Chapter 1 Chapter 1 A Dream
What does it feel like to die?
Ye Yu is difficult to describe in words.
In 1966, the college entrance examination was suspended. Ye Yu, a high school student who had just turned 17, traveled through time and space to more than 300 years later and became an orphan of the same age.
More than three hundred years later, the Ye Kingdom was much more prosperous than it is today and was one of the world's top powers.
Even though Ye Yu is an orphan after traveling through time, he still enjoys nine years of compulsory education, basic welfare for minors, and donations from various charitable organizations or philanthropists in society.
The free room in the orphanage was a thousand times better than what Ye Yu had lived in before. It had a soft big bed, bright lights, a separate bathroom, and clean wooden floors. The rooms that the cadres in the compound lived in in the 1960s were not as beautiful and luxurious as these.
Apart from the initial sadness and fear of leaving her parents and relatives, Ye Yu was soon attracted by this colorful, prosperous and bustling metropolis. The food, drinks, entertainment and sights were all there, as if she had arrived in a fairyland. At that time, she made up her mind to study hard, get into college, and make a name for herself in the future.
After working diligently for a year and a half, I finally got admitted to a key university. Before I had the chance to experience the wonderful life of a future college student, the end of the world quietly arrived.
The end of the world is not the zombie crisis in movies and TV dramas, but a series of disasters such as high temperature, extreme cold, plague, earthquake, war, biological mutation, etc., which almost led to the extinction of mankind.
Fortunately, humans are also part of the food chain and are also subject to mutation. Those who survive the disaster have more or less mutated and awakened, and have the confidence to survive.
The mutated people not only have enhanced physical fitness, but may also develop a variety of superpowers due to genetic mutations. Ye Yu, whose vitality is like that of a weed, is one of the lucky ones. Not to mention other things, she has also gnawed on tree bark and grass roots when she was extremely hungry.
Relying on his special abilities, Ye Yu survived for about several decades in the apocalypse. The exact number of days was unclear due to several earthquakes and floods. He then stayed at the Hope Base for more than ten years.
Hope Base's timing starts from the time the base is built. The new year does not mean the end of the world. Frequent natural disasters and mutated creatures still threaten human survival at all times.
In the eighteenth year of the new era, Ye Yu and his teammates with special abilities took on a difficult mission outside the base. Unfortunately, they were surrounded and attacked by a group of high-level mutant eagles, and they died together to protect the team.
Maybe God suddenly discovered her time-travel bug, snapped his fingers, set things right, and sent her back from three hundred years later to three hundred years ago.
In short, it’s great that I don’t have to die. I’m extremely grateful for the chance to be reborn!
Ye Yu is not afraid of death, but does not want to die.
Death is easy, but no one who has been struggling to survive in the apocalypse really wants to die. She has persisted in such a difficult natural disaster and apocalypse, so of course she wants to live!
After extreme pain and long cold, the world changed from dark to bright.
Her eyes were suddenly filled with joy. Ye Yu hadn't experienced such emotional ups and downs for a long time.
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Too much time has passed, and the experiences in the future are so ups and downs and passionate. If Ye Yu's memory had not been enhanced after the mutation, he would have forgotten everything about this era.
Even if you haven't forgotten it, it takes some time to dig out the information from the corners of your memory.
Ye Yu blinked and tried hard to dig out more things from the corner of his memory.
The Ye family currently lives in a small courtyard with two entrances in a certain alley in the old city. There are not only the Ye family but several other families living in this courtyard, and their family only occupies three and a half rooms.
Ye's father and mother live in one room, the eldest sister is married, the second sister and the third sister Ye Yu live in one room, and the fourth and fifth brothers live in one room.
The remaining half of the room is used as the main room, and the kitchen is built separately in the backyard, which is an illegal construction. But in this era, as long as you give the street office a notice and no one in the yard disagrees, it will be fine. Almost every household that has the conditions does this.
As for the outhouses, there is one at each end of the alley. They are relatively clean because someone cleans them every day. The most annoying thing is to go to the toilet in the middle of the night in the cold winter.
At this moment, Ye Yu was in a small living room of about 20 square meters, and she was not the only one sitting in the room.
There are also father Ye Hongjun, mother Wang Laidie, second sister Ye Lan, fourth brother Ye Baoguo, and fifth brother Ye Weiguo. The names of the Ye sisters all come from the plants in the yard, while the names of the brothers come from their parents' expectations of them, which is very representative of the times.
From the above, we can see that Mr. and Mrs. Ye are a little biased towards boys, which is a common problem in this era.
Ye Yu was almost given the names Zhaodi or Laidi. In order to avoid having her name be the same as her mother Wang Laidi, she used the name of the elm tree in the yard.
Of course, favoring sons over daughters does not mean that Ye's father and mother do not love their daughters at all. It can be seen from the fact that they send all five children to school, and the eldest sister Ye Xing also married well.
However, when choosing between their son, the Ye family, and their daughter, Ye's father and mother would often choose the first or the second, and they would often give up the last one.
At this time, the Ye family is facing this difficult choice.
"Mom, I really don't want to go to the countryside. I don't want to go to the countryside." The second sister Ye Lan had a sad face. Her eyes were red and swollen. She didn't know how many days she had been crying.
