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I believed your lies!
"Don't believe me?" The old man slapped his chest with his palm-leaf fan, raised his hand and pointed to the high school textbooks. "These are all the ones you can find in the whole county. You can't find them anywhere else."
Xu Yan remained silent.
“The others are cheaper,” the old man said. “You can take the others for two yuan.”
Xu Yan glanced at the book in her hand.
“There will always be students like you who are stubborn and still dream of going to university,” the old man muttered a few words along with the storyteller on the radio, then continued, “What good will taking this book back change?”
"That's just how the world is; people can't live on dreams."
"Instead of dreaming all day, you might as well go to the countryside and farm, or work hard... Anyway, stop having those unrealistic dreams."
The old man's voice lowered towards the end, and Xu Yan glanced at him and noticed that his eyes were a little wet.
"You..." Xu Yan was somewhat surprised.
"If you want it, it'll be eighty; if not, put it back," the old man said, his expression immediately returning to normal when he saw her staring at him.
The speed at which he changed his expression was so fast, it was as if he had practiced in private.
Xu Yan felt there must be a story behind what he said, but she didn't want to pry into other people's affairs.
She originally wanted to try other bookstores, but the sun was too strong and she didn't know where the other bookstores were. After thinking about it, she took out eighty yuan and gave it to the old man.
The old man probably never expected that she would actually have so much money, let alone that she would actually give so much.
He looked at her with a complicated expression for a long time before taking the money and saying, "I hope your dream comes true."
When Xie Zhuo rode his bicycle over, he saw Xu Yan standing at the bookstore entrance carrying a large stack of books. Perhaps his arm was sore, as he laboriously switched the books to his left hand and then shook his right hand.
He quickly put down his bicycle to pick up the book.
Xu Yan didn't stand on ceremony with him anymore. She quickly stuffed the book into his arms and started rubbing her wrist.
"Why don't you put it on the ground?" Xie Zhuo saw that Xu Yan was uncomfortable, so he quickly freed one hand to pinch her arm.
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