Time flies, since the people in the village helped the Shi family bury the old stone, another year has passed, and now it has reached the end of the winter of the following year, and the families in the village are busy preparing for the solar calendar.

Shi Yu was a shrewd and capable woman, after the old stone died, she bought and rented a few acres of land from Master Ding's family, and the rest of the money was saved for Shi Zhu to study. Although she is nearly half a hundred, her body is very tough, and she is busy with some fruits and vegetables in front of and behind the house in various seasons, plus the meager harvest of a few acres of land, her grandparents and grandchildren can still live their lives. But the world is always unpredictable, and no one can predict that the little land planted by Shi Yu's family will suffer from a catastrophe more than forty years later - of course, this is a later story, so I won't go into detail for the time being.

At that time, the common people knew that the Northern Expeditionary Army captured Beijing in the summer. In the past few days, people in the village have been spreading everywhere that Zhang Shaomarshal in the Northeast wants to avenge his father Zhang Dashuai, and has already taken refuge in the Nanjing government, the country is finally unified, and the people are looking forward to a better life. In short, all kinds of news are endless, and no one in the village knows whether it is true or not, but everyone hopes to live a stable life.

Shi Zhu had already gone to elementary school in the second half of this year, and after inquiring, he knew that these news came from Mr. Zhang in the school. This Mr. Zhang is a person from the late Qing Dynasty, known as a "jack of all trades", and the people in the village love to call him Zhang Banxian, and most of the news he said is true. In August last year, Zhang Banxian told the villagers that the Communist Party had rebelled in Nanchang, and then sure enough, the troops on the Banpu side were mobilized and the Communists were arrested everywhere.

Shi Zhu dared to catch snakes since he was a child, he was more courageous, he was particularly naughty at school, and from time to time he grabbed a small snake and threw it on the podium to scare the teacher. Shi Zhu ran to ask Mr. Zhang how he knew the news, and Mr. Zhang looked at Shi Zhu and said, "The mountain people have their own clever plans, and the Benju people have their own ears and clairvoyance!" How could Shi Zhu believe it, he must not want to tell him. The half-immortal said again: "I have acquaintances over there in Banpu, and these news were told to me over there, and this secret is not allowed to be told to others!" ”

Shi Zhu was skeptical of Mr. Zhang's words, but this Zhang Banxian also really had some ability, and from time to time brought some news from the outside world to the village, such as Chiang Kai-shek defeated Wang Jingwei, Chiang Kai-shek defeated various warlords, Commander Chiang began to encircle and suppress the Communist Red Army, and so on. But when he saw that the people had never been able to live a good life, he would comfort the villagers: "Everyone bear with it a little longer, we have to believe in the government, and after the government finishes suppressing the bandits, we will definitely live a good life."

It is not difficult to see from Zhang Banxian's words his support and expectations for the Nationalist Government and the Kuomintang army, and he believes that since the Nationalist Government can overthrow the Qing Dynasty and unify the whole country, it will definitely be able to lead the people to live a good life.

Shizhu had only seen Mr. Zhang hesitate twice, once after the Japanese occupied the Northeast on September 18, Mr. Zhang couldn't understand at first, why Commander Chiang ordered the Northeast Army not to resist, he also hesitated whether he believed in the wrong Nationalist Government, and couldn't help but say, "It's really unreasonable", and then he finally figured it out, presumably now Commander Chiang feels that our strength is not enough, and we can't beat the Japanese, take a step back and open the sky, just as Commander Jiang said, "If you want to go outside, you must first settle inside", When we stabilize everything within the country, the government will be able to drive little Japan out of China in one fell swoop.

The second time was when the Japanese took Pu Yi to Changchun and established (puppet) Manchukuo there, and Mr. Zhang was sullen all day long - the Qing Dynasty was finally overthrown, how could he come back to life with the support of the Japanese?

