Translator: SJade, Editor: Dj22031
Advanced chapters available on Patreon. Also, a bonus chapter will be released, if you buy me a kofi.
On the way to the old party secretary, everyone Ye Ning met asked her about the land sale, either openly or covertly.
The second uncle: “Did you really sell the land?”
Grandma Liu: “Xiao Ning, is that true?”
Then Ye Ning had to answer one by one, “Yes, it was sold. Yes, it is true, it was sold. We have sold it to Uncle Cai.”
After finally arriving at the old party secretary’s house, Ye Ning regretted a little, she should have waited until dark before coming back.
“Xiao Ning is here, come in quickly.” When the old branch secretary’s daughter-in-law saw Ye Ning, she quickly greeted her to come in.
“I’m here to thank Grandpa Party Secretary.” After saying that, Ye Ning stuffed the sugar in her hand, “I know Grandpa Party Secretary is busy, so I won’t disturb him. I’ll go back first.”
“Hey! “A package of something was suddenly stuffed into Wang Xinghua’s arms. When she raised her head, she saw no one. She hurriedly chased her out, only to see Ye Ning running away quickly.
“Who is it?” The old lady heard the noise and came out of the house.
“Ye Qingshan’s daughter, who is in high school, said she came to thank father for helping her, so she gave me this bag and ran away.” Wang Xinghua opened it and saw a large bag of white sugar, weighing at least a pound, “Mom, look.”
The old branch secretary in the room also heard it and sighed, “Just keep it. If anything happens to their family next time, please help them if you can.” The old lady nodded after hearing this. She and the old lady of the Ye family didn’t want to deal with each other. Ye Qingshan and she never had to deal with each other. After all, they were still on the same side. She was willing to help Ye Qingshan’s children.
When she got home, Ye Ning didn’t plan to go out anymore. She took out the books she brought back to review. This job was very important to her at this stage. Even if she couldn’t get into the office, she could work as a worker in the workshop. The only thing she could do was work. What she said could get others to take it seriously.
In the afternoon, Ye Lan and her brother came home together. When they saw their elder sister reading, they both walked slowly, but Ye Ning still noticed her.
“You’re back, well… I don’t know how to make a fire, so…” Ye Ning looked at Ye Lan with some embarrassment.
“It’s okay, I’ll cook it. Sister, you can continue reading.” Ye Lan put down her schoolbag and walked towards the kitchen. When she entered, she saw that the elder sister had washed and cut the vegetables, washed the rice and put it in the pot, but she didn’t light the fire. She was stunned and shocked, her eldest sister had changed so much. She had never helped her out in the past, she didn’t expect that her father’s death would hit her so hard.
Everything else was good, except that the piece of meat had been cut and was a pound smaller. If you leave it alone and eat it slowly, you would definitely be able to eat it for a week.
At least it was her sister’s wish. Ye Lan sighed and said nothing. She got to the stove and started to light a fire to cook.
“There is meat.” Ye Gu’s eyes lit up when he saw the meat.
“Yes, do you want to eat?” Ye Ning asked with a smile.
“I think.” Ye Gu kept nodding.
One kilogram of meat was actually not much. The three of them were still growing. It was the time when they could eat. A few pieces per person were gone. In fact, Ye Ning only ate two pieces. One piece was given to her by Ye Lan and the other was given by Ye Gu.
It turned out that Ye Ning was afraid that they would get stomach aches if they ate too fast without eating meat for too long. It turned out that the two siblings ate very carefully and chewed slowly, for fear that they would not taste the food if they ate too fast.
“Eat it, I’ll buy it for you again when I come back next time.” Ye Ning saw Ye Lan’s waxy little face full of entanglement and said with a smile: “You can read well only if you have enough food, you don’t have to worry about anything else, especially Xiao Lan, you are about to take the high school entrance examination. It would be embarrassing if you fail to pass the high school entrance examination.”
“Sister, don’t worry, I will definitely pass the entrance examination.” Ye Lan said confidently after hearing this.
Ye Ning nodded. She still believed this. Ye Lan’s grades were indeed good and it would not be a problem to get into high school.
The house they lived in now was a newly built three-room tile-roofed house. The outer half in the middle was the main room, the outer half on the left was for farm tools and crops, the inner half was the room of Ye Qingshan and Li Fang, and the outer half on the right was the kitchen. There were three rooms separated from the main room and the kitchen, and each of the three children had their own.
Due to Old Man Ye’s partiality, Ye Qingshan could not get a house like this. He did argue for this house for a long time at that time. However, this house was not built by Old Man Ye, but by Ye Qingshan’s grandparents, Ye Ning’s great-grandfather. Her great-grandma and great-grandpa saved money all their lives to build it.
Hearing that Old Ye wanted the new house, the old man beat Old Ye with a cane. The old lady pointed at her daughter-in-law and scolded her by name for three days, saying that she and her son wanted to occupy Old Ye’s property, scolding old man Ye for not being a man, for raising someone else’s son as a treasure, and the shameful step-grandma didn’t go out for several days, and then found the old branch to write down the papers, leaving the new house to Ye Qingshan, the old house to Ye Qinghe, as for Ye Fangming, he was not from the old Ye family, so why should he get a house.
No matter how unconvinced Mrs. Ye was, there was nothing she could do. The house was built by grandpa, and he could give it to whoever he wanted, let alone his eldest grandson. People in the village would only say that he did the right thing, so she ignored him when he went out. The only way was to find a foundation to build a house for the eldest son.
