Chapter 394 Bao'er, can you give me five yuan?

Bai Nuo was pushed to the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed) by her husband, Lao Zhu, who told her to go count her money and play, while he started helping his daughter pack her things.

Bai Nuo brought four duffel bags and a small suitcase, which were mostly filled with her everyday clothes and belongings, as well as local specialties from Northeast China. There were also two other bags containing things for Fugui'er and Huahua.

She estimated that she would stay here until the start of the school term, and it seemed that she would have to come back from time to time to visit her husband, Lao Zhu, so Wei Wen prepared a lot of things for her.

Unable to outbid Zhu Kaixuan, she had no choice but to obediently sit by the kang (heated brick bed) and count her money.

The numbers in the bankbook are quite frightening for this era.

The largest bill contained a full 130,000 yuan. Zhu Kaixuan only said that part of it was money his grandparents had saved for him over the years, and the rest was money he earned with his childhood friends when he was a teenager. He didn't say how he earned it.

There's another book containing over 83,000 yuan, which is a collection of allowances, subsidies, and bonuses accumulated over more than ten years. It's true that not a single penny was spent.

The remaining book, worth over 30,000 yuan, was received from my grandmother. It's said that my mother personally delivered it to her, saying that when my husband returned, he would hand it to their daughter.

Bai Nuo knew that the significance of these 30,000 yuan was more that his mother left his father with the motivation to live.

Mom probably already guessed that, given Dad's feelings for her, he would likely follow her in death after learning of her sacrifice. This savings book was a reminder to Dad that they still had a daughter, and he, as her father, had to take good care of her.

Bai Nuo clutched the three bankbooks tightly, finally accepting two of them and stuffing the last one, which contained over 30,000 yuan, into Zhu Kaixuan's hand.

"Dad, this is the money Mom left you to support me. If you give it all to me at once, how can you support me? It's better for you to keep it. Just give me some pocket money when you have free time."

Zhu Kaixuan, who was worried that his daughter would not accept his money, was about to push the passbook back when he heard this. He paused for a moment, then smiled and nodded: "Okay, then I'll listen to our eldest daughter. From now on, Dad will give you pocket money every month."

"Okay!" Bai Nuo nodded with a smile, then lowered her head to count the cash. This should be the allowance her husband, Lao Zhu, received in the two or three months since he returned to work.

Zhu Kaixuan's position was that of a field army commander, the top leader of the entire 28th Army, and his monthly allowance was 227 yuan, not including various subsidies.

There's 632 yuan in cash here, along with a bunch of various receipts.

"Right? Actually, I'm quite wealthy. Before Grandma went to the research institute, she transferred all the dividends from the five state-owned factories that the Wei family had partnered with to my name, as well as 80% of her properties. I also have a partnership with a machinery factory in Northeast China that generates dividends, and I receive more than 300,000 yuan in dividends every year."

"Wow, my daughter is so rich!" Zhu Kaixuan said with a smile as he tidied his daughter's clothes, looking at the proud little girl.

"That's right. I'm the rightful heir of our Wei family. I'm listed in the Wei family genealogy and have the surname Wei. Grandpa also said that everything in the Wei family belongs to me. The Bai family's things were already divided into two parts: one for my eldest uncle and one for my mother. My grandmother also transferred my mother's part to me. My eldest uncle said that if my older brother is disobedient and marries a troublemaker, his part will also be given to me so that my older brother can live independently with the troublemaker. I will take care of my eldest uncle in his old age."

Zhu Kaixuan burst out laughing. This was something his father-in-law and brother-in-law would never do. You know, one of them was a doting father to his daughter, and the other was a sister-obsessed father. Even when his sister-in-law was still alive, she treated his wife like her own flesh and blood. By extension, they doted on their daughter.

Of course, his daughter is so adorable, she deserves even more love and attention.

"And what about your older brother? What did he say?"

"Big brother!"

Bai Nuo thought of the letter her older brother wrote to her, and couldn't help but twitch her lips slightly, with a hint of disgust, but her fox-like eyes were full of affectionate smiles. "My older brother cried so loudly, and then decided that he would never get married in this life. He felt that he didn't have the brains to manage his property, so he planned to hand it all over to me to manage. In the future, when he runs out of money, he can come and sponge off his younger sister!"

I don’t know who his elder brother took after. He didn’t inherit any of the Bai family’s craftsmanship talent, nor did he inherit any of the Wei family’s business talent. His uncle always said that he was a martial artist with strong limbs but a simple mind. If this had happened in the time of his great-grandfather, he could have set a precedent for the Bai family by becoming a martial arts champion.

“I think your older brother is actually quite smart. Managing his own assets is too much trouble. Having a golden baby at home is much more comfortable than working hard to earn money to support the family.” Zhu Kaixuan understood his nephew very well because… his greatest skill from childhood to adulthood was sponging off his parents, his brother, and his sister-in-law.

He used to want to share this with his wife, but... his wife physically suppressed him!

Bai Nuo thought about it carefully, then suddenly raised an eyebrow as if she had just realized something: "Dad, what you said makes sense."

It seems she'll need to develop more people to help her make money in the future, then hand them all over to her uncle to manage. That way, she can comfortably lie back and count her money. Isn't that much more comfortable than working hard to make money herself?

Sure enough, she was the dumbest one in the family, not her older brother at all.

Just as Bai Nuo finished organizing the pile of cash, Fang Meng walked in and pitifully squatted down in front of Bai Nuo.

"Baby, can you give me five yuan?"

Bai Nuo paused in sorting the cash, then looked at Fang Meng curiously: "I remember I just gave you ten yuan of pocket money earlier."

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