Siheyuan: Struggle Begins in the 1950s

Xu Damao just refused to say anything about this, but Liu Haizhong also realized it.

In the past two years, he has grown old and his health has deteriorated.

And her husband is not in good health either.

Neither of them has any major problems, but they have many minor ones.

Liu Haizhong finally realized that he was beginning to face the problem of retirement care.

But none of his three children can be relied upon.

The eldest brother won’t say anything, he will always feel the pain in his heart.

The second and third brothers are both ungrateful people.

But now he even hopes that these two ungrateful bastards can suddenly feel filial and come back to live with him.

This way we can take care of each other.

At most I will not scold them anymore.

As for fighting, with his current physical condition, he is no match for them.

"I don't know what sin I committed. None of my three sons are reliable. I was counting on the eldest son to take care of me in my old age. But that boy ran away with his wife after getting married and hasn't come back for several years. As for the second and third sons, I don't even want to mention them. They moved out and stole my gas stove."

Xu Damao said on the side:

"Master, in my opinion, the most important thing for a person is to be rich. If you were rich, your three sons would rush back to serve you."

There is some truth in what Xu Damao said.

Liu Haizhong thought about it for a while, sighed and said:

"But I'm old now, and my legs are crippled, so it's hard for me to go out and work. I can't go into business."

"Uncle, it's never too late to do business. Just look at me. I'm saving money to start a business now, but I haven't decided what to do yet. But I believe that sooner or later I will become rich.

I said, how about this, if you are interested, wait until I find a project, then you can work with me."

Liu Haizhong couldn't help but look at Xu Damao.

I was also wondering whether what Xu Damao said was reliable.

"Okay, let me think about it."

Xu Damao is now really planning to get Liu Haizhong to do business together.

After all, his ability is limited and he does not have enough funds.

In addition, since he had a criminal record, no one was willing to cooperate with him.

The only person we can find is Liu Haizhong.

Xu Damao was not in a hurry to urge Liu Haizhong, as doing business in partnership requires mutual consent.

And he hasn't figured out what to do yet.

At night, Xu Damao disguised himself again and came to the old place to solicit customers.

After attracting more than a dozen customers, seeing that no one was coming, Xu Damao prepared to go back to the video room to keep warm.

As a result, I saw a sneaky man walking towards this side.

"Oh, a last-minute order came in."

Xu Damao then leaned closer and whispered:

"Dude, do you want to watch a movie? An art movie from Xiao Ri Zi. One with a high artistic content."

The man asked in a low voice.

"How high is it?"

“It’s about three or four stories high.”

As Xu Damao was talking, he felt that the voice of the person in front of him sounded familiar.

"My buddy, your voice sounds familiar. Have we seen him somewhere before?"

The man also uttered a curious sound:

"Now that you mention it, I think your voice sounds familiar."

Xu Damao immediately took off his mask and sunglasses.

The man saw Xu Damao's face and shouted in surprise, "Brother Damao?!"

As he spoke, he pulled the scarf off his face.

"Brother Dake!!!"

Xu Damao was a little surprised.

It's like meeting an old friend in a foreign land.

"Brother Dake, why are you here?"

"Well, I heard that you can watch some foreign art films here. So I came to see it. I didn't expect it to be a video hall opened by you, brother Damao."

Xu Damao then took Cui Dake to the yard and said:

"Since you are interested, Brother Dake, I will take out my treasured tape for you to watch. Let me tell you, this is my favorite movie and I have never shown it to anyone else."

Cui Dake was also very happy.

He didn't have many friends after he was released from prison.

Xu Damao is one of his few friends.

In addition, the two of them had been in prison together before, so they had developed a relationship.

Xu Damao then took Cui Dake to his own screening room.

After watching the collector's edition of the film, Xu Damao took Cui Dake, who was still not satisfied, to a nearby KFC for dinner.

At this time, only KFC is still open.

When talking about what happened in prison, both of them sighed.

"Speaking of which, you are really kind, brother Da Ke. When you were in prison, you only had one steamed bun left, but you gave me half of it. I still remember the kindness of that half steamed bun."

Xu Damao thought of the hard days in prison and couldn't help but take a big bite of the fried chicken and sighed.

Cui Dake smiled somewhat awkwardly.

He didn't dare say that the half steamed bread he gave was fallen on the ground and covered with dog shit, so he broke it off and gave it to Xu Damao as a favor.

"Life was so hard back then. I thought I wouldn't make it out alive. So, brother Damao, what are you doing now?"

"I was running a private video parlor. After I got out of jail, I lost my job at the steel mill. Later, I went to work at a movie theater. Now I don't have that job anymore. I'm just trying to save up some money to start my own business. What about you? What are you doing now?"

Cui Dake ate his hamburger and said incoherently:

"We smuggled some goods. Now we've allowed a lot of foreign stuff to come in. I used to sell the tape you showed me, but now that the inspections are strict, I don't dare to sell it anymore."

Xu Damao also sighed and said:

"It's really hard to do. My underground video studio has been under strict inspection recently. One of my colleagues has been arrested."

Cui Dake finished the last bite of the hamburger and leaned closer to Xu Damao and whispered:

"Brother Damao, I have heard of a project. I wonder if you are interested."

Xu Damao raised his eyebrows and asked:

“Is it profitable?”

"It's three or four stories high. The most important thing is that he didn't break the law. But we need a way."

Hearing that the profit was high and it was not illegal, Xu Damao also became interested.

He also leaned closer and asked:

"Then tell me in detail what the business is."

"I just overheard this. Have you ever heard of rebar?"

"Rebar, it seems to be used for building houses?"

"Yes! That's it!"

Cui Dake looked around and said:

"I heard that there is a real estate pilot project in the south, which is to build houses and sell them. There is an urgent need for some building materials there. This rebar is one of them. I have inquired about the price, and the profit is very high.

The most important thing is that the demand is large enough. If a house is made entirely of reinforced concrete, I don’t know how many tons of steel bars would be used. Just imagine how much profit can be made from it.”

After hearing what Cui Dake said, Xu Damao also became interested.

During this time he has been looking for projects that he can do.

If the project Cui Dake mentioned is reliable, then you can indeed make a lot of money.