Yang Fenglin was tired of the restaurants in Yancheng, as they only had a few different flavors. The canteen in his army emphasized health over taste. So when he came across a small stall that had painstakingly researched and improved its flavors to sell well, Yang Fenglin was happier than during the New Year.

"It's a pity that we can't take this home, otherwise my grandfather could have tried it."

Bai Jiaojiao said, "Yancheng will have it soon too, and Grandpa can eat it whenever he wants."

Yang Fenglin finished a forearm-length fried dough stick in no time: "Brother-in-law, aren't you in business? Why don't you sell fried dough sticks? You're right by the university gate, you're guaranteed to make money."

Shen Heng: "Just eat quickly, don't worry about anything else."

Bai Jiaojiao ate a fried dough stick and a bowl of soy milk. Shen Heng peeled a tea egg for her, but she couldn't finish it, so Shen Heng put it in his own mouth.

Yang Fenglin watched in stunned silence, even lowering the volume of his chewing his fried dough sticks.

After the three finished breakfast, Shen Heng took them to the newly opened shopping mall.

"Today we'll go to a big department store first, where the goods are more upscale. Tomorrow I'll take you to the street stalls, where they have all sorts of interesting little trinkets that they've found from who-knows-where."

"Brother Heng, do you also buy your goods here?" Bai Jiaojiao asked.

"The first trip was here. This shopping mall was the first one built. It was full of foreign goods, which were ridiculously expensive. They were also delivered by state-owned factories, but there weren't many of those items to begin with. Wang Fushun and I ordered a lot of goods, but we didn't dare to make a fuss, for fear of attracting attention."

Things are much better now than at the beginning. Everyone has become bolder and has found that as long as you operate legally here, you won't run into trouble. As a result, there are more goods and more wealthy customers. It's no wonder that people like Shen Heng and Wang Fushun are doing well.

Later, when Bai Jiaojiao became pregnant, Shen Heng didn't have time to come over, so he had Wang Fushun contact a middleman here. For this middleman, this was a stable and lucrative business, since there were payments from both Shen Heng and Wang Fushun, as well as payments from the captain, and each time he could get tens of thousands of yuan worth of goods.

Once they entered the mall, Yang Fenglin's mouth was agape.

Shen Heng glanced at the composed Bai Jiaojiao and thought to himself that she was indeed his wife, not surprised at all.

This shopping mall is completely different from department stores. Even the largest department store in Yancheng is not like this, where clothes are squeezed together and lined up in several rows, as if there is no room to display them.

If you were to go inside and pick through them one by one, it would probably take three days and three nights, right?

Yang Fenglin didn't know where to look: "Sister, these are all women's clothes. Can you give my mom some pointers too? You pick one, and I'll pay for it."

There were many styles of clothes here, all of which Yang Fenglin had never seen before. He was dazzled and followed Bai Jiaojiao around, touching and pinching this and that.

Bai Jiaojiao thought so too. Since she was here, she couldn't just buy things for herself. At least each of her relatives and friends should be able to buy something, right?

The best gift for a female comrade is clothing.

"This is just the beginning. There are tons of clothes shops up there, and lots of other great stuff too."

"Brother-in-law, I can't even move this far!" Yang Fenglin exclaimed excitedly, his eyebrows practically flying off.

Looking at the shopping mall, Bai Jiaojiao felt a little disoriented, as if she had returned to her past life, except that she didn't have much money to buy clothes back then.