Chapter 1 Not even a hundred yuan
“38 days until the college entrance examination;
56 days until the ideal is realized.
Years”
The three lines of block letters on the plastic whiteboard are written stroke by stroke, meticulously, just like printed letters. Among them, the four words "College Entrance Examination" and "Ideal" are larger than the other words, making the original The conventional and somewhat dull layout becomes lively and interesting.
A white hand, holding a wet cloth, wiped out several Arabic numerals on the board. The hand was delicate and delicate, but the palm was very thick. It was a blessed hand with white fingers. They are as tender as green tea leaves, their fingertips are as sharp as bamboo shoots, and their nails are neatly trimmed and pink, and they are round and cute.
The bright wrist connected to the slender hand is white, and the arm exposed to the air is like a pink lotus root, so pink and white that no blemish can be found.
That hand, if it were used to shoot a hand cream commercial, would definitely attract a large number of fans who have chirophobia. Looking at it, people would want to do what it looks like in the palm of their hand for no reason. A rag, held by such delicate and beautiful hands, must be so happy that you don’t want it.
The owner of the hand is a girl of thirteen or fourteen years old, with a round oval face, pink and tender skin, white and rosy, and a pair of bright eyes under the slender eyebrows, with black pupils. Just like the orb fished out of the ice water, it shines brightly.
The girl who looks like a junior high school student has short, crisp hair, a short-sleeved white shirt, three-quarter jeans, and sneakers. She is full of energy, youthful and beautiful.
Simple clothes reveal the agility of a girl, and her makeup is like a hibiscus. She has her own natural beauty, which is the aura flowing from the bones. Seeing her is like seeing the beginning of winter. The rising sunshine and the morning breeze in the summer morning make people feel relaxed and happy.
The girl’s red lips were slightly upturned, showing that she was in a good mood. She concentrated on erasing the Arabic numerals on the white writing board and wiping the empty spaces clean. She picked up the water-based liquid in her other hand. Pen, re-add words in the blank space, and the words on the whiteboard become:
"35 days to the college entrance examination; 53 days to the realization of the ideal.
year"
"There are still thirty-five days, come on, Le Yun, let's climb to the ideal peak!" After correcting the date, Le Yun put down the pen happily, clenched her fists, and looked into her eyes. Full of confidence.
Ideals are beautiful imaginations and hopes for the future.
Everyone has an ideal, and Le Yun’s ideal is: to become the best doctor in China. The ideal is great, but the road to success may be tortuous. She persistently believes that as long as she persists, her hard work will eventually pay off.
The sun shines obliquely from the windowEntering the dormitory, the light was very dazzling. Le Yun closed the curtains and hung the whiteboard above her bed.
Fang County is located in the northwest of Province E, close to the Shennong Nature Reserve, the largest and most magical scenic spot in Province E. It is a tourist city.
Le Yun attended County No. 3 Middle School and lived in an old dormitory building with more than a dozen dormitories on each floor and shared bathrooms and shower rooms. Each dormitory accommodated eight to ten people. Two people.
Her dormitory was smaller, an eight-person room, with beds arranged against the wall, with an empty space in the middle. There was a corridor on one end and a window on the other. Her bed was on the top bunk of a bed facing the window.
Le Yun’s home is in a township close to the Shennong Reserve in the county. It is far away from the county seat. There are only two buses from the township to the county seat. Every time she goes home, she usually returns to the county seat in the morning. This time is no exception, the others in the dormitory have not returned yet.
Today is the return to school after the May Day holiday. In 2016, May Day fell on a Sunday, so we had a day off. Monday, May 2, was also a holiday originally. It was a public holiday. For For high school seniors, any vacation is just a cloud. Therefore, while others are still enjoying the last day of vacation, high school seniors are walking hard on their way back to school.
In fact, not long after Le Yun returned to the dormitory, the first thing she did when she put down her backpack was to change the numbers on the whiteboard. That board has been with her from elementary school to the present, and the edge of the whiteboard All smoothed.
The whiteboard is also her self-motivation monument, spurring her to achieve one goal after another. It used to be kept at home, but when she was a senior in high school, she moved it to her dormitory and hung it by her bedside. She could see it every morning when she opened her eyes. Seeing it made her feel like a well-oiled motor every day, and she studied hard and made progress every day.
After hanging up the whip board, Leyun packed her luggage and went downstairs to find food. The cafeteria would only serve food in the evening. The school canteen also had food, which was relatively expensive. You could also buy snacks. When she wasn't full, she couldn't bear to waste money, so she always went to cheap and affordable stores to solve her food and clothing problem.
It was almost noon, and there was no one on the school road. Leyun wandered out of the school, took the bus to the County Center Street, and walked to the pedestrian street. One reason was to look for food, and more importantly, She had some necessities for girls that she needed to buy, so she could just take them back with her.
There are still three days until the beginning of summer. The weather in Fang County has entered summer early. In recent days, the temperature has been high. People on the street are all wearing summer clothes, feeling refreshed and energetic.
It’s a rare holiday and there are many people walking on the street.
"Lele, Lele-"
Leyun walked leisurely and when she heard a familiar voice, she immediately turned her head and saw that in a room An old man who set up a stall in front of the shop stuck out his tongue in embarrassment and ran over quickly: "Grandpa Li, you are here again today."
