good old days

Chapter 15 make a lot of money

After the exam this week, the winter vacation will begin, and the Spring Festival will come soon after the winter vacation.As long as you are a student, how can you not be afraid of the exam?
But Jiang Xinyu found that although the students in her class felt nervous about the exam, they were not that nervous.

Without the college entrance examination, high school graduates with well-connected families can find ways to become workers after graduation, but most of the rural people will return to the team to do farm work to earn work points, and some will join the army.

But if you want to say that going to high school is useless, then it certainly is not.After all, in addition to household registration, factory recruitment also depends on academic qualifications.As for the leaders of the commune, down to the leaders of the brigades and subunits, even the female directors in the brigades are all educated, at least they must have graduated from junior high school.

There is no college entrance examination anymore, the university is still a recommendation system, and the final grades seem to be less important.

It is already the end of the semester, the course has ended, and the content of the teacher's class is not so heavy.

The ideological and moral classes are full of the characteristics of the times. Jiang Xinyu read these quotations and gained a deeper understanding of this era.

There are no bunk beds in the dormitory, but half-old iron canopy beds, which were newly replaced last year.

On the day of the holiday after the exam, Zhang Yanyan said: "We will graduate in summer, what are you going to do? There are textile factories and timber factories in the county, and there may be job recruitment. Although there are many people who will apply, I still want to try it." Give it a try, do you want to go together?"

The farthest thing Jiang Xinyu thinks about is the college entrance examination next year. She will leave this place, but she has never thought about what she will do in the one year between graduating from high school and resuming the college entrance examination.

"Then you ask me to come with you." Although I know that the hope of being able to get a job is very slim, but I still have to try, right?
After parting with Zhang Yanyan, Jiang Xinyu carried the rations and schoolbags she had saved to the only Xinhua Bookstore in the town.

She wanted to see if she could find some books that would be helpful for the college entrance examination.

Xinhua Bookstore is state-run, and now all the coins and bills that can be circulated are state-run.

Entering the bookstore, Jiang Xinyu was a little disappointed to see Liao Liao's books in the glass counter that was out of reach.Compared with the rich variety of books in the bookstore and library of later generations, the books here are not as many as one-tenth of the books in Chen Yi's study.

"What do you want to buy? I'll get it for you, but I'm not sure what to buy. You must cherish it when you look through it."

The one who spoke was a young man in his early twenties who was sitting in front of the counter. Zhou Zheng, with his facial features, had a thick book in front of him. The cover couldn't be seen, and Jiang Xinyu didn't know what he was reading.

Jiang Xinyu didn't find the book she wanted on the shelf. What's more, she had a total of [-] cents in her pocket, which Comrade Chen Xiuyun sent her to school, and she didn't want to spend it.

It doesn't matter how much money is in her pocket, she still has a tense face, and she won't buy it anyway.

"Comrade, where can I buy high school exercises?"

The young man thought for a while and said, "Otherwise, you can go to the waste station to have a look." He guessed that there might not be a waste station for exercise books, but these things are of no use if they are kept, and someone might sell them.

After Jiang Xinyu thanked her, she asked for directions before finding the scrap yard.

An old man was guarding the scrap yard. He raised his eyelids to look at her, and asked her what she was looking for. After Jiang Xinyu, the old man let her in without saying anything.

The waste station smells bad, it is messy and dirty, most of it is scrap copper and iron, there are also wooden chairs that are not stable in the old station, and some broken cans.

Jiang Xinyu rummaged around inside, only to find a math workbook that was stuck with dirty things. She picked it up in disgust, but before she could stand still, she was pushed up to her waist by the leg of a chair stretched out diagonally, and fell into the pile of rubbish inside.

The sound of whirring attracted the old man who was guarding the door. He saw that she was struggling to get up after a big fall. The old man didn't say anything, and didn't want to come to help her. He took a look and went out again.

When Jiang Xinyu got up, something blinked her eyes, and when she looked closely, there was a slit in the leg of the stool, and the inside was shining with gold, and yellow light was exposed through the slit.

Thinking of something, Jiang Xinyu's heart skipped a beat.

Seeing the uncle go out, Jiang Xinyu picked up a sharp iron head and pinned the gaping wooden legs away, and a gold bar longer than her palm appeared in front of her eyes.

After seeing how poor this era is, Jiang Xinyu knows how much this gold bar is worth.

The stool was missing two legs, and the board in the middle was still on the couch, so there was no need to repair it at all.

Jiang Xinyu opened the stool on the other leg, and also got another gold bar.

God, who came up with the idea of ​​hiding the gold bars in the seams of the chair legs, it's so cheap for her!

Jiang Xinyu happily stuffed the two gold bars into her bosom, and checked the other parts of the broken wooden chair to make sure that there was no more advantage to take.

The sudden discovery made Jiang Xinyu look at the scrap yard in a different way, but it's a pity that after these two gold bars, nothing else was found.

The old man came to urge her once, Jiang Xinyu pretended to be picking through the pile of waste paper, and got up slowly.

When she got out of the gap, she stepped on a dark object, and then she found a horn.The shape of the horn is similar to that of Jue, and the size is also similar.

She bent down to pick it up, and picked the black stains on it, revealing the copper green color inside the black.Three legs, with a cup handle on the side, this style, if she didn't miss it, this is a bronze drinking vessel from the Shang and Zhou dynasties.There is a pair in her grandfather's collection, which is treasured by him.

Jiang Xinyu looked around, there was no second one here.

She was holding an old exercise book and such a broken cup. The old man at the waste station looked at it and said casually, "Fifty cents."

This is clearly cheating Jiang Xinyu.The things in the waste station are all useless things sold by others, and you can collect a lot of them for a few cents.

Jiang Xinyu didn't know the market, so she made a gesture to put everything down.

She thought very simply, she didn't have enough money, so she might as well buy it next time when she had enough money.If he only put down the exercise book, would the old man feel that the corner in her hand was tricky?At this moment, Jiang Xinyu is in a state of anxiety that this treasure cannot be discovered by others.

"I don't have enough money, come back next time."

The old man didn't deceive anyone, so he smacked his mouth twice and asked, "How much do you have?"

Jiang Xinyu said, "Twenty cents."

She wanted to say a dime, but she was afraid that the old man would not give it.

Even if she can't buy the two things in her hand today, she can still get two gold bars for nothing. Can she make a lot of money?
The old man waved his hand, "Okay, okay, take the two cents."

Jiang Xinyu was so excited.

The one in her hand is a bronze ware. No one would fake it these days, only those who don't know the goods!Whether it is collection or resale in the future, it will be very good.

Jiang Xinyu put the wine container in her schoolbag, carried her luggage, and went to the place where the tractors were parked in the commune in the brigade.

(End of this chapter)