After the new year began, Zhonghai City's streets grew much livelier. All kinds of shops sprang up along both sides of the streets like mushrooms after rain, and the range of goods began to expand. You could almost feel the prosperity of the prewar days.
Human technology and productivity were recovering rapidly. The most obvious sign was... bicycles had become cheaper.
They had originally cost two or three thousand each.
Now they cost only around fifteen hundred.
Great Xia Nation itself was not short of iron ore; what it lacked was rich iron ore that was easy to smelt.
That was the advantage of being a great nation: its territory was vast, and all kinds of resources could be found there. Even in the most difficult times, it could still basically provide for itself.
When Chen Shouyi returned home, Mother Chen was sitting on the sofa.
Seeing him come back, she deliberately sighed.
"Mom, what's wrong?" Chen Shouyi asked, puzzled. Had she and Dad gotten into another argument?
"The neighbors just had a baby and came over to hand out sweets. Sigh, that baby was so adorable. Those big eyes..." Mother Chen glanced at Chen Shouyi, then sighed again.
He was already twenty, and still hadn't even found a partner.
She was so anxious.
She wondered if she had been too strict with him when he was young, and made him afraid of falling in love.
Chen Shouyi was baffled. What was there to envy? A thought suddenly struck him, and he asked tentatively, "Mom, are you going to give me a little brother or sister?"
Mother Chen nearly choked on the words at her silly son's question. Flustered and angry, she forgot what she had meant to say. "You brat, what are you talking about? Your father and I