After carrying her things, she went to the cinema to watch a movie. After that, Xu Manman went to the Xinhua Bookstore.
However, due to the influence of events in recent years, the books in Xinhua Bookstore have not been updated for many years. After a round of shopping, the two felt that it would be better to go back to the library to borrow books. In the end, they bought some notebooks and stationery and left.
Before leaving, Xu Manman signed in out of curiosity. Not only at the bookstore, she also signed in at Tong Ren Tang and the bank. She thought since she was already there, she might as well stock up a little.
I ate too much at noon, and after watching a movie in the afternoon, I ate braised pork and other snacks near Huguo Temple. My stomach was never full again, and I couldn’t eat a proper dinner, so I took the bus back to school.
After getting off the bus, Xu Manman did not go directly into the school. Instead, she went to a nearby scrap collection station. The gatekeeper was already accustomed to students who came to buy second-hand goods. She let the two in without saying anything.
After all, Beijing was once under the rule of the emperor. There are many high-ranking officials and rich people, young and old. Even if it is waste, there must be a lot of good things. A broken ship still has three thousand nails.
With this mentality, Xu Manman turned on the treasure hunting function but didn't use it for a long time, but the result made her very disappointed.
How should I put it, there were indeed one or two good things, but not as many as Xu Manman had imagined, and not as good as what Xu Manman had discovered for the first time at the commune scrap yard.
It can only be said that she underestimated the eyesight of people in Beijing. Anything that can be brought to the scrap collection station for people to choose from has been checked through layers of inspection.
She put a gold hairpin in the secret box of the cupboard and an authentic copy of calligraphy hidden in a tattered book into the space. There were some furniture made of very good materials, including rosewood and huanghuali, but these things were quite large, so Xu Manman didn't dare to put them into the space.
She began to look for what she wanted. She wanted to find some wood and a board to make a bedside table.
The dormitory space is too small, with only two tables in total. If you put more things on the table, there will not be enough desk space, so I made a bedside table, which is very convenient for reading, writing, and putting things.
Just like the bedside tables in later generations, Xu Manman had one when she was in college. It accompanied her for four years and she brought it home after graduation.
That one is foldable, but it is obviously unrealistic to make it foldable now.
She found a small rosewood table with a broken leg, which was just the right size. Xu Manman dragged over the rosewood chair without a backrest. It turned out to be an armchair with a quite wide sitting surface. She sawed off a section of the top and made it smooth.
The four legs at the bottom were sawed off in half, which made a new small table. The sawed-off legs could be installed on the small table, so she and her cousin could each have a small table.
Xu Manman called her cousin and told him her idea.
Chen Ming nodded, went to the aunt, paid 20 cents for tool usage and a one-dollar deposit, and rented a saw, hammer, nails and other tools.
After all, Xu Manman is the last disciple of the creator Jin. She is now good at carpentry. She helped Chen Ming measure the dimensions and draw the lines, and then did not interfere.
With her cousin around, she doesn't need to do these physical tasks.
While Chen Ming was working, Xu Manman went to look through the waste paper and books section. She thought that the types of books in Xinhua Bookstore were limited, but the books here were more abundant.
Xu Manman found some recent newspapers, some novels, essays, picture books, etc. She took out everything she was interested in and put them into her space as she went along. Since Chen Ming was busy cutting wood over there, no one was paying attention to her at the moment.
Finally, the area where waste paper and books were placed went down one level, and Xu Manman only took out a stack of newspapers and a dozen books. There were probably dozens of books in the space.
He also found a box in the area where the old furniture was placed to store snacks, and then went to see Chen Ming's progress with the things in his hand.
I have to say that my cousin has good hands-on skills. In a short while, two small wooden tables have been completed, and he is now polishing the burrs on the edges.
Xu Manman took the things she and her cousin had chosen to the aunt to have them weighed and paid for. Chen Ming also picked out books, which were like waste paper here. Although they were all old, they were much cheaper than buying them in a bookstore.
By the time Chen Ming finished polishing the two small tables, it was almost dark.
The two of them walked back with their things, and Xu Manman then remembered that she had not told Chen Ming about her English test.
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