In early 1966, the national college entrance examination was suspended. The authorities first suggested that high school students and other educated youth go to the countryside to engage in construction. Later, a policy was introduced stipulating that except for a few special circumstances, educated youth who were 18 years old or older needed to go to the countryside.
The written language of Sijiucheng is Yanjing, which is the capital of Ye State. Here, news is better than in other cities, and various rules and regulations are also implemented at the forefront. Some street offices have already held concentrated talks on new policies in their alleys.
Ye Lan is only one and a half years older than Ye Yu. She turned 18 last year and is 19 this year. She is now facing this dilemma.
Ye Lan didn't want to go to the countryside at all. The number of educated youth going to the countryside started in the 1950s, but was small. It gradually increased in the 1960s. Among her acquaintances in Beijing, there were educated youth who went to the countryside and wanted to return to Beijing but couldn't. She didn't have grand and bright ideals, she loved beauty and cleanliness. It would be great if she could stay in Yanjing!
But it’s not easy for Ye Lan to stay in Beijing.
Workers who have jobs can stay, but they must be regular workers, not temporary workers.
I haven't heard of any factory recruiting workers now. It is obvious that it is impossible to get a job through assessment at this point in time.
However, since workers nowadays have iron rice bowls, which means they can work for life and can also designate a successor to inherit, there are other paths.
One is to buy work.
If it was before the introduction of the policy of "going to the countryside with knowledge of the situation", even last year, they could have gritted their teeth and borrowed some money to buy a job like a garbage collector, which many people did not want to do. But after the policy was introduced, these jobs were actually out of demand, and because they involved large transactions and required great risks, this path was blocked for ordinary families.
Second, inheritance by blood.
Ye Hongjun and his wife are both working, so it would make sense for them to give their jobs to their children.
Wang Lai Di now works in a textile factory as a third-level operator, earning 20 yuan a month, and also receives other benefits during festivals; Ye Hongjun works in a machinery factory as a fourth-level technical electrician, and is also considered a bonus unit.
The couple can earn about fifty yuan a month together, which is why they can support a family of seven and send all five children to school.
This is also an important support for a family.
But if Ye Lan took over the job for her mother, she would have to start as an intern. After three months of being hired as a regular employee, her salary would only be 13 yuan, a reduction of nearly half. Wang Lai Di did not have enough years of service to officially retire and would not receive a pension. The financial resources of the entire family would definitely decline sharply.
What's more, the Ye family has more than one daughter. There is also a third daughter who will be eighteen years old next year. In addition, there are two sons. The eldest son will also be sent to the countryside in a year. They always want to keep a son by their side.
Because of these reasons, even though Wang Lai Di couldn't bear to hear Erya crying, she still kept her mouth shut.
Ye Hongjun sighed deeply and said, "Er Ya, you know the situation at home. I can't move away from work. If you don't want to go to the countryside, there is only one way."
After a pause, he continued, "Get married."
In this era, the marriage age for girls is 18 years old and for boys is 20 years old. In the countryside, it is even earlier to just hold a wedding banquet without getting a marriage certificate. It is not uncommon for girls to get married at the age of 18.
However, the current situation is chaotic, and there are not too many people who want to get married to avoid relatives and seek refuge. Working bachelors and single women are not in high demand, but the probability of getting a good marriage if you rush into marriage is very small, not to mention a decent bride price or something like that.
However, due to her parents' good genes, Ye's mother was also a beauty in the village when she was young. Otherwise, Ye's father would not have spent a high bride price to marry a rural girl. Ye Lan is naturally good-looking, with big eyes, fair skin, and shiny black hair. If she really wants to get married quickly, it is not impossible for her to lower her conditions.
However, Ye Lan has a like-minded childhood friend named Li Wei, who is the same age as her and lives in the next courtyard. His parents are also workers in the machinery factory. Because they live close to each other, both families know about it, which is almost tantamount to tacit consent.
Ye Lan wiped away her tears and said resolutely: "As long as there is a suitable one, I will marry!"
"Xiaowei's side..." Wang Lai Di quite liked the boy next door. She had watched him grow up since he was a child. The boy was energetic, sweet-mouthed, and a decent person.
"He has two older brothers and younger siblings. His eldest sister-in-law doesn't have a job, so she can't stay with him," Ye Lan said, tears streaming down her face. "He also said he wanted to go to the countryside, and he signed up yesterday."
Ye Lan didn't want to go to the countryside at all, even with Li Wei accompanying her. The two had quarreled about this several times, and the most intense quarrel was yesterday morning.
"Let's go to the countryside. If you don't have Brother Xiaowei to accompany you, I will join the army in the future and go to the most difficult and most needy places in the frontier of our motherland. It's more amazing than going to the countryside for you." The youngest, Ye Weiguo, who is only eleven years old now, is like a proud rooster. His expression is very annoying, and his words are also true.
"Shut up."
Wang Lai Di stopped him.
She was born in the countryside and knew the hardships of life there better. She actually stood on the side of the second daughter on whether to go to the countryside or not.
There was another silence.
At this time, Ye Yu was finally able to match people with people and things with things, so as not to mix up the facts. She raised her right hand to indicate that she had something to say.
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