Even though Alec's usual expenses are no different from those of a big bourgeoisie, in reality, he is just an ordinary country gentleman relying on his family's shade. Therefore, 120 million pounds is not enough for a big bourgeois in London. problem, but for him, it is still a relatively large sum.

That night, Alec began to count his property.

Due to his lack of production, he sold the rubber plantation and lumber field of Old D'Urberville long ago, but he also left two textile mills, two flour mills, three vineyards and three A wine processing plant, and even, he included two properties in London, but it is still far from enough.So Alec called the banker's attention.

Alec borrowed 50 pounds at high interest from a banker through his relationship, so he could barely make up 120 million pounds.

Knowing Alec's difficulty, Richmond specially donated his own piece of wasteland in the Knights District, south of Hyde Park, London, to Alec as a token of his gratitude for supporting his career.Of course, Alec was not interested in this large but seemingly useless wasteland, so he gave the land to his beloved wife in return.

The two parties signed the sale and transfer contract at the London Civil Lawyers Association. Since then, Alec has become a businessman with a glamorous appearance but with negative assets.

Alec became very busy and sometimes did not go home for two or three days, so they moved to a sold-out apartment in London, and most of the servants moved with them in order to maintain a decent life. come over.

At the same time, Richmond, who broke away from the family, went further on his ideal career path.

On April 1848, 4, for the third time, the National Chartists, who supported workers' suffrage, packed the petitions of 10 million workers from various districts in the UK on four gorgeous carriages and sent the representatives to Parliament, but they were met with opposition. Gendarmerie repression.Then, workers from London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and other cities gathered on Kennington Common and held massive demonstrations.The royal family had already fled to the Isle of Wight, and the Waterloo train station was swept away. The Bank of England even set up guns. For a month, the masses clashed with the army, and the whole country was panicked.

Alec, who was too busy some time ago, had to be free now. At the moment, he was teasing his son who was struggling to crawl.

It turned out that in order to let the little guy exercise, the mother specially sewed a doll with a bell in its stomach, and put it on one end of the carpet, tempting him to do the daily crawling exercise.The little guy is very lazy, he crawls and then sits up and does not move. From time to time, he reaches out to play with the pacifier in his mouth distractedly, so someone must keep ringing the bell at the end to attract his attention.So, Alec, who had nothing to do at home, was honorably assigned to this task.

"Baby, come here, Daddy is here..." Alec tempted with the little puppet, ringing the bell from time to time, "Come here and play for you."

Although it is already April, the weather is still a bit cold when staying at home. It has been gloomy outside. It seems that it is about to rain, and a cold wind blows in from time to time.The fireplace in the living room was on fire, and the little guy was covered with thick clothes, which looked like a round ball, which made it more difficult for him to crawl, so he spent more time slacking off.

At this moment, the little guy was in a bit of a dilemma, he frowned as if he was weighing the gains and losses, whether he should have to crawl over because of an old toy that he played with many times.Seeing his son making an expression that didn't match his age, Alec wanted to laugh, and continued to seduce, "Come into Daddy's arms, Daddy will hold you Feifei." The previous gesture made the little guy immediately make up his mind, his thickly wrapped arms and legs quickened his pace, and when he was about to reach the end, he stood up crookedly, leaned over and plunged headfirst into his father's lap. arms.

"My dear baby, oh, you are so good, come and give daddy a kiss!" Hugging the limp little guy, he felt so devastated, and kissed his son's face fiercely with his stubbled face .

The little guy thought that his father would pick him up, Feifei, at first he hugged his father "uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" "Slap" on Dad's shameless big face.

Lisa, who was lying on the sofa reading a book but peeking at their father and son from time to time, snickered unkindly.

"My son, your temper is really not very good." Alec said humiliatedly, and stretched out his hand to pinch his son's fleshy little face in retaliation.

"Woo--" The earth-shattering cry resounded throughout the living room.

"Alec!" Alec raised his eyes and saw his wife in a lace apron holding freshly made fruit puree and looking at him with disapproving eyes.The fat white cat squinted and swiped its tail at her feet, seeming to be laughing at him too.

Alec showed a flattering smile to the empress, stretched out his hand back and forth to caress his crying son, "Don't cry, baby, it's dad's mistake, dad shouldn't pinch you, daddy hug you Feifei, okay?" Then he held his son's armpit, stood up and swung it quickly in mid-air.

The little guy's bad temper came and went quickly, and soon he "giggled", showing four small baby teeth.

The empress handed the porcelain bowl containing the mashed bananas to the maid, asked the maid to take off her apron, wiped her hands with a handkerchief, and then came over to extend her hand.

The little guy didn't want to miss leaving. As soon as he saw his beautiful mother, he immediately abandoned his father and threw himself into his mother Xiangxiang's arms. He was so strong that Alec almost couldn't hold him firmly.

"Little cat." The empress took the clean handkerchief handed over by the maid, held him in one hand and wiped his tears with the other.

The empress was sitting on the sofa with the little guy in her arms. Lisa, who had completely occupied the couch, sat up quickly and reached out to pick the little nephew's double chin. "Crybaby Oston." She joked.

The little guy couldn't understand Aunt Lisa's words, so he bent his eyes and grinned at the aunt who looked like his mother.

