CH 131

Mo Zenian picked up his son and strode towards the village. He heard his sister talking in the back courtyard, “How dare that bastard meddle with my son? If it causes me to lose my money, I’ll rip him to shreds.”

Her grandson Xiao Huzi was also there, crying and saying, “Grandma, the Lu family’s son hit me, you need to get revenge for me!”

Mo Zenian kicked open the gate, and they were both stunned. The old woman, who was sitting in her room, heard and was stunned for a moment, and then came out to say, “Why did you kick down the door? You scared my grandson!”

His sister also said, “That’s right! Why are you acting crazy?”

Mo Zenian put Mo Zheng down and asked him to go to his second grandma’s. He stared at Mo Yan’s aunt, “Sister, I entrusted my son to you, and this is how you’ve taken care of him?”

The woman was used to verbal arguments. She narrowed her eyes and said, “It’s just children playing around, what’s the big deal? Stopping getting angry over that.”

“The age gap is so large your grandson is just beating my son up! Also, how dare you say only send your grandson to school, and say Zheng’er is just an aide!”

“I sent him to school! He must’ve just skipped school to play. Why are you blaming someone else for your child’s wrongdoings? We can question your son if you want.”

“What is there to question? A blind man can see the child’s wounds!”

“Children recover quickly, he’ll be better in a few days. I’ll tell him to be careful when we go back so he doesn’t get hurt again.”

“If I let you take him back, aren’t I just sending him off to his death?”

“You’re acting like this because children fought? Is your son that precious?”

Before she could say anything else, Mu Zenian yelled at her again, “Get out, don’t ever dare come back here ever again!”

Mo Zenian’s sister sat on the ground crying again, “My late father, pity your daughter! I’m being kicked out of my mother’s house!”

She really didn’t love her grandson in vain. Xiao Huzi went to help his grandma, and scolded Mo Zenian, “Your family are all scumbags! If you dare to bully my grandma, I’ll fight with you!” Then, he charged towards Mo Zenian, who pulled the rascal to the ground, and the woman cried even more.

The old woman knocked on the ground with her walking stick, saying “Mo Zenian, you are a disgrace to your ancestors. Are you not afraid of being struck down by lightning?”

Mo Zenian kowtowed towards the old woman thrice, “Mother! I finally know how difficult it has been for Yanfen and the children! You have never given birth to me, this unfilial son, and only have a daughter to pay filial piety to you!”

After that, Mo Zenian entered his aunt’s room. She had already fed Mo Zheng, and Mo Zenian picked up the child and started crying.

“Aunt, I’m the bastard. I shouldn’t have been obsessed with divorcing Yanfen. Please help me convince her to remarry me!”

She poked his shoulder with her finger, “What good qualities do you have?”

Mo Zenian carried Mo Zheng away, but his sister kept crying, as she would never get his money ever again. [1]

Along the way, Mo Zenian held Mo Zheng tightly in his arms, tears streaming down his face. As he had just had a full meal, he fell asleep after being embraced so comfortably.

Mo Yan and the others were closing their stall by the road, when Mo Zenian walked over and said, “Yan’er, ask your people to take all my goods!”

So he already knew Mo Yan was buying his goods to resell.

She opened her mouth to ask him how he’d subsist, but she felt Liang’s eyes stabbing into her, and didn’t dare to ask.

Mo Zenian took the initiative to say, “I’m going to the Upper Valley to try and find the goods. I might never come back again, I hope you’ll all live well.”

“If you’re in a hurry to leave, let’s move all of the goods over first!”

He handed Mo Zheng over to Mo Yan, then pushed his goods into Ms. Hua’s yard.

After he left with Mu Zheng in his arms, Ms. Liang said triumphantly, “It’s really convenient for us to get all of his goods out of the blue.” [2]

After that, Ms. Liang and Mo Feng looked after the storefront, and the sisters went to the workshop together. It was the first time Mo Ling came here. Seeing there wasn’t a sign outside, she asked, “Why isn’t there a sign? Even our small shop still has a signboard!”

Mo Yan replied, “I haven’t chosen a name for it yet.”

“Just take a word from each of your names like our shop, Mingyan doesn’t sound bad.”

“It’s too easy to misunderstand, and besides, there’s also Chi Jie!”

“His name is so strange, it wouldn’t fit anywhere in the name.”

Mo Ling was assigned to cut the materials into the required sizes and shapes according to Chi Jie’s templates, then distribute it to others to sew.

The first briefcase was made of lake blue canvas with a metal buckle, and Chi Jie’s logo embroidered on the flap.

Zhou Liangsheng went to the school with it, catching the eye of his classmates. Everyone asked him where he bought it. Zhou Liangsheng smiled, “My brother’s workshop, low prices if you pay a deposit.” Several people immediately paid the deposit.

Zhou Liangsheng walked on the street with his briefcase, making many people slow down to take a look. It seemed like it’d definitely sell well.

Chi Jie also planned to make backpacks, messenger bags and larger travel bags.

After some discussion, in addition to backpacks and briefcases for students, they decided to produce messenger bags targeted for postmen.

The next market day, they moved the raincoat waterproof test to the market. They filled a large wooden basin with water, and then submerged the raincoat in the water and put a brick on it to press down. After putting it in for half a day, not a drop of water got through.

The passersby all said that this raincoat was light and waterproof, and it was only a hundred and eighty dollars. But people are frugal, and most people thought it wasn’t worth it when it wasn’t going to rain more than a few times this year.

Mo Yan thought of two demographics who would want this raincoat. One was postmen, who had to deliver their parcels no matter the weather, so this would come in handy.

The other was porters, who couldn’t delay getting their goods to their recipients.

Lu Junming had stayed silent, but seemed to be thinking. When Mo Yan asked what was on his mind, he came back to his senses, and the corners of his lips raised slightly, “There is one more group of people who will need these raincoats in large quantities.”

Mo Yan and Chi Jie asked in unison, “Who?”

“Soldiers.”

Mo Yan asked, “Shouldn’t there be special workshops to supply those? How can they get supplies from any random workshop?”

Lu Junming just smiled without speaking. Chi Jie said, “Let his father’s men try it out first, so it can catch the eye of other soldiers.”

Post-translation notes: So half emotional response and half business ideas? That’s pretty much a condensed version of this web serial in a nutshell. Thanks for reading!

[1] Wait, so Mo Yan’s aunt is just going to go scot-free?

[2] You’re telling me that Mo Zheng is probably going to be neglected by his dad again and will probably suffer more for it. Well, comment whether you think that’s going to be the case, or if we’ll never see those two ever again.