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 got near 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 frightened. She stood in front of Baoer, looked at the three men and two women in front of her warily, and asked coldly, "Who are you?"

Among these five young men and women, the two taller men 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 top. How should I describe him... he looked sleazy... Zhou Caiwei thought, it's a good thing that it's not very cold in June in Hailang Island. If it were in the north, this little hooligan would have been frozen into a fool.

The five men were sandwiching two young women in red dresses. They all had glasses covering half of their faces. Zhou Caiwei thought they looked familiar and asked, "Who are you five? Where are you from?"

The five young men and women looked at each other, all happy, and shouted in unison, "Teacher Zhou, it's us."

After saying this, he took off the toad-shaped glasses on his nose.

Zhou Caiwei slapped her thigh, "Oh, it's you. You came back if you want to. Why are you dressed like this, and wearing big black sunglasses?"

The eldest boy patted the non-existent dust on his suit jacket and said, "Teacher Zhou, you don't understand this, right? It's popular to wear this now, and wear a pair of sunglasses. Do you think I look handsome?"

Zhou Caiwei: "Handsome, I see? You look like a cricket."

Sanwa came forward to show off, posed like Fei Xiang, and moved his short hair, "Teacher Zhou, do you think I look like a certain star?" He added, "Do you want me to sing a song for you?"

Zhou Caiwei had a blank expression on her face, and her lips twitched. "No, I won't listen to the song anymore. Go home and sing it to your parents." After that, she rushed the five children home. "Hurry up and go home. I, your teacher Zhou, am very upset. I want to scare someone to death every day."

Erniu said crisply, "Then goodbye, Teacher Zhou."

Before leaving, he gave Baoer a big bag of fruit candy.

Zhou Caiwei opened a pineapple-flavored candy for Baoer and asked her to hold it in her mouth, "Say goodbye to your brothers and sisters." Baoer's cheeks were puffed up from holding it in 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, the final exams were taken late and we all came back late, arriving only on New Year’s Eve. I guess our parents must have been 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 vegetables and said, "I heard you. We are not deaf, but 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 meal isn't ready yet. When will the tea be served? There's some food in the fruit box. Fill your stomach first. The meal will be ready soon."

Erniu went to the tea 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 crunchy sound when she bit them.

Sanwa saw that she was eating happily and shouted, "Give me a piece, too."

Erniu glanced at him and said, "Do it yourself and you will 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 of them into Erniu's hand, "You don't love your brother, but I love my sister. Here, take it and eat it."

Erniu amused him and ate the longan slowly.

Shen Lie took a sip of tea and glanced at the clothes of the three children. "Wow, not bad, they are dressed quite fashionably."

The eldest child was very proud, "Of course, it cost a lot of money."

Shen Lie raised his eyebrows and continued, "How much did it cost?"

Da Wa was so proud that he almost told me the real price. He paused and said, "…No, it didn't cost much. It was given to me by someone else."

Shen 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 first glance. They must be the kind you only see on TV. He said honestly, "I know the store owner. They gave me these for free. I didn't spend that much."

He is the shop owner himself, he half sells and half gives away to himself, hehe, that's no problem, right?

Yes, I did buy the goods at half the market price. If I calculate based on the purchase price, I really didn't spend that much money.

Shen Lie snorted coldly, went upstairs to get a few large packages, and put them on the table. "Shen Dawa, don't tell me that 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 packages he had sent back. One package was cosmetics and skin care products for his mother, one package was clothes he bought when he just went to Shanghai, and the biggest package was clothes he bought at wholesale prices from his stall. He saw some good ones, so he packed one package and sent it back for Ningtang and Shen Lie to wear. Not only here, but also Erniu, Sanwa, Fangfang, and Dahu had quite a few.

The eldest boy rolled his eyes left and right and stammered, "... this... this."

Shen Lie pulled the corner of his mouth, "Tell the truth, I will be lenient if you confess, I will be strict if you resist, it's New Year's Day, don't force me to beat you."

Ning Tang came out with the dishes and just happened to hear this sentence, "During the Chinese New Year, it is not allowed to beat children."

