Chapter 51 Base

After getting the marriage certificate, Fu Zhengtu took Su Taotao to go shopping, buying all kinds of daily necessities, food, and dietary supplements, as well as toffee, milk powder, and maltose.

Fu Zhengtu let Su Taotao decide what to buy. He was only responsible for carrying things. The only things he specified to buy were double wedding candies and double wedding cakes. Since the banquet was not set up at the base, wedding candies and cakes had to be distributed.

This was probably the time when Master Fu showed the most understanding of the ways of the world.

The most important thing is to buy the electric fan that Su Taotao had been dreaming of!

It is said that money is hard to spend these days. One hundred yuan can indeed buy a lot of food. A family of ten or eight people in Qinglian Commune spends less than one hundred yuan on food in a year.

Speaking of durability, this small electric fan cost seventy or eighty yuan along with the industrial stamp.

The flesh of the Su Tao peach is extremely painful.

Before leaving the state-owned hotel, Chef Xu gave her a large envelope containing a full 100 yuan. She thought it was a lot, but she didn't expect that she spent most of it on this fan.

Add in the miscellaneous stuff and another eighty or ninety bucks more, and it cost me nearly two hundred bucks in all.

As the saying goes, one who does not manage the household does not know how expensive fuel and rice are. These days it is too difficult to make money without engaging in speculation, so the only thing we can do is to save money.

It seems that she still needs to find a job, otherwise she will be restricted when buying things.

"How much money is in our savings account?" Su Taotao suddenly remembered and asked Fu Zhengtu.

Fu Zhengtu gave a number.

Su Taotao exclaimed, "So many?"

Is she hugging someone with thick legs?

Fu Zhengtu looked at her strangely. Didn't she open it and read it? So she forgot about it?

Su Taotao touched her nose. Did she not take care of it that day? Later, she even forgot to take care of it.

There was a lot of savings at home, so Su Taotao felt free to go shopping and she generously let Chen Chen and Fu Yuanhang each choose a gift.

Fu Yuanhang shook his head and said no, it is not easy for an elder brother to support his elder sister-in-law, and it is quite expensive.

Chenchen fell in love with a colorful slingshot at first sight. In fact, his uncle had given him a black slingshot that he had made himself, but that one was too big and he couldn't pull it, so he liked this one better.

Su Taotao waved her hand and bought it.

The little guy was beaming with joy after receiving the gift.

Su Taotao took out a dollar and handed it to Fu Yuanhang: "If you don't buy a gift now, you can cash it in. I will give you a dollar of pocket money every month in the future. You can buy whatever you want by yourself."

"I, I don't want it!"

Fu Yuanhang was so frightened that he shook his head vigorously.

In his entire life, he had only ever held a dime in his hand. He had never touched a whole dollar bill, so he pushed it back as if his hand was burned.

Su Taotao stuffed it into his schoolbag without saying a word.

Fu Yuanhang looked at his elder brother for help.

Fu Zhengtu nodded and told him to listen to Su Taotao.

So Fu Yuanhang had the first "huge sum of money" in his life.

After getting on the bus, Chenchen touched his slingshot, while Fu Yuanhang secretly took out the money from his schoolbag, put it in his trouser pocket and kept it tightly, touching it again and again.

The car drove along the coastline for a full hour, and Su Taotao finally saw the legendary base.

Fu Zhengtu said that the base was surrounded by the sea on three sides, and Su Taotao thought it would be far away from the mainland and might even have to rely on ships for entry and exit.

It turns out not to be.

Strictly speaking, the island where the base is located is surrounded by the sea, but there is a cross-sea bridge about 200 to 300 meters long between the island and the mainland.

This bridge is not as majestic as the bridges built in later generations. It can even be said that it is a reinforced concrete structure bridge that is so ordinary that it cannot be more ordinary.

You have to know that the industry was not developed in that era, and there were no machines such as cranes and bulldozers. Such a cross-sea bridge was built entirely by the hands of local soldiers. They climbed up the mountain to cut roads, went into the sea to feel for rocks, carried bags of cement, pushed stones, and built it bit by bit at the risk of their lives.

Su Taotao looked at this ordinary-looking bridge and was in awe of the hero who built it.

The base is under militarized management, with a checkpoint at the bridgehead. Only vehicles from the base can enter and exit freely, and other outside vehicles and people are not allowed to enter the island. It feels like one man is blocking a thousand men.

Fu Zhengtu's identity is very mysterious. The author of the original novel did not dwell on it too much. She still doesn't know what Fu Zhengtu is researching. She only knows that his work needs to be kept highly confidential. He is a scientific researcher who is key protected and trained by the state, and even his bedmates cannot reveal a single detail.

In the past, he didn’t even have a fixed work location. Not only did he not have his family with him, he himself didn’t even know where his next project would be.

Later, Su Taotao also read interview reports that some scientists involved in nuclear weapons related to national security could not even contact their families for decades, truly devoting their entire lives to scientific research.

This base was obviously built not long ago. It took so much manpower and material resources to build a base that occupies an entire island, and it is also militarized. I guess this stay will not be too short.

Now that you are here, make the best of it.

In any case, no matter what Fu Zhengtu's job is, she will not explore it. It will not affect her future life anyway, so she will just live her life as usual.

When he got home, he was just her husband, with a certificate.