After dinner, Shen Anan was sitting in front of the window writing and painting, and now her painting business is much busier than before. However, in order to ensure the quality of the paintings, and not wanting to be too tired, she received three to four orders a day. If it's a more difficult painting, she takes one less order. Sometimes Liu Ruhai will leave Shen Anan to have dinner at home, and when Shen Anan is in a good mood, he will offer his cooking skills.

After coming into contact with Liu Ruhai, Shen Anan knew that Liu Ruhai was not easy. He and his wife have a good relationship, but they didn't expect that they would have no children after more than ten years of marriage.

So he succeeded Liu Ruhai's younger brother's son Liu Qing to raise them. Unexpectedly, Liu Qing was like his father, a loser. Give him money to go to school, but he can't read, and he either throws the money into the casino, or eats and drinks nonsense.

This time, Liu Qing was even more excessive, stealing Liu Ruhai's wife's most precious bracelet and selling it, and Mrs. Liu couldn't afford to get sick.

Shen Anan knew that Mrs. Liu was not in good health, and sometimes came over to help, saying that she would stay at his house for dinner, but she also helped cook rice or something.

"Sister An, you said that if you were our daughter, how good it would be. You say that we are not guilty of our previous life, so God punishes us for not having children in this life. ”

Shen Anan put Mrs. Liu's hand in his hand and comforted: "Mrs. Liu, don't think so, it's because of everyone's physical reasons, and it has nothing to do with God." Immediately, Shen Anan roughly explained to Mrs. Liu that the absence of children may be due to many reasons, and comforted her to adjust her mentality and so on.

Under Shen An'an's comfort, Mrs. Liu's mood slowly improved.

Liu Ruhai sent Liu Qing back because of this, no longer gave him money, and no longer recognized him as his stepson. Liu Qing's father, who had no financial resources from his eldest brother, angrily chased him after his son with a stick for a few streets.

When Liu Ruhai saw such a scene, he could only turn a blind eye. When Liu Qing passed on to him, he had already set his sex. Later, he didn't listen to Liu Ruhai's discipline at all. Liu Ruhai threw himself on the shop again, Mrs. Liu is a soft character, and she is really powerless to discipline children.

"Sister An, are you still painting?" When Shen Anting came to Shen An'an's room, he saw that she was painting very seriously with her head down.

Seeing him coming, Shen Anan hurriedly made a stool for him to sit on. "Brother, you're here, sit down."

The current Shen Anting is much darker and stronger than when Shen Anan first saw it. Because I often go up the mountain to pick herbs, and sometimes I have to collect herbs picked by others and dry them, and I often run in and out, and I get tanned.

However, Shen An'an felt that Shen Anting looked stronger and more handsome than before. No wonder Zhao Chunhua went to their house more often than before.

Shen Anan later learned that when she was not at home some time ago, Zhao Chunhua was diligent when she came to their house. Even sometimes help them cook, and then Shen Anxiu came, the family didn't need to help cook, the work of collecting herbs was Shen Saburo and Cao's, Zhao Chunhua often had nothing to do, plus her family, she didn't let her come, saying that she was afraid that the people in the village would gossip, so she came less.

After Shen An'an came back, she followed Shen An'an to the studio to help.

"What are you doing sitting and standing?" Shen An'an moved his buttocks and gave his brother a seat.

Shen Anting didn't sit down, just stood there casually, leaning against the wall behind Shen An'an, as if he could get closer to her.

"Sister An, I want to talk to you." Shen Anan seemed to have guessed that his brother would say this, looked at him, and said with a smile, "Say, what do you want to talk to me about?" ”

When talking to Shen Anting, Shen Anan had already drawn a structure similar to a house. It was a beautiful house, and it was very different from the structure of their house here.

Because when he came, Shen An'an was almost finished, and Shen Anting didn't see it very clearly.

Shen Anting didn't know when this younger sister in the family became so capable. It's really not like her sister anymore. That is, he can write poems and paintings, make moon cakes, and cook. He hardly looked at what Shen An'an had done at home, but she was like a prodigy, no matter what it was, once it was in her hands, it would not be difficult.

Shen Anting's feelings for Shen An'an's brother and sister are also complicated now, because he finds that he can't understand her more and more, and he doesn't know what she is thinking in her heart. She looks happy, but in fact she has a lot of things hidden in her heart.

All she told them was good news, and she slowly carried all the difficulties and worries. To be honest, this feeling is very uncomfortable, and Shen Anting will have a feeling of powerlessness. A big man asked his sister to rush in front and let her help the family shelter from the wind and rain, this feeling is not very comfortable for any man.

Since Shen Anan went to the Mid-Autumn Festival hunting competition last time and won the prize, he was even more surprised, and the whole family was also shocked.

