When Yu Juanhua heard that there really was a textbook, she was immediately very excited, "Great! Grandpa! I don't mind. Where do you think he put the textbook? I'll go and look for it myself!"
If possible, she didn't want to copy books. It would be better to have a textbook. She didn't have a single book now, and she wouldn't mind textbooks with missing pages.
Seeing Yu Juanhua like this, Old Man Sun also smiled and said, "You kids are really sensible and know how to cherish books. I don't know what those people who tore up the books were thinking. Books are so precious, and the kids have never had a hard life."
Old Man Sun took them to find books and notebooks while muttering to himself.
Inside the makeshift shed he had built, I saw two large baskets filled with books and notebooks.
"All the books and notebooks are here. You can look for them yourselves. Just pay me the price of waste paper." After Old Man Sun brought them to the place, he puffed on his pipe and went back to the hut with his hands behind his back.
After Old Man Sun left, Yu Juanhua dived in with shining eyes and began to look for textbooks and good notebooks.
Seeing that Yu Juanhua was searching seriously, Tian Tian started walking around the large yard of the scrap yard with Liang Rong and Li Wenxiu.
There are a lot of things in this scrap station, but not a lot either. Tian Tian originally wanted to see if she could find something useful in the scrap station, but when she saw that the yard of the scrap station was filled with broken furniture from fights, she couldn't use any of them since she was living in the dormitory now, and there wasn't much space for them to move around in the dormitory.
Tian Tian came with them, so it would be inappropriate for her to buy furniture in front of them.
To be honest, these pieces of furniture were made by the most ordinary carpenters. There were even tables with four legs of different colors. It was obvious that they had been repaired many times and now they were broken beyond repair, so they were thrown away.
But it's also true that people nowadays are very careful and can use things for decades without breaking.
Now is not the time when the ten-year campaign has just begun, so there will rarely be looting and ransacking of houses.
There were no gold, silver, jade articles, carved nanmu, golden nanmu, or tables that emitted fragrance as Tian Tian had imagined.
It was just broken, discarded furniture and some textbooks that no one else had any use for.
Tian Tian lost interest after searching twice. When she first came to the scrap station, she found a small carved wooden box. It was very beautiful and did not feel like it was made of precious wood. Tian Tian now put it in the shell to store things.
Tian Tian casually took a look inside the scrap yard. She had not planned to come here to buy things today. Firstly, she was going to come to see Old Man Sun, and secondly, she was accompanying Yu Juanhua to buy things. Now seeing that Yu Juanhua had found a lot of things and dropped them at her feet, she knew that Yu Juanhua was finding things quite smoothly.
Tian Tian was wandering around the yard of the scrap station bored. Liang Rong was a little surprised by the scrap station because it was her first time there, but now seeing that there was nothing special about the scrap station, she suddenly lost interest and stood aside with Li Wenxiu watching Tian Tian and Yu Juanhua.
Tian Tian was kicking the broken things on the ground out of boredom. After kicking away the wood chips, she suddenly saw a reflective object on the ground.
She originally thought it was a piece of broken glass. Glass is quite common in the county town now, so broken glass is not surprising.
But curiosity still drove her to run over and take a look, and she found that what was lying on the ground was a dark green jade pendant.
Tian Tian picked it up. It was the size of a palm, with plum blossoms engraved on it and the word "Gu" written in regular script on the back. It felt very warm to the touch. Its owner must have taken good care of it.
Tian Tian didn't know what jade was, nor did she know much about the varieties of jade. She couldn't tell whether this jade was good or bad, but she felt it was quite beautiful.
And at this time, there shouldn’t be any fake jade, right?
It's just sitting there anyway, so instead of having others treat it as trash, it's better for her to take it away.
Tian Tian was thinking about putting the jade pendant back into the shell, but suddenly she realized that something like a jade pendant should recognize its owner, right? Would it be bad for her if she picked it up?
She only knew that she couldn't pick up broken jade, and she couldn't keep a jade Buddha if she found one. She didn't know whether she could keep a jade pendant like this one.
Tian Tian hesitated for a while, then put the jade pendant away and put it back into the shell.
"Yu Juanhua, have you found your textbook?" Tian Tian put away the jade pendant and ran over to ask Yu Juanhua.
"I found the basics, but it's just like what the gatekeeper said, there are missing pages." Yu Juanhua wiped the sweat off her forehead and smiled with satisfaction.
Before she came, she had never thought of targeting textbooks that others didn't want. In her opinion, a textbook was so precious that the whole family had to take good care of it. How could they throw it away?
She didn't expect that coming to the scrap yard would give her such a big surprise. Not only did she find several notebooks, she even found several textbooks.
Although there were missing pages in the textbook, it was a small matter for Yu Juanhua. She could copy down the missing pages and put them in the book without delaying her reading.
Copying a few pages of a book was a piece of cake for Yu Juanhua, who originally wanted to copy the entire book.
"Although I didn't find a complete set of textbooks, it's good enough that I can find books on Chinese, history, politics, and geography. It would be even better if I could find a biology book." Liang Rong casually flipped through the books that Yu Juanhua found. These three books had the most self-narration among all the subjects.
Nowadays, high schools also have to take these liberal arts courses, but due to the times, these courses are basically all about content from the Little Red Book, and the exams are all about quotations.
Besides, there is no college entrance examination now, and no one cares much about studying. Many students do not take textbooks seriously. The only thing is that a book is still very precious now, and no one will throw away a book.
"There is still a basket of books. Let us help you look for them. Maybe we can find other books." Tian Tian said, looking at the remaining basket of books.
Li Wenxiu didn't care and was happy to help, but Liang Rong was a little disgusted by it and was unwilling to do it.
This was normal, and they didn't say anything. They let Liang Rong watch from the side while the three of them started looking for their textbooks.
It’s amazing, the three of them even found the biology and chemistry textbooks, but didn’t find the physics textbooks.
Yu Juanhua was very content. She held the textbooks she had opened, smoothed out the pages one by one, and then stacked them up neatly.
Tian Tian also put away the textbook that Yu Juanhua found carefully and then held it in her arms.
They took their textbooks and notebooks to pay together. It was such a thick stack, but the price was just the same as a stack of waste paper.
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