【193】Book anecdote 2
In that era, selling books was like this. It was not that people put the books on the bookshelf and let them read and choose. Instead, they set up a counter, like a cloth shop. According to ancient customs, books were placed neatly on the bookshelf behind the counter. The customer wanted a book and told the salesperson. The salesperson took the book down and showed it to you. If you read it, you would go to the cashier to pay and go back to get the book.
Few people can afford books because a thin book is very expensive for 50 cents. Most people cannot buy a series of books with many books.
What should I do if I can’t afford a book? Look at the small vendors outside the bookstore. They are not sell books, but they basically rent books. The rented little guys are placed in a large wooden box, with large wooden boxes separated by one, each with a book placed in each box. There are many small wooden stools around, and they are for the people who rent books to sit and read. How much does it cost to rent a book in an hour cost?
So Xiaosi and Xiaowu went to the bookstore to read so many people, and the books were placed on the high shelf and could not see or touch them. When I was anxious, I looked back and saw that many children were sitting on small benches reading books, and they felt that there was more attractive to them there.
Similarly, Meng Chenhao and Ning Yunxi were in trouble. Because there were too many books and too many good books. After all, this is a big city, unlike the third-tier small county town they had before. There are all kinds of books here.
For example, children's science popularization books that are difficult to buy in small counties include the famous "We Love Science", "Stories of Insect Control", "Stories of Buoyancy", etc. There is "Children's Literature" that has not disappeared in the future. At that time, "Children's Literature" was just founded.
The papers of every book were yellowed at that time, but they had never changed with the heavy load of knowledge and cultural education. They wanted to buy every book and took it home, and the children could read it, and she could read it. However, the money was not enough. She and him had no money to buy all the books in the bookstore. There was no such person in the country.
She stood in the crowd with him, looking up at the books on the bookshelf like everyone else, not knowing where to start. Thinking of the task Lin Zhiqiang gave them, the couple remembered it. They thought it was easy to buy books, but now they think it was not the case. Lin Zhiqiang's hometown is here, so Lin Zhiqiang naturally knew what the situation in his hometown bookstore, but threw this task to them because they knew it would be difficult to do this.
Meng Chenhao sighed and looked at his wife: Have you thought about it? Which book to buy?
Ning Yunxi looked at the rows of books, asking her to choose by herself, but she couldn't choose until dawn because she had to ask the salesperson to take them down and read them. There were many customers and few salespersons. She had to wait for a while when she got a book. Fortunately, there were strange eyes, and this kind of job of choosing the best is the easiest to be handed over to strange eyes to screen.
After she decided to get those books, he asked the salesperson to get them. These were books picked for the officers and soldiers of the army. As for what they chose for the children and herself, she had to think about it again.
Several children stood behind her.
Meng Chenyi and Meng Chenxi didn't want their elder brother and sister-in-law to make things difficult because they knew that their elder brother and sister-in-law had so much salary, and it was difficult to support them just so they said in unison that there was no need to buy books.
After hearing what his brother and sister said, Xiao Si and Xiao Wu said to Ning Yunxi: "Teacher, we can read the textbook."
Chapter completed!