Chapter 1:

Zhang Jin clenched 20 yuan, carried a new denim backpack, held his head high, and walked briskly on the bustling street without squinting.

Today is the day of the monthly holiday of the Sixth Middle School of Dongyang County, which coincides with the new statutory holiday policy of the state, and the Sixth Middle School of Dongyang County, as one of the key high schools in Beijin City, also responded to the call of the state to give students a one-time seven-day vacation.

Although it cannot be compared with winter and summer vacations, it is worth exciting for students who have not enjoyed such a long vacation except for winter and summer vacations. Because they can finally sleep at home for days again. Just half a month ago, the Mid-Autumn Festival was released, and now almost everyone has a little money in their hands, so it goes without saying that the street is lively. The business of the small traders and hawkers on the main road in front of the No. 6 Middle School is also unprecedentedly good.

Zhang Jin is not uncommon for those small merchants and vendors, and he finally saved twenty yuan, and now he wants to buy his mother her favorite sweet and thin crisp. Thinking of her mother's happy appearance when she ate sweet and crispy, the corners of Zhang Jin's tight mouth unconsciously curved upward.

Sweet and crispy is three yuan a catty, ten catties is equivalent to his living expenses for a month, not to mention that such a price is expensive in Dongyang District, even in Beijin City, because at the moment, the salary of an ordinary staff member in the urban area is up to five or six hundred a month. Not to mention Zhang Jin, a student from the countryside.

In normal times, whether it is Zhang Jin, who is used to saving, or Zhang's mother, who is only generous to her children, she is reluctant to buy it. In fact, Zhang Jin doesn't like sweets very much, but he knows that his mother likes it, his little sister likes it, and more importantly, it will be his mother's birthday in ten days, and he can't make money to buy birthday cakes for his mother that are in the mouths of his classmates in the city, but he can afford it now. Especially when I think of what my mother once said, when their siblings grow up and can make money in the future, they just need to bring her some sweet and crispy every time they go home.

So every time he has a monthly vacation, as long as he saves some money, he will bring some points.

When the Mid-Autumn Festival came this month, he brought a lot of pickles from home, and his grandfather (pronounced wei four sounds, grandfather's meaning) cooked a lot of eggs and salted duck eggs for him, plus it rained for half a month, and the weather was cold, and the pickles he ate for half a month were not bad, so the thirty yuan given by Zhang's mother, if it wasn't for the last three days, he couldn't help but buy a few servings of braised pork, he could save more.

However, he will not use all the 20 yuan to buy cookies, and if he goes home like that, he will definitely be beaten. It is estimated that the cost of living will be reduced next month. If that's the case, Zhang Jin is 110,000 unwilling. He had already thought about it, and was going to buy only three catties of sweet and crispy, and the remaining eleven yuan could go to the supermarket and buy the fountain pen that he liked at the end of the month. He remembered that the pen seemed to be four dollars and fives, and when he was done, he would buy a bottle of ink, and he could buy a thick notebook.

Thinking that the money in his hand could buy a thick notebook and a fountain pen, Zhang Jin's heart couldn't help but tremble.

To say that Zhang Jin is not shrewd on the inside, except for a shrewd appearance. On the contrary, when there is little language, his parents can be crazy. But a face is very deceiving. Maybe it's also because of his inner character.,This kid's favorite thing when he's usually okay is to write and draw.,

Writing and drawing are naturally inseparable from notebooks, so when he buys things, he also likes blank paper, letterhead and notebooks the most.

While calculating and rushing forward, Zhang Jin soon came to the Parkway supermarket next to the school, Parkway supermarket is said to be a supermarket, and there is no comparison with the modern real supermarket, the first point is its area. In fact, it is only sixty or seventy square meters, similar to the street store, but because of the effort in the decoration, and the name of the supermarket that has not yet appeared in Beijin City at the moment, it is very admired by the students in the sixth middle school, but all the students who have a little economic strength will come here to take a walk, and this circle will not be empty-handed.

Zhang Jin also likes to come to Parkway Supermarket, because the school supplies here are much better and more exquisite than those on the roadside stalls. Every time he came over, he would carefully select the area and save some money to buy the one he liked. This time, he didn't have time to look at it carefully, so he rushed directly to the area where the fountain pen he saw last time, and it didn't take long to select a gold-rimmed fountain pen that had been black, as well as a bottle of carbon ink, calculated the price in his heart, and went back to the notebook area to choose a soft leather notebook with □□.

Originally, he preferred hardcover notebooks, but in the process of selection, he found that the most affordable was softcover. So in the end, I chose the soft leather one.

Coming out of the supermarket, Zhang Jin went straight to the stall selling sweet and thin crisps, and bought three catties of sweet and thin crisps there, so far there were only four yuan left in the twenty yuan in his pocket.

I went to the piece of five that I needed to use for a ride, and I wanted to eat a bowl of beef offal noodles with meat for a while, but in the end I could only have five cents left.

In fact, a bowl of noodles can be eaten for five cents, even if he didn't eat this morning, one dollar is enough. But he has been thinking about affordable beef offal noodles outside the school for a month, and his mother is reluctant to get them beef to eat when he goes home.

"Hey, boy, play with the rings, right? a dime, it's a good deal. Put it on and take it away. Zhang Jin was walking, and a man with a dark and thin face shouted at him with a big mouth full of yellow teeth.

Zhang Jin was stunned for a moment, looked up at the other party, and then looked at the thing on the ground next to him.

