Chapter 58: Second-hand bookstalls
Li Dan's luck was still very good this afternoon, and before she finished a community, she couldn't pile up anything on her tricycle. Looking at the car full of rags, Li Dan was in an unprecedentedly happy mood.
Of course, she didn't just have to make money by selling scrap, she also had some other plans, so when she saw that the car was full, she didn't accept it anymore, and rode her bicycle directly to the scrap yard.
Halfway through, she also found a place where there were few people and gathered the things in the car.
Most of the books she reads one by one, and the books she collects are very miscellaneous, including textbooks and learning materials, for example, what Li Dan is holding in his hand is "Intensive Lecture on English Grammar in the Third Year of Junior High School", and there are "One Hundred Mathematics Learning Questions" on the ground. There are also some expired magazines, foreign fashion magazines, domestic literary magazines, and a few novels.
Li Dan packed up all these books and put them neatly in a sack, and the remaining papers that were not there were bundled and stacked, as well as paper shells, which were also stepped on one by one, and the bottles were squeezed out.
When Li Dan arrived at the purchase station, he changed the scrap on the car, basically doubling the profit. She didn't sell those useful books, so she ended up selling the scrap for sixty-three dollars for a hundred dollars.
And through this test of the water, Li Dan also summed up a little bit of experience, the first is that after collecting the rags, it is best to clean up and then load the car, so that the tricycle can be decorated with more things, and she can earn more on this trip. The second is that it is best not to collect cans and bottles in the future, this kind of waste is not worth much, even if you collect a full car, you can't earn a few dollars, and besides, her small body is a little hard to push a tricycle, and it is of course better to make money and save a little light.
Li Dan didn't leave the scrap yard empty-handed this time, discussed with the boss, picked a sack from the waste books he had received, and then bought it back at the price of one pound and four cents.
When he went, Li Dan was full of garbage, and when he came back, he was full of broken books.
Li Dan rode the tricycle directly to the courtyard of the dormitory, and he didn't need to lock it, he directly carried a sack containing books to the dormitory.
After entering the building, a middle-aged woman who was a little fat stopped her.
Li Dan knew that this must be another aunt who was guarding the door, so he hurriedly put on a smiling face and took out his documents.
"Aunt Zhang, my aunt told you about me, I'm going to trouble you to take care of it for the past two months, I can't do it, wait until I send you the specialties I brought you." Li Dan said with a smile.
Zhang Jing's original lala face finally smiled after listening to Li Dan's words, "Yo, that's too troublesome for you, I have long heard Shulan say that she has a little niece who is sensible and smart, and I can be regarded as seeing it today, this is just me and your aunt, you are welcome, you can squeak if there is anything." ”
"Hey, for sure, you're just like my aunt, I can't be polite to you." Li Dan was carrying a sack and chatting with her, and the sweat on his face flowed down his neck.
Zhang Jing was not blind, of course she saw it, so she let her go after a few words of greeting.
Li Dan said slightly, he is considered to have passed the bright road, but he still has to think about buying something for this Aunt Zhang to gag her mouth.
After four trips back and forth, Li Dan carried all the sacks up to the fifth floor.
There was too much sweat on her body, and after she put her things away, she went to the bathroom with a basin, came back and boiled some hot water to warm the water, and simply wiped her body, which was considered alive.
This afternoon under the sun, if she hadn't been wearing a sunhat, she would have suffered from heat stroke.
But looking at the two black and white sections on his arms when he took off his shirt, he thought it was time to prepare a set of work clothes for himself.
She hurried to heat up the leftovers from noon and the steamed buns she had just bought in the steamer, and then she went to deal with the broken books.
She grabbed the corner of the sack, and with all her strength poured the books in the sack onto the floor of the dormitory, then she took a mat and sat down in the pile of books and began to divide them.
Readers, magazines such as youth literature, foreign fashion magazines, and financial impurities were put together, textbooks, various review materials, and exercises were placed in separate subjects, and finally some foreign classics and various novels were put together.