"How unreasonable!" During that time, he was also extremely disappointed, feeling that the Nationalist Government had lost the courage of the past, but Mr. Zhang thought about it again, now except for the Nationalist Government and the Kuomintang, who can save me from a great country? Presumably the government must have her considerations, presumably all external problems can be easily solved after the peace of mind. After thinking about it like this, Mr. Zhang was relieved a lot.

In fact, Zhang Banxian's expectations for the Kuomintang all stem from his hatred for the late Qing government: Zhang Banxian's real name is Zhang Kunqian, and his family was relatively poor since he was a child, but he read poetry and books, and he was inspired to serve the Qing Dynasty when he grew up, so as to reject foreigners from the country and save the people of Li from fire and water.

When Zhang Kunqian was nineteen years old, that is, in the twenty-ninth year of Guangxu, there was no formal department, because the following year was the seventy years of the Empress Dowager of the West, and the imperial court opened a special session of Enke in that year. Zhang Kunqian participated in the Jiangning Prefecture Township Examination, won the fourth place in the Township Examination, and the first place in the local area, and could have participated in the second year's Entrance Examination or even the Palace Examination with his results, but because his family was poor and did not bribe local officials, he was disqualified by the government for various reasons. Since then, whenever he is indignant, "how can this be true" has become his mantra.

He originally wanted to take the examination in a few years, but he didn't expect that Enke would become the last imperial examination of the Qing Dynasty, and since then, he has been very disappointed in the Qing government and hated the Qing officials. Until Sun Yat-sen carried the banner of the Xinhai Revolution to overthrow the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Banxian felt that the Nationalist Government had avenged him, and he upheld the Nationalist Government everywhere. In that year, when he learned that Jiangsu and other places had successively announced their independence from the Manchu Qing Dynasty and that Emperor Xuantong had not yet abdicated, Zhang Banxian took the lead in cutting off his long braids in the village to show his support for the new government, and he continued to support the Kuomintang until Sun Yat-sen reorganized the revolutionary party into the Kuomintang a few years later.

Just as Shi Zhu and the people in the village listened to the various news brought by Zhang Banxian, a few years passed in the blink of an eye.

Shizhu has always studied well, and he has been admitted to middle school this year. There is a course on the history of the country in the school, and the gentleman in the class is called Fu Zhenguo, Shi Zhu especially likes to listen to this class, from which he has heard a lot of historical figures, heroic deeds, and learned a lot of truths about the rise and fall of dynasties.

In one lecture, Mr. Fu talked about what the future of modern China depends on, and many students said that it should rely on Dr. Sun Yat-sen's "Three People's Principles", while Mr. Fu said: "Although the 'Three People's Principles' have their positive aspects, it is a pity that there are many inlands with China's current national conditions. I think that China's future depends on the broad masses of the proletariat and the broad masses of the people, not on the bourgeoisie. Only by driving out imperialism and letting the common people truly be the masters of their own country can China have a future! ”

Shi Zhu asked Mr. Fu whether the Nationalist Government could lead the people to build a new China, and Mr. Fu said: "I don't know what kind of 'new' law you are talking about 'New China', in a way, the Qing Dynasty has been overthrown by the Nationalist Government, and now it is the New China created by the Nationalist Government." However, the common people are still living the same hard life as before, and the people at the grassroots level of society have not improved in the slightest, and it may be difficult to establish a 'new China' in the true sense of the word if we rely on the current government. ”

"Mr. Fu, then, how can we establish the real 'New China' that Mr. Fu said?" Shi Zhu asked again.

This time, Mr. Fu's answer was very simple: "Rely on revolution to establish a proletarian regime." Then he looked out the window, and he didn't go on, but said, "These are out of the outline, I'm afraid you still don't understand, don't talk about it!" ”

In fact, Mr. Fu didn't want to talk about it, but he didn't dare to say it, in that era, if he talked about it, he would be imprisoned or even shot. A few days later, this matter unfortunately reached the ears of the principal, and Mr. Fu was called over for a long time, but fortunately, the principal was not a wicked person, but only verbally warned Mr. Fu not to talk about such reactionary content in the future, otherwise I am afraid he would not be able to protect Mr. Fu.

