Li Manman's luck was good, he didn't wait long, an old man with gray hair, but neatly combed, with a pair of steel frame eyes, and wearing a Mao suit, came over, looked at the round big watermelon in surprise, and said to Li Manman: "Little girl, this melon belongs to yours?" ”

Li Manman felt that this old man didn't look like a bad person, looking at the clothes, he should have a good family background, so he nodded: "Yes, grandpa, this is made in my greenhouse, my dad went to the vegetable market to have a look, let me see the stall here!" ”

"Greenhouse vegetables?" The old man was very surprised, he didn't expect that in this backward Taihuang County, someone actually started a greenhouse of vegetables and planted fruits. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Well, I have a small greenhouse at home, and my dad said it was for experiments!" Li Manman replied that he did have a mini greenhouse at home, and he did the experiment by himself, which was not a lie.

The old man nodded and knocked on the watermelon: "Have you ever eaten this melon?" Sweet or not? ”

"It's sweet! It's still sand! Li Manman replied, and his mouth seemed to be able to recall the sweet rustling taste.

"How are you going to sell this watermelon?" At the stall where Li Manman was talking to the old man, there was a circle of people around the melon stall, and some people were very interested in the tomatoes and cucumbers in the basket, and they were reluctant to let go of the tomatoes.

Although Li Manman knew that the people at this time were quite simple, he did not rule out that there would be people fishing in troubled waters, so he looked at his stall tightly: "I am helping my father look at the stall, and there are no scales, so watermelons cost four yuan a piece, ten yuan a three, and tomatoes, cucumbers, and eggplants are all five cents a piece." ”

As soon as the people around heard this, some people said, "This is too expensive!" In summer, watermelon is the most expensive, and it costs a dime a pound! Someone else said, "Little girl, can this tomato and cucumber be cheaper?" ”

Li Man said loudly and slowly: "I know, these things are cheap in summer, but now it's winter, and it's almost the New Year!" It's not easy for my family to grow these things, just plastic film costs a lot of money, and there is a lot of money to heat up and burn coal, which is not a labor cost! Grandparents, uncles and aunts, think about it, is this still expensive? ”

"Oh, let's eat something fresh!" An old lady listened to Li Manman's words, picked three watermelons, and said to Li Manman, "I'll take three!" Did you pretend to have one? ”

Li Manman took out a rubber silk bag from behind him, which Li Manman secretly hidden, just to sell watermelons, and handed it to the old lady: "Grandma, this bag is for you!" But I can't deliver it for you! I have too little strength! ”

"It's okay, my grandson will come and pick me up later!" The old lady put three round watermelons into a bag and handed fifteen yuan to Li Manman, "Fill me with five more tomatoes and five cucumbers!" Eat as a fruit! ”

"Okay!" The business opened, Li Manman was in a good mood, picked five good-looking tomatoes and five green cucumbers, put them in the old lady's pocket, and took an eggplant and put it in, "Grandma, this eggplant, you go back and fry it!" ”

"How embarrassing that is!" The old lady's eyebrows jumped happily, but she didn't shirk too much, her eldest grandson just loves to eat minced meat and eggplant, this one eggplant is enough to burn a plate.

The old man who was the first to come also got three watermelons at this time, and said to Li Manman: "I will also have three watermelons, and by the way, I will bring me ten tomatoes and ten cucumbers!" ”

"And me, I want three watermelons too!" Before the old man could finish speaking, a voice interjected, "I want tomatoes and eggplants!" "I want a watermelon and five tomatoes!" The people around him screamed.

"Okay, I see, take your time one by one!" Li Manman raised his hand and said to everyone with a smile, "Let's get this old man first!" ”

took out the glue bag, helped the old man put the watermelon in it, jumped the tomatoes and cucumbers, asked the old man to count them, helped him pack them, and added two eggplants to it.

Soon the thirteen watermelons in the two baskets were divided up, and there were only a few eggplants left in the basket of vegetables that did not sell very well.

"Hey, little girl, don't you have any food?" A middle-aged woman rushed over and asked Li Manman.

"There are only a few eggplants left!" Li Manman showed her a basket of eggplants.

"Tomorrow, are you coming?" The middle-aged woman was disappointed when she saw it, so she asked with hope.

"If you don't come tomorrow, the vegetables at home will be kept until the New Year!" Li Manman felt that before the Chinese New Year, the chance of coming to the county seat again was very slim.

"I'm not coming!" The middle-aged woman slumped her shoulders in disappointment, "Give me this eggplant!" Cheaper! ”

Li Manman nodded, looked at the eggplant, and said, "There are six here, two yuan!" ”

The middle-aged woman, apparently knowing the price, paid the bill cheerfully, put the eggplant in her cloth pocket, and carried it away.

Li Manman folded the empty basket, dragged it to a place where no one was, and put it into the space, before slowly entering the flower market from the other end and lingering in front of the booksstand.