The hard-working father has come over with banana mash.

Sitting next to his wife, he scooped up a small spoonful of mashed banana and handed it to his son's mouth. He couldn't help but let his son open his mouth with an "ah——".

The little guy likes to imitate the adults most at this time, and he also imitated his father and said "ah", and opened his mouth to bite the stainless steel spoon.

Alec pulled and found that his son was biting the spoon tightly with his only four small milk teeth. He didn't dare to pull hard for fear of breaking the baby's hard-earned small teeth, so he coaxed patiently: "Os Dun, open your mouth, be good."

The empress calmly stretched out her finger and shook the little guy's chin, he really couldn't help itching, and opened his mouth to laugh.

"Bad guy." Empress concluded.

The little guy's reply was to rub his mother's belly with his head.

24 Filial piety father Alec continued to scoop up mashed bananas, "Baby, have another bite."

Aww, I bite again and don't let go.

Seeing this, Lisa closed the book and guessed, "Maybe Auston just wants to grind his teeth? The next door's teeth should grow soon too?"

The empress touched his son's soft hair, kissed the top of his hair, and said: "His pacifier is almost broken, and it's time to buy a new one."

Lisa was very depressed and complained: "Who is doing business at this time, I haven't eaten fresh fruit for a long time! I still want to eat the sponge cake from the cake shop on the corner, and the York Group two streets ahead. Pudding...what to do, the more I talk about it, the more I want to eat it! It would be great if they all opened in one store..."

"It would be even better if this store opened in my own home..." The empress ruthlessly interrupted her daydream.

Alec didn't dare to join in the teasing of Lisa, because the more this sister-in-law gets along, the more she finds that she has learned nine tenths of his wife's strengths, and she must be very competitive.

Lisa sat up straight suddenly, startled the Persian cat that climbed onto the sofa and lay in her arms, "Sister, you are so smart, why can't I remember that there is a department store?" She Looking at the empress with great interest, she suggested: "Sister, didn't my brother-in-law give you a piece of land? It's in the south area of ​​Hyde Park, where people come and go, we can build a department store there and rent out the shops ah."

"What is a department store?" Alec was immediately interested.

The more Lisa thought about it, the more she felt that her idea was possible to implement. She straightened her body and began to explain endlessly: "A department store, as the name suggests, is a store with a hundred different types of goods. A hundred is just a general term. We still have There can be more goods. Of course, this idea is too good, and we can’t manage so many types with our ability, but we can rent out, rent out the shops in the building to merchants, let different merchants come and settle in, and form a large-scale shopping mall Stores, ah, just thinking about it, I think we must get rich!" Lisa's idea was very good.

After Alec heard it, he felt disapproving. Businessmen who really have the capital to open a store are willing to spend a lot of money to buy land and decorate houses. Lisa said that this idea seems to be a cheap businessman. A few empty rooms, they don't even bother to do this.In fact, Alec didn't realize the advantages of comprehensive retailing. The full range of goods is convenient for customers to choose and buy, and it also promotes customers' consumption psychology. That is to say, even if he came in to buy a pack of inferior tea, With a wide variety of commodities, it is easy to be attracted to buy some non-essentials that he did not intend to buy. This kind of psychology is especially common in women.But it cannot be said that Alec has no long-term business vision, because in this era, all businessmen have not yet realized the benefits of comprehensive sales, or even what it is.

Niangniang thinks that this idea can be put into practice. This idea is somewhat similar to the nature of Daming's salesman, who sell all kinds of products, but department stores sell more and more complete products.

Thinking like this, she turned to Alec and asked, "What do you think?"

Alec was flattered. This was the first time his wife asked his opinion seriously. He saw the invisible but real expectation in her eyes, and he didn't want to dispel her enthusiasm, but there was such a problem in fact. , he is not optimistic about this idea, and most importantly, he has no money, and he is still in debt of 50 pounds from the bank.

"If... I mean, if you agree, maybe we can postpone the implementation of this wonderful idea a little bit? You know, how worrisome the current situation is..." He looked at the empress face, said carefully.

Of course the empress knew Alec was in trouble, so she didn't force him anymore, "There will always be a way," she said.

Alec felt very frustrated. As a husband, he couldn't help his wife realize what he wanted, and asked her to comfort him in turn!At such a moment, Alec had a kind of ambition, he must succeed, must make a lot of money, so that his beloved wife would not frown her beautiful brows!No one knows that it was Alec's germination of this determination. Every time he encountered a financial crisis, it was because of this determination that he supported him to go upstream and finally achieved that era. His own legend.

But at this time, he is still a little aggrieved person who is facing bank debt collection at any time, and his wife and sister-in-law are thinking of ways to get money for the construction of the department store.

The author has something to say: Hello everyone, good morning!In the last chapter, it was mentioned that there will be abuse, not for the purpose of abuse, but for the needs of the plot. After all, the empress is unhurried. Although she will be touched by Alec's actions, the psychology of self-protection still cannot let her Give your heart to respond to Alec.Although the abuse in the future will hurt her, she has truly integrated into this world since then, and she will not just watch Alec's emotions like a bystander. This is what I thought before I started this article The plot is not a temporary idea, it probably means this. . .

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