Chapter 3: If you don't awaken, you will get married early
After leaving the vegetable market, the four people parted ways, and Ye Nai walked for more than a quarter of an hour to return to the community.

全小区20栋楼，每栋50层12户，她家住16栋38楼12室。

As soon as I get home, I start to do housework. First, I wash the vegetables, cut them, and put them in the pot.

After blanching the ribs, stew them first. Peel and cut the potatoes and add them after the ribs are cooked.

Take some of the sprouts for stir-frying, wash and cut the rest into shreds, blend them with mashed tofu into filling, and wrap them in dumpling skins.

An hour and a half later, she finished wrapping the dumplings skillfully, cleaned the kitchen, walked to the balcony with the kitchen waste swept into the basin, opened the household fertilizer fermentation barrel on the left wall, and poured the waste into it.

This barrel has a good sealing effect and can lock in odors. Organic matter is poured into the upper layer and fermented in the middle and lower layers. Every three months, the locked drawer at the bottom is pulled out to take a look at the humus soil formed by fermentation. If it is ready, it is bagged and sold on the street to earn some extra money. After being recycled by the state, it will be used in farmland.

Next to the barrel is a three-layer flower pot rack, where commonly used household vegetables such as onions, ginger, garlic, coriander, and perilla are planted. The rest of the space is used to dry clothes for the whole family.

Her house is just a two-bedroom apartment with a pitifully small balcony. Although there are many people, there is not much kitchen waste every day. Ever since she discovered that her special ability had awakened and she accidentally decomposed the kitchen waste, she has never touched the garbage at home again. After all, it is a stable source of extra income, and she doesn't want any accidents to happen.

After finishing all the housework on the table, Ye Nai finally swept and mopped the floor, then went out with a dustpan to empty the dustpan. She couldn't even afford to use petroleum-based products like garbage bags.

There is a garbage chute at each end of the corridor, which makes it very convenient to throw things away without having to go up and down the stairs.

When I was walking home after taking out the trash, I met a neighbor who was also taking out trash.

"Hey, isn't this Xiaoye from Room 12?"

"Well, hello." Ye Na nodded politely.

"You're a grown-up girl now. You're tall and good-looking. You're in your third year of high school, right? Are you still studying?"

Ye Na blinked and asked sincerely, "What does it have to do with you whether I study or not?"

The other party was speechless.

Yenne repeated with a smile, "What does it have to do with you?"

"Well, I just care about you. You're a grown-up girl now. It's time to get married and have kids."

"Oh, what does this have to do with you?"

Yenne tilted her head and stared at the other person intently, with an expression that showed that she really didn't understand and was waiting for an explanation.

The other party was just an ordinary person, and felt a lot of pressure under Ye Nai's gaze. She moved her mouth a few times but couldn't say a word. She was still wondering why the eyes of this big girl from the 12th household were so powerful.

"Uh, it's okay."

"Oh, you are busy, I am going home."

Ye Na shook the empty dustpan in her hand, walked past the other person and walked away.

The neighbor covered his chest and gasped, muttering, "Young people are just hot-tempered." He shook his head, quickly took out the trash and went home.

After returning home and putting things back where they belonged, Ye Na washed her hands and sat on the simple sofa in the living room to think about her future.

Her situation is a bit complicated.

The Awakening Stone did not determine that she was awakened. She was an awakener but could not get the printed awakening certificate. Only with this certificate could she go to the Awakener Center to receive the awakening badge and officially become an awakener.

Awakening is a probabilistic process. The country's collective awakening of senior high school students is a bet on the highest probability. Beyond this high probability, there are also people who awaken on their own, either early or late. It is said that there are people who awaken as young as ten years old or as old as several dozen years old.

Ye Nai awakened on her own ahead of time, but she had imagined everything, even how happy her family would be when she brought the awakening certificate home, but she didn't expect the awakening stone to have no reaction to her. She racked her brains for a long time, and vaguely remembered that at the class meeting last week, when the head teacher explained the collective awakening, he said that if there were any unexpected circumstances during the awakening, the local awakener center would be helpless, and in order to seek fairness and authority, it was necessary to go to the awakener center in another big city for a paid comprehensive test.

The class teacher doesn’t know how to do the test specifically, but it’s very expensive anyway. Not only the testing fee, but also the round-trip transportation, food and accommodation are a considerable expense.

It just so happens that recently there has been a nationwide unified awakening test for high school students. The awakening stone is one of the very important props. There are only about thirty of them in the country, and they are usually placed in the awakening centers in major cities. At this time of year every year, those centers will suspend awakening-related tests, and it is useless to pay for the test.

Ye Na thought about it and finally gave up on telling her parents the truth about the accident. Telling them wouldn't solve the problem, so there was no point in wasting time.

Now just pretend she hasn't awakened.

She remembered what her class teacher had said about the garbage collection team and decided to sign up to earn some money first so that her parents wouldn't have to accuse her of eating for free at home one day.

After sorting out her thoughts, Ye Nai got up and went to the kitchen to steam a plate of buns for lunch. After eating, she lay down on the sofa and took a nap.

She was sleeping soundly when she was awakened by the sound of the door opening. She sat up and saw her mother opening the door panting.

"Mom? Just off work?"

"Something happened to your father." Her mother Yu Qing stood on the shoe-changing mat at the door without entering the house. She waved to her daughter to come over and talk.

"Ah? What happened to him?" Ye Na hurriedly put on her slippers and rushed to her mother.

"His company called me and said your dad fell from a five-meter-high platform while repairing the wires and broke both legs. He's now in the hospital. I'll go there right away. Go to the market and buy some bones to make soup, cook some easy-to-digest soup and rice, get two sets of clothes to change, and buy a bag of adult diapers to take to the hospital, okay?"

As her mother spoke, she took out her wallet and gave her daughter a hundred dollars.

"Oh ok, mom, you go first, I'll go to the bathroom and then leave."

There was no landline at home and Ye Nai didn't have a mobile phone, so when her father got into an accident, her mother had to receive the news, ask for leave from work, and then run home to tell her.

Her mother took a deep breath and turned around and left quickly. A few minutes later, Ye Na went out and headed straight for the vegetable market and the store.

After shopping, I go home to make soup. While the soup is cooking, I find the thermos at home and wash it clean. After the soup is ready, I cook the noodles and put the soup and noodles separately into the thermos.

She put half a circle of pork ribs in the bowl of noodles and also steamed a bag of buns, which were all for her mother. She also packed a bag of clothes for her father and then went out with a bunch of things. Fortunately, the hospital was not far away, only three bus stops away.

She asked for her father's bed number on the orthopedic floor 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, with both legs in plaster casts, but he 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 long will Dad stay in the hospital? How should we arrange these days? Or should we take leave and take turns?"

"Stay in hospital for two days for observation. You will be discharged when your condition stabilizes. I have already applied for leave. I will stay with you in the hospital during the day and go home at night. You kids don't have to take turns. You just stay at home and take good care of the three kids."

"it is good."

(End of this chapter)