He had seen this ring before when he was in junior high school in the town, and to be honest, he wanted to try it many times, but because he had no money in his pocket, he was reluctant to save a few cents, and finally failed.

But today, he took a fancy to a pink plush toy in the fifth row of the stall at a glance, which he had seen in the supermarket, and it was very expensive, costing thirty or forty yuan. Thirty or forty yuan may be the money for a meal for future students, but it is very valuable now, at least Zhang Jin's food expenses, because of the special care of his mother and grandfather, there are fifty yuan a month. But the stuffed animal wasn't something he could think of.

Seeing that toy, Zhang Jin immediately thought of what her little sister once said while watching TV, if she could have a hug bear and die, she would be willing.

He himself is not a girl and doesn't understand what is good about hugging a bear, but when he sees TV, he thinks that a little girl hugging a bear will be very cute.

Seeing Zhang Jin's hesitation, the stall owner smiled more kindly.

"How about it, can you have a handful of fun? It's okay to try, it won't cost a few bucks. ”

Zhang Jin pinched the money in his hand, pursed his lips and asked, "Five cents, can you play?"

"Yes. The boss laughed even brighter when he heard this, and said in his heart, I'll let you play for a dime, as long as you give money.

Zhang Jin hesitated and handed out a dollar.

Originally, the boss didn't want to look for money, but unfortunately Zhang Jin, the kid himself, was a little pick, and he stared at the boss to find good money before turning around and going to the circle.

The ability to cast circles, to be honest, Zhang Jin has really practiced. Of course, this is by no means because of the health kung fu taught by his grandfather, but because of the boys' martial arts dreams, dreaming that they can also 'Xiao Li Flying Knife'.

However, the first one was doomed to fail, although he had been preparing for a long time, who knew that as soon as he threw it out, he was blown out by a gust of wind when he gently circled it. It's just that with the failure of the first one, Zhang Jin became even more nervous in the second one. I even regretted my impulsiveness a little.

A bowl of butter noodles!

"Oh, the young man is lucky!" the boss shouted exaggeratedly, which immediately attracted the attention of many people, "Look, look, everyone come and take a look, this young man can get a jade pendant for the second time." A dime, let's talk about it, where can I buy a jade pendant for a dime?"

Zhang Jin was interrupted by the boss to show off, and he was also very awkward, and said: What I want is a plush toy, who wants your broken jade pendant!

The boss didn't care about this, and when he saw that there was already a thick circle of people around, he framed the jade pendant around Zhang Jin's neck, and his smiling eyes narrowed. casually shouted loudly: "Come on, come on, keep up the good work." ”

Zhang Jin didn't pay attention to the onlookers at all, pinched the circle in his hand, took a deep breath, and just ......

Maybe because I was too nervous, I thought that I would be sure to succeed in the circle, but I failed again.

Seeing this, the boss hurriedly encouraged: "Don't be nervous, don't be nervous, it's just a little bit." ”

Zhang Jin stared at the plush toy, made another moment of mental preparation, and then made a move.

"Haha!" There was a commotion in the crowd, and everyone saw what Zhang Jin meant, but unfortunately he missed again.

"What are you laughing at, what are you laughing at, I didn't frame the red panda, isn't this a trap for Guanyin Bodhisattva. The boss gritted his teeth as he spoke, scolding in his heart that the bastard in front of him was too lucky. The real target was not trapped, but it was to take away his two treasures one after another. Although these things are not worth a few cents, they are worth more than five cents.

"Oops, it's stuck!" Just when the boss was entangled, Zhang Jin successfully put the last trap on the ears of the bear fur toy.

"Boss, boss, do you still have a stuffy bear? I want to play too, I want a two-dollar hoop." Before the boss woke up from the shock, there was a noise around him, and they were all about to ring up.

"Oh, yes, yes, good!" The boss dripped blood in his heart, and quickly stuffed the stuffed bear to Zhang Jin, and then quickly put away the money, praying in his heart that he could earn the stuffy bear's money back today.

Zhang Jin didn't care about the boss's action, he only knew that he wanted to jump up happily at this moment. But he has always been 'calm'. So although I was very excited in my heart, I was still cold and indifferent on the surface, and I looked like I was not allowed to enter.

On the way to the station, Zhang Jin was in a good mood and didn't even want to eat beef noodles, thinking of his sister's happy appearance when she got the gift, the corners of her mouth couldn't stop bending up. But the way home is too far, and if you don't eat lunch now, you will be hungry until three or four o'clock in the afternoon. When you get out of the car, you have to walk a long way, which is the most torturous at that time. So before getting in the car, Zhang Jin still ate a big bowl of meat and soup, which is different from the beef noodles that only saw clear water and jerky in later generations.

Zhang Jin's feat today. If it was someone else, it would definitely be to show off all the way home, but whether it was the bus in front of him or the tricycle that changed in the town later, no one talked to him or asked him what he thought of the expensive stuffy bear in his arms at this moment.

The reason, that is really known to those who know him, this kid don't look at the appearance of a face, in fact, three sticks can't hit a fart, you ask ten words, people will reward you with one sentence.

Young people have their own self-esteem, and naturally no one wants to talk to this 'dragged 2580,000' kid in the long run. It's just that today a girl deliberately led the topic in the car to the woolly bear, and looked at him reluctantly for a long time, and people were stunned that they didn't look at others. This really responds to Zhang's mother's words - our second boy is a nerd with a face that is 'fox and fake tiger'.