On the morning of the first day of the new year, Liu Meiyun and Lu Changzheng were still lying in bed. Dabao sneaked into their bed wearing his autumn clothes, holding the "wish card" that Liu Meiyun gave him last night.
"Mom, I want you and Dad to take me out to play without my brothers."
Lu Dabao thought about it for a whole night before he figured out how to use this wish card.
Last night, Erbao slept with his arm on his shoulders, and Xiaobao secretly farted under the quilt in the middle of the night. He felt that his two younger brothers were so annoying, and he wanted to enjoy a day without his younger brothers.
The eldest son wanted to experience the feeling of being "the only one who loves me", and Liu Meiyun couldn't think of a reason to refuse.
Even though the three brothers usually do everything together, if the other two knew that their parents only took their older brother out to play, they would definitely make a scene and Lu Dabao might not even be able to get out successfully.
"Mom and Dad can take you out to play, but you have to take care of your younger brothers on your own." Liu Meiyu decided to leave this difficult problem to her eldest son to solve on his own, and she didn't dare to interfere.
"Mom, I can pretend to be sick!" Lu Dabao's eyes rolled and he came up with a devilish idea.
Grandpa would definitely take them out to pay New Year's greetings at noon. Dabao decided to stay in bed and pretend to be sick. He would wait until Erbao and Xiaobao left before he secretly went out to play with his parents.
"Then you have to tell your grandfather."
"Yeah!" Lu Dabao happily went to discuss with his grandfather. Except for Erbao and Xiaobao, everyone in the family knew that Dabao had gone to great lengths to go out and play alone, so no one interfered. After all, it was the three brothers' own business.
Lu Erbao saw his brother lying on the bed, looking listless. He was very regretful: "Dabao, why are you sick? Grandpa wants to take us to pay New Year's greetings and collect New Year's money. If you don't go, there will be no New Year's money!"
Lu Dabao buried his head in the quilt and said in a low voice: "No, then no."
The New Year's money is not as important as going out to play alone with mom and dad. Besides, he has already saved up a lot of pocket money.
Lu Xiaobao also felt sorry for his brother, "There were candies during the Chinese New Year, Dabao, but now you can't enjoy it. I'm going to eat all yours!"
Lu Dabao simply didn't bother to pay attention to him. He buried his head in the quilt, just hoping that his two younger brothers would leave quickly.
After waiting for a long time for the second and third babies to leave, the eldest baby quickly jumped out of bed, put on new clothes, carried his own small shoulder bag filled with New Year's money, and happily took his parents out of the house!
Without his two younger brothers following him, Dabao was twice as excited as usual.
Lu Changzheng bought tickets to the zoo and took his mother and son for a tour of the zoo. He hung a camera around his neck and took pictures as he walked, using up all the film.
When they saw someone selling cotton candy in the park, Dabao used his own year-end money to buy two, one for himself and one for his beloved mother.
"Lu Dabao, have you forgotten that you have a biological father?"
Lu Changzheng took care of his mother and daughter all the way, but he didn't get anything. His son even bought cotton candy for his mother.
"Dad, don't you dislike sweet things?" Lu Dabao pouted. Why waste money if you don't like to eat.
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"I'll give you mine." Liu Meiyu didn't want to see the father and son competing, so she threw the half-eaten marshmallow to Lu Changzheng, took the camera, changed the film and continued shooting.
Lu Dabao was running freely in the zoo holding a marshmallow, and Liu Meiyun was chasing after him to take pictures of him.
Among the three brothers, Lu Dabao is definitely the most vain one. He is a person with a slight obsession with cleanliness. His clothes must be clean at all times and he always poses straight when taking pictures. He is unlike Erbao and Xiaobao who like to act weird.
"Mom, take a picture of me here. Xiaobao likes monkeys the most." After playing for a while, Lu Dabao's excitement gradually faded. It's not that he was not having fun, but he just felt empty in his heart.
Liu Meiyu took a picture of him. After a while, Dabao ran to the peacock again and teased it for a long time but couldn't get it to spread its tail. Then he remembered the last time he came with his brothers, and Erbao made the peacock spread its tail immediately.
After leaving the zoo, they went to the market.
Dabao should be very happy that he is being led by his parents without his younger brothers to make trouble. However, he just can't muster much interest when he sees those little toys on the road.
Unless he comes across something that both his second and third child likes, he will go over to join in the fun and spend his New Year's money to buy it.
Seeing their eldest son's awkward look, Liu Meiyu and Lu Changzheng knew what was going on, but they didn't say anything.
He waited until Lu Dabao got tired of playing and asked to go home early before he took everyone home.
As soon as we got home, Erbao and Xiaobao, who had gone with grandpa to pay New Year's greetings, had already returned early. When they saw Dabao coming back from outside, they all surrounded him with concern.
"Dabao, did you go get a shot? Did you cry? I've brought you some chocolate candies, they're delicious. I'll give you two." Lu Xiaobao was generous enough to give his elder brother an extra chocolate candy because his elder brother was sick.
Lu Erbao also said: "I have brought back all the New Year's money for you, so keep it in your pocket and we will buy comic books together when school starts."
