Xiaolu said: "Let's talk about your business experience first." Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoI know that if you are thriving, you will definitely have to do other business. ”

Liu Xinting said: "Yes." I run a powder shop. My vermicelli, the potatoes are cleanly washed, the ingredients are real, absolutely not toothy, the vermicelli is resistant to cooking, and the reputation is good. ”

Xiaolu said: "I understand, it's cheap for you to buy small potatoes, but it's cost-effective to make vermicelli from small potatoes, and you can produce more powder." ”

Liu Xinting said: "Your family also opens a powder mill? No. It's really worthy of reading a big book, and I know everything. ”

Xiaolu said: "In addition to vermicelli, I heard that you also do other businesses." ”

Liu Xinting said: "Siping Street 369 set, Gongzhuling 147 set." 369 is the 3rd, 13th, 23rd, 6th, 16th, 26th, 9th, 19th, and 29th of the first month. Our family sells kang mats, earthen baskets, ropes, hemp, eggs and salted duck eggs. Pork is also sold during the Chinese New Year. Otherwise, where will we live? The children in the family still have to study, and they have to go out to study in foreign schools, and they all have money. ”

Rushing to the market is an important part of Northeast culture. The bazaar is usually in the countryside, because the city is full of buying and selling every day. The countryside where the market is located must be an area with developed agriculture and a large number of people, but the towns are not very developed. From the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, there were many such areas in the Northeast, so rushing to the market became an important phenomenon in the rural areas of the Northeast.

The market is usually located in a relatively large village or a relatively small town. The bazaar can be spread along the street or in a large open field.

The time of the market may be stopped during the busy agricultural season, and it may be increased during the New Year's holidays, but there is usually a certain rule, such as once a few days a day. The market is very bustling every other day. If you trade every day, it's town.

The people who rushed to the market were all farmers in the vicinity. Many of them sell their goods and buy back what they need.

For young people and children, looking forward to going to the market is like looking forward to the festival, especially before the Chinese New Year, which is a common experience for almost all rural people in Northeast China in the early years. Because of the market during the New Year's Festival, there are not only New Year's goods to buy, but also Yangge, as well as two-person turns, and all kinds of entertainment.

In "The Biography of the Hulan River", although Xiao Hong only mentions the word "rushing to the market" twice, the street market she describes is actually the Northeast market.

Xiaolu said: "Where is the source of goods?" ”

Liu Xinting said: "The goods must be collected from the villager's house, and it must not be mean." ”

Xiaolu said: "I understand. I didn't know that the person had bearded relatives at home. ”

Xiaolu said: "I heard that you still have a business in Siping Street, and you also have a business in Lishu County. ”

Liu Xinting said: "Yes." These are the two shops that sell things. Originally, it was sold in a cart, and then the shop was opened. These two shops are in the hands of my two brothers. Captain Lu, I know that you are the Red Army, you are the Communist Party, the young marshal is gone, you come back, and it is very powerful to make a scene in the east and the north. I admire. I have a question that I don't know if to ask. ”

Xiaolu said: "Just ask." If I can answer clearly, I will tell you directly. If you don't understand, ask your superiors and then answer. ”

Liu Xinting said: "The Red Army will sit in the world in the future, will it be communist?" ”

Xiaolu said: "At present, our proposition is to unite all forces to resist Japan. We will never give up until we defeat the Japanese, and we will not change our policies, we will not carry out land reform, and we will not divide the land of large families, but it is possible to reduce rents and interest rates. In fact, you think that reducing rent and interest is equivalent to giving the Japanese money to everyone, partly to yourself, partly to tenants, and partly to public grain. As for the Japanese gone, it's hard for me to answer. ”

Liu Xinting said: "I understand this." In fact, our family has a big business, and it is better than that of poor households. ”

Xiaolu said: "I personally advocate that our Red Army do some business to supplement military expenses and try not to increase the burden on the people. There is a lot of wasteland here in the Northeast, and clearing the wasteland can solve part of the military rations. Please rest assured that this is also true. ”

Liu Xinting said: "If you can really do this, that is the teacher of benevolence and righteousness." ”

Xiaolu said: "I have a few things I want to discuss with you. Xiao Lu knew his mind very well.

Liu Xinting said: "Say it." I will do what I can do. "He has words in his words, and he does what he can do, and he doesn't do what he can't.

Xiaolu said: "First, I heard that the Liu family let the children of the whole village study in their own private school, I want to buy your private school house, and pay another sum of money to pay the salary of Mr. Teaching, add things to the school, and let the children of all families come to school." I'll send someone to be a teacher and principal, what do you think? ”

Liu Xinting said: "This is a good thing. Then I'll donate this house. I can also reach out to other big families to donate money to build a few more houses. ”

Xiaolu said: "Okay. Second, I want to partner with Mr. Liu to do business, and contribute money to invest in your shop in Siping Street and Lishu County, mainly to purchase and process some things for us, what do you think? ”

Liu Xinting suddenly fell into thought and was silent for a long time.

Xiao Lu saw that he was worried, and said, "First, our shareholding is secret, and only a few principals of your family know about it. Only a few of our people know about it. Second, you cooperate with us for the sake of the nation and for the sake of resisting Japan, and the condition is to purchase and process some things for us. Third, on the surface, how to deal with the puppet Manchurians and the Japanese, how to deal with them, there are important matters to discuss with us. Fourth, we will not let you suffer, we will invest as much as your buying and selling value, but we only hold 40% of the shares. What do you think? ”

Liu Xinting still didn't speak.

Xiaolu said: "Okay, let's talk about it today, if you can't settle down, think about it slowly, I won't force it." However, I am glad that you have supported the cause of the anti-Japanese cause. Then I'll go. Good bye. ”

Liu Xinting said: "Wait a minute. Captain Lu, I promise you, the matter of partnering to start a business will be done according to your terms. ”

Xiaolu said: "Thank you." We thank you for your deep understanding of righteousness and your contribution to the fight against Japan. In the future, our people will discuss specific matters with you, and then hand over the money to you. ”

Liu Xinting said: "I don't know if your party can sit in the world, but I believe that you are a person." This time, I'm putting my net worth and life on the line. If something happens, please protect my family. ”

Xiaolu said: "Okay. We're human and won't let you take any chances. By the way, let me check with you, Guo Fengsheng, the pseudo-policeman in the police station here, has a life in his hands and has killed people for the devil, right? ”

Liu Xinting said: "Yes." He is a Japanese celebrity, who is not afraid of him? Someone like us has to give him at least fifteen dollars every time he comes. He killed an anti-Manchurian anti-Japanese person, and killed a person who had a grudge against his family. He is known for hundreds of miles. ”

Guo Fengsheng was executed that night, and the puppet police in several nearby towns were worried and restrained a lot. Liu Xinting and other big families also saw it.

Liu Xinting's family later became a collaborator of dozens of trade and production enterprises of the Anti-Japanese Federation, and there were several big names in the younger generation. His family started by buying saltpeter and sulfur for the advance team, and later sold some products for the advance team, and the business gradually expanded, and the influence gradually expanded. Later, became the manager of the huge enterprise of the advance army.

Whenever they think about this, they are grateful to Xiaolu for that visit to his home. When Liu Xinting was old, he often recalled that meeting with his descendants, and in the end, he always said: "I really regret that time, I forgot to invite Captain Lu to dinner." Why do you think I'm so rude? ”

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1. Peasants, landlords, and industrial and commercial households are the main sources of income. Landlords, like the middle class in modern society, are the main targets of the government to kill the rich and help the poor, and they are also the main targets of bandits.