They say that you should start making money early.

The creepy threatening voice behind her halted Zhao Ye's timid steps. She shrank her neck and turned back, but unexpectedly met Shen Roujiao's smiling face.

As the saying goes, don't hit a smiling dog.

Facing the provocative and harsh insults, Shen Roujiao, who had previously only bit her lips and cried, could actually laugh, frightening Zhao Ye so much that he took a step back, "You, what do you want to do?"

"Don't forget this." Shen Roujiao held the dirty and torn pink ribbon in front of Zhao Ye's face, as if to let her see her masterpiece clearly. "Since you've paid for it, it belongs to you, Aunt Zhao."

Yes.

She paid thirty cents for it.

Zhao Ye reached out to take the pink ribbon, but she didn't expect the other party's expression to change instantly. Shen Roujiao's previous smile turned into deep contempt. She snorted disdainfully, "Auntie Zhao, I am a biting dog, but I never bite my own family."

They both have the surname Shen and are brothers. They should have been a family with one mind and one purpose, but Zhao Ye listened to one side and followed outsiders to put down the second son Shen, and even looked down on the children of the Shen family.

I had prepared the twenty yuan I owed Zhao Ye last night and put it neatly under my pillow.

I wanted to wait until the second pot of pears in sugar water was steamed out, and then Father Shen would bring Shen Roujiao and pears to personally pay back the money. But I didn't expect Zhao Ye to suddenly barge in, still being as mean and domineering as always.

Having said that, Shen Roujiao let go of her hand and glared at Aunt Zhao.

She hates!

Some people are bad because they are stupid, and some people are bad because they are evil.

This Aunt Zhao is just stupid and easily influenced. She believes everything anyone says and looks down on the Shen family in every way. She says all kinds of nasty things to them and doesn't care about the brotherhood at all.

But he is such a hideous person.

In the original text, especially when Shen Roujiao was the only one left in the Shen family, it was she who took care of Shen Roujiao who was struggling to breathe due to tuberculosis and coughing up blood all day long. Even her younger sister died in her arms.

Shen Roujiao remembered the last words that Aunt Zhao said, "My child, I hope you can be born into a good family in your next life, and don't suffer so much anymore."

Facing Zhao Ye again, Shen Roujiao couldn't hate him at all.

She remembers her bad points as well as her good points.

…

That day, I had to pay twenty yuan for Zhao Ye, and I was so angry that the powder belt in my hand burned my palms.

She had a deep memory of the way Shen Roujiao glared at her. Although she was reluctant to admit it, the youngest child of the Shen family had indeed changed dramatically during the year she had been studying in the county town. But the fact was, not only had Shen Roujiao become stronger, she was also a little afraid of her, as if the little girl could easily see through all her thoughts and was fearless.

After what Zhao Ye did, the atmosphere in the Shen family was not much better.

Even though the younger sister repeatedly said it was okay and she didn't really care about the pink ribbon, the brothers of the Shen family still felt sorry for her and secretly vowed to buy her two as soon as they made money.

Since they had to open the stall the next morning, the Shen family turned off the lights and went to bed early.

When Shen Roujiao was staring at the ceiling in a trance, there was a knock on the door, followed by Shen Tianhua's voice, "Little sister, it's big brother."

The door opened, and Shen Tianhua stood in the yard with his face red and his head down. Shen Roujiao was stunned for a few seconds, and widened her eyes in confusion, "Brother, is there something wrong?"

"Little sister, I do have something I want to hear your opinion on."

Shen Roujiao let Shen Tianhua into the house, and only then did she know why her elder brother was in such a dilemma.

Last night, the eldest brother was questioned by Shen's father. He was framed for stealing something and was suspended from work. His own son knew it well, and Shen's father knew that the things were definitely not stolen by the eldest brother, so on the day of the suspension of work, Shen's father did not ask.

Instead, it was only when the lost items were inexplicably found that Shen's father started asking.

Because the factory notified two people who had been suspended from work due to investigation to return to their posts and continue working.

Father Shen and his eldest brother had a huge disagreement on whether to go back to work.

Shen's father hopes that his eldest brother will return to the factory, earn wages with work points, and work steadily; while his eldest brother wants to learn a skill from his younger sister and continue to set up a stall to earn money.

"Little sister, what do you think I should choose?" Shen Tianhua placed his hands on the table and clenched them tightly. He stared nervously at his fingers that had turned white from being pinched, without even raising his head.

Perhaps my brother himself did not realize that he was not choosing a job, but a life, two completely different lives.

The former implies crisis amidst stability, while the latter implies opportunity amidst turmoil.

The difference is not even a little bit.

"Brother, I can't make the choice for you."

Hearing her say this, Shen Tianhua's shoulders drooped instantly, frustration overshadowing his nervousness. He raised his eyes, wanting to say something but stopping himself.

Shen Roujiao patted her brother's hand and said caringly, "But you can help me analyze the difference between the two."

There was suddenly light in Shen Tianhua's eyes, and he looked at his younger sister and nodded heavily.

"In fact, the biggest difference is in time. Do you want to use 30 years to exchange for the next 50 years of life, or do you want to use 10 years to exchange for the next 50 years of life? One works steadily and earns money slowly; the other works hard and saves money early."

