One big and one small are practicing love

Liu Xiaochen ran along with a white canvas bag and a thick copy of "Das Kapital" in his arms.

Get a glass of hot water and buy some hand-pulled bread. While walking to the library, I ate a lot of bread. When we arrived at the library, the door was already open.

Usually after nine o'clock, the library is full of people. After Liu Xiaochen entered the museum, he found that more than half of the seats were empty. Only then did I remember that during the National Day holiday, most students had gone home or had fun.

Because of the holidays, the library was only open from the first to the third floor. She wanted to go to the fourth floor to borrow two more financial management books. Unfortunately, I can only study humanities and social sciences on the third floor.

Liu Xiaochen sat down at the desk by the window. He first placed the "Das Kapital" in his arms on the desk, and then took out the contents of the canvas bag one by one.

A glass water cup covered with a cup cover woven with blue and white wool, a notebook covered with red leather, and a pencil case with a daisy pattern woven with white and pink wool.

The empty canvas bag hung on the back of the chair, and Liu Xiaochen fiddled with the supplies on the table.

He unscrewed the lid of the cup, took a sip of hot water from the cup, and immediately put it down because it was so hot that he could only let it sit for a while before drinking. He opened the pencil case, picked out a black carbon pen, turned the notebook to a blank half page, and followed the bookmark to "Das Kapital" to the last reading position.

After quickly finishing all the preparations, Liu Xiaochen lowered his head and read the book carefully, writing notes while reading.

Liu Xiaochen has a habit of reading a book in its entirety and sorting out his notes at the end, so that his memory is deeper and his summary is more comprehensive. But on books borrowed from the library, you cannot scribble and sketch at will. You can only record while reading, and your thoughts will inevitably be interrupted.

Virtue, the virtue peculiar to women, harms them. Their gentle and submissive personality becomes the means of enslavement and suffering.

——Marx "Das Kapital"

Liu Xiaochen copied this sentence in his notebook, read it three or five times, and became distracted.

I thought of my mother. In my memory, my mother had been working, cooking, doing housework, and taking care of her and her younger brother. I ran a small restaurant with my father from dawn to dusk, and had to work in the fields during the busy farming season. Mom is hard-working, capable, and works hard for the family. Shouldn't such virtues be praised?

Marx's words impacted Liu Xiaochen's inherent concepts. However, she has little experience and does not fully agree with it, but also vaguely feels that this sentence is correct in some aspects.

He held his chin with one hand and was thinking about it when he smelled the light fragrance. Liu Xiaochen came back to his senses and thought of the perfume he sprayed in the dormitory in the morning.

When I read and write again, I sometimes smell the elegant fragrance faintly coming from my wrist, and think of the different fragrances of the top, middle and back notes that Liu Cuili mentioned just now. What's the tune now? What does it taste like?

I couldn't read the book, so I took out my phone and looked at the time. It was 11:22 a.m., and it was time to take a rest. After taking two sips of the cooled water, I started searching for Chanel No. [-] on my phone.

Open Taobao and enter Chanel No. [-].

Liu Xiaochen got his first smartphone when he was in college. He learned to shop online under the guidance of Liu Cuili. He only bought Longhu brand cooling oil online.

Since entering high school, Liu Xiaochen has often used Longhu brand cooling oil to refresh herself or treat migraines. Half of the box I brought with me when I came to university was used up, and the pharmacy in Beijing actually sold it for five yuan, while it only cost two yuan at the small clinic in my hometown.

Liu Xiaochen was reluctant to buy it. Liu Cuili heard Liu Xiaochen's complaints about this and helped her find out that 29.9 boxes were sold online for 5 yuan.

Thinking about it, many Chanel perfumes popped up on the page, and the first one listed was priced at 860 yuan. Seeing this price, Liu Xiaochen opened the first link in disbelief. It turns out that 860 yuan is the smallest 35 ml bottle. In the morning, Gu Liya’s bottle was visually judged to be 50 or 100 ml, and the price was 1150 yuan or 1660 yuan.

Seeing this price, Liu Xiaochen found it hard to accept it. A small bottle of perfume covers her monthly living expenses.

While I was scrolling through the comments, my phone suddenly vibrated. It was Sun Xinxin who called. I looked at the time in the library and saw it was already 12:[-]. Looking around, I saw only a few people sitting in the library.

Anyway, I couldn't read the book and I was hungry, so I packed my things, carried my bag and went out to call Sun Xinxin back.

"Xinxin, aren't you busy right now?" Liu Xiaochen said as he walked.

"Yeah! I'll take an hour's rest at noon. I just finished my meal. I wanted to call you quickly to tell you that Zhang Cheng finally relented today and said that as long as you apologize sincerely, he will forgive you."

