Break out of the courtyard

May 1966, 5, Sunday morning.

There was no greeting or commendation, as if I had rushed to the disaster area in a hurry and should have returned quietly at this time.

After Zhang Heping, Dr. Zhao and others got off the bus at Xuanwu Hospital in the capital, he stuffed the big red flower on his chest into a half-deflated tactical backpack, then held the small medicine box with a broken strap, and slowly walked in the drizzle. Walking towards home.

Looking at the people celebrating May Day on the street, Zhang Heping felt as if he was in another world.

For more than a month, Zhang Heping followed Dr. Zhao and others and stayed in the medical area over there.

From the initial dilapidated building, to the later tents, and then to the newly built hospital building, Zhang Heping and the others treated group after group of wounded people.

In the end, if it weren't for those children to avoid amputations, Zhang Heping would have left long ago. How could he accompany Dr. Zhao to teach young doctors...

Yesterday afternoon, when they left Long County by car, they were sent off by people who organized themselves. This made Zhang Heping feel better and felt that the hard work during this period was not in vain!

The car left the city, and the fields were green and full of hope. They were no longer as devastated as before.

But, it’s May now!

Such a strong earthquake in Long County, with the efforts of the whole country, it recovered in just over a month.

However, the next storm...

"Dad, I'm back!"

When Zhang Heping returned to Courtyard No. 7, he said hello to Lao Zhang, who was mending someone's shoes under the window on the right, and then went straight into the hospital.

"Grandpa came so early this month!" Zhang Heping greeted Ma Changming, who was sitting on the steps of the main house smoking a cigarette, and raised his hand to touch the head of the jumping dog.

Grandpa Ma Changming was stunned for a moment and said happily: "Sanwazi is back!"

"Yes!" Zhang Heping responded, put the medicine box on the aisle to the right of the door, threw his backpack on the medicine box, then went into the house to find a set of short clothes, and went into the bathroom to take a cold shower.

In the past two months, what made Zhang Heping most uncomfortable was not food, but bathing.

In the first month, he couldn't find any extra water to take a bath. He felt like he was rotten, and he was infected with lice. He even wore a hat to prevent it, and finally had to shave his head.

No, after he took a shower in the bathroom, he took a set of short clothes and a few cents, ran to get a haircut, and then ran to the bathhouse and soaked for an hour before going home.

Then, he was shocked to find that his uncle and aunt were also here, and Zhou Chengwen, the boss of the Zhou family, was also there.

"Uncle, why are you standing in the yard? Why don't you go inside and sit down?" Zhang Heping asked in confusion and threw the clothes he had changed into the laundry chute on the left.

"Little San!"

Just as Zhang Heping was greeting several people in the yard, his mother, Ma Xiuzhen, ran out of the kitchen and pulled Zhang Heping to look left and right, still muttering, "As long as everything is okay! Just as long as everything is okay!"

"What can I do?" Zhang Heping said with a smile: "Mom, please boil a pot of water for me first and iron my clothes and backpack to catch lice."

"Lili, boil a pot of water!" Ma Xiuzhen has not seen her son for so long, how can she let go, unlike Zhang Bing, a deep-tempered guy who is still sitting at the door guarding the shoe stall.

Zhang Heping threw his backpack into the laundry chute, took out a big red flower, a white shirt and blue trousers, and smiled at Ma Xiuzhen:

"After working hard for more than a month, I was given a big red flower and a change of clothes. I was not even given a certificate, hehe..."

Ma Xiuzhen was about to pick up the big red flower, but unexpectedly her son Zhang Heping dismantled the big red flower into a piece of red cloth, threw it into the laundry chute, turned on the faucet, and started applying soap.

"Why did you remove the red flowers?" Ma Xiuzhen saw that the red cloth had been soaked in water, so she had no choice but to bring another piece of soap and help soap the clothes.

"It's useless to keep it, and it's also stained with lice. It's better to wash it out and make it into a red headdress, so that my eldest cousin and second sister can wear it when they get married."

As soon as Zhang Heping said this, his eldest cousin Ma Lili, who originally wanted to come over to help with the laundry, stood awkwardly behind Zhang Heping.

Ma Xiuzhen glanced at her niece behind her and said angrily: "This stinky girl is pregnant, and you still want her to get married."

