Chapter 70

The wholesale market for small commodities opened at seven o'clock, just like the morning market, and small merchants and peddlers came to buy goods in bulk.

This small commodities wholesale market was privately owned, belonging to the family of the largest landlord in Xiping City before the liberation. For a long time after liberation, it was occupied by the supply and marketing cooperative, but after rehabilitation, it was returned to the landlord's family.

Coincidentally, the descendant of that landlord was also surnamed Yan, a distant relative of Yan Xishan, named Yan Dongping. Their ancestors had been major landlords, so after rehabilitation, the government compensated them generously, allowing them to live more luxuriously than Yan Xishan.

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