“Little Uncle, you see, the clothes from Shen City and Xiangjiang are quite popular in Jing City now. What do you think of us brothers opening a small shop to sell that fashionable deep-sea shipping and Hong Kong import goods?”
Yan Dabao and Yan Erbao had a meaningful glance and asked their little uncle Jin Zhande.
They could make a fortune by doing*24doing*from 干 [gàn] that can mean as to do or to f*ck (vulgar) anything these days. They got trapped by Mala Tang12Mala Tanghot spicy soup (often sold in street stalls) shop before. In fact, at that time, they could be more flexible and went directly to Shen City to open a small workshop. Now, their family business might expand several times.
The only difficulty now was money. Yan Dabao and Yan Erbao were thinking about the stock certificate known as the “fortune certificate” issued by Haishi a few years later. The original set of shares of about 30 Yuan, speculated to be more than 10,000 sets in just a few months. It was a huge profit. If there was enough principal to buy hundreds or more of them, one immediately became a millionaire or even a multimillionaire.
The “fortune certificate” was issued in 1992. At this time, households with 10,000 Yuan were rare. After becoming a millionaire, they bought a house and land, then lied down to collect rent. They did not worry about food and drink all their life and did not have to do anything. It was not very satisfactory.
The brothers thought very well. The only regret was that there were still nearly five years before the “fortune certificate” was put on sale. During these five years, they still had to think about ways to make money. They could not let the third son steal the limelight.
“That’s a good idea.”
Jin Zhande felt that both nephews were so old, but their thought was still a little too naive. Looking at the two brothers’ excited appearance, he could not help pouring cold water on the other.
“It’s just that you want to go to Shen City to buy goods. Have you considered where to buy goods cheaply? The styles of those clothes are easy to sell. What if you can’t sell the goods and accumulate them? There are also large quantities of goods. If you are not careful, you may be caught and judged as a speculator, and there is no place to avenge yourself if you get caught. Have you thought about these?”
So many people thought that the current business was easy to do. It seemed that they could make a fortune by doing anything. They did not look at it. More people put all out, but they lost everything in exchange. Many people jumped off buildings and committed suicide by drinking pesticides. A business was not just a piece of paper in which they could succeed by thinking only.
Now everyone knew that things in Shen City were fine and cheap. For example, radios and electronic watches sold in Shen City had many styles and low prices. They usually changed hands four or five times before being resold in Haishi and Jing City. Many people took risks to go to Shen City to find those small factories that had sprung up like mushrooms and then sent them on the train.
If you were lucky, no one would stop you. You could indeed make a lot of money by relying on such a few bags of things. If you were unlucky, you happened to meet a train inspection. When you were found to have bought so many of the same type of goods, you would be sentenced to speculation, profiteering, and disrupting the market order. You would be fined and confiscated these illegal goods at the lightest, and a few years in prison for heavier ones. When you came out, the world had changed.
It was not that Jin Zhande disagreed with his unexpected nephews thinking of starting a business, but he did not agree with their brainless entrepreneurship.
He also saw the changes of the two nephews in recent years. In the previous life, they did not resign and start a business. He thought that some of the nephews and nieces-in-law had the same adventure.
Jin Zhande looked coldly. These two nephews might know what happened in their previous life and that their mother would be angry with their little brother in the future, but they did not make any attempt to change him from beginning to end. On the contrary, the first thing they did was pick up their children. Later, they found that raising children was too annoying and sent them back. They never thought about their mother from beginning to end.
Their conduct made Jin Zhande particularly disappointed. So in the days after, he was indifferent to them and never offered to help them.
“There’s no such trouble.”
Yan Dabao did not think so. His former co-workers occasionally came to his store to eat Mala Tang. His friends also became entrepreneurs. What they did was set up a stall. Although this job was very low-grade and easy to be ignored, when business was good, they could earn one or two hundred a night, which was much higher than their Mala Tang shop in a month.
He just went to Shen City to buy goods, left for four or five days a month, and got all the goods for the next month. Usually, he worked five or six hours a day and spent the rest of the time playing cards and sleeping all day long. It was much easier than their stay in their shabby shop all day.
Yan Dabao felt that his little uncle just heard the subtext that they wanted to borrow money and was just alarmist.
