Chapter VIII Purchasing Books and Raising Ambition
The sound of thunder rumbling, dense dark clouds enveloped the air. It seemed that it was already evening. This was the summer shower. After a while, heavy rain poured down, causing pedestrians on the road to flee in panic and hide from the various shops on both sides of the street. Even Zhang Min was no exception. She hurriedly walked towards a shop with her small bag, but she was still half wet. A gust of wind blew, and it felt a little chill.
At this moment, an umbrella covered her body. Zhang Min raised her head in surprise, but made a surprise voice: "Ayi, why are you here? Have you come back from home?"
"I just came from home." Liu Deyi, who had disappeared for a month and a half, held an umbrella: "It is not convenient to speak here, let's go to that cafe to have some coffee!"
"Okay, let's go together!"
When she came to a cafe next to her, Liu Deyi asked her: "What do you want to drink?"
“Fei Lan Coffee.”
"Then I order the same, waiter, please put less sugar, thank you."
A burst of music spread out from the cafe, and combined with the rain outside the glass, it successfully created an atmosphere. Liu Deyi drank slowly, and he seemed to be addicted to the music.
"Ayi, have you just come here?"
"Yes, I have something to do, and today I'm over, so I'm back."
"Then you don't call me for a month and a half, but you don't call me. I'm still your girlfriend!" Zhang Min expressed his dissatisfaction: "You won't say that the signal is bad, do you?"
Girlfriend? When did you admit it? Liu Deyi smiled unanimously, and he said: "Really, the phone signal is partitioned in the place where I am."
This is indeed true. In the pyramid, his cell phone has no signal.
"Hmph!" Zhang Min expressed dissatisfaction, but did not pursue the matter. She was actually a very smart girl. Since Liu Deyi had already given a reason, she would not pursue the matter anymore. Just have a way out for each other.
She stared at him.
After not seeing him for a month and a half, he seemed to have changed a lot. A very special temperament slowly spreads on him. This temperament is still faint, but women can keenly feel its existence.
His face was pale and he seemed to have never seen much sun, and his eyes were as clear as water. Zhang Min observed and compared his changes. He seemed to be very comfortable. Maybe drinking this thing is not a matter of time or second.
"Then are you coming back to live?" Zhang Min asked with hope.
"No, I decided to move."
"Ah, where are you moving? Isn't your original place very close to the school? Why do you need to move? Isn't you enough money and want to find a cheaper house?" Zhang Min became anxious when he heard this.
"No, it's because my relative has a house here. This year he went abroad and the house was empty is not a problem, so he asked me to live there, which was to spend less money and add a little popularity to the house. You must know that houses that are not living in are easy to get old."
"That... isn't it far?"
"It's a bit far away, but now the transportation is so developed. In our city, as long as you don't transfer the bus, you can take the station for one dollar. It happens that No. 453 at the entrance of the school, you can go there directly. It's about twenty minutes on the way, which is very convenient. This time I came here to relocate and settle with the landlord." Liu Deyi said lightly: "Anyway, after school starts, some students rent, and the price can be increased slightly, so the landlord agreed very happily, so the matter was settled."
Zhang Min's eyes dimmed. She stopped talking and slowly drank coffee.
Seeing her expression, Liu Deyi slowly drank coffee. When everyone finished drinking, he said, "Amin, are you willing to go to my current place to see me? Get to know me. You can come here to play on Sundays in the future!"
"Really?" Zhang Min's eyes lit up again.
"Yeah, but you have to help me move things!"
“No problem.”
So the two of them laughed and went out. At this time, the rain had stopped. Liu Deyi called a taxi and arrived at the original place in a few minutes. He said to the driver, then gave the money and went upstairs.
At this time, the landlord was already waiting for him in the house. Since there was no dispute between the two sides, he gave the money he should have given and moved. At this time, Zhang Min pulled her mother to help, and the landlord helped him and took some things downstairs. In fact, he didn't have much to take. The tableware belonged to the landlord, and although the oil and salt were his own, he would not take these things. Some books and clothes were the key points, as well as DVDs and TVs.
After moving down, Zhang Min also got into the car: "Mom, I'll go and have a look, and I'll help you."
"I got it, you'll come back soon."
"I know, I will call if I have something to do."
The taxi was relatively fast, and there was no traffic jam at this time, so in just over ten minutes, we arrived at the community designated by Liu Deyi. At this time, after the rain, the community looked extremely clean, and the shade of the trees and lawns were very green, and the air was also very fresh.
Zhang Min couldn't help but be attracted by the elegance here. She looked around and praised her, especially when she saw an artificial lake. Since it was raining, the water was very clear, and some red-bellied fish could be seen swimming leisurely in it. She couldn't help but stayed next to her and looked carefully.
