Break out of the courtyard

Being stared at by his mother, Ma Xiuzhen, and his father, Zhang Bing, Zhang Heping felt like he was repaying the world.

Previously, in order to control the family's financial power, he won over his grandmother Xie Ermei and used filial piety to suppress his father Zhang Bing.

Lao Zhang has changed his ways, but for the sake of his eldest grandson...it's hard to explain!

In his previous life, Zhang Heping was the eldest grandson and enjoyed Zhang Cuishan's careless life of not doing any housework and not caring about anything at home.

Therefore, he knew that it was difficult to reason when the old lady favored her eldest grandson.

He thought about going to school to hide and relax, out of sight and out of mind.

I just never expected that the north, which is severely short of water, would also encounter floods... Isn't that a patent of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River?

"I'll go next door and take a look!"

Under the surprised and expectant looks of his parents and three sisters, Zhang Heping said a word, put on his raincoat and went out.

Arriving at Courtyard No. 6, Zhang Heping found that the briquette stove that Grandma Chen placed under the eaves in the east wing was soaked in water and water entered the house. She was moving things to the west wing.

Zhang Heping frowned and found a broom, thinking that the sewer outlet in No. 7 of his house was not blocked, which meant that the newly built sewer ditch was fine.

Zhang Heping held the broom upside down and poked the flooded sewer inlet with the wooden handle, but failed to penetrate the soft layer.

When he reached for it, he found that a white shirt was blocking a pile of garbage and blocking several vertical steel bars at the water inlet.

Throwing away his shirt and placing the broom under the eaves, Zhang Heping stretched out his hand and washed his hands in the rain. Then he found a shovel and helped clean up the water in Grandma Chen's east room, receiving a wave of thanks.

Zhang Heping reminded the two old ladies in the back room who were using a briquette stove to open the door, and then went to the east wing with a broom.

The old man and woman of this family were looking at the leaking spots on the roof with a sad face, but their grandson was holding a small basin and having a great time collecting water from all over the house.

Zhang Heping moved a wooden cabinet under the beam of their house, then jumped up on the wooden cabinet, grabbed the beam and climbed up.

He first held the broom upside down, stretched out the wooden handle, and knocked on a few places where the tiles had shifted and caused leaks. There was nothing that could be done about the remaining two broken tiles. They needed to find someone from the construction team of the street office to repair them afterwards.

After also reminding the people in the east wing to be careful when using the coal stove, Zhang Heping went to the west wing and helped them deal with the tiles. There were three broken tiles left and nothing could be done.

Finally, under the hopeful gaze of his grandma Xie Ermei at the door of the main room, Zhang Heping left the west wing and went home without even looking at her.

Zhang Heping came here to express his attitude. He wanted him to bow his head, but there was no way!

Ignoring his mother Ma Xiuzhen, his eldest sister, and his second sister secretly brought food to the old lady, which was already the limit of Zhang Heping's tolerance.

They eat his food, drink his food, and want him to bow down and help the old woman raise her grandson. The key is that they are disobedient and are worse than Laifu.

After Zhang Heping returned to the main room alone, he took off his raincoat without saying a word, then went to read a book and hang up the phone.

"Xiao San, what did your grandma say?" Mother Ma Xiuzhen asked.

When the eldest sister Zhang Zhaodi saw that Zhang Heping did not answer, she put on a raincoat and went to No. 6 Courtyard next door.

Not long after, the eldest sister Zhang Zhaodi ran back and whispered to her mother, Ma Xiuzhen, and the others that her grandma had closed the door and wouldn't let her in. She also scolded their family for being ungrateful.

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Time flows away with the rain and quietly comes to night.

Zhang Cuishan was fighting the flood in the factory and did not return home. His mother, Ma Xiuzhen, put the bun under her raincoat and gave it to the old lady next door.

When Ma Xiuzhen came back empty-handed and looked at Zhang Heping reproachfully, she obviously knew that Zhang Heping had ignored the old lady next door in the morning.

Zhang Heping pretended not to see it and continued to read and hang up.

It was night, the rain suddenly became heavier, and there were faint screams outside.

Bang bang bang!

"Is Zhang Heping here?"

In the rain at night, there was a knock on the door of No. 7 Courtyard!

Zhang Heping glanced at the clock on the west wall. It was past 1 am.

Zhang Heping put on his raincoat and opened the door with a flashlight, only to find a street clerk whose name he could not name.

"Many houses collapsed tonight. The director is organizing rescue operations. I want to ask you if you want to go. I will send you a certificate and a letter of commendation afterwards."

"Go! I'll go back and tell you!" Zhang Heping gave an affirmative reply, and then while taking off his raincoat, he said to his mother Ma Xiuzhen who came out after hearing the sound: "Mom, close the door!"

Zhang Heping agreed so readily not only because of the certificates and letters of commendation, but also because of the influence of the two bunches of grapes before.

Efforts are rewarded!

"Mistress, why are you taking off your clothes?"

"You have to get wet anyway, so it will be easier if you take it off."

