Chapter 1: Traveling to the End of the World

"Who told you to steal my money?"

"Aunt, I didn't steal!"

"Oh, you still dare to quibble! If I don't give you a good beating today, your parents will probably blame me in the underworld for not teaching you how to behave!"

As soon as Gu Mingzhu opened her eyes, she heard someone beating a child outside.

She was about to say it was too noisy, but before she could say anything, her brain suddenly had some new memories.

She was stunned for a moment, then quickly sorted out the useful information.

It is now 2030, the third year of the apocalypse.

Three years ago, the global temperature dropped sharply. Because the temperature was too low, the difficulty of planting increased dramatically, and the grain production of various countries dropped significantly.

In order to grab food, many countries were filled with smoke of war 365 days a year.

China has stored grain, and each household can receive a subsidy of ten kilograms of rice every month.

Otherwise, ordinary people would not be able to eat expensive rice!

The original owner's family lived in the countryside, with fields and land. Although crops could not be grown, they could still grow some vegetables to supplement their family income.

But in order to treat his parents who were in the late stage of cancer, the original owner invested all the family savings.

She borrowed whatever she could from relatives and friends.

In the end, the person was not kept, leaving behind only her, who had just graduated from college, her younger brother Gu Minghua, who had just started elementary school, and a pile of debts.

The original owner was so anxious that she fell ill in bed. Seeing that there was no one in charge of the family, her overbearing aunt Deng Hongmei took the opportunity to seize most of the land.

The younger brother was sensible. He would bring some wild vegetables to the city to sell every now and then, and use the money to buy medicine for the original owner.

When Deng Hongmei saw that he had money, she thought he had stolen it from her.

As soon as she caught Minghua, she started fighting!

After Gu Mingzhu accepted the fact that she had traveled to the end of the world, she quickly got up!

As soon as she went out, she saw Gu Minghua wearing only thin summer clothes. His arms and legs were already red from the cold, and now from being beaten, they turned purple.

"Aunt! Stop hitting me, I really didn't steal!"

"You're still stubborn even at this time!? I'll beat you to death——"

As Deng Hongmei spoke, she raised the bamboo branch in her hand again.

But just as she was about to hit him, her hand was grabbed by Gu Mingzhu!

Deng Hongmei was stunned for a moment, "Mingzhu, are you okay? "

At the same time, when Gu Minghua saw his sister, he no longer cared about the pain and rushed to Gu Mingzhu and hugged her tightly.

"Sister! You finally woke up, that's great! I knew you would get better!"

Gu Mingzhu touched the little guy's head apologetically.

Since she can come through, it means the original owner is gone.

But she is still Gu Minghua's sister!

As long as she is here, no one can bully him!

Thinking of this, she looked at Deng Hongmei coldly: "Aunt said that my brother stole your money, is there any evidence?"

Deng Hongmei still couldn't accept the fact that she was cured!

She had always hoped that Gu Mingzhu would die of illness soon, so that she could get the remaining fields and this three-story house!

Now that he was alive and well, Deng Hongmei couldn't help feeling sorry.

But when she heard what Gu Mingzhu said, she got angry again, "Mingzhu, as a sister, it's a good thing for you to protect your brother! But you can't protect him for everything!"

"They say when you are a child you steal needles, when you grow up you steal gold!"

"He's only stealing small amounts of money now. If I don't teach him a lesson, he might steal tens of thousands of dollars in the future!"

When Gu Minghua heard this, he shouted at her: "I didn't steal it! I earned it myself!"

"You earned it yourself?" Deng Hongmei didn't believe it at all. "You are just a kid, how did you earn it? You should have thought before you lied, right? "

Being wronged, Gu Minghua was angry and aggrieved, tears were falling down: "I saved that money by digging wild vegetables! I didn't lie!"

Seeing him crying like this, Gu Mingzhu immediately hugged him distressedly and said, "Minghua, I believe in you! You are a good child and you would never do such sneaky things."

After that, she looked at Deng Hongmei coldly: "I only believe in evidence! My brother picked wild vegetables and sold them in the city. People in the village saw it. You said my brother stole your money. Where is the evidence?"

"If you can't produce evidence, you must apologize to my brother in public! And compensate him!"

Deng Hongmei deliberately framed Gu Minghua, so how could she produce any evidence?

But she was not happy to apologize to a little kid in public!

So she took out her wallet and said, "I originally had a fifty-dollar note here, but now it's gone! He must have stolen it and spent it, so I'm left with more than twenty dollars!"

"I didn't!" Gu Minghua was so anxious when he heard it, "Sister! I didn't take her money!"

Of course Gu Mingzhu knew that Deng Hongmei did it on purpose.

She patted Gu Minghua's back gently, and when the little guy calmed down a little, she sneered and said to Deng Hongmei, "I told you, I want solid evidence!"

"Either you show me the video of my brother stealing your money, or you go to the village supermarket and ask if my brother has used the fifty yuan to buy anything!"

Baisha Village is not very big, and there is only one supermarket selling things in the whole village.

Whether Minghua spent the money or not, we will know once we ask!

Just as Deng Hongmei was about to say something, the uncle who ran a small supermarket stood up.

"I can prove that Gu Minghua has never come to my house to buy anything!"

"I can also prove that he earned this money from selling wild vegetables! Before dawn today, he followed my mother into the city to sell wild vegetables!"

When everyone heard this, they looked at Deng Hongmei with meaningful eyes.

"When Gu Hai and his wife left, they entrusted their two children to her in front of the captain. How could she have the nerve to treat other people's children like this? Isn't she afraid that they will come to settle accounts with her at night?"

"You usually occupy other people's fields, and now you deliberately throw dirty water on children. This is too much of a bully!"

"That's right... It's fine that they wrongly accused the child, but look at how Minghua was beaten in such a cold weather with short pants and thin clothes. It's really cruel!"

Being pointed at, Deng Hongmei felt a little embarrassed!

"I educate my nephew, what does it have to do with you!? Get out, get out now!"

But we are not children anymore, how could we be afraid of her?

"You have wronged someone and beat him up like this! You must apologize and compensate him!"

"Yes, yes, yes! If you don't apologize and compensate us, we will go find the captain and the village chief! You are such a bully!"

When Deng Hongmei heard this, her face changed instantly.

She is domineering and overbearing, but she also bullies the weak and fears the strong.

When she heard that everyone was going to ask the captain and the village chief to make the decision, she panicked, "We don't need you to get involved in the affairs of our two families!"

Seeing that she was scared, the big guys sneered: "We don't want to care! But it's wrong for you to bully others like this!"

"Apologize now! If you don't apologize, I'm going to call the captain now!"

Seeing that they were serious, Deng Hongmei reluctantly said to Gu Minghua: "Minghua, Auntie made a mistake. You didn't steal the money. I'm sorry!"

After she finished speaking, she glared at everyone fiercely, then turned around and was about to leave.

Gu Mingzhu stopped her directly: "Aunt, we haven't settled the accounts yet, don't leave in such a hurry!"

Deng Hongmei was already unhappy about being forced to apologize in public.

Now that she was stopped by Gu Mingzhu again, she became even more unhappy, "I've already apologized, what else do you want?"

(End of this chapter)