Back in the dormitory, Li Bayi cleaned up the cupboard at the door, wiped it with a rag inside and out, and everyone's dishes and chopsticks were placed by him in the lower bunk where the gift box was loaded. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Subsequently, Li Bayi found the martial arts novels and yellow books he had bought in the past two years and put them all on the cupboard.

He wants to take these books to rent them out in Dongfanghong's dormitory to temporarily relieve the financial pressure. In his previous life, Li Bayi did this at the suggestion of his classmates in the dormitory, and he did solve Li Bayi's eating problem in the early stage.

A cupboard is a wooden shelf, similar to a simple bookshelf, with five units. Li Bayi turned out all the books that could be rented, and a total of two and a half were installed.

Most of these books were bought by Li Bayi when he was in college.

Since entering NTU, Li Bayi has been wandering around the used book stalls on 121 Avenue and Xiaoximen for half a day almost every weekend. When he encounters good old books, he will buy them, usually one or two yuan a piece, or even a five-cornered one, which is very cost-effective. Some of the books are very valuable, and Li Bayi even bought a few out-of-print books, which are not even collected by many famous libraries.

At that time, many people who sold used books did not know much about the goods, and most of them asked for the price according to the thickness of the book. Unlike a few years later, old books are more expensive than new ones.

In the past two years, Li Bayi has really found some good books. In particular, the classics on national history and philosophy are of great value.

However, the books that Li Bayi took out for rent were not these, but the yellow books he bought within half a year before his rebirth, as well as the martial arts novels that he bought one after another over the years.

At some point at the beginning of the 43rd year of the Republic, in some hidden corners and some scattered bookstalls, some yellow books signed "Xia Fei" appeared from time to time, the cheap ones were five or six yuan a book, and the expensive ones were eight yuan and ten yuan a book, eighty or ninety pages thick, and occasionally there were one or two black and white illustrations of naked women.

Often at this time, after Li Bayi found out, he would hide and hide and buy it all.

In his memory, Li Bayi bought the most at the bookstall at the entrance of a primary school in Xiaoximen. It was dusk one day, and he found it by chance as he passed by.

However, these books soon disappeared from the market.

First and second, Li Bayi bought almost a dozen or twenty copies of these books. And this kind of book, the rent is a dollar, which is particularly easy to rent, and it can almost be regarded as saving Li Bayi's life in his previous life, and helping Li Bayi pass the most difficult and confused period for a while.

Speaking of buying books, this is a special hobby of Li Bayi. When he was young, his family was very poor, so he asked his friends to smash olive bark, pick up chestnut fruits, cut rat tails, pull mountain grass, and then take these things to his uncle's supply and marketing cooperatives to sell.

In this way, a few points and a few corners are saved, and generally in a year, he can save three or five yuan, and his sister can also save two or three yuan.

What he remembered the most was that at that time, the three fathers had to go back to work once a year, and each time they would give him five yuan of New Year's money, and then give his sister two yuan.

As a result, he can save almost ten dollars a year.

At that time, Children's Day was the day he looked forward to the most, because at that time, many children's books in Xinhua bookstores in the county would be reduced in price. But on Children's Day, a small picture book costs only three or four cents.

Xiao Bayi rarely goes to the street, but on this day, at his request, his father will generally agree to take him there.

This is the festival that Xiao Bayi likes and remembers the most in addition to the New Year. On this day, he will carry all the money of the year.

On this day, Xinhua Bookstore is particularly crowded, and many adults will carry baskets and bags to buy books. It's a pity that Xiao Bayi's father is illiterate and won't buy books for his son. So it's all Xiao Bayi who goes by himself.

If he is small, he can get under the crotch of an adult and squeeze into the counter at once. The counter was wooden, as tall as him, and he couldn't see what books were inside, so he listened to the bookseller and bought as cheap as he could. But as long as he sees someone who looks like martial arts and fights, he almost wants it.

Until you buy all the money you have. For more than ten yuan, you can buy a big hug of books, and Xiao Bayi has to be divided into two or three times to take it out.

However, there are not many such good days in my memory, and it seems that they have only happened in two or three years. In the next few years, the price was not reduced, and even if the price was reduced, it was only half price. Half price, Xiao Bayi can't afford it.

Once, after the three fathers knew that Xiao Bayi liked to read small picture books, he said that he had a lot of them at home, and Xiao Li Yong often bought them, and after buying them back to see them, he threw them away, and he said that he would find them for Xiao Bayi next time he went back to work.

