It seemed like a very happy thing at first to not have to study in the future, but Bai Xiaoqi felt very suffocated.

If you don't need to study, you don't need to study. What's annoying is that this guy doesn't tell himself that every time he skips two days of school, he will go and study if he feels guilty. When he feels guilty again, he will study again.

Although playing truant was fun, it was actually a very complicated matter and would cause a kind of psychological burden. Then she felt the inner struggle and suffering in this psychological burden.

He must have done it on purpose.

This guy is bad!

"You don't have to study, but you have to read, and then we will spend money to buy you a correspondence-taught college certificate or technical secondary school certificate later."

Hearing this, Bai Xiaoqi was instantly moved. She knew a little bit about junior college and technical secondary school. Technical secondary school was similar to high school. High school... was an existence that elementary school students like her looked up to.

As for junior college, it's even better.

It was the unfamiliar word "correspondence education" that she didn't quite understand.

“What is correspondence education?”

"This is a very general term. Not all full-time students can be called correspondence courses, such as TV University or online education.

Anyway, it doesn’t have much value, and many companies don’t recognize it, but you don’t need to go to work in a company, as long as the country recognizes it, it can be used to change the education level on your household registration book, saving you in the future... Oh, you are illiterate.

It’s uncomfortable, isn’t it?”

"How much does it cost to buy a college degree?" If possible, Bai Xiaoqi still wants a higher degree.

“It’s a bit difficult to buy a junior college certificate. The safest way is to buy a technical secondary school diploma first and then take a self-study exam.

If you really want to buy a junior college, you have to go through the back door through a trust relationship, and it’s hard to say whether it can be done, but even if it can be done, you’ll still have to spend ten thousand or twenty thousand anyway.”

"So expensive?!" Bai Xiaoqi was shocked and a little confused, should she get a technical secondary school?

It seems to work too.

Anyway, secondary school students are much better than primary school students.

"What about technical secondary school?"

"This is easier. If you sign up and pass the first half and a year, you can get the certificate, which costs about five to six thousand."

"Why is it so expensive?"

"Then why don't you take the exam? With your elementary school level, you can't pass the exam. They also have to take the English exam. Do you know how many English letters there are?"

"..."

"Stop looking down on others. I'm going to learn English now. I want to take the test myself so I don't have to spend money to buy it."

Bai Xiaoqi was unhappy, this guy actually looked down on her, so she turned and went downstairs to start the hard study mode.

"Okay, you are very ambitious. Unfortunately, we don't have English books at home. You can't learn it now if you want to. Wait, I will buy you a set of tutoring books specifically for self-study exams."

"Buy it, buy it. I will definitely study hard after you buy it, and I will take one test for you to see." Bai Xiaoqi is very confident. She has to study hard, pass the entrance examination, no, enter the junior college, and then be amazed by this piece of shit.

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"Then I'll just wait and see. Oh, first of all, I would like to congratulate Ah Miao in advance for successfully landing ashore and taking off the hat of being illiterate."

As he said that, Chen Shuo bowed his hand to her. After being together for almost two years, he knew this little cat very well. If she could pass the three-minute heat test, she would live broadcast the five-speed electric fan on her own day.

I'll leave it at that and let everyone bear witness.

"Chen Shuo!"

Bai Xiaoqi gritted her teeth in anger because of her tone and demeanor that she wanted to be beaten. She stopped going downstairs and chased him on the rooftop to beat him.

Chen Shuo ran around holding his head, "Don't make trouble, let's go out and buy you a book."

.....

It was just after noon, so the two of them went out to have a quick lunch, then turned right along the food street and walked for ten minutes to the gate of a very large middle school, Yangcheng No. 2 Experimental Middle School.

There is a small alley next to the middle school, and there is a street sign at the entrance that says Dog Market Street.

More than a hundred years ago, this was a place dedicated to buying and selling dogs, but what was traded was not meat-eating dogs, but large fighting dogs.

