Anti-Japanese War, weapons designer at Fengtian Arsenal

(Thanks to the reward from the cat)

Li Qinwu took his people away, and Li Xi returned to the bridal chamber, where his wife Zhou Chunhua was waiting for him by the bed.

Li Wei held her hand and looked into her shy eyes.

"Ma'am, rest."

……

The next day, Li Xi pushed open the door of the bridal chamber with a beaming smile, stretched himself, hummed a song and went to work at the Longlong Convenience Store.

"Oh! Mr. Li Wei! You got up so early!"

"Hey, Mr. Li, don't you want to sleep a little longer?"

"Mr. Li Wei, my hens have laid eggs again. Will the store still accept them? I'll send them all to you!"

Along the way, the villagers of Huangtu Village greeted Li Xi enthusiastically, with eagerness in their eyes. The big scene of yesterday was still fresh in their minds. It was certain that Li Xi was a big shot and they had to curry favor with him.

Li Wei nodded in response and walked straight to the entrance of Longlong Convenience Store, where about 10 young people were waiting. They were the staff of Longlong Convenience Store.

Nowadays, Longlong convenience stores in various places have developed into a complex that sells and collects agricultural products, provides medical services, and screens movies. It is impossible for one person to run it all, so after each Longlong convenience store is established in the local area, it recruits a large number of young people to run it.

This is also one of the reasons why Longlong Grocery Store can expand quickly. If Longlong Grocery Store opens a branch in your village, there must be 10 to 15 young people in your village who have jobs. This is such a good thing that many people in charge in the countryside will beg Longlong Grocery Store to open a store in their village, and they will even prepare the store before the deal is reached.

"Mr. Lee."

Several young people greeted Li Xi respectfully. They looked at him with respect. Li Xi took out his key and opened the door of the store. He said to them, "Erdan, you keep the accounts today. Liu Si, you receive the eggs sent by everyone and pack them well. These are for the soldiers on the front line. Xiao Wang, you go to the clinic for duty and memorize the medical book I gave you. When a doctor comes, come to the backyard to find me. Okay, go to work."

Several young men answered yes and went back to work.

Don't think that Longlong Store is just a small store. It covers a large area and has shops, warehouses, clinics, a small screening room, and power generators. Longlong stores in some areas have thermal power boilers, and there are quite a few of them.

Li Wei’s Longlong convenience store has a thermal power generation boiler. After arranging his work, he lit the boiler himself and started generating electricity. Then he went into a broadcasting studio, turned on the radio equipment, and debugged the channel.

The big speaker hanging on the roof of Longlong Convenience Store made a clicking sound of electricity. After Li Wei's debugging, the radio received the Julong broadcast channel and the big speaker began to sing.

"Night Shanghai~Great Shanghai~You are a city that never sleeps~"

The women sitting on the grain drying floor picking vegetables pricked up their ears. A young wife said, "Ah! Which village is this Shanghai? Why aren't the people there sleeping?"

Another woman laughed and said, "Mr. Li said that Shanghai is a metropolis in the East. Do you understand what a metropolis is?"

The young wife said she didn’t understand, but she was very curious and wanted to go and take a look.

The woman said, "Mr. Li said that future shadow plays will be filmed in Shanghai, so we can also see a big city!"

As they were talking, they suddenly saw a woman of about eighteen or nineteen years old and a boy in his teens walking towards the Longlong Store. They were carrying a bamboo basket with eggs in it, and they were probably going to exchange them for money at the Longlong Store.

However, the clothes on the two men were torn and showed signs of damage, and their faces were bruised, as if they had been beaten.

The women who were chattering just now stopped chatting when they saw the two men. When the two men entered the Longlong Store, the women sighed in surprise.

"It's so pitiful. Tan Yuqing and her brother's parents died early. No one is looking after them. They are going to be wiped out."

Several people sighed and lamented, with some pity in their eyes, but when the radio switched from the song channel to the "Life Tips" channel, the women pricked up their ears again, intending to learn some useful knowledge.

Tan Yuqing and her brother walked into Longlong Store, and Tan Yuqing put the eggs on the counter.

"Liu... Liu Si Ge, I... I sell eggs."

Tan Yuqing's voice was so soft as a mosquito, and Liu Si, who was in charge of receiving the goods, almost didn't hear it.

"Ah? What did you say... Oh, eggs, good!"

Liu Si took the bamboo basket and began to count the eggs in it, but his eyes were still on the purple faces of Tan Yuqing and her brother, with their brows deeply furrowed.

"Should 12 eggs be considered money or food?"

Tan Yuqing said weakly, "Food."

"Okay, 6 pounds of corn flour!"

Liu Si opened the grain bag and weighed some corn flour for the brother and sister. After that, he put it on the scale and found it was exactly 6 jin. Liu Si forgot to add two more spoonfuls of corn flour into the grain bag before putting it in the bamboo house and handing it to the brother and sister.

Tan Yuqing said thank you and was about to leave. Liu Si hesitated for a moment and suddenly called her.

"Wait a minute!"

Tan Yuqing stood there in confusion. Liu Si ran to the studio and called Li Xi out.

As soon as Li Xi came out, he saw that Tan Yuqing and her brother were beaten with bruises on their faces.

He frowned and asked, "Were you beaten by your uncle again?"

Tan Yuqing lowered her head and said nothing.

When Liu Si saw this, he became anxious.

"Hey, Sister Tan! This is Mr. Li. Just tell me what's wrong. Mr. Li will give you justice!"

Li Wei asked again: "Do you need help?"

Tan Yuqing shook her head, then grabbed her brother who was staring at the candy on the shelf in the store and ran away.

"Hey, hey, hey! Why are you running? I'm helping you, silly girl!"

Liu Si was anxious, but Li Wei just said, "Stop yelling and go back to work."

Liu Si became even more anxious.

"Mr. Li, the Tan family's brother and sister are about to be beaten to death by their beastly uncle! They are going to wipe out the entire family! Aren't we going to do anything about it?"

Li Xi glanced at him.

"Manage? How? Who are you to manage other people's family affairs?"

Liu Si was speechless, while Li Xi thought of the rural revolution he had carried out on his own initiative and shook his head in self-mockery.

"Just now I asked her if she needed help, but she didn't even have the courage to ask for help."

He looked into Liu Si's eyes, and Liu Si was startled. There was strong anger in Li Wei's eyes, and... anger at his lack of fighting spirit!

"She had the courage to endure the beatings from her uncle, and the risk of being wiped out, but she didn't have the courage to ask for help from others. In this case, we should respect the fate of others."

Li Xi returned to the studio and Liu Sizheng stood there in a daze. He felt that Mr. Li's words seemed to be talking about more than just Tan Yuqing.

Liu Si knew that there had been a lot of trouble in Tan Yuqing's family recently. Tan Yuqing's uncle had taken a fancy to her family's house and land. In addition, Tan Yuqing had reached the marriageable age, so he wanted to sell her for money. Therefore, he had been eating up the family's property in the name of caring for the elders.

There has been a lot of trouble these days. Some people heard that it was because Tan Yuqing's uncle found a buyer, received the money, and was anxious to sell her. However, Tan Yuqing refused to obey because she wanted to take care of her younger brother, so she was beaten to this state.

Liu Si was still worried. After all, they were from his village. It would be too immoral for someone to sell them off and eat up their entire family. He asked someone to help watch over the class for him, and then ran towards Tan Yuqing's house.

He ran to Tan Yuqing's house in a short while. Before he entered the yard, he heard the roar of a man, the sounds of smashing and smashing, and the crying of women and children.