Break out of the courtyard

Chapter 2 For the Family

Fishing: Great success (2%).

Zhang Heping stepped on the hammer fishing rod under his feet, huddled up with his hands in his sleeves, squatted next to the iron bucket, and hung up there despite being hungry.

Near noon, when Zhang Heping saw some fishermen withdrawing and some fishermen taking out dry food to prepare for a protracted war, Zhang Heping couldn't help but put away his tools and went home.

"Don't be in a hurry!" Zhang Heping encouraged himself secretly.

However, when he walked into Nanluogu Alley with hunger, he discovered something was wrong. People around him pointed at him from time to time, and he also gained a new skill.

Perception: Beginner (7%).

When Zhang Heping entered the courtyard, that feeling became even more obvious.

Just when Zhang Heping was puzzled, Jia Gan, who was three years younger than him but as tall as him, jumped out and shouted to Zhang Heping:

"Zhang San, your lame father is going to die!"

"Huh?" Zhang Heping was stunned for a moment. He had no time to talk to the naughty kid and ran back home quickly.

No one is home!

There is no fire in the briquette stove outside the door!

Just when Zhang Heping was wondering what had happened and didn't know where to go, the second aunt next door happened to come out to wash vegetables and said casually:

"Heping, something happened to your dad. Your grandma and the others have gone to the hospital. Why don't you get there quickly!"

Something happened!

However, because the previous owner was slapped to death by his father, Zhang Heping's main consciousness has not yet recognized his father in this body, so he is not panicking at this moment.

Zhang Heping went home and looked at the thermos, poured out the last bit of hot water, mixed it with salt and drank it.

Then, he discovered that there was a bulge in the corner of the bed where food was usually stored at home. After removing the bedroll and wooden board, he found a small package of stick noodles underneath, weighing about three or four kilograms.

Seeing that there was food, Zhang Heping guessed that grandma and the others had not eaten either, so he started thinking about cooking.

"Second aunt, can you change the briquettes? My house is out of flames, and I have to send food to the hospital later."

Zhang Heping used the tongs to pick up a new briquette, exchanged it with Liu Haizhong's family for a half-burned briquette, and put it on the stove, and then started to boil water.

After the water boiled, Zhang Heping filled the thermos bottle first and took it to the hospital later.

Finally, Zhang Heping looked at the stick noodles on the bed. Because he didn't know how big the food shortage was at home, he didn't dare to make more. He used a small iron spoon to scoop a few spoonfuls into the aluminum lunch box, then poured it into the remaining boiling water in the pot and boiled it. The corn became mushy.

Cooking: Beginner (3%).

After Zhang Heping hid the corn noodles on the bed and added some salt and soy sauce to the batter in the pot, a nondescript brown corn batter came out of the pot. Unfortunately, it was only half a lunch box.

Zhang Heping added some boiling water to the pot and the soup was ready. There was no need to wash the pot.

Looking at the water in the yellow enamel basin, Zhang Heping felt very emotional.

Although he was born in the 80s and grew up in a small town in his previous life, as the eldest grandson in his family, he had never suffered such hardship.

But in the adult world, this little hardship is nothing!

"Everything will be fine!" Zhang Heping encouraged himself.

Ignoring the prying eyes of the neighbors in the courtyard, he wrapped the lunch box with two red and white floral pillowcloths and placed it in a wash basin with a 囍 character. He also pulled off a white wash handkerchief hanging outside the door and covered it in the basin. .

Then, Zhang Heping drank the pot water in small sips, which was a bit hot.

……

When Zhang Heping arrived at the hospital and asked about Ward 308, where Zhang Bing, Zhang Bing's father, was staying, he saw his grandmother, mother, and two sisters all looking sad.

"Grandma, have you eaten?" Zhang Heping brought the hot water bottle and washbasin into the room and asked casually.

"Zhang Xiaosan, where did you go this morning?"

Mother Ma Xiuzhen, who was wearing a blue cotton-padded jacket, stood up and put her hands on her hips. Her originally pretty face suddenly became covered with frost, and her eyebrows stood upright.

