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Chapter 16 Gifts
People without thought, he must worry about.

Li Derun knew this, so although he was reluctant to part with the [-] acres of fertile land on both sides of the river and this ancestral house built with painstaking efforts by three generations of the Li family, he still made up his mind to plan for the worst.The elder son was right in his words, he had to leave a way to survive, the blood of the Li family must be passed on, otherwise he would not be able to explain to his predecessors after a hundred years.

The father and son discussed their family's future until late at night, and finally decided on two policies: one is that Li Chong took a large amount of foreign money at home and replaced it with British pounds and US dollars or "little yellow croakers", which are easy to carry when evacuating; Regarding the issue of retreat, Li Chong was well informed when he was exchanging money abroad, and when he saw the momentum, he sent a telegram back, and followed the Nanjing officials to slip away, there must be nothing wrong with that.

Seeing that his father could understand the seriousness of the matter and find a way out rationally, Li Chong breathed a sigh of relief.

Just when everyone was about to get up and go back to the room to sleep, the second younger brother Zhixin finally said, "Brother, can you play with that needle for me?"

"Don't mess around, it's for grandpa's treatment!" Mother Chen Yueying reprimanded her second brother.

"It's okay, Mom, the medicine has been used up for grandpa, it's useless to keep the needle, and I pulled out the needle, take it." After receiving Li Chong's answer, the second brother Zhixin quickly took the needle Boy, where did children who grew up in the countryside see this kind of thing? It's so fun, it can suck water in, and then shoot it out like a thread.

The third sister Yuanxiu looked at the toy in the second brother's hand, her eyes sparkled, then she jumped off the bench and grabbed Li Chong's lapel with her small hands, "Brother, I want it too."

Looking at Li Yuanxiu, the third younger sister who was just as tall as the bench, standing beside him, Li Chong put his hand on the third younger sister's head, "You're a little grown-up too." Then he hugged the third younger sister and sat next to him.

"That syringe, that's all."

Li Chong hadn't finished speaking when he saw Third Sister curl her mouth, mist was brewing in her eye sockets, and she was about to cry.

"Don't worry, don't worry, when I passed Nanjing, Hong Kong, I brought back a gift, which is much more fun than a syringe."

Li Chong's words attracted Yuan Xiu's curiosity, and his little nose stopped twitching.

"Hey, puppy doll. Uh, I stuffed it in my bag and it's a bit squashed, but it gets better after rubbing it." Li Chong took out the puppy doll for my little sister from his purse. Hong Kong wears suspenders. Children from rich families like this kind of big-eyed plush toys.

Sure enough, the moment the little girl's eyes came into contact with the puppy doll, she couldn't take it away. She could open it from the middle, reach out and hold it in her arms.

"Father and Mother, this is for you, I packed it together." Li Chong took out a palm-sized box and removed the newspaper wrapped outside.

"Oh, I still have something! No need, my mother will be very happy when you come back!"

"What kind of guy is this?" The box was beautifully packaged. Li Derun held the box and turned it over and over against the light, but didn't see any tricks.

Li Chong pointed to the seam in the middle of the box, "It can be opened from the middle."

According to Li Derun's words, there was indeed a gap in the middle of the box, and he pulled it up.

With a "click", the lid of the box was rotated upwards and opened, and a pair of Tissot watches in the box shone brightly under the oil lamp.

"This is a famous Swiss watch I bought for my parents in Hong Kong. Some lords in big cities are now popular with this kind of watch that can be worn on the wrist. This watch is very punctual. As long as it is worn on the wrist, it is not very useful. Wind up."

"Spending money indiscriminately, I have a pocket watch myself." Although Li Derun didn't know how much it cost to buy such a watch, but the copper pocket watch that he hung next to him as a treasure cost [-] foreign dollars when he bought it, and his heart ached. for a long time.

And obviously, the workmanship of this clean lake-like dial is impeccable, and when you listen to it with your ears, the sound of "chachacha" is clear and crisp. In comparison, the pocket watch in my coat pocket is simply a high-end product.

This means that the price of this watch is definitely not outrageous.

"Is it expensive?"

"Father, I live a pretty good life in Hong Kong, and I can earn this little expense myself."

Li Chong took out the smaller one and put it on his mother Chen Yueying's wrist, "Mom, I asked someone to buy the smaller one. It was endorsed by a Shanghai movie star, and many wives rushed to buy it."

"Hey, mother likes it, it's very good. Mother is old, so there's no need for these." Chen Yueying stroked her face joyfully, then stroked it up and hid it in her sleeve.

"In my heart, my mother will never grow old. My mother is only 40 years old. If I dress up, I will look like the ladies in the city."

The second brother Zhixin found that everyone on the table had better gifts than himself, and suddenly felt that the syringe that could absorb and spit water in his hand was no longer fun.

Throwing the needle on the table, "Brother, everyone has a new gift."

"Come on, brother, let me show you something good. We are men and we need to stand on our own in troubled times, so Zhixin, you have to stand up and learn to protect your family from now on!" Li Chong took out a finely crafted Bob from his bag. Ronning put it on the table.

The boy loves guns in his blood, and although his second brother Zhixin is only less than ten years old, when he saw the gun, a fiery light flashed in Tong Zhen's eyes immediately.

Father Li Derun blocked it with a big hand, "Chong'er, you are too, how can you play with a gun for a child."

Li Derun didn't look surprised when he saw the gun, even his mother Chen Yueying's heart skipped a beat.Maybe people in the city don't see guns very often, but in this countryside, especially for landlords like the Li family, guns are very common.

The Nationalist government does not ban guns. Baojia regiment training has always been a tradition. When the Great Revolution went north to fight warlords, Mr. Sun openly encouraged farmers to use guns for self-defense. Now the president of Nanjing also allows civilians to hold guns.

Landlords like these in the countryside will more or less have some guns for self-defense, otherwise how can they deter Xiaoxiao.The family owns a hundred acres of fertile land, and although they haven't set up a security regiment like those big landowners who spend three or four acres at every turn, the more than ten guards in the yard alone are equipped with an old sleeve, Although the Zhuangzhuang team has miscellaneous weapons, they even make up the numbers.

As for the dozens of Zhuangzi around Zhaduo Town, the situation is roughly the same. If a few Zhuangzi search casually, they will be able to gather a local armed force!
So after the fall of Yuan Datou, whether it was Li Qi and Zhang Zheng who entered Jiangsu like a revolving door, or is now designated as the core area of ​​​​the Republic of China by the National Government.Anyway, no matter who is the king in Jiangsu, when the grain requisition team under him came here, they all restrained the temperament of plucking wild goose.If these landowners with guns in their hands are really annoyed, they will be buried in the ground with a sleeve to make fertilizer, and I don’t know what is going on.

But no matter what, the second brother Zhixin is just a child under ten years old, what's the matter with holding a gun and swaggering around?Moreover, the gun on the table was black and shiny. After most of his life, Li Derun had never seen such a beautiful pistol, and he couldn't see it when he put it in his clothes.

Seeing his eldest son taking out the same thing and the same thing from his purse like a treasure chest, Li Derun suddenly felt that his eldest son was the richest landlord?

(End of this chapter)