Since Shi Zhu inquired about what Mr. Fu said in class, he became interested in these topics, and went to Mr. Fu privately from time to time. From Mr. Fu, Shi Zhu gradually came into contact with the ideas of Marxism, communism, agrarian revolution, and workers' and peasants' revolution, and gradually realized that the gangsters in the government's mouth were not really bandits, but real heroes who could be the masters of their own affairs for the vast number of poor and laboring people. But at that time, Shi Zhu was only fourteen years old, and it was unrealistic for him to really understand these things.

In the autumn of that year, Haizhou suffered a major flood, and Guanyun was particularly badly affected, and the school was temporarily closed for a few days. After Shizhu went home, he heard Zhang Banxian say happily: "The national army has finally beaten the communist bandits away from Jinggang Mountain, and now they are chasing and suppressing the communist bandits everywhere......

When Shi Zhu heard this, he said: "Mr. Zhang, you have been talking about it for many years, but look at it, the people still haven't been able to live a good life, in my opinion, the national government does not have this ability!" ”

The half-immortal was not angry, and said while smoking a bag of cigarettes: "You stinky hairy boy, don't chew maggots, you've only been reading for a few days, what can you know?" If the government doesn't take us to live a good life, can we still expect those gangsters to fail! In the past few years, they have instigated riots among the people in Donghai, Banpu, Xiangshui, Tongxing, Yangji, and the four teams, making the chickens and dogs restless and the people panicking, what do they want to do? It's nothing more than trying to fish in troubled waters, which is really unreasonable! Look at how many practical things the National Government has done to help us build railways, build ports, and build factories! ”

Shi Zhu said unrelentingly: "The government has done a lot of things, but in order to build this railway, how many of our people have been killed, don't we still live a hard life!" Ordinary people are not living a good life, what is the use of them getting these things? I've seen bandits, my dad was killed by bandits, and they were all vicious, killing people without blinking; I have also seen the Communist Party, they all hold their heads high, they are not afraid of death, they are not bandits at all! He said that the Communist Party instigated the people to riot, but they just wanted to distribute the land to the people so that the people could have something to eat. Now the land is in the hands of the landlords, and only by distributing the land to the common people can we have a good life! ”

Zhang Banxian wanted to say more, but at some point, Ding Facai, the youngest son of Master Ding's family, happened to bring a few people to pass by, he was unhappy when he heard Shizhu say this, and shouted at Shizhu before Zhang Banxian: "This land is handed down by our ancestors, I didn't steal or rob, why should I give it to you poor eggs!" A few years ago, the communists led people to forcibly borrow grain, saying that if they didn't borrow it, they would divide our grain and not return a single grain; Last year, I took a group of poor people to grab food everywhere, and our family was almost robbed, do you think these people are bandits? ”

Shi Zhu said: "Those are the victims of the disaster, not because they have no land, but because they are so hungry that they have to share the food!" If you big families don't save you when you die, you are not good people! ”

When Ding Facai heard this, he couldn't help but say something, so he beckoned a few people who came with him to beat the stone pillar, adding new hatred to the old hatred, and beating the stone pillar to the ground, covered in mud, with a blue nose and swollen face, unable to move. Zhang Banxian originally thought that the children were joking, but he didn't expect that there was a real fight, so he quickly pulled them away with a few adults, so that the stone pillar did not continue to be beaten.

