The courtyard: the atmosphere of human life

Chapter 167: Ruyi's Dream Realm

Darong suffered a work-related injury. Although the fiber factory had begun to lay off employees, state-owned enterprises are the most rule-abiding and legally-compliant. Darong's work-related injury benefits have not been reduced at all. She can finally rest assured in the hospital to recuperate without having to worry about medical expenses.

"The factory will arrange a female comrade to come and take care of you every day. Your family members should go to work as needed. The factory has already paid for your medical expenses. You just need to rest and recover."

The deputy director of the factory came to the hospital to visit Darong today. He not only bought some gifts, but also asked her family to go to work as usual. The factory arranged for a caregiver to come to the hospital to take care of Darong.

In fact, Darong understood that the factory was worried that Darong would make further compensation demands for her family’s lost wages. After all, there have been precedents in the past.

After Darong exchanged a few polite words with the deputy factory director, the other party did not stay any longer.

"Don't listen to him. You have to take a break when you need to. This is what they should compensate for." After the deputy director left, Wu Meifeng, who came to visit Darong, said sarcastically.

Darong just smiled. After all, she had just been injured. The physical pain and mental exhaustion left her with no energy to deal with Wu Meifeng. Although Darong didn't say anything, she didn't agree with Wu Meifeng's statement in her heart and didn't want to listen to her.

Darong stayed in the hospital for half a month, and the company would send a female employee to take care of her every day.

Because Darong's leg injury was so serious, the doctor refused to allow Darong to get out of bed after putting on the plaster. This meant that Darong had to eat, drink, defecate and urinate in bed.

Eating and drinking was fine, but when it came to getting to know each other, Darong felt embarrassed.

Darong drank very little water throughout the morning. Even so, at noon, she couldn't help but want to urinate.

"Rongzi, although we have never worked in the same class, we are not strangers. Don't be embarrassed. I am here to take care of you and I am also paid."

Sister Guo, who was taking care of Darong, had already sensed Darong's restraint, so she took out the urinal from under the bed.

"Auntie, let me do it."

Ruyi, who had just finished school at noon, happened to walk in at this time. After seeing Darong's embarrassed expression, she took the urine pot from Darong's colleague.

Darong was really unable to hold it back. The moment she saw Ruyi, it was as if she had seen a savior. She really couldn't wait any longer.

In fact, Ruyi has been well taken care of by Darong since she was a child. She has never taken care of others since she was a child. When she took the urine pot from under Darong, she accidentally got it on her hands.

Darong actually saw it all, but she didn't say anything. She waited until Ruyi emptied the urine pot and cleaned up and came back, then she reached out and held Ruyi's little hand.

"Don't you dislike mom?"

After Darong asked this question, she didn't expect Ruyi to start crying.

A child who never cried when being beaten or scolded since childhood, suddenly burst into tears when asked by his mother.

"What's wrong, Ruyi?" Darong didn't think that Ruyi was crying because of her question. She leaned forward and looked at Ruyi and asked nervously.

"Mom, when you asked me if I disliked my child, I suddenly felt so sad. Why has no one ever asked a mother if she disliked her child, but there are always mothers who are afraid that their children will dislike them?"

"My Ruyi has grown up." Darong looked at Ruyi whose tears kept falling, and her eyes also became wet.

Ruyi, who had just entered the first grade of the new year that year, would go to the hospital on time every noon and evening to accompany Darong. Although there was not much she could do, she still stayed by Darong's side every day.

"Mom, look, our school newspaper's editorial department was reported by the Yutian Student Newspaper. Look, this is my photo."

After school that day, Ruyi almost ran into Darong's ward, holding a newspaper in her hand. On it was a report by Yutian Student Newspaper on the editor of their school's newspaper.

Darong sat up from the hospital bed excitedly, took the newspaper from Ruyi's hand, and read it carefully over and over again.

Ruyi was accepted by the school newspaper editorial department shortly after the start of the first grade of junior high school and became a junior editor of the campus newspaper. Apart from her schoolwork every day, she was busy writing articles for the school newspaper. Although her articles were not always published, she was always busy and happy.

Darong proudly showed the newspaper to all her relatives and friends who came to see her, pointing at Ruyi's photo on it and happily showing off Ruyi's little achievements.

At that time, Ruyi seemed to have found the code to unlock her mother's happiness.

"Zhong Ruotong, look at what you wrote. What do you want to express?"

The editor-in-chief of the school newspaper was the school's moral education director. After she put Ruyi's manuscript on the table, she looked at her and asked.

Ruyi looked at the article on her desk titled "A True Record of the Dream of Being a Pig That Dies of Old Age"

"Teacher, I just really appreciate this article. I think this is also my dream..."

"I've been teaching for so many years, and you're the first student to tell me that your dream is to be a pig. It's ok that your writing is usually average, but why did you jump to a different race this time?"

The director of moral education interrupted Ruyi rudely. Ruyi looked at her and suddenly smiled disdainfully.

Editor-in-chief Ruyi simply disdains to obey someone who has not even read the article and starts questioning based on just the title.

"Teacher, don't you usually read books?"

Ruyi's words obviously offended the director of moral education, and her expression changed instantly. But before she could react, Ruyi grabbed her article, turned around and walked out of the school newspaper editorial office.

There is no doubt that Zhong Ruyi, who had just appeared in the student newspaper, was expelled from the school newspaper.

"Ruyi, what are you going to tell your mother? Didn't you just report the student to her?"

Jindan seems to have always been Ruyi's follower. When Ruyi joined the editorial office of the school newspaper, Jindan also became a photography editor. After Ruyi was expelled, Jindan also started to become lazy and slack.

"Hey, just don't tell her. This semester is almost over. I can find an excuse next semester saying I don't want to do it anymore." Ruyi still looked nonchalant.

Darong really had no idea that Ruyi was expelled from the school newspaper. Little Ruyi had never cared about the so-called expulsion incident. Instead, she felt very disdainful of the shallowness and ignorance of the moral education director.

When Darong was discharged from the hospital, the plaster on her leg had not been completely removed, and she had to use crutches to walk around every day. But at that time, Darong no longer allowed the factory to send anyone to take care of her.

"Mom, don't cook. Teach me how to do it and I'll do it." Little Ruyi said with a frown as she looked at Darong, who was cooking with one hand leaning on a crutch and the other.