Back to the Republic of China to open a department store

Is Luo Minmin dead? After the third or fourth attempted suicide, she felt that she had finished "entrusting her orphans" and went to another world with hatred and unwillingness, as well as reluctance for her child.

The news that the Sixth Miss of the Luo family died in the detention center was suppressed by the Luo and Fu families.Perhaps only those who are particularly concerned about the gossip of these big families in Shanghai will wonder a few months later: The poisoning case of the Sixth Miss of the Luo family has not yet opened the court?

After Luo Minmin died, the detention center sent people to collect the body.The Fu family closed their doors, and the Luo family ignored them.

At first, Bai Fenghuang originally wanted to take the lead. Luo Minmin was just born when she married into the Luo family, and she could be regarded as watching this sixth girl grow up. There is no burial place.

But after Luo Yunze found out about it, he had a rare conflict with her, resolutely not allowing her to collect Luo Minmin's body.He no longer has any affection for the "sister" who killed his father, himself, and tried to hurt his son.

Bai Fenghuang was not a strong woman in the first place, so she gave up this idea.

Then came and went, more than a month after Luo Minmin's death, the body is still parked in the mortuary of the detention center, and no family member is there to take care of it.

Until August, Luo Xiazhi heard that the fifth sister Luo Hehe, whom she hadn't seen for a long time, went to collect the body of the same father and half sister who had been at odds with her all her life, bought a cemetery in the countryside of Baoshan, and buried it hastily.

No one would have imagined that the once prominent Sixth Miss of the Luo family, who shocked Luo Minmin in half of Shanghai on her wedding day, would end up in such a miserable end.

After learning that Luo Minmin had specially called Luo Xiazhi to take care of his orphans at the end of his life, Luo Yunze tauntingly puffed out a smoke ring and said: Daydreaming.

Rorschach remained silent.

He felt that he was a little frightened by Luo Minmin's madness. The horrible appearance of her lying on the ground begging him to take care of Abao with blood on her mouth, during that time, would flash into Luo Xiazhi's mind from time to time, making him sleepless at night. sleep soundly.

"A Bao? Fu Jiabao? He hasn't come to school for a long time. I heard he is sick."

Unable to withstand the torment of the nightmare, one afternoon, when the kindergarten was over, Luo Xiazhi and Gu Hanlin came to the school gate, wanting to check with their own eyes the latest situation of Abao.

Waiting and waiting for Abao to come out, and the aunt who took care of Abao from the Fu family to appear, Gu Hanlin simply stepped forward to inquire, but in the end he got such news.

Turning around, he sent people to Fu's house to inquire about the news. Unexpectedly, as Luo Minmin expected, she died here and didn't finish "Qi Qi", so Fu Jiaming married a new wife and went home.The newly married is the cousin of the Fu family, who grew up with Fu Jiaming as a childhood sweetheart, and doesn't mind being his continuation.

After Luo Minmin died, Ah Bao cried and cried day and night, contracted pneumonia, and his condition fluctuated from good to bad.

The new stepmother who came in was still a big girl, she didn't know how to take care of the child at all, so she just left him and went to the honeymoon with her husband, she completely threw the child to the servants.

"Are you going to pick him up?"

Seeing Luo Xiazhi trembling with anger, Gu Hanlin asked.

"Your elder brother won't let him in...you can put the child with me."

"I don't know...I'm so messed up."

Luo Xiazhi covered his forehead with one hand, and slammed his head heavily on the window glass.

Sitting on the driver's seat in front of the two of them, Li Ye pursed his lips and said nothing.

He naturally knew why the third master was so embarrassed.

It's not because the third master once saved him, and his parents once killed the third master.

The dead Sixth Miss took advantage of the kindness and sympathy of the Third Master, and wanted to throw Master Abao into the care of the Third Master—how is that different from raising a tiger for trouble?

It's all because of him, and it's all because of myself... that made the third master suffer so much.

Looking at Luo Xiazhi's embarrassed look in the rearview mirror, Li Ye blamed himself.

In the end, Luo Xiazhi still couldn't adopt Abao.Ah Bao's surname is Fu, and the Fu family has been passed down from generation to generation. How could it be possible to hand over the precious Young Master Sun.

