Rebirth in the 90s: Pack up and prepare for demolition

After finishing breakfast and cleaning up the kitchen, Ye Ke went to the yard and sat across from her mother to sort apples together. These apples were now the main source of income for her family.

Not long after Ye Wenhui became an adult, she happened to come across a machinery factory recruiting workers. With only a junior high school education, she was lucky enough to pass the written test and became a glorious machinery factory worker.

While working at the factory, Ye Wenhui met Liu Mingjun through a friend. The second year after their marriage, they gave birth to Liu Ke's older sister, Liu Rou, and five years later, they gave birth to Liu Ke.

That’s right, Ye Ke and her sister originally had the surname Liu.

Whenever Ye Wenhui mentioned the Liu family, her eyes revealed contempt and disgust.

The eldest son of the Liu family is called Liu Mingde. Although his name sounds like "virtue", he is actually a moral person. He is idle every day, waiting for pie to fall from the sky. If it doesn't fall, he will steal other people's pie.

The youngest son is called Liu Mingli. His name sounds reasonable but he is unreasonable. He thinks he is superior to others because he graduated from high school, but he is also shrewd and calculating, and is afraid that he will miss out on any advantage.

Liu Mingjun is the second child who is not loved by his father and mother. He grew up in a wild way and became a good person who is untainted by the mud.

What Ye Wenhui hated most was Ye Ke's grandfather Liu Jianguo and grandmother Wang Xiu, who were notoriously feudal and ignorant in their Liujia Village.

When Ye Ke's parents got married, Wang Xiu was the most vehemently opposed, because she had her fortune told and found that Ye Wenhui was unlucky for her.

Haha, nonsense.

Liu Mingjun was very opinionated. He ignored Ye Wenhui and directly dragged her to get the marriage certificate. Then he handed over all his private money and never gave a penny to his family again.

When the old couple found out that they couldn't do anything to him, they became very anxious and finally had to compromise for the sake of living expenses.

After giving birth to Ye Rou, Ye Wenhui didn't plan to have any more children. At this time, Liu Jianguo and Wang Xiu suddenly began to pay attention to Liu Mingjun, the second child.

Under the pretext of doing things for his own good, she began to cause trouble. Sometimes she forced Ye Wenhui to agree to have a second child, and sometimes she wanted Liu Mingjun to divorce Ye Wenhui and remarry. In general, she said that Liu Mingjun's incense must not be cut off.

Will Liu Mingjun listen? He'll definitely rebel!

They had a big quarrel and the whole village came to watch the show. Then he packed up and took Ye Wenhui to her parents' home.

Liu Jianguo was furious and waved his sleeves, causing the two of them to leave without taking a penny of their property.

Liu Mingjun silently suffered this great loss at that time.

Half a month later, he sneaked back to Liu's house and broke the lock. He found the box where Wang Xiu hid her money, but he was very moral and only took back the money that the couple had given to Wang Xiu over the years.

Feeling that Ye Wenhui had been wronged over the years, he paid an extra amount of money as an apology.

Thinking of her hungry daughter at home, she took out more money for milk powder.

After returning to Yejia Village, the couple borrowed money from Ye Wenhui's mother Zhou Guifang and bought a residential plot in Yejia Village. They spent all the money they got back and barely built the house.

As soon as the house was built, Liu Mingjun returned to the factory to pay off his debts, working overtime every day and only coming home once every two weeks, leaving Ye Wenhui alone at home to take care of the baby.

When Ye Rou was three years old, Ye Wenhui finally found a temporary job in a food factory and left the child with her mother. After just one year, Ye Wenhui accidentally became pregnant with Ye Ke again.

There was no other way, they couldn't bear to abort the baby, so they had to give birth to the child. With another child in the family, the couple's life, which had just paid off their debts, began to become tight again.

Later, after the reform and opening up, the factory's economic performance deteriorated and it could not even pay wages. The couple simply took unpaid leave and went to the south to find work.

Although Ye Ke's childhood was poor, she was happy because she had a pair of kind and open-minded parents, a lively and lovely sister, and a grandmother who was never partial to her.

The year Ye Ke was in the first grade of junior high school, the sky turned from bright to dark.

That year, the factory where Liu Mingjun worked caught fire and exploded because someone littered cigarette butts.