“What’s not bothersome? You can’t cause trouble to your little uncle.” Jin Zhanhua’s face pulled, looked at these ingrates, and stated unhappily.
The more the two sons lived, the more she felt cold as a mother. In addition, she could not understand it. They quietly resigned from their jobs, without telling her, and gave the factory jobs to their wife’s brother.
She did not care about Zhang Qiaoqiao and Liu Hui’s work. She did not care about their brothers, sons, and nephews, but what about Yan Dabao and Yan Erbao? When they resigned, their younger brother Jinbao23JinbaoYan Chu's nickname, refers to valuables in general; precious; darling; sweetie was not yet promising. Even if they wanted to quit their jobs, couldn’t they go home and ask their brother if he needed this job?
If the other party asked, it was not the same thing, and now they gave it to others without saying a word. The old lady thought about the gossip of the neighbors during that time, and she felt uncomfortable.
“Mom, you can’t say that.”
Yan Erbao blushed. He looked at his uncle flatteringly: “Little Uncle, my big brother and I don’t want to be too far away from our little brother. You know that we brothers don’t have such a high education. We haven’t studied since junior high school graduation. Now we can’t earn enough money to be filial to our mother. Poor Dadan21DadanBig Egg, Dani17DaniBig Girl, and other children still have to be raised by our mother. When we make money and buy a big house, we’ll hire a nanny to take our mother to attend to her needs so that she can spend her old age in peace.”
He knew what this little uncle cared about the most, so he naturally chose what to say.
“Hold on. It seems like I, this mother, won’t let you study.”
Jin Zhanhua glared: “At that time, you brothers thought the work in the factory was good and couldn’t wait to take over your father’s work after graduating from junior high school. If your little uncle hadn’t been kind enough to give his job to the second child, both of you could break your head for the job left by your father. Now you complain about your education, tell me, who should be blamed?”
Back then, many people broke their heads for their jobs at home. After all, parents had at most two jobs. At that time, it was common to have four or five children at home. How to divide the work became a demanding problem. Many people quarreled until they died of old age.
The Yan family was lucky. Yan Chu was young. It would take more than ten years for him to take over the job. The factory could not wait for him so long. Old man Yan left a job, and Jin Zhande left one out. Naturally, Yan Dabao and Yan Erbao did not have to fight.
At that time, a job was an immense wealth, which meant a stable income. Having a formal job also had advantages in the blind date market. Therefore, Jin Zhanhua felt that her behavior was not biased when she divided the work to the first two sons and left the house to her youngest son.
“Mom.”
Zhang Qiaoqiao stopped the old lady’s complaint and said softly to her little uncle with a smile.
“Dabao and his second brother dare to break through and fight is also a good thing. This time we merely want to find Little Uncle for advice and then say a cheeky word. We also want to borrow some money from Little Uncle.”
Liu Hui saw that her sister-in-law gave her a meaningful look, and she did not stand aside like just now, so she quickly spoke up.
“I’m ashamed, but Little Uncle, we’re all a family, don’t worry, we’ll pay the money back, but we’re tight right now, and if we want to acquire stock for the store, we don’t have enough money.”
Now, many people felt that business was easy to do, and the shop’s rent was rising. Before, the rent of their Mala Tang shop had increased to 180 a month in four years, and the official salary of a senior worker was not that much.
Knowing that the rent could skyrocket so much at once, they should have bought the shop ruthlessly at that time.
But now, it was not too late to realize this. Thinking about the prices of those front-end houses in Jing City in the future, the four people moved their hearts to buy shops. But thanks to the soaring prices in recent years, shops close to the street side with better locations sold for several ten thousand now, and the money of the two families might not add up to a fraction.
They were set to lend money from Jin Zhande and wanted to borrow more to buy a few shops and then resell it when the value increased, returning the capital to their little uncle Jin Zhande.
Du Meijuan’s smile deepened as she listened to Yan Dabao and Yan Erbao.
These people of the Yan family were vampires and leeches. All of them were excessively disgusting, but she knew that she could not say anything in front of her husband. On the contrary, she had to pretend to be wise and kind.
“Little Brother, you can’t lend this money.”
They all came out of her stomach, and the old lady could not see the thoughts of her two sons.
“It sounds nice, but what will you pay back when you lose money? Your Mala Tang shop, the storefront is not yours, how much can it be worth? Besides, even if you paid it back, when will it be paid back? Whether it will give interest or not, why don’t you explain this clearly, as if your little uncle’s money came from the wind?”
