No. 5 family building of Jiebei Internal Combustion Engine Parts Factory.

"His dad, it's time to take the medicine. The medicine has just been boiled, while it's hot."

"Ahem, how much living expenses do you have this month?"

"It's enough. You don't need to worry about it anymore. Just drink the medicine and take good care of your body. It's better than anything else..."

Although the voice of the old man outside the house was already very low, the old and non-soundproof door still transmitted their conversation to the ears of Guo Yonghe inside.

On the yellowed ceiling, a ceiling fan with a broken leaf hung quietly above it.

Directly under the ceiling fan, there was a paint-off desk with a wooden radio placed on it.

Not far from the desk, against the wall, stood a shabby wardrobe. On the wall next to the wardrobe, there was also a pictorial of Bay Island actress Joey Wong...

Guo Yonghe stared blankly at himself in the mirror. Although his face was yellow and his body was thin, he could still tell that he was a young man in his twenties.

Am I dreaming?

Or reborn?

But why did I come back to this time?

Did God give me another chance?

Guo Yonghe still cannot accept the fact that he was reborn and returned to 1992.

With trembling hands, he reached for the hand-torn calendar on the table. The latest page of the calendar read:

Wednesday, March 18, 1992.

really……

It was really 1992...

However, at this moment, a strong smell of herbal medicine floated to Guo Yonghe's nose along the half-open door.

Smelling this familiar smell, Guo Yonghe couldn't help but burst into tears.

At this moment, he no longer had any doubts. The past time surged in like a flood that broke a dam, bursting through the gate of memory. Scenes flashed in his mind:

1992, for Guo Yonghe, was a year that he never wanted to recall again in his life.

This year, he lost his true love forever...

His father, Guo Changcheng, was originally a maintenance worker at the Jiebei Internal Combustion Engine Parts Factory. He was injured during a rescue operation and suffered severe sequelae, so he had to retire and recuperate at home.

All the family's expenses, including his father's medical expenses, depend on the wages of Guo Yonghe and his wife Fan Xiaolei.

At this time, the whole country was studying the Southern Tour speech, and the wave of people going overseas to do business was in full swing.

Seeing that there was no future in the factory, and in order to change the embarrassing situation of sitting on nothing, Guo Yonghe decided to jump into the sea and give it a try in this great era.

Under the persuasion of a friend, he took out the remaining 3,000 yuan of his family's savings, and borrowed money from relatives and friends under his father's banner. He collected enough 20,000 yuan and gave it to his friend to resell coal together.

Unexpectedly, his friend had evil intentions and fled overnight with the money, leaving Guo Yonghe empty-handed to face the questioning of his relatives and friends.

The factory also fired Guo Yonghe for being absent from work and not doing his job properly.

The successive blows caused Guo Yonghe to completely lose his confidence in life.

He began to give up on himself, locking himself in his room every day, relying on alcohol to numb himself, to escape the criticism and pressure from his relatives and friends.

His father's dissuasion, his wife's comfort and his mother's tears could not cheer him up.

After losing Guo Yonghe's income, all the burden of life fell on his wife Fan Xiaolei.

Seeing that she could not persuade her husband to wake up, Fan Xiaolei silently supported the whole family with her weak shoulders.

In order to earn money to support her family and pay for medical expenses for her parents-in-law, Fan Xiaolei often took over shifts and worked overtime, sometimes even 24 hours a day, just to get a little more meager overtime pay on her paycheck.

Finally one day, Fan Xiaolei failed to resist the physical exhaustion and passed out in front of the electroplating pool. When Guo Yonghe received the news and rushed to the hospital with his mother Zhou Yalan, his wife was already lying in the morgue, turned into a cold corpse...

Until that moment, Guo Yonghe finally understood what it meant to regret something too late.

Later, I prayed to God countless times to give myself another chance to come back...

If only I had lost my way and found my way back.

If only I had turned back as a prodigal son.

If at first...

It's a pity that there are no what-ifs in this world, and there is no regret medicine to take...