Ye Ning looked at the house and later learned the news of Ye Qingshan’s death. They would definitely consider buying a house, but would they also sell the house? Not to mention that Ye Lan and Ye Gu would not agree, Ye Ning also felt bad. Ye Qingshan still had to be buried in the village. She would always come back every Qingming Festival. She wouldn’t even have a place to live by then, so she couldn’t really leave nothing behind.
“Sister, what are you thinking about?” Ye Lan called Ye Ning several times but there was no response.
“I’m thinking about the house.” Ye Ning’s room had been unoccupied for a long time. She came back for a day or two and squeezed in with Ye Lan. “When you and Xiao Gu go to the city, no one will live in the house at home. I’m worried. I’ll make up my mind at the old house.”
“Sister, you’re not going to sell it, are you?” Ye Lan was frightened by Ye Ning’s swiftness in selling the land.
“How come, I was thinking about changing the lock on the door.” When Ye Qingshan went out to work, he gave old man Ye a key. He might be able to hold it at first, but after a long time, his step-grandma would definitely persuade him to change the locks for safety.
Ye Lan breathed a sigh of relief. There was no problem at all. Even if the eldest sister didn’t tell her, she was ready to mention it. Not only did she have to change it, but she had to change it now.
Ye Ning still had to review and was easily distracted in the old house, so she took her things to the city the next day.
“Sister, you can study with peace of mind. I’m at home, so don’t worry.” Ye Lan said seriously.
Speaking of which, this body was only nineteen years old, but Ye Ning inside was twenty-nine. When looking at Ye Lan, she always felt that she was looking after a child and was afraid that she would be bullied. In fact, she and Ye Gu were the only ones at home before. She knew this, but worry was unavoidable.
Back in the city, Ye Ning fell into intense review. The classmates around her worked harder than Ye Ning. Many of them got up before five o’clock in the morning to memorize vocabulary words, and lit a kerosene lamp to do exam papers at night. Everyone’s nose was full… The same was true for Gu Hui and Ye Ning. After two times, she took a silk scarf and wrapped it around her. It was much better. Several other people in the dormitory also followed her example.
“If there is such a way, I shouldn’t have told you earlier.” Wu Jing curled her lips.
Was she still wrong about her feelings? Ye Ning sneered, “You have no brains and you blame others? If you have the ability, don’t do it.”
The original person wiped tears when she said it, but she didn’t know how to let her get used to it.
“You…” Wu Jing stood up angrily.
“What are you arguing about? Read a book.” Wang Yao glared at Wu Jing.
To put it bluntly, Wu Jing bullied the weak and feared the strong. Wang Yao didn’t dare to say anything when she opened her mouth, but she kept this account on Ye Ning’s head in her heart.
She could tell what she was thinking from the look in her eyes. Ye Ning rolled her eyes speechlessly. She didn’t dare to hate Wang Yao, so why should she hate her? Did she look like such a noob? Well, the original person was a noob, but it was best if she didn’t look for trouble. If she dared to look for trouble, she would definitely be remembered in her heart.
The college entrance examination time had been determined, a few days earlier than the pharmaceutical factory exam, just two days earlier. This time arrangement was really… reasonable.
The recruitment requirements for pharmaceutical companies were high school students, but this arrangement obviously rejected high school students who had failed, probably to reduce competitors.
“The time is a bit tight, are you okay?” Wang Yao told Ye Ning the time, feeling a little worried for her.
“It doesn’t matter. Over the years, I have been taking major and minor exams. Even if I don’t have an exam in a week, I still have two days to prepare.” But Ye Ning worked harder in the next period.
As the college entrance examination approached, the atmosphere in the school became more and more tense. Even the first and second grade students didn’t dare to make any noise for fear of disturbing the senior high school students who were reviewing. The teachers were becoming more and more gentle, as long as they did not disturb their classmates’ review, they did not care about you even if you lie down to sleep.
Of course, not many high school students in this era would sleep on their stomachs. Everyone worked hard and compared their efforts, because everyone knew that going to college meant changing their destiny.
The college entrance examination was over and everyone was busy working on the answers. Ye Ning held the book given by Wang Yao and ran aside to continue reading. She would face another exam that would change her life in two days.
On that day, the sun was shining brightly. Ye Ning brought her household registration book and letter of introduction to Everbright Pharmaceutical Factory. The guard repeatedly confirmed the letter of introduction before letting her in. Several people had already come inside. Seeing how familiar they were, she knew that they must have been there before. They all knew each other, they were probably the children of cadres.
Ye Ning found a corner and sat down, trying her best to let them ignore her, but she had already attracted a lot of people’s attention when she came in.
“That girl is so beautiful, where is she from?” asked a boy wearing glasses.
“I don’t know her. It’s impossible to forget her after seeing her once. She might be a relative of some leader’s family.” Another taller boy said.
One of the girls snorted and pouted, “You guys all have bad morals.”
“Hey, are we, is Xiao Xue, jealous? Don’t worry, in my heart, Xiao Xue is the most beautiful.” A handsome boy laughed.
After hearing his words, Xiao Xue didn’t say anything, but the smile in her eyes could not be hidden from anyone.
After a while, several more people came in. Ye Ning looked familiar so they took a few more glances. What a coincidence, they turned out to be three people in the opposite berth on the train. One of the men saw Ye Ning and he was so pleasantly surprised that he never expected that the girl he had always dreamed of would appear in the recruitment examination room of Everbright Pharmaceuticals.
Guys, ads are my only source of revenue, so please do not turn on the AdBlock when you are accessing this website…. Thank you, this would be a great help…
Please support me on Ko-fi if possible or become a patron on Patreon.
Discord Server Link: https://discord.gg/bUtjSUQpNq
I’ll be able to post more chapters if you support me
Previous • Table of Contents • Next