To get rich quickly, you need to be simple and rough

Chapter 192 It’s Not Easy to Be the Richest Man in Ming Dynasty 4

Having just moved to the countryside, there weren't so many fat chickens and ducks for these people to spoil. At Shen Fu's command, the concubines picked some vegetables from the vegetable garden and took some eggs from the chicken coop.

This was the only meat in the family's meal. The old housekeeper met a tofu seller at the intersection and spent ten cents to buy a tray of tofu. Since there were many people in the family, the tofu and young spinach could make a dish.

The Shen family's dinner consisted of spinach and tofu soup, with a plate of scrambled eggs on each table and two kinds of pickled vegetables. The Shen family, hungry all day, ate with great relish, no longer pretentious as they had been in the mansion.

When they were in the mansion, these people were really good at making trouble. They were very creative in eating. When eating shad, they only ate the tender meat on the belly and cheeks, and gave the rest to the servants.

When eating tofu, it has to be cut into the thickness of a hair, otherwise it will not show the owner's delicacy.

When eating vegetables, you have to use chicken, scallops, pork bones, and tendons to make soup, skim off the fat, and blanch the vegetables in broth.

The Shen family used to be very particular about food, clothing, and apparel.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang showed mercy and allowed these people to take a little bit of personal belongings with them, they did not dare to spend money recklessly.

Shen Fu watched his children and grandchildren eat up all the vegetables and tofu, and couldn't help but raise a sarcastic smile at the corner of his mouth: "The family is in a difficult situation now. From now on, every male member must go to school, and the women must not slack off. They must do the laundry, cooking, knitting and needlework themselves.

There is a loom in Zhuangzi's storeroom, and you should also spin yarn and weave cloth to supplement your family income.

A group of concubines felt like the sky was falling. They thought Tie Fugui's life was destined, but who knew that life could be changed in an instant.

In the past, people who wore gold jewelry thought it was tacky and had to have gemstones and pearls inlaid on it to show their elegance. Now, this little bit of money you spend on yourself can make you rich for a few days.

In the past, I had to have bird's nest porridge for breakfast to moisten my throat, but now this spinach and tofu soup can also be delicious. It shows that in this life, there is only happiness that cannot be enjoyed, but no sin that cannot be endured.

When Empress Dowager Cixi was starving, she could eat two steamed buns, let alone the people of the Shen family. When you are hungry, bran tastes as sweet as honey, but when you are full, honey is not sweet!

Shen Fu also risked his life. The Shen family had to live a low-key life. This time, the eldest grandson shamelessly saved the whole family. If these people only remembered to eat and not to be beaten, it would be a disaster for the whole family!

My grandson is right. Before you have absolute strength, you should control your temper! The Shen family, without any foundation, is just a fat pig waiting to be slaughtered.

Shen Fu would remember Zhu Yuanzhang's meaningful look for the rest of his life. It was the look he gave one when looking at fat meat on a chopping block. The contempt, tinged with mockery and suspicion, instantly killed Shen Fu's desire for power.

It was like pouring a basin of cold water on a flame, cooling it down with a crackling sound. Shen Fu discovered that the money tricks he had used in the past to win over officials and wealthy businessmen were no longer effective.

Shen Fu suffered his first Waterloo in his life, and it was this investment that almost ruined the Shen family.

When the nest is overturned, no egg can remain intact. If the whole family is really exiled to a smoky and dangerous place, only one third of the Shen family will be left.

No matter how much people teach, they can never learn. But once things teach you, you will understand everything. Shen Fu is determined to change his family's extravagant and licentious lifestyle.

Shen Fu was a farmer's son who accidentally got a treasure pot, which started the story of the Shen family's rise to wealth. Now this man who has been rich for half his life has suddenly figured it out and decided to keep a low profile to save his life.

Thus began the Shen family's days of living in a small village in the countryside. Second wife Shen Wang's daughter, Yu Zhen, was five years old and very cute.

She follows Shen Yujin around every day, calling him "big brother". Shen Yujin also likes this little sister very much and often brings some fashionable gadgets for the little girl to play with.

Since they had just moved to the village and the yard wasn't very deep, Shen Yujin first heard the rooster's desperate crowing early in the morning. The noise was so loud that it gave Shen Yujin a headache.

Li Yujin got up, dressed, and left the house. The courtyards of the Shen family's main and second houses were adjacent. He saw Aunt Zhang holding a dead rooster in her hand and walking towards the backyard wing. Shen Yujin thought it was Sister Zhen who was craving chicken soup.

When the child is growing up, he always feels that he does not have enough food to eat. After moving to the countryside, he has been eating bland soup for two days. It is inevitable that the child will be greedy. The second aunt also feels sorry for the child.

No one would compare with children if they ate something good. But Shen Yujin's ears were very sensitive, and he heard the low sobs of Yuzhen's sister.

The little girl is always smiling, so why is she crying so sadly this morning? Then she said, "Mom, I don't want to be punished. I'm scared. Woo woo woo..."

Shen Yujin still didn't understand anything, so he pushed open the door that Second Aunt had closed and said, "Second Aunt, what are you doing? Sister Zhen is only five years old, why are you binding her feet?"

Second Aunt waved her hand and said, "Jin'er, as a boy, don't ask about this kind of thing. This is all for her own good. Only by binding her feet beautifully can she have the chance to fly to the branches and become a phoenix."

When Shen Yujin took a look, he saw Aunt Zhang stuffing Zhen's little feet into the belly of a newly ejaculated rooster. The little girl was terrified. On the table were a white sail, a sugar jar, cotton, scissors, and a long foot binding cloth.

Shen Yujin was so angry that his head was about to fly out. This was the first time he had encountered such a terrible thing.

It is now the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty. If it weren't for the Great Purge, no one among the literati would be so perverted!

People in later generations always blame the Ming Dynasty for the practice of foot binding, but the women's shoes worn by imperial concubines unearthed from the Ming Dynasty imperial tombs were more than 20 centimeters long!

People in the Ming Dynasty loved to wear pointed-toe shoes. They bound their feet in order to wear pointed-toe shoes. Only girls in red-light districts or concubines of literati and officials would bind their feet to wear a pair of perverted three-inch golden lotus!

Shen Yujin absolutely couldn't stand this. Were all the men in the Shen family dead? Was he going to give his own sister away as a plaything?

Shen Yujin was furious and kicked the table over, causing the sugar jar to shatter. He then rushed to the window with his scissors and punched a large hole in the paper.

Shen Yujin was so angry that he was shaking all over: "Although my Shen family has fallen on hard times, but not a single male has died. Our family's prosperity does not depend on men, but on crippling our daughters to please the powerful!

Second Aunt, you are slapping the faces of all the men in the family! If all the men in the Shen family are so cowardly, they might as well all die early!

As long as we still have some ambition left, we can't send our own sister into the fire pit!"

"Well said, you are worthy of being a descendant of the Shen family." Shen Fu said in the yard with his hands behind his back: "Listen, everyone says that I love Jin'er, but who among you can have his ambition? Second brother, come here!"

Shen Wang quickly walked up to his father and said, "Dad, please tell me what you want to do!"

Shen Fu slapped her twice in the face: "Don't say you don't know what your wife did! Your behavior is worse than a child's!"

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