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Chapter 18 Five Boxes of Foreign Money
"You child, how can you take a shower with cold water." When the mother Chen Yueying heard the voice, she came over and took the water ladle away.

"Mother, I have been used to it for two years. I study in school and sit for a long time. This is also a way to strengthen my body. Look, mother, I am strong and not afraid of cold." Li Chong puffed up his body , the arm muscles are strong and tight.

Chen Yueying looked at the eldest son with thick arms and thick legs, "Hey, you are in a place where mother can't take care of you. At home, mother often worries that you will not have enough food and clothing. Now that you are stronger than a calf, I feel at ease. Mother doesn't want you to have any great abilities, as long as you are healthy and healthy."

"Mother, so give me this ladle. This is called morning bath. I learned it from a master. I get up early in the morning to exercise my body with boxing, bathe my body with well water, and bathe my spirit with the words of ancient sages. You Son, my body is trained like this."

Chen Yueying handed over the water ladle, "You child, when you grow up, mother can't control you anymore, let's take it."

"Mom, I'm going out to do some things these two days."

"I just came back, I have to go again!"

"I'm not going to Hong Kong. The Japanese are going to call me. I have to find a way for my family to survive, right?"

"Little Tiger, is it really as serious as what you said last night? We are just ordinary people living a stable life, not big soldiers with guns. Even if the Japanese come, how can they kill our heads? We will still have to live this day. "

Mother Chen Yueying is really unwilling to leave the place where she has lived for half her life. In this compound, she has a husband and raised three children. Every plant and tree here has her own business. She was not as friendly as her own family, so Chen Yueying was unwilling to leave from the bottom of her heart.But I am a wife and a mother, and I will definitely follow in the footsteps of my husband and son. Home is where they are.

"Mom, the Japanese soldiers are greedy, and they grab money and food wherever they go. You said that now the Japanese soldiers are here and want foreign money from our family and food from the granary. Mom, are you willing?"

"It's my family's own thing. It was left to you, Zhixin and Yuanxiu by your parents. How can you give it to outsiders?"

"Look, mother, the Japanese soldiers have guns. If you don't want them, you can grab them. If you stop them from getting aggressive, you will kill them."

"Oh, isn't this fair?"

"If you're not from my clan, how can you be fair? Back then, the Japanese soldiers wiped out everyone in a big city! Trees were moved to death, and people were moved to live, so I'm going out to investigate the situation."

"Hey, in this world, life is becoming less and less stable!"

Time does not wait, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and there is no news at all in the countryside, as if isolated from the world.So after breakfast, Li Chong was going to put on the agenda the two countermeasures that he had discussed with his father at the table last night.

Put down the bowl, "Dad, I"

Father Li Derun stretched out his hand to signal Li Chong, needless to say, "Come with me to the study."

The father and son walked along the porch to the study room, opened the door and entered. Although the size of the study room was not as expensive as President Lin's home, it was even a bit shabby.There are only wooden bookshelves, a desk, and a chair, but it is the place where the honor of the Li family was born. Grandpa built this study, and grandfather Li Qiantang walked out of this door and became a scholar. The home is now on the scale of [-] acres of fertile land.

So this is the third important place of the Li family that idlers are not allowed to enter after the main house lobby and the granary.

Father Li Derun sat down on a chair, "Last night's conversation is only known to you and my family. Now our Li family is closely related to this Zhuangzi. Of course, I am not so devious that I want to live and die with the tenant farmers, but our every move is very important. It touches people's hearts, if the news that our family is going to leave makes a lot of noise, people will be panicked."

Li Chong nodded, "Father, I understand what you said." He understood his father's worries.

"Well, you are now an adult, and you are more decisive in doing things than being a father. It is true that children who leave home can only grow up. As a father, you have never traveled far. Although you have no achievements for this family, you have been working hard to make this family happy Stable and stable. Troubled times have come, you have to weigh clearly where the family should go in the future. As a father, no matter what you do in the future, the ancients said: self-cultivation, family management, country and world peace, there is only one life, and the family is like this one!"

Knowing a son is like a father, Li Derun understands that this eldest son has his own thoughts.After saying these words, Li Derun sat up from the chair and pushed the bookshelf vigorously.

Li Chong went up to help, and asked while pushing, "Father, what are you doing?"

"Strength!"

The father and son struggled to push the bookshelf away.

"Hey, I'm really old. It used to be easy for my father to push this bookshelf." Li Derun wiped the sweat from his forehead and sighed.

The bookshelf was pushed away, and his father Li Derun took down the rake hanging from the bookshelf.

Facing the third slate tile under the bookshelf, which is a full square meter, insert it into the gap and pry it up.Li Chong helped lift the stone slab away, revealing the dark opening of the hole.

"Father, I always thought that the rake in the study was to teach us children not to forget the roots of Nongsang, but I didn't expect it to be used for this purpose."

Li Chong followed his father down the ladder holding an oil lamp, "This underground space was dug by your grandfather at that time, and all the foreign money of our Li family is in it. This secret will only be told to the eldest grandson of the house. I told you."

"There are five boxes here, and each box contains [-] foreign money. It has been accumulated from your great-grandfather to the present, the savings of three generations. I still remember that the happiest thing for my father when I was a child was sitting here and counting foreign money, listening to ding dong The sound is true in my heart."

Li Chong looked at his father, and didn't laugh at his father's stinging of money. It's not easy to start a business, and it's even more difficult to keep a business.People in rural areas are not like city merchants who buy low and sell high. Behind every foreign coin is the accumulation of copper coins into big copper coins, and each copper character is exchanged for grains of grain.Each box is about one cubic meter in size, and the foreign money is neatly stacked. It is a heavy responsibility to entrust the hard work of three generations to my hands.

Li Derun stroked the silver dollars in the box and sighed, "I was holding a banquet in Zhaduo Town with several other masters of Zhuangzi, and I saw many people using paper money. I don't like the fluffy paper. How can I get foreign money?" It's solid in your hands."

"Father, in fact, the Nanjing government has already ordered that foreign money is not allowed to circulate in the market, and must be legal currency, but in fact the purchasing power of foreign money in the market is much greater than that of legal currency."

"Then what are you going to do with the foreign money?"

"As I said last night, I took a box of foreign money to explore the way first, and tried to exchange it into US dollars and pounds that do not depreciate. The banknotes of these two countries can be used in major cities across the country, and they are as popular as foreign money. I try my best to exchange money in places like Shanghai and Nanjing where there are foreign firms.”

"Are you carrying a box of foreign money alone, is it safe? You can't expose your wealth along the way."

"Let the two brothers Hang Seng and Shunsheng follow. Daddy, you believe in your son. No one can take away my Li family's things under my hands."

Li Chong looked at the foreign money in the box. Although there were all kinds of "small heads" and "chuan foreign money", there were even "Yuan Datou" issued by the warlord Yuan who had already become a loess.But they are all of good quality and the weight is about the same. If according to the casting standard of "Yuan Datou", a silver dollar is 26.4 grams, and a box contains 16 silver dollars, that box is close to 32 kilograms, which is 16 catties. The kind of hand-carried suitcases are packed into two boxes, each weighing [-] catties, and there is no problem in carrying them in your hands.

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