Age: My Small World

"Here, Jun brother, this is for you."

When he got the manuscript, Yang Jun noticed that several people were looking at him.

"Why are you looking at me? Class is about to start."

"Xu Yan, turn your head away."

"No, I'll take a look at it for you. If it's possible, I'll send it to my uncle and ask him to publish it for you."

She really believed what Yang Jun said.

But no one would have thought that Yang Jun, who was still a high school student, had sent many articles to Xu Congwen, and they were actually published and he received royalties.

So naturally they had no doubts.

Seeing that everyone was staring at him, Yang Jun shrugged casually and then fell into deep thought.

He had a plan in advance, so he had a clear goal of what he wanted to write.

Soon, a new title appeared on the manuscript.

"'The Great Mom', Yang Jun, are you going to write about your mother?" Xu Yan became even more curious about his article and even asked to switch seats with Wang Chong so that she could sit next to him and read it.

"Yes and no."

Yang Jun pondered for a moment and began to think.

Seeing this, Xu Yan didn't ask any more questions.

Even after the teacher arrived and started the class, she did not disturb him but covered for him.

Yang Jun's thoughts have naturally entered a world belonging to fictional characters.

What he was going to write this time should be considered his own original work, so he did not plagiarize other people's works.

And it all started with a young girl.

The girl's surname is Sun, and her name is Sun Xiaoyu. Her father gave her that name because her mother said it rained lightly on the day she was born.

Sun Xiaoyu is a rural child, and a simpler name would make it easier to raise her.

In this way, a girl gradually grew up.

She has lived in a relatively poor family since she was a child. She often had a full meal only three days later, and it was always bran, which was a bit harsh on her throat. But she was happy to eat every time, because her father worked hard to earn money to buy it home, and her mother also cooked it carefully to make it taste better.

At the age of sixteen, Sun Xiaoyu met the man destined for her, whose name was Yang Sanxi.

Just like his name, Yang Sanxi is born to make people happy.

The young girl couldn't resist the boy's teasing, and after a few times she fell in love with him.

So naturally, the two got married.

There was no age requirement in that era, and it was common to get married at a few years earlier.

After marriage, the young couple spent many years together in love. Although their life was a little difficult, they could get by.

It all sounds so beautiful.

It seems that Yang Jun has put all the beauty into the first few thousand words.

Then his writing took a sudden turn.

The good times did not last long. Just one year after the marriage, war broke out.

During that period, there was almost no way to avoid it and the only option was to wait for fate to come.

At this time, Sun Xiaoyu found out that she was pregnant. In such a difficult situation, Yang Sanxi had no choice but to send her to the mountains to hide, while he worked at home, because if both of them hid in the mountains, they would have no food and would probably starve to death.

Sun Xiaoyu didn't know how Yang Sanxi survived. She only knew that when she saw her husband again, he had several deep whip marks on his body. She knew they were caused by the enemy.

But they had no way to resist.

This kind of life lasted for a long time. A child was born in the mountains, a boy. Yang Sanxi happily named him Yang Baoguo, hoping that he would defend his country when he grew up. He also didn't want to live in such shame under the hands of the enemy.

However, the conditions in the mountains were too harsh, and people like Yang Sanxi were used like animals by the enemy, so that sometimes he couldn't even deliver food to his wife and son in the mountains.

Two years later, when he once again rushed to the mountains with a bag of straw, he saw his heartbroken wife holding a child who had already died.

Yes, Yang Jun once had an older brother, but unfortunately he died at the age of two. The cause of death was a fever and no medicine. Even though his mother fed him her own blood, it had no effect. An illness took away Yang Sanxi's first child.

Three years later, the enemies in the county suddenly began to riot. It was said that a mysterious knight appeared and always liked to appear at night to cut off the heads of the enemies.

Once this happened, the enemy immediately imposed martial law on the entire county.

But it didn't have much effect, and those who were supposed to lose their heads continued to lose their heads.

This situation continued to happen, making the enemy somewhat frightened, so their people began to hide inside the county town and no longer dared to go out at will.

This allowed the surrounding villages to gradually return to their former peace, instead of being oppressed by the enemy and forced to work and not even have a full meal.

Yang Sanxi and his wife didn't know who had done this evil deed, they only knew that they no longer had to live in fear.

The conditions are still difficult, but we can barely survive.

But what makes people sad is that Sun Xiaoyu's parents could not escape the disaster and starved to death at home.

Sun Xiaoyu cried for a long time, and finally she and her brother hurriedly buried their parents, and then took her brother home to take care of him.

In that year, luck favored the couple and Sun Xiaoyu became pregnant with her second child.

It was lucky because this time they had deliberately stored more food in the mountains to deal with such situations.

The following year, the eldest daughter was born.

After luck comes misfortune

Although the enemy was in a mess, the county town was still their territory. They would come out to raid from time to time and loot all the food. In such a situation, who could live a good life?

This is not the end yet. The shadow of war always hangs over this land, and the sound of gunfire seems to have become the daily bagpipes, ringing all the time.

That era was unfortunate.

But even in such circumstances, the young couple gradually gave birth to three children.

Two girls and one boy.

They struggled to raise their children, longing for a peaceful life to return.

However, due to an accident, the head of the family, Yang Sanxi, passed away suddenly a year later. Sun Xiaoyu heard that he was hit by a stray bullet from the enemy.

She didn't know what a stray bullet was, she only knew that her husband was dead.

She cried longer this time and almost fainted.

But she knew she couldn't fall down because she still had children to raise.

The main text really begins from this moment.

While telling the story of a difficult and ordinary love from the perspective of a couple, Yang Jun also revealed the great side of that era, praised many heroic deeds, and subtly wrote about the hard-won victory.

The central theme remains this mother, and everything she experiences is a reflection of time, taking us back to the ups and downs of that era. Overall, the story is about giving a good ending after a good one, leaving people wanting more, rather than simply being overly tragic. (End of this chapter)