Chapter 1022: Everything is due to greed (V)
After leaving the captain's house, Liu Ermei said to Lu Xiaoxiao: "Xiaoxiao, what are you doing in the county town today?"
"Go find some books, how about you?"
"Yesterday, a relative who came to my house gave my family some industrial coupons. My mother asked me to take the industrial coupons to the supply and marketing cooperative to see what I could buy."
After hearing what Liu Ermei said, Lu Xiaoxiao nodded and said to Liu Ermei, "Let's go to the village entrance quickly, otherwise we really can only walk to the county town."
"good."
When Lu Xiaoxiao and Liu Ermei arrived at the entrance of the village, they saw many people standing at the entrance waiting for the ox cart. It seemed that it would be really difficult to squeeze onto the ox cart today.
"Xiaoxiao, do you want to go to the cowshed and ride the ox cart?" Liu Ermei said to Lu Xiaoxiao when she saw so many people at the entrance of the village.
"No, we can still get on the ox cart if we run faster. Remember to grab the spot behind Uncle Liu. That spot is easier to grab than the other spots."
"I see."
More than ten minutes later, Lu Xiaoxiao saw the ox cart approaching the village entrance, so she said to Liu Ermei, "Second sister, the ox cart is coming, get ready to grab a spot."
After hearing what Lu Xiaoxiao said, Liu Ermei nodded and then took a running start.
When the ox cart stopped, Lu Xiaoxiao used her internal energy to quickly sit behind Uncle Liu. She also left a seat empty for Liu Ermei.
"Xiaoxiao, you run too fast." Liu Ermei said to Lu Xiaoxiao after sitting on the seat that Lu Xiaoxiao vacated for her.
"I exercise every day, so I can run faster."
"I will follow you from now on. I would not have been able to grab a spot if I relied on myself just now."
"good."
More than half an hour later, the oxcart arrived at the county town. After Lu Xiaoxiao got off the oxcart, she said to Liu Ermei, "Second sister, I'm going to buy books first. After you buy things at the supply and marketing cooperative, wait for me at the door of the supply and marketing cooperative."
"good."
After Lu Xiaoxiao and Liu Ermei separated, they walked towards the scrap station. She planned to go to the scrap station first to see if there were any dictionaries. If there were dictionaries at the scrap station, that would be the best. If not, then she would have to go to the bookstore to buy one.
"Little girl, you haven't been here for a long time." The old man who was guarding the scrap yard said to Lu Xiaoxiao after seeing her.
"I had a lot of things to do at home and didn't have time to go out, so I didn't come here. Today I happened to be free, so I came here."
"What are you going to look for today? Are you going to look for newspapers to paste on the walls?"
"No, I want to find some picture books to read today."
"Go in, the old rules still apply, don't take anything you shouldn't take."
"good."
When Lu Xiaoxiao entered the scrap yard, she went straight into the room where the books were kept and began looking for a dictionary. This time her target was the dictionary, so she did not specifically look for any rare copies or thread-bound books. She just put whatever she happened to see into her space.
Lu Xiaoxiao spent more than half an hour at the scrap yard and only found a dictionary. She didn't plan to continue looking. Firstly, it was too time-consuming, and secondly, Liu Ermei was still waiting for her at the door of the supply and marketing cooperative.
"Is this all you need today?" The gatekeeper asked Lu Xiaoxiao when he saw the dictionary and a stack of newspapers in her hands.
"Yeah, how much are these?"
"Just give me two cents."
After hearing what the old man said, Lu Xiaoxiao took out two cents from her pocket and handed it to the old man. Then she said thank you to him and took her things out of the scrap yard.
(End of this chapter)
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