The mother and daughter had lunch at the Giraffe Restaurant, where the food consisted of fried chicken, fries, hamburgers, and hot dogs, all of which are favorites of children.
The food was pretty good, and the price was quite reasonable. What was even more unexpected was that, for a small fee, you could also buy some leaves and have lunch with a giraffe!
In the afternoon, after seeing enough parrots and rare birds at Shendiao Mountain, we turned south and went to the children's science park, the petting zoo, and the seabird park.
Not only did I get up close to many adorable animals, but I also learned a lot and even fed many rare animals that I had only ever seen on TV and in books.
Although my son walked for more than four hours today, he was so excited that he didn't even take a nap. He played enthusiastically until 5 p.m. before we drove out of the zoo and went home.
They still had two large areas to visit: the aquarium and the walrus enclosure. For people who live by the sea, marine animals didn't hold much appeal for them!
Chen Hong turned back to the city halfway there and bought a lot of books and toys for her son, spending more than a thousand yuan.
Startled, Yu Yang asked his mother, "Aren't we going to celebrate? Why did you buy so much today? It's such a waste of money!"
Chen Hong felt both amused and heartbroken upon hearing this; life had been so difficult before. Before the divorce, her son was five years old, and the toys she had bought for him had never cost more than a hundred yuan.
To amuse her child, Chen Hong made many of the toys herself. To save money, she used all sorts of materials.
Small pistols bent from thick iron wire, swords and long knives carved from wooden sticks, chessboards and chess pieces polished from wooden boards, sandbags and hampers sewn from scraps of cloth filled with sand, rolling hoops welded from thin steel bars, and ingots folded from old calendars, etc.
Although my son had a lot of fun, he never expressed any dissatisfaction.
But when he saw other children occasionally taking out high-end toys bought in big cities, the longing in his son's eyes was impossible to hide.
However, Yu Yang was exceptionally well-behaved and sensible from a young age, and never asked his mother for toys. He knew that his grandfather often took medicine and that the family didn't have much money.
After the divorce, Chen Hong's financial situation gradually improved. However, due to her previous frugal spending habits, she only bought a few small toys for her son, and they were all sturdy, inexpensive, and low-end toys.
No wonder her son was surprised to see that she had bought several electric toys that cost over a hundred yuan each today; he had never seen his mother spend money so extravagantly before.
Chen Hong smiled and said to her son, "Xiao Bao, now that our family is rich, Mom can afford to buy you better toys."
Furthermore, these toys are all educational toys that can improve hands-on and cognitive abilities, and the materials used are all natural and environmentally friendly.
I don't mind spending money on you at all. I know you are a thoughtful and sensible child.
She keeps her toys very well and never breaks anything, which is much better than other people's children!
Yu Yang was quite proud of his mother's praise. He was indeed a good child who cherished his things, and he had kept every toy he owned carefully from childhood to adulthood.
As soon as Chen Hong got home, the village chief told her some good news.
The city government called to invite Chen Hong to attend an awards ceremony in the city three days later.
This is a special commendation meeting held for fishermen who have actively salvaged and turned over enemy underwater vehicles in coastal waters in recent years.
Chen Hong was very puzzled. The Coast Guard had already given her a bonus of 600,000 yuan for the five underwater drones she had handed over. Why would they ask her to attend the commendation meeting?
Has maritime safety become tense again recently?
Although she didn't understand the inside story, Chen Hong was still very excited. This could be considered a special honor, right?
As an ordinary fisherwoman, it is her inescapable duty to make a contribution to safeguarding the security of the country's waters.
Only when the country is prosperous and secure will fishermen have more confidence to go out to sea.
There are too many disputed waters around our country. Our fishermen are fishing in our own waters, but they are often bullied and arrested by coast guard vessels from neighboring countries.
This situation is infuriating for all fishermen. Given the chance, they will step in to defend their country's waters, which is also to protect the livelihoods of their future generations.
That evening, Chen Hong received a call from her father, who told her about the current situation at home.
Dad and his brother plan to jointly invest in a minivan to transport migrant workers between towns and villages, which can be considered a disguised form of taxi service!
In my hometown, not many people can afford to buy a minivan, so this business is still quite profitable.
Luckily, my brother also has a driver's license, and he doesn't like to do manual labor on construction sites.
Driving a taxi is a job that suits him well; it's better than him being idle at home all day, and he can earn some living expenses.
Dad felt that most of his savings came from Chen Hong, so he should tell Chen Hong and ask for her opinion before making this decision.
After considering it for a while, Chen Hong thought it was feasible, so she asked the father and son to discuss the distribution of profits in advance.
The elderly person paid for the car, so we can't let them use it for free. We need to share a portion of the profits with them every day so that they will be motivated to go out and find work.
Dad has already decided that once he buys the car, he will settle accounts with him every day, and if the earnings are low on any given day, he will take the car away.
Since the family had already made up their minds, Chen Hong stopped interfering in their affairs. No matter how much money they earned, as long as they had income every day, life wouldn't be too difficult.
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