Age: My Small World

Chapter 22 Selling Fish
After changing seats, the next thing to do is to select class leaders.

If a class teacher wants to manage dozens of people, he must have assistants, among whom the class monitor is the most important.

Since no one was familiar with each other, Cao Wen finally assigned someone. The choice was the clean and refreshing Ma Xin, because he had often served as class monitor in junior high school.

The physical education committee member is Zhu Chun, and his muscular muscles are not in vain.

What was surprising was that the Chinese class representative was Jiang Xueying. It was said that she scored almost full marks in Chinese during the entrance test, so the school admitted her even though she was ill.

If you want to go to high school, you don’t have to take the junior high school entrance examination. Instead, the school conducts an entrance test and only admits students if you pass it.

Thinking about it this way, Cheng Xiaoyu's results are not completely useless, at least they are better than others.

"Come on, a few students, come with me to move the books. Your textbooks are almost ready."

Ma Xin immediately took the lead and then pointed out a few burly men.

People like Yang Jun were not called.

Soon, new books began to be distributed.

There are not many courses in high school, which are basically the same as those later on. They are mainly Chinese, mathematics, foreign languages, etc., and there are also art, music, and physical education classes.

After receiving the brand new textbooks, some students took out the book covers they had prepared in advance, wrapped the textbooks, and wrote their names on them.

These books cost a full dollar and are extremely valuable.

If there are younger brothers and sisters at home who need to go to school, there is no need to buy new books. Old books can be used. Not everyone in the class has paid for textbooks. Some people don’t have money, so they borrow books from others in advance and copy the textbooks. They almost write the textbooks by hand. Some people use old books.

It doesn't cost a penny to exchange it at the scrap yard.

If it were the Yang Jun from before, he would probably be reluctant to spend this dollar.

Cheng Xiaoyu had no time to copy the textbooks and couldn't find a place to borrow books, so she had no choice but to pay.

At this moment, she looked quite excited, holding a new book and flipping through it with the little girl sitting at the same table with her.

After all, he is just a child.

"Yang Jun, do you want a book cover? I have extra ones."

As if realizing that Yang Jun had not prepared in advance, Wang Kui took the initiative to hand over a few book covers.

"Thank you then."

Without refusing, Yang Jun reached out and took it.

He was indeed not prepared and had not even thought about this. After all, it was quite a long time since he started studying.

When the first class started, the class realized that Cao Wen, their homeroom teacher, was also their Chinese teacher.

Jiang Kehua is a math teacher, no wonder he looks so serious.

The morning passed and noon arrived.

During the break, everyone started to get busy with their own things. Those who brought food ate dry food, and those who didn’t bring food went to the cafeteria or went home.

You only need to pay 7.5 yuan a month to eat in the school cafeteria, which usually provides two dry meals and one liquid meal.

There are steamed buns and pickles for breakfast, and even rice and side dishes in the afternoon and evening. The food is good.

But there are not many families who can afford to spend more than seven dollars.

There are not many factories in Fei County, and the number of workers is also small. Most of them are farmers. It is difficult for them to save seven yuan a month, let alone use it for food.

So what Yang Jun saw was that almost half of the people were still staying in the school, and some of the remaining half were from the city, so they went home for dinner, and only a few went to the cafeteria.

"Yang Jun, I'm going home to eat first."

Seeing Yang Jun take out his dry food, Wang Kui didn't say anything about going to his house to eat.

"Well, see you in the afternoon."

In the classroom, everyone took out their lunch boxes.

"Brother Xiaoshan, I've finished eating. What are you going to do after dinner?"

Cheng Xiaoyu brought even fewer tortillas than Yang Jun, and finished them in just a few bites. She then filled a wooden box with water, which served as her lunch box. "I have to go out for something. You stay at school."

He planned to see if there was any market in the city, and it would be best if he could sell the eight or nine kilograms of fish so that he would have money to buy things.

At least the space should be equipped with a complete set of toiletries and bedding, as well as pots, pans, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, so that they can be used when you go out.

And in this way, he doesn't have to worry about not having enough food to eat or sleep somewhere. At worst, he can just live in the small world.

"No, I'll go with you."

Cheng Xiaoyu naturally wouldn't stay alone and get bored.

"Be good, I'll take you shopping tomorrow. I really have something to do today."

In fact, they had been to the county town before. The junior high school was right on the edge of the county town. The two of them had been to the city together in the past, but they had not paid attention to the market.

"Okay." Cheng Xiaoyu pouted unconsciously.

When she took the lunch box to wash it, Yang Jun couldn't help but look in front of him.

He was sitting in the fourth row against the wall, while Jiang Xueying was sitting alone in the third row against the rightmost wall, just in front of and behind him. At the moment, she was eating slowly, with a sense of elegance. She was a girl with good family education.

Liu Xin had gone to jump rope a long time ago, so he couldn't take care of her at all.

Shaking his head, Yang Jun said nothing. He put on his cloth bag and stood up and left the classroom.

Cheng Xiaoyu looked at his back, wondering what Brother Xiaoshan was going to do. He was so mysterious that he even hid it from her.

The more I thought about it, the angrier I got, so I just lay down on the table and closed my eyes.

After leaving school, Yang Jun immediately found the local vegetable market.

He just needs to follow the old men and women who want to buy vegetables, and he will naturally find the place.

The county town is not big, so the market here is also relatively small. There is only a short street of a hundred meters, and you can see the end at a glance.

Everyone's clothes have become more diverse, not as neat as what you see in school. Many people's clothes are thin and old, and some are even reflective.

Nowadays, most clothes are washed with water, and the sweat and oil stains on them are difficult to remove, so they become like this over time.

Without asking anyone immediately, Yang Jun stood in a corner and began to observe.

Not long after, his eyes suddenly stopped at one place.

"What do you want, young man?"

A middle-aged man in blue clothes looked up, his eyes darting around from time to time, not knowing what he was looking at.

"Brother, will you accept the items?"

After observing for a while, Yang Jun found that occasionally people would come to this man's stall with things to sell, so he stepped forward.

The things sold here are quite diverse, but most of them are food, even candy.

"What are you selling?" The middle-aged man glanced at him. He didn't look like a seller, more like a student.

"I caught a fish and wanted to sell it."

It turned out to be a fish, that's not surprising.

The middle-aged man nodded: "Yes, but not if it's less than two kilograms."

Anything under two pounds is too small, and he doesn't have the time to do that.

"Don't worry, it should be around seven or eight kilograms." Yang Jun said less.

In fact, after being raised in the space for a few days, the grass carp is probably about ten kilograms now.

"That's great. Give it to me. I want it." The stall owner looked much better.

"Please wait a moment, I'll be back soon." Yang Jun said and left the small market.

　New books for collection
　　
　
(End of this chapter)