Soon after, the Fu family went to Nanyang, and it is said that they went to Malaysia, instead of doing shipping business, they opened plantations instead.Abao was naturally taken to Nanyang, and there was no news for a long time after that.

Back to the Luo family, Luo Yunze's "brothers" are most concerned about Luo Muze's ambitions for wealth.

Since he came back to snatch the property, they had to deal with it.

"If he dies, it's all over."

Standing by the newly excavated pool, Luo Yunze took the time to sprinkle the fish food into the fish tank little by little, and several koi surrounded them with their mouths wide open, vying for food.

It sounds like a joke, but Luo Xiazhi bets that his second brother probably thinks the same about the two of them at the moment.

Business wars are ruthless, fighting in the same room is a hundred times more ruthless than outsiders hacking each other.

Speaking of which, these Japanese koi were all bought from Sakura Department Store.

It turned out that the Luo family also raised goldfish, but they were all small goldfish kept in glass fish tanks, not as impressive as this imported Japanese koi.Recently, wealthy families in Shanghai have started to raise koi, and Sakura Department Store will even send someone to give instructions on how to raise them.

No matter how knowledgeable the Shanghainese are, they would never have thought that flowers, birds, fish, and insects could be sold in department stores—isn’t this a trade in the flower and bird market? What does it look like in a department store?

It was only later that Luo Xiazhi found out that Miss Chun's father, the president of the Great Chun Trading Company, started out selling insects and birds in Edo.Selling songworms in summer and ornamental fish in other times, walking around the streets and alleys to make a family business.The president of Tsubaki has not forgotten his original intention. It is said that this business still exists in Daitsubaki Trading Co., Ltd., and their department stores in Japan also have flower and bird counters.

It has been a year and a half since the opening of Sakura Department Store, and even though Mai and Modern are sometimes attacked from both sides, the business is still booming and steady.

Sakura Department Store is a typical combination of the West and the East. It is not inferior to Shimai and Modern in terms of western style, and even better in terms of exotic style.Especially the Japanese-style courtyard gardens arranged on both sides of the gate, with cherry blossoms in spring and maple leaves in autumn, accompanied by the chirping of insects and birds of various colors, are extremely elegant and have become a scene in Shanghai.

Although there is no rooftop paradise, this building is all the same as Harrods department store in the UK. There are ten restaurants of different types, which is far better than Shimai and Modern.

Luo Xiazhi's hotel with a ballroom on the main road is still under construction, but the Sakura Department Store already has a spring ballroom, and foreigners sing and sing in it every day.

The salesgirls in kimonos are also a floating scene. It is said that these Japanese beauties who speak fluent Chinese and even Shanghainese are carefully selected and sent to China.

The key is that here you can buy Japanese imported products at a much lower price than domestic products, and even imported European and American products that are rarely seen in Shimai Department Store.

Now that European goods are in short supply, the Japanese have occupied the entire Nanyang shipping line, and are desperately dumping Japanese goods to China and Australia, making a lot of "war fortune".In just one year, Japan's trade surplus with China skyrocketed by nearly [-]%!

The "China-Domestic Products Promotion Association" organized by Luo Xiazhi also suffered a huge blow during this year.

With the support of the low-tariff policy of the incompetent Customs of the Republic of China, all kinds of oriental goods entered the country as if pouring in.At present, the domestic national industry is still in its infancy, not to mention that many products cannot be produced by itself, and even if they are produced, the quality cannot be compared with imported Japanese products.

Luo Xiazhi once personally held a domestic so-called stainless steel washbasin and a washbasin bought from the Sakura Department Store diagonally opposite - the result was that the domestic washbasin was dented, and even knocked out. Even though the hole is small, the Japanese washbasin is safe and sound.

Poverty and weakness, poverty and weakness in all aspects!

At that time, Luo Xiazhi's mood was as bad as this broken washbasin. Even though he knew that this was an unavoidable period of national humiliation in history, he was still heartbroken.

Even if the four words "boutique domestic product" were printed on the domestic washbasin, Luo Xiazhi could not convince ordinary customers, because with these four words, it would cost twice as much as buying Japanese products to buy such low-quality products .

