In fact, the Wei family is not the only early capitalist with a red background in China, and it is not the only family that receives dividends from state-owned factories. However, most of them live a very low-key life. They dare not spend their money, and at most they occasionally improve the family’s food.

But Bai Nuo is different. She now has a strong enough background. Those who secretly want to seize the Wei family's property and the Bai family's scientific research technology have no chance after Bai Nuo returned to Beijing.

There were even some clever people who had a guilty conscience. After witnessing the tragic deaths of several people on a boat, and their deaths being unclear, they vaguely guessed which family was responsible. However, they had no evidence and did not even dare to express their suspicions. They could only stay away, fearing that they would be the next to die.

"Alright, I'll tell the division commander right away. Our independent regiment is reluctant to tire Huahua and Fuguier. In fact, you don't even need to tell us. If we lend them out, our own soldiers will definitely be the first to get upset. Come on, I'm taking them to work. The New Year is almost here. You two should go out and buy things early. Go early and come back early. You don't need to cause trouble outside, okay? If I find out that you two run away and make trouble, I won't let you two bastards off."

Pang Guowei now felt a trembling feeling when he thought about releasing these two troublemakers in the regiment, but... he couldn't really keep the two guys in the regiment.

There are three people in this family. The leader is busy with military affairs all day long, so the two children have to take care of the housework. The New Year is approaching, Fang Meng has just returned from a mission, and Nuonuo has just finished a big case at the public security department. It is estimated that the family has not prepared anything.

Yesterday, the teacher and he discussed it and decided to give the two children a few days off to go out and buy New Year's goods and gifts.

Anyway, the entire military region knows that the training of their 39th Division Independent Regiment has its own rhythm. Whether it is training or leading troops, outsiders are not allowed to interfere, let alone have the right to speak. This was the order directly issued by the General Headquarters when the independent regiment was first established.

Besides, Fang Meng had just returned from a mission, so it wouldn't be wrong for him to take a few days off to rest and recuperate. The only person who might have been injured was the regiment commander, Pang Guowei.

After all, when the deputy commander Fang Meng is on vacation, all the work will definitely fall on the commander-in-chief.

Fang Meng looked speechlessly at Old Man Pang who was walking towards the gate of the family compound with his hands behind his back. What was he saying? Are he and his girlfriend some kind of super-male creatures that make trouble whenever they go out?

Who are you going to kill?

snort!

As soon as Bai Nuo went downstairs, he saw the tall man standing in front of the courtyard gate and walking back angrily. He tilted his little head curiously and said something in a calm tone that would make the team leader furious.

"What's wrong with you, second brother? Who came to piss you off so early in the morning? Tell me, and we'll go to his house secretly in the middle of the night and smash the windows. If that doesn't make you feel better, we can smash his pots and pans."

Fang Meng closed the gate, walked over with a smile, and put his long arms around the petite girl, one hand naturally resting on the girl's head. He walked inside while explaining with a smile.

"You were right to refuse. Let them go to the military district to play and train the soldiers of our independent regiment. It's okay for them to hang out in other regiments occasionally, after all, they are all soldiers of our 39th Division, but forget about other division headquarters. They won't be busy enough. They may need to get married in the future, so they can't just take advantage of their youth to do this."

Fang Meng was dazed for a moment when he suddenly heard his little partner say this. He felt that the tone was a little familiar, like the taste of his old mother.

Then I thought of Aunt Cui'e (the team leader's wife) who was far away in the Northeast. You know what... they are exactly the same!

"Yes, that's what I thought. Let's have breakfast quickly. After that, we can go out early to buy New Year's goods and gifts. We can also go to the post office to pick up the stamps and money that my cousins ​​sent us."

Bai Nuo nodded and said, "Okay, it's Chinese New Year, so let's send some New Year gifts and cakes from Beijing to Grandma Zhou, my eldest uncle's family, my second uncle's family, and my third uncle."

Zhou's uncle, aunt, and cousins ​​sent them money and tickets, saying that they were representing the Zhou family to give New Year gifts, and the money had to be paid by the Zhou family. However, each family sent a lot of money, and the cousins ​​were very generous. They sent almost a month's salary, and said that if they couldn't spend it all, they would consider it as New Year's money. In fact, they didn't need so much money. Most of them wanted to use this as an excuse to support her and Fang Meng.

Although they knew that they would not starve or become poor even if they returned to Beijing, they were still worried.

Fang Meng had breakfast with his father-in-law in the morning, so Bai Nuo was eating breakfast alone. Fang Meng sat beside him and looked at a small notebook with a shopping list made by Bai Nuo on it.

