I became a poor little sophora japonica in the courtyard

"Mom, grandma, how much money do we have at home?" Banggeng slapped his thigh in frustration and stood up to ask. This loss had left him with nothing.

"What money do we have left? Didn't you take it all away?" Qin Huairu wiped her tears, her heart aching.

"What should we do? This time they are going to the southeast coast to resell the originals. This is my chance to turn things around. Mom, does silly dad have any money? Or you can go ask other families to borrow some." Bang Geng asked with bloodshot eyes.

His friends were smarter than Banggeng. They all kept their savings when selling foreign cigarettes, so they could make a comeback if they suffered losses, unlike him who bet all the money in his family.

At this time, they found another way to make money, which was to smuggle old clothes from ordinary people in the southeast coast. The clothes of ordinary people were novel in style and exquisite in workmanship. Their names were embroidered on the lining of the clothes. They were washed and ironed and sold in clothing stores, which were very popular.

"How much money can your stupid father have? In this whole courtyard, besides Yu Li's family, your uncle is the richest. If you want to borrow money, go and borrow it yourself!"

Qin Huairu couldn't bring herself to lose face. She had been showing off in front of others some time ago, and now she wanted to borrow money from others? Could she even ask for that?

Banggeng slammed the table, stood up and walked out of the house. Standing on the corridor, he began to hesitate again. He knew his uncle Xu Damao's temper and personality very well. He just said that it was impossible to lend him the money.

He turned around and looked at the 25-inch color TV in his living room. An idea suddenly came to his mind!

Bang Geng stomped his feet and went to the west wing of the backyard. Xu Damao and his wife happened to be at home, so he quickly approached them with a smile and asked the couple to borrow money.

"Uncle, I have a big business to do, but I'm a little short of money now. Can you lend me three thousand yuan? It's not for nothing. I will mortgage my new color TV to you. What do you think?" Banggeng asked humbly and attentively.

The couple had both gone to see the big color TV that Qin Huairu brought back from Hong Kong. At the time, they were both extremely envious. They had never seen such a big color TV in this city, and Qin Jingru kept nagging that she would find a way to ask Xiao Dang to buy one from Hong Kong as well.

Now, this prodigal son actually wanted to mortgage this big color TV to his family. If you don't take advantage of a bargain, you're a bastard. Xu Damao immediately had an idea!

"You can't mortgage it to me! If it breaks down, I won't be able to afford the compensation. Unless you buy me the big color TV for three thousand yuan!" Xu Damao waved his hand and answered him disapprovingly.

"Uncle, this big color TV was bought by my mother in Hong Kong for more than 7,000 Hong Kong dollars. It was imported from Xiaozijia, not including the shipping cost. You want to take it for yourself for 3,000 dollars?"

Banggeng was shocked by Xu Damao's outrageous actions. It was so shameless!

"So what? This thing was kept in the store untouched, and it's worth the price. But now your family has been looking at it for a few months, and it has become a second-hand item. This second-hand item has at least depreciated by half. Since we can't come to an agreement, forget it!" Xu Damao glanced at him and said calmly.

"I'll buy it for you! But three thousand yuan is definitely not enough. I want four thousand yuan!" Bang Geng gritted his teeth and agreed to his uncle, but he had to raise the price.

The two sides bargained for a while! The final price was 3,500 yuan. Banggeng went home to move the big color TV, and Qin Jingru happily went into the inner room to get the money.

More than a decade ago, Xu Damao was tricked by Sha Zhu, who used Li Huaide's suspicion to drive him out of his position as deputy director. Xu Damao was demoted back to the factory's propaganda department, but he no longer had his position as a projectionist.

In order to retaliate against him, Li Huaide, the director of the factory's Revolutionary Committee, specially arranged for him to join the greening and cleaning team of the factory's logistics department. But Xu Damao was also very cunning and used his connections to change his unit. The new unit was the Peace Cinema located in Xinjiekou.

This state-owned cinema also had the mission of going to the countryside to serve the vast number of rural members. Xu Damao then went back to his old job, riding his bicycle to the communes below to show movies.

