Chapter 21: Wen Shuting looking for books
"What English books?"
"Auntie, yesterday my grandmother sold the old books at home, and she sold my important books without understanding it. I've looked for a lot of bookstores, but they don't have any bookstores, and yours is the only bookstore left to find in this area. ”
Although the boy was anxious, he still patiently explained to the bookstore aunt and let the bookstore aunt know what was going on, and his purpose was to go into the bookstore to find books.
"That's it. Is it a very important book?"
"It's a very important book, but I didn't have it in China, and I asked someone to bring it back from abroad. "That's why boys are in such a hurry. You must know that it is not easy to bring some important books back from abroad these days, especially books that are convenient for computers. At present, domestic computers are still in their infancy, and they are far from being popularized.
The bookstore aunt apparently knows too.
"Ouch, that's terrible. Young man, my aunt collects a lot of books every day, and I don't know any English. But yesterday my husband did collect a lot of books for the third grade of high school. Or go in and find it yourself. ”
The bookstore aunt is a good-natured and gentle person, and when she saw that the boy was so anxious that she was sweating profusely, she suggested that the boy go in and find it himself.
"Auntie, thank you. ”
"Tell me, young man, what that book looks like, and I'll help you find it. ”
"The cover of Auntie's book is beige, it is so thick, and the book cover is also in English. The boy carefully described it to the bookstore aunt, and the two began to look for it together.
Although the bookstore aunt doesn't know English, she also knows that this foreign script is different from Chinese, and she finds anything that is similar to what the boy says, so she finds it and lets the boy read it for himself.
The sun had already set outside the store, and the sunset in the west was picturesque. The two searched the bookstore for a whole hour, but they couldn't find any books in English that the boy spoke.
"Young man, all the books my aunt collected are in this store, and we haven't searched all of them, and we haven't found the books you said. It seems that your books are no longer in your aunt's shop, and your books are not sold to your aunt's husband. Or you can look elsewhere. ”
The bookstore aunt kindly suggested.
"No, Auntie, my grandmother did sell my books to my uncle, you see, this is my high school textbook. The boy picked up a third-grade physics textbook on the counter and showed it to the bookstore aunt, and the third-grade physics textbook had three words written on it, Wen Shuting, which was the boy's name.
"This is your book, young man, you protect this book so well, and the little girl just now told me that this textbook must be a textbook for a scholar. Isn't your grade particularly good, boy? The smile on the bookstore aunt is more kind, this adult likes children with good grades.
An hour ago, Lu Chaoyi accidentally carried this high school physics book when he was moving books, and it was taken out by the bookstore aunt and temporarily put it on the counter.
Wen Shuting listened to the words of the bookstore aunt, and he suddenly thought of asking the bookstore aunt immediately.
"Little girl, Auntie, are you selling books today? Could it be that you have already sold my books?"
"Sell?"
The bookstore aunt just thought about it, and it was really possible that she sold it.
"yes. Auntie, do you want to think about whether that book has already been sold by you? Auntie, can you help me think about it, who did you give that book to?" Wen Shuting reminded the bookstore aunt.
After all, it was only a short time after the bookstore aunt remembered.
"Oh, I remembered. I actually sold a foreign book similar to what you said. Sold to a little girl, the same little girl you met when you came just now. Pretty little girl. ”
The person the bookstore aunt said was Lu Chaoyi, and she even mentioned Lu Chaoyi's appearance, but Wen Shuting only remembered his books.
"Auntie, do you know the little girl who bought it? Do you know her? Where does she live, what is her name? I want to go to her and buy the book back. That book was very important to me. Wen Shuting said eagerly.
"Ouch, this aunt doesn't know. It's the first time I've seen that little girl, I don't know her. ”
Aunt Bookstore can't help Wen Shuting even if she has the heart to help.
"Auntie, think about it again, you, you ......"