"Ayi, what kind of fish is this?"
"It seems to be some ornamental fish. I don't know the specific ones, but it seems to be a variant of goldfish!" Liu Deyi looked at it and said, "It's not edible, it's purely for ornamental."
"But it's so beautiful, I'll buy one in the future," she said nostalgically.
"Okay, but let's go up first. The driver is still waiting. We have to move the things up and buy some things. There is no food in the refrigerator and some books to be brought back, especially a computer."
"Oh, you treat me as a laborer and protest your exploitation."
"Protest is invalid!"
When she arrived at the door of the small building, before she could open the door, Zhang Min was stunned by the house in front of her. She looked at it: "Oh, the small building, there are small lawns and a garage. Your relatives are so rich!" Children living in the city are particularly sensitive to housing area, because the general houses in the city can only be said to be like pigeon houses, and few people have wide houses to live in, which is determined by the local housing prices.
"It's nothing, don't be dazed. Come in and move the things in and put them in the hall. We'll clean up when we come back. We'll go out to buy things!"
"Okay!" She reluctantly put the things on the ground.
Then, he drove to the pre-destination in the driver's car, but at this time, it was approaching the time for get off work, and the cars spread on the road like a flood. China's population can be said to be the world's number one. It is a relatively developed commercial city. Perhaps no one can tell clearly how much traffic there is when commuting to and from get off work, even the government.
But there is no doubt that drivers are trained through such traffic, and their level is very strong, especially their driving skills that can be said to be stunned by ordinary foreigners.
In such traffic, I arrived at the door of a computer company within half an hour. The computer company was not closed. It would not be closed if there was a business. In this city, there are many such small-scale computer companies, and their competition is very fierce.
"Oh, Mr. Liu, you are finally here." The computer owner is a man in his thirties, with a chubby surname, He. As soon as he saw Liu Deyi, he welcomed him out.
"Sorry, the traffic is in a panic."
Boss He looked at the traffic on the road and expressed his understanding. Who doesn’t understand that people living in this city can do anything about it?
"Boss He, you don't have to make tea anymore. I check the machine and then pay."
"Okay, everything has been installed. You can see it yourself. I won't have any falsehood for a computer expert like you." Boss He said a little admiringly: "I think you have a good level. Are you interested in doing this with me?"
"Sorry, I'm still a student now, and I'm in my second year of high school, so I'm busy with homework."
"Oh, then wait for you during the winter vacation."
He looked at the computer accessories pretending to behave. In fact, Liu Deyi knew nothing about computers. He was able to casually tell the prices and performance of all computer accessories in the morning, which surprised Boss He. He thought that this young man was a master, but in fact he relied on the guidance of Yu Zhiling, so he was a liar on this issue, so of course he would not agree to work here.
After Yu Zhiling told him, Liu Deyi smiled: "Boss He, that's right. It's just such a preparation. Then I'll pay it. Is it 6,400 yuan?"
"Yes, it's just 6,400, I'm basically not making any profit in this business." Boss He said in distress.
"I made a total of 350 yuan in one go, but it's not okay? How much do you want to make?" One sentence shocked Boss He, looked at Liu Deyi, waited for a while before saying, "Master, I am so familiar with the market, but don't forget that I have to spend on transportation fees when purchasing goods. There are a few of them, which I have not yet in the store. It's more expensive to enter through other channels. Think about how much I can earn?"
"It's not that you won't make money, but don't complain in front of me. I know how much you earn!"
"Oh, when I meet someone like you, I think I'm unlucky. Come on, I'll help you carry the computer into the car."
During this process, Zhang Min didn't say anything. Only after Boss He moved the computer, he said, "Mr. Liu, you have a girlfriend now, it's amazing!"
This sentence made Zhang Min blush, but strangely, she did not refute it.
So the car arrived at another place, which was a bookstore, but it was a pirated bookstore. Zhang Min asked strangely: "Ayi, what are you doing here?"
"Buy books, what else is there?"
"Why buy books here?" Zhang Min looked at the comics and fantasy books in a row: "What are you doing for these? Be careful of your grades falling!"
"Please go inside."
When I got inside, a woman in her forties came over.
"Boss, have my book arrived?"
"It's here, but it's only half of it, and it's still a little less. Take it slowly in the future!"
“Are there any books?”
"Yes, all the books that have been entered are here, you can take a look!" said the boss lady, leading them to a small room where several large bundles of books were piled up on the table.
"One hundred and forty-one Dao Cang, twenty-one Zizhi Tongjian, and encyclopedia?" Zhang Min looked at it and said in surprise: "Ayi, why are you buying these? It's so expensive, right?"