What's more, during this period, their domestic product promotion association itself caused a scandal that made Shanghai laugh.

Moreover, this scandal happened in his Shimai department store!

Just last month, a female customer bought a piece of silk at the cloth counter of Shimai for a dowry—this female customer is a so-called "progressive youth", and both of them are the same as the groom who is also a primary school teacher. Proper "Patriotic New Fashion" supporter.They want to hold a "patriotic wedding", and all the furniture, home appliances, and even clothes and sheets are purchased from Shimai's domestic products counter.

It is said that the behavior of the two caused a lot of discussion in the school where they work. On the day of the wedding, the principals and colleagues came to congratulate this pair of noble-minded teachers and husbands on entering a new stage of life.

When everyone was visiting the "patriotic wedding room" arranged by the couple in the new house, an older sister looked at the eighteen quilts and brocades stacked on the bed - in the old days of Shanghai, when a daughter got married, her mother's family would stack a lot in the new house Silk and satin cloth, to show that the family is rich - the eldest sister just tore off the label of "fine domestic silk and satin" on the silk and satin.

The Japanese characters below are exposed.

It’s fine if it’s Japanese. After all, not everyone in Shanghai can speak Japanese these days.The problem is that in addition to the unintelligible Japanese characters, there is also a line MADEINJAPAN.

This is embarrassing.

Those present are all elementary school teachers, at worst they are junior high school graduates. If you don’t understand these English letters, then don’t mess around in the teaching team.

At that time, the noisy new house suddenly became quiet, and the bride, who was still distributing wedding candies for some unknown reason, walked over with a smile, picked up the bright red satin with dark patterns, and asked: "Sister Zhang, is it good-looking?"I bought it at Shimai. My mother said that the few pieces I had were too plain, so I had to buy a red one to celebrate...

Then, the face of the bride who saw that line of English words was more "festive" than the red silk she bought as a dowry... her whole face flushed.

At that time, the bride in a white wedding dress brought a group of people to Shimai Department Store with great vigor and vigor, alarming the people in the whole building.

Luo Xiazhi rushed down from the sixth floor, and the bride threw the silk on his head.

Pulling off the satin from his head, Luo Xiazhi also changed his face when he saw the English letters on it, and hurriedly asked someone to "invite" the bride and his party into the conference room for a discussion before the matter got serious.

The onlookers and customers who didn't know why were making up their minds. Some people even guessed that the bride in the wedding dress was here to "rob marriage" to the third master of the Luo family.

After understanding the ins and outs of the matter, Luo Xiazhi immediately ordered to check all the products in the domestic product counter to see how many imported products were fake. The result was astonishing. One-third of them are imported goods!And of this one-third, up to [-]% are Japanese products.

In the past few years, it is not without Japanese businessmen and business owners trying to contact Shimai's purchasing department, wanting to sell their goods.However, the Purchasing Department of Shimai has been strictly adhering to the red line set by Rorschach since joining the "China-Domestic Products Promotion Association", keeping Shimai's overall imported goods below 30.00%.They prefer to purchase domestic products that are the same price as Japanese products, or even slightly more expensive, because Luo Xiazhi, as a patriotic businessman, wants to give opportunities for the development of national enterprises and national industries.

As a result, the facts are so slap in the face!

The angry bride originally wanted to make matters worse, such as going to the newspaper offices of "Shen Bao" and "Ta Kung Pao" to expose Shi Mai's trickery.But in the end, after Luo Xiazhi promised to provide her with a wedding banquet venue and a seven-day honeymoon package in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai for free, she gave up on this idea.

Of course, this has a lot to do with Gu Hanlin speaking to her principal.

In short, because of this lead, the "China-Domestic Products Promotion Association" has started an internal self-examination campaign.Not only Shimai, but also Modern Department Store and many other terminal sellers have joined in. The current first stage is to catch the two big heads of "selling fake domestic products" and kill them as an example.

Say a thousand words and ten thousand, domestic products should be self-improvement!

