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The Children's Palace will set up some interest classes in dance, art, calligraphy, Go, various ball games, etc. Some parents will sign up their children to study here during the holidays.

But more people come here to play, because there are enough sports places in the Children's Palace, such as basketball courts, badminton courts, table tennis tables and so on.

There is even a swimming pool in the gymnasium. There is a lot of water in the south, and there are rivers, lakes and ponds everywhere. Every summer, there are many drowning accidents of children and teenagers.

In order to reduce this potential safety hazard, the Suyang County Government built a swimming pool in the gymnasium for people to exercise and cool off.

So there were a lot of people coming to the Children's Palace during the summer vacation. After a while, the book rental booth was full of people.

In order not to lose the books, Yuan Xia's ancestors and grandchildren had to keep their eyes wide open, keeping a close eye on the bookshelves and the onlookers, lest the books be taken away.

Yuan Xia said loudly: "Don't be crowded, please line up, form two lines, and come to read books one by one. Renting a book costs one penny a day, and you need to pay a deposit. Those who choose a good book come to register with me. Thank you for your cooperation, don't Don't worry, we will set up a stall here every day in the future, and we can read books at any time."

With the efforts of the brothers and sisters, the crowded crowd was finally lined up.

Everyone eagerly stretched their necks to look at the books on the shelf: "Wow! There is "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", isn't it a complete set? Last time I read it at a classmate's house, it wasn't complete, I only read two copies."

"There are also "Girls of the Yang Family" and "Chen Yucheng", which seem to be historical stories. Hehe, I like ancient comic books the most."

"Hurry up, hurry up, why haven't you chosen yet? I can't make up my mind to let me come, I've already decided." Someone urged from behind.

Everyone was extremely anxious, for fear that others would take away the books they fancy.

Yuan Xia said: "I hope that everyone will only borrow one book as much as possible, otherwise the deposit will be more expensive. Borrow today, pay it back today and tomorrow, it counts as one day. Borrow today, pay it back the day after tomorrow, count as two days."

Some people can't make up their minds and don't know which book is better to read first.

Some people didn't bring enough money to pay the deposit, scratched their heads anxiously, and couldn't bear to leave, so they had to linger in place.

Yuan Xia said again: "If you don't bring enough deposit, you can just read it here, return the book immediately after finishing it, and only charge the money for reading the book."

As soon as his words fell, many people were overjoyed: "Great, then I'll read it here. I have five cents, and I can read five books!"

Yuan Xia has numbered each book, and there is also a number on the debit book. If you match the number, you can quickly register it. It is very convenient and the borrowing process is very fast.

He registered quickly, collected the deposit, and in the blink of an eye, twenty or thirty books were lent out.The most borrowed ones were comic books, and only two foreign literary classics were borrowed by two girls passing by.

Soon, the steps where the book rental stand was located were full of children reading books.

When the onlookers dispersed, Yuan Xia said to Yuan Dehou, "Grandpa, please sit here and register."

Yuande said with a thick smile, "Okay."

Yuan Xia got up, looked around behind the children who were reading, and reminded: "Do you have any lessons? Don't delay the class just because of reading. The class time is fixed, and if you miss it, there will be no more. Books are You can watch it at any time. If you need to take a class, don’t read it first, go to the class quickly, I will refund the money to you, and watch it after the class is over.”

As soon as he finished speaking, a child put down the book and looked around.

Yuan Xia looked at the ten-year-old boy and said, "Little friend, do you have to go to class?"

The little boy nodded in embarrassment, and Yuan Xia stretched out his hand to him: "Then don't go to class, go to class quickly, and come back to read the book. Give me the book."

The little boy was a little reluctant: "It's just an art class, so you can skip it."

Yuan Xia said: "How can you not go to school? Your parents paid the money, so it would be a waste if you don't go to school, and absenteeism is also disrespectful to the teacher. Go, I will refund the money to you, and come back after you finish class." .”

"I haven't finished watching it yet. Will it be borrowed?" The little boy looked worried.

Yuan Xia said with a smile: "Then I will keep this book separately, and I won't lend it out any more. Come read it after you finish class."

The little guy also simply said: "Don't refund the money, and continue watching when I come back from class."

Yuan Xia smiled: "If you trust us, then you won't retreat. Go."

The little guy put the book in Yuan Xia's hands, patted the ashes on his buttocks, and ran away. After running for a while, he looked back at the bookstall, and ran forward with jumps and jumps, which showed his joy.

Some children read books very quickly, finishing flipping through a comic book in half an hour, and then have to borrow new ones after returning it.

Yuan Xia smiled and said, "Are you sure you've finished reading it, why don't you take a closer look? It will cost money to return it and read it again."

Hearing what Yuan Xia said, the child really went back and looked through it again.

Yuan Dong lowered his voice and said in Yuan Xia's ear: "Brother, he read it quickly and borrowed new ones immediately, we can earn more money, isn't it good? Why do you want him to watch it again?"

Yuan Xia looked at his younger brothers and sisters: "It's the most taboo to swallow jujubes when reading books. It's not just him, you can't just read a book just to read the plot, you have to be careful every time you read a book, you have to learn a little knowledge from the book, even if it is a A new word or a word is fine. Instead of forgetting it after seeing it.”

The brothers and sisters nodded: "Understood."

They are also reading. They have been busy for a while, and there are fewer people coming, so they hurry up to read.

When it was almost noon, the bookstall was busy again. The students who had finished class and the primary and middle school students who were going home for dinner gathered at the bus station again, and the bookstall borrowed another twenty or thirty books.

