Chapter 45 Garage Sale
The afternoon is sunny, it is a good weather for fishing, but this afternoon, Juan can't go fishing, because an animal is going back to China, thank God, Amen, although Juan is not religious, but adhering to the old tradition of our Chinese, see the Buddha and worship, where does it matter if you are foreign or domestic in the sky.
After accepting the advice of the old Thomas, Wang Fan decided to go back to China first, and recruited a few promising Chinese young men with the surname of enlightenment and patience to send them to the horse farm here to learn the experience of the old American emperor in taming horses and raising horses, and prosper the domestic market. Of course, Wang Fan's animal is not gone, and he will come over to buy horses or something after a while to continue to add chicken farts to the US imperialists.
Wu Ming wants to stay here and return to China with the tour group, and he didn't care much about the tour group in the past two days, because later things in Ju'an have played, what kind of horseback riding, trapped grass, cattle driving, sheep herding messy pasture life, he doesn't have to experience every day at all. Every day, Wu Ming and Wang Fan are sent over in the morning and picked them up back to the ranch in the evening, but Gu Wuming said that the general reaction of the tour group is to use the words of one group member: "Angkor!" This tour was pretty ok!".
Regardless of the matter of the tour group, today sent away a scourge, there is only another scourge around, remembering that this scourge will return to China in two days, Ju An's heart is a burst of relief, after sending Wang Fan on the plane, he began to hum a little song:
It's better to miss each other than to see each other,
Even if you don't know,
I can only say goodbye to you
Wu Ming listened to Ju An sing for a while, and when he opened the car door and was about to get into the car, he said to Ju An: "You uncle, can you sing a full song, just these three sentences back and forth, my brother will wait for you to sing the fourth sentence all the way, and wait until the egg hurts!" ”。
Ju An touched his head: "Brother just remember these three sentences, and the rest won't."
When Ju An started the car and was about to continue singing, he was interrupted by Wu Ming: "If you sing again, I will break the windshield in front of me, do you believe it?" ”。 Ju'an had no choice but to give up, and it would cost hundreds of dollars to change the windshield. People can't fight against money, you say no.
When I drove through the town of Lewistown, I saw a few small cardboard boxes on the side of the road, which read: garagesale, and an arrow on it, Wu Ming pointed to the small sign and said: "This old beauty is too unparticular, obviously messing up the urban environment, I will go back and write a letter to Xiao Aohei, let them also have a city management department, don't be unmotivated all day long, but also learn from our advanced management experience."
Ju An looked at it and knew that this was Lao Mei's garage business in the spring and summer, and said to Wu Ming: "Don't talk about it, it's something that people don't use at home, that is, to sell some things that can't be used at home, which is equivalent to the domestic second-hand market, this kind of trading is very popular here in Lao Mei, you think it's illegal to occupy the road."
Wu Ming immediately felt fresh: "Then don't ink, hurry up and take a look, let's visit what they sell."
Ju An had to drive and follow the instructions of the small card, and after a while, he saw that a long table was set up in front of a garage, on which something was placed, and several children and adults were surrounding, picking up something.
Waiting for Ju An to park the car on the side of the road, and Wu Ming walked over to take a look, yo, this town is very small, and the middle-aged white man who is busy greeting adults and children to buy things, Ju An actually knows, it is Henry who came back from New York last time and took Ju An a ride by the way.
Juan walked over and said, "Hello, Henry."
Henry saw Ju An smile and stretched out his hand: "Hey! You are Ann".
He shook Henry's hand and said, "This is my friend, you can call him Ming, he is very interested in garagesale, let's come and have a look".
Henry smiled and said: "Look at it, that's my little daughter Annie, that's my son Michael, our family is tidying up, taking out the things we don't need, seeing what the neighbors need, and donating the things that can't be sold to the recycling agency."
As he was about to introduce it, Henry's daughter Anne and the two little girls walked over, looked at Wu Song on Ju'an's shoulder, and said, "Sir, your monkey is so cute."
Henry smiled and said, "This is my neighbor's daughter and my little daughter are good friends, and a few little ones made some drinks to sell today," he said, pointing to the other two little girls.
Ju An pulled Wu Song off his shoulders, put Wu Song into Anne's arms, and said, "You can help me watch it for a while, but you have to give it back to me when you leave, its name is Wu Song."
The three little girls immediately said happily, "Thank you, sir." And he went on to sell their drinks.
Seeing another wave of customers coming, Henry smiled and said, "Sorry, you can look at it casually, I'll greet them first."
