Wang Bo rode his double-chained seven-speed mountain bike around the streets, thinking about what kind of birthday gift to buy Zhang Jing. Although he himself is Zhang Jing's "teacher", Zhang Jifa and his family also wanted to thank him before inviting him to dinner, and it stands to reason that no one will say anything about him when he goes to eat empty-handed. But tomorrow is not only for people to invite themselves to dinner, but also for Zhang Jing's birthday. He didn't know that Zhang Jing would live tomorrow, since he had deceived Zhang Jing from the truth, he, the "brother", was still pretending to be deaf and dumb with empty hands, and if he didn't express it, it would be too much to do.

And from the bottom of his heart, he also likes Zhang Jing, a beautiful and well-behaved little girl, and he also wants to surprise the little girl and add a bright color worth remembering to her fifteen-year-old day.

But what should I give?

First of all, the gift must not be too shabby, at least presentable. Now the whole team probably knows that his family has opened a rice noodle shop in Sifang, "made a fortune", and has "separated from the masses" and entered the ranks of "rich people". If the gift is too shabby, it is bound to attract gossip. In the countryside, these mothers-in-law and aunts (generally referring to women) who have nothing to do get together, and what they love most all day long is the gossip of the east and the west, and they love to tell right and wrong. Especially Zhang Xiaojun's mother Xie Decui, the big speaker, if the gift given by his family this time is too shabby, it will definitely be known to her neighbors in two days.

The gift can't be shabby, but it certainly can't be too expensive either. It's not that he is reluctant, but for the decoration of the flagship store, the rice noodle shop can be said to be spending money like water during this time, basically coming out with a thousand with a thousand, and there is not much balance at all. Sometimes, because of the lack of material money, they will stop work for a few days, and wait for the cash cow of the rice noodle shop to milk and pay the money, so that they can call the supplier in the building materials market to ask someone to deliver the goods. During this time, in order to save money, even the daily food Wang Bo's family had to start shrinking, from the previous two meats, one vegetable and one soup, to the current one meat, one vegetable and one soup. And this meat is basically a home-cooked dish such as back to the pot meat, salt-fried meat, and fish-flavored shredded pork. The chicken, duck, fish, rabbit and braised vegetables that I used to eat often rarely bought and ate in this month, and basically I can only eat them once a week.

Even his own food has begun to be deducted, of course it is impossible for Wang Bo to slap a swollen face and pretend to be a fat man for some false fame.

There's no need for that!

So what kind of gift can you buy to show sincerity without making yourself feel painful?

After thinking about it, Wang Bo still felt that there was no need to do anything unconventional. Or just do the whole thing practical. Another principle is still to please Li Guilan and Zhang Jifa, it is better to please their daughter Zhang Jing.

So, Wang Bo rode to the Dahua shopping mall near the Post and Telecommunications Building, a department store with the highest end in the Quartet, and went straight to the stationery specialty area, picking out a delicate and small silver hero pen. The fountain pen is housed in a wooden box padded with gold velvet and looks very high-end. Of course, the price is not cheap, 68 oceans! It is equivalent to Tian Xin's salary for four and a half days.

Although it has been almost two months since he was reborn, Wang Bo is still very unaccustomed to the prices in 1999, and many times he has to convert them into the average daily wages of his employees in order to have a specific grasp of the prices of these few or dozens of yuan.

A 68 yuan fountain pen is equivalent to a monthly salary of 3,000 yuan for a monthly salary of 450 yuan after more than ten years, which is equivalent to spending more than 700 yuan for a person with a monthly salary of 5,000!

Not low!

The reason why Wang Bo chose a fountain pen is because this thing is durable, and there is no problem in cherishing it well for three or five years. Zhang Jing will hold the pen he gave every day in the future, and he will think that this is a birthday gift from "Brother Bo" to him, and then "see things and think about people", think of him as a person, and remember it for a long time. If you send something to eat, eat it on the same day, and forget it quickly.

I have to say that in the matter of giving Zhang Jing a gift, Wang Bo took a lot of thought.

Because there is no packaging service in Dahua Mall, Wang Bo, who bought a fountain pen, found a flower shop to get a colored paper packaging. Colored paper wrapped gifts are very popular abroad, not very popular in China, at least the current Quartet will not do much.

The fountain pen is Wang Bo's birthday gift to Zhang Jing. He went to the fruit market again to buy a box of peaches, and asked his parents to carry them to the door when the time came. This peach is big and red, juicy and watery at a glance, and the price is of course proportional to the taste, dozens of stuffy (dozens of pieces)! Anyway, it was Wang Bo in his previous life, even after work, he was reluctant to buy this kind of high-end goods!

The next morning, at eleven o'clock, Wang Bo's family was ready to go to the banquet. This is the first time that the family has left collectively during the peak period of eating, and there is no precedent before, so Wang Bo explained the five employees left behind in advance, re-divided the work, and asked Zhong Xiaomin to replace Wang Jichang's role to go to the back kitchen to make powder, Guan Ping collected money for him, and the remaining three took the opportunity to act.

