"We don't know when the military government's funds will be paid off, and we can't keep up. If we don't have money, our textile factory will have to close."
"Sister, don't worry. Everything will work out in time. Back then, the three of us sisters had nothing, but we still built this business, didn't we?"
"It's not about whether I'm anxious or not. It's about the workers in the factory who are still waiting for food to be cooked. There are wars outside every day, and the price of food and other commodities is rising every day. At least we have food to eat at home, but they all have children to support."
"Why don't we sell the antiques Jingzhi bought? At least we can get some money back."
Another calmer voice firmly denied, "No, sister, not to mention that those antiques are worthless now, selling them would just be a waste of money."
She paused and looked outside, then lowered her voice, "Those antiques were collected by Jingzhi himself. If we sell them all without his permission, he might think too much."
"You know what everyone outside is saying right now. This kid is already a little estranged from us. If we do this, who knows what he'll think."
The woman called Big Sister hesitated and said, "How about I talk to him about it? Let him know and we can sell it later."
The woman said helplessly, "You've already gone to talk to him in person, how could he not agree? This child is becoming more and more thoughtful, and no one knows what he's thinking. Unless it's absolutely necessary, we should not touch his things. Besides, even if we sell them, it will only bring us a drop in the bucket."
"What should we do? This won't work, and that won't work." The eldest sister said a little impatiently, and the sound of her footsteps coming and going could be heard in the room.
An Jingzhi listened outside and then quietly walked to a corner to receive the original owner's memory.
This is an era similar to the Republic of China, where some people's lives are worthless, while others live in peace and prosperity, enjoying luxury.
The original owner was just an unwanted abandoned baby. If he had not been adopted by the three sisters, he would have probably become food for refugees on the roadside.
The three sisters are not biological sisters. They were sold into brothels by their relatives when they were young. They supported each other and formed a friendship in the same place. Later, they decided to redeem themselves together and find a place where no one knew them to support each other.
In order to make a living, they moved from their original place to Shanghai and invested all their assets in the cotton textile industry.
Later, he was accidentally seen abandoned on the roadside by his original owner, who adopted him and named him after the name his parents had given him when he was still in his cradle.
Over the years, the original owner grew up under the care of the three sisters.
By chance, the three sisters met an old customer while doing business in Shanghai. After the old customer's publicity, people around them knew how the three sisters made a living in the past, and subconsciously kept their distance from them.
Naturally, these words reached the ears of the original owner who had grown up. He felt embarrassed to have three such mothers and could not even hold his head up among his classmates.
He didn't like studying, so he simply dropped out of school and wanted to take over the family business.
But he hadn't learned anything and even missed exams. He was usually careless, so the three sisters were not willing to let him start like this.
Originally, they wanted the original owner to learn from the second mother Yu Liangzhen for a period of time, and then let him take charge of the family business. However, he felt that the three sisters were worried about him, thinking that he was adopted and would always be an outsider, and these businesses might not fall into his hands in the future.
So he decided to take a different approach and use his family's money to start his own business.
He heard people say that antiques are valuable. Although gold is valuable in prosperous times and antiques are valuable in troubled times, but these troubled times will eventually end, he thought of picking up bargains first, buying unsold antiques from people at a low price, and then selling them after a year or two.
However, he did not expect that the situation would become increasingly chaotic. The antiques that were originally worth ten dollars were now not even worth five dollars, and finally had to be piled up.
Later, he followed someone else's example and opened a printing factory. He said that there were more and more newspapers and bookstores now, and as long as he opened a printing factory, there would be a steady stream of orders.
But in fact, newspapers and bookstores all have fixed partners. Some newspapers have their own printing plants and will not easily look for outsiders, so the business failed again.
Even though he fell twice in a row and lost a lot of money for the family, the three sisters never blamed him. They just felt that no business could be successful in one go and one had to make mistakes. Their family had the capital and the opportunity for him to make mistakes, so they encouraged him to keep working hard.
But to the original owner, it felt like the three mothers were mocking him, saying explicitly or implicitly that he was not qualified to be in charge of a textile factory.
Seeing that he had nothing, he despised his three mothers' backgrounds, but at the same time wanted to take their property, and had no gratitude towards them at all.
By chance, he got a big order.
If he could take a part of a large order from the government, it would allow him to gain a firm foothold in the textile factory and take over the factory naturally.
He didn't think about why an ordinary person like him could get a big order by bypassing those big businessmen. He just thought that this was an opportunity for him to be proud.
However, he did not expect that when he told his three mothers about the list, their first reaction was to firmly refuse and they were unwilling to deal with the government.
But the original owner insisted on his own way, thinking that the three women were short-sighted and timid, so he stole the factory seal in the name of the young master and signed the order. In the end, the three sisters had no choice but to grit their teeth and accept it.
They worked day and night, and after submitting the order, they not only couldn't get the subsequent payment, they didn't even get the deposit.
The original owner went to ask for it several times, but couldn't even see the person in charge and was kicked out.
Making military uniforms requires not only cloth, but also buttons and other raw materials, all of which have to be purchased at a cost.
Now we have paid for the goods but cannot get the money back, and the subsequent funding chain is also broken.
Seeing this, An Jingzhi finally understood what the two people in the room were talking about.
The one with a hot temper and impatient temper should be the original owner's aunt Xie Yingfeng, and the other one who is slightly calmer and steady should be the original owner's second aunt Yu Liangzhen.
As for Sanniang, the original owner remembered that at this time Sanniang Ruan Miaoling was comforting the workers outside.
The order signed by the original owner consumed almost all the raw materials in the factory, and the workers were exhausted from working day and night.
In the end, not only did he not get overtime pay, but even the wages he was supposed to receive were withheld.
After the original owner found out that his family was in a difficult situation, and heard that his aunt and stepmother wanted to steal his antiques, he felt that although they were encouraging him to get up from where he fell, they were actually still looking down on him for not knowing how to do business.
Then he quietly swept away all the valuables in the house. If the antiques were not so heavy that they would attract the attention of the family, he would not even leave them behind.
He took away all the valuables in the house, and the three sisters were heartbroken when they found out. They had adopted the original owner in the first place not for any particular reason, but just because they felt sorry for him.
He also thought that someone would light a stick of incense at his grave a hundred years later. He had loved, cared for and taken care of him for more than ten years, but he didn't expect that he had raised an ungrateful person.
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