Liu Deyuan, who is six in his Chinese New Year's Eve, runs a pastry shop in Chengnan, Fuzhou, Fujian Province, and the Liu family is a middle-income family in Fuzhou City.

Liu's pastry shop is not large, but it is an old shop, Liu Deyuan's grandfather set up a stall to sell pastries and saved money to buy a storefront, so that today's Liu's pastry shop, Liu Deyuan inherited his grandfather and father's pastry making skills, so that Liu's pastry shop accumulated a group of old customers, and there are constantly new customers to the door.

It stands to reason that in the case of Liu's pastry shop, it should slowly become bigger, but the scale of Liu's pastry shop has not expanded, and when the Ming court ruled Fujian Province, the number of customers of Liu's pastry shop has been increasing, but the income has reached a limit, and occasionally the income will decline.

Liu Deyuan understands very well why this situation occurs in Liu's pastry shop.

Fuzhou City is the provincial capital of Fujian Province, don't look at the Liu family in Fuzhou City, it is a middle-income family, but there are too many powerful people and officials in Fuzhou City.

The pastries made by Liu Deyuan are delicious, and there are more and more customers in Liu's pastry shop, and even some powerful people and officials have sent people to buy pastries, and there are also powerful and official's subordinates who come to buy pastries to eat.

Powerful people and officials buy pastries, they will pay for them with their own status, but they generally do not come to buy pastries in person, they will send their subordinates to buy them, and the subordinates are thinking about the money to buy pastries, they come to Liu's pastry shop to buy pastries, or give less money, or dare not give money directly.

Liu Deyuan is just an ordinary person in Fuzhou City, the descendants of the powerful are not ordinary people, they are people with backers, Liu Deyuan's father and grandfather have educated Liu Deyuan, when doing business with such people, they would rather suffer some losses than have conflicts, this is the experience of people who have come over.

Even if the hooligans came to buy pastries, Liu Deyuan was patient step by step.

Having lived in Fuzhou for 36 years, Liu Deyuan has seen other people clash with powerful people more than once and be unlucky.

So when facing people who give less money and don't give money, Liu Deyuan will not only not be angry, but will also welcome the other party with a smile next time.

Liu Deyuan's persistent approach made a small number of people feel guilty, and they later gave enough money to buy pastries, but more people still didn't give money or gave less money.

In this case, Liu's pastry shop can still maintain a certain amount of income, which shows how good Liu's pastry shop business is.

Liu Deyuan thought that his business would continue like this, but he didn't expect that now it will usher in great changes, and it is the arrival of the People's Army that has brought great changes to Liu's pastry shop.

Before the People's Army occupied the city of Fuzhou, Liu Deyuan learned some information about the People's Army from other people, and at that time Liu Deyuan thought that the People's Army was a force of evil thieves, and Liu Deyuan hoped that the officials and troops would quickly exterminate the People's Army and restore peace to the world.

A few years have passed, the People's Army has defeated the official army one after another, Liu Deyuan also knows that after the People's Army occupies a place, it will wantonly raid the homes of the gentry and merchants, and the Liu family is barely a small businessman, and it should also be the object of the raid, which makes Liu Deyuan very scared, worried that the People's Army will come to Fuzhou City.

Before the battle of Fuzhou City this year, a large number of wealthy gentry and businessmen fled from Fuzhou City, and Liu Deyuan originally wanted to escape with his family, but Liu Deyuan was reluctant to leave his own shop, so he stayed in Fuzhou City.

After the First World War, the official army was defeated and fled, the government also fled, and the People's Army occupied the city of Fuzhou.

After the People's Army occupied Fuzhou City, it did begin to raid their homes, and most of the gentry and merchants who remained in Fuzhou City did raid their homes.

The door of Liu's house was closed, afraid that the People's Army would come to raid the house, and to Liu Deyuan's great surprise, the People's Army did not come to Liu's house, and did not come for three consecutive days, and the People's Army's raid in Fuzhou City had basically stopped.

Even if his home was not raided, Liu Deyuan did not dare to continue to do business, and stayed at home honestly, thinking about when the official army would fight back and drive away the people's army.

However, with the passage of time, Liu Deyuan found that the People's Army seemed to be better than the official army, and it did not commit any offence against ordinary people, and also distributed land to the people at the bottom, which was something that the Ming court government did not dare to do.

But at this time, Liu Deyuan still didn't dare to do business, and waited to see the follow-up.

Not long after, the merchants from Guangdong came, they did business in Fuzhou City, and the merchants in Fuzhou City who had not been raided saw foreign businessmen robbing business, and they couldn't sit still one by one, suppressed the fear and worry in their hearts, and started doing business again.

Seeing that other shops were opening one after another, Liu Deyuan followed the trend and reopened Liu's pastry shop, but the Liu's pastry shop that reopened was less than 20% of the previous business.

After the People's Army occupied Fuzhou City, they began to raid their homes, and the number of remaining wealthy gentry merchants in Fuzhou City was not much, which meant that many of Liu's pastry shops were gone, and it was no wonder that business did not decline.

In a blink of an eye, half a year has passed since the People's Army occupied Fuzhou City, and under the rule of the People's Army, Liu Deyuan felt that the People's Army was very different from the Ming court government and the Ming army.

There have been officials of the People's Army Government who have come to Liu's Pastry Shop to buy pastries, and all the officials of the People's Army Government will give enough money, even if Liu Deyuan says that he does not want money, the officials will not agree and will directly keep the money.

Moreover, under the rule of the People's Army, the ruffians and hooligans have no figure, and all the people who come to Liu's pastry shop to buy pastries have given enough money, and no one dares to give less money or not to give money, and if anyone does not give money, as long as they go to the People's Military Government, they can be solved.

Liu Deyuan felt that such a people's army was much better than the Ming court government.

Half a year has passed, and the business of Liu's pastry shop has improved, although it is still not comparable with the Ming court's official government, but Liu Deyuan is full of expectations for the future.

The People's Army divides the land among the common people, and the common people will become rich one day, and it is impossible to come and buy pastries every day, it is enough to come and buy them once in a while.

A large number of wealthy gentry merchants have been raided, and new gentry merchants will appear in the future, and the business of Liu's pastry shop will definitely return to the best time before, and it will develop towards a better situation.

The most important thing is that all the people who come to buy pastries will give enough money, and the income of Liu's pastry shop will continue to increase in the future, grandpa bought this store, Liu Deyuan wants to open a bigger pastry shop in the future, so that everyone in Fuzhou City knows about Liu's pastry shop.

By the way, Liu Deyuan recently had an idea, before last year, his wife wanted to buy a palm-sized glass mirror, Liu Deyuan was a little reluctant, so that his wife sulked for a long time, and now the glass mirror shipped from Guangdong is very cheap, Liu Deyuan plans to buy a glass mirror for his wife, or a glass mirror with a larger size that can reflect the human face.

Liu Deyuan has already imagined the scene when he gave the glass mirror to his wife.