Chapter 5: Do Something for Yourself

When I get home, I do housework first, sweeping and mopping the floor. When the floor is dry, Ye Na lies on the floor and does sit-ups and push-ups.

These days everyone attaches unprecedented importance to physical exercise, if for no other reason than to be able to run faster than others when encountering danger, so that they can survive.

After practicing at home, I changed into shoes and took the jump rope to continue practicing in the corridor outside. After jumping 2,000 times, I still had the energy to go downstairs and run around the community wall twice, and hang on the horizontal bar for a while.

There was a little greenery in the community. In addition to some trees, there were also wild flowers and weeds growing randomly. Ye Nai sprinkled spores in these places while running.

She couldn't practice with the kitchen waste at home, and the same thing went for these plants. She had to find out as soon as possible whether her fungi had any other uses besides decomposing organic matter.

Awakening will promote great changes in body functions, including physical strength, endurance, vision, hearing, smell, taste, speed, etc. The manifestations in each person are different. In Yenna's body, it causes extraordinary mental power. Spores that are invisible to the naked eye, but she can easily control and direct each released spore to ensure that they land at the place she specifies.

The released spores sink into the soil and grow hyphae to form clumps of mycelium, which decompose and transform the organic matter in the soil over a long period of time, providing her with energy in a steady stream, keeping her energetic and fully physically fit.

After finishing the work, she returned home and her younger brothers and sisters who had been playing all day had also come back. Ye Na hurriedly prepared dinner and told them to stay at home. She packed the food and rushed to the hospital.

Her mother completed the task successfully. A second-hand wheelchair was placed next to her father's bed. The couple each held a mobile phone and watched short videos, laughing.

Ye Na called out to her parents, put down the thermos, and sat at the end of the bed to watch her parents eat.

During this time, other patients in the ward were having their meals one after another, and their family members who were accompanying them were coming in and out, making the ward quite lively.

Ye Na sat quietly at the end of the bed. Her powerful mental power enabled her to keenly sense that someone was staring at her from the side and behind, and that feeling made her very uncomfortable.

Ye Na immediately turned around and glared back.

She thought she was just giving a light warning glance, and had no idea that it contained a mental attack. The other person was just an ordinary person, and was so flustered and breathless that he almost couldn't breathe.

With lingering fear, the other party turned his face away, not daring to look again, but he was unwilling to give up. He secretly thought about asking the parents for information after the other party left to see if he could earn some matchmaker money. This kind of big and nimble girl is very popular in the blind date market. She can take care of all the housework when she is married. She is not afraid of being fierce. No matter how fierce a girl of this age is, it is fake and has no killing power. She will behave herself when she meets a really fierce man.

Yenne glared at him and turned back. Although she no longer caught the gaze, she still felt a chill on her back, as if some malicious intent was brewing.

The mental force was stimulated invisibly, swept around the ward, and accurately targeted the family member behind him.

Ye Na pursed her lips. She couldn't bear it, not at all. She was glaring at him but still refused to accept it and dared to think nonsense.

Her fingers moved secretly, releasing seven or eight spores, which fell on the other person under her command and merged into the body as soon as they touched the skin.

Yenna felt no guilt at all. The annoying guy came to her door just in time to try out the power of the fungus on a living person.

After releasing the spores, she waited obediently for her parents to finish their meal.

Sitting there bored, her mind was churning with thoughts, and she suddenly thought of the significance of the awakening badge. It was probably to protect ordinary people, to recognize people by the badge, and to prevent people from provoking the awakened ones, because she didn't know what kind of retaliation would result.

Ye Na prepared herself mentally with an expressionless face. She was an awakened person now, and she had parents and siblings at home. She could still empathize with ordinary people, but she could no longer use ordinary people's way of thinking to get along in society.

Simply put, it was what it was before, and it is what it is now.

More than half an hour later, Ye Nai returned home carrying the empty thermos bucket.

In the evening, after her younger siblings had finished bathing, she waited for the washing machine to start washing clothes. Her mother, Yu Qing, came back from the hospital and sent the three younger ones to bed. She called her eldest daughter to talk about going to the hospital together to pick up her father tomorrow. "Mom, tomorrow is Monday. I have to go to school."

"You didn't say a word about the results of yesterday's awakening test. Did you not awaken?"

"Yes."

"That's all right. Go to school tomorrow to fill out the forms and stop studying. Then meet us at the hospital to pick up your dad."

Her mother Yu Qing had a nonchalant look on her face. From the beginning, she had not held any hope for her eldest daughter's awakening. Neither she nor her husband's family had ever had an awakener, and she felt that the probability of an awakener in her family was too low.

"Okay." Ye Nai didn't argue. Her mother's arrangement was still acceptable. "Give me money to buy a cell phone, and I'll find a job."

"Your father has a broken bone, you should stay at home and take care of him first."

"What can I take care of? He can eat and drink by himself. Can I change his diaper? Wash his butt? How beautiful is my dad's thing? Do you want me to see it and touch it?"

"What are you talking about? Do you have any shame...?!" Her mother Yu Qing was so furious. Is this something a grown-up girl who had just reached adulthood could say?
"Isn't that what you just said? I stay at home to take care of dad. What do I take care of him for? Just take care of his food and drink, and not care about other things? Let him feel uncomfortable when he poops and pees? Then I can stay at home."

Ye Nai spread her hands with an honest look on her face, refusing to admit that she was the one who made her mother angry.

"But your dad has difficulty with his legs, and it won't work if no one is at home."

"Then what do you think we should do? He is injured and at home, so should his salary be reduced? I will not receive any minor subsidies starting in May, but my monthly expenses will not be reduced by a penny. If I don't look for a job, are you willing to support me?"

Yu Qing, who was furious just now, fell silent. The family spends money everywhere. Should they ignore the eldest daughter's labor force and let her work at home? This is really a good question.

My husband Ye Yu fell off a platform while working, which was considered an industrial injury. The medical expenses were all covered by the industrial injury insurance, so he didn't have to pay a penny. The unit's labor union gave him a nutritional allowance when they came to visit him, but the unit only paid him a basic salary of 800 yuan during his recovery period, and my eldest daughter has become an adult and no longer receives subsidies.

While income decreased, living expenses increased simultaneously. It was fine for the eldest daughter to find a job, but she was worried about leaving her injured husband alone at home.

"Let me think about it again."

"Then buy me a cell phone first." Ye Nai stretched out her hand for money.

"Why is it so urgent? Can't it wait until tomorrow?"

"You don't even have a thousand in cash?"

"Why does it cost a thousand? You're buying a student phone and adding a SIM card, why would it cost so much?!"

"I'm lucky I didn't ask for two thousand. I don't have any proper clothes except two sets of school uniforms. School uniforms are too thin now. Have you never noticed that you can see your underwear from my school uniform pants?"

Yenne patted her face.

"You think I have a face? I'm running naked every day, what face do I have?"

(End of this chapter)