After eating the New Year's dinner, Shen Shuzhen said to the three brothers Ding Shizhong, Ding Chang and Ding Hongxing: "You can go out to play!" ”

Ding Yuanchao took out a red envelope and handed it to Ding Hongxing, Ding Yuejin also took out a red envelope and handed it to Ding Hongxing, this is the custom of Guicheng, after eating the New Year's dinner, you can give the child New Year's money, of course, only people like Ding Hongxing who are still studying have New Year's money, Ding Shizhong and Ding Chang have already joined the work, so there is no New Year's money.

Ding Hongxing said "thank you" to his uncle and father, and went out with Ding Shizhong and Ding Chang.

In Guicheng, after the New Year's dinner, the children can go out to play to their heart's content, Ding Shizhong has not returned to Guicheng for a long time, and he also wants to take a good turn in Guicheng to see the changes in Guicheng.

The three of them walked around the street for a while, Ding Shizhong looked at Guicheng, who he hadn't seen for a year, and said with emotion: "Guicheng has really changed a lot now, I haven't seen it for a year, and I can't recognize it." ”

Ding Chang nodded and said, "Yes, I didn't dare to admit it when I came back, I hadn't been back to Guicheng for a few years at that time." ”

Ding Hongxing said: "Last year, Guicheng re-planned the roads in the city, widened and strengthened the main roads, and many old buildings on both sides of the original main roads were demolished, and some new buildings have been completed, so that the cityscape of Guicheng will of course become more and more beautiful." ”

Ding Shizhong nodded happily, as a native of Guicheng, of course he also hopes that his hometown will get better and better.

Ding Hongxing said: "Brother Shizhong, let me take you to the commercial street to have a look, this street was built last year, and my store is also there." ”

Ding Shizhong nodded with interest and said, "Okay!" ”

The three brothers came to the commercial street, and the flow of people here today is not as turbulent as a few days ago, because today is Chinese New Year's Eve, the customs of Guicheng on this day all families have to eat New Year's dinner at home, New Year's dinner can be eaten from morning to evening, only after eating New Year's dinner, can come out to play, and generally only children will come out to play, so people are diverted a lot.

Most of the people who are still shopping in the commercial street today are children, from five or six years old to teenagers, of course, they all have eaten New Year's dinner and took the New Year's money to play.

Walking in from the street, Ding Shizhong saw a signboard at a glance, he pointed to this signboard and said, "This store should be yours, right?" ”

Of course, this shop is the "Red Star Stamp Store", Ding Hongxing said with a smile: "The answer is correct!" ”

Shen Fucai also went home for the New Year, so the door of the stamp store was locked, Ding Hongxing took out the key to open the door, and let Ding Shizhong and Ding Chang in.

Ding Shizhong glanced around the storefront, nodded and praised: "Yes, the layout is beautiful." ”

Ding Hongxing was just about to answer, when a seven or eight-year-old boy ran into the store and said in surprise: "Boss, is the door open?" I want to buy a stamp. ”

Ding Hongxing couldn't help but smile dumbly, why did someone come to buy things just after he opened the door, and his current financial luck is not bad.

He asked the boy, "What stamps do you want to buy?" ”

The boy walked over to a glass counter, pointed to a postage stamp, and said, "I want this one." ”

Ding Hongxing walked over to take a look, it turned out to be a special stamp of "Birds of Prey", a set of four stamps, the boy pointed to the fourth of them, this stamp is worth 90 points, it is a cancelled stamp, Shen Fucai gave it a price of one yuan.

At that time, such special stamps and commemorative stamps, all a set of several stamps, the last one is generally very high, so a stamp collector like such a little boy, it is difficult to collect stamps with such a large face value, after all, the face value is high, and the people who send letters with stamps generally only need stamps with a face value of eight points, and will not buy stamps with such a high face value.

Such high-value stamps are generally used to send registered letters and parcels, and Yang Lianzhong also has a way to purchase this kind of cancelled stamps, and their counter is specially selling this kind of cancelled stamps.

Ding Hongxing asked, "Little brother, why did you come to buy stamps today?" Isn't it the Chinese New Year today? ”

The little boy said excitedly: "Big brother, I just finished the New Year's dinner, I received the New Year's money, I rushed over to buy this stamp, I like this stamp for a long time, I have a set of this one, but there is always no money, today I received the New Year's money, I can afford it, so I came to buy it quickly." Thankfully, the stamp hasn't been sold yet. ”

Looking at the little boy's excited face, Ding Hongxing felt that his heart was touched, once upon a time, didn't he also collect stamps like this? One by one, if he can collect a set, he can be happy for a long time. On one occasion he had collected a set of eight stamps purely by collecting envelopes, and when he found the last one, he jumped for joy.

This little boy is too similar to his original self.

Ding Hongxing picked up a pair of tweezers from the counter, carefully picked up the stamp, put it into a small mail bag, handed it to the little boy and said, "Today's New Year, this stamp will be given to you!" ”

The little boy was surprised and delighted: "Big brother, what you said is true?" ”

Ding Hongxing smiled and nodded.

The little boy's brows furrowed again: "But my mother told me not to take other people's things casually." ”

Ding Hongxing said with a smile: "You didn't take other people's things casually, this is a New Year's gift from your big brother, I wish you a happy New Year!" ”

The little boy tilted his head and thought about it, then he carefully clipped the stamp into a small hardcover diary he brought, put the diary into his jacket pocket, and then said to Ding Hongxing: "Thank you, big brother, and I wish you a happy new year!" ”

After finishing speaking, the little boy turned around and ran out of the store, Ding Hongxing smiled, he knew that the little boy must be in a hurry to put this stamp in his philatelic book.

Ding Shizhong smiled: "Red Star, I didn't expect you to be so kind. ”

Ding Hongxing joked: "Do I look vicious? ”

Ding Shizhong shook his head and said: "It's not like this, but in my impression, you have always been a more naughty little boy, and you don't have such a delicate mind." It seems that you have really grown up. ”

Ding Hongxing just smiled and didn't speak.

Ding Shizhong continued: "I can't see that you still have so many hobbies, collecting stamps and playing football, your life is much more colorful than I was at the beginning. I think that in addition to studying every day, I was studying, and one of the things I was most afraid of every day was that I was afraid that the second place behind me would surpass me, so I had almost no hobbies, and there was not much other fun in life, and I was also said to be a boring person. ”

Speaking of this, Ding Shizhong's eyes were a little confused, as if he remembered something.