"Of course you can watch it. Children, just be careful not to take out the stamps and make them dirty. Do you also like to collect stamps?"
The stall owner was a middle-aged man, wearing a pair of glasses and polite. He had just received a group of customers when he heard Sun Yuanyuan's words and answered her with a smile.
"I don't collect stamps. I just want to see if you have the same stamps as mine." Sun Yuanyuan answered while looking at the stamp album.
"Do you want to sell stamps? Which stamp are you looking for? Tell me and I will help you find it." The stall owner became interested.
"The picture on my stamp is a little monkey, what is it called?" Sun Yuanyuan turned to look at her brother.
"Brother said it was the Monkey Ticket for the Gengshen Year." Sun Dahe replied angrily.
"Monkey stamps? That's a popular variety. My little friend, it's not in the stamp album you took. It's only in the stamp album on the table."
As the stall owner spoke, he opened the stamp album on the table and showed Sun Yuanyuan and the others. The first picture on the first page was the Monkey Ticket.
"Yes, yes, it's such a monkey. Uncle, how much does such a stamp cost?" Sun Yuanyuan pointed at the monkey stamp and said excitedly.
Seeing Sun Yuanyuan's fingers smearing through the plastic protective film of the monkey ticket, the middle-aged stall owner's mouth couldn't help but twitch a few times.
"The prices for buying and selling stamps are different. Children, do you want to buy or sell?"
As the stall owner said this, he calmly pulled the stamp album back and got rid of Sun Yuanyuan's clutches.
"Oh, I want to sell it. But I want to know how much this stamp of yours will cost?"
Sun Yuanyuan didn't know who to ask about how to sell stamps. She looked like a young adult and wanted to find out the market situation.
Sun Yuanyuan's look made the stall owner amused. He smiled and said to Sun Yuanyuan: "The price of the same stamp will be very different with different appearance. Children, look, my stamp is in very good condition, just like new."
, so the price is relatively expensive, it costs 60 yuan.”
As he said that, he turned the stamp album to the back and continued, "Look, there is another monkey stamp of the same kind here. But I bought this one from someone else, and its condition is very average. It is only 70% to 80% new.
.I only sell this monkey ticket for 40 yuan.”
Sun Yuanyuan turned around and whispered to Sun Dahe for a while, then turned to the stall owner and said, "Well, let's see how much my stamps can sell for."
As she spoke, she took out a copy of "Storytelling" from the small schoolbag she was carrying, opened it, took out a small plastic bag sandwiched in the book, and handed it to the stall owner.
The stall owner didn't answer it and said: "Kid, is this your stamp? You can just put it on the table. I have to wear gloves to take it, otherwise the stamp will be stained."
The stall owner was very professional. He took out a magnifying glass and tweezers from the desk drawer and put on a pair of white gloves. Then he opened the plastic bag Sun Yuanyuan placed on the table and carefully took out the stamps with tweezers.
"Wow, that's good. It's actually a monkey ticket from the Four-Party Alliance."
There were already people watching nearby. When they saw the stall owner taking out the stamps, they couldn't help but muttered.
"Where are the monkey tickets for the Four-Party Alliance? Let me take a look."
The people who were active in this area were either stamp collectors or professionals flipping stamps and coins. When they heard that there were four-way monkey stamps here, more people started to gather around.
Ah Fu was standing behind the second primary school with a smile, standing up for them. Seeing the chaos, he stepped forward to help maintain order. Hu Cheng also stepped forward to help block the flow of people.
"Stop squeezing. The stamps are so small. The more you crowd, the harder it will be to see clearly. What are you doing so close to each other? Take care of your belongings and be careful of thieves." Sun Dahai shouted, and the situation was solved.
People who came here either had money with them, or more valuable stamps and coins, or both. As soon as they heard that they had to beware of thieves, everyone immediately stopped moving forward, and instead took the initiative to talk to the people around them.
Keep a certain distance.
Sun Yuanyuan saw that the people around her were no longer crowded, so she ignored them. She stared at the stall owner, waiting for his comment on her stamps.
The stall owner was holding a magnifying glass at this time and carefully examining Sun Yuanyuan's square couplet.
After a while, the stall owner put down the magnifying glass and used tweezers to put the stamps back into the plastic bag.
"The stamps are very well preserved. Children, how much do you plan to sell this set of four-sided monkey stamps?"
Sun Yuanyuan was stunned for a moment and asked: "How much do you want to buy it for?"
The stall owner thought for a while and gave a price: "One hundred and sixty yuan."
"That's a lot, okay, I..."
Sun Yuanyuan did not expect the stall owner to offer such a price. She was so happy that she wanted to agree, but her brother tugged at the corner of her clothes.
"Sister, the one hundred and sixty yuan he mentioned is the total price of four stamps. Each stamp is actually forty yuan." Sun Dahe reminded his sister in a low voice.
Simple multiplication and division were something they only started to learn at the end of last semester, and they came in handy now. Sun Dahe counted on his fingers for a while before he could figure out the result, which was considered to be putting his knowledge to use.
"No, no, each stamp is only 40 yuan. Didn't you just say that good ones in good condition cost 60 yuan?"
Sun Yuanyuan, who had just been prepared to agree to sell the stamps, immediately regretted it after hearing Sun Dahe's reminder.
The stall owner said dumbfounded: "Children, didn't I just say that the prices for buying and selling stamps are different.
If you sell me stamps, I don’t know when they will be sold. Moreover, I have to give you the money in advance, and at the same time I have to pay the rent here and earn living expenses. I rely on the transaction between the sale and purchase.
Living with the difference.
Well, you don’t need to say any more, I’ll give you a little more money, a total of one hundred and eighty yuan, to buy these four stamps, is that okay?”
Sun Yuanyuan was a little confused and turned to look at Sun Dahe, waiting for his prompts.
However, the question of dividing 180 by 4 was quite difficult for nine-year-old Sun Dahe. He calculated for a long time, but he still couldn't figure out how much each stamp sold.
Sun Yuanyuan waited for a while and found that she seemed to not be able to count on her brother in a short time. She thought about it and felt that the price was pretty good, so she wanted to agree.
Suddenly, she remembered something again, so she turned her eyes to Ah Fu next to her.
In fact, Sun Yuanyuan is really not suitable for buying and selling things through bargaining. She is too kind-hearted and soft-eared, and she is not sensitive to numbers.
Especially after Sun Dahai was reborn, his family's economic conditions became better and better, and Sun Dahai always advocated that girls should be rich, so Sun Yuanyuan's concept of money was also vague, not as good as that of his younger brother Sun Dahe.
Sun Dahai knew that this was her shortcoming, but she didn't know how to change it. Now that the teacher had arranged such social practice, Sun Dahai was determined to train her well. He just followed from a distance and never helped.