"I'm a scrap collection point here, and if you want to find a book, you'll have to go to the recycling station, and if you do, you'll be there—"

The old man wearing a peaked cap raised his head impatiently, and tied the paper together neatly in his hand, Zheng Jianguo glanced at the crockpots piled up next to him, and threw them in the corner of the wall I don't know how long it took.

"Yes, there is a gate on the south side of the freight yard, I said what are you doing with the books at that time, even if there is, they would have been sent back to the paper mill to turn waste into treasure, and now you are using the books at that time again?"

The old man shook his head as he spoke, leaned over and entered the shed built with a tarpaulin, and threw Zheng Jianguo to stand in the small courtyard and answer no, not to answer, but fortunately, the disgusted look on people's faces was put out when he came, and he immediately said: "Then thank you, uncle, I'll go to the recycling bin to have a look, so I won't bother you." ”

"This kid is not like a good person, he is a sneaky uncle, who is not a comrade when they meet at this time?"

Under the rain that the sun couldn't shine in the middle of the sky, the old man appeared next to the cart with a wine bottle, looking at Zheng Jianguo, who was looking away, unscrewed the lid on the wine bottle, put it in his mouth and took a sip after speaking, and his smooth black face suddenly wrinkled into a bun, and then let go of his mouth and made a chatter, screwed the lid of the wine bottle and put it at his feet, took off the bundle of messy newspapers from the cart, put it on the ground and opened it, and pinched a torn kraft paper from it, and his eyes lit up slightly: "Well, I'm afraid that I didn't come to find confidential paper under the banner of looking for books?"

Zheng Jianguo didn't know that he had aroused people's attention, the traffic in Shanxian County was relatively developed, as early as before the founding of the People's Republic of China, because of the coal reserves had its own railway station, the old man said that the freight station refers to this railway station, the straight-line distance is less than two kilometers, and it takes twenty minutes to walk, he has been out for a long time at this time, and if he goes directly, he is afraid that he will be late.

After thinking about it, Zheng Jianguo still chose to go back to school, one is that he doesn't have any money with him, and the other is that he now has algebra in his hand, and he is not so urgent for other textbooks, but when he arrived at the waste recycling station next to the cargo station after school in the afternoon under the sun that was about to set, he found that people were already waiting for him: "You are the young man who went to Lao Zheng Tou to find a book at noon?"

He Dali, who asked the question, said and walked towards the door, with a height of one meter seven or eight and a thick eyebrows and big eyes, Zheng Jianguo's sense of oppression was still very strong, and he looked at him with a sluggish face at this time, and continued to speak: "Are you looking for the "book" more than ten years ago?"

"Uh, this big-brother. ”

Inexplicably felt the hostility of the other party, although Zheng Jianguo didn't know what was wrong, he also understood that he should show his identity at this time: "I am in the fifth class of the second year of Chengguan Middle School, I went to the scrap recycling station to find books, I wanted to increase my knowledge——"

"You're a high school student?"

He Dali, who had already shook to the door, frowned, he was about to hold down this guy, a pair of eyes carefully looked at Zheng Jianguo's appearance, the patches on his clothes and pants could not be faked, and the accent did not look like foreign, so he poked out his rough fingers and said, "Open the schoolbag, I'll take a look." ”

Zheng Jianguo didn't know where he had caused a misunderstanding, so he took out all the books in his schoolbag, pointed to the first volume of algebra of the "Book Series" on the ground, and said: "I'm just looking for other textbooks in this set of books, you see this is the first volume of algebra, there should be two more volumes, oh, that's my student ID——"

"Really a student?"

Holding the photo on the small book in his hand, He Dali looked at the people and looked at the documents, and felt that what this kid said was afraid that it was true, and then put the student ID card in his schoolbag and picked up the book he pointed to, flipped through it and put it back for him, and the thick eyebrows and big eyes showed a smile on his face: "You kid should remember to call comrades in the future, especially for elderly comrades and strange comrades, don't be an uncle and aunt with a mouth, I don't know what it means to be a traitor or a thief?" Ah, pay attention in the future, Lao Zheng Tou asked people to carry a letter before getting off work saying to pay attention to the enemy's destruction, I thought the time for meritorious service had come——"

"Well, I'm sorry—"

Zheng Jianguo swallowed his saliva, he was completely speechless, but thinking about what people said, this year when strangers meet, the first sentence they say is comrade hello, old comrade, male comrade, female comrade, uncle, aunt, aunt, sister and brother will not appear for decades in memory, don't talk about this depression, quickly packed the book into the bag, raised his head and looked at the comrade standing next to him who wanted to make meritorious service and said: "That, comrade, do you know where to find this kind of book published more than ten years ago?"

"More than a dozen years ago – a book published ago?"

