After the autumn harvest officially ended, the brigade gave everyone three days off. The ox carts would be waiting for everyone under the trees at the entrance of the village during these three days. The educated youth and villagers could go to the town to buy some things to replenish their bodies.
Song Jin was not idle either. On the first day, she did not go out because she thought there would be a lot of people around, and rested at home for a day.
That night, I went to the team leader to get a letter of introduction, saying that I was going to the county town to visit relatives and needed to stay overnight.
The team leader readily gave her a letter of introduction and reminded her to be careful and go and come back early.
The next morning, Song Jin had breakfast at home and rode his bicycle to the county town. It was still a little dark when he left, there were not many pedestrians on the road, and the weather was not hot. Song Jin took a leisurely ride all the way to the county town and did not feel tired.
I was still sighing in my heart that the autumn harvest had really exercised her. She didn't even feel tired after riding a bicycle for more than two hours.
When she got to the county town, she went directly to the machinery factory. The security guard at the factory gate was waiting for her. When he saw her, he came forward excitedly. Seeing that there was no one around, he hurriedly spoke.
"Finally you're here, girl. Tomorrow is the exam day. You haven't shown up for over half a month. I was worried that I wouldn't be able to tell you the exam date in time and that you would miss it. Job opportunities like this don't come around often."
Song Jin was a little touched. This uncle was quite responsible.
"Thank you, uncle. These candies will satisfy your sweet tooth." As she said this, she stuffed a handful of White Rabbit milk candies into the uncle's pocket, along with a pack of cigarettes.
The uncle felt through his pocket, and couldn't stop smiling. He kept repeating, "Oh, girl, it's too much, too much. You gave me too much."
Song Brocade...
After confirming the time of tomorrow's exam, the uncle also revealed a few words about the general content of the exam. Song Jin happily said goodbye to the uncle.
First, he took the letter of introduction to the guesthouse and checked into a room. Then, Song Jin went out to the scrap collection station.
Although he didn't know what kind of treasures and antiques there were, Song Jin still decided to go and take a look, just in case there was any great opportunity.
She loves free shopping.
Thinking of the old man who always stood at the entrance of the scrapyard when she was reading novels, Song Jin specially prepared the remaining half pack of cigarettes that she had opened and distributed to others when she was gathering information. This was the key to getting the old man to turn a blind eye and allow her to stay in for a while to look for things.
However, Song Jin was ultimately a little unlucky.
There was an old lady at the door of the scrap yard, and she didn't look easy to get along with.
Song Jin, adhering to the principle of not hitting someone who smiles, walked up to the old lady with a sweet smile on his face and said, "Hello, Auntie. I want to go in and look at some textbooks. Here are some candies for you to take home to sweeten your mouth."
Song Jin opened her hand to reveal four or five White Rabbit candies in it. The old lady glanced at her sideways and reached out to take the candies from Song Jin's hand.
"Go in, don't rummage around, don't take things you shouldn't take, and you must be out in half an hour at most."
Song Jin smiled and nodded, but in his heart he complained that the old lady took the candy but didn't do anything. It was only half an hour, what could she do?
Despite all the complaints, he still hurried in.
There were several large rooms inside, and outside there were piles of various old things.
Song Jin took a look first. It was probably classified and there was no one inside. She walked around a few times and found a set of relatively worn high school textbooks. Although she had graduated from high school in that world, the textbooks at that time were different from the textbooks now.
When flipping through the books, I saw most of the mathematics, physics and chemistry series. Based on my previous experience with novels, when the college entrance examination was resumed in 1977, everyone scrambled for this set of books. There were many copies of this volume, and Song Jin found five or six.
Seeing that half the time had passed, and there were still 15 minutes left before the half hour stipulated by the old lady, Song Jin started to stroll around other rooms.
After 20 minutes, the old lady didn't come in to urge him, so Song Jin found a dressing box made of wood that looked very expensive. Song Jin thought it must be very expensive, so he took it!
Half an hour later, without anyone urging him, Song Jin had already received three types of wooden boxes, wooden combs, and wooden stools that he had never seen before but looked very expensive and fashionable.
40 minutes later, Song Jin finally found a paper bag under a desk drawer, which contained 5 gold bars.
Very good, today’s trip to the scrap yard can be declared over.
Song Jin saw that no one had put anything other than the books into the space. When he brought a stack of books to the old lady, the old lady looked very unhappy.
Not only did he have a grim expression, he also checked every book one by one. Only after he was sure that he didn't carry anything with him did he weigh the books with a grimace.
In the end, Song Jin paid one yuan and twenty cents before he successfully left the scrap yard.
Today's trip to find a bargain ended successfully. Song Jin happily went to the state-owned restaurant for dinner, then went to the county library to read for a while. After returning to the guesthouse, he did not go out again and waited for the exam tomorrow.
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