Chapter Forty-Eight
I walked up to Bao Lina and said, "Lina, can I sit next to you?"
Lina looked up at me, then at Li Yun not far away, who nodded politely at her.
Bao Lina also smiled sweetly at Li Yun, and then said to me coldly: "You like to sit and sit." ”
I sat down next to her and said bluntly to her: "Lina, Du Qing asked me if I wanted to be the president of the Yuxin Literature Club, I didn't agree, but I have recommended you to him, I hope you can be the president of the Literature Club." ”
Lina asked me a little surprised, "You recommend me?" Why? Do you think I'm a good fit to be the president?"
I said seriously: "Yes, I recommend you to be the president, because you are more responsible, more active, and have a greater passion for literature than me, and you are a good person, cheerful, lively, enthusiastic and generous, and you will definitely be able to unite all the forces that can be united and revitalize our literary society." In short, I think you are very suitable to be the president of Yuxin Literature Society. ”
My heartfelt words deeply touched Bao Lina's heart, she tilted her head to admire the vivid expression on my face, and then said: "Zhou Xu, whether you blow your own cowhide or someone else's, you will always be so serious. If I were to be the president of a literary club, would you be the editor-in-chief of the journal? I see that you are also cheerful, lively, enthusiastic and generous. ”
I said that if you become the president, of course I am willing to be the editor-in-chief of the journal to help you.
June passed in a blink of an eye, and the class magazine was finally reluctantly published, and Lao Hu personally wrote the first word of the journal, and the name was also thought up by him, called "Spring Thunder", although Lei was naïve, but everyone took care of Lao Hu's face, so they had no opinions. On the other hand, Lao Hu won a certain amount of funds for the class magazine in the department, but the manuscript fee is definitely gone, so I sponsored a batch of books that cannot be sold temporarily, and the price is naturally not very expensive, and the appearance is passable, but the content is more vulgar, and everyone doesn't care about this, and it is distributed as a special souvenir for the contributors. In return, the only advertisement on the class magazine, that is, the only designated sponsor of the class magazine, is Wenxin Bookstore, which is placed on the title page of the class magazine, with a big four-word logo, plus what "wonderful in Wenxin, good books are at your disposal." Wenxin Bookstore has been supplying ultra-low-priced books and periodicals for a long time", and other advertising slogans, together with Lao Hu's wonderful opening sentence, can be said to be a perfect combination and complement each other.
On the first day of July 1990, all the exams were over, the first year of enrollment was about to pass, and from the next semester we would no longer be freshmen, but welcome new students. In the last few days before the arrival of the summer vacation, the business of the bookstore was particularly hot, and a large number of love letters from Guo Ming about poor beauties and handsome men were the hottest sellers, and the popular novels of the low-level detective plus ** and the underworld were the hottest, and in my impression only the time-traveling novels of later generations could be compared with these two.
On the last day before the start of the summer vacation, Puguang and Cai Xiaohong and I sat in the office of the club center to take inventory, and after the accounting, we paid our salaries, and I added some bonuses to them. After the start of the summer vacation, Wenxin Bookstore will be temporarily closed until the beginning of the next school year.
Now it seems that within half a year, I will be able to basically recover the start-up cost of opening a bookstore, and with the accumulation of more and more funds in the future, the money will really be able to make money.
Although Cai Xiaohong was very happy to get her salary, I found that her face seemed to be much worse than before, and now she is not blushing, but she is sickly pale and haggard, I guess it may be that she was too tired some time ago, and she has to deal with the business of the bookstore and the exam, so she is overworked.
I said to Cai Xiaohong: "Xiaohong, your face is very bad, are you too tired?" If you are tired and sick, our library will be finished, and you will be our pillar. But luckily, the summer vacation has begun, so you can take a good rest. ”
Cai Xiaohong said that I was fine, maybe I didn't sleep a few days ago. I won't go back to my hometown during the summer vacation, so I have to stay in Hangzhou to work. I've signed up to be a sales lady at the home appliance counter in the mall, and the salary is very high. Speaking of this, Cai Xiaohong smiled happily, looking very happy.
I couldn't bear to say: "You are too hardworking, you have been tired for several months, you have been exploited and tortured by me like this, and you still have to work in the summer?" It's very tiring to be a home appliance promoter, and you have to stand for seven or eight hours a day, can you stand it? ”
Cai Xiaohong tried hard to squeeze out a smile full of care and said: "What's this, I can eat any hardship, there is air conditioning in the mall, it's better than running outside to do beer promotions under the sun." ”
I said that you have to pay attention to your body, money is always earned in the future, and when your body collapses, it is the real loss. That's it, anyway, you stay in Hangzhou, and I don't go far away, if there is anything that can help you, you just tell me. Saying that, I left her the address of my home. Cai Xiaohong said thank you and carefully put the note with the address into her wallet.
Before the summer vacation, I told Li Yun that I wanted her to stay for a few more days, and I took her to climb Yuhuang Mountain, go to Lingyin Temple, and go to Longjing to drink tea. Li Yun agreed, but there was a faint sadness between her eyebrows. To be honest, I haven't known much about Li Yun all the time, no matter how hard I try, I can't seem to see clearly where the sadness hidden in Li Yun's heart comes from? From her irresponsible father? Or did it come from her taciturn mother? Or is there something else that makes it difficult for her to face the painful past that she keeps avoiding?
Anyway, I can't guess, it's better to accompany her slowly and cherish her like this.
The summer in Hangzhou was particularly hot that year, the earth was completely roasted, and there was a suffocating heat wave everywhere, rolling in the scorching sun, and there was nowhere to hide.
In such a hot summer, it is impossible for anyone to survive in the dormitory, and I am very worried that Li Yun, who is still living in the dormitory and has not gone home, will suffer from heat stroke, so at eight o'clock in the morning, I bought a big watermelon at the fruit stall and put it in my bicycle pocket, and rode back to the campus of Hangzhou University under the scorching sun that came out early in the morning to poison people.
I was going to treat Li Yun to watermelon first, and then make good on my promise to go to Yuhuang Mountain, but my main goal was not to climb the mountain, but to the Zilai Cave on the mountainside, which had been a good place to escape the heat for many years.
When I ran to Li Yun's bedroom sweating profusely, I found that she was not the only one in her bedroom, and there was also a female compatriot who was talking and laughing with Li Yun, eating melons together. When I looked, this wasn't Bao Lina!