Rebirth started in 1987

Chapter 3 Second Uncle
The village of Ye Huai'an is called Yejiagou Village. It is small in size, with only about 300 households and more than [-] people.

In this era when migrant workers have not started to go south, this small village is quite lively, especially as the Spring Festival is approaching, every household is full of laughter, but unfortunately these have nothing to do with Ye Huai'an.

Ye Huai'an stood on the rocks down the mountain, looking at the village below the mountain surrounded by cooking smoke, and the light brown and yellow mud brick houses, he couldn't help feeling an inexplicable kindness.

Although I have only lived on this land for more than ten years, I have wanted to get out of this mountain countless times, but I have dreamed of going back to my youth and fantasizing that I can start all over again.

But now, all of this is so real, so real that Ye Huai'an feels like crying!

"Xiao Wu, why are you crying!"

Dazhi behind him tugged on Ye Huai'an's padded jacket, and finally brought Ye Huai'an back to reality again.

He glanced back at Dazhi whose nose was red from the cold, couldn't help grinning, and said with a smile.

"It's okay, it's cold, Dazhi, let's go, I'll take you to relatives!"

Dazhi smiled foolishly, with this smile, snot flowed out of his nose immediately, like a child who can't grow up.

Ye Huai'an shook his head helplessly, brought great wisdom down the mountain, and walked towards the direction he remembered.

Now that he has decided to separate the family, Ye Huai'an naturally began to think about his future life.

The first thing to solve is of course food, clothing, housing and transportation. Now that I am penniless and have a great wisdom with a low IQ, the next difficulties can be imagined.

But Ye Huai'an smiled at the corner of his mouth, without any confusion about the future.

He doesn't believe that he, a reborn person with 40 years of memory, will still be troubled by the so-called basic necessities of life. Even if there are thousands of mountains in the future, he must conquer them.

But Ye Huai'an is not a fairy, he can't directly generate money. Last night, he was in bed, thinking for a long time, and finally let him think of a way to make money.

If all goes well, it may be possible to solve the problem of my own tuition fees after the Chinese New Year.

It is naturally inconvenient for him to have a great wisdom by his side. The first thing he needs to do now is to settle the great wisdom first.

He just said that he would bring Dazhi to visit relatives, but he was thinking of taking Dazhi to the relatives' house to stay for a few days first.

If he sleeps in this kind of broken wooden house all day, he really can't bear it!
The relative he was going to was his second uncle Zhang Lijun's family.

Ye Huai'an has many relatives. If the relatives of Guang Ye's family get together, there are about ten tables. Ye Huai'an's mother has two uncles and three aunts. But among so many relatives, ten years later, there are still The second uncle was probably the only one walking around.

My second uncle, Zhang Lijun, used to be a capable man. He was the tractor driver of their production team in the 70s. In the early 80s, my second uncle borrowed more than a dozen relatives, pooled 800 yuan, and bought a walking tractor.

Relying on this tractor, the second uncle soon became a well-known tractor master in the local area. Whether it was the production team handing over the public grain, or someone's building a house and paving the road, they all called him to do it.

But people have misfortunes and fortunes, and the weather is unpredictable. In the early summer of [-], on a rainy day, my second uncle got into a car accident while pulling bricks and tiles.

At that time, the tractor came and turned 360 degrees down the mountain, and the second uncle's left leg was crushed into a fracture. Because of the delay in treatment, his left leg is still a little lame, and he has become a veritable lame man.

Today's second uncle is still driving a tractor, but the tractor that has been overhauled has no longer the glory of the past. The second aunt ran away with a long-distance stranger the year before last, leaving behind a nine-year-old son. Uncle is also immersed in alcohol and decadence all day long.

The future second uncle died in [-] from liver cancer caused by alcoholic liver disease.

The reason why Ye Huai'an thought of his second uncle was because in his memory, the only person who helped him after his mother's death was his second uncle.

Even later, the second uncle took the initiative to come to Yejiagou to find a relative, took Ye Huaian out to work, and finally gave him 130 yuan for travel expenses.

If life can be restarted, perhaps the second uncle needs a chance to be reborn more than himself!
But now that he has been reborn, maybe he can change the life of the second uncle.

Ye Huai'an collected his mood and walked all the way to the second uncle's house with great wisdom.

The second uncle's village is not far from Yejiagou, about five miles away, but even if it is five miles away, it may pass several mountains.

Walking on the field path, stepping on the muddy ground, the soles of the shoes are covered with a thick layer of mud, which can't be shaken off even if you shake it, making your steps feel extremely heavy.