Just as Li Zhaoye predicted, if it is said that the imported goods of several European and American department stores on the main road are originally aimed at wealthy people and foreigners who can afford high-priced goods, their trade with China is limited to high-priced lifestyle products. Fine watchmaking machinery.

So now this group of ambitious Japanese is trying to strangle all industries and commerce in China.

From matches and cotton cloth to high-grade chemical and mechanical products, their products are pervasive, and they are of high quality and low prices. The domestic products they sell are not capable of fighting back—this form is completely an upside-down version of Chinese products exported to the world in the 21st century—and Sakura Department Store is the "pawn" of this Japanese power.

During the period after his "return", he clearly saw how Shi Mai's customers were lost.Shimai's advertisements are beautiful, and the magazines and radio stations are impressive, but they can't prevent the low-end customers from being attracted by the high-quality and cheap Japanese products.

The only good thing is that the farmers in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces have been doing well in the past two years. As the main roads have become more prosperous, the total number of passengers has increased overall. At least for now, it seems that the three department stores are still equally divided.

I am afraid that someone will come up with an idea to break the balance of this "three-legged confrontation".

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The thing in the world is that what you are afraid of will happen.

Luo Xiazhi has always felt that he is destined to be with the police station. Although this is not a good phenomenon, he really appears here again and again.

Here he met Li Ye's parents, Ms. Tang who assassinated him, and his sixth sister Luo Minmin.

Now, he saw another relative in the patrol room—the dissatisfied Ms. Luo Wanyi.

Ms. Luo, Ms. Luo, Miss Xiaoxiao was arrested a month before she was about to go to Hong Kong to study high school. She was charged with distributing leaflets with "bad content".

Luo Xiazhi had already signed his name and paid the ransom to take this young man home and lock him up—the "home" he said meant his "Summer Palace", not the Luo Mansion.

If his elder brother knew what this young lady of the Luo family had done today, he would probably break her leg directly, and there would be no need to study.

"Where did I go wrong? Is the content of this leaflet wrong?"

The little girl said stubbornly, with a cynical look on her face.

Luo Xiazhi held the leaflet, which was not hard-painted, but the words were "eye-catching", and once again lamented the progressive spirit of women in the Republic of China.

This flyer reads in huge bold characters—the isolation of China today stems from the isolation of the country.The occlusion of a country is like the binding of a woman's feet.

That was quite true, he agreed.

Tianzu sports!

The hands support the woman's feet.

But the text on the next line is scary - if you want to liberate today's big empire, you must first liberate women's breasts, please join our "Heaven ~ breasts" movement, refuse to tie ~ chest ~ clothes, from you and me start!

Luo Xiazhi raised his head, racked his brains and finally remembered that during the period of the Republic of China, there seemed to be a vigorous "Heaven ~ Breast Movement" that shocked the female world all over the country...

At that time, the national atmosphere gradually became popular, especially in metropolises such as Shanghai and Beiping. Many educated women joined in and embraced the new fashion with practical actions, refusing to wrap themselves in layers of white cloth. In this age without women's underwear, After the girls develop, they wrap their bodies with chest wraps to cover up the fact of development.

This kind of physical and mental harm is actually no less harmful than footbinding, and it has caused great harm to women.

However, the rulers of the big empire who were not yet prepared were heartbroken and angrily rebuked, and they also used actions to show their position.

The Shanghai government issued a notice: Those who deliberately dress up in strange clothes so that their arms and legs are exposed are allowed to be arrested immediately and punished according to regulations.

It is said that the situation in Beiping was even more serious, and many progressive young women were arrested.

For Rorschach, these are the knowledge found in history books.

But history is history, and when you really participate in it, especially if the people around you participate in it, it will be a different matter.

"Smile, you are right, I support your activities very much..."

Rorschach bowed his head and said.

The little girl has grown a lot recently, and she is no longer the little girl who would hug his leg and ask for candy.

"Uncle Three..."

Bright big eyes cast excited glances at Luo Xiazhi.

"But your father will beat you to death if he finds out..."

Luo Yunze was very strict with this nominally only daughter, absolutely not allowing her to make any mistakes.

"Evil feudal parents, all this is because of the maintenance of traditional evil forces..."

