Under the pretext of upholding justice, not only the textile factory, but even the steel plant and metallurgical plant selected a dozen representatives, and a group of people rushed towards the residential building where the original family lived.

Along the way, Ye Jianguo was looking for excuses to slip away, or to let Wei Shufen slip away.

However, after seeing that the leader not only refused but also warned me, I had no choice but to give up.

Seeing that they had already reached the third floor and were about to enter the house, Ye Jianguo held on to the last glimmer of hope and said to his niece Liu Ruyue:

"Xiaoyue, your uncle is one of the few relatives you have in this world. Are you sure you want to treat him like this? Aren't you afraid that no one will support you in the future?"

On the way here, Liu Ruyue had already vividly described her miserable experience in Beishan Village, and said that it was Xu Zeqing who rescued Liu Ruyue from the lake when she was almost drowned.

In order to thank Xu Zeqing for saving her life, Liu Ruyue married him.

Ye Jianguo said this in order to use the status of her mother's family to suppress Liu Ruyue.

After hearing this, Liu Ruyue just found it funny and said to Ye Jianguo, "Uncle, waiting for you to back me up? I might as well wait for the grass on my grave to back me up."

Everyone heard the sarcasm in Liu Ruyue's words, but no one thought she was exaggerating.

I just heard about what happened to Liu Ruyue in Beishan Village, and how she married a country bumpkin with his mother. I felt so sad: the only daughter of a researcher and a teacher, who had a huge fortune, had fallen to the point where she couldn't even get enough to eat in the countryside, and was almost killed, and in the end she could only marry a country bumpkin.

Everyone felt indescribable pity for Liu Ruyue, so naturally they would side with her.

"Stop talking nonsense. You two have done all those disgusting things, and you still have the nerve to support them here? Xiaoyue is lucky that she didn't get killed by you two."

"Stop nagging me and open the door!"

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The people from other factories didn't give Ye Jianguo any face at all and pushed him to open the door ferociously.

Seeing everyone standing up for her, Liu Ruyue felt warm in her heart: What the book said was right, people of this era are indeed warm-hearted and have a stronger sense of justice.

After the door was opened, the crowd did not let Ye Jianguo and his wife and Liu Zhen in, and stopped them outside. A group of people went in and checked the things according to the inheritance list, keeping all the things that belonged to the original family and packing up and carrying out the things that Ye Jianguo's family had purchased.

"Tsk tsk, how shameless! A family of four has lived here for twelve years, and they only bought this little bit of stuff. The rest of the stuff is all other people's stuff, and you still have the nerve to say you take care of me?"

Looking at the three nylon pockets that were finally sorted out, the people who came to help were even more disdainful of Ye Jianguo.

"Is everything complete?"

The director of the textile factory felt that he had lost all face today. After giving Ye Jianguo a hateful look, he asked the people inside.

The people who went in to search were four from each of the textile factory, steel factory and metallurgical factory, ensuring that no one was partial and fairness and justice were guaranteed.

After the factory director's question, the director of women's affairs took the lead in searching. She held up a list and replied, "Most of them are here. A few must have been worn out or lost. We've recorded them all."

"If there is less, I will compensate you according to the price."

Hearing that most of the things were there, the factory manager breathed a sigh of relief and continued to ask, "How much did you find?"

Compared to things, money is the most important thing.

"A total of 2,572.35 yuan was found. The list says 2,065 yuan. After paying it back, there's still some left..."

The women's director replied happily, thinking to herself: Fortunately, there is enough money, otherwise it would be embarrassing if it was not enough to pay back.

However, the factory director's expression was not very good, and he said in a heavy tone: "And the compensation for Liu's parents..."

As soon as these words were spoken, the director of women's affairs' expression became serious: That's a huge sum of money.

As we were talking, the school and research institute that we had called before leaving sent people over.

Not only did people from the school and research institute come, but even people from the street office came. The crowd made the already crowded corridor even more crowded.

"Kid, you've suffered. I never thought there would be people on our street who would be so willing to take over other people's property. It's truly disgusting."

The people from the street office immediately criticized Ye Jianguo and took Liu Ruyue's hand to ask about her well-being. The school and the research institute also expressed their concern for the children of their employees. However, what was more important was to liaise with the textile factory about the redress and compensation that had been given to the Liu couple.

Liu Ruyue's father was a researcher with a high salary. After the rehabilitation, he received compensation of 705 yuan. Liu Ruyue's mother was a teacher with a lower salary. After the rehabilitation, she received compensation of 307 yuan. In total, Ye Jianguo embezzled 1,012 yuan.

"Isn't this enough?"

When the women's director heard that the compensation was more than a thousand yuan, her face turned green.

The factory director, however, was quick to react and said, "Our factory will cover the shortfall. This is because I, as a leader, failed to manage my employees well, and that's why this happened. As compensation, our factory will give Comrade Xiao Liu an additional 200 yuan."

The director of women's affairs, a lively person, immediately understood what the director meant and continued, "Director, this isn't your fault. Comrade Ye and I were sitting in the office next door, and I could tell he was that kind of person."

After speaking up for the factory director, the director of women's affairs took Liu Ruyue's hand and coaxed her, "Comrade Xiao Liu, don't worry. Our factory will definitely give you an explanation on this matter. We'll cover the money Comrade Ye Jianguo owes you and will gradually deduct it from their wages. To express our apology to you, our factory will give you an additional 200 yuan in the name of the labor union."

"How can this be so embarrassing?"

Two hundred yuan? In those days, the average worker's monthly salary was less than thirty yuan. It would take someone who didn't eat or drink for half a year to save two hundred yuan.

So, even though Liu Ruyue wanted it very much, she still pretended to refuse.

However, in order to restore its reputation, how could the textile factory allow Liu Ruyue to refuse?

In the end, Liu Ruyue had no choice but to be "forced" to accept the two hundred yuan from the textile factory.

With the start of the textile factory, the school research institute and the street office each gave Liu Ruyue one hundred yuan, a total of three hundred yuan.

Even the steel mills and metallurgical plants that came to watch the fun contributed fifty yuan each, for a total of one hundred yuan.

All in all, Liu Ruyue was able to get 3,077 yuan from Ye Jianguo, plus various compensations and compensation for things not found, a total of 3,695 yuan.

The heads of the factories were also worried that Liu Ruyue had no parental education and had stayed in the countryside for several years and was not sensible, so they took Liu Ruyue to the bank to open an account and a passbook. Only when they saw that the money was deposited did everyone smile with relief.