Near Yejiagou, there are hundreds of meters of steep rocky mountains. Not only Yejiagou, but also around ten miles around, are all areas with stones as mountains. This kind of landform is unique in the local area.

Most of the hills and rocky mountains with a height of hundreds of meters are very steep. Because of this terrain, most of the nearby villages are built along the mountains. If there is a flat land under a certain mountain, it is a small village.

Because the local area is full of rocky mountains, there is very little arable land in the area, and the flat land below the mountain is all cultivated by the villagers for paddy fields, while the slightly flatter land on the mountain is used to grow some vegetables.

Although the mountain is full of stones, for thousands of years, plants and even various wild trees have grown in the crevices of the stone mountain.

During the steelmaking period, all the thatch and wild trees on the mountain were cut down. In the 70s and [-]s, the educated youth went to the countryside with great vigor.

Because of the lack of land in the local area, some educated youths began to plant some fruit trees in the slits on the mountain in order to survive. Finally, the local villagers followed suit and gradually formed a large scale.

Up to now, on the surrounding stone hills, fruit trees have long been a part of the local landscape. Almost every household has planted fruit trees, among which navel orange trees are the most common.

Even the Ye family has planted more than 30 navel orange trees.

The reason why navel oranges are planted is because of the special soil and climate in the area. The fruits of the navel oranges are particularly sweet and even have a faint fragrance. Over time, everyone has followed suit and planted this kind of fruit trees.

Ye Huai'an raised his head and looked at the surrounding stone mountains, there were still yellow and orange navel oranges on many navel orange trees that hadn't been picked.

It stands to reason that in this era of material shortage in the 80s, it is impossible for these navel oranges to bear fruit and not be picked until the Chinese New Year. There are actually reasons for this.

The antonym of rarity is more expensive is common. With the flood of navel orange trees, every local household can pick hundreds of catties every year, or even thousands of catties. Navel oranges are sweet, but after so many years of eating, they are also tired of eating.

And because the local area is full of rocky mountains, people were killed when picking navel oranges fell down the mountain in the early years. Over time, some fruit trees on the top of the mountain or halfway up the mountain did not bother to pick them.

In fact, having said so much, another main reason is that this kind of navel oranges cannot be sold locally.

In Ye Huai'an's memory, throughout the 80s, the local retail price of this kind of navel orange was three cents a catty, and even some vendors in township fairs bought it for one cent.

Because the place is more than 40 miles away from the county seat, and there are still mountain roads, even if the purchase price is a penny, everyone is too lazy to work.

Looking at the yellow-orange navel oranges on the top of the mountain, Ye Huai'an showed a smile on the corner of his mouth. The plan to get rich he was thinking about last night was the local special fruit.

In the 90s, local navel oranges could not be sold at a high price. Until the 21st century, around 02, a foreign businessman got a local navel orange. Tens of thousands of catties are sold to big cities.

Since 02, the local navel orange has become a hit and has completely become a star product. Buyers from all over the world have flocked to it. Due to limited production, the price has increased year by year.

By 08, the local purchase price had exceeded 30 yuan per catty, and the retail price even exceeded [-] yuan per catty, making it a well-known noble fruit in previous generations.

Some profiteers even branded local navel oranges as Japanese imported brands for sale, making this fruit a rarity for a while.

Later, a large number of improved navel orange varieties were planted in the local area. All the fields under the mountain were converted into navel orange orchards, and several nearby counties followed suit. Counterfeit goods were flooded, land was destroyed and varieties changed. In just three years, the once star navel orange The product fell into the altar, and it could not be sold for a minimum of one yuan per catty, because the taste of the year can no longer be found.

Just yesterday, when Ye Tiande mentioned thirty navel orange trees, Ye Huai'an remembered the smell in his memory.

Now that he is penniless, if he wants to solve the current difficulties, he must earn a sum of money, which should be enough to support himself and Dazhi's short-term expenses, and include his future tuition and living expenses.

It is now in the middle and late 80s. Although the era of migrant workers has not fully started, the domestic business atmosphere has become stronger year by year.

Businessmen in small businesses are also like crossing the river koi, one group after another, no matter whether they go to the market in the city or the countryside, various commodities are gradually enriched.

And Ye Huai'an's plan is to buy local navel oranges and sell them.

Of course, he is not planning to sell in the local county town, but to sell in the urban area more than 300 miles away. In this era, many local people have never left this mountain village in their life. imaginary world.

Being penniless, whether he can accomplish this depends on whether he can convince the second uncle next time!
(End of this chapter)