Do you know what I was doing when I was thirteen?
Qin Yu glanced at Xia Lan and asked with a smile.
"What are you doing?"
Xia Lan asked curiously.
“I collect mountain goods from one household to another, then transport them to town and sell them to people on the black market.”
Qin Yu told Xia Lan about his first trip to the black market when he was thirteen years old.
"It was that time that I learned that everything has value. It might be worthless in the village, but elsewhere, people would be willing to pay a high price for it."
"Where there is scarcity and demand, there will be a market."
“That was when I was thirteen years old. It was the first time I touched the threshold. Later, I started to work in the black market with my second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth brothers. We went through a lot. Others saw us as children and wanted to steal from us. They beat us up and robbed our goods.”
Qin Yu said slowly.
“Back then, we fought every day because we knew that only by letting others know how ruthless we were could they stop them from having bad intentions towards us.”
"Later, I wanted to learn real skills, so I threatened the village chief and made him send me to the army."
"So that's how it is... I knew there was something strange between you two."
Xia Lan chuckled. Clearly, that was the village chief, yet he had to listen to Qin Yu.
So that's where it all started.
"To put it nicely to outsiders, the people in the village aren't bad. After I joined the army, I directed my second and third brothers to open up all the surrounding areas. By the time I returned from my military service, we had already secured the sales channels."
Qin Yu spoke casually, but Xia Lan knew that things were definitely not as simple as he made them out to be. In that era, nothing was simple.
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