1979: The child's mother is a celestial being.

Chapter 249 Liu Xiaoli was shocked all night (Please subscribe!)
At three in the morning, under the still starry sky, the lights in one building in the Overseas Chinese Apartments came on again.

Having been away from home for over a month, Chen Fusheng's first action upon returning home was to put down his luggage and head to the bedroom to check on his two children.

When he opened the door, he found that both the large and small beds were empty, thanks to the light shining in from behind him. Not believing it, Chen Fusheng turned on all the incandescent lights in the bedroom, but the result was still the same.

He couldn't help but frown as he looked at his wife who was walking behind him and said:

"Where are the two kids?"

Liu Xiaoli naturally saw the situation inside the room and said calmly, "They should be in Mom and Dad's room."

"Dad hasn't gone home yet?"

“He went back. A few days after you went to America, Dad took the train and left.”

After saying that, she saw her husband grunt and walk out. She assumed he was going to his parents' room to check on the child, so she advised, "It's too late, you shouldn't disturb them. It would be troublesome if you woke them up."

Chen Fusheng turned around and said, "It's okay, I'll just put the gift on their bedside table and come back. I won't wake them up. Could you please put down the hot water for me, honey?"

"Alright then." Hearing her husband's romantic words, Liu Xiaoli stopped objecting. But then she suddenly remembered something and asked, "By the way, honey, are you hungry? Do you want to eat something before you go to sleep?"

"I'm not hungry, are you?"

"I'm not hungry either."

Liu Xiaoli shook her head.

Then one went to the living room, and the other went into the bathroom.

As Chen Fusheng walked into the living room, he took out a gift from a suitcase he had brought back. Although he had just told his wife that the gift was for the child, he hadn't said that the adults wouldn't receive one.

Of course, they all exist.

Click~
The bedroom door to his parents wasn't locked from the inside, and Chen Fusheng easily opened it with a simple twist.

Then, carrying the gift, he tiptoed inside.

It's obvious that the air conditioning in this room is set a bit too high, probably because Mom is worried that the two kids will get cold.

Even if the temperature is only slightly higher, it's still uncomfortable to be covered with a blanket when it's warm.

So when Chen Fusheng noticed his daughter sleeping, he kicked off the blanket.

As he walked over and put down the gifts, he reached out and helped his daughter put the blanket she had kicked off back on, then turned the air conditioner in the room back to its usual temperature.

After doing all this, he quietly left the room.

When he returned to the master bedroom, his wife had already prepared hot water for him.

"Hurry up and take a shower. Go to bed early after you're done. Tomorrow is our son's first birthday party, and we have to get up early."

When Liu Xiaoli saw her husband return, she spoke softly, then yawned, clearly also sleepy.

"Let's shower together," Chen Fusheng invited.

Liu Xiaoli knew what he was planning. As the saying goes, absence makes the heart grow fonder, and besides, they were already an "old married couple," so she didn't hold back too much.

Soon enough, the atmosphere in the restroom became ambiguous...

……

"By the way, this is for you."

After the battle, Chen Fusheng remembered that he had forgotten his wife's gift, so he went out again to fetch it for her.

"What is this?" Liu Xiaoli asked casually as she reached out to take it, but she didn't seem to expect an answer from her husband. The next second, she took it apart herself.

When she discovered that the gift was a set of sparkly earrings and a necklace, she was both surprised and delighted, but also somewhat resentful that her husband shouldn't have spent money so recklessly.

"This looks expensive, how much did you pay for it?"

"Not much, eight thousand eight."

"How much?" Liu Xiaoli, who had been thinking of taking it out to wear right now, was so shocked when she heard "eight thousand eight" that she immediately withdrew her hand. When she looked into her husband's eyes, she saw that there was no joy, only shock.

“Eight thousand eight dollars,” Chen Fusheng repeated, adding the unit.

"Honey, you're not kidding me, are you?"

