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The market days in Zhuangyuan Town are 2nd and 7th, while those in Lingnan Town are 5th and 9th. This is a matter of negotiation between the two parties. According to the old people, this has been the case for 300 years.

Because he was sweet-mouthed, handsome, young and handsome, with several advantages, plus he was honest, affordable and had good skills, Chen Zhongliang worked hard for three years and earned some money. With the introduction of matchmaker Cui, he married Guo Baozhu, the third daughter of Guo Ping, who ran a tailor shop on the street.

Guo Baozhu looks ordinary, not gorgeous, and one year older, but she is technical, good at speaking and calculating, smart, and can design adult clothes. This is a treasure girl, Chen Zhongliang agreed immediately, and after getting to know her, he found out that they were classmates in the first grade. Fate is sometimes really wonderful.

Guo Ping's father-in-law generously lent several hundred steel coins to his son-in-law to protect his family. Perhaps Wei Zhongliang was lucky and made good investments in the cloth business. He even stopped being a barber and specialized in selling cloth and ready-made clothes, making more and more money.

Guo Baozhu also gave birth to three fat grandsons for the Chen family, the eldest son Chen Deqing, the second son Chen Qingling, and the third son Chen Guicai.

Why Chen Zhongliang did not inherit the ancestral incense-making technology has to do with the customs and practices of Lingnan. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that the eldest brother is like a father and the eldest sister is like a mother. The heir can only be the eldest brother or sister. Chen Zhongliang, the fourth child, and the three daughters were basically isolated from the incense-making industry. There were also those who tried to cut in line, but the result was chaos and the brothers and sisters became enemies.

Even if superficial harmony is maintained, there are too many people and too little porridge, and people are fighting against each other, which will lead to psychological collapse sooner or later.

Besides, not every father necessarily likes his own children. The Dragon King only likes sons with the attributes of war dragons. If there is no dragon son, then he has to accept the rules of the game in society. This is easy to understand.

Later, the heads of the major families, who were ranked second for a thousand years or third for ten thousand years, realized that choosing the right successor was more important than saving face, and they no longer stubbornly regarded the eldest son or daughter as the only choice.

The country also likes excellent people.

The previous generation had two sons and two daughters. Now it was the second generation of the Chen family. There were three sons, but only the second son, Chen Qingling, had a business mind. Hearing that the military recruitment subsidy for the Formosa Campaign was high, the 17-year-old Chen Qingling volunteered to apply. Although he did not meet the age requirement, he was tall and strong. Perhaps the front line was really short of talent, so he was successful in the interview. He stayed there for two and a half years, which frightened his old father and mother so much that they could not sleep all night.

After Chen Qing Ling was discharged from the army for the first time, he cultivated his mind and cultivated his character. He devoted himself to learning the cloth business from his parents for half a year. The eldest brother Deqing and the third brother Guicai were more obsessed with studying incense making. They followed their uncle and aunt and were good and obedient students. The two elders also taught them everything they knew without hiding anything.

By the end of the 70s, the trend of late marriage had gradually formed. The more ambitious young people knew that a pig could be exchanged for a child, but not for wealth and glory. So they were all eager to get married, competing secretly, and becoming more and more obsessed with learning various skills.

Being the second child, he was in a dilemma and had no right to receive support from his parents. In order to solve the problem of internal division of power, Chen Qingling followed his fellow villagers to Kyoto to find a job.

At this time, after working in a garment factory for half a year, the 23-year-old bachelor received a 300 yuan allowance from the state for retired veterans, plus 500 yuan in compensation from his old father Wei Zhongliang, and rented a temporary stall to sell cloth and ready-made clothes.

He was not afraid of getting up early or coming home late, and his temporary stall was doing well. At the age of 25, he was chosen as a son-in-law by Dong Xiaoyuan, the eldest daughter of the textile tycoon. She gave him money and ten acres of land, which saved him a lot of money for starting a business in the future.

