She couldn't even support herself without working, so she couldn't go to school and not eat, could she? She didn't dare show any of the money she earned secretly because she couldn't explain where it came from.
If she couldn't explain it clearly, she couldn't spend the money openly. For the sake of her belly, she had to go to work on time every day. It was like a vicious cycle where she could only take care of one thing, and of course she had to take care of her belly first.
Fortunately, she had a smart brain and only by relying on self-study and Grandpa Feng's explanations did she manage to graduate from elementary school.
She wanted to study. She wanted to do something in this life that she had not done in her previous life. She envied those students who could sit quietly in the classroom to go to school. She dreamed of becoming one of them.
This place was not far from where she lived, so she first found a state-owned restaurant to eat, and then went to the scrap yard and bookstore here to take a look, hoping to get some readable books back.
Chen Ye had a bowl of shredded pork noodles for lunch today. Although there was not much shredded pork, it was still meaty. She then started looking for scrap yards to find books she could read.
She also looked in all the bookstores here, but unfortunately, maybe because of the special era, the books available were very limited, and there were few books she wanted to read.
There are quite a few books in the scrap station, but she doesn't dare to take some of them out easily. If she is accidentally discovered, she will have to stay on the farm.
Good days are beckoning to her. She said that nothing would be sent to the farm, and the books she found in the scrap yard were all books that she could read within the permitted range.
After carefully selecting and picking, she got a large sack of books, which was impossible to carry back. Even if she had the strength of an ox, she couldn't treat herself like an animal.
She went straight to the post office and mailed a sack of books back, filling in her grandfather's name.
She used the rest of the time to walk around and take a look. Of course, she didn't dare to go too far, just take a look around the city. At least if she took a look around more, it wouldn't be a wasted trip to the city.
Three days later, she got the freshly published daily newspaper and saw the statement of severing ties in a small corner. Only then did Chen Ye breathe a sigh of relief.
Now, even if Chen Jiefang became a traitor after that, she would never be implicated.
She planned to wait for another day. If there was no news from the wife Chen Jiefang would marry by tomorrow, she would go back home. It seemed that she might not be able to see the excitement.
She always worried about the spring plowing in her hometown. Spring plowing and autumn harvest are good times to earn work points. Normally, no matter how much you work, the maximum work points you can earn is ten. But it is different in spring plowing and autumn harvest. The more you work, the more work points you can earn. Ten is not the maximum.
If you work hard enough, you may be able to earn twenty work points a day.
"Ye Zi, come downstairs and watch the fun." The lady at the front desk raised her voice and called Chen Ye, who had not left the house upstairs, to come and watch the fun. In just a few days, the two of them had become familiar with each other.
"I'm here, I'm here. What's all the hustle and bustle?" Chen Ye quickly ran downstairs and asked the receptionist.
The receptionist lowered her voice and said, "They said they're arresting someone and they'll be passing by our door soon. Look, there are people everywhere outside, waiting to see what kind of traitor this is."
"Traitors must be killed by everyone. These bastards! Our lives as ordinary people have just gotten better, why don't they all die out?" When the lady at the front desk said the last sentence, she was so excited that her face turned red, and she looked very angry.
Chen Ye... although she couldn't empathize with them, she understood people's psychology quite well.
Chen Ye stood outside the crowd, looking at Fang Yueying, whom Aunt Liu had taken her to see.
This man no longer had the arrogance and domineering attitude he had that day. He looked extremely disheveled, with messy hair and even his clothes, which did not have a single patch on them, were torn into pieces.
His eyes were filled with despair, the kind of despair of falling into the abyss. Perhaps this person never thought that this day would come?
She said that in this era, such an arrogant person would never have a good ending.
The crowd was very excited, and some people kept throwing stones at Fang Yueying, as if they saw some class enemy, but this idea was not wrong.
This era.
Not to mention this era, traitors are the most hateful existence in any era. However, Chen Ye doesn't quite believe that Fang Yueying is a traitor. This woman doesn't have the brains for it.
Thinking back to the day before yesterday, as soon as she walked out of the guesthouse, she saw Old Lady Liu sitting at the gate. The old lady smiled so hard that her eyes disappeared, and she waved mysteriously to let her come over.
Chen Ye looked around and saw that she was the only one here, so she must be the one being called. Without thinking much about it, she walked straight over to the old lady.
"Auntie, are you waiting for me here?"
The old lady nodded happily. "Yes, I've been waiting for two days. I thought I'd run into you near here that day, and I'm sure I'll find you here again."
"How's your thing going?" When asking this question, the old lady's eyes were like searchlights.
Chen Ye scratched the back of his head naively. "Okay, my dad doesn't like me anyway, so I'm suggesting we sever ties. Isn't that exactly what he wants?"
When the old lady heard this, she curled her lips and said, "Bah, Chen Shimei."
"So I didn't give you any money? How are you going to live and go to school without money?"
Don't be fooled by the boy's height. He is only twelve years old. It is not okay for a half-grown child not to go to school. Everyone has to be educated at some point in life.
Chen Ye shook his head: "No, it's okay. I've always been able to support myself. I'll be more diligent when I get back. I won't starve to death."
The old lady glanced at the door of the guesthouse behind her. The child still had money to stay in the guesthouse, so maybe he wouldn't be as sad as she imagined?
Chen Ye followed the old lady's gaze and knew what she was thinking: "When I came out, my little grandfather, my grandfather's younger brother, gave me some money to let me come over."
"I've been able to grow up over the years thanks to my little grandfather who cut off all ties with me. Otherwise, I might not have been able to grow up."
This is not false. If she had not learned martial arts from her grandfather, she would not have been able to go into the mountains to find food. She even earned a lot of money with her skills.
The old lady patted Chen Ye's hand to comfort him: "Come on, I'll take you to see your so-called stepmother and see how comfortable her life is. You are just too easily satisfied."
"Ah! No need for that!"
"My biological father doesn't want me to go look for my stepmother. Besides, we've severed all ties now, and that woman has nothing to do with me anymore." Why would he go look for that woman when his family ties are severed? Isn't that just looking for trouble?
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