Well, after turning around, the little girl returned to the earliest topic and began to criticize Luo Yunze.

The two came out of the patrol room and got into the car. Li Ye saw Xiaoxiao and greeted her. The latter didn't know whether it was because of shyness or something. nodded.

Luo Xiazhi secretly sighed in his heart: "a pair of children" have grown into a big girl and a young man.

"Third Master, we may have to take a detour when we return to the summer palace later."

Li Ye said while starting the car, "When I came here just now, I heard that Sakura Department Store held a 'swimming~clothes show', and now all the streets near the main road are crowded with spectators, the car must not be able to drive. past."

After finishing speaking, a figure suddenly popped up in Li Ye's mind.

If that person was in Shanghai, he would never let go of joining in the fun...

After thinking about it, his expression changed, and he rolled his eyes at himself.

"What? Swimsuit performance? Where is it? Sakura Department Store? Is it the department store of the second brother?"

Xiaoxiao suddenly became interested, lying behind the driver's seat, and said with surprise, "I want to see it! Drive quickly, I want to see it! It's so fashionable and advanced!"

Okay……

Rorschach looked down at the leaflet he had squeezed into a ball.

It seems that Luo Muze has exerted his strength.

When the three of them rushed to the main road, they were completely shocked by the turbulent crowd.

Although Luo Xiazhi is also the main culprit who often causes congestion on the main road, his lucky bag project and the rooftop park have also caused a certain degree of congestion, but compared with today's scene, it is completely insignificant.

It took a lot of effort to return to the Shimai department store, and Luo Xiazhi almost suspected that the entire Shanghainese had come to the main road.

"Really? Did you really come out in a swimsuit?"

"Really, I just looked out from the glass window on the fifth floor, and just in time saw an Oriental woman in a red one-piece swimsuit coming out. Oops! I just went to a toilet, and the seat was taken!"

In the department store, all the glass windows on the side facing the Sakura department store were crowded with people, not only the customers, but even the staff skipped work to peek.

Luo Xiazhi, Xiaoxiao, and a group of managers also stood at the glass window on the sixth floor to look down.

Next to the beautiful courtyard of the Sakura Department Store opposite, a small swimming pool was dug out at some point.

And right by the swimming pool, a group of women wearing the latest swimsuits, some were sitting on deckchairs drinking Dutch water, some were sitting by the pool and splashing water with their feet.A more daring woman jumped into the water, and after swimming back and forth for a short time, she climbed onto the shore wet, causing the surrounding men to gasp.

A Japanese-style flag was planted next to the swimming pool, which read: Summer swimsuit promotion, [-]% off the whole site for one day only.

The mouth will fall off when you smile.

She is still fighting for the freedom of women not to wear corsets here, and she is wearing a swimsuit across the street for people to see casually in the public.

Luo Xiazhi glanced at it, then looked away with disinterest - just kidding, he used to be in the school swimming team, who would fall in love with the extremely conservative one-piece trousers swimsuit!

It's not a bikini!

But his second brother is very good. He sold goods in silence before, but he didn't expect that the first shot would be a heavyweight bomb. This can be regarded as a counterattack to his "Tianwaitian Broadcasting".

Sakura's products are of good quality and full of "gimmicks".

How can he fight back?

The author has something to say: Shanghai News in 1918: "Women are now in fashion with a kind of obscene clothes, which are really unseemly and unbearable to watch. The arms of the blouse are about 1 foot exposed, and the trousers are hung up to more than 1 foot. In summer, I wear a pink foreign gauze vest inside, and a gauze shirt with veil on the outside, so that the muscles are almost exposed."

In 1920, Shanghai issued an announcement: "All the clothes you wear are either short and bare-armed or imitated and nondescript."

This was the social atmosphere at that time, and it seems very emotional now.

The freedom of dressing of the sisters today is also opened up by the seniors in the female world.

Hope we keep improving and don't look backwards.

Preview the next chapter "Summer Wars", let's see how Xiaoxia solves this internal and external troubles little by little.

感谢在2020-10-2917:59:14~2020-10-3017:56:53期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel of irrigation nutrient solution: 1 bottle of Shuyu;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!