A person goes to the county town

  "Ah, this food must have been eaten by that wicked Second Aunt, even if she couldn't finish it, she would still hide it away. You go to the kitchen and take a look." Tian Yuan sighed and comforted Tian Lu, then slipped out of the house through the back door, all the way being afraid of being discovered by Second Aunt and Granny, running with her head down, not even responding if someone called her name.

  The village entrance is not far from Tianyuan's home, just a few hundred meters away. It only takes a few minutes to run there, and she's already panting. Luckily, she arrived at the village entrance just in time to catch the bus heading to the county town.

  For the reborn Tian Wei, the road from this village to the county town was extremely familiar, so even though she was only a ten-year-old girl, taking the bus to the county town alone wasn't scary at all. She was now an adult living in a ten-year-old child's body.

  An hour later, the bus stopped at the station in the county town. The county hospital is not far from the county town, and it can be reached by crossing the road and walking for about 10 minutes.

  "Nurse, which room is the patient who was sent in this morning due to a coal mine collapse being treated in? Tian Biao?" Tian Huan, only ten years old, with a sweet smile and voice, asked while leaning on the hospital front desk with both hands, her small body looking frail and short due to malnutrition.

  "On the third floor in 307, little sister, would you like me to take you up there?" said the nurse.

  "No need, thank you sister, you're really beautiful!" Tian Yuan shook her head and then innocently praised the nurse, who was overjoyed, as she went up the stairs.

  At that time, the county hospital's inpatient department had only three floors, and there was no elevator here. Tianyuan went up the stairs of the hospital with ease and reached the door of 307, standing at the door to take a sneak peek inside. Sure enough, her father was in the ward, and her mother had also arrived and was now by the bedside.

  "Big brother, how can you be so careless? The mine collapsed and you didn't even run fast enough! Your leg is broken and now you need surgery. That's going to cost a lot of money, isn't it? Our family is so poor, where are we going to get that kind of money from?" Tian Gui looked unhappy as he watched the nurse examine Tian Biao's body, as if he saw his own family's money being burned away in the hospital.

  "Tian Gui, what are you saying?! Tian Lao Yezi Tian Mao Chun was furious upon hearing this, "He's your brother, he's lying in bed right now, and you're still talking like that? Can't you hear yourself, or is it just something people say?!"

  Tian Gui was scolded and pouted, but still feared Old Master and didn't dare continue speaking. Li Shufen stood by, tears streaming down her face. Tian Biao listened and also got angry: "Who knew the coal mine would collapse? If it collapsed, we'd be inside digging for coal - who has legs long enough to run out? I'm lucky to still be alive!"

  Tian Ma Chun listened and was also frightened for a while, "Yes, I heard that several people have died! It scared me to death, Ah Biao, from now on, don't go to the coal mine again, this is making money with one's life, our family may be poor, but we can't let you risk your life to make money anymore."

  "Yes, uncle, I've heard that many people who have been digging coal for over a decade eventually get lung disease and can't be cured. I've always advised Tian Biao not to go into the coal mine, but he won't listen. He says something about having a big family to feed, with kids growing up and needing to go to school. This coal mining work, if it weren't for being extremely poor, who would want to do it? Everyone knows that digging coal is risking one's life, especially in private coal mines where they even sign a life-and-death contract."