However, as soon as Ma Xiuzhen's nameless anger arose, she was startled by Zhang Heping's bloodless lips. She quickly stepped forward and touched her son's forehead. Fortunately, he didn't have a fever!

"Mom, I went to Houhai to learn fishing from someone this morning. When I came home just now, I heard from the second aunt that you were in the hospital, so I boiled a kettle of water and brought it over."

Zhang Heping was completely unaware of the abnormality on his face. After his mother, Ma Xiuzhen, took away the hot water bottle, he put down the washbasin, took out the lunch box, and handed it to his grandmother who was sitting by the bed.

"Grandma, I cooked a little paste, you guys eat it while it's hot."

The grandma, who was wearing a gray cotton coat and dark blue cotton trousers, looked at the paste in the lunch box, took Zhang Heping's cold little hand, and said happily: "Our three children have grown up, and they can cook!"

The lunch box stayed in grandma's hand for a while, then handed it to Zhang Heping, telling him to eat first.

Zhang Heping hurriedly shook his head, "I've eaten! After I scooped the paste into the lunch box, I ate all the remaining paste in the pot."

Ma Xiuzhen on the side was worried about her son making random stick noodles at home, but something happened to the mainstay of the family, so she had no time to worry about it.

Although Zhang Heping said he had eaten it, his grandmother Xie Ermei still insisted that Zhang Heping eat a spoonful of the paste before sharing it with his daughter-in-law and granddaughter.

After the four girls finished eating the paste and drank the boiling water for cleaning their lunch boxes, Zhang Heping looked at his cheap father who was covered with gauze on the bed and asked:

"Mom, what's going on with my dad? What did the doctor say?"

Ma Xiuzhen wiped away tears while talking about the whole story.

Zhang Heping's father, Zhang Bing, discovered that thieves had entered the factory at 4 a.m. today. When he called for support from other guards, he was attacked by the thieves hiding in the dark, and the back of his head was broken with a blunt instrument.

At present, his father's head injury has been treated, but he has not woken up.

Zhang Heping felt that if his cheap father couldn't wake up, he could hang up and learn Chinese and Western medicine. As long as his medical skills improved, he should be able to revive his father Zhang Bing, so he wasn't too worried.

On the contrary, it was the problem of food and accommodation at home that made him think more.

"Mom, can dad's medical expenses for hospitalization be reimbursed? How is the salary during hospitalization calculated? Are there any rewards or anything in the factory?"

"for this I……"

Faced with Zhang Heping's many questions, Ma Xiuzhen hadn't thought of where to go, and no one from the steel rolling mill came to talk to her.

"Mom!" Zhang Heping stretched out his right hand from his sleeve, waved to his mother, Ma Xiuzhen, and then walked to his grandmother.

After Ma Xiuzhen came over, Zhang Heping glanced at the other three empty beds in the ward and the two sisters with melancholy faces, and then whispered: "I heard on the way to the hospital that workers in the factory were injured. After you become disabled, your family members can work in the factory!"

Zhang Heping stared at his mother, Ma Xiuzhen, and said, "Mom, if you can take over my father's position, enter the steel rolling mill, and settle in the city, my two sisters and I can follow you to transfer to the city's registered residence and have food supplies!"

"I'm going to take charge?" Mother Ma Xiuzhen said in surprise: "How can this be possible? If your father wakes up..."

"Even if my dad wakes up now, he still has to think about the life and death of all of us!"

"Mom! Think about it, if our family has four more people to provide food, will we still have to drink paste on New Year's Eve?"

"Here, let me think about it..." Ma Xiuzhen sat on the edge of the bed with a confused look on her face.

"Mom, the three uncles in the front yard always say: If you don't have enough food, you won't have enough clothes. If you don't calculate it, you will suffer poverty!"

Seeing that his mother was silent, Zhang Heping turned to look at the old lady.

"Grandma, what do you think?"

……

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