"Okay~" Dabao accepted the New Year's gift money and chocolates with a guilty conscience. It was a rare occasion that he showed a little shyness in front of his two younger brothers.
So in the second half of the day, he was particularly obedient to Erbao and Xiaobao, and even did not snatch the big chicken legs from them during meals.
The second and third brothers just thought that the eldest brother was sick and felt sorry for him, and they were very concerned about him. The three brothers, who usually would fight over the slightest disagreement, rarely showed any warm brotherly love at home today.
But this warm scene did not last until the next day.
At night, when the three brothers were lying on the bed playing, Dabao accidentally let out the story about the wish card and pretending to be sick, which aroused the hatred of the second and third brothers. They pressed Dabao to the bed and beat him up, but they still couldn't feel relieved.
The three brothers divided into camps. Erbao and Xiaobao gave Dabao the cold shoulder for two days until Dabao took out half of his New Year's gift money to buy them firecrackers. Only then did the matter come to an end.
If you have children at home, every day during the New Year is restless. The adults feel tired and the children feel they don’t have enough fun.
Every day they watch people lighting firecrackers, playing with firecrackers, exchanging snacks, showing off new clothes, and running around the compound. They don’t even have to do homework. For them, they really wish it were the New Year forever.
After the New Year, people go back to school and go back to work.
Without the triplets calling her one after another, Liu Meiyun suddenly felt that the whole world was a lot quieter. She took the food and returned to the Huaqing dormitory in a happy mood.
Students from other provinces bought train tickets early and returned to school. Liu Meiyu always returned the day before school started. When she arrived at the dormitory, almost everyone was there, except Bai Ting's bed, which was still empty.
After entering the dormitory, Liu Meiyu greeted everyone one by one. When she arrived at Song Qi's place, she saw him lying lazily on the bed with snacks and a foreign book at his sides. His belly was obviously full of fat.
"Song Qi, how much meat did you eat this year?"
"What's it to you!" Song Qi glared at her unhappily, turned over, covered himself with the quilt and went to bed early.
The others shared the snacks that Liu Meiyu brought, and everyone happily talked about the changes that had taken place at home in the past year.
"The harvest was good this year. During the Chinese New Year, my mother-in-law slaughtered a pig, sold half of it, and kept the other half for herself. This is the first time in my life that I have enjoyed eating pork so much. It was simply so delicious." Zhou Yanhong is still reminiscing about it.
She felt happy when she thought that her children would be able to eat pork several times a year.
"Yes, it's the same in our place!" Su Qinghe came back this year and changed into a new cotton-padded jacket without patches. She smiled shyly and joined the discussion: "My parents raised ducks and sold them with others. Not only did they pay off the family debts, but they also had money to make new clothes for me. In the future, I don't have to send half of the school subsidies back home."
In the dormitory, most people agreed. This year was the most comfortable one they had ever had, simply because they had more money in their pockets and could have meaty food at the New Year's Eve dinner.
Liu Meiyu was also very happy to hear this. The reforms in the past two years, especially the rural economy, have seen earth-shaking changes. She was fortunate to be able to witness this historical leap with her own eyes, which was a completely different experience from the brief descriptions she had read in books before.
"Bai Ting hasn't come yet, will she be late for class tomorrow?"
Zhou Yanhong looked at Bai Ting's empty bed and couldn't help but worry.
Wang Meihua put down the book, rubbed her eyes, and said, "Who knows? I saw her on the street two days ago. Maybe she will go directly to the classroom to report tomorrow."
"That's possible." Zhou Yanhong nodded.
They chatted until very late, and they were still talking while lying on their beds after the lights were turned off. Not only did they feel so comfortable during this year, but also because Miss Song Qi actually fell asleep for the first time in her life and didn't yell at them to be quiet.
At this time in the past, Su Qinghe, who slept on the bunk above her, would not only not join in the dormitory's night chats, but even if she came down to drink some water and made some noise, Miss Song would complain.
Not only did he sleep soundly, but he also couldn't wake up. The next morning, Su Qinghe had to call him two or three times before he got up from bed.
After the formal classes started, Liu Meiyu plunged into her studies again, leaving all the store management to Yao Shunliu.
A few days after the New Year, Yao Shunliu went south to Guangzhou again and brought back more than 20,000 yuan worth of goods in one go. Liu Meiyu took a look and found that the styles were basically the same and were all made according to the standards she set.
The business in the store after the Chinese New Year is definitely not as busy as before the Chinese New Year, but it can still maintain a daily turnover of at least three to four hundred yuan.
The store's daily turnover is equivalent to other people's annual salary. If it remains stable for a month, Liu Meiyu can just sit in Huaqing's classroom and wait for the money to roll in.
But even with all the money rolling in, Liu Meiyu still felt it was far from enough.
As for the current situation, the clothing store has a monthly turnover of more than 20,000 yuan, and only 200,000 to 300,000 yuan a year. For others, this may be an astonishing profit rate, but Liu Meiyu will need funds for many purposes after graduation.
A clothing store with an annual turnover of more than 200,000 yuan is far from enough for her. She needs more working capital to activate more projects.
In the 1980s, when opportunities were everywhere, what Liu Meiyun lacked was capital.
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