Wen Shuting was in a hurry, the bookstore aunt said that he didn't know each other, and he couldn't talk anymore. The bookstore aunt saw that he was a young man in a hurry, and she was quite anxious for Wen Shuting. The bookstore aunt thought about it:
"Young man, although my aunt did not know the little girl, she must have been from a fishing village by the sea, and she told me that she came to buy books after she came out to sell fish. Why don't you go to the fishing village by the sea? The little girl bought all the textbooks for the third grade of junior high school from me, and I guess she was a junior high school student. She also bought two school bags, a new one and an old one, and she said that the new one was for her brother. The little girl bought a lot of books, and must be a child who loves to read and has good grades. If you ask in a seaside fishing village, you might be able to find someone. ”
Aunt Bookstore gave Wen Shuting an idea. Wen Shuting listened with a helpless smile on his face.
"I see, thank you, Auntie. ”
He didn't plan to follow the advice of the bookstore aunt to look for a fishing village, Zhoushi is an offshore city, more than half of the entire city is coastline, there may be hundreds of fishing villages, this is impossible to find.
It was hopeless to find a book, but Wen Shuting still didn't plan to give up.
"Auntie, do you think this is okay? I'll leave a phone number with you, and if that little girl comes to buy books again, you can call me, and I'll come to her." Do you think that's okay?"
He couldn't go to the haystack to find a needle, so he would have to wait for the rabbit.
"Okay. Then you leave a phone number, and when the little girl comes to buy books again, Auntie will definitely call you. "Aunt Bookstore is a nice and warm-hearted person.
"Thank you, Auntie. ”
After leaving the name change phone and the name of the book in the bookstore, Wen Shuting left the bookstore after thanking the bookstore aunt, and he reluctantly rode his bicycle away.
Lu Chaoyi, who didn't know that someone was looking for her for this book, came home at sunset, and saw the courtyard door of her house open from a distance, and two children were playing at the door.
Lu Chaoyi rang the car bell, and the two children who were playing at the door stood up when they heard the bell.
"It's my sister. Sister is back......" Lu Chaoyuan cheered.
"Grandma, my sister is back. ”
Lu Chaoyuan shouted and ran towards Lu Chaoyi, and the other child was the same. The other child is none other than Lu Chaoxia.
"Sister. ”
"Sister Ayi. ”
"Go home first, then go home. My sister bought you something delicious. ”
Lu Chaoyi beckoned the two children to go home together. When he came back, Lu Chaoyi specially bought some snacks and brought them back. Lu Chaoyi, who was also a child, knew that children were always looking forward to adults coming home, and they were looking forward to buying snacks when adults came home. In her previous life, she was in the orphanage, and she also looked forward to those who were kind enough to send food to the orphanage.
As soon as the two little children heard that there was something delicious, they ran back with joy, simply happy.
Lu Chaoyi looked at them and felt their simple happiness, and Lu Chaoyi also felt very happy.
"I'm back. ”
Lu Chaoyi Jin asked Grandma Lu to wait at the door.
"What are you buying so much?"
Grandma Lu asked when she saw a box tied to the back seat of the car.
"Grandma, I bought some books. It's all for learning. ”
Grandma Lu attaches great importance to her granddaughter's study, and when she heard Lu Chaoyi say that she bought a book for studying, she didn't say more. She helped the car and asked Lu Chaoyi to untie everything, and Lu Chaoyi took snacks for the two children first.
Grandma Lu said to her again: "How can you buy snacks again, this is so expensive." "Grandma Lu is distressed, now that there is no pillar in the family, Grandma Lu is more frugal.
"Grandma, I will earn money, you don't have to worry about money. Besides, I spent a dollar or two, and it didn't cost much. ”
Lu Chaoyi smiled, she looked at Lu Chaoyuan, and Grandma Lu didn't say anything more when she saw Lu Chaoyuan and Lu Chaoxia eating snacks happily.
Lu Chaoyi moved all the books into the hallway, and she didn't plan to throw them into the house immediately. These were old books, and who knows how many bacteria were on them, and she planned to dry them before moving into the room. She entered the room and locked the cupboard with the money from the fish sale and the antique bowl.
In addition, she took out 300 yuan and planned to give it to Grandma Lu to keep for the family.
Coming out of the house and seeing the courtyard door that had been closed, Lu Chaoyi saw the courtyard door that was kicked by Liu Xiaolan at a glance. Lu Chaoyi went straight into the kitchen and asked Grandma Lu:
"Grandma, did you go to Liu Xiaolan's house today?