Hao Zhenhua paused for a moment, thinking carefully with a hint of sadness, and continued: “When I was five, you were riding a bicycle to take me to kindergarten. On the way, you accidentally ran over a watermelon peel, and I fell onto a stuffed toy stall nearby. You were fine, but your knee was scraped and bleeding, so you went to the hospital for treatment. An irresponsible female nurse accidentally gave you the wrong injection, and you passed away, leaving me and my mom as a widow and orphan…”
“That’s it?” Hao Yunyang, who was listening intently as if the person who died ten years later wasn’t himself, urged: “And then?”
Fifty years later, technology had developed to a degree that Hao Yunyang could not comprehend. It was said that humans had begun sending ships to search for planets suitable for human migration in the Milky Way.
The purchasing power of nine million would be equivalent to only 230,000 in Hao Yunyang’s current time and space, or even less.
Having lost their family’s income source, Liu the Lame and his family, who had once been influential in the village and even the town, had completely become impoverished. Their monthly living expenses were barely sustained by the government’s 15,000 yuan in assistance and Hao Zhenhua’s monthly salary of over 50,000 yuan.
Moreover, of their monthly income of 65,000 yuan, at least 25,000 would be set aside to repay debts.
In short, Zhao Chenxin, Hao Yunyang’s wife, and Hao Zhenhua, Hao Yunyang’s biological son, were living quite miserably fifty years later. Hao Zhenhua couldn’t even bear to buy the most ordinary smart mobile phone, still using Hao Yunyang’s old silver-gray flip phone that had been repaired countless times, updated and replaced so many times that compatible parts could no longer be found, and he hadn’t even dared to change the SIM card!
Fortunately, due to their financial constraints, Hao Zhenhua still had some conscience. Although an ordinary smart mobile phone would cost around 50,000 yuan, he was reluctant to discard this old antique phone, which had become a family heirloom. Otherwise, the phone would probably not even work.