After these are divided, the rice on the stove is also ready. Li Dan washed his hands and ate the meal simply and quickly.
Then get back to work. There are names on textbooks and various review materials, and Li Dan's next job is to deal with the names on them one by one.
It is usually written on the second page, and Li Dan directly tore off the corner after opening it.
After dealing with this, she saw that it was already past six o'clock, thinking that it was the first day to come out, so she had to go to the night market to have a look. So I simply cleaned it up, packed all kinds of books in plastic bags, and resisted it four times. Of course, her socks can't be left behind.
Riding a tricycle, Li Dan headed towards the night market. When I arrived at the place, I saw that the night market had been set up, but there were not too many people, so I quickly found a place under the street lamp and unloaded all the things on the car.
Spread a large piece of brown paper on the ground, and then began to take out the books, one by one, put more than ten books on one type, and put the ones that could not be placed in the sack first. Then she put the socks on the side, and finally she sat on the pony with a small bag on her shoulder, and stood next to the paper shell that had been written in advance, which was considered to be open.
When it gets dark, there are more people in the night market. Li Dan didn't need to shout, people knew that she was selling books when they saw her long stall, and when they came recently, they saw the big characters written on the paper shell.
Second-hand books are sold for one yuan a copy. Please choose before purchasing, if there is any quality problem after leaving the booth, you will not be responsible.
Just kidding, she sells second-hand books, and if you come to tell me that the pages of the book are broken or broken after reading them in the future, and you want to return them or something, she doesn't care.
After a while, this small bookstall really attracted a lot of people. Don't look at the dark, but Li Dan happened to put the bookstall under the street lamp, and at this time, the street lamp shone brightly, and there was a hazy artistic conception.
Everyone was flipping through the books one by one, and some people stood in front of the booth and read them.
Li Dan doesn't care, she can watch it if she wants, she is only responsible for using her eyes to see if anyone wants to take the sheep by the hand.
The first person to inquire about her was an old man, who seemed to be very knowledgeable.
"Little girl, do you have a dollar for this magazine?" He didn't believe that this grade of impurities only cost one yuan in this kind of stall.
Li Dan saw that it was a foreign magazine about information engineering, and it was all in English.
"It's all one dollar." Li Dan nodded, this kind of magazine is honestly too much of a loss to sell for one yuan, but the price behind it is several yuan, or dollars, think about the cost of its flying across the sea, selling it for one yuan is simply a big loss.
However, Li Dan knows that there are very few people who can read this kind of professional magazine, and even fewer can read it, so the price is also uniform.
"Is there still a magazine of this type?" He didn't expect it to be so cheap, and asked with some excitement.
Li Dan thought about it, and it seemed that there were still a few more copies, "The ones next to them are all like this, do you see?" Li Dan pointed out to her.
"I've read all of them, I want them, and there's nothing else." He had already drawn the magazine he had just read to him.
"It seems that there are still a few copies, you wait a minute, I'll get them for you." Li Dan is also happy to have such a knowledgeable person, to be honest, she really struggled in her heart when she got these magazines at the scrap yard, she was afraid that she would end up in her hands, and finally thought that even if no one appreciated it, she would keep it herself, anyway, she could understand it, so she gritted her teeth and stomped her feet to buy it.
Li Dan personally collected everything, so he quickly found the magazine he was looking for and handed over a plastic bag of magazines to the uncle.
"It's all here, you can pick it yourself."
The uncle was not polite, squatted on the ground with the bag and began to turn it over, and the last one was not picked out, all of them were round.
There were a total of twenty-six books in the bag and in the stall, and the uncle directly gave Li Dan thirty yuan, "Little girl, don't look for it, just ask you for something, if you still have such magazines or books in the future, you can keep them for me, I will come to this night market every week." ”
Li Dan, a long-term customer, was of course happy, nodded happily and said, "Okay, uncle, don't worry, if there is, I will definitely keep it for you." ”