a little sorry for my younger sister and father.

Since the old head of the county passed away, I have hardly had a day off in the position of head of the county. I often dream of my younger sister smiling and bringing me a bowl of buckwheat noodles, and asking me if I want to add eggs. I also dream of my father's waist getting straighter day by day, and my father, who has a stubborn personality, often sitting at the gate of his house, making excuses that he is basking in the sun, but in fact he is waiting for me to go back.

As the saying goes, filial piety comes first among all virtues. This son of mine is really incompetent.

But he couldn't leave, because his hometown was very far away, in the northeast, and it took about three or four days to go back and forth. Even if he wanted to go home for a visit, it would take at least eight or nine days. His home was near a mountain valley, and frankly speaking, he hadn't tasted the buckwheat noodles from his hometown for many years.

Yu Dongcheng was the new county magistrate, who looked not young anymore.

Because he was only about 30 years old, but he already had a head of white hair.

In fact, Yu Dongcheng's dream was very simple at the beginning, that is, to become a parent official in his hometown, so that his father and younger sister could feel proud. Yu Dongcheng's mother had passed away for many years, probably when Yu Dongcheng was seven or eight years old. At that time, his younger sister was not born yet. This younger sister was of course not his own, but was picked up by his father.

Five years after Yu Dongcheng's mother passed away, his father picked up his younger sister in the hospital, still in swaddling clothes.

The father and son rarely communicated with each other on weekdays. When the mother left, the family didn't even look like a family anymore. When Yu Dongcheng was eight years old, he often complained about his father, saying that his father was incompetent, which led to his mother's illness and no money to treat it. He watched his mother pass away. However, Yu Dongcheng's father never scolded or refuted a word. In the long years of more than ten years, the backbone of this man has changed from being upright at the beginning to what it is now. It is almost impossible to tell that he is a 1.85 meter tall man.

Many, many problems were not understood until Yu Dongcheng grew up.

What is the advanced stage of liver cancer and what is powerlessness? At that time, no matter how rich the farmer was, he could not save his wife's life because it was discovered very late, so basically the woman had already stepped half a foot into the underworld.

Yu Dongcheng didn't understand his father's actions and why he gave up treatment. He hated his father for more than ten years until he went to a big city and met a doctor friend by chance. Only then did he know what advanced liver cancer was.

Yu Dongcheng, who had wrongly blamed his father for so many years, made a choice. He returned to his father, knelt down, kowtowed, and said only four words.

Dad, I'm sorry.

The father and son did not speak all night, but there were more and more beer bottles in the corner.

The appearance of the younger sister was undoubtedly a reconciliation between the father and son. As a father who had never taken care of a child, he seemed a little clumsy, and the conditions at home were even worse than those in the small county town now. Basically, they could not even make ends meet. They had to dig wild vegetables and set traps to catch wild game. Sometimes they could not eat the live animals they caught themselves, but had to leave them to go to the market in the town to exchange money for the younger sister to buy milk powder. Although life was difficult, when this little baby who was abandoned for some reason in the cradle grinned at the father and son who they could not take care of, the hearts of these two men seemed to have a ray of sunshine.

As for the younger sister, both Yu Dongcheng and his father poured all their efforts into nurturing her, protecting her from wind and rain and working hard without complaint. Even if the younger sister pouted, Yu Dongcheng would try his best to make her happy.

As time went by, Yu Dongcheng actually understood that the younger sister had completely integrated into the family.

During that long and difficult period, Yu Dongcheng always told himself one thing, that he must make money for the younger sister, so that the younger sister and her father could live a better life, and the family could at least live without worrying about what to eat for dinner.

Later, Yu Dongcheng passed the civil service exam, which was a great thing in the whole village, even in the town, and even in the county. Their small county may not be any different from the current Pingling County.

Just before the old county magistrate left, Yu Dongcheng had actually written an application and wanted to go back to his hometown to find a position, whether in the county, the city, the town, or the village, just thinking about going back and being closer to home.

As a result, the old county chief passed away just after he finished writing the application. He passed away very suddenly, but his last wish was to let Yu Dongcheng take over the position of county chief and let him stay and continue to help the villagers.

After the old county chief was cremated, Yu Dongcheng burned the letter, or application, that he had not submitted.

After being silent and locking himself in the room for a whole day, Yu Dongcheng finally walked out of the room and took the burden of the old county chief on himself.

To change the current situation in the county is nothing but a foolish dream. I don’t know how many years it will take to complete this long-term task, but Yu Dongcheng remembered a sentence, that is, if you promise others something, you must do it.

If you can’t do it, you must tell them, so that you can have no regrets, but the old county magistrate can’t hear it now.

Yu Dongcheng slowly came back to his senses, watching the yellow leaves outside the window slowly being blown up by the wind and then falling into the soil. Will he still have the opportunity to return to his roots?

At this moment, there was a knock on the door. Yu Dongcheng stood up and opened the door, and saw two unfamiliar faces, a man and a woman, standing outside the door.

"Are you County Magistrate Yu? Hello, my name is Suo Longqi!"

The elegant-looking girl smiled and said, "Hello, my name is Tang Lan!"

Yu Dongcheng was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously said, "I have never seen you, who are you..."

Suo Longqi smiled and said, "It's a long story, County Magistrate Yu, can we go in and talk?"

Yu Dongcheng nodded, turned sideways, and let the two young men in.

Then he made them a cup of tea that was not high-end at all.