Li Shanren is like a long-dormant autumn insect, spending a long winter and ushering in spring, ready to move. After the spring equinox, he couldn't wait to build a large number of buildings, and expanded the original single courtyard into the upper, middle and lower courtyards according to the appearance of the Li family's compound.

A year and a half later, the expansion project of the Li family was finally completed, and the Li family shop hall was renamed "Houde Mansion", which took the meaning of Houde as perfect as possible. Li Shanren was full of ambition, walked through the upper, middle and lower courtyards, returned to the courtyard, looked at the potted flowers arranged around the atrium, a large water tank like a table of eight immortals in the center of the courtyard, huge lotus leaves floated on the clear water like water lilies, and the leaves were covered with verdant copper coin grass, full of vitality, and my heart was very happy. Outside the courtyard, camphor is planted, and the sun shines through the tall canopy of the camphor tree from the sky surrounded by the eaves into the courtyard, and falls into the pool, which glows with golden light, which is very beautiful.

Li Shanren instructed Niu Laosi to move the mahogany rocking chair to the corridor, and then moved the coffee table and stool, he lay down on the chair, and instantly found the feeling of the Li family compound in Jilu, and hoped that Xianghai would make money in Shanghai and return to Guangfu, teach and educate people, and benefit the villagers, but his lifelong wish.

Xianghai took his father's money and invested all of it in the exchange to buy stocks. Xianghai ran to the exchange every day, seeing that the stock price in his hand doubled, and the profit was more than two or three times, Xianghai wanted to sell arbitrage, and was reluctant to lose the good stocks in his hand, so he couldn't sleep well every night, tossing and turning in bed. Seeing that he was annoyed, Zhao Da said casually: "If you can't sleep at night, then sell your stocks!" Sell the stock and you'll sleep soundly. As soon as Xianghai heard that it made sense, he sold the stock the next day, and then, the stock rose wildly for a few days, Xianghai was annoyed, but soon it fell all the way, and there was no power to come back to life. Xianghai shouted: "Ah Da Shen also! Xiang Haizhi was satisfied, where did he remember that Li Shanren said that he wanted him to make money and return to Guangfu to teach and educate people, and he was bent on waiting for the stock price to fall to the bottom, waiting for the opportunity to enter the market again, and wanted to pick up more stocks at a cheap price. But the stock price went all the way down, as if it had entered a bottomless pit, and there was hell underground, so Xianghai was so frightened that he didn't dare to make a move, so he had to stand still.

That night had nothing to do, Xianghai dragged Zhao Da out for a stroll, crossed the Waibaidu Bridge, and came to the "public garden" under the bridge, only to see the high-nosed, blue-eyed and blond foreign men and women in the park, talking about Yangwen walking in the park, the lights in the park were dim, and the soft foreign music floated out of the flowers and grass, decorating this riverside garden like a fairy tale world. At the entrance of the park, there is a sign engraved with the rules of the park, which reads: "Except for Westerners and servants, Chinese are not allowed to enter...... Xianghai and Zhao Da can only watch from a distance through the iron fence and cannot enter, Zhao Da gritted his teeth with hatred: "China's place, Chinese are not allowed to enter, how can this be reasonable!" Xianghai said: "The Chinese are too weak because they are too poor, and only when they become rich and strong can they drive foreigners out of China." Zhao Da heard this and said: "What you said is different from what Lin Rong said, Lin Rong said that only a gun can save China." However, neither the barrel of the gun nor the money bag has made China strong after so many years. "It's not easy to be strong when you're poor and weak."

The two talked and walked along the concession towards the 16th shop. After the demolition of the wall and the construction of the road in Shanghai, the 16 shops that were originally outside the city are not what they used to be, the wharf, the market, the wine store, the barracks, the government office, the Confucian school, the Buddha Immortal Palace, the business name is numerous, the poles on both sides of the road are erected, all are equipped with electric lights, even now at night, the lights are brilliant, and the shops have not yet closed the door. Residents go to the concession in the evening to shop and look at the lights, and even the road outside the dignified Taoist Yamen in the city, the street lamps are still artificially lit old-fashioned oil lamps. Now when it comes to entering the city, it is to enter the concession, and when you go to the city, you have to crown the word "old" to distinguish it from going to the old city. Xianghai and Zhao Da were tired of walking, and sat down to rest on the steps of the sixteen-shop pier, and in front of them was a towering weather signal tower. Xianghai looked up at the top of the tower and said, "It's not good, there will be strong wind and rain tomorrow." Zhao Da asked strangely: "Now the wind is slow, where will there be wind and rain tomorrow?" Xianghai pointed to the black and white balls on the top of the tower and said: "You see the black ball landing, that is, it is predicted that there will be strong wind and rain, if a few boats are overturned due to a storm tomorrow, and a few people die, the stock of the sand boat will fall sharply, and the cotton will rise sharply." Zhao Da asked puzzledly: "Why do you want the world to be turned upside down, people and dead ships to capsize?" He feels that since the Xianghai brothers started stock trading, they often have "bad intentions" on whims. Xianghai explained: "Do you think, the owner of the ship capsized a boat, even if there are 100 ships, the profit is not worth the capital of a boat, maybe the surplus of the previous year will be lost, who will buy his stock?" No one buys his stocks, and those who have other stocks are all rushing to sell them at a low price, and the stock price will inevitably plummet. Cotton is just the opposite, in bad weather, cotton can not be harvested, everyone rushes to buy, and the stock of course rises. Zhao Da seemed to be very reasonable when he heard what Xianghai said, but he was still confused, and asked Xianghai: "Even if the sand boat stock falls to nothing, it falls and no one buys it, so you let it fall, why do you have to read him all day long?" Xianghai said: "I'll buy his stock, maybe the owner of the ship borrowed money from the silver to buy more advanced and faster ships, faster and safer than other people's ships, business is getting better and better, and the stock price will rise again?" Zhao Da said: "Maybe it's something, what do you want him to do, I'm just thinking about how to turn a piece of paper into money." People say that Shanghai Shili Yangchang is worth a thousand gold, is this really the case? ”

While talking, the self-striking bell of the customs building rang "dangdang", and the two did not know how many times the self-striking bell rang, only to see a bearded "red head" with a red scarf wrapped around his head coming over and shouting to them: "Hey! Chinese, curfew! What are you still sitting here? Xianghai realized that the 16th shop, which was still brightly lit just now, is now dark, and the business has closed. Originally, the concession was the same as the "public park", and the Chinese were not allowed to enter, but later, when the Chinese entered the concession to do business and the foreigners were profitable, the Chinese were allowed to enter the concession before 9 o'clock at night, and a curfew was imposed after 9 o'clock to prevent disputes caused by Chinese and foreign people. Just after the bell had struck nine times, the "red head" came over, and without saying anything, he sent the two into the patrol room.