"It's not expensive. If it's genuine, it costs at least tens of thousands, but now it only costs 1,000,200 yuan, which is considered cheap." The boss smiled and said, "There are some of them, people without channels who can only try their luck. How can they buy such books casually? Look, although they are pirated, printing is basically no different from genuine ones. Look how good it is to print. It's worth buying such books!"
Zhang Min glanced at him: "You are the boss, you want to make money, of course you will be fine." Then he asked him: "Ayi, why are you buying these books? This is almost a library."
"Yeah, this is the book my relative wanted. He said that his study was too space and he had to have some books to set up, so he gave me money and asked me to buy something."
"Yeah, so that's how it is, no wonder." Zhang Min said with relief. Seeing Liu Deyi counting the catalog, he said, "Then I'll go out and find a few comics to read."
"Okay, little girl, I will not let you pay for money by borrowing books. I will give you a discount when buying books." The proprietress said with a smile.
When she left, Liu Deyi counted the book, and then Yu Zhiling spoke: "You told a lot of lies today, why don't you tell her the truth?"
"Damn it, did I tell her that I have gone to practice Taoism? Then she would have ghosts if she didn't think I was a cult."
"I won't talk about this, but why did you even cheat her on buying books?"
"Do you think it's really normal for so many books? You didn't see her relieved expression? Tell you that women are actually very sensitive. She already feels something wrong. If you don't give her a reason to be at ease, there will be many more things. Now I don't want to have any trouble." Liu Deyi said to Yu Zhiling in his heart: "However, why do you insist on buying such e-books on Piaotianwen? It's much cheaper."
"Computers are indeed convenient, but if you really study, it is better to get paper books."
"Study, what are you doing with these things?"
"This is the accumulation of wisdom of human beings over the past few thousand years. You should not underestimate it. Learn it slowly. This is a long-term process. It is not easy to cultivate one's nature and life. You will gradually move slowly and you will know why it is like this in the future." Yu Zhiling said simply: "If you read more of these books, you will benefit in the future."
While speaking, he had already counted the books and nodded to the boss lady: "Yes, that's all of them. I bought them all. There are still books. Try to find me as much as possible. If you have books in the future, call me."
As he said that, he took out 1,200 yuan and gave her a phone number. The boss lady smiled and said, "It's easy to say, I'll leave it for you next time." Obviously, she made a lot of money.
After leaving the back room, many people still borrowed books there. Zhang Min was also reading some girl comics there. When she saw Liu Deyi coming out, she held the book in her hand and greeted him.
"Why, have you taken a fancy to these books?"
"Yes, but this place is far from my house. If you borrow it, you have to take a long car to pay it back."
"Do you like it? Then buy it, boss lady, how much does it cost?"
"Oh, I'll give these books to your girlfriend." These comics cost only a dozen yuan. Of course, the boss who has made a big business will not be stingy.
"That's fine, we still have opportunities to cooperate anyway."
So a few people took the books and ran towards the taxi outside. The taxi was booked for a long time, so they were waiting there. At this moment, the door of the bookstore was gently opened and he flashed in. It didn't matter if someone came in, but suddenly Liu Deyi felt a strange feeling.
Liu Deyi looked calm and saw that this was a girl wearing a white dress, very beautiful, especially her gentle and lazy temperament, which was as charming as a cat, that is, she had a particularly feminine taste.
He looked over like everyone else, but in fact he was not moved by her beauty, but he felt something strangely. At this moment, Zhang Min pushed him.
"I'm out, why are you staying here?"
"I understand!" Liu Deyi withdrew his gaze. He took the book and walked over to the girl. The girl seemed to notice him and looked at him. At the same time, she looked at the book he was holding, and a look of surprise appeared on her face.
After passing the door, Liu Deyi did not turn around, took the book and pushed it into the taxi, then opened the door, asked Zhang Min to go in and sit down, and signaled the driver to open the door immediately.
“This woman is different.”
"I know, I feel a little bit like, what is she? Is it the same as me?"
"No, her innate qualities are better than you. In other words, she is the special abilities you are talking about now." Yu Zhiling said a little regretfully: "It's a pity that she missed the opportunity to practice. Although her abilities are already good now, that's all."
"snort!"
"What do you think?"
"I think she is a trouble, the boss, the trouble. I don't want to have any relationship with her at this stage." Liu Deyi sneered: "A person like her is likely to be trouble, and it is a huge trouble in today's society."
“…You said it well, and your choice was also very interesting…!”
"What I am worried about now is why I arrived at this bookstore at this time, and this girl might have seen something." Liu Deyi replied in his heart with a little distress: "I hope you can help me on this issue."
Chapter completed!