Chapter 3 Slabs and Bricks

Zhao Yang nodded politely to a few people in the living room, and slightly concealed the grain bag on his back, which was to go to the inner room.

But just after taking a step, he was stopped by a middle-aged man with a fierce face over there: "Hey, Zhao Yang, you stop me!"

A trace of helplessness flashed in his heart, and Zhao Yang slowly stopped.

Uncle Qian jumped over, grabbed the grain bag on his back, patted it, his eyes lit up, and he looked at Mother Zhao next to him and said, "Hehe...... Teacher Xun, you just said that you don't have any money, where did you get the food if you don't have money? You've been delaying this for half a month, so you have to give some explanation!"

"Uncle Qian, I'm ......" Zhao Yang's face turned pale, but before he finished speaking, the grain bag on his body was snatched away.

Uncle Qian opened the bag and looked at it, his eyes lit up, then he looked at Zhao Yang and waved his hand at a young man with a scarred face next to him.

The scarred face flashed with a fierce light in his eyes, stood up suddenly, grabbed Zhao Yang and pushed it against the wall.

"What to do, what to do!" Zhao Yang struggled, but where was Scarface's opponent.

Zhao Guang, the younger brother who had just entered the first year of high school next to him, wanted to come up to help, but was pushed away by Uncle Qian, his hand shook, and there was a cold dagger in his hand, and he looked at the two mothers and sons coldly and said, "Don't be embarrassed!"

"Bang!" and Zhao Yang, who was struggling with all his strength to resist, had already been smashed in the face by Scarface's punch, and when he heard the sound of his head "buzzing", his eyes went straight to Venus, and he sat down on the ground with his buttocks.

Mother Zhao next to her, with a sad face, pulled her eyes red, roared at her little son who wanted to pounce over, and said in a trembling voice: "Uncle Qian, give it to you, give it to you, don't hurt the child!"

The name of the Black Tiger Gang in Dongcheng is not fake, and even if they resist, it will only be in vain. Not to mention borrowing money from others......

Zhao Yang's face was a little numb, and he leaned against the wall and struggled weakly.

Seeing that Zhao Yang no longer resisted, Scarface snorted coldly, and reached out to take out the money left in the inner pocket of Zhao Yang's clothes.

Looking at the hundreds of yuan that were taken out of Zhao Yang's pocket, Zhao's mother turned her head bitterly.

"Uncle Qian!" Scarface handed over the money.

Uncle Qian took it proudly, counted it, and showed a satisfied smile on his face.

He shook the money in his hand, and said to Zhao's mother: "Teacher Xun, the so-called borrowing and repayment, it is not difficult to borrow again; Okay, these ten catties of grain and change can be regarded as interest! Five hundred is the principal, and Lao Tzu will give you one more month!"

"After a month, the remaining principal of 1,005 yuan is not a penny, if you can't pay it back, you will use this house to pay off the debt!"

With that, he smiled smugly and led the scar-faced young man away.

"Xiaoyang, Xiaoyang, are you okay!" Zhao Mu and Zhao Guang hurriedly rushed over and helped Zhao Yang, who was bleeding from the nose, up from the ground.

"Mom, it's okay!" Zhao Yang reached out and wiped a handful of nosebleeds, reached out to stand up against the wall, sat down next to him, and shook his head.

Seeing that Zhao Yang's nose was not bleeding anymore, Zhao Mu and Zhao Guang breathed a sigh of relief.

"Gollum!"

Hearing the sudden gurgling sound from the stomach of the younger brother next to him, Zhao Yang, who was pale, barely squeezed out a smile, took out the remaining two eggs from his pocket, and handed them over: "Xiaoguang, take it and cook it with some wild vegetables, let's make an egg porridge!"

"Eggs!" Zhao Guang's eyes lit up, and he reached out to get it, but was snatched by Zhao's mother.

"Save it for tomorrow and go exchange for some food!" A wry smile appeared on Zhao's mother's old and tired face, and she looked at Zhao Guang helplessly: "Mom will make you some mixed vegetable porridge!"

"Okay!" Zhao Guang reluctantly glanced at the two eggs in his mother's hand, nodded sensibly, and said, "I'll go wash the vegetables first!"

Zhao Guang walked into the kitchen, skillfully picked out some wild vegetables from the frame on the ground, poured some water from the water tank, and began to wash the vegetables.

"Xiaoyang...... Why don't you take the risk!" Glancing at the younger son, and then at the somewhat pale face of the eldest son, a trace of pain flashed in Zhao's mother's eyes, and she said astringently.

"Mom, don't worry...... I'll be fine!"

Zhao Yang shook his head, squeezed out a smile, and said, "I'll think of a way tomorrow, if not, I'll borrow some money from my classmates to buy medicine for my father!"

Listening to her son's words, Zhao's mother was silent for a while, finally nodded, did not say anything more, and then walked into the kitchen, leaning over and scraping vigorously in the rice bucket next to her, and finally dug out a handful of corn ballast from it.

Seeing that Kankan only covered the corn ballast at the bottom of the bowl, Zhao's mother silently poured it into the pot and boiled it, and then picked up the wild vegetables chopped by Zhao Guang and poured them into the pot, and after half an hour, the mixed vegetable porridge was cooked.