But with the development and progress of the times, the leaders of the communes have become township cadres. In the past two years, township enterprises have also begun to flourish. But now the system has not caught up, the production of industrial raw materials still uses the rationing system, and most resources are tilted to state-owned enterprises.

The township enterprises below were all crying out for food, and without industrial production materials, they could only find ways to get them. A large number of supply and marketing personnel were sent to the state-owned factories to beg for help, and their eyes were on the unplanned materials of the state-owned factories.

This also gave rise to a phenomenon, that is, the approval ticket economy. Those children with connections would ask their families for approval tickets for non-planned materials, and then resell them to those township enterprises, which was simply a business with no capital.

Xu Damao and the township officials were on good terms. He used his limited connections to facilitate several business deals, which kept his family's living conditions at the forefront of Siheyuan.

As soon as Bang Geng got home, he started to unplug the TV socket, wanting to take the big color TV away. Qin Huairu immediately panicked, and quickly stopped him and asked what he was doing?

"I've temporarily mortgaged the color TV at my uncle's house, and will redeem it when I make money. Mom, I can't make a comeback without money." Banggeng said to his mother with a sad face.

After hearing what Banggeng said, Qin Huairu's hands that wanted to stop him suddenly dropped. Banggeng is the mainstay of the family. If you don't let him go out to make money, how will you support the whole family in the future?

Banggeng put the TV remote control in his pocket and picked up the large color TV with great effort. While her mother Qin Huairu was distracted, he ran to the west wing in the backyard.

The large color TV was put into Qin Jingru's bedroom, and when it was plugged in and the screen was playing, everything was normal. Bang Geng stretched out his hand and asked his aunt Qin Jingru for the money for the TV.

"Write me a statement first, saying that you sold this large color TV to our family. This will prevent your mom and grandma from coming to my house to cause trouble later."

Xu Damao handed him a pen and paper. How could he, such a smart man, not be on guard against the Jia family?

Bang Geng saw that he couldn't fool Xu Damao, so he could only write a statement according to Xu Damao's wishes. Then he threw the pen away, put the 3,500 yuan in his pocket and left.

He wanted to rush to those bad friends and go to the southeast coast to buy original equipment together. As long as he made two deals, he could turn his life around again.

Taking advantage of her free time, Jingyi went to the audio-visual publishing house in Sijiu City and recorded a Mandarin album. This is her fifth Mandarin album released in the mainland, and her album sales in the mainland market have always been the first and no one can shake it.

It took only half a month for Grandpa Le to make the ginseng nourishing pills that Jingyi wanted. These more than 100 pills are sealed with beeswax and are the size of longan. If they were taken to the outside pharmaceutical market, they would be unique!

"Let Mrs. Lou Tan take the medicine for seven consecutive days, one pill a day. She doesn't need to take it again after that! When you feel weak one day, just take one pill internally." Grandpa Le instructed her how to take the medicine.

"Does this pill have a shelf life? Won't it go bad if it's left like this?" Jingyi looked at the pills, a little worried that they would expire.

"If stored properly, it won't go bad. But over time, the efficacy will surely diminish. You have too many pills, so why don't I help you sell half of them?"

Once this pill is spread, it will definitely attract some people to scramble for it. In the past ten years, the health of those rich people has been seriously depleted. This medicine can strengthen the body and prolong life.

Jingyi took the medicine and left! The flow of time in her warehouse stopped, and the medicine would not go bad even if it was stored for billions of years.

She returned to Lou Mansion and gave her grandmother ten pills, asking her to take them for seven consecutive days, and to keep the other three at home as a backup. She could take one pill whenever she felt low on energy!

The remaining pills were stored in her warehouse at the post station, for Tan Yali and Lou Xiao'e to prepare. When her mother was done breastfeeding, she would also get some for her.

Now, the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing has also invited her to give lectures as a professor. From the instrumental music department to the composition department to the vocal music department, every department in the college has come to compete for Jingyi's position, all vying to have her take classes there.

In fact, Lou Jingyi's influence in the so-called orthodox academic school is very huge. In his mind, it is a mountain that cannot be climbed and can only be looked up to.

Her twenty-two piano pieces that have been passed down through the ages, and the exciting "Victory", will always be their goals of learning.