In the afternoon of New Year's Eve, Zhou Caiwei took Baoer to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy firecrackers to play with.
As soon as we approached the port, we saw five young people dressed in fashionable clothes jumping off the boat.
When the five men saw her, instead of avoiding her, they walked straight towards her.
Zhou Caiwei was startled. She stood in front of Baoer and looked at the three men and two women in front of her warily. She said coldly, "Who are you?"
Among these five young men and women, the two taller ones wore black suits with bright red bow ties at their collars. They looked like the bodyguards of the big guys in Hong Kong movies.
The shorter guy was wearing white bell-bottom pants and a white V-neck shirt. How should I describe him... he looked uncouth... Zhou Caiwei thought, thank goodness it wasn't very cold in the twelfth month of the year on Hailang Island. If it were in the north, this little hooligan would have been frozen into a fool.
The five men, one on each side, sandwiched two young women in bright red dresses. All five wore sunglasses that covered half their faces. Zhou Caiwei felt they looked vaguely familiar and asked, "Who are you five, and where are you from?"
The five young men and women exchanged a glance, all beaming with joy. They all shouted in unison, "Teacher Zhou, it's us."
After saying that, he took off the frog-eye glasses on his nose.
Zhou Caiwei slapped her thigh. "Oh, it's you guys. You're back, so why are you dressed like this? And wearing those big black sunglasses?"
Da Wa brushed off the non-existent dust on his suit jacket and said, "Mr. Zhou, you don't understand this, do you? This is the trend right now. Add on the sunglasses and look at me. Don't you think I look handsome?"
Zhou Caiwei: "Handsome, I see? You look like a cricket."
Sanwa came forward to show off, imitating Fei Xiang's pose and fiddling with his short hair. "Teacher Zhou, do you think I look like a celebrity?" he added. "Would you like me to sing a song for you?"
Zhou Caiwei had a blank expression, the corners of her mouth twitching. "No, I won't listen to the song anymore. Go home and sing it for your parents." Then she rushed the five children home, "Hurry home, Teacher Zhou. I have a bad heart. I'm trying to scare someone to death every day."
Erniu said crisply, "Goodbye, Teacher Zhou."
Before leaving, he gave Baoer a big bag of fruit candy.
Zhou Caiwei opened a pineapple-flavored candy bar for Baoer and asked her to put it in her mouth. "Say goodbye to your brothers and sisters." Baoer's cheeks puffed up with her mouth and she waved to her five brothers and sisters in a baby voice, "Goodbye, brothers and sisters."
After saying goodbye to Zhou Caiwei and Baoer, Da Wa, Er Niu, San Wa, Da Hu and Fang Fang went back to their respective homes.
This year, everyone took their final exams late and came back late too, arriving only on New Year's Eve. I guess their parents were waiting anxiously.
When Da Wa, Er Niu and San Wa returned home, Ning Tang and Shen Lie were cooking in the kitchen.
Sanwa shouted, "Dad, Mom, we are back."
Ning Tang quickly stir-fried the dishes and said, "You heard it? We're not deaf, our ears are still working well."
Erniu quickly ran into the house and sniffed, "What a nice smell."
"Are you hungry?" Ning Tang asked, "The food isn't ready yet. There's some snacks in the fruit box on the coffee table. Fill your stomach first. The meal will be ready soon."
Erniu went to the coffee table and took a look. In the fruit box were pistachios, longans, fried seeds, candied triangles and rice cakes. She took a few candied triangles and put them in her mouth. They were crispy, sweet and crunchy, and made a crunching sound when she bit them.
Seeing how she was enjoying the meal, Sanwa shouted, "Give me a piece too."
Erniu glanced at him and said, "Work hard and you'll have enough food and clothing."
Sanwa made a face at her and said, "Do it yourself." Then he peeled a few longans, removed the cores and threw them into his mouth, chewing them with a sweet taste. He ate them himself and didn't forget to put a handful into Erniu's hand. "You don't love your brother, but I love your sister. Here, take it and eat it."
Erniu amused him and ate the longan slowly.
Chen Lie took a sip of tea and glanced at the clothes of the three children. "Oh, not bad, they are dressed quite fashionably."
The eldest child was very proud and said, "Of course, it cost a lot of money."
Chen Lie raised an eyebrow and continued, "How much did it cost?"
Big Baby couldn't contain his pride and almost told me the real price. He paused and said, "...No, it didn't cost much. It was given to me by someone else."
Chen Lie narrowed his eyes, "Which friend is so generous?"
The eldest child knew he couldn't hide it anymore. The clothes they were wearing didn't look cheap at all. They must be the kind you see on TV. He honestly said, "I know the store owner. They gave them to me at a discount. It really didn't cost me much."
He is the shop owner himself, he sells and gives away the goods to himself at half the cost, hehe, that’s no problem, right?
Yes, I did purchase the goods at half the market price. If you calculate it based on the purchase price, I didn’t spend much money. It’s a good deal.
Shen Lie snorted coldly, went upstairs, brought down a few large packages, and placed them on the table. "Shen Dawa, don't tell me these two packages didn't cost much."
Da Wa took a quick look and found that the three packages on the table were none other than the ones he had sent back. One package contained cosmetics and skin care products for his mother, one package contained clothes he had bought when he first went to Shanghai, and the largest package contained clothes he had bought at wholesale prices when he set up a stall. He saw some that looked good, so he packed one package and sent it back for Ning Tang and Shen Lie to wear. Not only him, but also Er Niu, San Wa, Fang Fang, and Da Hu had quite a few.