"As for the New Year gifts from each family, they are cakes, candies, cigarettes, alcohol, tea, etc. Anyway, they are just a token of appreciation, as long as the relationship is not severed. In addition, I will see if I can get some local specialties.

As for our own family, we can take some fruits, rice, flour, oil, chicken, duck, meat, eggs, etc., which is enough. By the way, you asked me to ask a friend to order a batch of bamboo gift boxes from a nearby production team. They have been made according to the patterns you gave us, and they should be delivered in two years.

Bai Nuo nodded. New Year gifts are a token of thought and also a way to save face. In the past, the New Year gifts given out by her family were also packaged in various gift boxes for the end of work. There were several production teams nearby with many old craftsmen. Her grandmother had asked her eldest brother to go to the countryside to find someone to order gift boxes. The price was cheap and the workmanship was very fine. The person who gave the gift had face, and the person who received the gift had prestige.

This year, Bai Nuo did not plan to order a wooden gift box like her grandmother did before. Instead, she asked Fang Meng to ask a friend to go to the nearby supply and marketing cooperative to inquire around. In the end, they chose a bamboo gift box, which was exquisite and beautiful and much cheaper than the wooden one.

There are round bag-shaped ones and square double-layer ones. The lids are fastened with wooden horn buckles and finally fixed with a red velvet cloth. They look festive and beautiful, and are easy to carry. They are definitely presentable.

Bai Nuo had discussed all these things with Fang Meng a month ago. Fang Meng was good at these things, but he listened to his opponent and did whatever he was told to do without any delay.

"Bao'er, for these things, should we go directly to Xidan, Wangfujing, or Dongsi? It depends on where you want to go."

This is the good thing about returning to Beijing. There are several large shopping malls and department stores. You don’t have to worry about not being able to find what you want to buy. They even have things from Hong Kong, but the prices are a little higher.

However, money has never been a problem for Bai Nuo and Fang Meng. The money and tickets mailed by the Zhou family are enough, not to mention that Zhu Kaixuan stuffed a thick stack of money and tickets into the two children's hands after returning from the chief of staff's house last night. They had no choice but to accept it.

Bai Nuo is now too lazy to calculate how much money he has. Anyway, there is a small system that helps record every transaction, and the small account book is full.

After finishing his meal, Bai Nuo took the notebook with the shopping list and looked through it carefully again. He reached out and pointed on the notebook while explaining it to Fang Meng.

"From here to here, I don't think we need to make a special trip to buy these things. I already have most of these things, so there's no need to spend that money. Just save as much as you can. In a few years, there will be many places to spend money.

I always feel like I'm being wronged because I spend money to buy things even though I already have enough at home. However, I still have to buy cigarettes, alcohol, and tea. I don't have cigarettes and tea from that period, and as for alcohol, my family has to keep it for themselves.

Oh, by the way, Grandpa, Grandma, Grandma Zhou, and Grandpa Zhou have a few old friends in Beijing with whom they have a very good relationship. We can’t buy wine from them outside anymore. It would seem perfunctory and very rude. We should go back to the old house and pick out a few bottles of good vintages from the wine cellar to send to them.”

Fang Meng's eyes were confused, and he nodded subconsciously: "Okay, I'll do as you say. See if you need good tea. The Zhou family's old house has a lot of old teas collected by my grandfather and uncle. I've seen them give away one or two during the New Year in the past."

"I thought so too. I remember Grandpa Zhou had a cabinet specifically for old tea. The top shelf could be used for gifts, but the others couldn't. The old man would cry when he got back."

There are two old men in the family. One likes to collect various famous wines, and the other likes to collect various old teas. I don’t even watch them drink them, they just like them. There’s nothing I can do. The two old ladies in the family like to spoil them, and no one can say anything.

"By the way, I asked A Tong to take out all the tickets that are about to expire at home. Let's use these first to avoid wasting them."

Before returning to Beijing, Bai Nuo and Fang Meng asked their cousin to sell all the bills from Liao Province, keeping only some that were not restricted to any region and had a long shelf life.

Later, Zhu Kaixuan gave Bai Nuo a big box of bills, and Fang Meng also brought back a bunch. Both of them had their own allowances and salaries, and the bills issued every month were enough, so they had not had the chance to use the money given to them by their elders.

Bai Nuo has bought a lot of things recently, and he is busy asking the small system to find the bills at home that are about to expire.

