Chapter 254: I Can't Be Filial to a Mother Like This

"I am Si Rong," Si Rong said, her mood agitated.

The voice on the other end seemed to have aged somewhat, "On May 12, 2008, a great earthquake will occur in Chuan Shi. Many people will die that day. I hope you will do your best..."

A tremendous noise suddenly erupted from the other end of the phone, as if something were trying to prevent this conversation that spanned across time and space.

Si Rong only heard these words; Jiang Cheng was right beside her.

"An earthquake?"

Si Rong counted on her fingers, "There is one month left. How can we save people?"

"Chuan Shi is not small. If an earthquake happens, the casualties will surely be heavy. We will do our best."

Si Rong nodded. She trusted the Future Phone because she believed the person on the other end was herself.

And the reason Jiang Cheng trusted it was entirely because of her.

But ever since Jiang Cheng was infected by a virus while carrying out a mission some time ago, his health was now far worse than before.

She worried that if he worked too hard, it would affect his health, so she said, "Don't worry too much about this matter. I will handle it. If there is a need, I will find you again."

Jiang Cheng pulled her into his embrace, "This matter is of great importance. We must be prepared to expend a large amount of manpower, financial resources, and material resources. I know my own body; it is fine to busy myself with these things. Besides, don't I have my wife to stew nourishing soup for me?"

This was indeed a major matter.

But it could not be spoken of to others; the two of them could only plan it out slowly.

As for spending large amounts of wealth and resources, Si Rong was also very open-minded about it.

Most of the real estate and savings they currently held were due to the Future Phone. Now that they had learned of this great catastrophe from the Future Phone, spending money there might just be a cycle of cause and effect.

She could pick it up, and she could let it go.

"Fine, but you must be obedient and drink your soup."

Si Rong lay down. Thinking of the earthquake in Chuan Shi a month later, neither of the couple felt sleepy.

"The two of us still have to make a trip to Chuan Shi," Si Rong asked him, resting her head on Jiang Cheng's shoulder, "Do you have any comrades-in-arms you know over there?"

Jiang Cheng thought for a while, "I do. One of my students transferred to civilian work and returned to Chuan Shi a few years ago, but I don't know what department he is in."

"It would be great if he were in the earthquake prediction department," Si Rong said, though she felt she was being whimsical, "I'm joking. It's an connection, at least. Let's go 'travel' to Chuan Shi tomorrow and look for your student while we're at it."

"Hmm," Jiang Cheng tried his best to search his mind for information regarding Chuan Province, "Right, there should be another student, also in Chuan Shi. However, one of them is mischievous and unreliable, while the other is more steady and mature. Let's go find the steady and mature one first."

Si Rong nodded.

There was not much time left for them, "Tomorrow I will tell Nainai, and have her watch over Si Yu and Si Nian at home during this time."

"Travel?" Jiang Sinian crossed his arms, "The two of you?"

"That's right, what's wrong with that?" Si Rong took a bite of a three-delicacy bun, "Your father and I have been working and taking care of you at home all these years. Now that we are still young and our legs and feet are still nimble, can't we go out and travel?"

"Can't you take me along?" Jiang Siyu tugged at her mother's arm pitifully, "I will be very good and very obedient."

"Really obedient?" Jiang Cheng raised an eyebrow.

Seeing a glimmer of hope, Jiang Siyu nodded frantically.

"Be obedient. We aren't going; stay at home and study well," Jiang Cheng said while patting his daughter's head.

Jiang Siyu:...

"We can't take you this time. You two just stay at home properly with Nainai," Si Rong instructed, "When summer vacation comes, your father and I will take you and Nainai on a trip together. Behave well at home."

Before she left, there was one more thing she was uneasy about.

Li Xuan was still lurking near her house, waiting to catch Bai Mo in the act.

She could only entrust this concern to Ming Zi.

"Yo! Running off to enjoy a world for two?" Ming Zi said with jealousy, "I've never seen you want to go with me?"

"Summer vacation, let's go together during summer vacation, okay? We have serious business going to Chuan Shi this time."

Si Rong dangled a carrot in front of her, "I'll cover all the expenses then, how about that? You just need to keep Li Xuan busy so she doesn't have time to stir up trouble!"

"Fine, leave it to me."

Having received the promise, Ming Zi immediately had the energy to get to work.

To keep Li Xuan busy, she quickly thought of a good idea.

That day, Li Xuan was guarding near the entrance of the Junshuyuan. Originally, she had been guarding near Si Rong's house, but for some reason, the people in the Family Quarters had some major issue and actually forbade her from staying inside the Family Quarters.

They called her some kind of idle person.

How ridiculous!

Fine, if they wouldn't let her in, so be it; she didn't care for it anyway.

Thus, Li Xuan guarded the entrance of the Junshuyuan. Anyway, as long as Bai Mo's home was here, she would definitely be able to find that girl.

Li Xuan had also thought it through. Now that the girl had grown up to be so pretty and was so old, once she found her, she would just coax her with more sweet words, and the child would naturally grow close to her.

Over these past few years, with the rapid development of the era, bride prices had also risen along with the tide.

Some girls with good conditions even had bride prices as high as one hundred thousand!

If she could get her hands on a one-hundred-thousand bride price, she would be able to support herself in her old age and wouldn't have to worry about her son being unfilial to her.

Waiting until evening, when the sky was almost dark, just as Li Xuan was dozing off, several little hoodlums suddenly walked up to her, cursing and swearing.

"Dead old hag! Lend us some money to spend!"

Li Xuan:...

These children today really have no upbringing!

"You little bastards!" she cursed loudly, "Borrow money from me? Do I look like I have money? Did you grow your eyes in your butt cracks?"

"If I lie down right here, you few just wait to pay for the damages!"

This was the benefit of being old; one could advance to attack and retreat to defend.

She had thought these little hoodlums would be scared off by her few words, but she didn't expect them to burst into laughter.

"Look at how fierce you are, you old bag of bones! Still want to extort people? I'll show you extortion!"

A hoodlum kicked Li Xuan directly in the calf, and Li Xuan let out a cry of pain before collapsing to the ground.

The next few hoodlums did not make things too difficult for her; they simply took turns stepping over her two legs.

When a chubby boy stepped on her, Li Xuan clearly heard her leg bone make a 'crack' sound.

The few hoodlums shoved each other and ran away.

Leaving only Li Xuan curled up on the ground in agony, wailing.

"Help! Help!"

Finally, she saw a passerby and began to plead for help, "Help me call the police! Some hoodlums broke my leg!"

The passerby helped her call the police, but this location was some distance from the surveillance cameras at the entrance of the Junshuyuan, so the hoodlums were not captured on film.

The police sent Li Xuan to the hospital and incidentally notified her son.

Unexpectedly, the other party said directly that he would not get involved.

The police were stunned for a moment, then spoke with authority to educate the person on the other end, "Comrade, as human beings, the most important thing is filial piety. Your mother has a broken leg and is in great pain at the hospital; you should hurry over here!"

The person on the other end replied, "My mother threw me to another woman to raise as soon as I was born. If that were all, I might let it go, but my daughter had just been born when she took it upon herself to send her to the Fuliyuan, and she has been missing ever since. I cannot be filial to a mother like that; whoever wants to be filial can go ahead and do it!"