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

The dog system will do anything to get points. When Li Yujin woke up, the room was filled with smoke and fire. There were incense burners and incense bowls on the table, as well as various fruits. A whole stick of incense was burning, red candles and colorful wax were lit, and blue wine flames were coming out of the wine glass.

The room was ablaze with lights and bustling with people, adults and children crammed together. A middle-aged woman in her forties, with a face wrinkled like an orange peel, dressed in a multicolored divine garment, two gold earrings in her ears, and twenty-two bells tied around her waist, had drunk some liquor and was dancing around in front of the incense table, shaking the bells and beating the Taiping drum. She swayed her head, swayed her nose, and glared. Suddenly, she threw off her embroidered shoes and began to sing a divine song.

A young man of the second rank approached the woman and answered respectfully.

"Great Immortal, you have great virtues and profound cultivation. You are so good at practicing in ancient caves in the mountains. Please come and treat the young master. I am willing to lead the horse and stirrup for you."

The women of the great gods beat the Taiping drum, shook the waist bells, and sang in a cheerful voice:

"I, the Millstone Fairy, reside in the Immortal Cave in Fengtian. With a thousand years of Taoist practice and eight hundred years of yin merit, I come from the Xiama Fairy Hall and bless Mr. Li with good fortune, longevity, and a peaceful life for his wife..."

The young man pleaded, "Great Immortal, please have mercy. My young master has contracted a serious illness and has no help from doctors or divination."

The great god jumped up from his stool, threw off his other embroidered shoe, and continued singing while beating the Taiping drum:

"My disciple Zhou Xiaoyan held the horse and led the stirrup for me. I came back to visit my family."

The Second God knew Zhou Xiaoyan had returned to visit her family, so he hurriedly called over a young maid to kowtow to the Great God. The young maid, Chun Xing, stared blankly at the Second God and reluctantly kowtowed. The onlookers were shocked. This Zhou Xiaoyan was Master Li's third concubine, who had drowned while on a boat trip. Everyone was terrified.

The two gods pleaded for mercy:

"Mopan Fairy, please don't show off your power and blindly blow out the candle. You should practice in the Fairy Cave, do good deeds, and cure the young master's illness."

The Great God felt drowsy for a while, put down the Taiping drum, stopped the waist bell, and sat on the stool with a gloomy look. After listening to the advice of the two gods, he felt deeply sad and cried softly:

"My disciple Zhou Xiaoyan! I can't climb the beam in the deep mountains! I can't enter the ancient cave! My three souls and seven spirits are wandering around, hiding in the grass. At the fork in the road, I'm just a handful of yellow earth. I can't enter the ancestral tomb. The big temple won't accept me, and the small temple won't let me stay."

The second god asked, "Haven't you asked the City God and the Land God for help?"

The great god sang and said, "My disciple didn't burn any paper money. It's hard to find the God of the City and the God of the Land. Money can make ghosts work. The King of Hell doesn't mind ghosts being thin. Back then, the five ghosts were betrothed to Mr. Li. The chicken and the monkey can't get along. I can only blame my disciple's family for being poor! How can a broken corridor, broken house, and broken axle be worthy of the Li family's golden gatehouse!"

The onlookers whispered, "The Zhou family is just showing off. A poor family would be at a disadvantage if they marry into a wealthy family."

The two gods replied, "Mr. Li and the Third Madam worshiped Heaven and Earth, ate the noodles to appease their hearts, and took a bite of the cake for their descendants."

The great god complained on Zhou Xiaoyan's behalf, saying, "Master Li is the deity of wealth, the god of wealth, with a big parted hair, a nose that hangs down like a gallbladder, and a prominent root at the base of his nose. Master Li has many friends and is famous for lighting lamps on the mountains! He owns four thousand mu of land, hundreds of livestock, fifty-six shacks, piles of sorghum and soybeans, and gold and silver ingots scooped up with winnowing baskets. He treats his servants with such ruthlessness that he would not mind a chicken being skinny. He looks down on my disciples, who sit in an empty bed in the cold, lighting lamps in vain.

