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I must have bought the book today, and the right hand inserted in the trouser pocket kneaded the several notes inside back and forth, and rubbed them into three small rolls, one one dollar, two two yuan, sweaty palms, I went out of the campus gate nervously.
To count this time, it will be the fourth time to go to Xinhua Bookstore, the "Hongwu Emperor - The First Blood Stained Fengyang Palace" has been dangling in front of my eyes, it is displayed on the top floor of the glass counter of the bookstore, I will look at it for a long time every time, I have asked the salesman about the price of the book, 2.75 yuan, it feels a little expensive, but every time I see its attraction to me is an increase, the idea of buying it for myself is like a climbing tiger on the West Wall quietly crawling all over my heart. (If you want to enjoy the masterpieces written by Teacher Yue Yinchao last time, welcome to click on the following links: Xiangcheng Fellow, Yiwen Huiyou ‖ Yue Yinchao)
To the south of the campus gate is a wide alley, and the top of the alley is vertically linked to the east-west main street of Fanhu Town, where all the business and bustle are placed on both sides of the street, and people play their respective roles.
What I was most afraid of was the bad guys, the unemployed social youths on the town street who didn't go to school, and there were a few of them, who always bullied us junior high school students near the campus, and most of our students were non-residents of the town, and the village where the family was located was at least three miles away from the town street, and there were as many as twenty miles away.
On the east side of the alley is the compound of the pharmaceutical company, the iron mesh door is always closed but not locked, and they often see their employees coming in and out; on the west side of the alley is an abandoned iron smelting factory, and the rusty iron door is locked all year round, but we boys often jump in from the collapsed courtyard wall opening on the side of the gate to play, of course, this is also a dangerous place.
Two weeks ago, I went to the street with two people at the same table to play, just walked to the opening here, from the ironworks jumped out of the two social blind streams, intercepted us, let us buy them two boxes of Xuchang brand cigarettes, we just showed a hesitant look, we were hit by two feet, had to obediently obey, spent four yuan to buy two boxes of cigarettes to serve, usually my weekly purchase ticket costs only two or three yuan.
I thought about what had happened two weeks ago, and took a few steps through the opening of the ironworks, and fortunately, there was no strange sound that made me tremble with fear, and I pulled out my right hand to cover my chest and looked back at the opening, except for the hot sunlight that made the weeds on the wall humina without a single movement, at this time I did not see anyone else in this alley, and the silence was a little faint.
Finally came to the street, just less than three hundred meters of the alley let me feel walked for a long time, there are not many people on the street, several restaurants and butcher shops are also listless in the sweltering heat of noon, not even see the butcher counter standing behind the person, some residents with open doors, hanging bamboo curtains reflect the old man resting on the chair, holding a fan in his hand on his stomach.
I was already sweating, and my right hand did not dare to reach into my pocket and knead the renminbi anymore, for fear of damaging them, but I was afraid that they would disappear and fly, and from time to time I pressed them from the outside of my trouser pocket, and at the same time my eyes swept around to see if there were any suspicious figures.
Follow the town street to the east, until you reach an intersection, to the north is the gate of the township (I am studying the second middle school, in the west of the township, separated by a few hundred meters wide crop fields), to the south there is no road, just recessed into a small square, there is a shop in the square is Xinhua Bookstore, which is my destination.
The door of the bookstore was open, I looked around the door before I could go in with confidence, it was much cooler than the street, there was an electric fan on the glass counter, the wind was not strong, the fan outlet was facing the direction of a man in a blue dress dozing in a chair, and there was a saleswoman standing there, looking at a certain place in the house in a daze, and did not look at me, which made me feel comfortable.
I started with the end of the counter, the height is just right, if you want to be lazy, you can put your chin on the edge of the counter, but I usually don't, because I want to pretend to be a bookstore person, not a naughty boy at home on vacation.
On the outermost side of the counter is a pair of elephant chess pieces, the diameter of the solid wood chess pieces will not be less than 10 centimeters, I especially like, but the red 12 yuan price tag makes me prohibitive. I looked down and there were beautiful notebooks, seals, printing paper, etc., but the main thing was books.
A pale yellow figure of the palace outlined with black and gray lines on the bottom came into my eyes again, this is the cover of the book, the upper right corner of the cover is vertically erected with several large words "Hongwu Emperor", this word is a white word on a green background, lining the overall cover of the pale yellow background is particularly conspicuous, let me excited, although I have seen it many times, but every weekend home Grandma made the shallot oil bun, each time more love to eat.
Staring at the cover of the book, I have been hesitating whether to let the salesman take it out and touch it personally, I have been hooking my head to look at the things inside the counter, the salesman is in front of me at this time, from the transparent glass side of the book "The Hongwu Emperor", you can see her half of the pants legs and one foot, wearing a gray sandal, the toe of the shoe is partly wrapped around the toe, there is a strap in front of and behind the ankle, the flat sole, about 2 centimeters thick, her bare feet and the skin near the ankle are white, the white of the blisters.
The salesman's sudden cough made me jump, I shook my head, shaking the white like flour on my body after grinding, I looked up at her, she was also looking down at me, her eyes were full of sleepiness, I said I want to buy the book. She looked at me, and then at the book, as if recognizing me, and said, "Are you sure or not," and then picked up the book and pushed it in front of me. I put my hands on the cover of the book, then lifted it up again, rubbed it both sides of my pants, and then picked up the book again, and at this time, the salesman walked over to adjust the direction of the electric fan.
I turned to the copyright page, wrote in April 1988 the first edition of the first printing, printed 1-37,000 copies, price: 2.75 yuan, it seems that the salesman did not deceive me ah, I looked up gratefully at the female saleswoman over there, but I don't know when the male salesman got up, the two stood together and whispered something, it sounded intermittent, as if to say what to attend the funeral at night.
Finally I bought the book, and I spent a few cents of the rest of the money on a small stack of paper before I got out of the bookstore satisfied. Nothing had changed in the street in the half hour I had spent entering the bookstore, except that it was still hot, but my mood was extremely cool, and I was afraid that the sweat in my hand would stain the book cover, so I would clip it in my right arm socket, so as to avoid the worry that holding the book in my hand would attract the attention of passers-by.
I didn't want to go back to school on the same road, I wanted to go north first, to the gate of the village, around the pond to the west of the gate, and follow the path of the crop fields back to school. When I reached the south bank of the pond, I saw someone on the slope on the north bank against the wall of the township courtyard, and when I looked closely, it seemed that several people were scolding a person around a person, and all of a sudden I froze there, and I suddenly turned around, walked back, and ran up as I walked, and the book was in my right hand. Passing in front of the open and closed door of the household, passing by the small shop where I had bought Xuchang brand cigarettes, passing by the Sanxing Restaurant where I had eaten and beaten inexplicably, passing by the butcher shop where the plump and beautiful lady of the house often stood, passing the ironworks that was still silent, passing the amiable pharmaceutical company, I ran into the school gate breathlessly.
It was all over and I managed to buy the book back.
I went back to the classroom, most of the classmates were still sleeping on the desk, I sat back quietly, gently tucked the book into the desk bucket, I deliberately looked at the second row of the left front row against the wall of the favorite girl's seat, although she was not there, but a large piece of sweetness gushed out of my heart.
2021.10.20 10:50
【About the author】Yue Yinchao, born in April 1977, Ph.D., associate researcher of institute of physical and chemical technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences, legal person and general manager of Henan Yueneng Optoelectronic Technology Co., Ltd., deputy of Hebi Municipal People's Congress.
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