Uncle Li is from the same hometown as Leyun.He is young and has a stubborn temper, so he is nicknamed Li Daniu. He used to work as a small official in the township, in a word, he is a civil servant. His son has set up a shop in the county town to do business. The old man cannot live in retirement, and he is also a person who loves old culture. He also came to set up a stall, specializing in buying and selling small antiques.
The old man is over sixty years old, with gray hair and good spirits. His stall is located next to his son's shop. He does not occupy other people's territory. He sets up a small table with coins and old jewelry on it. On the table, the old man sits behind the table and is chatted with by others. When there is no business, he occasionally takes out his long cigarette stick and takes a few sips. Basically, he doesn’t have many opportunities to chat, and he spends most of his time alone.
Seeing Xiao Leyun who was able to chat with him, Li Daniu pointed to the things on the table and introduced them like a show off: "I went to buy some new products a few days ago and put them out to show off. Le Yun and Li Daniu know each other not because they are from the same hometown. If there are more people from the same hometown in the county, they may not become friends, let alone Not to mention they were old friends, the old man and the young man only knew each other because of a certain car ride. There was a pickpocket who bullied the old man because he was older and wanted to steal money. Classmate Leyun was brave enough to get a hand, and then the old man and the young man got to know each other.
"Hmm, let me open my eyes." Le Yun was very generous. She tried her best to open her titanium alloy eyes wide and admire Uncle Li's new products. After scanning her eyes, she finally found the "new product" "Goods", a snuff bottle, a piece of old jade and three dozen silver ornaments.
Aren’t these common things in the countryside?
Classmate Le Yun wanted to cover her eyes, but she was deceived again!
Feeling deeply deceived, Mr. Le didn’t dismantle other people’s products. It’s hard to dismantle others. He pretended to be curious and picked up a few newly purchased items to admire them. He praised the workmanship for being beautiful. He has a discerning eye. In this way, it would be a waste of talent not to be a salesman if you have the ability to tell lies with open eyes.
Li Daniu laughed out loud when he was praised. Look, this kid is so practical and honest. This is what he said.
Le Yun praised each new item and admired other small items again. Grandpa Li was sometimes unreliable and only found some worthless gadgets. Sometimes he was very lucky. You can really find genuine goods. Once, I found a Yuan Datou from the Republic of China period and made a profit of 10,000 yuan.
She personally prefers jade, so she browsed through several jade products. When her fingers touched something, her whole arm burned, and her heart beat uncontrollably. After a few jumps, he retracted his hand without any trace.
It was hot, my right arm was burning hot.
Strange.
The burning sensation made Le Yun uneasy. In recent days, her arm often had inexplicable fevers. Because it only occasionally became hot and had no other adverse reactions, she just Didn't care.
On the way out for shopping just now, her arm felt hot again. This time, the burning was so severe that the whole arm seemed to be on fire, and the burning sensation reached all her limbs.
Withdrawing her right hand, she used her left hand to pick up the thing she had touched before. It was a small stone, like a circle with a piece dug out, in the shape of an arc, alternating between brown and white.
To be honest, if you look for ordinary stones like this by the river and go to the sea, you can definitely pick up hundreds of them.
But it was such a simple stone. When Le Yun held it, her right hand burned even more intensely, making her feel that her right hand was eager to get close to that stone.
"Grandpa Li, where did you pick up such a broken stone and throw it away among the antiques? A piece of mouse droppings ruins a pot of porridge. Mixing this alien among the dazzling array of antiques will lower the value of the antiques. You are not afraid that it will affect your business." Holding the small stone, she unkindly dismissed it as worthless.
"Hey, you said that... Oh, that, let me think about it, oh, I remembered it. I went shopping for goods a few days ago. When I was tired, I stopped on the road to watch it go by. If you think it looks decent, pick it up. Some people like to collect strange stones these days. Maybe you can earn some money for your hard work."
Li Daniu looked at it, and after thinking about it, he remembered that it was Where did it come from? To be honest, he just picked it up because it pleased his eyes and brought it back. If Lele hadn't found it, he wouldn't have remembered its existence at all.
"Uncle Li, I happened to be short of a paper stone. I took this with me. I don't have to pay for the hard work. I only paid for a pack of cigarettes." Le Yun touched the pocket of her jeans and took out a big unity sheet. Said the old man in his hands: "The money has been cleared, and now it is mine."
"Alas, how can it be like this? Others are forced to sell, and you are forced to buy. Is this really good?" Li Daniu He was yelling complaints, but he smoothly stuffed "a pack of cigarette money" into his pocket.
He just kept nagging, not to mention giving ten yuan as cigarette money. Even if he didn't give me a penny, it didn't matter. Because it wasn't open today, he couldn't give it away for free, so he accepted it.
"I think it's good." Le Yun smiled so hard that she couldn't even see her eyebrows. She stuffed the small stone into the front pocket of her jeans to avoid losing it.
The two of them discussed how much money Uncle Li’s newly purchased goods cost. While they were having a good conversation, they heard a cold female voice: “I don’t even have a hundred yuan on me, what else can I charge for it?” It’s not shameful to buy antiques with style.”