When the boss can't always rush to the front line, he and his parents will sooner or later "take a back seat", and it is also a good thing to exercise the ability of his employees to adapt in advance.

When Wang Bo's family came to Zhang Jing's house with gifts, it was already half past eleven. As soon as the family stepped into the gate of the courtyard, someone reported to Zhang Jifa and Li Guilan, so within a few seconds, Wang Bo saw Li Guilan and his family smiling happily and walked up to greet them.

"Brother Wang, Sister Zeng, Bo'er, you are here! Come in and sit! Oh, just come empty-handed, what are you carrying! Really!" Li Guilan wore an apron around her waist, obviously busy in the kitchen, and said kind words with a bright face while taking the peach box from Wang Jichang's hand.

Zhang Jifa, who didn't talk much, simply greeted the three of them, and asked the three of them to go into the hall to eat melon seeds and fruits, and then touched a bag of Hongtashan from his pocket and sprinkled one for Wang Jichang and Zeng Fanyu respectively.

"I didn't buy anything! I just bought some fruit!" Wang Jichang said politely, obviously still a little uncomfortable in the face of the sudden enthusiasm of Fa Xiao and the women's captain.

"Li Niang, Uncle Zhang!" Wang Bo shouted Li Guilan and Zhang Jifa, "Is there any water, Li Niang?"

"Ah, your mouth is dry, Bo'er? Yes, yes, there is VV soybean milk at the head of the refrigerator, I'll cut it for you!" Li Guilan said busily.

"Bring him some soy milk! Let him go directly to the well water!" Wang Jichang next to him saw that Wang Bo was going to drink other people's soybean milk as soon as he came, and felt a little unreasonable, and began to scold.

"It's okay, Brother Wang! The sun is shining today, drink some ice soy milk just to cool down! You wait a while, Bo'er, I'll get it for you!" As she spoke, Li Guilan handed the peach box in her hand to Zhang Jifa, preparing to open a bottle of VV soybean milk for Wang Bo.

"Talking in the refrigerator, Li Niang? Then you don't have to bother, I'll take it myself! You and Uncle Zhang should be busy with what they are busy with, and you don't need to greet us." Wang Bo directly ignored his words, and walked towards the hall of Zhang Jifa's house.

There is a habit in the countryside of the four directions, they all like to put the refrigerator in the hall or living room, and some have to put a pillow towel on the top of the refrigerator, giving people a feeling of cherishing it, and they don't know what use it is. For many rural people who have just become wealthy, the refrigerator is not only a kitchen appliance, but also a high-end appliance that can be used to show off!

Since it is used for display, it should be placed in the most conspicuous place, the hall.

"Then you have to get it! You can get it yourself! There are still soda and Coke that Zhang Jing bought in the refrigerator. You can drink whatever you want!" Li Guilan looked at the back of Wang Bo walking towards the hall and reminded happily.

"This ghost doll, as soon as she comes, she wants to drink a drink! It's not reasonable at all!" The stepson's ignorance made Wang Jichang a little dissatisfied, and he reproached him, and immediately added, "I have to drink several big bottles every day in the house!"

"When you come to the house, you still talk about it! If you are reasonable, you will see the outside, Brother Wang! Besides, the doll's house, we all love these, and we Zhang Jing also love to drink soy milk and soda. Li Guilan said with a smile. Wang Bo's "self-cooking" not only did not make her feel abrupt, but relaxed a lot, and her heart was even happier.

Wang Bo ignored his Lao Tzu's complaints and went directly to the hall. At this time, there were already a lot of people sitting on the sofa in the hall, some were watching TV, some were peeling melon seeds and chatting, Wang Bo swept his eyes, and felt that it was probably a relative of Li Guilan's mother's family, and he didn't know any of them anyway.

He smiled and nodded to everyone, as a greeting, and then went straight to the refrigerator, opened the door, took a bottle of VV soybean milk, bit the cap with his mouth, and drank it as if no one was around.

If it was Wang Bo in the past, on the other side of this occasion, he would definitely sit in the living room and watch TV in a proper manner, and be a good child. Even if he is really thirsty and wants to drink water, at most he will come to the well and use a bowl of well water to quench his thirst, and he will definitely not open the refrigerator and get "valuable" drinks like now. Every time he went to his aunt's house in the city, he usually sat in the living room honestly, ate some melon seeds and fruits, and never walked around.

Only when he arrives at his grandmother's house and uncle's house, will he relax, move around, and treat himself as his own home, casual and free.

Therefore, at a very young age, Wang Bo's sensitive and broken heart understood when he could be free and when he could not be free, when he could and could not be self-ripe. Both freedom and self-familiarity require a certain amount of capital and confidence. Not everyone can cook it by itself, and not everyone can cook it by itself. The scorer has to see if he has the strength to be self-cooked, otherwise he will not only not be liked, but will be annoyed.

In his previous life, Wang Bo had neither capital nor confidence, and when facing people who were more "superior" than his own family, in order not to annoy people, he had to pretend to be a good doll and make a very sensible appearance.

But in reality, it's really not his nature.

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