Xiao Bayi was very happy. Sure enough, in the second year, the three fathers got back a lot of villain books, many of which are colorful, such as "Zhu Bajie Carries His Daughter-in-law", "Zhu Bajie Eats Watermelon", "Nezha Makes the Sea" and other color animations adapted from "Journey to the West", which are Xiao Bayi's favorites.

At that time, among rural children, Xiao Bayi was the one who had the most small picture books. Many friends who are good friends with him will borrow books from him to read.

When he was in the fifth grade of primary school, Li Bayi and Sun Hongfei, who was in the same class, often fought against each other because they liked the same little girl, and he relied on the power of small picture books.

Sun Hongfei's family has money, and he relied on buying snacks for other children to eat, uniting a group of people and becoming the king of children after the class. And Li Bayi used small picture books to attract people, and also attracted a group of people.

The two gangs often fight on the big beam after school, and even when Xiao Shengchu went to the township to take the exam, Xiao Bayi slept with a dagger in his arms, for fear that Sun Hongfei would attack and retaliate.

At that time, many classmates' grievances were resolved on the eve of graduation.

However, after the two entered junior high school, all grievances naturally disappeared, and they didn't mean that to the original little girl.

The sound of footsteps and talking in the corridor woke up Li Bayi in his memory, obviously someone had left class. Li Bayi smiled self-deprecatingly, he found that after he was reborn, he was particularly prone to falling into the memories of the past.

Yang Hao, Wang Pingping, Ma Cheng, and Li Weijin returned to the dormitory and found that the dormitory had a new look, the floor was freshly mopped, the windowsills and desks were all wiped clean, and the original cupboards had become bookshelves.

"Ouch! The dormitory has changed a lot, Li Bayi, did you get it? Yang Hao shouted in surprise.

"Really!" Ma Cheng followed behind, and when he entered the room, he looked at the neat and clear bedroom with a smile and praised it. He threw the book in his arms onto his bed at the door, and touched the polished cupboard, "Li Bayi, why did you get the book on it?" ”

Li Bayi replied with a smile: "These books are rented. ”

"Well, Li Bayi, when did you become so diligent, is it your Xiaojuan who wants to come to see you?" Wang averaged Li Bayi's shoulder and said.

Xiaojuan, Li Xiaojuan? Li Bayi was stunned and shook his head, "It's not her coming, we haven't been in touch for months." The main thing is that I want you to rent books for me when you have time. As he spoke, he pointed to the books on the cupboard, "I don't even have money for food now, and I've been out collecting debts every day for the past month." ”

"Debt collection?"

The four looked at Li Bayi suspiciously.

Li Bayi then told the four people in the dormitory about his current financial situation and the theft of 8,000 yuan. In his previous life, they also helped him rent books.

After Yang Hao heard this, his eyes widened: "Your 8,000 yuan was stolen by others, is that guy who often came to our dormitory to look for you a long time ago, your cousin?" ”

"Well, that's him." Li Bayi nodded.

"That guy, I look like a social mixer. Why are you so careless! Hey, that's a problem. "Wang was very shocked by what happened to Li Bayi.

Ma Cheng also remembered Li Bayi's abnormality for a long time: "No wonder we have seen you go out early and return late all day for a long time, and we don't tell us what happened, but we just feel that you are busy with one thing." If you don't say it, we won't ask. Ay! I didn't expect such a big thing to happen. ”

Li Weijin said directly: "You go outside to get busy, we will take care of it for you in the dormitory, someone will rent books, whoever of us is here, will get it for you." ”

Wang Pingping followed and said: "Yes, for such a big thing, we can't help you financially, we will do everything to rent books, you can rest assured, just teach us how to get it." ”

Ma Cheng and Yang Hao also readily agreed.

Li Bayi took out a notebook and a pen, "Well, I'm not in the dormitory, I'm going to go out to find Liu Jun's bastard to ask for money." If someone comes to rent a book, you can register it for me, and then collect the money. ”

Li Bayi gave an explanation about renting books: "The deposit of the yellow book is 20 yuan a copy, and the rent is 1 yuan a day. The deposit for other books is ten yuan, and the rent is five dimes a day. ”

Li Bayi found two pieces of blank paper and asked Wang Pingping to help him write two "rental books" notices with a brush, one was posted on the door of the 335 dormitory, and only the words "rent a book here" were written; The other is posted on the wall on the right side of the entrance door of Dongfanghong's dormitory, indicating that there are books for rent in dormitory 335.

After that, other students in the dormitory came back one after another, and they also learned about Li Bayi one after another. Financially, they had no way to help Li Bayi, but in other matters, everyone worked together and extended a helping hand.