"What?" Zhang Heping dropped the soap, washed his hands under the faucet, wiped water on his body, and then grabbed the left wrist of his eldest cousin Ma Lili.

"I'm not pregnant!" Zhang Heping glanced at his mother Ma Xiuzhen doubtfully, then at his eldest cousin with a red face, and then looked at his grandfather and the others in the courtyard.

"The hospital test sheet says..." Ma Xiuzhen looked at Ma Lili doubtfully.

Ma Lili said shyly: "The order was written by someone in Chengwen, and he asked me not to tell..."

"Okay!" Ma Xiuzhen got angry and pointed a hand of soap bubbles at Ma Lili's forehead, "After raising you up like this, you have learned to collude with outsiders to deceive your own family!"

"Do you know that after I heard about your pregnancy, I was so angry that I stayed up all night, thinking about how to explain it to my parents."

Zhang Heping patted Ma Xiuzhen on the back and asked, "When did it happen? What did Aunt Chen say?"

"What else can I say!" Ma Xiuzhen glared at her eldest niece, "I have collected the 200 yuan gift money, and the dowry has been placed in the east wing over there. I am just waiting for you to come back to have a feast and give out wedding candies! "

Zhang Heping frowned and asked, "Where's the marriage certificate?"

"I gave Zhou Chengwen a false birthday at the street office and got my marriage certificate back!"

"Oh!" Zhang Heping looked at his eldest cousin Zhou Chengwen who was sitting on the steps under the east wing window, "Where is his salary?"

"You don't have to worry about her, Aunt Chen said, let this stinky girl take care of their money from now on."

Zhang Heping took a look at the kitchen roof and found that there were only 6 strips of bacon, 1 dried rabbit, and 1 dried chicken left. The rest were probably donated.

Thinking about the coming storm, Zhang Heping decided to handle his eldest cousin's marriage as soon as possible, "Then we will simply host a table at our house at noon today. I have to rush back to school in the afternoon. You can decide how to treat me after that."

"Mistress, you cook for a while, and I'll call your sister and ask them to come back for dinner." Ma Xiuzhen said and went out in a hurry.

"Cousin-in-law! Go and call Aunt Chen and your second brother and third sister over for dinner." Zhang Heping looked at Zhou Chengwen jokingly. This boy might still be proud of the fake pregnancy bill he issued, but he didn't know that he had already become a cousin. prey.

As soon as Zhou Chengwen left, Ma Lili went to wash clothes in silence.

Zhang Heping went out and asked Lao Zhang to close the shoe stall and came back to help him mend the straps of the medicine box.

Then, he went back to the house and found a big basin, and asked his eldest cousin to throw his clothes, pants, and backpack into the basin. Then he poured the boiling water from the pot into the basin and soaked it to kill the lice!

When the eldest cousin and auntie came into the kitchen to help, Zhang Heping suddenly said: "Aunt Chen should know that you were falsely pregnant, and she just facilitated the marriage."

"Chengwen also said that his mother might have guessed that it was a fake pregnancy report." My eldest cousin Ma Lili was still blushing, "He said that he wanted to cook the rice before his father came back."

"When you go back, go get a red book of quotations from the bookshelf in the main room. Starting from today, memorize one page every day. In addition, don't put the sewing stall outside the courtyard. Only the sign of the sewing stall is hung outside. If you are bullied in the future, Just come back and say, I will dismantle his bones! Remember to hide the things at the bottom of the box..."

Zhang Heping was talking nonchalantly, but it did not slow down his speed of chopping vegetables.

Her mother, Ma Xiuzhen, went out for a while and then rushed back. While helping, she gossiped about the disaster area.

After the four members of the Zhou family arrived, Aunt Chen also went into the kitchen to help and asked about the situation in the disaster area.

After waiting for more than forty minutes, the two sisters and the eldest brother-in-law came back.

Several families gathered around three long tables joined together and had a meal behind closed doors. After chatting for a while, they all became relatives.

After taking care of the chores at home, Zhang Heping took a few clothes and went straight to school.

Next, you have to organize group activities to take the initiative.

I just didn't expect that he had been busy outside for more than a month, and all the praises and commendations were sent to school...