In the same year of marriage, his wife Dong Xiaoyuan gave birth to their eldest son Chen Ziye. A few years later, the Japanese attacked Taiwan again, and these former strong generals were urgently recalled. Today is different from the past. The Chen family is now wealthy, no longer the poor boy who fought with the enemy for a few hundred yuan in subsidies.

His mother-in-law and parents tried to stop him in tears, but Chen Qing Ling was determined to be a hero and brought dozens of like-minded rich kids to join the battle. Guo Ping and his wife could only send their eldest and third sons to move to Kyoto to guard their second son's property.

The Battle of Formosa took longer this time, and he could only rely on the monthly military commission to guess whether his son was safe. After three years of fighting, Chen Qing Ling finally returned home in triumph.

He then plunged into his business empire with great enthusiasm, using Yanxiao's more than 10 acres of land to build two two-story factories.

It opened up his legendary life.

The Chen family under the name The Untamed has two factories with a total of about 600 workers. They will support whichever business is busy rushing goods. One of them specializes in taking on negotiations to make uniform uniforms for various projects. Currently, school uniforms are the largest volume, with relatively stable orders and are more profitable. It is currently being managed by the eldest grandson Chen Wenqiang and his wife, and the second granddaughter Chen Bixia and her husband.

The two factories jointly manage the factory affairs, and the other one specializes in producing outdoor work gloves and socks, such as workers' work gloves. They mainly weave with thread workers and often participate in flood relief donations. Although they are in production 12 hours a day all month, they don't actually make much money.

The only son Chen Ziye and his wife and the eldest brother Chen Deqing's family are the main operators. In the past two years, The Untamed has also been centered around the thread factory. They come to supervise the factory every two days, fearing that it will go bankrupt and they won't be able to pay the wages of the old people in the factory. "Neither alive nor dead" is the whole picture of this factory.

My elder brother Deqing and his family also have many complaints, but they dare not speak out. If I leave the factory of The Untamed, I am afraid I will not be able to move forward. My age is a disadvantage.

As various natural and man-made disasters occurred, the amount of donated goods became even larger. The eldest brother became more skeptical about his younger brother Chen Qing Ling's conciliatory policy and became increasingly dissatisfied.

After a busy day at the factory, Chen Deqing rode his bicycle back to the rented house in the countryside. His wife Wu Xiaohua, who worked as a team leader in another garment factory, also just got home. Deqing couldn't help complaining again: "My old cold legs are so tired. If I had been the one to fight, it wouldn't have been the second son's turn to raise eyebrows and point fingers all day long."

"Our son is good-looking, but why doesn't he have any talent for literature or martial arts? If he marries a wealthy woman, we can enjoy happiness earlier."

Xiao Hua felt wronged after hearing this, her eyes reddened as she said, "That's not certain. Will you definitely become the captain if you go? Bullets have no eyes. It's a miracle that Second Uncle came back alive. Now we still have a labor force to utilize, a meal to eat, a bed to sleep on, and 300 taels of food in our pockets. Be content."

: "Ade, you are really upset, then let's go back to our hometown, it won't be embarrassing."

Chen Deqing sighed and said, "I'm old now, I can't dig in the soil anymore, and I've only learned the basics of making incense. You and I are at least small leaders, and our salary is higher than that of state-owned enterprises. Do you really want to go back?"

The wife, Wu Xiaohua, rolled her eyes at her husband and said angrily, "I'm just saying this to make you feel better. Only a fool would think about things that don't exist. There's no way in my hometown to make as much money as we do now."

"We are not a family that favors boys over girls, and we don't have a throne for the next generation to inherit. If sons are not capable, we can train daughters. A cat is a good cat, whether it is black or white, as long as it can catch mice."

Chen Deqing changed his mind and was also happy, and said with relief: "Ming'er, you have been outstanding since you were young, so we have to spend a lot of money to train you."

"Remember to beat them up tomorrow. Learn some skills and start your own business. They have already walked under the emperor's feet, but their lives are even more ordinary than ours. How can this be possible. Huh."