The old lady’s remarks stumped Yan Dabao and Yan Erbao for once. In their opinion, Little Uncle’s money came from the wind. His wealth in this life was much higher than in their previous life. It was the benefit of rebirth. So much money, what was wrong with giving them some?
“Dabao and Erbao are both my nephews, Big Sister. If I can help, I’m ready to help them.”
Jin Zhande stopped his elder sister’s words and looked at the two nephews and nieces-in-law on the side: “How much do you plan to borrow and how long?”
It was definitely impossible to give it for nothing. Jin Zhande had already realized how the youngest nephew in the last life would condone the bad and how it could help the oldest nephew and the second nephew get something for nothing.
Du Meijuan listened to her husband’s intention to let go. She squeezed her fist tightly and felt very uncomfortable.
“Two, no, one hundred thousand.”
Initially, the two families discussed borrowing 200,000 Yuan, and one family had 100,000 Yuan. At that time, their Mala Tang shop business would be ended. The two families would be thoroughly separated to make money. At that time, no one should complain that the other family made more money.
But the faces of the people present were not very good, especially Little Uncle. Although he was not angry, he was frightening. Therefore, when she reported the loan amount, Zhang Qiaoqiao unknowingly undertook half of it.
50,000 Yuan was enough for their initial investment. They had not saved 10,000 Yuan for opening their small shop these years.
“Bah, you think your little uncle runs a bank.”
The old lady was shocked by her shameless two sons and daughters-in-law. How many people could not even take out 10,000 Yuan? He opened his mouth to get 100,000 yuan, and even his father did not make you such a loser.
“We don’t have much working capital on hand now. Dabao Erbao, it’s good to want to do business, but if you want to be steady, you can’t eat fat in one bite. If your uncle doesn’t want to, your aunt will lend you 20,000 Yuan. You can try some of this business first. If it works, you can make money at that time. It’s the same to increase investment.”
In Du Meijuan’s opinion, if Yan Dabao and Yan Erbao, the idiots in the Yan family, could do business, they would not mix up like that in their previous life. Rebirth could not grow IQ. Fools would always be fools.
100,000 Yuan was not a small amount. Du Meijuan did not want her money to be wasted, and based on her understanding of her husband, he would still lend them money. It would be tricky to get it back at that time. She just opened her mouth before Jin Zhande, and her statement was very reasonable. Coupled with her consistent good performance, she would not arouse her husband’s doubt.
In truth, even if she did not speak, Jin Zhande did not honestly intend to lend 100,000 Yuan to these two nephews.
Whether the other party’s business without any plan worked or not, emotionally, the pivotal point connecting him and several nephews was his elder sister Jin Zhanhua. If these two children were not filial to his elder sister, don’t expect Jin Zhande to be good to them.
Which businessmen were not astute? He could not lose 100,000 Yuan in vain for two nephews who were not very close.
The most important thing was that Jin Zhanhua herself was against it. If she spoke for them, then Jin Zhande would lend it.
Yan Dabao and others were disappointed by Du Meijuan’s words, and they all looked at their uncle with hopeful eyes. Unfortunately, their little uncle silently ate and drank, seeming to acquiesce in their aunt’s idea.
20,000, compared to the 200,000 they expected before, but it had shrunk to one-tenth. The brothers thought about curry favor for a long time, but they only received such a report. They only keep harping on that the wealthier the man was, the more deductions they got.
But seeing their mother’s opposition, their uncle could only deduct this money. The brothers drank alcohol to drown their sorrows and had nothing to say.
“You can borrow money, but you must write down an IOU and the repayment date. If you don’t pay the money by then, what do you put as collateral?” Jin Zhanhua disagreed with her younger brother lending money to her two sons. They handled matters carelessly. The old lady was not at ease at all. She always felt that the money was borrowed but not repaid. Didn’t that make her younger brother lose 20,000 Yuan in vain? What did her younger brother’s wife think of them?
“Mom, what are you saying?”
Yan Dabao felt very upset. His current youngest brother he saw was completely different from the previous life, but the two brothers lived a lifetime longer and still achieved nothing. At this time, his mother gave him trouble. He did not believe it. Would she still act like this if it was his younger brother who asked to borrow money today?