In those days, children from rich families did not have anything to do except visit brothels and brothels. Carrying cages and walking birds every day, and setting up eagles and running dogs were the norm. Cricket fights, cock fights, and dog fights were not out of the question.

So places like the Dog Market came into being, which not only dealt with buying and selling, but also built special places for the rich kids to fight dogs.

But times have changed, and all the places and buildings have disappeared with the passage of time. The only thing that remains is the name Dog Market.

Such a strange name naturally aroused Bai Xiaoqi's curiosity. The afternoon sun was a bit fierce. She raised her hand and put it on her forehead to block the sun. She squinted slightly and looked at the street sign in front of her, listening to Chen Shuo telling the name next to her.

The origin of.

"You see, this place used to sell dogs, but now it has been transformed into a middle school."

"Then why not change your name?"

"It's a convention, everyone calls it that. Even if you change the local name, you still call this place a dog market, just like other cities have mule and horse markets, chicken markets, and cattle markets. Now it's not selling chickens, cattle, or horses.

Yes, but it’s still called that.”

After explaining, Chen Shuo took her hand and continued walking forward, "Let's go to the front."

I came here from home, of course, not specifically to discuss the origin of the name Dog Market, but to buy books.

Walking a few steps along the alley called Gouchi Street, they saw an old bookstore, and the two of them stepped inside.

It was very deserted, there was not a single customer, only the boss was sitting at the counter reading the newspaper. When he saw someone coming in, he stretched out his hand to hold his reading glasses and said hello, "Buy a book or borrow a book?"

"Buy a book, let's take a look first."

While Chen Shuo was speaking, he glanced at his boss twice. Although he was already showing his age, he could recognize his former appearance at a glance, but the other party no longer recognized him.

When he was in junior high school, entertainment options were relatively expensive and the Internet was not developed. Unlike now where smartphones are everywhere, and mobile phones are not allowed in school.

Many students in the school borrow books from this small bookstore. For one or two yuan, you can borrow a thick pirated book and then pass it around to the whole class.

Even if you don’t have money, you can stand in the store and watch. The boss never chases people away, and sometimes even lends it to students for free.

But now the store is so deserted that it doesn't look like it used to be popular.

In this era, there are more and more interesting ways of entertainment. In their free time, today’s students and children also play with their mobile phones. There is everything on them, and few people are willing to read. Even if they want to read, they can search directly on their mobile phones.

Who goes to the bookstore to borrow books?

Chen Shuo took Bai Xiaoqi around in a small bookstore. Most of the books here were old books and pirated books, the kind of pirated online novels that were as thick as bricks.

There are also many tutoring books, such as five-year high school entrance examination and three-year simulation, to teach you how to learn English.

Although there are no guests, it can be seen that the boss is still taking care of it regularly. Each bookshelf is placed in an orderly manner, and the books on it are also neatly placed in categories.

Chen Shuo picked up a very old pirated book that was a popular online cultivation novel at that time. The yellowed pages carried the memories of countless people, including his.

One of the pages still has bookmark creases left when he was reading it.

He put the book under his arm and said to Bai Xiaoqi: "Let's see if there are any that we like. Let's pick a few more and take them back to fill the bookshelves."

"Hmm..." Bai Xiaoqi responded and started to choose from the bookshelf. In a place like a bookstore, people always feel like they are spoiled for choice.

Ordinary people buy books that they understand or are interested in. She is not an ordinary person, so her criteria for buying books are naturally different. She only looks at the title of the book.

The title of the book was impressive and could scare people. She looked at it as a high-end book and picked it out.

In a short time, I picked out more than a dozen books, such as "The Weakness of Human Nature", "On the Entanglement of Finance and Economics", "Teaching You to Do Business", "The Art of Speaking", "Genius on the Left, Madman on the Right"...

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Seeing how quickly she picked books, Chen Shuo couldn't help but take a look. She was holding a large stack of books in her arms. The top one had a long title, "Teaching You to See Through Men from a Man's Perspective"...

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Chapter completed!