Ju An and Wu Ming looked around, the garage was full of children's things, all of which were quite cheap, a children's book that could be opened, there was a small buckle on the cover, and when I pulled it, the little zebra on the cover was replaced by a cute bear, and I had seen it in China, and the folded story was opened, and as soon as I opened it, I pulled out a big white rabbit, a big bad wolf or something, look at the price tag of 0.25 US dollars, and some small wooden building blocks, and looked at the list price of basically a few tenths of a dozen dollars.
There are also some slightly more expensive things, which are basically unopened, Ju An saw a foam puzzle on the ground, completely unopened, only 1 dollar.
When Ju An and Wu Ming entered the garage, they found that there were a few big things inside, what a wardrobe, a bedside table, a chair, a lamp, a vacuum cleaner, and a small note was pasted on it, all of which were marked with prices. A good chair, the kind of desk chair with a pattern on it, is also 5 dollars, and everything else is basically cheap. Only the vacuum cleaner is priced at $10, but it looks brand new and probably hasn't been used a few times.
Wu Ming looked at it and said, "It's so cheap, now I want to buy something to go back."
Ju An said with a smile: "What do you want to do here, do you want to buy a vacuum cleaner and take it back home?" ”。
After looking at it for a while, I went out of the garage, and when I arrived at the stall where a few little girls were selling drinks, there were seven or eight children lined up in front of me, Wu Song was standing on the stall, holding something in one hand and gnawing on it, and the other hand, and then the little ones handed over the steel hammer, and then threw it into the small box next to it, and then there would be a little girl who handed over a drink to the little guy who handed the money to say thank you, and looked carefully at Wu Song's head I don't know when he brought a little cowboy hat, and he was wearing a sweatshirt with 6 written on it, Look at the sign in front of the stall that says $0.10 per cup. After lining up in the back, it was his turn to hand Wu Song a $025 steel hammer, wanting to buy two drinks, who knew that after Wu Song took the money, he immediately put the steel hammer back into Ju'an's hand.
Wu Ming said: "You little monkey didn't raise it in vain, you know that your family's money is good."
Anne handed over two drinks and said, "Wu Song brings us good business, and we invite two drinks."
Ju An and Wu Ming took the drinks handed by the little girls and said thank you, and then left the little girls' stall under the urging of the little ones behind.
The two of them were chatting, and Lucy, who I met last time, came out of the house, saw Ju An, and said with a smile: "An, hello, is Wu Song here?"
Ju An pointed to the drink stall and smiled: "Sell drinks there" and then raised the drink in his hand: "Our two drinks are free."
Lucy looked at the line in front of the drink stall and said with a smile, "It seems that Anne and her friends have a good business, they have hired a good cashier."
Then Lucy said sorry, and then helped again, only Ju An and Wu Ming continued to wander leisurely.
Seeing that there were not many people coming, and with Lucy's help, Henry came over and continued to chat with Ju An.
Wu Ming asked, "Do you do this kind of sales every year?"
Henry replied with a smile: "Not necessarily, in fact, this is just an exchange between neighbors, some things you can't use at home, maybe others can use them, then you can use what you can't use at other people's homes, just communicate in this way, garagesale is generally very cheap"
Ju An smiled and said: "It's very cheap, the highest one I saw just now is a vacuum cleaner for 10 dollars."
Henry replied with a smile: "That's brand new, I have several of them in my house now, they were all brought by my sister and brother when they came for Christmas, we didn't need so much to sell them" and then saw the queue in front of the drink stall and said with a smile: "Now it seems that the little girls' drink stalls are the most popular."
Ju An and Wu Ming also laughed.
During this period, some people came over, one of them was to buy the cabinet that Ju An had just seen, and when he went up and asked, he learned that his son had rented a house to live alone, and the cabinet could just buy this for his son.
After chatting for a while, seeing that it was not early, he said goodbye to Henry, and when he turned his head to look for Wu Song, he found that the little girls had sold out all the barrels of drinks, and they were counting the money. As he spoke, he shoved a small plastic bag containing a steel hammer into Ju'an's hand.
Ju An was just about to excuse himself, but Henry said beside him: "An, don't refuse, this is a salary for Wu Song, the children are right to do this, Wu Song should be paid for his labor."
After Ju An took the small plastic bag, the little girls hugged Wu Song one by one and said goodbye to Wu Song.
After Ju An said goodbye to Henry's family, he started the car and walked for a while, and several little girls could be seen waving in the rearview mirror.
Wu Ming shook the small bag of coins and said: "Wu Song also made money today, you listen" and then said: "These children are so polite, I didn't expect the little girls to give Wu Song money." Seeing Wu Ming shaking his money bag, Wu Song, who was staying in the back seat, was not happy, and screamed, screaming, wanting to get the money bag back, until Wu Ming threw the bag to Wu Song and grabbed it in his hand.
Ju An smiled: "I didn't expect it, maybe the concept is different."