In the end, Li Yun really handed in a manuscript, which was written as a literary review, and the comment was on my poetry collection in the Yuxin Literary Society. The title is called: "Anger produces poets, solitude produces poetry." ”

I wondered how I could write poetry when I was neither angry nor lonely, and the only explanation was that I was really angry and lonely when I was in high school. Now, I seem to be happy except for my anger at English Level 4. The sages said well, born in sorrow and dying in peace, peace is too negative for me.

I spent almost the whole month of May frantically memorizing words and listening to spoken words, Li Yun lent me her Walkman to use, and at the same time she stopped playing with me, on the one hand, there was nothing to play around the school, and on the other hand, she didn't want me to retake the exam as it approached.

During this time, I considered whether it was time to close the newsstand, Jin Puguang was also busy with the exam, and Cai Xiaohong couldn't last long alone, although her grades have been very good and she didn't worry about the exam.

However, when I proposed to temporarily suspend the operation of the newsstand, Cai Xiaohong firmly objected, saying that all kinds of exam materials and books have been selling very well recently, and it is a pity to close them. In addition, she also urged me to hurry up and buy the goods.

Speaking of the purchase, I remembered that Guo Ming from the publishing house was here, and I called him, and Guo Ming said on the phone that he was free tomorrow night, and asked me to go directly to his house to talk about the book in detail, and he was also looking for me for something.

I plan to take Cai Xiaohong with me, because Cai Xiaohong is serious and careful, and her personality is more stable and reliable, in the future, I hope she can do more things to buy goods, check for me, and even be the accountant and cashier of the bookstore. Although it is a small bookstall now, there is no guarantee that it will not really become a chain store in the future. As for the work of selling books at the stalls, it is a big deal to ask someone to do it.

The next day, after I paid Cai Xiaohong and Jin Puguang's salaries, I asked Xiaohong to go to Guo Ming's house with me. Cai Xiaohong was very happy to get a salary of 300 yuan, and 300 yuan in the early 90s was basically equivalent to 1,000 yuan or even higher in the 21st century.

Guo Ming's home is in the Yuqiao community, and I plan to ride there, after all, it is not far from the school. I asked Cai Xiaohong if she had a bicycle, and after asking, I realized that I was stupid enough, how could Xiaohong have a bicycle, I had never seen her ride, and she walked to the place where she worked.

As expected, Cai Xiaohong shook her head and said that she didn't have a bicycle. I said okay, I'll take you. Cai Xiaohong hesitated for a moment and said yes, her voice was very soft, like a mosquito flying over my ear.

I always felt that Cai Xiaohong looked like a thief when she went out with me, she always looked around and trembled, and she didn't dare to get into the car. I said it's okay, it's okay to let Li Yun see it, you just jump up. Plus, I promise you won't fall and get hurt.

Indeed, since I broke the poor Bao Lina, my level of riding and leading people has improved, and I have occasionally taken Li Yun a few times. When I think of Bao Lina, I think of the scene of sitting behind her across the wide staff road, and I also think of the bottle of London gin. I don't know what Bao Lina is like now, it seems that she didn't show up when the astronomy club was in a meeting.

Cai Xiaohong plucked up the courage to jump into my car, her thin figure is very light, and the posture of jumping out of the car is like dancing, very beautiful. I said sit down, yes, if you don't have a place to grab my clothes. After speaking, he pedaled his bicycle and went straight to Guo Ming's house.

Guo Ming lives in a small house, the so-called small suite, or lonely old suite, in the nineties of the last century, it became a trend, generally only one bedroom, a bathroom and a kitchen are also used as a dining room, and nothing else. Guo Ming is still a bachelor, and he is a bachelor who has no cleanliness but laziness, which shows how messy his room is. Guo Ming didn't expect me to bring a little girl, so he couldn't help but be a little ashamed, complaining that I didn't make it clear, and he didn't prepare for it, and he didn't clean the room, which made the little girl feel wronged.

I said it's okay, this girl is my buddy, this kind of thing will never be taken to heart, do you say it is not Xiaohong?