Aunt Yang next door to Shizhu's house saw that Shizhu was beaten, and hurriedly went to tell Shi Yu's family, Shi Yu's heart was so distressed that she held back her tears and helped her grandson home, and the tears flowed down when she got home.

said that Ding Facai and Shizhu had an old hatred, but in fact, it was originally just a conflict between children. Ding Facai is one year younger than Shizhu, although the family is rich, Master Ding did not hire another private school, and they all went to school in the village primary school. Another landlord in the village, Mr. Liu, has a daughter named Liu Shanxiu, who is as big as Ding Facai and looks very likeable. At that time, for ordinary people, not to mention girls, even boys can rarely afford to go to school, moreover, it is said that women are not talented is virtue, and they should not be given girls to study, but Mr. Liu's family has a little money, and the girl is a stubborn temper, not only does not live or die to wrap her little feet, but also has to go to school like a little boy, and Master Liu can't help it, so he gave her school.

Although Liu Shanxiu and Ding Facai are both children of the landlord's family, she looks down on Ding Facai's usual domineering and arrogant attitude, so no matter how Ding Facai pleases, Liu Shanxiu basically doesn't care about him, but is particularly good with Shizhu, although she is one level lower than Shizhu, she often goes to school with Shizhu.

After a long time, Ding Facai became more and more jealous of Shizhu, and every time he saw Shizhu and Liu Shanxiu walking together, he would grit his teeth and say: "Wait and see, one day I will smash that poor boy!" "This time he finally got an opportunity, so he naturally won't let it go.

Shi Yu returned home, sobbing as he changed his grandson's clothes and fetched some water for Shi Zhu to wipe his body by himself. Shi Zhu endured the pain all over his body and finally finished the bath, changed his clothes and lay down on the bed. Fortunately, Ding Facai's people are not very old, and they are all kicked and beaten on their bodies, and they don't hit their heads and faces, although the stone pillars are blue and purple, they are not broken, and it is estimated that there are no internal injuries, and they should automatically get better in a few days.

Shi Yu's family originally wanted to go to Ding's house to find Master Ding's theory, but she thought about it again, after all, her own family is weak here, so it is better to wait and see.

In the afternoon, sure enough, Master Ding's housekeeper Ding Dali came, carrying some medicine in his hand. Seeing Shi Yu's family, Ding Dali smiled, nodded and said: "Zhuzi his grandmother, my master Ding specially asked me to come and see, our little master is too ignorant, how can he pound people like this!" This is some herbs, tube bruises, eat a few pairs of injuries to heal quickly. As he spoke, he took out a few pieces of ocean from his pocket, "This is given by Master Ding, buy some food for your pillar!" ”

Shi Yushi accepted the herbs, but she didn't ask for anything about those few oceans.

When Steward Ding left, he said to Shi Yu's family: "Our master also said, please go to Ding's house, and he will compensate you in person!" ”

Hearing this, Shi Yushi thought to himself, this is just Steward Ding's mouth, besides, how can there be any reason to let me go to his house in person? However, Shi Yu was a smart man, and immediately replied: "Okay, I'll go over later!" ”

Ding Dali was embarrassed at this time, he was originally shouting, and he expected that Shi Yu's family would not go to Master Ding's house, and he thought that this old woman would really want to go. But this was already said, and he had to say with a smile: "Okay, I'll go back and tell Master Ding to wait for you at home." ”

After Steward Ding left, Shi Yushi opened a pair of medicines, spread them out and looked at them, and sniffed them on his nose before taking them to fry them. After Shi Zhu drank the medicine, she went to Master Ding's house. It's all from the same village, not far away, and it's only a few breaths away.

When I arrived at Ding's house, I saw Master Ding wearing a black gown and a pair of black cloth shoes, sitting at the big table in the hall, carrying a cigarette pouch in his hand, and it seemed that he had just finished smoking a bag of cigarettes. When Master Ding saw Shi Yu's coming, he ordered someone to bring a stool and invite Shi Yu's to sit down, it stands to reason that the poor family has to stand and talk when they arrive at the landlord's house, but Shi Yu's family is the victim's family, so he is not polite, and sits down directly.

Although this old man Ding is a landlord, he is not very unreasonable to the common people, and he is not like such a domineering and vicious person. In a famine year, he would also work with the Liu family and other large families to help the people in the village. Master Ding first asked Shi Zhu how he was injured and whether it mattered, and then made amends to Shi Yu's family in every way, and then said that his youngest son was not, and said that he had already locked the child in the house and thought about it.

