"What!"
"What car are you looking at?"
Du Bin was still confused. He still didn't know that his father wanted to buy a car.
"Didn't I tell you? Your dad is planning to buy a car!"
Comrade Lao Du said to Du Chen proudly, "If you can't show off to outsiders, why not show off to your son?"
"You didn't even tell me!"
Du Bin said angrily and aggrievedly that he also wanted to go and see the car.
Du Bin didn't want to talk at first, but he couldn't suppress his curiosity, so he asked Du Chen.
"Chenchen, tell me, where did you go to look at cars? What kind of cars did you look at? How long will it take to buy a car?"
Curious Du Bin asked several questions in a row.
"Brother, it's an old car. It's at Dad's workplace. It was originally the car that the section chief replaced. It's a Jeep 212. I don't know when he'll buy it again. Dad said he'll ask the section chief tomorrow."
Du Chen patiently explained everything to Du Bin. He understood Du Bin's thoughts and excitement. He was able to remain calm because he was tired of driving, but the excitement he felt when he bought his first car was indescribable.
"Jeep 212? That green box! Can the top be removed?"
"That's right, son. How about it? Do you like it?"
Comrade Lao Du heard what Du Bin said and asked Du Bin with a smile.
"I like it! Of course I like it! You guys didn't lie to me, our family really wants to buy a car!"
Du Bin asked again, still finding it hard to believe his family was buying a car. Before his family opened the shop, his family was among the poorest in the class.
With two sons and a non-working mom, the family of four relies on their dad's salary. He never imagined they'd even consider buying a car! He'd never heard of a single family owning a car among his classmates and friends.
"Of course it's true! Your mom also agreed! I'll go to the section tomorrow to ask and see how long it will take to pay! Once we pay, the car will be ours!"
Comrade Lao Du was also looking forward to it. He wished it was the next day so that he could go to the unit to pay and drive the car back!
"dad!"
Du Chen called out twice before finally waking up Comrade Lao Du who was daydreaming.
"What's wrong, Chenchen?"
"Dad, don't you think we should modify our car?"
Du Chen glanced at his mother and saw that she was chatting with Ren Suping with a rosy face and hadn't noticed him. Then he quietly asked Comrade Lao Du.
"Modify the car? Tell me how you would like to modify it! What good ideas do you have?"
When he heard about car modification, Lao Du also got excited. A car is a man's big toy! Most men can't resist the joy of tinkering.
"Let's not talk about anything else for now, Dad. Let's change the seats first! Look how uncomfortable that seat was just now, it was so hard. Let's change the seats first!"
"Yes! Let's get a leather seat too!"
Comrade Lao Du’s happy suggestion.
Du Chen actually wants to complain about the leather seats. In the summer, they burn my butt and make me sticky when I sweat. In the winter, they make me shiver. But people like them nowadays, and they look high-end. After all, it's Comrade Du's own car, so he can do whatever he wants with it!
"Yeah, Dad, let's get him a big sofa!"
Du Bin also happily offered suggestions.
However, Du Bin's big sofa inspired Du Chen. That's right, he converted the car into a sofa. Later, people pursued retro and modified it in this way, removing the headrest and leaving only a single backrest, and that feeling was immediately achieved.
"That's right, Dad, let's change it to a big sofa! Besides, aren't we going to Longcheng and Beijing during the summer vacation? Let's drive there then! I wonder if anyone has a camera? We can borrow one. I think we can take a family photo leaning against the car."
When Du Chen said this, his eyes turned red and tears almost fell. Speaking of taking pictures, Du Chen realized that the family had never taken a family photo.
After Comrade Lao Du passed away, Du Chen, missing him, would often dig out old photos, quietly looking at Comrade Du, tears streaming down his face. He realized they had never had a single family photo. He and his brother rarely had photos with Comrade Lao Du, or with their mother either. This was a huge regret.
Du Chen was afraid that Lao Du and Du Bin would notice something was wrong with him, so he quickly lowered his head. Since they were talking about taking pictures, Du Chen suddenly wanted to buy a camera very, very badly.
He wanted to take advantage of the present, while his parents were still young, and while God had given him a second chance to live his life, to record every detail of his life with a camera.
"Son, that's a great idea! I'll find some time to ask my colleagues if they have a camera, and then we can drive out and take our own photos!"
"Yes, Dad! Let's take more photos so that you and my mom can have some memories when we are old."
Du Chen tried hard to keep his voice from choking.
Fortunately, Comrade Lao Du and Du Bin were thinking about the scenes they described and did not notice Du Chen's loss of composure.
"Hey, come over and eat! You're never going to stop talking, are you?"
At this time, the mother over there finally finished chatting with the younger sister, and found that the father and his two sons were still chatting, so she immediately asked them to come over for dinner.
After returning home in the evening, Du Chen found a box from under the bed with a lock on it.
This box was Du Chen's treasure. Inside were sample issues of his magazines and some small items that were characteristic of the era. These were all Du Chen's collection. He planned to make money from these small items in the future.
To say that these collections are treasures is an exaggeration. After all, they are just some common gadgets with the characteristics of this era. Even after one or two hundred years, they will not be valuable. However, these things are indispensable in Du Chen's later plans.
"Chenchen, why are you digging out all these treasures of yours again?"
Du Bin, who was studying, looked at Du Chen's movements and asked curiously.
"Shh, brother, keep your voice down!"
Du Chen signaled Du Bin to keep his voice down so that his parents in the big house wouldn't hear what they were doing.
"What's wrong, Chenchen?"
Du Bin lowered his voice and asked quietly.
"Brother, I want to see how much money I have saved. I want to buy a camera! Then we can take pictures anytime!"
Du Chen opened the small lock and took out a cloth bag from the box.
"That camera is so expensive! How much money do you have?"
"Brother, my mom gave me all my royalties! I've barely spent any of them, so I guess I have quite a bit. I want to count how much I have and see how much I need."
Out of curiosity, Du Bin helped Du Chen count the money, including five, ten, fifty, and one hundred yuan.
"Chenchen, you actually have 816 yuan!"
Du Bin looked at his younger brother Du Chen in shock.
"It's about the same as I expected. I've written more than a dozen manuscripts in the past six months, and it almost matches."
Du Chen said casually that this amount of money was still far from enough to buy a camera.
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