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Chapter 149 Parents' Adaptation
Under the bright moonlight, the wind outside the house is cool.

"I don't know how Chong'er is doing now. Where did he go? There hasn't been a telegram for such a long time?" Halfway through the work in hand, Chen Yueying, the mother who was leaning against the oil lamp, sighed suddenly, and her son had traveled thousands of miles. Before leaving Nanjing, Li Chong sent a telegram saying that he would move to Sichuan with the school.

This is a real journey of thousands of kilometers on foot. From the moment she received the telegram, Chen Yueying's heart has been hanging.But a few days ago, I heard that the city of Nanjing was shot down by the Japanese devils, killing so many people, corpses piled up like a mountain, and the Yangtze River outside Nanjing was dyed red.

Chen Yueying has seen how wide and rushing the Yangtze River outside Nanjing is, it is all stained red with blood, how many heads have been beheaded!So when she heard the news that the Japanese devils had killed people, Chen Yueying kept thinking about the blessings of the Bodhisattva in her heart.If it wasn't for the blessing of the Bodhisattva, how could his son come out of Nanjing early?

"He has grown up and has his own opinions." Compared with his mother, Chen Yueying, Li Derun is much more open-minded, and he is still counting on paper with the pen in his hand.

Li Derun, the father who has been a lord in Lizhuang for half his life, used to care about the use of every foreign money, but he would not calculate it all on paper like he wants to do now.

"How old is he, can he take care of himself?" In the mother's eyes, it seemed that her child would never grow up.

"Don't worry, you don't have to treat him like a second child or a third child. Do you know that if Chong'er asked Xiao Tong to buy this house in advance, if he bought it now, he would have to spend at least three times the amount of foreign money?"

Speaking of this, Li Derun's face was full of emotion.After Nanjing was destroyed by the Japanese, many foreign masters with panicked faces flooded into the city. The houses in the whole city are already priceless, even if the house like the one I live in now, the price has doubled. More than three times.

Hearing that the value of the house has increased so much, Chen Yueying put down the needle in her hand and said with a clear expression, "No wonder the Dahong family sold their house, and the family of three built a thatched house to live in."

The Dahong family mentioned by his mother Chen Yueying is an aborigine at the foot of the same mountain. Two days ago, he sold his family's house to a foreign master. For the large sum of money in the house, Da Hong was fooling around in the city all day long.

"It's not just his family, many local people have sold their houses for a large amount of foreign money." Li Derun knew about this for a long time.

"Then where do they live?"

"Either dig a hole, or go up the mountain to build a shed to live in. The foreign master dragged his family and urgently needed a place to stay. He only had money on his body. He took out a handful of bills and put them forward. Where have the locals seen so much money? Naturally. Sell ​​the house, exchange money and go to the city to be happy."

The topic ended here, and the two continued to keep their heads down and busy caring about the matter at hand.

"In the past two days, I have spent nine extra large copper coins, and the price of briquettes has been rising more and more." Li Derun slowly finished the calculation on the wicker chair, and said suddenly.

Everywhere in this big city costs money, and now this one is still at the foot of the mountain, strictly speaking on the edge of the city, but it still costs money for everything.In other words, everything that used to be self-sufficient in Lizhuang needs money now and here.

It costs money to buy food. With more and more people, the price of food is almost the same every day.Fortunately, the factor of Li Derun, who is used to being a landlord, has soaked into his bones. It seems that the family will not be stable without grain, so the house is under the roof of the third floor and in the cellar. Stock up on food.

In addition to the problem of food, you also need to buy firewood for life. You can only buy seven black coal balls for a big copper coin!I heard that it will go up, and soon there will be a certificate to buy coal balls, and the purchase of coal balls with a certificate, and this certificate will also cost money to buy!
There are too many places to spend money, so Li Derun, who was not willing to spend an extra foreign money before, is now more careful about his budget.Although the money is not short, and Li Derun now understands how much money the elder son gave him with the foreign women's head on the banknotes!
On the second day after arriving in Chongqing, from the purchase of large pieces of furniture to the simple repair of the house, the ready-made ocean flowed straight out like flowing water.Without making a sound, all the foreign money that was at the bottom of the box disappeared.

Li Derun acted like a fool, watching the furniture and objects brought in, and then took out a lot of foreign money.

Fortunately, the eldest son said that cash money is definitely not enough, so he asked himself to exchange it with those banknotes with foreigners' faces printed on them. One or two tickets can exchange a lot of foreign money.

So he took a ticket with the woman's head on it from the bottom of the box and put it on his body, took Shunsheng and Xiaotong to a foreign company in the city with a Mi Ziqi flag.At the beginning, I was still worried. The money store was completely different from the one in my hometown in Taicheng. The glamorous appearance inside made people afraid to sit in it. There was actually a blond foreigner inside, who could understand when he opened his mouth. , with the accent of Chongqing locals.

This surprised Li Derun, and then he took out the banknotes from his underclothes trembling with nervous hands. The foreigner took the pound, read it through the light, and enthusiastically took out a large bag of bundles of brand-new French currency. Repeatedly persuading myself that if it is converted into legal currency, it can be exchanged more than foreign money.

But Li Derun is not stupid, insisting on foreign money.Only the shiny foreign money can make me feel at ease, and the French currency has been depreciated so badly that even the local old lady who buys vegetables on the street shakes her head when she sees someone take out the French currency.

In the end, Li Derun pre-deposited a large part of the foreign money exchanged for one hundred pounds in the foreign bank, and then carried a heavy bag full of one hundred foreign coins, and the foreign bank issued a ticket for the deposited money, which could be withdrawn at any time.This time alone, Li Derun understood how valuable the banknote with the foreigner's face was.

People's adaptability is infinite. After coming to Chongqing at the beginning, there was a cognitive impact every day.But now, the parents, who spent half their lives as landlords in the small village, have integrated into the city's way of life.

For example, after a long period of time, the two brothers Shunsheng and Hengsheng began to cut some dry wood in the mountains and came back after they had figured out the local terrain and conditions, so there was no need to burn expensive black things everywhere.Even when Li Chong was a child, his mother who wore two small jackets picked up the handicraft that she stumbled in the past. The winter sweaters worn by the second brother Zhixin and the third sister Yuanxiu are all made by the mother and the maid Xiaoliu. hand.

But at first, the Li family who just arrived at the foot of the mountain did attract the attention of some idlers in the area at the foot of the mountain. The family didn't seem to be short of money.

Some local idlers came to find trouble, but they were beaten up by two big and three rough brothers of Shunsheng and Hengsheng. In the end, the two brothers took a shotgun to the gate of the courtyard, and the gangsters who wanted to make a fortune broke away.

When there are too many people, fish and dragons are mixed together, and the order is very chaotic. Before the local police come to the door, those who have nothing to do have already robbed and dispersed.This is not a joke, there are robberies and sneaking incidents in and out of the city every day, and several nearby migrant households like myself were robbed before their new homes were tidied up.

(End of this chapter)