Shi Yu's family didn't expect anything to happen, but when he heard Master Ding say this, he replied: "Master Ding, it is common for children to fight, and there is something wrong with the pillars in my family. I saw that the pillars were all flesh wounds, and if I took a few pills, it would be fine. Hearing Shi Yu's words, Master Ding smiled on his face and said, "It's okay, it's okay!" ”

Shi Yu saw that it was not early, so he left Ding's house under the pretext that he wanted to go home to get food.

After Shi Yushi left, Master Ding hurriedly called his subordinates and instructed her to go to the ditch to wash the stool she was sitting on just now, be sure to wash it, and sprinkle some water in the hall. The landlord is the landlord, and the rich are the rich, they are very particular and superstitious, but all the stools that the poor have sat on, they will definitely have to be washed and cleaned, so that these people will not bring poverty and bad luck to their own homes.

The matter of Shi Zhu's beating was originally over, but it was later spread to his uncle Zhu Guanglian. Although Zhu Guanglian is kind on weekdays, his sister only leaves such a nephew, where can he tolerate Shizhu being bullied like this, but after all, he is far away and can't protect Shizhu every day, and he is also worried that if he makes things bigger, his nephew will suffer in the future, so he thinks about teaching that bastard surnamed Ding a lesson. So, he didn't tell Shi Zhu and Shi Yu's family, he quietly found two barefoot gang members with new faces in the ruins, and directly asked the two to go to Guwei Village to find an opportunity to block Ding Facai on the path.

One of them kicked Ding Facai directly on the grass on the side of the road, and then went up with a few slaps, and Ding Facai was beaten all of a sudden.

The other person stepped forward and grabbed Ding Facai's collar, took out a small handful of pickets from his arms, patted him lightly on the face a few times, and said, "Remember, if you dare to trouble the Shi family in the future, Lao Tzu will kill you!" Also, dare to say to others about this today, I will let you not see your father in the future! ”

This Ding Facai is a person who bullies the weak and is afraid of the hard, but he relies on the money in his family, and he is not very old, so he is scared enough by this battle, and it is already very good that he does not pee his pants. When he got home, he didn't dare to say it, he just made up a random reason, saying that he accidentally ran and fell on the road. After that, Ding Facai never dared to trouble the stone pillar again, and even walked around when he saw the stone pillar. Until now, Shi Zhu felt a little strange, and he didn't know why Ding Facai was always hiding from him as if he was afraid.

In those days, Shi Zhu was lying on the bed, and he pondered one thing: when he was a child, his father taught him some basic moves, and he himself usually practiced twice, and his skills were relatively flexible, and ordinary people couldn't beat him one-on-one. This time, Ding Facai was besieged by several people, and he was naturally difficult to parry, can he think of a move that can deal with two or three people at a time? It would be best if you could go one-on-one in a short period of time and then break several opponents individually.

Later, Shi Zhu thought of a move, if the three of them besieged him together, first deal with the one who was relatively far away from the other two, go up and slap him in the face with a left hook, and then hit him with his right elbow, at this time, ordinary people will basically be beaten down, even if they have a little ability to resist the blow, they will be blinded by the sudden two consecutive blows. If the first person falls to the ground, then the remaining two are easy to clean up, even if the first person does not fall to the ground, then you can just put your hands on the shoulders of the first person as a support, and when the second person is close to the appropriate distance, a crane swings his legs, jumps up with one or both feet to kick the second person out, and then it is a piece of cake to deal with the third person.

Shi Zhu thought about it, if he used this trick to deal with more people, it would be difficult, so he himself thought of a name for this move: I can deal with three people at a time, so it's called "Strike at the Crowd"!

