The bus shook on the road for more than half an hour, walking through the town at the beginning of the month, and passing another town, before the road ahead gradually improved and became a concrete road.

So the trip Huo Ran sped up, and after more than 20 minutes, it stopped at the passenger station in the county seat.

Tang Mingyao carried his luggage and got out of the car with his mother.

I didn't take a taxi or a bus, but I walked about a kilometer according to the route I remembered, and came to a small store selling tobacco and alcohol.

Inside, an old man in his fifties was guarding a small shop, looking a little bored.

"Uncle, how is your old man's health? I'm sorry to bother you. ”

This old man is the father of his little uncle, Tang Mingyao should have called him aunt and grandfather, but the people of the previous generation taught him to call him aunt.

Then my aunt.

Left and right is a title, and it doesn't matter how he shouts.

My aunt stood up, let Tang Mingyao and the others into the store, shouted to the small clinic next door, "Help look down at the store", and then led the two of them through the back door, went downstairs, and stopped in front of a door in the basement of the basement on the first floor.

"Li Yunfang, your sister and nephew are here!" He shouted inside.

The aunt in the house came out in response, her hands were still stained with water, and she was enthusiastic about helping the two of them with their luggage, Tang Mingyao hurriedly said no, he walked into the house and put the things down.

"Oh, you're coming so fast, I haven't cooked yet. Sit down for a while, and I'll pour you a glass of water!" ”

Tang Mingyao stopped her and said, "Auntie, don't need it, you go and get busy, just pour the water and we'll do it ourselves." ”

After saying that, he walked into the kitchen, took a cup, and poured a glass of water for himself and his mother.

In his previous life, he studied in junior high school and high school, lived on campus on weekdays, and lived at his aunt's house on weekends, and lived here for a short time, and his familiarity with this house was no less than that of his aunt.

If it weren't for the fact that my aunt's family later bought a house and moved upstairs, he would have lived in this basement for six years.

My mother was a person who couldn't sit still, so after drinking water, she went into the kitchen to help my aunt. When the two sisters met, they naturally had endless topics to talk about, muttering and muttering, and the voice occasionally came from the kitchen.

Tang Mingyao listened to a few words sporadically, which was nothing more than an envy and another modest parent.

He turned the dried fish out of his luggage, put it on the table, and said to the kitchen: "Auntie, I dried some dried fish by myself during the summer vacation, send some to your family, put it on the table, and you will remember to collect it later." ”

"You come and come, what else do you bring? So what's the polite way to do? The aunt said complainingly.

Tang Mingyao said: "That's not good, I will have to trouble you a lot in the city in the future, and I should bring some gifts." ”

After chatting a few more words, Tang Mingyao looked at the time, it was only past ten o'clock in the morning, and said, "Mom, auntie, you are busy, I'll go out and cut my hair." ”

"Okay, there's a barber shop across the street, don't run far, you can't find your way back!"

Tang Mingyao said that he would not go far, and went upstairs and went out.

I haven't cut my hair for more than a month during the summer vacation, it's already a bit too long, and it looks like it's unkempt, Tang Mingyao feels that he has to pick up himself before school starts and welcome junior high school life with a new image.

He didn't go to the barber shop that his aunt said, but went around to the vegetable market at the back, turned from the vegetable market into the side gate of the county people's hospital, and then walked out from the hospital gate, and arrived at the most prosperous street in the county.

"Cut me into a short chop!"

"What's the short break?"

"It's just a little shorter...... Don't understand? Then you give me a whole long labor # makeover! ”

Coming out of the barbershop, Tang Mingyao touched the stubble on his head and felt a lot more energetic.

He then walked a few dozen meters forward, turned into the only Xinhua bookstore in the county, asked the cashier if he had a philatelic book, and after getting a positive answer, he happily went around the back of the bookshelf to look for it.

The cheapest is 28 yuan, and the most expensive ones are 38, 58, and 74.5 yuan......

A bit pricey!

Tang Mingyao compared several specifications and decided to buy 38 yuan, because this booklet is the most cost-effective.

Next, he went to the nearby market to buy a round-headed tweezers, originally wanted to buy a pair of gloves, but after thinking about it, he gave up, with tweezers, he would not touch the stamps with his hands, and what gloves would he want, troublesome.

As for the need to touch the stamps as a last resort, that's nothing, just wash them in water.

In fact, Tang Mingyao also felt that before he met him, each stamp had already passed through the hands of countless people, production workers, porters, post office people, newsstand commissary people, letter senders, postmen, and mail recipients...... So many people are fine when they touch it, but it will never reach their hands, and the stamps will suddenly become delicate?

Speaking of which, he just likes to collect, and he can get by in terms of quality, not so much.

Tang Mingyao originally wanted to buy some small plastic seals for stamps, which is to prevent stamps from long-term exposure to the air and macular spots, but Xinhua Bookstore did not have them, and nearby stores could not find them, so he went back to his aunt's house for lunch.

In the afternoon, accompanied by his mother and aunt, Tang Mingyao went to the street again.

This time I'm going to buy clothes.

The two adults wanted to take him to the clothing market, but Tang Mingyao shook his head and refused - he really didn't dare to compliment the clothing market opened in the vegetable market.

So on the street in the morning, I found the only youth brand store in the county, "Gaobang", bought two T-shirts, two pairs of jeans, and bought a pair of sneakers in the store next door.

A total of more than 200 yuan was spent, half of which was paid by my aunt, saying that it was a congratulatory gift to congratulate him on being admitted to the experimental class of a middle school.

After purchasing, several people returned home, Tang Mingyao took the stamps, the newly bought philatelic booklet, and tweezers, ran to the door of the store on the first floor, and put the stamps into the booklet one by one.

"It looks much more comfortable than in an envelope."

"From today onwards, I am also a formal philatelic enthusiast, and when I meet my friends in the future, I can pat my chest and say, hello classmates, we have a common hobby, why don't we find a place alone and exchange ideas together?"

After finishing here, Tang Mingyao read for an hour as usual and completed the basic writing task.

After dinner, the brother-in-law Dai Zhengjie came back, taking his three-year-old cousin Dai Yitong with him.

A bunch of people were really lively for a while.

When sleeping, the mother and aunt took the child to sleep on the bed, the sister-in-law and Tang Mingyao slept on the sofa, and the aunt and aunt slept upstairs in the store, and watched the store by the way.

The narrow and crowded space shows that the life of the people in the city is not as good as imagined.

After getting up the next day, Tang Mingyao went to the street again.

This time he went to the post office.

One is to buy some plastic envelopes for stamps, and the other is to understand how to buy a complete set of stamps.

After entering the city, his life was on the right track, and he felt that his philatelic method could also be slightly improved.

Of course, the premise is that there are points and money.

When I entered the business hall, there was a long queue in front of the shipping counter. Tang Mingyao was just about to find someone to ask how to buy stamps, when he suddenly saw a special counter in the corner of the business hall, which happened to be filled with various sets of stamps.