But I didn't expect that God would open his eyes this time and give me a chance to start over!

At this time, I have not been fired from the factory!

And Xiaolei is still alive!

Guo Yonghe clenched his fists hard and swore in his heart:

Guo Yonghe, Guo Yonghe!

In this life, you must live a bright life!

After wiping his tears in front of the mirror and straightening his collar, Guo Yonghe took a few deep breaths of air. After his excitement calmed down a little, he slowly opened the door and stepped out.

The small kitchen was filled with smoke, and a casserole filled with herbs was bubbling on top of the coal stove.

Zhou Yalan was sitting hunched next to the coal stove, using a fan to fan the air vents.

The flames in the furnace flickered with the reciprocation of the fan, clearly reflecting the wrinkles on Zhou Yalan's face and the white hair on her head.

Looking at his mother's old appearance, Guo Yonghe couldn't help but feel a sore nose.

My mother is only forty-six years old this year, but she is as old as a sixty-year-old woman. Isn't it all because of his incompetence as a son? Not only can he not share the worries of his parents and shoulder the burden of the family, but he also wants his mother to worry about him.

?

"mom!"

Guo Yonghe shouted softly.

"Ah? Yonghe?"

Hearing his son's cry, Zhou Yalan sighed and said:

"It's been some time since Xiaolei returned to her parents' home. Find a time to take her back. It's all your fault. If she hadn't broken her heart for you, Xiaolei wouldn't have left home crying.

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Guo Yonghe couldn't help but be startled. At this moment, he remembered that his wife had had a quarrel with him a few days ago. She was so sad that she returned to her parents' home.

"Mom, I know!"

He replied:

"After get off work today, I will go over and bring Xiaolei back!"

At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps outside, and then a figure flashed, and a middle-aged woman opened the door curtain and walked in.

Seeing Zhou Yalan standing in the kitchen, the middle-aged woman shook the notebook in her hand and said to her:

"Yalan, it's time to pay your electricity bill!"

"Sister-in-law Zhang, how much does my family owe?" Zhou Yalan asked nervously.

"Let me show it to you!"

As Mrs. Zhang spoke, she opened the small book, took a pen to find a line of numbers on it, then raised her head and said:

"The total is ninety-five cents."

"Ah, so many?" Zhou Yalan said in surprise.

"What's more?"

Sister-in-law Zhang took a pen and quickly calculated for Zhou Yalan.

"Your home used a total of two and a half kilowatt hours of electricity last month, and the electricity bill was 38 cents per kilowatt hour. Doesn't that add up to exactly 95 cents?"

"Sister-in-law Zhang, what is that..."

Zhou Yalan's face turned red, she rubbed her hands on her apron for a long time, and then she said in a dry voice:

"I just gave Lao Guo some medicine. I don't have enough money. Please give me some relief for a few days..."

"How many more days will it take?"

Mrs. Zhang's face suddenly dropped,

"Yalan, what exactly is going on in your family?

"Why do you have to wait for a few days every time?

"I tell you, you must pay the electricity bill tomorrow, otherwise don't blame me for cutting off your appliances!"

"Sister-in-law Zhang, can you give me a few more days? I promise that before the end of the month..."

Zhou Yalan lowered her head and said to Mrs. Zhang carefully.

"Yalan, I didn't mean to make things difficult for you!"

Sister-in-law Zhang wanted to get angry, but after looking at Zhou Yalan's wrinkled face, she sighed, shook her head and said:

"Do you know how many times I have been criticized by my leaders just because of your electricity bill?

"I will make an exception for you this time. If there is another time, don't blame me for being unkind!"

"Thank you! Sister-in-law Zhang, thank you!" Zhou Yalan couldn't help but be overjoyed and bowed several times to Sister-in-law Zhang.

"Okay, okay, don't do this!"

Mrs. Zhang waved her hand in disgust,

"Next time, if you can pay the electricity bill on time, I will be less criticized by my boss, and I will bow to you ten thousand times, I am willing to do it!"
Chapter completed!