Chapter 40: Onlookers
The next afternoon, Lin Xiaoxiao sneaked to the bookstore, first looked at the counter on the calligraphy side, and saw that there were no new books, so he quietly wandered around the bookstore.
Since she started running into the bookstore, she had never been here in the afternoon, and to her surprise, not only were there fewer people in the bookstore in the afternoon, but the clerks were also listless.
In the morning, the clerks would get together to chat and fart, but after noon, all the sleepy insects ran up, and a few clerks actually put their heads on the counter, or secretly found a counter inside to lean on, and none of them looked at the store seriously.
sighed secretly in his stomach, "This is the legendary big pot rice effect, ah......", and then, Lin Xiaoxiao's classmates hugged their stomachs and sighed everywhere.
On the side of the novel, whether it is martial arts or translation, Lin Xiaoxiao has almost flipped through it in this small year, and it seems that there are no new books to read recently, and the album is almost able to be memorized by Lin Xiaoxiao, so he has to move to other bookcases.
Literary? It's a bit of a brainstorm, and today I want to see something lighthearted......
Turn left, turn right, and suddenly, several books came into Lin Xiaoxiao's field of vision, "Yi Mo", "Danghu Ten Rounds", "Vicissitudes of Life", "Jian Shantang Yi Spectrum", ...... In addition to these ancient books, there are also some modern Go book collections, such as "Wu Qingyuan's Selected Go Dead and Live Questions (Elementary Edition)", "Wu Qingyuan's Complete Works of Go", "Appreciation of Ancient and Modern Go Famous Games", "The Grand Idea of Go" and so on......
"This thing...... You can buy it back and take a look...... "I looked at the price printed on the reverse side of a few chess games, which are generally less than one yuan, and this time during the New Year, I secretly hacked Lin Xiaoxiao, who had more than two yuan, was a rich man, and it took a long time to pick left and right, and then I chose a Go book that is more practical and suitable for novices, and after writing down the name, I was ready to grind Lin Dad to help her buy it home when she slipped away at night.
What the? Copy it back?
The chess game can indeed be copied back, but this chess game is not read by himself, after all, Li Ling is also very fanatical about Go now, if Lin Xiaoxiao copies the chess game directly, he can only read it by himself, even if the chess power becomes more powerful than Li Ling, but playing Go is always a matter of two people, and she will be bored after a long time without a suitable opponent.
If you buy a game and go back and study it together, it might be more interesting than when you read it alone.
That night, Lin Xiaoxiao took advantage of the slip and got a copy from Lin's father, and then saw a semi-monthly magazine called "Go World", and bought it back by the way.
Lin's father and Lin's mother know that now Lin Xiaoxiao plays Go with Li Ling every day, although the two of them don't know how to play Go, but they also know a kind of chess game that is very good for children's intellectual development, plus Lin Xiaoxiao took the initiative to pay out of his pocket, Lin Dad naturally can't be too stingy, and after using Lin Xiaoxiao's own money to buy the book and magazine, he took the initiative to buy the book "Appreciation of Ancient and Modern Go Famous Games".
The last one, which belongs to a relatively high number of paragraphs, Lin Xiaoxiao thinks that he can't fully understand it, but it's always good to have one more harvest, so he hugged it all back.
The two little girls, the next afternoon, held the entry-level Go book and studied it vigorously, Lin Xiaoxiao didn't dare to pretend how many words she knew, and Li Ling naturally couldn't recognize too many words, so she had to ask Grandma Li to read it for them.
Fortunately, the game of Go is something that anyone who knows Arabic numerals can understand, so the two of them follow the instructions on it.
The days passed, from spring to summer, and it was hot again.
In June, although it is sunier outside during the day, in the evening, it is cooler in the yard than in the house, and because the days are long, it has entered daylight saving time again - starting in '86, it is the first year in China to use daylight saving time, until the end of '91 - so everyone's dinner time has been pushed back by one to two hours.
So, before waiting for dinner, Lin Xiaoxiao and Li Ling carried a small stool and sat in the courtyard to play Go.
The adults of each family are busy cooking dinner in the house, and because the weather has become hot recently, some family members and children have moved out of the Lin family, or bought or divided the unit into a new house, so the elderly in the family have also taken the summer vacation, so the yard is a lot empty.
Like Grandma Tang and Grandma Li, Wang Mapo, who was opposite the door, were all picked up by their children.
Lin Xiaoxiao and Li Ling sat at the door of Grandma Tang's house, and the two of them set up a formation. Recently, because the two of them have studied a lot of Go books, Lin Xiaoxiao and Li Ling have been grinding their parents to buy "Go World" for another issue, so their chess strength has risen sharply, and the chess played by the two little girls is actually offensive and defensive, which is already a bit interesting.
After a while, Aunt Song's daughter Song Yuan also took a stool to the courtyard.
Song Yuan is the same age as Lin Li, the eldest daughter of Lin Xiaoxiao's second uncle, and she is ten years older than Lin Xiaoxiao, and she is now fourteen. Her appearance is not good-looking, she is short, with small eyes, and a little fat, but she is very gentle and introverted, although she is in the same hospital, she is not too familiar with Lin Xiaoxiao.
After Lin Xiaoxiao and Li Ling finished playing a game of chess, they found that Song Yuan was sitting on the side, and after the two called "Sister Yuanyuan", they realized that she was holding a brace in her hand and was embroidering?!
Embroidery, after more than ten years, has become so rare that almost except for cross-stitch, ordinary people can no longer see other embroidery. But at this time, these girls who are about ten years older than Lin Xiaoxiao will still learn a little.
Lin Xiaoxiao and Li Ling surrounded curiously, looking at Song Yuan's embroidery left and right.
Song Yuan was surrounded by these two little girls, her face was flushed, she was originally a newcomer, and she was not very skilled in stitching, and she was even more unevenly embroidered by these two people.
"You two don't play chess anymore?" After lowering her head for a long time, Song Yuan really couldn't stand the enthusiastic gaze of these two pairs, so she had to remind the two of them softly.
Unexpectedly, the two little girls didn't understand the meaning of her words at all, so they unceremoniously simply moved the small stool over, looked at her left and right, and explained: "We are tired, watch my sister embroider." ”
When Song Yuan heard this, the sweat on her head came down, there was already a light wind at this time, and the yard was not so hot, otherwise she would not have given up the electric fan in the house, and ran out to embroider, how could she think of being stared at by these two little girls, why is it not as hot and comfortable as the house?