As soon as Chen Xiaoyu left, the curtain of the hut in the counter was lifted, and a boy who looked like a middle school student came out.

He was tall, and he leisurely propped his elbows on the glass counter, tilted his head and thanked Lao Zhang with a smile, "Uncle Zhang, thank you, and helped me raise the price." ”

Lao Zhang stretched out his hand and knocked on his head, "Xiao Luzi, you are the skin, I know that a little girl has no money, and I have to force me to tease others, now it's okay, the deposit has been paid, I see how you clean it up." ”

The boy said lazily, "Didn't she go home and get the money, maybe she will be back in a moment." If you have money, you can buy it for her, and you can make money anyway. ”

Lao Zhang shook his head and sighed: "You said that your brother has a younger brother like you, and he always takes out his stamps to sell for no reason, if your brother knows, he will have to beat you." ”

The boy smiled disappreciatively, "He knows." ”

"He knows? He knows that he is still indulging you like this? ”

"Uncle Zhang, you are really confused, do you think I can really hide my brother from this little Taoism? If my brother hadn't acquiesced to you making some extra money in private, would you still be able to earn it? He looked at Uncle Zhang, and there seemed to be a smile in his eyes.

Uncle Zhang's face turned red, and he quickly coughed a few times, lowered his head and fiddled with the abacus on the counter.

"Actually, my stamp is really not my brother's, it is the father of our classmate, who is a section chief in the post office, and was assigned the task of internal subscription a year ago, and he couldn't complete it, so he advanced money to buy it, and felt a little loss, so he asked me to help him shoot. This has nothing to do with my brother. You can rest assured. ”

He patted Lao Zhang's shoulder in an old-fashioned manner.

Lao Zhang really breathed a sigh of relief, and patted the boy's head, "You kid, you are not very old, but you are a pair of business experience, you say that you are short of money, or what, what do you want, your father and your brother don't buy it for you, you don't need to go to school well, and mix at the gate of this stamp every day?" ”

The boy smiled, "Didn't that girl just now also mix around here, why didn't you talk about others?" ”

Uncle Zhang's words of belittling himself in front of the girl just now, he could hear it clearly in the room.

"The little girl is a philatelic enthusiast, who is like you, who buys and sells, buys and buys, is busy non-stop, and the class is not good. If your brother knows that you are tinkering with stamps and delaying your studies, you will not be able to peel your skin. ”

"He doesn't care about me, if he wants to take care of it, he will not only uncover my skin, but also demolish your temple." The boy said with a grin, still holding the military yellow schoolbag in his hand, and slamming it round and round, as if it was fun.

After a while, he said to himself, "Why hasn't that girl come back yet?" Didn't find any money? ”

Lao Zhang nodded, "You said that apart from you, who would be willing to pay ten yuan to buy a large edition of stamps for a child?" Looks like I'm going to have to give the deposit back to someone else, and find a buyer for you. ”

The two of them spoke a few more words.

Outside the window, there was a faint sound of the bell.

This is the bell tower of the first bell tower in the chime time. The bell tower used to be used by the church of the church school, but now there is no church and it still tells the time.

The boy said, "I'd like to see if this girl is still here, but my dad is back today, and if I don't come home sooner, I'll have to ramble again, so I'd better go and come back tomorrow." ”

As he spoke, he threw his schoolbag over his shoulder, beckoned to Lao Zhang, and left.

Lao Zhang looked at his back, shook his head, and sighed deeply.

He looked up at the wall clock on the wall, it was not early, it was almost time to get off work, and the girl should not come.

He wrapped the seven yuan he had just received in a piece of white paper, and put it in a drawer, and he didn't pay it today, and he would return it to her tomorrow when he saw him, and he didn't sell that version of the monkey ticket anyway.

Chen Xiaoyu walked out of the door of the stamp store and stood under the ginkgo tree, panting.

Her mind was empty, her heart was beating wildly, the people in front of her, the scenery, in her eyes, but not in her eyes.

The men are still playing chess, playing cards, shouting, drinking, gossiping, lively, some people walk by, they will still follow behind and explore, "Do you have a ticket?" Do you have a ticket to sell? ”

Chen Xiaoyu looked coldly at the bottom of his heart, but a feeling of compassion and sadness surged in his heart, in the face of fate, people are as small as ants, these people are busy, entertaining themselves, but they don't know that at a distance of less than five meters, there is a full page of monkey tickets in the small counter, and after a few years, that thin piece of paper can be exchanged for a house of more than 100 square meters.

And now it's only ten dollars.

Although ten yuan can be a worker's salary for half a month's salary now, in a few years, a worker's lifetime salary will not be able to buy that thin piece of paper.

She stood there, feeling compassionate, but she was awakened by the sound of the bell of the school bell tower, and there was still four yuan left, and she had to hurry up and find a way, although she had already paid a deposit of six yuan, but there was still a difference.

Chen Xiaoyu's cold sweat trickled down the white shirt on her body, she was still holding the last yuan left for herself in her hand, and she walked along the road in a hurry, her big black eyes kept patrolling back and forth, trying to find a way in the noisy noise.

Her heart was full of money, and she didn't notice that a bicycle stopped beside her, and a pair of eyes looked at her curiously, but then hurried away.

Xiaoyu walked around, the sweat on her forehead became more and more, the bangs stuck to her head and were extremely uncomfortable, she reached out and swept her hair, and suddenly her brain flashed.

Pregnant.

Bypassing the vegetable market was a row of small storefront houses, and in this twilight scene, the business of the barbershop was not good, and the young man was dozing off in the swivel chair, and was suddenly awakened by the little hand.

Startled, he rolled straight out of his chair.

"What are you doing with this girl?" He stood firm and wiped the saliva he had left from his sleep.

"How much can I sell this braid for if it's cut?" The girl pointed to the braid that hung down her waist.

"Well, two pieces at most." The young man glanced at her.

"Huh, two? Who are you fooling, these two braids under the waist can be bought at the scrap yard for at least five yuan. How dare you say it? ”

Chen Xiaoyu ran the scrap collection station every day during the summer vacation, and of course he knew the market.

"Five yuan, little girl, can you really say, your braid costs five yuan" The young man is speechless, this girl is not easy to deceive.

"Of course, this is still the current price, in the future, you want to collect it or not, you see how many long braids there are on the street now? Scarcity is expensive. If you don't believe me, in two months, will you see if you can still receive braids like mine? ”

The young man didn't squeak, he knew in his heart that the kid was right, and now it is popular to perm hair, and women have cut their braids, and long braids are indeed becoming less and less, and it is becoming more and more difficult to receive.

He was silent for a moment and asked, "And how much do you want?" Five pieces is out of the question. ”

"Four pieces. Give my hair another trim. Chen Xiaoyu quoted a price, and then sat on the leather swivel chair, "Master, hurry up, I'm in a hurry." ”

Looking at herself in the mirror, Chen Xiaoyu smiled slightly.

The long hair is cut for Jun, this Jun is actually the monkey.