"Strike the crowd" requires that the shot must be fast and accurate, so Shi Zhu intends to strengthen this practice in the coming days, but what he thinks is only in a theoretical stage, and he has to find someone to practice, until a few years later, Shi Zhu worked in the port, and after a few soldiers, he finally proved that the move he thought of was completely effective, and it was very practical, and he could even deal with four people at a time.

On the night before Shizhu recovered from his injuries and was about to return to school, he had another dream, in which there was a little girl of seven or eight years old, wearing pigtails and a floral skirt, which looked particularly cute in the sun. The little girl kept running forward on the grass, and from time to time she turned around and stretched out her hands to smile at the stone pillar, and shouted: "Brother stone pillar, come and play with me!" The stone pillar wanted to reach out and pull it, but he couldn't reach it, and he wanted to see the little girl's appearance clearly, but the sunlight was very dazzling, and he couldn't see it clearly. Suddenly, there was a burst of lightning and thunder, and the originally sunny and sunny world instantly became gloomy, and the raindrops the size of beans fell down, and the little girl was gone. Shi Zhu saw the man with the scar on his hand again, just like he had raised his gun to his father, the man raised the gun to himself, only to hear the "bang", the sound of the gun accompanied by the sound of the rain woke him up from his dream.

The next day, Shi Zhu told Shi Yu what he had seen in the dream, and said that he had a similar dream a few years ago, but the little girl in the dream was only three or four years old at that time, taking small steps, and shouting Shi Zhu to play with her in vague words. At that time, Shizhu didn't care, but this time he dreamed again, and he felt strange, so he told his grandmother.

Shi Yushi thought for a while and said to Shi Zhu: "Zhuzi, don't think too much about the things in your dreams, study hard, maybe after a while, you will be able to figure it out!" ”

In the following years, Shizhu still studied seriously and did not dare to slack off. During that time, schools around the country often organized students to carry out some actions to boycott Japanese goods, as long as it was organized by their own schools, the stone pillars would inevitably not fall, and would always rush to the forefront. He would often see students on the streets handing out leaflets to promote revolution and overthrow the dictatorship, and then a group of police officers came to arrest them, and then he heard that the people who had been arrested never returned.

During that time, Guanyun also suffered a lot of natural disasters, and it became a problem for the common people to eat, and Shizhu always caught a few fat snakes with his ancestral craftsmanship, and cooked soup and drank it with his classmates in school, spraying incense. Shi Zhu often said to his classmates: "It's a pity that this world has changed, otherwise it would be good to be a snake catcher and cultivate land at home in your spare time!" ”

Just when various localities were vigorously carrying out actions to boycott Japanese goods and oppose Japanese aggression, a basin of cold water completely poured cold on the hearts of the common people: Wang Jingwei and Chiang Kai-shek actually jointly issued an order strictly prohibiting the organization of anti-Japanese movements!

After this news came, even Zhang Banxian in the village was indignant, and when he saw the stone pillar, he said: "Pillar, what you said may be right, this Kuomintang doesn't seem to want the people to live a good life!" The little Japanese devils have bullied us Chinese, and the government not only does not fight the little devils, but also continues to encircle and suppress the communist bandit Red Army, and its own people fight their own people. ”

Shi Zhu didn't dare to say much, but just coped and said, "Yes." I heard that the Red Army advocated anti-Japanese resistance, and not only has it not been exterminated in recent years, but its number has increased more and more, which shows that the poor masses do not approve of the struggle in the nest! ”

By the end of the second year, it was rumored everywhere that Chairman Jiang had been imprisoned in Xi'an by Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, and it was not known what the situation was. The situation instantly became tense. Half a month later, the news came that the Nationalist Government wanted to "stop the civil war and unite with the Communist Party to resist Japan."