"No."

"So you're wrong. It's actually eighty-eight dollars, not eight thousand eight dollars, right?" Liu Xiaoli still couldn't believe it.

"Honey, you heard me right, I'm not lying to you, it's eight thousand eight..."

Chen Fusheng was about to explain the money further when his wife interrupted him.

"You...you didn't embezzle it?" The more she thought about it, the more likely it seemed. When Liu Xiaoli looked down at the gift in her hand again, she no longer thought it was that pretty; it just felt a little hot in her hand. She quickly returned it to her husband, saying urgently, "Honey, we're not short of money. You don't need to make such a mistake. You can return this if you can..."

"Damn it, what are you thinking? I didn't embezzle this money, and I have no reason to do anything illegal or disorderly."

Seeing that his wife had misunderstood, Chen Fusheng quickly explained to her how the money came about.

"Huh? Is that cinema softbox you invented really that profitable overseas?"

"Yeah, otherwise where do you think I got so much money to buy you such expensive gifts?"

As he spoke, Chen Fusheng stuffed the gift into his wife's hands again.

Liu Xiaoli was still somewhat skeptical, so she continued to ask:

"Don't patent fees need to be handed over to the state?"

"Need not."

"Does the country know about that?"

"know."

"So, our family suddenly has an extra $100,000?"

"There will be taxes deducted. After taxes, the $100,000 will be around $70,000. But this is just the first patent fee. There will be more later, and quite a lot."

"Huh? There's more money in there?" Liu Xiaoli had lost count of how many times she had been shocked.

Anyway, it shook all my sleepiness away.

Chen Fusheng answered every question: "Of course there is more. For this, I also found a professional manager in the United States to help me manage it. In the future, our family should be able to earn at least several hundred thousand yuan a year from this patent fee."

"..."

Liu Xiaoli stared blankly at her husband, opened her mouth, but didn't know what to say.

But without a doubt, this huge income shocked her to the point of being mind-blowing.

Although she knew her husband wouldn't joke like that with her, it still felt unreal.

Chen Fusheng wasn't in a hurry and waited for his wife to process the information.

Then the bedroom suddenly fell silent.

One minute, two minutes...

After an unknown amount of time, Liu Xiaoli finally spoke again:
"With so much more money in the family, won't we be labeled as capitalists in the future?"

"Don't worry, it won't happen. The country has already opened up, and there will only be more and more rich people in the future. In special economic zones like Shenzhen, there are countless bosses who have made a fortune in recent years. Even those who are richer than our family are probably not few in number."

Hearing Chen Fusheng's words, Liu Xiaoli's last bit of concern was dispelled.

However, the shocking news tonight still made it difficult for her to fall asleep.

As for Chen Fusheng, he was in the US time zone and had also taken a nap on the plane, so he wasn't very sleepy.

So the couple then had a series of discussions about money.

"Now that we suddenly have such a large sum of money, honey, what are you planning to do with it?"

"I'll spend my money slowly and buy a car first; that would be more convenient."

"Buy a car? What kind of car?"

"Of course, it's a car."

"But you have a driver, don't you? You can't waste money like this."

"Company cars are sometimes inconvenient, and it's not safe to ride a bicycle to work."

“Where is it unsafe? Everyone commutes to get off work by bicycle. Besides, what’s the use of buying a car if neither of us can drive it?”

“It’s okay, I’ll hire another driver… or you can go learn to drive.”

"let me think again……"

Before he knew it, the sky was beginning to lighten. When Chen Fusheng could no longer hear his wife's voice, he looked down and saw that she had fallen asleep in his arms.

Then drowsiness gradually crept in, and just as he was about to close his eyes and doze off for a while, he heard a click, and the bedroom door was pushed open from the outside. A girl holding a doll almost as tall as herself stood in the doorway. After meeting her father's gaze, she happily called out:

"dad……"

"Shh~"

(End of this chapter)