Xiaohong blushed embarrassedly and said, "No, it's okay, Zhou Xu also called me temporarily, it should be, I was embarrassed to disturb me." ”

Guo Ming smiled happily and said to me, you buddy is really cute. It can be said that Cai Xiaohong's face is even redder. I'm used to seeing her blushing now, and I think she's only glamorous when she's blushing and shy.

In the center of Guo Ming's bedroom is an antique coffee table, and on the floor is a thick carpet with bright colors and strange patterns, which he said was brought from Nepal, which attracted a wave of admiration and admiration. He made two cups of oolong tea and invited us to sit on the carpet and drink tea around the coffee table. This may be Cai Xiaohong's first time drinking oolong tea, so she happily exclaimed: "This tea is so beautiful, very fragrant, and it looks completely different from the tea leaves we have there." ”

I said that this is called oolong tea, it should be the top-grade oolong produced in Fujian Longding, which is really good.

Guo Ming looked at me with a strange eye, and said I didn't expect you to be a tea seller, this is indeed Fujian's Longding oolong tea.

After talking about the tea after a while, Guo Ming told me that he has many bookseller friends in Fujian, some books are from Fujian, some are from Guangdong, there are books from Hong Kong, and even books from Taiwan.

I said I could sell books as long as they weren't * or anything like that.

Guo Ming was shocked by me again, and he blurted out: "Why do you even know *?"

I think he may have been extremely skeptical that I was a nineteen-year-old student anymore. I changed the subject and said: "What we need most now are romance books and exam materials, and there is also a shortage of some classic literary classics, especially literary books that cannot be bought through formal channels. ”

Guo Ming took out a book from the bookshelf and asked, "Is it like this?"

When I looked at it, it was a collection of Nobel Prize-winning literary masterpieces, and it was obviously a Taiwanese version. Quickly said: "Yes, this is the case, ordinary bookstores will never buy it." ”

Guo Ming said: "You take a closer look. ”

I took the thick Taiwanese book, looked through it, and felt that the quality of the book was very good, the pages were thicker, the binding was also exquisite, and the cover design and the layout of the inner pages were all first-class.

Guo Ming asked me, "What do you think of this book?" I mean quality. ”

I said very good, I don't know how much a copy is.

Cai Xiaohong also took the book curiously, it seemed that it was a collection of Neruda's poems, and there were many poems in it that were not included in the mainland version, so Cai Xiaohong was also very surprised to see it and couldn't put it down.

Guo Ming laughed out loud, and he said Zhou Xu, it seems that you are not experienced enough in the bookseller industry. I'm telling you, it's a pirated book!

"No way," I said in amazement, "the print quality of this book is quite good!"

"Yes, that's right, it's good quality, but it's a pirated book, or rather, it's a fine pirated book." Guo Ming said with a smile, "Its appearance and quality can already be real, you know now, in Guangdong and Fujian, those printing houses that specialize in piracy are already very high-level, and they can make such high-quality pirated books." ”

Guo Ming's words were like a senior expert in the Central Channel's treasure appreciation program, and Xiaohong and I were stupidly there, looking at him with a slightly admiring gaze.

"Of course," he added, "such a pirated book would be a little more expensive, but no matter how expensive it is, it will be more than three times cheaper than the authentic Taiwanese version." The book is quoted at 12 yuan, and the wholesale price at the bookseller is 7 to 8 yuan. Also, aren't you asking for a romance letter? Look at this one again. ”

As he spoke, he handed me another book from the shelf, a little thin, and when I looked at the cover, I knew that it was vulgar and inferior, the printing quality was very poor, and the words were frayed, but the picture of the beauty printed on the cover was quite beautiful, and the title of the book was "Falling in Love with a Man Who Doesn't Go Home".

I looked at a few pages in confusion, and judging from the content, it was the kind of cookie-cutter child-like novel, with extremely naïve writing, extremely absurd stories, and extremely flamboyant typos. I said the book didn't seem very good.

Guo Ming said: "Of course it's not good, the printing is also poor at home, and there are as many typos in it as if the sky is full of stars." However, I can tell you that these books are selling very well, and the price is five yuan, and the wholesale price at the bookseller is two yuan and five jiao. ”

I said, "You got all these kinds of books from Fujian?" Guo Ming said that you are wrong again, this book is from us in Zhejiang. Look at the back cover.

When I looked at it, it actually said Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House!