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

After Li Wenting settled his parents, he really went to the church school to attend classes. He had to pretend to explain where his foreign language proficiency came from. Li Wenting also wanted the teacher to give him a courtesy name, Yaozu as his full name and Wenting as his own courtesy name.

Li Fugui’s braised meat shop has opened. People in Shanghai love sweet dishes, so Li Fugui added rock sugar to the braised meat soup to cater to the taste of people in Shanghai.

The name of the store is simple and concise "Lao Lu Wei". There are two big iron pots at the door of Li's house. In the pots are the old braised soup brought back from his hometown, cooking pig's trotters, pig's elbows, pig's heads, beef and other braised dishes. In another pot, the old soup is stewing chicken heads, chicken feet, chicken wings and whole chickens and ducks.

The whole alley was so fragrant that even the street outside was filled with the strong aroma of meat, making people drool.

After a busy day, excluding the wages paid to the temporary workers, the Green Gang of the police station earned 80 dollars a day as "tributes".

Li Fugui, my goodness, no wonder people say that the Magic City is full of gold. I made two pigs' worth of money today.

This is just the beginning. When our reputation gets out, people will definitely come to us to buy goods, and our business will be booming!

Liu Guilan was also happy. Her father and daughter had loved the braised food she made before, so why hadn't they thought of making money from it? How much less money would that have cost?

Even the foreigners from the Park Road foreign trade shop came to buy their braised food today. It's just that people in Shanghai don't like steamed buns, otherwise this would be so delicious with steamed buns.

Li Wenting, an idea flashed through his mind. Steamed bun! That’s right, steamed bun!

Li Wenting, I've come up with a good idea. Chop up the braised pork, add a spoonful of the broth, and sandwich it between the white steamed buns my mother makes. This way, we use less meat and still make a lot of money.

So the next day, the Li family had two more helpers, and Liu Guilan led them to make more than 200 Baiji steamed buns. A large wooden barrel was filled with steamed rice.

There are many peeled boiled eggs in the big pot of braised food, which are soaked in the marinade and turned red and shiny.

A bowl of white rice with a few pieces of soft braised meat, a spoonful of thick broth, half an egg, and a few slices of green vegetables costs 60 cents. A baiji bun with a piece of chopped braised meat and broth costs 35 cents.

Just after lunch, all the Li family’s things were sold out.

When he was counting the accounts in the evening, the profit of 170 oceans made Li Fugui's eyes red.

Liu Guilan was so excited that she was shaking. Life was so exciting. What a huge fortune this would leave for her descendants.

Even though Liu Guilan had helpers, her feet were still sore from exhaustion after a day of work.

At night, Li Fugui rubbed Liu Guilan's calves before going to bed. He also advised Liu Guilan's mother, "If you are suffering so much, please let go of your feet. I married you because of you, not because of your small feet."

Liu Guilan's eyes were filled with tears. "I've finally figured it out. These bound feet are really useless. I see women in Shanghai don't bind their feet much, so I should unbind my feet too. At least I can walk more steadily."

Li Wenting soon found out that Liu Guilan had let go of her feet. He felt so uncomfortable looking at his mother's small feet.

Liu Guilan carried her child on her back every day while she soaked her feet, but when Li Wenting was little, he still saw his mother's twisted and deformed feet: all four toes were bent under the big toe, and the instep was also twisted into a bow shape.

I don’t see what’s good about it. Every day Liu Guilan has to soak her feet in hot water, pick out the corns on her feet, and apply medicine to her feet.

Li Wenting took out the bone-setting ointment from the space and gave it to his mother, and also added a cup of spiritual spring water to her foot bath every day.

Li Wenting told his mother that this was a bone injury medicine prescribed by the descendants of the imperial physician, and it was very effective for broken bones.

Liu Guilan, her son is so filial, and she feels content to enjoy his blessings. Now, every day, her son brings her footbath water. Is there anything more joyful for a mother than seeing her children being filial?

The Li family's business continued to be booming. After Liu Guilan had her feet untied for three months, her insteps actually slowly stretched out.

Now Liu Guilan has no problem walking, and the feeling in her broken toes has gradually returned.

Now Liu Guilan is more efficient in collecting money and settling accounts.

My son uses a thin wooden board to fix his feet every night, and it really works.

Li Wenting was also busy. In addition to gaining experience in the church school, he also disguised himself and entered the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

I bought some shares of Jardine Matheson Textiles at 23 yuan per share, and I bought 10,000 shares of Shanghai Real Estate at 5 yuan per share.

Under the manipulation of speculators, the price of these two stocks rose to 85 yuan per share in less than two months, and the price of Shanghai Real Estate rose to 15 yuan per share.

The big investors made a lot of money, and Li Wenting also got a share of it. Li Wenting decided to quit while he was ahead, sold all his stocks, and after paying the stamp duty, he got 65 yuan.

When Li Wenting placed 21,000 large yellow croakers in front of Li Fugui and Liu Guilan, the couple were almost frightened to death. "Son, are you robbing a foreign company?"

Li Wenting smiled and told the whole story. Li Fugui rarely looked for the feather duster in the whole house.

How daring of a prodigal son! He didn't even discuss such a major matter with his family. He understood whether it was a bone market or a meat market. Wasn't that a casino? Win and you'll be in high spirits, lose and you'll lose everything.

Li Fugui couldn't bear to hit his son, but he tried his best to persuade him not to touch the bone market.

Li Wenting, just one quiet word made Li Fugui break down his defense.

Da, I want you and mom to live with confidence!

Things and houses are expensive in Shanghai for my parents. My mother can't even afford to buy a bottle of cold cream, and my father has even quit drinking. My son has seen it all. He heard from his eldest cousin that their boss is the one who can make money by buying the same thing as him.

My son only did this once. We have enough money at home. I believe he won't do it again.

Li Fugui felt that God had been very kind to him, and his son's filial piety was more valuable than any yellow croaker.

Liu Guilan's eyes were also filled with tears. She thought that she must have done great things in her previous life to have such a good son.

Li Wenting felt that his parents were living too hard and felt insecure, so he decided to make more money to improve his parents' sense of security.

To save the situation, the parents cooked two different dishes. One plate of vegetarian dishes was shared by the couple, and the other was a plate of scrambled eggs that they kept putting into Li Wenting's bowl. Li Wenting couldn't swallow this dish, so the whole family ended up pushing and shoving the scrambled eggs back and forth.

Li Fugui has been walking with a spring in his step lately. His son has a job at Shanghai Morning News, earning eighty yuan a month, making him a well-paid man. The key is to show off his wealth.

In the past, this was a job only for scholars. A child of only sixteen years old could be so promising, and this was something unique in the clan.

Li Yaozu, courtesy name Wenting, is an editor at the Shanghai Morning Post. Li Fugui, beaming with joy, held his son's business card. Today, each of the helpers received a meat-filled Baiji steamed bun. Let's share in the good cheer.

Today, Liu Guilan wore a cheongsam made of Hangzhou silk and spent five taels of silver on a pair of black leather shoes at a foreign company. She didn't work alongside the helpers as she used to. Today, Liu Guilan was only busy with the accounts and collecting the money.