"Sun Da, Sun Da, come out quickly!" A middle-aged man, wearing a short jacket full of patches, even lost one of his straw sandals. He just bent down to pick it up and didn't bother to put it back on. He ran barefoot, panting, and ran towards a house in the urban village.
There are many poor families living in this urban village. They have no land and no skills. Some of them can only make a living by relying on the men in the family to do some hard labor or the women to go out and wash clothes for others.
When Sun Da heard the noise, he immediately came out of his dilapidated mud hut and asked, "Uncle, what happened? Why are you so flustered?"
"The owner of Li's has announced that their soy sauce is now available for pre-order or purchase at Li's. Should we also take some out to sell?"
"Do you know how much one jin is?" Sun Da asked anxiously.
The man slapped his thigh and said, "Oh, when I heard that I could go shopping, I ran back excitedly and forgot about this matter!" The middle-aged man said regretfully.
"Let's go and take a look!" After saying that, Sun Da didn't bother to go home. He shouted into the house at the top of his voice, dragged his uncle and hurried to Li's Soy Sauce Shop outside the city.
At the end of last winter, our house was crushed by heavy snow, and our two young children even caught a fatal cold.
When the family had spent all the money they had left and was about to have nowhere else to turn, they were fortunate to receive an order from the county magistrate to provide relief.
The county magistrate not only provided free medical treatment to the sick, but was also lucky enough to get a place to live because his family had many elderly people and children, and his relatives were too poor and lived in small places.
Winter passed and spring came, and his house had already been tidied up again. He was originally worried about his family's livelihood, but he happened to come across a job opening at a market outside the city. This job was much easier than carrying bags for others at the dock.
You will not be scolded or have your wages deducted just because you are slow.
He and his eldest son earned enough food rations for their family for two months at the market. If they saved a little or bought some brown rice and whole grains, they could earn enough for three months!
These days, when he had nothing to do, he would go to the dock to look for work. When there was no one around, he would sit there for a while, and that's how he learned that Li's soy sauce shop was doing good business.
After discussing with his uncle who also worked at the dock, he took advantage of the fact that he lived close to the dock and had his children go to Li's to help people queue up to buy soy sauce. They could earn a few cents in an hour or two.
The three happy children in the family ran to the market every day.
At first, the two of them had not thought about starting the soy sauce business themselves. After all, this thing also requires capital.
If I really made up my mind to do this business, it was two days ago when the children came back and said that they could make five cents by selling that small bottle of soy sauce.
The two men were convinced that they could really make money from the soy sauce, so they started thinking about selling it and had been keeping an eye on the situation over there for the past two days.
When the two arrived breathlessly, they saw a Li's shop surrounded by people asking questions. Judging from the situation, everything must have been sold out!
When the two were about to approach to inquire about the price, several boys from the family suddenly came up and asked, "Dad, uncle, why are you here?"
"Your uncle and I want to carry some soy sauce out to sell. Do you know how this soy sauce is selling now?" asked Sun Da.
Several people immediately replied, "That big jar of five jin is only eighty-two coins a jar. Dad, let's go to Lijia Village to buy it now. If we go too late, they might sell it all out!"
Having made up their minds, the two of them no longer hesitated. They went to the shop to inquire about the location of the Li family, then asked a few children to go home first, and the two of them hurried to Lijia Village.
There were many people who had the same idea as them. Those who waited in line but failed to buy anything rushed to Lijia Village, fearing that they would be slower than others.
Li Yan had made preparations in advance. She went down the mountain to call Zhao Da and his group, moved all the goods in the house to the front yard, and waited for the guests to arrive.
Those who came came with carts or wheelbarrows, or carrying shoulder poles, or bringing hemp ropes.
Li Yan could tell from their tone that those who came to buy were villagers from nearby.
Although there were many people, the demand was limited, so they were sold in jars of one or two.
When Sun Da arrived, the two of them bought one jar together. The reason was simple: they really didn't have enough money to buy a second jar.
The commotion this morning naturally alarmed everyone in Lijia Village. The villagers were also wondering in their hearts whether this deal could be done. For a while, it became a major issue in the minds of the people in Lijia Village.
On the other hand, my aunt went to Li Yan's place this morning and bought two five-jin jars of soy sauce, and happily went back to her parents' home with her husband.
As soon as she entered the house, she saw her father chasing her younger brother around the yard with a stick and beating him.
The boy dodged his father's stick and hid behind his mother, howling like a ghost.
Seeing this, Liu was shocked and thought that her brother had caused trouble again, so she quickly ran into the yard to stop him.
When the old man saw that it was his daughter and son-in-law, his face immediately softened and he greeted them with a smile: "Why are you here today?"
Liu Dalang covered his sore buttocks and stayed behind his mother, feeling extremely aggrieved. He grumbled, "This sister came back and greeted me with a smile, but she treated me so cruelly!"
Wang heard her little son mumbling behind her and reached out to hit him: "What are you talking about? I think you deserve to be punished by your father!"
Liu Dalang was so scared that he jumped away from his mother and went to his wife for comfort.
The woman, who was sitting under the eaves doing needlework, had no time to pay attention to him and didn't even raise her head.
Now his position in the family has reached the bottom, and even his own wife doesn't even look at him.
In desperation, I had to go to my sister for comfort.
Liu said with a worried look on her face, "Dad, what happened? Why did you chase Dalang and beat him? But he went gambling again?"
When this matter was mentioned, Mr. Liu's eyebrows raised in anger and he said, "He dares!"
Seeing his father's expression, Liu's heart suddenly relaxed: "If it's not about this matter, why are you chasing him and beating him?"
Talking about this, Mr. Liu became angry: "This unfilial son actually wants to sell the pigs I raised with great effort, how can I agree to that?"
"Then why did he want to sell the pig? Did he tell his father?"
Old Master Liu was taken aback by his daughter's words. He had never asked before. Then he continued, "This person is always idle. He has only raised the pig for a short time and he is already thinking about selling it. What good can it do? I was so angry that I didn't have time to ask!"
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