Demolition Day: Five Houses, I Helped Demented Grandma Rage

The day the redevelopment office announced that our family's old compound was worth five houses and six million in compensation, my grandmother suddenly came down with dementia. She couldn't remember where she'd put the household registration papers and the old property deeds needed for the ownership verification and signing. The moment word got out, my eldest aunt and youngest uncle, who hadn't come home in ten years, bought tickets overnight and rushed back. One was prying up the floor tiles, the other was tearing the roof tiles off the beams.