The eldest child pretended to be powerful and said to Shen Lie, "Dad, did 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 fly up to the sky, so he curled his lips and added, "If you want to beat him, you can do it after the New Year."

The smug look on Da Wa's face froze in an instant.

The third child winked at the eldest child 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 powerful."

Shen Lie snorted, "That's right." Then 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.

Shen Lie suddenly laughed angrily, pointed at the three with his index finger, "You guys, you are teaming up to do bad things." He glared at Da Wa, "Hurry up and tell the truth."

The eldest child lowered his head, looked very honest, and said hesitantly, "Dad, you have to promise me first that you won't get angry when I tell you so."

Shen Lie snorted coldly, "I won't promise you anything. You tell me first, and then I'll decide. Should I be angry or not?"

Da Wa blinked his eyes and said, "Actually, I went to set up a stall to sell clothes." He pointed to the packages on the table and said, "Most of these are clothes I bought from others."

Shen Lie actually guessed something, but after hearing the confirmation from Da Wa, he couldn't help but jump up and exclaimed, "What? Are you a rich man?"

Da Wa curled his lips and said, "What do you mean by 'trader'? 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 "Dao Ye" and "Dao Ye". But when he started setting up a stall himself, he no longer liked to call them that.

Shen Lie: "What are you thinking? You want to be a traitor? What's wrong with that? Is it because your family doesn't give you enough money? Do you really need to earn this money?"

Being a small trader is not a high-class thing nowadays. Although you can earn a lot, it is not as respectable as working in an office. What's more, Da Wa is still a college student. Although he is not from the best university with the best major, he is still guaranteed a job after graduation, which is very prestigious.

When people outside ask you something and find out that you are a college student, they will respect you a little.

But if you say you are a rich man, people will look down on you in their hearts, whether they say it or not.

Da Wa had actually guessed what his father would say after he knew he had become a tycoon. He had also rehearsed with Da Hu how to answer. He said in a long voice, "Dad, I have my own difficulties. You don't know that I have put a lot of effort and thought into making money."

Sanwa replied, "Without a brain, how can you have brains?"

Shen Lie glared at him and said, "Go away, don't interrupt me." Then he said to Da Wa, "Go on, I want to see what your difficulties are and what you have thought about."

The eldest child rolled his eyes and continued, "Dad, how old am I now?"

Shen Lie, "Eighteen, nineteen after the New Year."

In his eyes, she is still a child whose hair has not even grown out completely.

The eldest child clapped his hands and said, "Yes, I am already 18 and will be 19 soon. I am still asking my family for money. Is this appropriate?"

Shen Lie stretched out his hand and pinched his brow, "Wait, I don't understand."

The eldest child thought to himself that it was right that he didn't understand, but he 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 reply, he continued, "But think about it, can I ask my family for money?" He added, "That's definitely not possible. Dad, you've already spent a lot of money to support Erniu and me to go to college."

Shen Lie snorted, "This sentence sounds like human language."

"So, if I want something, I have to earn it myself." He clenched his right hand into a fist and pounded his chest, "This is what a man should do."

Shen Lie felt that what he said was right at one moment and wrong at another. In short, he felt confused. He reached out to untie the belt around his waist and said, "Don't talk to me about this and that. It's wrong to be a profiteer anyway. You are still in school. How can you set up a stall like others? Are you still studying?"

The eldest child looked at his father's hand as he untied the belt. He trembled and said repeatedly, "Dad, this is the belt I gave you."

Shen Lie looked down and nodded, "Isn't it appropriate to hit you with the gift you gave me?"

suitable?

Not suitable at all!

The eldest child hid behind a chair and shouted, "Second girl, third child, hurry up and hold 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 take a look."

Erniu and Sanwa stood up and were about to speak when Shen Lie glanced over and said, "Do you two want to get beaten up together?"

The two of them immediately became obedient, sat down, and cast helpless looks at the eldest child.

Shen Lie stretched out his hand to spread his long legs, grabbed Da Wa's collar and pulled him over. "You too? Don't say I'm wronging you. Doing business requires capital. I don't believe that the three hundred and fifty I gave you is enough for you to set up a stall."