The eldest boy rolled his eyes left and right and stammered, "...this...this."
Chen Lie twitched his lips and said, "Tell the truth. Confession will be treated leniently, while resistance will be treated severely. It's New Year's Day, don't force me to beat you."
Ning Tang brought out the dishes just as he heard this sentence: "During the Chinese New Year, it's not allowed to hit children."
Da Wa, using his power to bully others, said to Chen Lie, "Dad, do you hear me? Mom is more reasonable."
He ran away after the Chinese New Year because he didn't believe his father could chase him to Shanghai!
Ning Tang saw that he was so proud that his tail was about to rise to the sky. He curled his lips and added, "If we have to fight, we should fight after the New Year."
The smug look on Da Wa's face froze in an instant.
Sanwa gave Dawa a look and said, "Brother, tell me the truth. I'm going to tell you. I can't hide it. Who are our parents? They are very famous."
Chen Lie snorted, "That's right." He thought something was wrong, "Wait, Sanwazi, you have a share too?"
He looked at Erniu again. She looked up at the sky, then down at the ground, but didn't look at him.
Chen Lie suddenly laughed in anger, pointing his index finger at the three of them, "You guys, you're teaming up to do something bad." He glared at Da Wa, "Hurry up and confess."
Da Wa lowered his head, looking very honest, and stammered, "Dad, you have to promise me first, I told you not to be angry."
Chen Lie snorted coldly, "I won't promise you anything. You tell me first, and then I'll decide. Are you angry or not?"
Big Boy blinked his eyes. "Actually, I went to set up a stall to sell clothes." He pointed at the packages on the table. "Most of these are clothes I bought from other people."
Chen Lie had guessed something, but after hearing confirmation from Da Wa, he couldn't help but jump up and exclaimed, "What? You're a profiteer!"
Big Boy curled his lips and said, "What do you mean by 'daoye'? I'm just a small individual trader. I make a lot of money, and people still call me Boss Shen."
With the scale of Da Wa's business, can he not be called a boss? People call him that just out of courtesy.
When he didn't set up a stall himself, he would call others "trader" and "trader". But when he started setting up a stall himself, he no longer liked to call them that.
Chen Lie: "What are you thinking? Becoming a profiteer? What's wrong with that? Is it because your family doesn't give you enough money? Do you really need to earn this kind of money?"
Being a small trader is not considered decent nowadays. Although you can earn a lot, it is not as prestigious as working in an office. What's more, Da Wa is still a college student. Although he didn't study in the best university with the best major, he is still guaranteed a job after graduation, which is a good thing.
When someone outside asks you something and finds out that you are a college student, they will have to respect you a little.
But if you say you are a trader, people will look down on you in their hearts, whether they say it or not.
Da Wa had a pretty good idea of what his father would say when he found out he was a profiteer. He had also rehearsed his response with Da Hu. He stretched out his voice and said, "Dad, I have my reasons. You don't know how much effort I put into making money."
Sanwa responded, "Without brains, how can there be brain juice?"
Chen Lie glared at him and said, "Go on, don't interrupt." He then said to Da Wa, "Go on, I want to see what your difficulties are and what you have put in so much effort."
The eldest boy rolled his eyes and continued, "Dad, how old am I?"
Chen Lie, "Eighteen, nineteen after the New Year."
In his eyes, she is still a child, and her hair has not grown out yet.
Da Wa clapped his hands and made a crisp sound. "Yes, I'm already eighteen, almost nineteen, and I'm still asking my family for money. Is that appropriate?"
Chen Lie stretched out his hand and scratched his brow, "Wait a minute, I don't understand."
The eldest child thought to himself that it was right that he didn't understand, but continued, "Dad, think about it, I went to Shanghai and saw a lot of good things, such as tin cars, pagers, and computers. I want them all."
Before Shen Lie could respond, he continued, "But even if I want to, can I ask my family for money?" He added, "That's definitely not possible. Dad, you've already spent a lot of money to send Erniu and me to college."
Chen Lie snorted, "That sounds like human language."
"So, if I want something, I have to earn it myself." He clenched his right fist and pounded his chest. "That's what a man should do."
Chen Lie listened to it, feeling that it was right at one moment and wrong at another. In short, he was confused. He reached out and untied the belt around his waist. "Don't talk to me about this and that. Anyway, being a street vendor is wrong. You are still in school. How can you imitate others and set up a street vendor? Are you still studying?"
Big Kid looked at his father and saw his father's hand tremble as he reached out to untie his belt. He kept saying, "Dad, this is the belt I gave you."
Chen Lie looked down and nodded, "Isn't it appropriate to hit you with something you gave me?"
suitable?
Not suitable at all!
The eldest child hid behind a chair and shouted, "Second girl, third child, hurry up and stop him! Dad, can you bear to watch him beat me?" He then shouted towards the kitchen, "Mom, Dad is going to beat me, come out and see!"
Erniu and Sanwa stood up and were about to speak when Chen Lie glanced over and said, "Do you two want to get beaten up too?"
The two of them immediately became obedient, sat down, and gave the eldest boy a helpless look.
Chen Lie stretched out his long legs, grabbed Da Wa's collar, and pulled him over. "You too? Don't say I'm wronging you. Running a business requires capital. I don't believe I'll give it to you. Your three hundred and fifty is enough for you to set up a stall."
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