This old woman was becoming more and more partial.
“The old house in the family was handed down by Dad and should have been divided between my second brother and me. At that time, both of us had jobs. We have no problem sharing it with the youngest brother, but now we have all resigned from the job in the machinery factory. The house should be re-divided.”
Yan Erbao looked at his elder brother’s face and said the second purpose of their visit today.
They inquired. Their father left this house, and at that time, his name was written on the title deeds. After their father died, the three brothers and their mother had the right to inherit. Any separation agreement would not work legally, and her mother had no right to divide the house.
In reality, the house had to be re-divided when it got to the court. They wanted to get to the court, but they would shed all pretense of cordiality with their mother. Having an acrimonious falling-out with their mother was equal to having one with their uncle, so they did not make trouble.
“Utter rubbish!”
The old lady stood up directly from her seat. Yan Chu saw that the old lady’s face flushed with anger. He quickly held her and helped her as she vented.
“I forced you to quit your job. What did you look like when you were asking for work? Now you quit your job and run back to ask for a house. Can you do this out of affection? Then, I don’t want you two sons anymore, even though I gave birth to you two. I’ll slap you to death. Will the state judge me to break the law?”
The old lady was panting. She was happy when she came today, but these two ingrates spoiled the mood.
Yan Dadan and Yan Dani had long been sensible. Compared with their parents, who did not get along well, and the memory of being kicked out after being taken home that time, the seven children stood at Grandma’s side and puzzledly looked at their parents with blame.
“Mom, how can this matter be mixed up?”
Yan Dabao had a headache, and his mother pestered endlessly. Didn’t she want him to show filial respect to her? As long as she could drive out the younger brother who killed her in their previous life, he would honor her equal to his ancestors. But who made her biased? He and his brother were bitterly disappointed.
The four felt they were still very reasonable, completely forgetting that the old lady had never treated them poorly. Moreover, if they had not been reborn in this life, they would take the initiative to make a clear relationship with the old lady, which would chill the old lady’s heart. She would never be wary of them borrowing money from their uncle.
A happy banquet broke up unhappily. Yan Dabao and others were chased out by the old lady. Before leaving, Jin Zhande let them go to his company to get money from him another day, but the atmosphere in the room could not return to the beginning after all.
Yan Chu coaxed the old lady for a long time before she regained her smile. After the meal, everyone was exhausted.
“Little Uncle.”
Yan Dabao and Yan Erbao looked around at their little uncle’s company, looked at more than ten or twenty employees sitting in the office, slapped their mouths, thinking about when they could own their own company.
It undoubtedly felt terrific to be called President Yan or Director Yan.
“Here is 20,000 Yuan.”
Jin Zhande took out the cash he asked his secretary to take from the bank today from the drawer and put it on the table. The two brothers wanted to take it as soon as their eyes lit up, but Jin Zhande took the money back.
“Little Uncle, don’t misunderstand us.”
Yan Dabao and Yan Erbao were in a hurry. No matter how little it was, it was still 20,000 Yuan. They thought it might be because their mother said something that made their little uncle misunderstand yesterday.
“It’s not that Erbao and I are not respectful. You, like us, know those things in our previous life. We brothers are angry. Angry that Mom still favors Yan Chu. Otherwise, Mom is our biological mother. How can we not be filial to her?”
Yan Dabao said with sincerity, they had thought about it before coming. Maybe they could talk to their little uncle and tell him they were the same people.
Jin Zhande was not stupid. Although he knew the antecedents of Yan Dabao and others, he had no intention of recognizing them.
“What previous life and this life? Dabao, Erbao, aren’t you drunk and haven’t woken up?”
Jin Zhande frowned and asked inexplicably.
His expression did not seem to be fake at all. Yan Dabao and Yan Erbao were stunned. Wasn’t their little uncle reborn? But how could this explain the other party’s previous actions and the expanded business scale in this life?
“No, Little Uncle, didn’t you propose to transfer to Yan Chu before?” Yan Dabao asked in surprise.
“That was years ago.” Jin Zhande mulled, “Your aunt seems to want to choose a new school for your two cousins and mentioned Jinbao, so I thought about changing Jinbao’s school too. What’s the matter? Isn’t it good to change the school?”
Aunt?
Could it be that they guessed wrong before? It was their aunt who was reborn, not their uncle.
