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

The year 1948 arrived as expected, and prices in Beijing took off completely. A pound of corn flour cost 400,000 yuan.

With all businesses in recession, it's really hard to do any business. Li Yujin and his colleagues are now just delivering water to old customers.

Grain collection in the countryside was so severe that there wasn't enough food left to feed pigs. Therefore, meat was often in short supply.

The Red and Blue sides were fighting in full swing. In the summer, the Blue side came up with the Gold Yuan Coupon, which the common people exchanged for gold and silver.

Li Yujin felt that if they could believe this, they must be crazy. Real money in exchange for the waste paper in their hands?

As expected, this piece of crap was only popular for three days. The real money was taken away and this piece of paper became worthless.

Life is really hard for ordinary people. As long as they can fill their stomachs, they feel that life is good.

There was garbage from the Ming and Qing dynasties piled up under the city wall, and many people ran to the garbage mountain to collect useful things.

Monkey and his friends were able to survive because they listened to Li Yujin and stored up food.

The Blue Army was completely defeated. The best-paid factory in the entire city was the Mint. Each worker received 240 kilograms of corn flour per month.

As for the others, you can just get by. For example, Yan Fugui gets 50 kilograms of corn flour every month in addition to his salary.

Because of soaring prices, there are people taking to the streets every day, one wave after another without a break.

If you want to have enough to eat, you must have money. The common people are not stupid. The food in the rural areas outside Beijing must be exchanged for real money.

Not only did Monkey and his friends exchange a lot of food for their own things, they also exchanged a lot of corn flour for Li Yujin.

Dali exchanged his grandmother's silver bracelets and plaques for food, and Douchi was reluctant to give away his mother's gold earrings even when her leg was broken.

This time they took it all out to exchange for food. These people were like hamsters overwintering, trading a little at a time and bringing back thousands of kilograms of corn flour this summer.

Having food in hand means they are not worried. Even though each family has thousands of kilograms of food in their pockets, they dare not eat dry food every meal.

Two meals of porridge a day are enough to keep me from starving. The money I earned from fishing really came in handy. Now many shops are closing and nothing is making money.

It would be better to lock him up and save yourself the trouble. If you want to buy something with legal tender, the clerk will not bother with you.

Whoever buys something with a dollar is the boss, and the shop assistant will have a big smile on his face.

Li Yujin makes bait twice a month. He knew the city would be closed soon, so he started preparing it before it froze.

This time he made three bowls of cornmeal bait, and even added a whole wine cup of spiritual spring water.

Dou Chi and his friends went there pushing a cart and made a total of eighty dollars, but Li Yujin didn't keep a single cent.

He simply asked these people to buy food and bring it back. Li Yujin put a lot of ice cubes in the treasure room at home, pretending that it was the family's former ice cellar.

He asked Monkey and the others to put all the food into the ice cellar and store it: "I found this when I was cleaning the yard a few days ago. My ancestors must be reliable. Nothing will go bad in here."

Dali said with a smile: "It's not just reliable, it's awesome! It really comes true! Let's pack up and leave all the food with you.

"You're so quiet, but we live in a big compound with so many people watching us. We have to be careful about what we eat and do. What if they get so hungry that they rob us? Where can we go to seek justice?"

Li Yujin patted his chest and said, "This is a life-long friendship. It's better to leave it with me so that you don't have to keep it at home and get infested with bugs."

We lived not far from each other, so we worked for three days like ants moving house to store all the things at Li Yujin's place.

They had just finished their work when something went wrong. The red and blue sides started fighting outside the city, and the red side surrounded the city tightly.

The people of the old city were most afraid of the city gates being closed. Once the gates were closed, everyone in the city, whether they were princes, nobles or peddlers, would be like prisoners and unable to escape.

The grain store was the first to be emptied out, and you still want to hoard it? Dream on! You dare to dethrone the emperor at the risk of your life.

Everyone rushed in and found the grain store was cleaner than a dog's lick. The grain store owner had already fainted in the toilet from crying.

At first, we could still get by because we had some food stored at home, but after half a month, life became increasingly difficult.

The city is short of fuel. How can we survive this winter without food or firewood? The trees in the city are in trouble.

No matter what kind of pomegranates or crabapples they are, they are all cut down and used for firewood. Li Yujin looked at the pomegranate trees in the yard and felt reluctant to part with them. Every year, the old pomegranate trees produced a lot of pomegranates for him.

He didn't want to chop down the people in the neighboring yard who were watching him covetously. Jia Zhang had already leaned on the wall to watch him several times.

Li Yujin was forced into a corner. He was not afraid of thieves stealing, but he was afraid of thieves thinking about it! He quickly took an axe and chopped down the pomegranate tree. In half an hour, the pomegranate tree became firewood.

Li Yujin and his group had no shortage of firewood. They used to buy a lot of coal when they were making braised meat. Using it for their own use was not a problem at all.

It was November, and the whole city was dead silent. Students had gone on holiday early. What was the point of studying if you couldn't eat enough?

Not only did the common people not have enough to eat, but the Blue Army in the city also did not have enough to eat. They did not have enough to eat, but they had guns.

So the Blue Army went in groups of three or five to the common people and the rich families to rob food, and they covered their faces and smashed open the doors with the butts of their guns. Who would dare not give it?

Now even the rich were in trouble, and the gentlemen who usually dressed well had no food.

Li Yujin also came with a large number of soldiers. Seeing Li Yujin's sallow face, he was also worried. This person didn't look wealthy at all. Sure enough, he found two pounds of mixed noodles in the kitchen.

After the soldiers left, Li Yujin breathed a sigh of relief, finally getting rid of these plague gods.

This was also an opportunity, an opportunity to exchange ten kilograms of cornmeal for a large yellow croaker. Li Yujin had no shortage of this opportunity, nor was he willing to do it.

But Dali and the others were intrigued and came to ask Li Yujin for his opinion. What could Li Yujin do? They were all poor guys taking advantage of this opportunity to make some money to get married.

After seeing Li Yujin nod, these people started to operate, and they actually got back a lot of interesting things, including gold bars and some fine antiques.

Li Yujin told them to divide the loot quickly, take it home and keep it secret from everyone. They should bury it directly in their own basement.

This thing is very valuable now, and you can't buy it even if you have money. If others know about it, they will attract soldiers to rob it.

Dali and the others agreed with this and did as they were told.

Li Yujin couldn't help but laugh as he looked at the thirteen large yellow croakers and two plum vases from the Yongzheng Dynasty in his hands.

This is all due to his buddy's love for him. Li Yujin waved his hand and put the things directly into the space.

Nowhere is as reliable as his space. Now is the darkest moment, but light is behind the darkness.

Li Yujin is now extremely careful when eating. He even eats with a talisman on his face late at night. It's really unheard of for him to do that.

The saying "better safe than sorry" is absolutely true. Jia Zhang and the deaf old lady also keep an eye on Li Yujin next door every day.

Thinking that if this little bastard starved to death, they would be able to occupy the entire yard, Jia Zhang thought bitterly: "Why is this bastard so unlucky?"