Chapter 65: All the way to Baitou
The parents' gifts have been bought, Gu Yue's gifts are also available, and I am still thinking about it, so I will also pick a gift for Huang Zhenguo and send it over after the year. After gradually laying a good foundation, I begged him to help my father change his job.
But what gift to buy? I don't have a clue. The last experience made me understand that gift-giving is also a kind of knowledge, and if you don't give the right thing, people won't accept it at all.
I couldn't come up with a good idea after racking my brains, so I told Gu Yue about my idea to see if she could give me a solution.
Unexpectedly, she really solved my problem with one sentence.
"Huang An's father graduated from the Police Academy, and when he was young, he was a famous master who could fight and cause trouble, and he especially liked to collect knives. Now that he is older and calmer, his preferences should not change. If you really want to give a gift, why not try giving a good knife. β
So the two of us went to the high-end knife shops in the whole L city, and finally found a satisfactory Tang knife in an inconspicuous small shop in the corner of the city.
Swiping the card to settle the bill is another 3,000 yuan expense.
"Chen Ze." Gu Yue called me in a low voice.
"What?"
"Where did you get so much money, didn't you say that your parents are ordinary civil servants?" It seems that Gu Yue has endured it for a long time, and finally asked.
I took her hand and walked to a bookstore, outside the floor-to-ceiling glass window, and pointed it out to her.
"Have you seen that copy of Tomb Robbery Notes? Author, Mr. Chen. β
"Yes." Gu Yue nodded seriously.
"That's my pen name."
Gu Yue opened her mouth wide and looked at me stunned.
I laughed and scratched her nose.
"For the time being, all my money comes from royalties from novels."
Gu Yue looked at me with complicated eyes, thought for a while, let go of my hand, and walked into the bookstore.
A minute, when Gu Yue came out again, she carried a set of books in her hand.
She bought the first to fourth parts of "Tomb Robbery Notes" that have been released on the market.
After a day of shopping, but with Gu Yue, I didn't feel tired at all. Gu Yuetiyì walked home under the street lamp, I smiled and agreed, and the two of them walked slowly along the avenue in the center of the city side by side, hand in hand.
It actually started to snow, the first snow of 2006. Snowflakes fell on the street and began to accumulate a thin layer, and Gu Yue's and I heads were covered with snowflakes.
"Do you want to take a taxi?" I asked.
Gu Yue shook her head and insisted on walking home with me.
Drifting away from the streets of the city center, silence begins to fall around. Suddenly, the sky behind him flickered. The two of us looked up, and we didn't know who was setting off the fireworks, which lit up half of the night sky overhead.
"It's beautiful." Gu Yue muttered.
I hugged Gu Yue in my arms and hugged her tightly, afraid that she would be cold.
The two stood in the snow and waited together for the fireworks to finish.
"Since you like fireworks so much, I might as well buy more, and when you play it during the New Year, you can relieve your boredom."
Gu Yue shook her head: "I just like to watch it, I don't like to put it." When I was a child, my mother would set off fireworks for me. Now she's gone, I'm on my own, and I never buy fireworks every year. β
I clasped her hand and said, "Then you can go home with me and celebrate the New Year together, and I will set off fireworks for you." β
Gu Yue smiled: "It's not that it's okay, not this year, there will be opportunities in the future." β
I shook my head helplessly, what Gu Yue decided was really difficult to change.
The snow was falling heavier and heavier, and Gu Yue and I had accumulated a layer of snow on our heads and bodies. I said to take a taxi again, but Gu Yue still refused. When she walked to her family's community, Gu Yue already had a cold.
"Look at you, you have to be reckless, and you will get sick during the New Year."
Gu Yuehun didn't care, she touched the snow on my head, and then touched the snow on her head. Like a child, he smiled happily.
I suddenly understood what Gu Yue meant.
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Hand in hand with Jun Xiang, all the way to Baitou.
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I washed brown sugar ginger water for Gu Yue, took cold medicine, and hugged her and slept on a thick quilt all night, her little cold and flu were easily cured, but I was a little dizzy from being covered by the thick quilt all night.
Seeing that she was alive again, I was finally relieved, left the key to Gu Yue, didn't dare to delay any longer, and left in a hurry. I discussed with my mother for a long time, and I used the excuse of accompanying me to learn to play for a day, and I went back a day late.
Carrying a gift for my mom and dad, I entered the house, and my mom was leaning on the sofa watching TV, and when she saw me coming back, she rushed over and knocked me on the head.
"Stinky boy, I don't know how to go home early, I have to play with my classmates for one more day." My mother grumbled, glancing at the big bag in my hand. "What's in your hand?"
I smiled, put my arm around my mother, and said, "This is a New Year's gift for you and your father." β
"Spending money indiscriminately." My mother glared at me, and although she said this, a smile still appeared on her face, and she shouted towards the kitchen: "Lao Chen, come out, my son has bought a gift." β
It turned out that his father was working in the kitchen, and he was summoned by his mother to put down his work and run out.
"My son is back." Dad was glad to see me.
They sat down on the couch and opened the gifts I had bought.
"Solid gold bracelets?" My mother looked up at me suspiciously.
"Handmade Shu brocade silk scarf?" Mom read the label again.
"How much does this box of cigars cost?" My dad asked me too, with that delicate pipe in his hand.
At the same time, my mother opened the bag of health care products I bought, and a coffee table full of deep-sea fish oil and wild sea cucumbers was placed.
"How much does it cost?" Mom and Dad looked up and asked me in unison.
I laughed, sat down between the two of them, and hugged my mother and father: "It's not much, it's just a heart, the important thing is to be happy during the New Year."
Mom and dad are not used to my affectionate actions, especially my father, who blushed and stood up.
"The fish in the kitchen haven't been cleaned up yet, so I'll go back cooking."
My mother glared at me: "It's weird hot to huddle together, sit away." β
"Okay." I smiled and sat aside.
My mother said earnestly: "I know that you can make money, but you can't develop the problem of spending money lavishly, save some money, and you don't have to worry about getting married and buying a house or something in the future." β
"Where are you going, it's still early." I laughed and pulled out a bank card.
This is a card with 100,000 yuan that I prepared in advance, and I thought about it before I went home. Mom and Dad spent all their savings, just bought a house, and renovated it. There is definitely no deposit now. The 100,000 yuan is reserved for my parents in case of emergency, and I just keep tens of thousands in my hand, anyway, there is no big spending project. This money is in my mother's place, even if they can't use it for a while, but with money in their hands, they can also make the family's life more confident.
I handed the bank card to my mother, smiled and said, "Mom, you have this money." β
My mother glared at me: "What kind of money is it, I just used your 100,000 yuan to buy a house a while ago, and your father complained about me a lot." β
I smiled, "My dad doesn't have the guts to complain about you." This money is still my novel royalty, 100,000 yuan. It's not a big deal for me, I'm still a student after all, so I don't have any big expenses. And I'm afraid that I won't be able to control myself and spend it indiscriminately. Put it here for you, you can use it if you need it from time to time at home, and you can save it if you don't need it. β
My mother didn't want to accept it at first, but when she heard that I might not be able to control myself from spending the money randomly, her face changed and she grabbed the bank card in her hand.
"That'...... I'll keep it for you, it's not okay to spend money indiscriminately. I'll keep all this money here, and I'll use it for you to get married and buy a house when the time comes. Mom said.
Well, I can see that my mother is now thinking about my marriage.