He decided to use Xu Jingmin's house as a base for storing people's books.
At the end of the third class, Wan Feng found Xu Meilin's brother Xu Bin in the fourth grade.
Xu Bin and Wan Feng didn't know each other, and he was a little surprised to see Wan Feng coming to him.
Wan Feng called Xu Bin to a corner of the playground. Xu Bin seemed a little scared.
"Are you Xu Bin?"
Xu Bin nodded and looked at Wan Feng with a puzzled look.
"You know Zhu Xianyu, right?"
Xu Bin looked very confused.
"He's the guy from the Fruit Tree Team who has a very good relationship with your father. He's the one who often drinks with your father."
Grandpa Wan Feng and Xu Bin's father were a pair of famous alcoholics, the kind who suffered from alcohol poisoning. Later on, they both died of cerebral hemorrhage due to drinking too much.
Although they are nearly ten years apart in age, they are drinking buddies.
Thinking of this, Xu Bin obviously remembered who it was: "Are you Grandpa Zhu?"
"Smart! It's him. He's my grandpa and I'm his grandson. Now you know who I am, right?"
Xu Bin nodded and then asked doubtfully, "What do you want from me?"
"I have something I'd like to ask you for help with."
Then Wan Feng thought about putting the book in his house.
When Xu Bin heard that Wan Feng had more than eighty books, his eyes widened.
At that time, the temptation of human books to children was beyond the imagination of ordinary people.
"I put the human book in your house. Your family members can read it, and your uncle's children can read it, but no one else can read it, understand?"
Xu Bin's uncle's house is right next to his own. When Wan Feng lived in Shutun in his later years, he became the best friend of Xu Jun, the child of Xu Bin's uncle.
Xu Bin thought for a moment and asked, "I wonder if my dad will let me?"
"That's not a problem. I'll go talk to your dad after school today, and you can take me to your house after school this afternoon."
When school was over at noon, Tan Sheng glared at Wan Feng fiercely as soon as he walked out of the classroom.
Wan Feng frowned and glanced at Tan Sheng, thinking to himself, "Don't be so arrogant. Once I have established myself in the school, the first person I will deal with will be you."
How can he establish his authority in school if he doesn't deal with one or two of them? If he doesn't establish his authority, his life will be very difficult as he is seen as an outsider by others.
He has experienced it.
When going to school in the afternoon, Wan Feng quickly noticed the change in the atmosphere in the classroom. Several students from Wohutun looked at him with obvious suspicion.
This is understandable. At noon, Tan Sheng must have contacted the people in Wohutun, probably to create an atmosphere to isolate himself in the class.
This road is obviously a dead end. I have books, what can you use to isolate me?
Human books are good things. They can make money for me now and can be sold for collection value in the future.
Around the mid-1990s, human-themed books gradually disappeared from the market and became collectibles, replaced by cartoon comics.
Twenty or thirty years later, these inconspicuous things have become very valuable as collections.
Wan Feng remembers that during the peak period of human book collecting, the price of a human book could reach tens of thousands of yuan, and some books from earlier years even reached more than 100,000 yuan.
If you keep the books in your hands well, they will be sold for a good price in the future.
But that is all in the future. If he has spare money in the future, he will collect some books.
Thinking of the collector's book, Wan Feng's heart suddenly jumped, and he remembered a collection.
Today is March 6th, and the 9th is a Sunday.
Wan Feng decided to go to Hongya County on Sunday. Even if he couldn't buy what he wanted, he could at least buy some people and books.
He now has forty yuan in his hand, which was a huge sum of money in the hands of a thirteen-year-old boy in 1980.
In the afternoon, he received an order from a classmate named Xu Ling. Her family was from Dashutun, which was located to the east of the school and bordered the Guanghui Team of the Huanghui Brigade of the Heijiao Commune.
Because she was Wan Feng's first client at the school, Wan Feng gave her a 30% discount, allowing her to read three books for two cents.
By the time school was over in the afternoon, Wan Feng had received orders for more than a dozen books. Although it wasn't a lot, considering that this was only his first order at school, this result was acceptable.
After school in the afternoon, Xu Bin and his sister waited for Wan Feng outside the campus.
Luan Feng was also waiting for Wan Feng.
"I have to go to Shutun to do something. You go first." Wan Feng asked Luan Feng to go first, and then went down the mountain with Xu Bin and his sister.
Xu Meilin was in the first grade at that time. She was still a little girl with a runny nose and a blind eye. She held her brother's hand and looked at Wan Feng with curiosity.
Is this the person he'll be with eight years from now? The one he'd been with for four years and ended up with in a painful breakup? The thought of this made Wan Feng feel unreal.
In front of Xu Bin's house is the large yard where the Jiangwei Brigade is located, no more than 30 meters away.
The brigade headquarters clinic and supply and marketing cooperative were all in this yard. Wan Feng took Xu Bin and his sister into the brigade cooperative.
Wan Feng bought a dime worth of candy and a bottle of wine.
The fruit candies were 12 yuan each for 1 cent. Xu Bin and his sister each got six candies, which made Xu Meilin so happy that her face was full of flowers.
The liquor was Yunshan Baijiu, which cost a little over 50 cents. Baijiu from the 1980s didn't have fancy packaging, just a bottle with a label on it.
Wan Feng went to Xu Bin's house with the wine.
Xu Bin's father, Xu Jingmin, was also working in the fruit tree team at the time and had just returned from the team.
He was sitting on the kang and smoking a cigarette.
As soon as Wan Feng entered the room, he put the wine on the kang, then introduced himself directly and stated the purpose of his visit.
"Release letter?" Xu Jingmin asked doubtfully. He still didn't understand what Wan Feng meant.
"I have more than eighty books in total. I plan to rent them out to students at school, but they can't be brought to school. If the teacher finds them, they will be confiscated. But my grandfather's house is too far from the school. Students from Dashutun, Zhoujia, and Crouching Tigers have to go to the Wahou Team to read them, and the journey is long. Shutun is in the center of the entire team, and the distance from here to any team is about the same, so I want to leave the books at your house, and I will come to pick them up when the time comes."
Xu Jingmin finally understood, but still asked cautiously, "Won't the school come to my house to look for me?"
"No, I won't bring the students to your house. They'll wait for me in the brigade yard. It has nothing to do with your family if I come here to get the books myself. And I'll give you a commission. I can give you 10% of the rent for each book I rent."
Assuming Wan Feng earned 50 cents a day from renting a house, Xu Jingmin would get 5 cents a day, which was a considerable extra income in the countryside in the 1980s.
A box of matches cost two cents, large-grain salt cost five cents per pound, and handshake or economy brand cigarettes cost less than ten cents.
Five cents can buy a lot of things.
Xu Jingmin thought about it and agreed to Wan Feng's request as there seemed to be no problem, and even found an empty wooden box for Wan Feng.
Wan Feng went to buy a lock, and this box would be filled with all his comic book paintings from then on.
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