The courtyard: the atmosphere of human life

Chapter 144 Love Without Confession

After Darong treated Zhong Yunxing's back injury, she found a pile of rags and old cloth scraps from the closet at home. There was no time to look for materials, so Darong could only temporarily sew a simple backrest for Zhong Yunxing.

The next morning, Darong cleaned Zhong Yunxing's wound again before he went out to work.

It was almost noon when Darong found Zhong Yunxing at the construction site with the medicine in hand.

"Why are you here?" When Zhong Yunxing was about to finish work and go to have lunch, he saw Da Rong waiting by the side.

"I'll change your dressing."

In fact, Darong had been standing on the roadside for a long time. She looked at Zhong Yunxing, who was soaked all over, and tried hard to hold back her tears.

In the midsummer season, when the temperature outside is 36 or 37 degrees, the temperature in the cab of the forklift is over 40 degrees. In such an environment, Zhong Yunxing would be stuck for five or six hours before he could come out to get some fresh air at noon.

"Don't come here again. The construction site is far away and I don't feel comfortable with you going back and forth by yourself."

Zhong Yunxing had his back to Darong, and the slight pain made him frown and cry out softly.

"The weather is too hot, and there's so much dust here. If we don't change the medicine, we'll definitely get infected." There was a certainty in Darong's tone.

After returning from the construction site, Darong did not go home, but went directly to Grandma Ruyi's house.

Darong is a very strong-willed person at heart. As the eldest daughter, she has always been responsible for the heavy housework at home since she was a child, but she has never asked her parents for anything.

Even when Zhong Yunxing had just been laid off, she still wanted to face it on her own. But today, after returning home, she directly asked Darong's mother for a refrigerator.

"Mom, I don't have the conditions right now. Even if I borrow, I can't pay it back in a short time. I don't know whether Daxing can settle the money this year or how much money it can settle, but I want to buy the refrigerator now."

Darong's mother knew her eldest daughter's temper very well, and she rarely saw Darong acting like this.

"Don't you have a refrigerator? Is it broken?" Darong's mother asked while taking money from the cabinet.

"It's not broken, the freezer is too small and not enough."

The refrigerator in Darong's house was the dowry that Darong's mother bought for her when she got married. It is an old-fashioned green small refrigerator with a freezer on the top and a refrigerator on the bottom. The space in the freezer is very limited and can hardly hold anything.

Nowadays, all new refrigerators have three drawers on the lower layer and a refrigerator on the upper layer. Not only do they look good, but the capacity of the freezer compartment has also been greatly increased.

"Take this money. When you got married, Mom couldn't find a color TV ticket, so she bought you a small black and white TV. Later, when your brothers got married, they didn't need tickets anymore, so just consider it as a compensation for you. You don't have to pay it back."

After Darong's mother handed the money to Darong, she whispered to herself.

Darong just looked at Darong's mother deeply, without saying anything else, she took the money and went to order a ready-made refrigerator.

When Zhong Yunxing got off work in the evening, Xiao Ruyi was playing badminton with a few children in the open space. Seeing that the children were having fun, he did not go to greet Ruyi and went home first.

"Hey? Where did this refrigerator come from?" Zhong Yunxing asked Darong with his eyes wide open, looking at the new refrigerator in the house.

"I bought it."

Darong lowered her head and continued to pack her schoolbag. She worked the night shift today and had not slept much the whole day. She was now preparing the things she would take to work.

"Where did you get the money to buy a refrigerator? Is the old one broken?" Zhong Yunxing continued to question Darong.

Darong didn't answer, but walked to the front of the refrigerator and opened the freezer drawer at the bottom. The two drawers inside were full of large-sized Coke bottles.

"These two bottles are mung bean soup. You can put them in the car to drink when you are thirsty. These three bottles are plain water. You can put them around your seat to cool down. If you don't have enough mung bean soup, you can open it and drink it. I froze the plain water..."

Before Darong could finish her words, Zhong Yunxing hugged her from behind. It seemed that all words were pale at that moment. Zhong Yunxing just held Darong in his arms and let her tears flow down his chest.

"Dad! My shoes are stuck to the roof, come and help me... Dad..."

Xiao Ruyi's cry broke the silent affection between the two. Zhong Yunxing held Darong's cheek to wipe her tears, then went to help his precious daughter rescue her shoes with a smile.

"Girl, can you tell me how your shoes got on the floor while you were playing badminton?"

Zhong Yunxing looked at the plastic sandals on the roof of his neighbor's house and asked Xiao Ruyi sincerely.

"That's how I got there..."

Xiao Ruyi was very honest. In order to explain to Zhong Yunxing how the shoes got on the roof, she raised her leg gracefully and the other shoe landed perfectly on the roof.

"Beautiful!" Zhong Yunxing gave Xiao Ruyi a thumbs up sincerely.

Zhong Yunxing borrowed a bamboo pole from his neighbor and finally managed to take down Xiao Ruyi's two shoes.

"Okay, girl, let's go home. It's getting dark, it's time to go home."

"Ok."

Little Ruyi looked at the darkening sky, then looked around the open space and saw that there were no other children there, so she reluctantly followed Zhong Yunxing back home.

The next morning, before Darong came back, Zhong Yunxing and Xiao Ruyi had already gone out. Zhong Yunxing took Ruyi to eat steamed buns in a breakfast shop not far away. He also reminded Ruyi to be careful and rode his bike to the construction site.

At that time, all children went to and from school by themselves. Darong had been deliberately training little Ruyi to find her way by herself since first grade. She and Zhong Yunxing both had to work and were unable to pick up and drop off Ruyi every day.

Ruyi is very obedient in this regard. She never wastes time playing on the way to and from school. Although her academic performance has always been good, she has never been liked by the teachers.

"Your precious daughter is only in the second grade of elementary school and her parents have been called in. I really don't know what to say!"

Darong cried and complained to Zhong Yunxing who had just come home.

Zhong Yunxing was also a little confused. As a boy, he had never had a parent-teacher call since he was a child. Ruyi had only been in school for a few days, but it had already reached the point where the parents needed to be called.

Little Ruyi didn't dare to argue now, and just stood quietly in the empty closet with her head down.

"Why do you want to invite parents?"

Zhong Yunxing calmed down, pulled out Ruyi who was standing in the empty space in the closet, and asked with a serious expression.

"Dad, can you please stop crying after I've said this?" Little Ruyi looked at Darong, who was crying out of anger, with a wronged look on her face.

Zhong Yunxing was also speechless and could only nod helplessly at his precious daughter.