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

Chapter 43: The landlord has no surplus food

Li Wenting, so the money I earn is not as good as the eighty dollars of a lousy editor.

Li Wenting was completely aware of Shandong Province's obsession with the establishment. If he had known that a proper job would allow Li Fugui and Liu Guilan to relax and enjoy life, why would he have been so busy?

This young editor is barely able to starve, and that's because Li Wenting is good at English and has strong translation skills, so he got this job.

Li Wenting is just hanging around at work right now. "Do you expect me to do anything amazing for you for 80 yuan?" He just does his assigned work honestly and never says a word or takes a step too far at work.

A group of veterans at the company commented on Li Wenting: "Editor Li is a conscientious person. His work is quite refreshing."

Liu Guilan is now increasingly confident, and now that her toes have healed, she's wearing fashionable half-heeled leather shoes. Her sesame cloth cheongsam makes her look like she's almost 40.

Li Fugui's face was now even more rosy, and he was dressed in a clean, starched cotton robe, looking like a master. In this place in the Magic City, people respect the clothes before the people, so the couple was now extremely concerned about their image.

The Li family's food has also reached a new level. Every meal must include meat, and occasionally fresh fish and shrimp.

While the Li family was enjoying a prosperous life in the Magic City, fighting broke out in Wanping. The Japanese were sharpening their knives and attacking China.

In just over ten days, the city of Sijiu fell. The Chinese people were furious and cursed the Japanese devils for their evil ambitions, but what was the use of just cursing? They still had to live their lives.

Li Fugui sighed at home, hoping against hope that if he was wrong about the Japanese invaders and the war didn't break out, he could return home and buy land. Making more money was useless; land was the foundation.

Li Fugui was worried, what could he do? His good life was over, and the newspaper was planning to move south to Sichuan. The Magic City was about to collapse, and now everyone in the Magic City with a little savings wanted to move to the concession. Life was always more important than money.

This is the tragedy of the weak people in the country. When the nest is overturned, no egg can remain intact. Li Wenting is also worried. He is bombed every day when he enters Sichuan, and the Japanese devils who stay in the Magic City are burning, killing, looting and doing all kinds of evil.

After seeing his parents, Li Wenting decided to go to Sichuan. He was really angry just looking at the Japanese devils. He was afraid that one day he would do something to implicate his parents.

Before leaving, Li Wenting decided to give the Japanese a big gift. He was going to give them all the big spicy strips that Li Yujin had received from Yingjiang. It would be a waste to leave them lying around.

Things without capital must be put to good use. With the precise guidance of the system, one bomb can hit the target accurately. The big spicy strip directly destroyed an enemy base.

Li Wenting hides his merits and fame. Anyway, whether he beats the devils or not, these bastards will never be Chinese! Kill one to get back his money, kill two to make a profit.

Li Wenting took his parents, closed the braised meat shop, packed up and boarded the Minsheng Company passenger ship bound for Sichuan.

The messy passenger ship was full of people, and Li Wenting booked three first-class tickets.

First class was just a better seat, on the upper deck. It was a bit more spacious, but the ticket was seventy dollars per person, and Liu Guilan was heartbroken. Everything was expensive these days.

The Yangtze River is full of cargo and passenger ships carrying various equipment, and many places have received orders to retreat to Sichuan.

Everyone on the cruise ship had numb expressions. Their uncertainty about the future and their concerns about their hometowns resulted in no one speaking.

From time to time, Japanese planes would drop black bombs from the sky, and everyone was on edge. The future of this trip to Sichuan was uncertain.

Li Wenting had spent nearly 500 points on this journey. There was nothing he could do about it. The Japanese planes were too ruthless, chasing after ships on the Yangtze River and dropping bombs. Li Wenting still had some anti-aircraft guns in his space, and he had even plundered a lot of shells from the homes of Foot Basin Chicken and Eagle Sauce.

Points can make the system push the mill. Under the temptation of points, the system used anti-aircraft guns to shoot down eight Japanese planes.

Everyone on the boat looked on in wonder. The Japanese plane had just dropped two black bombs, and then it swayed and plunged headfirst into the river.

Looking at the fragments of the Japanese devils' planes on the river, cheers came from the boats on the river, and dazzling light burst out from people's numb eyes.

People on the boat gradually started chatting, and Li Wenting also admired the famous scenery.

We entered Sichuan and Chongqing without any trouble along the way.

When the ferry docked at the mountain city's pier, Li Fugui and Liu Guilan were stunned by the unevenness of the city. The height difference was too great. The buildings across the way were dozens of meters apart, and it would take half an hour to walk to the other side.

At the dock, a large group of "bangbang" people from Sichuan and Chongqing were soliciting business, and the sedan chair bearers and those leading horses and mules were also greeting customers loudly.

The unique long tone of Sichuan and Chongqing people sounds warm and heartwarming. The husband and wife ride the mule up the mountain quickly and steadily.

The Li family hired three mules and went to Jiefang Road to stay at the Antai Hotel.

With the number of refugees increasing these days, hotel rooms are now priced at one dollar each. At that time, the legal tender had just been issued and was quite reputable. Many people used paper money, but the dollar was more popular.

The three members of the Li family dragged their tired bodies to sleep for a whole day, and they slept soundly that day.

After Li Wenting woke up, he found that Liu Guilan and Li Fugui had also woken up. Li Fugui was smoking a pipe, and the room was filled with smoke.

Li Wenting knew that Li Fugui was worried about his clansmen in Jinling, and was also afraid of the new environment.

Li Fugui didn't know how his uncle and the others were doing. There were wars everywhere and he didn't know if they received the letter he sent from the Magic City.

Li Wenting, your eldest cousin Da is in the government office that manages money. No one will suffer any loss from this. His department will probably be on the way to Sichuan. Don't get angry, Da. Wait until the government office arrives in the mountain city and I will go to find out the news.

Li Fugui, I hope so. This world is so bad that it makes people have no way to survive. I just made a few years of money in Shanghai, and now I have to move out of this house that I bought with so much money. I feel sad just thinking about it. What if it gets bombed by the Japanese? All this money will be wasted.

Li Wenting could only talk about the yellow croaker he earned, to show that he could rest assured about his family life and had no worries with the real money in his hands.

The Li family started looking for houses the next day. Li Fugui felt that there were many people fleeing and houses might become more and more expensive in the future.

Li Wenting’s only requirement for a house is that it should be a place where he can dig a solid air-raid shelter.

After three days of hard work, the Li family found a house with a huge difference in location at the entrance of the road.

The house is close to the road, with the next street about ten meters below. This location allows for a bomb shelter more than ten meters deep. The house is made of local materials and is a stone house of over 100 square meters, with a small courtyard of over 80 square meters.

What’s rare is that we have just been connected to tap water, so we don’t have to buy water every day. But the price of water is really not low. At the beginning, it was 5 cents per ton, and now as the number of people has increased, the price has risen to 5 cents per ton.

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