“F***, what the hell is that woman doing? Is she truly guilty of killing Mom in the last life?”
Yan Dabao and Yan Erbao whispered, but they got heard by Jin Zhande’s sharp ears.
“What woman killed your mother? Make it clear, or you won’t want any of this money.”
Jin Zhande’s heart tightened, nowhere relaxed just a moment ago.
“No, no one killed our mother. Isn’t Mom alive and well?” The uncle in front of them was not reborn. Yan Dabao and Yan Erbao pretended to be stupid and did not say anything.
Jin Zhande glanced coldly and put the stacks of money back in the drawer.
“No, no, no.”
Yan Dabao and Yan Erbao were still waiting for the money to get rich. Seeing that their little uncle did what he said, they panicked immediately and immediately told what they knew clearly.
Of course, they did not directly say that they were reborn, only said they had a dream last night that their youngest brother lost all his fortune in gambling, which made their mother mad.
“You said your mother called me to borrow money in that dream?”
Jin Zhande’s face was ashen, and he refused to believe this fact.
“It’s time to fight. At that time, we mentioned it with our mother. After all, we were short of money. When we left in the evening, my mother had relaxed her heart. But the next day, her manner changed immediately, saying that we didn’t need to contact you again. We pondered, a fight might happen, but you refused it.”
Yan Dabao and Yan Erbao did not say that Du Meijuan might have refused. That woman might have been reborn. In their previous life, she hated their Yan family so much. If she knew that their bucket had leaked, she wouldn’t hate them to death.
It was better to make Little Uncle feel guilty. Maybe, it would be better to borrow money.
“Later, the third brother’s wife was scared to death, and Mom was so angry that she couldn’t take it anymore. The two of us searched through Mom’s things and found your phone number, and only then did we contact you. But at that time, Mom was no longer available. Not long after you came, Mom died.”
They finished what they knew and looked at the drawer where the money was, thinking that Little Uncle could always give them the money this time.
“It’s just a dream. You two are not young. Don’t be flustered and take it seriously when you have a nightmare. Jinbao is a promising child. How can such a thing happen in the future?”
Jin Zhande’s throat was dry and tight. He dared to swear that he never received a call from his elder sister to borrow money in his previous life.
There were two possibilities. One was that his elder sister still did not call in the end, and the other was that the phone got through, but it was not him who answered the phone…
Jin Zhande was very reluctant to believe it, but the more likely it was the latter one.
It was all to the point where there was nowhere to go. No matter how firm Big Sister’s self-esteem was, she would definitely make this phone call if she felt sorry for him and involved Jinbao and her pregnant daughter-in-law.
Jin Zhande thought of his wife’s gentle smile, the woman who had comforted and encouraged him after his elder sister’s death and was as hurt as he was, and felt a chill in his heart.
When Yan Dabao and Yan Erbao got the money, they did not care whether their little uncle believed in their dreams or not. It was just right. At least, it was sure that their little uncle was not reborn. It was a good thing for them to have one less competitor.
When they got the money, it seemed that they were afraid of Jin Zhande asking them to write an IOU. The two brothers left in a hurry without stopping.
“President Jin, today…”
Not long after the brothers left, the secretary knocked on the door and came in, saying today’s business arrangements.
“It’s all delayed. I’m not feeling well. I’ll go home and have a rest for a day. If there’s anything urgent, call my landline.” Jin Zhande took the coat on the back of the chair, picked up his briefcase, and left directly. Now he had only one thought, to go home.
“Zhande, why did you come back so early? Is there nothing wrong in the company today?”
Du Meijuan heard the sound at the door and came out with a soup ladle. Looking at her dress, she looked like she was cooking in the kitchen just now.
“I made the old duck soup for you, and I was thinking of sending it to the company just now. Have a taste and see if it suits your liking.”
She had a gentle face. What Jin Zhande liked most was her appearance, but now he suddenly found himself afraid, afraid that there were other unknown sides under the skin of this beauty.
“I’m a little tired. I want to go back to my room and have a good rest.”
Jin Zhande rushed home from the company with that strength, but when he saw his current wife, he had no reason to question her at all. Even if what Dabao and Erbao said was true, it was also the fault of his future wife. What did he ask his current wife? What was the difference between this practice and his previous treatment of Jinbao?
