Chapter 3: If you are not awakened, you will get married early
After leaving the market, the four of them parted ways, and Ye Nai walked for more than a quarter of an hour back to the community.
There are 20 buildings in the community, each with 50 floors and 12 households. Her family lives in Room 12 on the 38th floor of Building 16.
When I got home, I started doing housework. I washed the vegetables, cut them, and put them in the pot.
Blanch the ribs and stew them first. Peel and cut the potatoes before adding them until the ribs are cooked.
Take some sprouts and stir-fry them, wash and cut the rest into shreds and mix with the mashed tofu to form a filling, and use dumpling wrappers to make buns.
An hour and a half later, she finished wrapping the buns quickly, cleaned up the kitchen, walked to the balcony with the kitchen garbage swept into the basin, opened the household fertilizer fermentation barrel on the left wall, and put the garbage out Pour it in.
This barrel has a good sealing effect and firmly locks in odors. Pour organic matter into the upper layer and ferment in the middle and lower layers. Every three months, pull out the locked drawer at the bottom to take a look at the humus formed by fermentation. If When finished, they are bagged and sold on the streets to earn some extra money. After the state recycles them, they will be used in farmland.
Next to the bucket is a three-layer flower pot rack, where onions, ginger, garlic, coriander, and perilla are commonly grown at home. The rest of the space is used to dry the family's clothes.
Her house only has two bedrooms, and the balcony is pitifully small. Although the population is large, there is not much kitchen waste every day. Since the last time she discovered that she had awakened her powers and accidentally decomposed the kitchen waste, she has never had a problem with it. After all, the garbage at home is a stable source of extra income, and she doesn't want any accidents to happen.
After all the housework on the counter was done, Ye Nai finally swept and mopped the floor and went out with a dustpan to take out the ashes. She couldn't even use petrochemical products like garbage bags.
There is a garbage channel at each end of the corridor. It is very convenient to throw things without going up and down the stairs.
When I was walking home after taking out the garbage, I met a neighbor who came to take out the garbage.
“Oh, isn’t this Xiaoye from Room 12.”
“Well, hello.” Ye Nai nodded politely.
"She's a big girl. She's tall and good-looking. She's in her third year of high school, right? Are you still studying?"
Ye Nai blinked and asked sincerely, "Whether I study or not has anything to do with you. What’s the relationship?”
The other party was speechless.
Ye Nai repeated with a smile, "What does it have to do with you?"
"Well, I just care about you, big girl. It's time to get married and have children."
"Oh, what does this have to do with you?"
Ye Nai tilted her head and looked at the other party firmly, with an expression that she really didn't understand and was waiting for an explanation.
The other party was just an ordinary person. He felt a lot of pressure under Ye Nai's gaze. He moved his mouth a few times but couldn't say a word. He was still wondering why this big girl from the 12th household had such powerful eyes.
“Uh, it’s okay.”
“Oh, you’re busy, I’m going home.”
Ye Nai shook the empty dustpan in her hand and walked away directly past the other party.
The neighbor held his chest and gasped, muttering, "Young people are angry", shook his head, and hurriedly took out the trash and went home.
After returning home and putting things back in their place, Ye Nai washed her hands and sat on the simple sofa in the living room to think about the future.
Her situation is a bit complicated.
The Awakening Stone did not determine her awakening. She was an awakened person but failed to get the printed awakening certificate. With this ability, she went to the awakened person center to receive the awakening badge and officially became an awakened person.
There is a probability of awakening. The country’s collective awakening of high school students is betting on the highest probability. In addition to this high probability, there are also people who awaken on their own early and late. It is said that people as young as ten years old and as old as dozens of years old Someone wakes up.
Ye Nai awakened on her own in advance. It was amazing. She even thought about how happy her family would be when she brought the awakening certificate home, but she never expected that the awakening stone would not respond to her. She racked her brains for a while and vaguely remembered that at the class meeting last week, the head teacher said when explaining the collective awakening that if something unexpected happened to the awakening, the local awakening center would be helpless. If you want impartiality and authority, you must go to an awakened person center in a big city outside of town for a paid comprehensive examination.
The class teacher doesn’t know exactly how to test it, but it’s very expensive anyway. Not only the testing fee, but also the round trip transportation, food and accommodation are also a big expense.
Recently, there has been a unified nationwide awakening test for senior high school students. Awakening stones are one of the most important props. Originally, there are only more than thirty pieces in the country, and they are usually placed in awakened centers in key cities. , at this time of year, those centers will suspend awakening-related tests, and it is useless to pay for the tests.
Ye Nai thought for a while and finally gave up on confessing the unexpected situation to her parents. It would not solve the problem if she told her parents, so why waste the time.
Just pretend she has not awakened yet.
She remembered the garbage removal team her class teacher had mentioned, and decided to sign up to make money first, lest her parents blurt out that she was eating for free at home.
After straightening out her thoughts, Ye Nai got up and went to the kitchen to steam a plate of steamed buns for lunch. After eating, she lay down on the sofa and took a nap.
While she was sleeping soundly, she was woken up by the sound of ping-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong opening the door. She sat up and saw her mother opening the door and coming in, panting.
"Mom? Just got off work?"
"Your dad is in trouble." Her mother, Yu Qing, stood on the insole mat at the door without entering the room. She waved to her daughter to come over and talk.
"Ah? What happened to him?" Ye Nai hurriedly put on her slippers and rushed to her mother.
"His work called me and said that your dad fell from a five-meter-high platform when he was repairing electric wires and broke both legs. Now he is sent to the hospital. I will rush to the hospital immediately. You go to the market to buy some bones. Come back and make some soup and rice for digestion, get two sets of clothes, and buy a bag of adult diapers to send to the hospital, you know?"
Her mother said as she took out her wallet and gave it to her. One hundred daughters.
"Oh, okay, mom, you go first, I'll go to the bathroom and then go out."
There is no landline at home, and Ye Nai doesn't have a mobile phone, so if her father is in an accident, her mother has to receive the news and ask for leave from work before running away. Go home and tell her.
Her mother took a breath and turned around and left quickly. After a few minutes, Ye Nai went out and went straight to the market and store.
After shopping, go home and make soup. While cooking the soup, find the thermos bucket at home and clean it. After the soup is ready, cook the noodles. Put the soup noodles separately into the thermos bucket.
Half a ring of ribs was placed in the noodle bowl, and a bag of steamed buns was also steamed. These were all for her mother. She also packed a bag of clothes for her father, and then she took a bunch of things and went out. Fortunately, the hospital is not far away, and the bus is 3 stops away.
On the orthopedic floor, she asked for her father's bed number and walked into the six-person ward. Her mother, Yu Qing, was sitting at the foot of her father's bed. Her father, Ye Yu, looked miserable, hanging up with two legs in plaster. His face looked okay.
"Dad, Mom."
"Here he comes."
Her mother, Yu Qing, took the things her daughter brought, opened the bedside table, and put them away one by one .
"Dad, does your leg hurt?"
"It doesn't hurt now. I took painkillers."
"How many days will dad stay in the hospital? How to arrange these days? How about we ask for leave and take shifts?"
"Stay for two days for observation. , I will be discharged when the condition is stable. I have asked for leave. I will stay with you in the hospital during the day and go home at night. You don’t have to take shifts, so you can take good care of the three children at home.”
“ Okay.”
(End of this chapter)