The Plan to Conquer Yanbian and Hunchun (10)

Everyone dreams of something like this at least once.

It is the dream of living a rather shabby life now, then seizing the right opportunity someday and completely changing one's fate.

Once their fate changed, they would put meat on their children's table and dress the wife who nagged them day after day about the rice and money running out in proper silk.

They would carry a bundle of gifts to the parents who had spent their entire lives suffering to raise them and proudly tell them, “I made it.”

From that day on, they would become the pride of their aged parents.

Kim Deok-bae, who had left his hometown in Gyeongsang Province and come up to Hanyang, was one of them.

“Haah, is this really the right way to live?”

His income had gone up a little compared to when he had lived in his hometown as a tenant farmer, but...

After paying the rent he had not needed to pay back home and buying food, including rice, there was practically no money left in his hands.

The senior men working at the merchant guild said that if he endured for another three or four years as he was now, his salary would rise sharply, allowing him to buy a small house on the outskirts of Hanyang and get married...