Du Meijuan believed it. Looking at her pale husband with a sweaty forehead, she came forward to check his forehead with the back of her hand to see if he had a fever, but Jin Zhande subconsciously avoided it.
Du Meijuan was stunned, and her hands froze in mid-air.
Could it be that something happened in the company? Her husband’s expression was quite odd.
Jin Zhande bypassed Du Meijuan and went straight to his room without explanation. Now what he needed to do most was to be quiet.
“Your forehead is sweating. I’ll wipe your face, and then you’ll lie down and have a good rest.”
Du Meijuan did not want her husband to fall. She was pampered and did not know anything about the company in her previous life. She only knew which store had the latest jewelry and clothes and which beauty salon had the best craftsmanship. If he let her open a shop to do business, firstly, she did not have that ability, and secondly, she did not want to be burdened by that.
“Today, Dabao and Erbao came to ask me for money. I was soft-hearted and gave them 200,000 Yuan.”
Looking at his wife, who was wringing a towel by the side, Jin Zhande suddenly said this.
Although Du Meijuan concealed it well, the disgust that flashed in her eyes was still seen by Jin Zhande, who had been paying attention to her secretly. Even if she still showed a gentle and considerate appearance afterward, what else did Jin Zhande not understand in his heart?
“Dabao and Erbao are both your nephews, and we should help them as elders, but they didn’t think carefully about what they did, so I proposed to lend them less money at first, but you can lend 200,000 Yuan to them. I only hope they know you’re good, and I’ll be happy.”
Du Meijuan thought of Jin Zhande wholeheartedly. She did not seem angry that her husband lent 200,000 to his nephews.
Jin Zhande took the towel she handed over to wipe his face, then laid down and closed his eyes without saying a word.
Seeing that he was indeed feeling unwell, Du Meijuan stopped talking. She picked up the washbasin and walked out quietly, not forgetting to close the door.
Jin Zhande was 90% sure now that his elder sister did call in his previous life, but her wife rejected his elder sister without telling him. During that time, he was negotiating a big project in Japan. If his elder sister could not get through his mobile phone, she would call the landline at home. So if his wife rejected her, he would not know.
If his wife clearly expressed to him that she did not want him to help his elder sister’s family without a bottom line, he would understand and would like to discuss how to get along between the two families with his wife.
After all, his elder sister was kind to him but not to his wife. Since he had established a small family with his wife, he was certainly willing to accept his wife’s opinions and suggestions.
It was just that he did not understand that he was not helping his elder sister’s family without a bottom line. Every time he gave something to his elder sister, he would definitely deliver an equally precious gift to his wife’s family. When he gave a red envelope for Jinbao, his wife’s nephews would get no less.
Over the years, his wife’s brothers wanted to start a business, and he also contributed money and efforts. All this was because he was grateful for his wife’s tolerance and desired to repay her with the same dedication and forbearance.
But the fact told him that he took his wife’s family as relatives, while his wife only took them as borers from beginning to end.
The last 800,000 Yuan in his previous life was a hell of a lot of money.
It was ridiculous that he could not sleep all night because of the death of his elder sister, but she could enjoy his gratitude and respect for her like no one else.
Jin Zhande was so distressed that he was numb, and suddenly he did not know how to face his current wife.
“Do you remember the good sisters I often mentioned to you about in the dance group?”
Xie Meifeng came in happily with a newspaper and breakfast. If others did not know, they would think something big was happening at home.
“You have so many dance sisters that I don’t know which one.”
Gramps Xi took a bite from the steamed stuffed bun bought by his old wife, opened the Jing City News of the day, and said slowly while sitting on a chair.
“It’s the most beautiful one, Sister Hua.”
The old lady rolled her eyes at her husband, then looked at her granddaughter Xi Xiaoxiao with a smile.
“Her son is very promising. He won the gold medal in the International Olympic Mathematics. He is the same age as our Xiaoxiao, but unfortunately, he is from a different school.” The old lady looked at her granddaughter. She looked beautiful and had good grades. She wondered if she could find a chance for two children to meet. Maybe it was fate that brought people together.
“Is it this child?”
Old Man Xi, wearing reading glasses, pointed to the youth in the newspaper and asked.
Xi Xiaoxiao’s line of sight happened to look over, and when she saw the familiar face, the bun in her hand suddenly fell to the ground.
