I Have a Lake as I Walk Through the Courtyard

The steel mill canteen was in complete chaos, and so was the hospital ward entrance! It wasn't until a loud cry rang out from the delivery room that the waiting crowd finally breathed a sigh of relief.

A doctor emerged from the operating room shortly after. "Who are Qin Huairu's family members?"

The group exchanged glances, and Yi Zhonghai stepped forward. "Nurse, is there anything you need to tell us?"

"The pregnant woman is malnourished and very weak. Both mother and daughter are safe, but she needs to stay in the hospital for observation! Family members, please come in with me!"

Yi Zhonghai almost instinctively pulled Sha Zhu along, and the two followed the doctor into an office. As soon as the doctor sat down, he gave the two of them a thorough scolding.

"What's wrong with you family members? The pregnant woman's water broke on the way here! Do you know how dangerous that was? Couldn't you have brought her here sooner? Why did you have to wait until then! Do you know that it almost resulted in the death of both mother and child?!"

"Yes, the doctor is right!" Yi Zhonghai replied while giving Jia Zhangshi a thorough dressing-down.

Seeing that Yi Zhonghai's attitude was relatively good, the doctor's anger subsided by half. "Fortunately, this isn't the mother's first pregnancy, but she has experienced slight bleeding and needs to rest and recuperate for a while. She absolutely must maintain adequate nutrition during this time, otherwise she'll develop a host of health problems later, understand?"

"I understand, I understand!"

"Good, then go pay!"

Yi Zhonghai held up a receipt.

At this moment, Lin Feng was in the space. With the help of the space power, he quickly set up a furnace. Back in 58, the original owner of the body had participated in similar things during the Great Steelmaking Campaign. With detailed information on the blueprints and the materials readily available in the space, setting up a furnace was a piece of cake.

The newly made stove should have been air-dried in the shade, but this step was completely omitted in the space. With a thought, Lin Feng felt as if the moisture in the stove was being stripped away by an invisible force. When he felt it was almost dry, Lin Feng lit some wood and started a small fire to thoroughly dry the stove.

After the furnace was completed, Lin Feng began to prepare to smelt the gold. Following the steps in the book, he first put in charcoal. When the charcoal was burning red-hot, Lin Feng put the gold bricks into the dry pot inside the furnace!

With his mental energy flowing like water, Lin Feng observed the situation inside the furnace. He started the blower and began to slowly blow air. After shaking it once, Lin Feng frowned, gently slapped himself, and threw the blower aside.

A sudden gust of wind swept through the space and rushed towards the furnace. As the temperature inside the furnace rose, the flames gradually turned blue. Lin Feng nervously controlled everything, feeling the gold nugget slowly melting. At this moment, Lin Feng's mind was almost entirely focused on the bamboo.

With a loud crash, Lin Feng, sitting in front of the stove, nearly tripped and fell flat on his face. "What the hell..."

Fortunately, the stove was fine. At the critical moment, Lin Feng ignored the shouts outside the door. "After dinner, we'll have a hospital-wide meeting!" Yan Jiecheng outside the door seemed afraid that Lin Feng couldn't hear him, so he slammed the gong heavily with his hammer again.

Lin Feng took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the urge to go out and kill this guy. He concentrated his mental energy into the furnace. More than half an hour later, as all the gold melted into liquid gold, Lin Feng moved his mind, and all the impurities in the gold were naturally separated to one side!

Once the gold had settled in the dry pot, Lin Feng used his spatial ability to pick up the pot and began pouring the gold into the mold!

A gold brick was used to cast two large yellow croakers and three small yellow croakers. There was still a little bit left, which Lin Feng didn't waste. He turned it into a gold bean! Before the gold had even cooled down, there was a knock on the door.

"Damn, there's so much to do. Even the State Council doesn't have as many meetings as you guys!" Lin Feng helplessly put down his work, letting the gold water slowly cool inside the mold, and then left the space.

"Stop knocking, I'm coming!"

After changing his clothes, Lin Feng carried the stool and slowly walked to the central courtyard. Everyone in the central courtyard had already arrived. When Lin Feng came in, all the neighbors stared at him.

"Be more proactive in next meeting! Don't keep everyone waiting; it's very impolite!"

Lin Feng found a place to sit down, glanced at Yi Zhonghai without saying a word, and focused his mental energy on the gold in the space, which was slowly cooling down.

Seeing Lin Feng's expression, Yi Zhonghai clenched his fist. Xu Damao, sitting opposite him, was full of admiration, while Sha Zhuzhu, not far away, had a complicated expression.

"Lin Feng, this is a community; your attitude is very wrong!"

Lin Feng didn't want to deal with this guy, but he didn't expect him to keep going on and on. "So what attitude should I have? Apologize to you? Do you really think you're the boss? All you do is hold so many meetings all day long! Who gave you the right to call meetings whenever you want!"

Liu Haizhong tapped the table. "Lin Feng, mind the rules of the meeting!"

"Come on! Director Wang from the neighborhood committee said last time that the three of you are liaison officers, and now you, Yi Zhonghai, aren't even a liaison officer anymore! What right do you have to organize this meeting for me? Why should I come?"

"you..."

"What do you mean, 'you'! I didn't bother with you because we live in the same courtyard, but you really think you're something special. So what if I didn't come?"

Lin Feng's stubborn temper flared up, and after saying that, he picked up the stool and was about to go back to the yard.

"Lin Feng, stop right there! Qin Huairu was in such a dangerous situation giving birth today, why did Third Aunt ask you for help? You just ignored it! You're so cold-hearted, are you even human?!"

Lin Feng put down his stool and glared angrily at Yi Zhonghai. "Stop throwing accusations around! What would a pregnant woman need a bicycle for when that old lady asked to borrow it?"

Lin Feng looked at the neighbors as he spoke. "It's not that I don't want to help! Just think about it yourselves, with such a big belly, if I lend him my bicycle, would he dare to ride it? Who would dare to ride it?"

Yan Bugui coughed twice upon hearing this. "Lin Feng, what you said is true, but when Auntie San came to you, you just closed the door and left without lending her your bicycle. That attitude was indeed a bit unreasonable!"

"Then what should I do? A widow is about to give birth, what help can I, a grown man, do? Should I help her or not?" Lin Feng said, spreading his hands in the air with a helpless expression.

"Hahahaha!" Several old men in the courtyard raised their eyebrows and laughed knowingly.

"Look, there are a few middle-aged women in the yard! Wobo is just outside the gate not far away. You're asking me, a grown man, to go and help? Besides paying for it, what else can I do? You can't expect me to go and pay for it!"

"Isn't this just telling you to go pay the bill!" Xu Damao laughed when he heard this, while the three old men sitting at the table were red-faced from Lin Feng's retort.

Lin Feng, getting carried away, clearly wasn't going to let the three old men off the hook. "Look at you, calling a meeting over such a trivial matter! Don't you guys have anything better to do? You may have nothing better to do, but I certainly do! You're all so bored!"

Yi Zhonghai took a deep breath. "Qin Huairu almost died giving birth. Although what you said makes sense, this attitude is disheartening! Do you expect your neighbors to help you next time you're in trouble?"