In those days, eating a chicken was a luxury, and families were only willing to buy chicken to eat during the Chinese New Year. Lin Zhenhua is a person who is ahead of the times, and when he has money in his hand, he naturally changes his way to find something to eat. In order to make this flower chicken, he went around to a small village on the way back, and bought a big fat chicken that was raised by others and ready to be sold again for the New Year at a high price.

Lin Fanghua has always been unaccustomed to her brother's lavish spending, but her brother's food made her unable to refuse. The only thing that reassures her is that the 200 yuan that Lin Zhenhua gave her when he first came back from the army is still lying on his stomach in the passbook, and he has no passive use, and the money Lin Zhenhua spent on buying meat and fish was all earned by him going out to do private work with the workers and masters. In normal times, the little brother and sister have an income of more than 50 yuan a month, and they can still live a good life.

14-year-old Yang Tao is naturally the happiest, his age, it is the time when he doesn't know how to eat, although he usually eats a little delicious at home, but the oil and water in the stomach are still very lacking, at this time to be able to eat a chicken, it is really like the New Year.

The dough wrapped in the chicken was eaten by everyone, and the dough was baked yellow and crispy, and after being soaked in the chicken juice, it was very delicious. Lin Zhenhua also made a big pot of rice, which was also eaten by everyone. Eventually, everyone ate and sat on small bamboo chairs, their eyes looking at the sky, panting.

"Brother, this is called flower chicken, it's so delicious, it's even better than boiled fish." Lin Fanghua licked the oil on the corner of his mouth with his tongue and said meaningfully.

"If there's another one, can you eat it?" Lin Zhenhua teased her.

"Where, where?" Lin Fanghua sat up straight all of a sudden, his eyes looking around.

Lin Zhenhua sweated violently: "No, can you still eat?" ”

"I can't eat it, but it's comfortable to look at." Lin Fanghua said.

"How about using this as a reward for your sixth place in the class, okay?"

"Reluctantly." Lin Fanghua rolled her eyes and said.

"After eating chicken, you study hard for me, and strive to rise to the top three in the class in the midterm exam next semester." Lin Zhenhua said, "If you can get the top three, I invite you to the restaurant for a big meal, a big meal of 100 yuan a table." ”

Lin Zhenhua is confident in saying this, and by the time of the midterm exam in the next semester, he will already be able to get money from Ford, and he will be a 100,000-yuan billionaire at that time, and a big meal is nothing.

"Okay, Yang Xin, Yang Tao, you all testify to me, if Xiaohua doesn't invite me to a big dinner at that time, you all have to criticize him." Lin Fanghua said with a smile.

"By the way, I also met that friend from Xiangping Province this time, he sent me some things, you all come and choose, you can take whatever you like."

Lin Zhenhua said, opened the small bag that He Haifeng gave him, and there were indeed some small things inside: two women's purses, two pens, and two coiled artificial leather belts. These are all products produced by enterprises under the Xiangping Provincial Department of Light Industry, which were sent to the leaders of the provincial department in the name of "trial".

"Yang Xin, you pick first." Lin Fanghua said generously.

Yang Xin glanced at Lin Zhenhua and got an encouraging look, she blushed and reached out to pick up a wallet, and said, "This wallet is so beautiful, I want it." ”

"Yang Tao, it's your turn." Lin Fanghua said to Yang Tao again.

Yang Tao hesitated, reached out to touch the pen, and then touched the belt, not sure which one he wanted.

"I didn't say you could only take one." Lin Zhenhua said with a smile, he directly picked up a pen and a belt, and stuffed them all into Yang Tao's hand, "It's all for you." ”

"Thank you, Brother Xiaohua." Yang Tao said happily. The artificial leather belt was also considered a high-end product at that time, and most of his classmates used canvas belts, and with an artificial leather belt, it was definitely able to attract the favor of many girls in the class.

"There's also a belt, give it to Uncle Yang." Lin Zhenhua stuffed another belt into Yang Xin's hand.

Yang Xin excused himself and said, "Don't, Brother Xiaohua, can you keep it for yourself?" It's embarrassing for us to take so many things. ”

"Yang Xin, you take it, it's a family anyway." Lin Fanghua said in a weird manner.

"That's right, it's all family." Lin Zhenhua added heartlessly.

Having said this, Yang Xin had no choice but to accept it, and seeing that it was getting late, she left the Lin family with Yang Tao.

As soon as he went out, Yang Tao said to Yang Xin: "Sister, are you having a relationship with Brother Xiaohua?" ”

"What are you talking nonsense!" Yang Xin patted Yang Tao on the head as a punishment.

Yang Tao touched his head and said, "Actually, I think Brother Xiaohua is very good as my brother-in-law, he can cook food and make things......

"Give you something to eat, and you'll sell your sister!" Yang Xin said angrily, "If you dare to say this again, I won't call you delicious food in the future." ”

"I didn't say anything, I didn't say anything." Yang Tao fled.