In less than fifteen seconds, Zhang Heping threw his raincoat, white T-shirt, money and keys in his trouser pockets, and flashlight in the doorway, and rushed into the heavy rain shirtless, wearing black shorts and black rain boots.

When Zhang Heping took the street clerk to the Houhai Subdistrict Office, Director Qi had already mobilized and dispersed several groups of people.

"Zhang Heping, hurry up and follow the construction team to clean up the collapsed houses and rescue the injured!"

Hearing Director Qi's words, Zhang Heping responded and turned around to chase the group of people in raincoats that he had just passed by.

"Captain, Zhang Heping is here, you don't have to worry about lifting the beams!"

"Zhang Heping, why aren't you wearing any clothes? This is your house in front of you. Go back and change clothes quickly. Wear a raincoat to avoid catching a cold!"

"Cold is a trivial matter, but saving people is the most important! After saving people, I will take cold medicine."

"Good boy! Our mission tonight is very difficult, and we must not kill anyone!"

After Zhang Heping joined the rescue team, they first skipped the collapsed facade of the north Yinding Bridge and went directly across the bridge to the south bank.

On the south bank of Houhai and on the west bank, there are many first and second entrance courtyards. At this time, residents have already organized voluntary organizations to participate in the rescue.

The construction team leader took everyone through the streets and alleys. Every time they came to a noisy and crying courtyard, they knocked on the door and asked loudly if they needed help.

After working for most of the night, Zhang Heping followed the construction team into only 9 yards to help clean up collapsed houses. In most of the yards, neighbors helped rescue people from the collapsed houses.

This made Zhang Heping sigh, there are still many good people in these days...

The next day, the 9th, 7 am.

Zhang Heping washed his hands in the rain, took two dry biscuits from an unknown aunt, and ate them with big mouthfuls.

Last night, he exhausted a lot of energy. When he was so hungry that he was about to suffer from hypoglycemia, the logistics team organized by Director Qi came, and his mother Ma Xiuzhen was also among them. However, the two bags of steamed buns she carried had not yet been delivered to Zhang Heping. It was split up halfway.

When Ma Xiuzhen found her son Zhang Heping, she saw that his son was holding half of the pancake in the rain and eating the other half of the wet pancake.

Ma Xiuzhen wiped her eyes, and she didn't know whether it was rain or tears that she wiped away.

Then, she walked over quickly, pulled her son Zhang Heping under the eaves, and used two white cloth bags to help her son wipe off the water on his head and body.

At this moment, Ma Xiuzhen felt that her son was so good and her mother-in-law, Ermei Xie, was still going against him. It was so ungrateful!

"Comrades! If you still have the strength, follow me. If you don't, continue to rest. Come and replace us later!" the construction team leader shouted and hurried northward.

"Mom, you go home quickly and make some food! I'll go there first!" Zhang Heping said, followed the rescue team, and took two steamed buns from an aunt on the roadside to eat.

Looking at the back sea water overflowing ashore on the right, Zhang Heping couldn't hide his surprise. If Haizi is flooded, I don't know how other areas of the capital will be flooded!

Not long after his idea came up, their rescue team was mobilized and sent to Chaoyang District, which was more severely affected.

Zhang Heping and the construction team leader carried a small boat to clean up garbage on the surface of Houhai, joined the temporary rescue team of the nearby subdistrict office, and headed east.

As the terrain lowered, the water on the streets became more and more serious, but Zhang Heping and his rescue team grew stronger, with many more people joining voluntarily.

When we reached a section of street where half of our calves were submerged, a dozen large watermelons rushed in front of us, causing a group of little kids to chase after us.

Zhang Heping also wanted to grab two, but unfortunately those watermelons were on the sidewalk on the right, and he was walking in the middle of the rescue team on the road.

With the water up to their knees, the construction team leader asked Zhang Heping and several other thin team members to sit in the boat and rest while the other team members pushed the boat forward.

Arriving at Chaoyangmennei Street, where there were a lot of firewood, charcoal and other objects floating, their rescue team was dispersed into the surrounding alleys to search for rescue targets.

Zhang Heping jumped into the water up to his waist and let the construction team leader and others board the boat to rest for a few minutes. As the elderly and children boarded the boat, everyone had no chance to rest.

In the busy schedule, no one noticed that the rain had become less intense after 10 o'clock because the water had not receded yet.

It wasn't until a construction team member fainted in the water, was swept away by the flood, and was found by the quick-eyed Zhang Heping that the construction team leader counted the number of people with lingering fear, and then pointed to a No. 1 trolley bus with the door open and asked everyone to go and rest.

Zhang Heping sat on the driver's seat, took off his rain boots and poured water, put his pale feet on the steering wheel, and said:

"Captain, we have to find something to eat, otherwise someone will faint, and if they are washed away by the water, it will be difficult to explain to their families!"

The construction team leader glanced at everyone in the car, braced himself and said, "Then go home and have a rest, and come back later."

On the way back, Zhang Heping and the others encountered several small cruise ships with "Beihai Park" printed on them. The leader knew the construction team leader and stood on the boat and shouted loudly:

"Lao Yan, there are cooked food at the corner of the street. Hurry up and eat something. Let's go to Louzi Village first!"

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