Although it was difficult to eat and his mouth was full of grassy taste, the thin Zhao Guang still pushed it into his mouth hard, and it seemed that he was eating very well.

It's just that the leader next door seems to be eating dinner, and the faint aroma of rice porridge faintly came, making the chopsticks in Zhao Guang's hand stop slightly, but immediately accelerated to pick up the porridge again.

Barely filling his stomach, the sky outside gradually darkened, Zhao Guang began to wash the dishes neatly, his mother took two eggs to the neighbor's house to exchange food, Zhao Yang took a basin of hot water into the room inside, and wiped the body of his paralyzed father.

"Xiaoyang...... It's Dad who is dragging you down!" The father, who has been bedridden all the year round, looked at his son with some bitterness.

"Dad, what do you say!" Zhao Yang carefully wiped his father's thin body with a hot towel, and said with a smile: "Our family is lucky to survive together in the cataclysm...... Don't worry, now the government has found a lot of special drugs outside, and many people who are paralyzed like you have already stood up again after using these drugs!"

"When my son finishes his studies and earns money at that time, I will buy you this medicine......"

When the wipe was almost done, Zhao Yang dropped the towel and massaged his father's legs vigorously: "Now these medicines have just come out, and they are still very expensive, and after a year or two, they will definitely be cheaper, and you will definitely be able to stand up again!"

It soon got dark, and the family went to bed early to save candles and finish their work.

Just thinking of the food and hundreds of yuan that were snatched, Zhao Yang, who was lying on the bed, couldn't help but clench his fists, Dad's medicine has been stopped for two days, if he can't buy medicine anymore, I'm afraid that he will ......

Turning his head to look out the window, looking at the inner city in the distance that was in the dark, the lights were extraordinarily bright, with a hint of hope and helplessness, I don't know when, Zhao Yang finally slowly fell asleep.

Soon after falling asleep, Zhao Yang began to dream in a daze, and in his dream he seemed to dream of a brick, a golden brick......

Without hesitation, he reached out and grabbed the brick.

But as soon as his hand touched the brick, Zhao Yang's mind was suddenly shocked, and the whole person seemed to appear in an unfamiliar scene at once, and an astonishing huge picture gradually unfolded in front of him

A huge figure with a red-haired body and a snake-tailed body harnessed two giant dragons and slammed into a towering peak.

"Boom!" There was a loud bang, the majestic giant peak collapsed, and the huge figure disappeared, only to see half of the mountain peak overwhelmingly collapse downward, and press towards Zhao Yang.

Looking at the mountain that shrouded half of the sky and pressed towards him, Zhao Yang screamed miserably, and suddenly woke up.

"Brother, are you alright?"

Zhao Guang's confused voice came from the lower bunk.

"Uh...... It's okay, it's okay, I had a nightmare!" Zhao Yang stretched out his hand to wipe his sweat and hurriedly responded.

"Oh......" Hearing Zhao Yang's words, Zhao Guang below soon lost his voice, and seemed to have fallen asleep again; Zhao Yang glanced at the sky outside that was only dark, turned over, and prepared to continue sleeping.

But this turn is to run into something that is hard and stubborn.

"What is it?" Zhao Yang reached out and touched it, and picked up the thing, it was quite heavy!

"Huh?" Then the glimmer outside, Zhao Yang glanced at it, his eyes instantly widened, didn't he dream of the gold brick in his dream just now?

Zhao Yang sat up suddenly, looked at the gold brick in his hand, was stunned for a long time, and hurriedly leaned to the window at the head of the bed, and took advantage of the faint morning light to look carefully.

This brick is good gold, but it doesn't look like it's made of metal, Zhao Yang knocked on this brick with his hand, and sure enough, it was the crisp sound of stone or brick.

Zhao Yang looked at it in his hand in surprise, this is what bricks look like, but shouldn't bricks be red or cyan?

Thinking about this, Zhao Yang watched as the golden brick in his hand instantly turned dark red, and it really turned into a red brick.

Looking at the changes in the bricks in his hand, Zhao Yang was startled, and as soon as his hand was released, the bricks fell under the bed.

Zhao Yang hurriedly stretched out his hand to scoop it up, fished out a blank space, and stretched out his head to look under the bed, but he didn't hear a sound.

With the morning light outside the window, Zhao Yang stretched out his head to look under the bed, but found nothing.

"Huh?"

Zhao Yang reluctantly climbed out of bed and searched the bottom of the bed and even the entire room, but he couldn't find any trace of the brick.

Even Zhao Yang was unwilling to turn over Zhao Guang's lower bunk.

"Brother, what are you doing?"

Zhao Guang stretched out his hand and rubbed his eyes, looked at Zhao Yang in a daze, and said.

"Uh, nothing!"

Confirming that Zhao Guang was not on the bed, Zhao Yang climbed into bed suspiciously, and turned over his bed again, but there was still nothing.

"Is it a dream?"

Lying back on the bed, Zhao Yang was puzzled, thinking about it, and fell asleep in a daze.

By the time he woke up again, it was already dawn outside.

Stretched out his hand and touched his head, thought about the brick, and touched the bed again, confirming that he might have a dream that he didn't wake up from at that time, which was to get out of bed and go to the bathroom to wash up at will.

When he came out, there was a faint smell in the kitchen.