Chapter 30: Things Suddenly Change

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Zhang Guangming: He wrote the script of a TV series tonight.

"The Unfortunate Family"

Time: Late Qing Dynasty

Characters: Li Daming, wife Zhang Huandi, father Li Laoer, mother, Li Zhang, dancer Sun Jiamei, military officers, ideological progressives, etc

Li Daming (surprised) Eh, wife, look at the business of our grain and oil store, I mixed some sand and water into the grain, and I also raised the price three times a day, so the customer is still in the market!

Li Lao Er (angrily kicking his son and scolding) Da Ming, you have to be kind and benevolent! How can you do this business?

Li Zhangshi (puzzled): Daming, how can you make such ill-gotten gains?

Li Daming, Daddy, don't worry, look at how much money I have earned you!

Li Lao Er (snapped the banknote in his son's hand and roared angrily) Daming, I see that you have fallen into the eyes of money, you are really a money fan. Look at this year's crops suffered from drought, food is extremely scarce, and you still deceive and harm the people like this, you call the pit people immoral!

Li Daming: You guys are really old and confused. As the saying goes, "Man does not perish for his own sake." "Have you forgotten that old adage?

Lee Cheung (slaps his son in the face) I want to beat you to death, bad boy. Your father and I are kind-hearted, we have opened a grain and oil store for a lifetime, we are doing business in our duty, so my father and mother are serious businessmen who are praised by everyone, so our family's business has been very prosperous for many years. I didn't expect that after you took over, you would run the grain and oil store like this? I will confiscate your right to run the store now, and from now on, your father and I will let your wife take care of the store. (The son gets angry and walks out the door.) ）

Zhang Huandi (bumped into her husband when she entered the door) Black baby daddy, it's dark, what are you doing in a panic?

Li Daming (yelling) It's getting dark, where have you been?

Zhang Huandi (pulling her husband into the house) Heiwa Dad, my mother-in-law has to show us the child for a few days, you can rest assured. (The parents hurriedly told their daughter-in-law about their son's wrong practices, and Zhang Huandi was furious when she heard it.) Child, his father, I go to my mother's house one day, and you sell rice and grain to trick people? You weren't such a person before? (The husband's face was gloomy, so he stomped his feet and left impatiently) Where are you going? (The husband said, go drink some wine to kill your sorrows.) ）

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Two

Li Daming (walked into the house of the dancer Sun Jiamei with a sad face) Eh, I'm so annoyed today.

Sun Jiamei: Li Daming, what's wrong with you? What made you have such a bitter face?

Li Daming: I'm all for you, I want to buy you gold and silver jewelry, so I mixed some sand with rice and millet and poured some water into it.

Sun Jiamei (disdainful) Is it just for this little thing? The whole family is against you? (sigh) Shouldn't it? If you want me to say, if you want to make money, you have to make a lot of money, and I suggest that you go to a big city to open a gambling hall to make the most money.

Li Daming (surprised) What? What kind of business? That's the one who is really going to do the crooked way! (shaking his head vigorously) I would never do that.

Sun Jiamei: I still want you to buy me a big house, if you don't make a lot of money, how can you buy it? Just let you open a grain and oil store? Hmph, although your family is rich, your father and mother won't give it to you, so how can you buy me a house? (angrily pushing Li Daming out of the door) You go, let's go, I don't want to pay attention to you.

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Li Daming [Early in the morning, I went to the big gambling hall to check, and saw that there were people from three religions and nine streams inside, everyone stared at the dots on the dice with wide eyes, shouting big and small, and they bet excitedly. The one who wins the bet makes his tongue smack the money he wins. He was determined to open a big gambling house, but he couldn't do this kind of illegal business in the city, because his family would never allow him to open a gambling house. Li Daming (pretending to admit his mistakes to his father and mother sincerely, and wanted his father and mother to give him some silver ingots as the capital for business.) Daddy, I'm going to do big business in the big city. (After the father and mother really took out the family's savings and handed them to their son, they told him that his son must not go crooked again...... ）

Three

Li Daming [He led the pretty girl Sun Jiamei, who was dressed up in fancy clothes, and the two of them took the train to Tianjin City, and chose a good location, a very long, and large façade house, and rented the house and yard of this big family. The rooms in the big gambling hall were lit up with lights, gongs and drums, and firecrackers, and it was officially opened with great fanfare. Sun Jiamei runs this gambling house with Li Daming as the proprietress lady. But what about the two of them, and business was bad on the first day. Sun Jiamei went to the dance hall, and when she was dancing with another big boss, she hurriedly introduced him and Li Daming to the big gambling hall opened by him. She also asked them to promote themselves in the circle of friends. Sun Jiamei's trick really worked, and gradually more and more gamblers came to the big casino. But the boss and his mistress are well aware of the dangers of gambling, so they will never get into this bad habit. Several officials came to the casino, gambling and discussing Sun Yat-sen's Three People's Doctrine.

Li Daming: I predicted that the Qing government would not grow the tail of a rabbit, and I expected that the Qing Dynasty would come to an end. I decided to change careers and continue to do my old job, and we both opened a large grain and oil store here. This time, I will buy rice, millet, sorghum, wheat, corn, etc., and then I will buy soybeans, sesame seeds, cottonseeds, etc., and then I will grind all the crops that can be squeezed into oil and sell them.

Sun Jiamei: I want to praise Li Daming, you are very good at doing business, and I have found that you are very economically minded! Our business in Tianjin is getting bigger and bigger, and now it has expanded to other industries, such as opening hotels and inns.

Li Daming [Married Sun Jiamei as the wife of the second aunt.] He didn't expect that Sun Jiamei would go to the big pipe to smoke a big cigarette. Li Daming makes money quickly, and his mistress spends it in a hurry. Li Daming was angry and gave her a letter of resignation. Sun Jiamei had no financial resources, so she went to the dance hall to dance for a living. It was in the ballroom that she met a nobleman who changed her life......

Li Daming (Although he repaired Sun Jiamei, he always missed her, he often followed her and found that Sun Jiamei's behavior was very secretive. He was curious and wanted to find out. When he saw that he often went to a teahouse to drink tea, he was mysterious......