At the Lin family, Lin Fanghua said to Lin Zhenhua while cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks: "Brother, our family eats like this every day, will we be poor?" ”

Lin Zhenhua, who was sitting at the table reading a book, said with a smile: "I'm afraid it's not easy to eat our family poor." Xiaofang, come here. ”

"What?" Lin Fanghua walked over and asked.

Lin Zhenhua took out 3 pieces of unity from his body, handed them to Lin Fanghua, and said, "This is the labor fee sent to me by the petrochemical machine, and it belongs to you." ”

"You've only been working for a few days, and you've made so much money, huh?" Lin Fanghua was overjoyed, "I'll go and put it up first, and I'll go to the bank tomorrow to save it." ”

"Stop!" Lin Zhenhua drank Lin Fanghua, who was about to hide the money, "Who asked you to save it, I mean, this money is for you as pocket money." You go buy a new dress, treat your boyfriend to dinner, buy some cosmetics, you can do it. ”

"I don't have a boyfriend!" Lin Fanghua argued, "I don't need new clothes and cosmetics either, three yuan a month is enough for me to have pocket money." ”

Lin Zhenhua said: "If you say that you will give you flowers, you will take them and buy something that you have always wanted to buy but are reluctant to buy." As the saying goes, if you are poor to raise your son, if you are rich to raise your daughter, if you have a girl's family, you need a little money in your hand. Our parents have passed away, and my eldest brother has to take on the responsibility of parents and make your life comfortable. ”

"Brother." Lin Fanghua heard Lin Zhenhua talk about her parents, her eyes were filled with tears, she put her hand on Lin Zhenhua's shoulder, and said: "Brother, do you know, after you came back from the army, you have indeed changed a lot, I am very happy." You always go out to work to earn money, it's not easy to earn some money, I don't have to spend so much money, let's save it, and you can use it when you marry my sister-in-law in the future, okay? ”

Lin Zhenhua stroked his sister's little hand on his shoulder and said, "Xiaofang, don't worry, your brother is not an ordinary person, and you can still earn the money to marry your sister-in-law." I'll tell you a secret, you can't tell anyone, okay? ”

"I promise." Lin Fanghua said solemnly.

"This time, I worked as a translator for a foreigner in the petrochemical machine, and by the way, I helped the foreigner's company come up with a little idea and help them improve their equipment. So, the foreigner's company decided to pay me a sum of money. No one knows about this reward, not even Director Zhu. ”

"Really!" Lin Fanghua said in surprise, "Is this reward a lot?" ”

"Of course, you think that foreigners are like our factory, I helped the factory design the submerged arc welding machine, and the factory has not paid me a bonus until now. Foreigners are market economy, and they will pay me proportionally how much value I create for them. Lin Zhenhua gave Xiaofang a psychological foreshadowing.

"That'...... How much will they give? Is there a ......" Lin Fanghua thought for a while, gritted her teeth and said, "Is there 200 yuan?" ”

"A little more than 200 pieces."

"Really, how many are there?"

“2000。” Lin Zhenhua didn't dare to tell the truth, such a huge figure of $200,000 would definitely frighten Lin Fanghua. However, his consideration is completely redundant, for Lin Fanghua, the figures above 2,000 yuan are the same, which is beyond her imagination.

“2000！” Lin Fanghua's eyes were straight, "That, that, that......" She was there for a long time, and she didn't know how to describe the shock in her heart.

Lin Zhenhua nodded: "That's right, 2,000 US dollars, calculated at the black market price, is equivalent to 20,000 yuan." ”

"Goo-dong!" Lin Fanghua sat on the ground, she was already frightened.

"Brother, what kind of idea did you come up with to make so much money? You can't be a spy and help foreigners collect intelligence on China, right? After Lin Fanghua was shocked, he began to think about some practical problems.

Lin Zhenhua slapped her: "What are you thinking?" I'm just a porter, can the knowledge I have can still be called intelligence? Besides, China and the United States have already established diplomatic relations, and they are not enemies anymore, so what other spies are there? ”

Lin Zhenhua's words belong to using Lin Fanghua's ignorance to refute her ignorance. The establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States does not mean that there is no conflict of interest between the two sides, as long as there is a conflict of interest, then spies and spies must exist. However, Lin Fanghua couldn't think of this, Lin Zhenhua explained like this, she actually believed it a little.

"So, our family is already 10,000 yuan?" Lin Fanghua cautiously verified.

"We are a 20,000 yuan household, and when we get the money, I will have 10,000 yuan, you will have 10,000 yuan, and we are all 10,000 yuan households."

"I don't want so much, you give it to me...... Two thousand would be fine. Lin Fanghua gave herself a discount, but she didn't know that even such a discount was hundreds of times higher than her past expectations. It's so easy to go from frugality to luxury.

"It's going to be kept strictly secret, you know?" Lin Zhenhua admonished.

"Of course I do!" Lin Fanghua said, "I'm less courageous than you, if I say it, the thieves won't be worried about our family?" ”

Lin Zhenhua nodded: "Okay, it's good that you know the truth." You clean up the dishes and chopsticks at home, I'll go to Director Zhu's house and report to him if I have something. ”