She could not directly and truthfully describe the future she saw, but could only summarize it as an abstract density problem.

But the eldest brother obviously didn’t understand. His brows were twisted into a knot, his mouth was slightly open, and he made an "ah" expression.

"Well, how should I put it? To put it another way, if I can only earn 10,000 yuan in my lifetime, would I rather earn it in 30 years or in 10 years?"

"10 years. Become famous early, and the same goes for making money."

This wise saying from Eileen Chang was used just right by Shen Tianhua and cannot be refuted.

In her previous life, Shen Roujiao understood early on why one must make money as early as possible.

Because if you earn in one year what others earn in ten years, it means that they will have to bear the huge risk of not making any money in the next nine years.

Not only do you transfer your risks to others, but you can also enjoy the best social resources and psychological advantages.

Earning money at 30 years old is different from earning money at 60 years old. While the former is trying hard to kill monsters and level up, the latter can only soak wolfberries in a thermos and go to bed early and get up early. While the former is making money for the next 30 years, the latter will start to improve their lives. While the former's next generation is taking advantage of the situation to move forward, the latter can only send their grandchildren to a good kindergarten...

Not to mention, in the near future, all economists and financial scholars will say that if they stand at the forefront of the times, even pigs can fly.

In fact, when the wind blows, pigs can really fly!

That night, Shen Tianhua, who said that he should make money as soon as possible, made his choice through practical actions the next day.

When Shen Tianjiao got up at around three o'clock, her elder brother was already grinding soy milk looking at his little notebook.

Even Shen Tianhua himself couldn't tell whether his choice was due to the temptation of the 10,000 yuan or simply because he trusted his younger sister.

No matter what, he had only one thought in his mind: the Shen family had to rely not only on people but also on money to survive.

The breakfast business is especially good on Monday, the day after Sunday.

Strangely, Zhang Qingjie, the MVP of the breakfast stall, never showed up.

When it was time to close the stall, his co-worker Xu Shan showed up on time and told the young boss, "Brother Zhang, his father called him back to the county town and he won't be back until tomorrow. He also said that he had almost finished what the young boss had asked him to do for you."

At noon, under the wall of the Shen family courtyard, Shen Tianyou pinched his nose and yelled to his little sister, "Come on, stand here and feel it. I guarantee you won't be able to eat."

"Fourth brother, it stinks really bad!"

"More than that, fourth brother is about to poop." As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Tianyou really ran to the side, squatted on the ground and pooped.

Shen Roujiao was so amused that she laughed out loud for a long time.

The brine, the soul of stinky tofu, is extremely smelly.

When Shen Roujiao put the old tofu in the stinky brine and boiled and soaked it, only the eldest brother was there to record and help. The third and fourth brothers not only stayed far away, but also secretly said that after smelling the stench, they would not be able to eat a single bite even if they were beaten to death.

I told them to remember what they said and not to get embarrassed tomorrow.

As the most important new delicacy at the Shen’s stall, pre-heating activities must be in place.

Shen Roujiao asked her third brother to find a flour bag, cut it open and cut it into three equal-sized pieces, then wrote on it a sign with a big brush: "Exploding stinky tofu", "Smells stinky, tastes delicious", and "You'll want to eat more after you've eaten it".

String it with a hemp rope and hang it behind the stall, it becomes a perfect advertising banner.

At that time, small spontaneous markets had just sprouted in rural areas, and there was no such professional advertisement. People who came to eat breakfast skewers always asked, "What exactly is stinky tofu?"

Every time, Shen Roujiao would reply mysteriously, "Special delicacies!" to whet the customers' appetite and grasp their curiosity.

At noon the next day, it was finally time to taste the stinky tofu that had been soaked in stinky brine for a day and a night.

Shen Tianyou, who was standing by and holding his nose, witnessed with his own eyes that the gray-black, square tofu cubes were still smelly when they were taken out, but after they were fried in hot oil until they turned golden brown, drizzled with chili sauce and sprinkled with chopped green onions, a miracle happened.

When he first smelled the tofu, it had a foul odor; but when he sniffed it carefully, the rich aroma was so tempting that he drooled.

Just as he was about to pick one up and put it in his mouth, his younger sister called him, "Fourth brother! Yesterday, I seemed to hear someone say that he would never eat it even if he was beaten to death. How come his soul has left his body now?"

Seeing the cunning light in the little sister's smiling eyes, as if she was planning something tricky, Shen Tianyou swallowed nervously, leaned sideways and asked timidly: "What do you want to do now?"

"Brother, you eat first. I'll tell you after you're done." Shen Roujiao poured more chili sauce into Fourth Brother's bowl and raised her curved willow-leaf eyebrows. "Eat quickly!"

"I, why don't I dare to eat it? Otherwise..." Shen Tianyou glanced at his elder brother and handed the stinky tofu out, "Brother, you eat first!"

As a result, Shen Tianhua ignored him completely. Shen Tianyou asked his third brother for help again, but his third brother just looked at him with sympathy.

The fourth brother made up his mind and sniffed the stinky tofu in his hand. The stinky yet fragrant smell went straight to his head, making him lick his lips and said, "It seems that there will be a disaster today. After you finish eating, I will go through fire and water for you."