Her obsession with food is much weaker now, and she basically doesn't guard it much, unlike when her brain was just getting better.

But ever since Bai Nuo had an understanding of money and bills, and because he was often pulled over by Aunt Cui'e to educate him, he has become very cautious in spending money. He doesn't skimp on money with his family, but he will never spend a penny more than the extra money. He firmly upholds the principle that waste is shameful!

Fang Meng had no objection, and didn't dare to have any objection. He nodded repeatedly, but suddenly thought of something and looked at Bai Nuo in surprise.

"What? Little Nobi finally woke up?"

Bai Nuo curled his lips speechlessly and was about to speak when a small figure with wings flashing appeared out of thin air, roared and pounced on Fang Meng's head.

"Ahhhh, you are the little nose, you big stinky guy, I will fight with you today!" The little system that used to tremble when it sensed Fang Meng approaching, now dares to pounce on the man's head and go crazy.

Fang Meng stood up calmly, stared at the little nose on his head, picked up the dishes on the table, turned around and walked towards the kitchen, still smirking as he walked. With that foul mouth, he was only suitable to be a mute groom!

"You have a small nose, aren't you? Tell me, you are not small."

"Look at your little paws. You can't even pull a handful of my hair."

"What are you going to do in the future? Your sister and I can't find a wife for you. The only dolls you can buy from the Friendship Store are smaller than yours. How about you say a few nice words? Since it's almost Chinese New Year, I'll buy you one!"

"Hey, listen to me. You don't understand how good it is for us to have wives. Life is so beautiful when we have wives."

"Forget it, there's no hope for you in this life, so just rely on me and your sister for support."

"I'm talking about you, you're single, poor little thing, lying in a cold bed, tears streaming down your face."

Bai Nuo looked at the one-sided verbal fight in the kitchen with a puzzled look on his face. He shook his head helplessly, went upstairs to clean up, and then went to the small compartment to get a few empty backpacks and put them in the car.

Today the two of them went out to run some personal business. They parked Fang Meng's military jeep in the parking space at the door of their house, and drove out in Bai Nuo's car.

"By the way, Baoer. There will be a market in Wangfujing in a couple of days. Do you want to go shopping?" Fang Meng took a quick look at the girl in the passenger seat while driving.

As soon as the little girl got on the car, the little guy jumped into her arms and whimpered. He had ignored her for several minutes.

snort!

Bai Nuo patted the small system in his arms, glanced at Fang Meng speechlessly, and nodded with a smile: "Go, I haven't been to the market over in Wangfujing yet. I heard that it's only open during holidays, and the Chinese New Year is the busiest time. In the past, you all said that there were too many people and didn't take me there."

Fang Meng smiled, one hand on the steering wheel, the other reaching out to hold the little girl's hand and gently squeezing it: "I'll take you there this year, and we'll go every year from now on. When you couldn't go before, wasn't I home with you? I also heard that there are a lot of things in the market over there, and several production teams in the surrounding areas will transport things from the countryside to sell there. There are also some factories that will rush to bring some products to sell at low prices at this time as a benefit to the people.

We'll also take a look to see what good stuff there is and buy anything we like."

"Okay!" Bai Nuo nodded with a smile.

The two of them went to the market in Xidan for a stroll in the morning. When the car left, several empty backpacks on the back seat were already filled with rice, flour, grain, oil, beef, mutton, pork, chicken and duck eggs for the New Year, as well as a lot of vegetables from the south.

In fact, Bai Nuo took out all the things from the space. It didn't take him a minute to buy three large backpacks full of them. Each backpack was almost half a person's height. Two of them could directly block Bai Nuo tightly.

The backpack used to carry meat was brought back by Bai Nuo from the countryside. A layer of waterproof cloth was sewn inside, so there was no need to worry about the meat dirtying the seat.

The two of them spent about two hours strolling around Xidan, mainly to see what was being sold in the market so that they could take things out of the space.

It was still early after they left, so the two of them went straight to the largest shopping mall in Wangfujing and bought a few boxes of Beijing pastries, as well as a series of New Year gifts including cigarettes, alcohol, tea, etc.

After coming out, he took out a few pieces of cloth, a few sets of ready-made clothes, leather shoes, and small accessories suitable for this era from the space, and planned to divide them up after returning and give them to the elders and brothers and sisters in the family.

As for the rest, I plan to go to the market the day after tomorrow to check and fill in the gaps.

After coming out of Wangfujing, the two went straight to the place where they would eat. As two native Beijingers, it was very easy for them to find a place that was little known but had extremely delicious food.

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