He Dali, who was originally a little discouraged, suddenly came to his senses, the books from more than ten years ago, they were all in the category of feudal relics, this kid wanted to find the books at that time, so he blinked with big eyes when he thought about it: "The book for such a long time, how can I remember it so clearly, that, show me what you have in your hand, I'll see if I can remember——"

Zheng Jianguo quickly took out algebra and physics, held them in both hands and handed them to He Dali, and when he saw him open it, he pointed to a line of words in front of him and said: "The other books are also these words in front of the "mathematics, physics and chemistry self-study series" should be chemistry, geometry and physics, I will buy it at the original price——"

"Buy at the original price?"

Looking at the book inside the book is either a formula or an elaboration, the words and numbers in it can still be recognized at the beginning, when the symbols behind appear, I threw the idea of meritorious service aside, but I opened my mouth before and said that I wanted to help, and I was embarrassed to stuff it back directly and said that it was useless, so I pinched the book and thought about it with a sad face, and finally shook my head and said: "No, no, but I can help you pay attention, if there is, I will help you keep it, how about it?"

"That's great!"

Zheng Jianguo didn't expect to hear such news, and immediately opened his mouth with a happy eyebrow: "Then, then please comrade, otherwise, I'll leave you a deposit, oh, I only have two cents and six cents on me, this is a deposit, if you help me find it, I'm willing to buy it at the original price——"

"Okay, okay, no problem-"

He Dali suddenly came to the spirit, the price of waste paper at this time is two and a half cents and one catty, although the price of a book like a book is slightly higher, but it is only two cents and seven cents and a catty, and he opened the third volume of physics in his hand and looked at it, and the price of nine cents and eight suddenly made him swallow his saliva: "Why don't I give you a note?"

"No, then I'll wait for your good news. ”

Zheng Jianguo waved his hand and straddled the schoolbag on his body, and the eyes of He Dali, who was pinching two cents, flashed with curiosity, and he could see that this guy was not like a child in the city: "I am He Dali, the guard of the scrap recycling station, this book has been more than ten years and can only be found by touching it——"

"Brother He, I'm not in a hurry to find these books, it's naturally good to find them, and it's nothing if I can't find them, so I'll thank you in advance. ”

Zheng Jianguo pinched his schoolbag and said politely, He Dali can naturally help, and if he can't help, he can only resign himself to fate, looking for books to find this degree is already the limit of what he can do now, and then deliberately looking for this set of books, I am afraid that it will be remembered by the end of the year.

The misunderstanding was solved, and he paid a deposit to entrust He Dali to find a book, Zheng Jianguo chatted with him again and left, at this time the sun was about to set in the west, but the flow of people on both sides of the street showed no sign of decreasing, and he looked at the railway station in the distance and the department store next to it, he didn't need to go over to know that there was still a post and telecommunications office of the hostel agricultural machinery factory, and the high-rise buildings in his mind were still some low two-story buildings, and the highest Shanxian department store could only see the signal tower on the roof.

"Hey, Zheng Jianguo, what are you doing here?"

In a trance, a familiar voice came, Kou Yang tilted his head and appeared in front of him with curiosity on his face, Zheng Jianguo's eyes fell on her melon seed face, and he smiled: "Kou Yang, why did you get here?"

"My house is in front of the material company compound, I see you ran away after school, your home seems to be in the west of the city, right?"

Kou Yang said and looked at the sun that was about to set in the west, and then he didn't know what to think of, and then said, "Do you think that if it is an initiative, will the school approve it?"

"I feel like nine times out of ten it will be approved. ”

Zheng Jianguo didn't expect that she was still thinking about being a typical thing, and with a turn of her eyes, she understood that this sister was originally a strong woman, and even Wu Bin, the thorn in the class, ignored it, and now she had such a chance to be in the limelight, and she was reluctant to watch it slip away, and if she was preempted by others, she didn't know what to think of herself, so she said: "Last month, there was a directive I don't know if you read it, it said that it was to learn the document well and grasp the outline, and now if someone advocates going to the mountains and going to the countryside in advance, I think there is a great chance of success." ”

Kou Yang frowned slightly and said, "But there are also documents that require graduates—"

"Aren't you a graduate?"

Zheng Jianguo smiled slightly, then remembered his mouth full of yellow teeth, quickly pursed his mouth and said: "The third batch of junior high school students are even regarded as intellectual youths, how can we have higher education than them after studying in high school for a year and a half, right?"

Kou Yang pinched the schoolbag on his chest, and opened his mouth with a pair of eyes blinking: "Then what you said in the morning doesn't seem to approve of our initiative?"

"I don't agree with your initiative. ”

Zheng Jianguo hesitated a little and still said his true thoughts, but with the exit of this sentence, Kou Yang's face changed slightly, and the fingers holding the schoolbag were pinched white: "Why?"