Liu Mingjun, who was on duty at the time, and another employee died on the spot. The factories in the south were like steel behemoths, devouring the dreams and sweat of countless workers.

Ye Ke's father, a silent and simple man, was forever frozen in that bloody dusk.

When Ye Wenhui received the news, she was so shocked that she fainted.

After waking up, he forced himself to take care of the funeral with his elder brother Ye Wenguo. When he returned, he only brought Liu Mingjun's ashes and the factory's compensation.

The Liu family's arrival was sudden. They were not present when the news of Liu Mingjun's death came in, and they avoided Liu Mingjun's funeral.

It was not until half a month later that the Liu family heard from their fellow villagers that Liu Mingjun still had compensation.

The Liu family members immediately swarmed up like blood-sucking leeches, greedily demanding compensation from Ye Wenhui for Liu Mingjun.

Ye Ke remembered that the family was in chaos that year.

The Liu family resorted to every possible means, including throwing tantrums, making threats and intimidation, and even bringing all kinds of people to their home to cause trouble every day.

Although Ye Wenhui had her family to help her, in order to prevent her two children from being frightened and to completely break off ties with the Liu family, she gave most of her property to the Liu family, and then changed her surname to Ye with her two children, severing all ties with the Liu family.

But the Liu family’s greed and shamelessness go far beyond this.

Later, when Yejia Village was demolished, the Liu family shamelessly came to try to curry favor with them. When their efforts to curry favor failed, they turned against them and plotted against them...

"Mom, why did you want to grow apples in the first place?"

"Your uncle asked me to plant this. Everyone wants to borrow some of your father's compensation." Ye Wenhui was furious when she thought of this:

"Either one wants to build a house, or the other wants to start a business. Your uncle said it's better to spend it all openly, so he asked me to go with him to buy land and apple seedlings and plant apples. He has been planting apples for so many years, so I will definitely not lose money if I follow him."

"That's right, my uncle's planting skills are unmatched!" Ye Ke nodded in agreement. "Mom, have you and my uncle ever thought about expanding the scale of planting?"

Ye Ke felt itchy when he thought about the imminent demolition of Yejia Village. He couldn't help but suggest that his family buy more land. If they couldn't buy it, they could rent it out!

"Why haven't you thought about it? Don't we have any land here? But the small barren hill at the east end of the village can be contracted. Your uncle is still thinking about it."

"The east end of the village!" Ye Ke exclaimed. "Is that the mountain with all those wild walnut trees?"

"Yes, that one."

"Is that mountain not good, or is it too expensive? No one wants it?" Ye Ke asked doubtfully. It seemed that he had never heard of anyone contracting it in his previous life?

"The mountains are full of walnuts with more shells than flesh. No one wants them even when they fall to the ground," Ye Wenhui said with disdain. "Those trees take up space. If I contract them, I'll have to pull them out before planting apples. It's a hassle, and the price is still high."

"how much?"

"It's over 3 yuan a year. You have to pay for three years of rent first, and then you have to hire people to pull out the trees and plant them. Plus, there's the cost of buying seedlings, which is quite a lot."

The rent alone is nearly 3 yuan in three years, plus the subsequent expenses, at least 4 yuan must be invested in the early stage. No wonder no one contracted it in the previous life.

But! Only 6 yuan can buy countless zeros when the house is demolished later! So tempting! What a bargain!

No, for the sake of my future peaceful life! I must persuade my uncle to take it down!

Ye Ke was a man of action. He immediately put down the apple and ran out of the house.

"Mom, I'm going to see my uncle. I'll be back at noon!"

Ye Ke’s uncle Ye Wen’s house is next door to hers.

"Aunt, is my uncle at home?" As soon as Ye Ke entered the yard, he saw his aunt who was busy moving apples, and hurried over to help.

"Xiao Ke is here. Your uncle has gone to deliver something. He will be back in half an hour. What do you want to see him about?"

"A little bit. I'll wait here for him to come back."

"Then you sit by yourself." Aunt Wang Ling said this and then hesitated, with an expression on her face that made me want to ask something but didn't dare to.

"What's wrong, aunt?"

Ye Ke thought, "That's not right. Her aunt is a very generous and straightforward person. She can't hide anything. What could have made her so depressed?"

"I heard from the villagers...they all said you didn't do well in the exam..."