"Ask him what he wants, as long as I can do it, it's fine."

"It's not the first day you've met Zhang Cheng. He's easy to get angry and easy to coax. Just treat him to a meal, explain what's going on, and say a few nice words. Tell the truth. , I’m also curious about what’s happened to you recently.”

After walking to a place under the sun, it was so comfortable to bask in the sun. Liu Xiaochen stopped and said, "No problem, when do you have time? I'll invite you to have dinner together. We haven't had dinner together since we went to college. .”

"Next week, we won't finish work until 6pm today. We have to go to the mall tomorrow morning to make statistical reports and collect wages. During the half-day break in the afternoon, I want to go back to wash clothes and tidy up. School will start again tomorrow. This I’m so tired after working for a few days!”

"Okay, no problem, I'll be free next week as well. Just discuss it with Zhang Cheng and see what time is suitable. He still doesn't reply to my messages or answer my calls." As he said that, he heard someone shouting from Sun Xinxin's side. Her name.

"Here he is!" Sun Xinxin responded loudly, and then said hurriedly: "I won't tell you anymore. Our supervisor called me and I have to work again."

After hanging up the phone, Liu Xiaochen stood in the sunshine and watched the people coming and going on campus. Many people were carrying takeaways and drinks and were suddenly very hungry.

Look at the time again, it's 12:46.

At this time, there was not much left in the cafeteria. The sun is very sunny today. Let's go to the old street behind the school and eat some delicious food.

Recently, I ate a pork belly bibimbap at a small shop and drank the entire bowl of soup that was given to me. Come out with a full meal and prepare for a dazzling library.

After walking a few steps, I saw a boutique store. I saw a dazzling array of small commodities through the glass door, and I wanted to go in and browse around to refresh myself.

Wander around slowly and casually look at the objects hanging on the walls, such as headbands, hairpins, necklaces and other small accessories. Occasionally I see something beautiful and look at it a few more times. The waiter immediately comes over and says, ‘If you like it, you can try it on. ’

Liu Xiaochen shook his head anxiously.

In the six years of junior high school and high school, Liu Xiaochen never dressed up. Cut your hair short like boys, just to make it easier to wash your hair and save a few minutes of study time. After graduating from high school, I started to grow my hair, and now I just wear it in a short ponytail. Except for the watch given by Teacher Wang, I don’t wear any jewelry.

The pace is fast. After finishing the transfer, hurry back to the library to read. I didn't concentrate on reading in the morning. I will read carefully in the afternoon. I haven't finished reading "Das Kapital" in half a month, so I try to finish it before school starts.

I was casually looking around, and suddenly I saw a bottle of Chanel No. [-] in the cosmetics display cabinet in the middle of the third row.

I stopped and saw the price listed below was 269 yuan. I picked it up and asked the waiter next to me: "Is this real or fake? I saw on the official website that 50 ml is 1150 yuan."

The waiter came closer and said with a smile: "Of course it's true. Our boss has special channels and can get the goods directly from the manufacturer."

"Can I try spraying it?" Liu Xiaochen asked.

The waiter shook his head, "If anyone sprays such an expensive perfume, one bottle will be consumed in a day. We are not allowed to spray it, we can only smell it."

Opening the bottle cap, Liu Xiaochen leaned in and smelled it. It smelled of soap and toilet water. It's very similar to the first note I smelled this morning.

"Can this price get any cheaper?" Liu Xiaochen held it up and asked.

The waiter affirmed: "We don't bargain here. This price is already very cheap. Our boss understands that you students don't have money, so our perfume only earns you ten or eight yuan."

I leaned closer and smelled the smell from the nozzle again, and I was sure it was soap. I thought that 269 yuan was much cheaper than 1150 yuan, and I happened to have more than 300 yuan in cash. So he turned around and said to the waiter: "Please bring me a new bottle."

When paying, Liu Xiaochen felt distressed, guilty, and uneasy. These three hundred yuan are intended to be used as a meal card, which is enough for ten and a half days of food.

Three hundred-yuan bills and only three ten-dollar bills were returned. The boss said there was no change left and gave him a black hair tie.

Carrying a small paper bag and walking on the road, I felt very nervous. I am so vain and materialistic, spending so much money on a small bottle of perfume.

But the fragrance was so charming. I thought of Gu Liya's bright and beautiful appearance in the morning, that elegant woman at the art exhibition, a beautiful Hollywood star. They can have this fragrance, why can't they have it themselves?

Then I thought that I spent almost no money during the week I stayed at Zuo Kunmin's house, so I just used the food money I saved to buy it.

Thinking of this, I finally felt at ease and walked quickly to the library.