Hearing that Shen An'an won a reward of five hundred taels, she didn't take it out, nor did she tell her family. After the Cao family knew about this, they complained several times, but they were all suppressed by Shen Saburo and him.

Because they felt that Shen Anan had obtained the money herself, and she had the right to decide how to arrange it.

"Our rhubarb business may not be able to be done, the key is that the amount we handed over to the shopkeeper Tong this time is not enough." Immediately, Shen An told the story that someone maliciously raised the price and made a hostile takeover.

Shen Anting thought that Shen An'an would be taken aback after hearing this, but he didn't expect that the expression on her face did not change too much.

After listening to it, not only did he not reproach him, but he comforted him.

"Brother, I actually noticed the situation you mentioned some time ago. I was going to tell you, but I forgot about it because I was too busy. I'm really sorry that I was negligent about this matter. ”

Hearing her sister apologize to herself, Shen Anting was embarrassed, no matter what she did, it was not her turn to apologize. "No, Sister An, this matter has nothing to do with you, it's my brother who didn't do a good job. You're so busy, you just give me such a thing, and I haven't done it yet. I'm really a little embarrassed. ”

Shen An'an understands his brother's mood very well, but he can't be blamed for this, after all, Shen Anting is also the first time to do this kind of business, and it is normal to not know the rules of the market.

So she patiently explained to him: "The matter in front of you is actually an inevitable process, because this matter has a lot of interests. Some people see that it is profitable, so they do not hesitate to imitate it. ”

"Didn't my mother and father tell you something?" Shen Anting thought that it was the Cao family and Shen Sanlang who couldn't bear to tell Shen An'an in advance, so she came prepared.

Shen An'an shook his head, and then explained to Shen Anting slowly: "I guess, because this is the law of the market. When the moon is full, it loses, the tide rises and falls, and all follow certain laws, which are all the same truth. ”

Shen Anting was a little incomprehensible. "What does that mean?" Shen Anting also thought that Shen An'an learned these truths from Li Sheng or Song Jun, after all, his sister was not so sharp before. Now she went to the Li Mansion and went to Ruizhi Hall as an apprentice, and after she came back, she said one by one, which made him a little impressed.

"I mean, when anything goes to a certain point, there are both good and bad sides. After the fifteenth and sixteenth days of the month, the moon begins to slowly return to its original point, and at the beginning of the month, it becomes a moon bud. And the waves in the Yangtze River, there are times when the tide rises and there are times when the tide falls, as long as we master this law and use it for our own use, we can get twice the result with half the effort. ”

"Master the rules and use them for me?" Shen Anting muttered these two words in his mouth, and after half a sound, he seemed to understand a little, and his eyes became very bright.

"So tell me specifically, how did you guess the problem of the lack of rhubarb? Or that someone else will get ahead of us. ”

To put it bluntly, it is the word profit. Because of the profit drive, more and more people go up the mountain to pick rhubarb in large quantities. But wild rhubarb, there are so many in total, and of course there will be fewer and fewer picks every day. In fact, even if others don't make hostile takeovers, our supply of rhubarb will only decrease day by day. Afraid that his brother wouldn't understand, Shen Anan tried his best to use relatively simple and easy-to-understand words and give him examples.

"I see, so how do we deal with it?" Shen Anting was even more curious about why his sister knew everything.

"If we do ours well, we can avoid their edge for the time being, work harder at most, and change the purchase channel."

Shen An'an said a bit professionally, and Shen Anting didn't understand it.

"Sister An, what do you mean by changing the purchase channel?"

"Originally, we went to the mountains to dig herbs and collect the herbs that were sent to our house by nearby villagers to sell. Now we have changed to Linxian or other places to buy goods. Although we need to buy it elsewhere, we avoid confrontation with them. ”

"The reason why those people do this is nothing more than to make us desperate and then buy the goods they have hoarded at a high price. Once we don't accept their goods, and they don't make rhubarb charcoal, those recovered rhubarb will become rotten grass roots, worthless. When they are anxious to cry and cry for their mother, and are ready to throw it away, we will recycle it at a very low price. will fight a beautiful counterattack. ”

This time, Shen An'an said it slowly, and Shen Anting understood it, and couldn't help but become very excited.

"Sister An, do you think they will really do this? Why would they do this? ”

Shen Anan couldn't help but make a very helpless expression. "I don't know. Maybe they don't like what we're doing and want to teach us some lessons, or maybe they just want to make a profit, but I don't think they can do it for long. ”

Then she added, "A good decision-maker is not to follow the trend and imitate others, but to learn to open up the market." So Shen An'an drew a big pie on the paper and compared the pie to an immature market