At this time, the comic book collection had not yet begun, so Li Manman picked more than a dozen sets of comic books from several used book stalls, including complete sets of four famous books, as well as "Fengshen Bang", "Seven Heroes and Five Righteousness", "Saying Yue Quanbiography", "Xue Gang Anti-Tang", "Liao Zhai Zhiwei", etc., Li Manman looked at the pile of comic books around him, and his heart was so beautiful that he was bubbling, although he didn't know how much that kind of comic book was worth in later generations, but the blind cat touched the dead mouse, and it would always appreciate more than now!

After picking out the comic strips, Li Manman picked out a set of expired "Readers", a set of expired "Bosom Friends" and some other unfinished magazines in the second-hand book stall. As for the novels, there are not many here, and there are no complete sets, so I had to buy a few romance books, Qiong Yao's, Cen Karen's, and a few martial arts, Mr. Jin's "Book of Swords and Enmity", the ancient drunkard's "Border City Prodigal" and Sima Qingyun's "Heroic Sword Children's Love". To be honest, I am not very satisfied with these books, but it is almost the same to open a rental bookstore in the countryside.

In the previous life, Li Manman was a bookworm, and when he was in junior high school, he devoured Qiong's romance novels alive, and in high school, he finished reading Mr. Jin's "Flying Snow Shoots White Deer in the Sky, and the Laughing Book Hero Leans on the Blue Duck", and she also watched the ancient drunkard, as for Ni Kuang's Wesley series, it was also within her reading range. But she borrowed them from a bookstore, and she desperately wanted to buy them in sets and put them in the bookcase, but she never got her wish.

So to be able to do it all over again, she decided not to be wronged by her hobbies, and slowly collected her favorite books to make up for the high cost of paper books in the previous life, and she had to consider the regret of the family budget when buying.

"Huh?" Li Manman took out a dusty hard-shell book from a pile of books, blew off the ash on it, it was a philatelic album, opened it, there were not many stamps inside, and I looked at a few seriously, all of them were before the Cultural Revolution, Li Manman actually didn't know much, only knew that monkey tickets were more expensive, and what else was red in the country was sky-high, but this stamp has been around for many years, and it should be good to collect it, so I politely put it in the pile of books I picked.

"Big red? Red? Lin Xiujuan and her husband hurriedly bought good things and rushed to the flower market, but they really didn't worry about their daughter who was picking books alone, and they didn't see their daughter at the bookstall just now, and their hearts immediately panicked and shouted loudly. Li Tianxue is also a little worried about his daughter, although he looks smarter, but he is only an eight-year-old child.

"Mom, I'm here!" Li Manman heard Lin Xiujuan's shout, stood up, waved his hand at his mother, and replied loudly.

"Didn't you kid make you wait where you were? You've come here and scared your parents to death! Lin Xiujuan breathed a sigh of relief when she saw her daughter, and thought that she was disobedient and ran inside, so she said that she would fall.

"Mom, Dad, look at the books I picked!" Li Manman has a sense of accomplishment and wants his parents to show their achievements.

"What are you doing with so many books? So heavy! Lin Xiujuan read the pile of old books, and was very dissatisfied, feeling that her daughter was dirty and losing money.

Li Tianxue walked over, looked at it carefully, and nodded: "Good idea!" Is the money enough? When Li Tianxue left, he gave Li Manman ten yuan.

"Enough!" Li Manman replied, in fact, these books are not worth ten yuan, Li Manman made up a little bit in them, but he still didn't say anything, and the provincial mother said that he fell again.

Li Tianxue nodded, took out the rubber bag and put the book in it, carried it on his shoulder, and said to Lin Xiujuan: "There are a lot of things today, I will ride home, and your mother will make a tricycle and go back!" ”

"You go back with the big red! Save money on one person's car! Lin Xiujuan was reluctant to pay a dollar for a ticket.

"I'm riding with a bag of books and a bag of New Year's goods, how can I bring Dahong? You take Dahong in the car, it's very cold, don't freeze the child! Li Tianxue was very dissatisfied with his wife's careful calculation at this time, and said angrily.

"Got it, got it!" Lin Xiujuan knew that her husband was distressed when she saw her daughter's cold red face, and she didn't expose him, so let him be a strict father!

Li Manman followed his mother to the place where he sat in the car, at this time the cars leading to the countryside in the county were basically tricycles, the front was like a motorcycle, and the back was a big body, with a shed welded on it, covered with canvas, and two benches were being made, which was a car carrying passengers, and the car has always been seriously overloaded, in addition to sitting, there are generally people standing in the middle, I remember that Li Manman went home once in high school, and he was standing on the foot outside the car, and his hands were clasped on the iron frame of the car, and the taste was really sour! Li Manman will never forget it for several lifetimes.

After waiting for about 40 minutes, the car was full, and the driver started the car and drove slowly and leisurely towards the countryside. Li Manman was squeezed into the corner of the inside, next to him was an old man, and from time to time there was a burst of tobacco leaves on his body, and chickens fluttering under his feet, a smell of.

Li Manman felt that she couldn't breathe, Lin Xiujuan saw her daughter's pale face, and asked distressedly, "What's wrong?" Is it motion sickness? Li Manman nodded. Lin Xiujuan took out an orange from her pocket like a trick and handed it to her daughter: "Put it under your nose, it will be better!" Li Manman took the orange, put it under his nose and sniffed, finally feeling a little more comfortable.