At this time, Zhang Banxian was happy again: "I'll just say, the government is still clear and knowledgeable." Get rid of the Japanese first, and we'll have a good life! ”

Shi Zhu was accustomed to Zhang Banxian's statements, and there was no need to argue with him about these things now, so he simply replied: "Well, Mr. Zhang, unanimously resist Japan, a good thing!" ”

Since the Communist Party has unanimously resisted Japan, the Communist Party will definitely not be an enemy of the government, even if it is not a friend of the government of the Republic of China. As a result, many Communists suddenly appeared in Haizhou overnight, and they mobilized the masses to support the War of Resistance against Japanese Imperialism and oppose the Japanese imperialist aggression.

Shi Zhu also knew that Mr. Fu of the school was originally a Communist, and he said to Mr. Fu: "I know that the Communist Party is not a bandit!" If you are bad people, then I am afraid that there are no good people in this world for a long time! Mr. Fu smiled and said: "Yes, we communists are not beasts of the flood, we are working for the welfare of the poor people all over the world." One day, we will drive out the aggressors, overthrow the reactionary rule, and establish a new China in which the people are the masters of the country! ”

Under the encouragement of Mr. Fu, the anti-Japanese sentiment of Shizhu and his classmates became even higher, and they all believed in their hearts that as long as they were united with the outside world, they would soon drive the Japanese devils out of the three eastern provinces and out of the whole of China! But things are as simple as they think, and when it comes to graduation, they haven't seen the little Japanese devils being kicked out of China.

During the holidays, Shi Zhu often went to his uncle Zhu Guanglian's trading house to play and exercise himself.

Zhu Guanglian was in the port a long time ago, although he didn't read much, but his mind was more flexible, at first he went to the sea with people to fish, and later worked in Linhongkou Dapu Port, and developed step by step, and now he has a group of workers under his hands. However, the Linhong mouth is very easy to silt up, in the 19th year of the Republic of China, there was a British steamer and a Japanese ship sank in the Linhong estuary channel of Dapu Port, and since then, there will often be ships stranded there.

From that time on, with his keen judgment, Zhu Guanglian realized that Dapu Port was about to decline. Sure enough, three years later, the government planned to build another new port in the area of Sunjiashan and Laoyao. After Zhu Guanglianda heard the news, he went to the scene to check the terrain, here is really as later said, "the mountains are vast to the water", the new port is facing the narrow island, it is a good place to build a port.

Immediately, at the beginning of the construction of the new port, Zhu Guanglian successively moved part of his business to Miaoling, which was a few miles west of the port. In the second year, the No. 1 wharf of the new port was officially opened, and the port was officially named "Lianyungang" because it was located between Liandao and Yuntai Mountain. At that time, Zhu Guanglian's "Guanglian Commercial Bank" and transportation line have all been relocated, and they have been based here for more than a year, and they have already developed slightly, so they have won the jackpot, and the business is very prosperous.

Every time Shizhu leaves Lianyungang at school, Zhu Guanglian will advise: "Zhuzi, study hard, you will be productive in the future, and you will also give your uncle a long face, don't be like me who doesn't know a few big characters!" I look pretty beautiful on the outside, but I'm actually angry everywhere! ”

Speaking of anger, these are the truth, Zhu Guanglian's business is booming, and he will naturally be remembered by people, and there will often be poll taxes, health taxes, and all kinds of miscellaneous expenses that I have never heard of, and I have even been forced to donate a lot of money. Occasionally, local thugs would come to collect protection money, and at that time, Shizhu was young and vigorous, but whenever he encountered this matter, he would never be merciful, and beat those thugs to scream and flee.

When the whole people boycotted Japanese goods, the Japanese goods in Zhu Guanglian Commercial Bank were forcibly searched, and later I heard that they were all burned. Shi Zhu also persuaded his uncle not to buy Japanese goods anymore, and since then, Zhu Guanglian has never shipped Japanese goods or sold Japanese goods.

At this time of school, Shizhu would always promise Zhu Guanglian and say: "Uncle me, don't worry, I will study hard!" But he also knows that in such a world, who can know what way out the scholar will have in the future, it is better to be a farmer, guarding a few acres of land, and still be able to fill his stomach, really.