The room was filled with smoke, candlelight, and a strong smell of alcohol. The onlookers sympathized with Zhou Xiaoyan's plight. Madam Li, seeing that the family had few children and Master Li had only one son, had arranged for him to have two concubines, both of whom were well-bred daughters from farming families. However, Master Li and his first wife were so close that they refused to visit the concubines' rooms. Later, Madam Li got Master Li drunk and had him take her to Zhou Xiaoyan's room, concluding the marriage. That opportunity gave Zhou Xiaoyan the girl Chun Xing.

In order to comfort Zhou Xiaoyan, the two gods persuaded the Mopan Fairy:

"Great Immortal, calm down and have a cup of la wine. Roosters fight head-to-head, but couples don't hold grudges when they fight."

The great god said sadly, speaking up for Zhou Xiaoyan, singing:

"A love affair with the moon won't last forever, even a hundred years won't be enough. I've fallen into the water and become a ghost, and I feel bad. I just want my Chun Xing to be fine, and please spare me."

The eldest wife, Xu Huizhen, felt a little awkward. Coming here to watch such a big show, with so many people watching, really felt like putting herself on the spot. She said sincerely:

"Don't worry, Daxianjia. As long as our family is healthy, I will treat Chunxing well and find her a good son-in-law."

Chun Xing was so grateful to the Mopan Fairy, and she was thinking of her mother, so she knelt down and kowtowed again.

The two gods knew that their merits were complete, and they sang in a chorus:

"Great immortal who saves the suffering, you have accumulated merits and your reputation has spread throughout the nine provinces. The entire Li family, young and old, will give you incense sticks, live pigs and sheep in pairs, and barley flour in baskets."

The shaman dance lasted for half the night and then ended.

Xu Huizhen sent Chunxing back to her room to rest.

Now only Li Wenting, Xu Huizhen and Li Yujin were left in the room. Li Yujin was crying from the smoke. The dozens of onlookers were all heavy smokers, and the smoke made the room look like a fairyland.

The family of three recognized each other before receiving memories to see what crappy task this weird system had snatched away.

Li Yujin touched his aching forehead and said, "Receive the memory."

For generations, the Li family of Sanjiagangzi were honest farmers, extremely poor, with no property, no land, no family tree, and no name. Even Li Wenting's grandfather, still patched up and doing odd jobs to make a living, would go from house to house delivering paper money for the God of Wealth during the Lunar New Year, carrying a dog-beating club and roaming the two villages of Sanjiagangzi, north and south.

Because he always carried a stick, people called him Li Dabangzi. One year, the bandits of Bangchui Mountain fought with government troops and were completely annihilated. Li Dabangzi witnessed the entire incident while picking mushrooms in a valley. After the troops left, Li Dabangzi, hoping to pick up some spoils, went to the bandit's lair. After searching around for a while, he found a bundle in a dry well containing two liters of silver ingots.

Li Dabanzi made a fortune, but fearing the soldiers would come knocking on his door, he fled from the Zhao family's shack to Sanjiagangzi. He dared not show off his wealth, instead crying poor to everyone he met, wearing rags and a tattered felt hat. His first year, he was hired as a farmhand. The next year, he rented three acres of land, hired a team of oxen, and planted corn. That year, the harvest was good, with three good rains, leaving him with nowhere to store the grain.

The harvested grain filled the granaries, filling the warehouses. At that time, the official road to Fengtian was bustling with travelers. Li Dabangzi opened a tavern in Sanjiagangzi. In the 26th year of the previous dynasty, Damao and Dabizi got into a fight. After Li Dabangzi's death, his son, Li Zhenxing, Li Wenting's father, took over the family. This marked the beginning of a new era for the Li family.