Ye Yuanzhang saw the panic beneath Bai Qiu's solemn mask and quickly stepped forward to hold her hand, explaining, "Don't be afraid, it's Yun Qiao calling."
Hearing that it was Yun Qiao calling, Bai Qiu's tense nerves suddenly relaxed.
Her brows relaxed, a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and she said, "It's Yun Qiao. Is her school about to start?"
Ye Yuanzhang nodded: "Yes, it's almost done."
Bai Qiu asked, "Why is she calling at this time?"
"It's a good thing." Ye Yuanzhang told Bai Qiu everything Yun Qiao said on the phone.
Bai Qiu smiled with joy when he heard that he could be rehabilitated and return to the city early, but when he heard that Ye Lin wanted the three-story shop building facing the street on Huaihai Road, he couldn't help but frown.
The shop building on Huaihai Road used to be the core industry of the old lady's dowry. Later, it was transferred to Ye Yuanzhang's name as a wedding gift for her and Ye Yuanzhang.
Before liberation, this place was a silver shop. After liberation, gold and silver were no longer in circulation, so it was changed into a cloth shop. Later, public-private partnership was implemented, and the state redeemed the private property of businessmen at a fixed interest rate. The cloth shop was transformed from private to state-owned, and transformed into a state-owned clothing store.
The first floor sells ready-made clothes, the second floor sells cloth, the third floor is a tailor's workshop where he takes measurements and makes clothes, and the two floors in the backyard are used as warehouses and a duty room where security guards take turns to keep watch at night.
The reason why Bai Qiu knew so much was because this cloth shop was almost the culprit that caused them to be demoted.
The storm began in the autumn of 1966. Anyone who received fixed interest was regarded as an exploiter and their property was confiscated.
At that time, the whole city was in turmoil. Not only did relevant units provide information to the Red Guards, but even the banks published the names of fixed-rate depositors on big-character posters.
The old lady Liu Zhujun had foresight. She had sensed something was wrong long before the storm began and took the initiative to "donate" her property to the district. So after the storm began, although she experienced humiliation, she was fortunate enough to stay in the city in the end.
Ye Yuanzhang was not so lucky. He was an academic scholar, and his judgment of the situation was not as sharp as the old lady's. He was also stubborn and refused to listen to advice. By the time he repented, the storm had already hit him and he could not escape.
The shop building on Huaihai Road was registered under his name, and the fixed interest from the redemption of the cloth shop during the public-private partnership also fell on his head.
Because of his fixed interest of RMB 100 per month, he was caught by the radicals in the school. First, his house was searched and all his valuables were taken away. Then, because he sympathized with the elders who were sent to the cowshed in his unit, he was labeled a clique and sent to the Great Northern Wilderness.
Why did Ye Lin have to ask for this place when there were so many other places to ask for?
What's more, how did she know that this commercial building was the property of the Ye family?
After the case of the wrong baby was resolved, she only wrote two letters to the Northeast and made a few phone calls to ask for housing. After realizing that there was no profit to be made, she never contacted them again.
Relationships need to be managed.
No matter how close your blood relatives are, being so cold to them is no different from being strangers.
Why did she think that she could get the Ye family's house just by asking?
Bai Qiu was a little annoyed. "In Shanghai these days, not even one room per person is available, and yet she's asking for a three-story shop building facing the street, with nine rooms on each floor, and a small building in the back with four rooms on each floor. Thirteen rooms in total. Isn't that a bit too much?"
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