Some children just sit here and read without even going back to eat, and Yuan Xia can't drive them away.

In the afternoon, many children came to read books.

A total of more than 100 books were borrowed on this day. If this continues, there will be an income of 30 to [-] yuan a month, which can basically maintain the family expenses.

The next day, Yuan Xia went to wholesale some popsicles, and also made a large pot of tea from home. The popsicles were sold at the book rental stand, and the herbal tea was provided free of charge, and both passers-by and readers could drink it.

At noon, the steps can be half exposed to the sun, which is a bit hot.Yuan Xia and his grandfather made a plastic pergola to support the sun, and if it rains, it can also block the rain.

There were more people on the second day than the previous day, and many of them were brought by acquaintances.

There are too few pastimes for children these days. Without TVs, game consoles and mobile phones, reading books is obviously a very good pastime.

When buying books at Xinhua Bookstore, people cannot choose for themselves.There is also a library in the Children's Palace, but there are very few types of books. The books are under the care of the administrator, and you can't choose them yourself. You can read what you have.Moreover, there are too many monks and too few porridge, so it is often impossible to grab them.

Now a penny is a book, although it costs money, most of the children can still afford it, so they all come to read books together.

The more people there are, the more books will be rented out.I can also sell some popsicles, which is two incomes.

Yuan Qiu even wants to sell food, because there are always some children who don't want to go home to eat at noon.

But Yuanxia didn't let it go, it was too troublesome, the summer was too hot, the food was easy to spoil, and it wasted if it wasn't sold.

He just urged the child to go home to eat, but he really didn't want to listen, and there was nothing he could do, and it didn't matter if he didn't eat one meal a day.

Grandpa said that in his hometown, he often ate two meals a day. There was no food, so there was nothing he could do.

Within a few days, the book rental stall became a regular scene here, and the business gradually stabilized.

Yuan Dehou got used to how to register and checkout, he is old and has a bit of presbyopia, Yuan Xia also accompanied him to get a pair of reading glasses.

In this way, he can read the words on the book clearly, and when there are not many people, he can read the book to pass the time by himself.The old man has attended a private school for three years and is able to do basic reading.

With the book rental stand, the basic life of the family is guaranteed.

But Yuan Xia still wants to find another way to earn money, and save more money for emergencies. After all, grandpa is old, and younger siblings are young, and they are all at an age prone to emergencies.

He can repair machines, but no one needs to repair machines except factories these days.There are skilled workers in the factory, so naturally it is not his turn.

He can drive, but the driver's license test is not easy, he is not yet 18 years old, and he can't get it.Moreover, no one else would hire him as a short-term worker.

It seems that after looking at it, the only way to do business is to sell materials and make a little difference.

However, there is a problem in front of us. The travel fare is too expensive. For example, taking the train from Suyang to Yuecheng costs more than five yuan.

Only by going to Shanghai can he really earn the difference, and the fare is even more expensive, and the round trip costs dozens of dollars. With his little capital, the things he brings back can probably earn a toll.

It would be fine if we hitch a ride there, but Ma Anmin's car will not drive to Shanghai.

After much deliberation, Yuan Xia couldn't find a suitable solution.

That night, Yuan Xia was reading "Selected Works of Mao" in the rented house, when Ma Jianshe knocked on the door and came in: "I've finished the college entrance examination, how about reading?"

Yuan Xia raised his head and said with a smile, "When did you come back? Come in and sit."

These days, Ma Jianshe has been going out with his father to learn how to drive, and he is basically not at home.

Ma Jianshe sat down on the chair and yawned: "I just came back today. I have to go out again tomorrow."

"The business in the factory is very good." Yuan Xia said.

Ma Jianshe waved his hand: "I'm not going out with my dad this time. One of my dad's apprentices bought a walk-behind tractor by himself and drove it to pull goods. Something happened to his family recently and he couldn't go to work. He took over all the work there. , I have to go, I have to find someone who can drive for help. He found my dad. My dad is not free, so let me try it. A tractor is different from a truck, it is much simpler. Come with me , We will share the money we earn equally.”

Yuan Xia was very surprised: "Your father's apprentice bought a car for private transportation?"

Being able to buy a car for transportation in private these days is definitely a genius.

Ma Jianshe said: "That's right. That kid has made a lot of money, and he counts the money on trips to fetch goods for others. Sometimes he can earn a month's wages in a day. He said, I will help him with the sports car, and he only needs to pay for a trip." Fifty cents for consumption, the rest will be mine, and I will pay for the gas. If you go, we will share the money you earn.”

This is simply a good thing, Yuan Xia said: "That's so embarrassing."

Ma Jianshe patted him on the shoulder vigorously: "There is nothing to be embarrassed about. Which one of us will be with whom? But as I said before, we have to find his customers for the future work. We don't know if we can find them. are you going?"

Yuan Xia naturally agreed: "Go! How long will you run?"

Ma Jianshe shook his head: "It's hard to say, his old man is seriously ill and hospitalized. I don't know if he can survive it. If he can't survive it, he probably has to go through a funeral before he can come."

So the next day, Yuan Xia and Ma Jianshe drove the tractor to pull the goods.

It costs two yuan to start a car, and it costs even three yuan to go far.Yuan Xia originally thought that the price of hauling goods was so high that few people would use cars. In fact, there were quite a lot of people who hired cars.

For example, to build a house, you have to hire a car to pull construction materials such as steel bars, cement, bricks, sand, cement, lime, centimeter stones, and tiles.

Now no one builds mud-brick houses, but red brick houses. These materials are standard. Some people burn bricks and stones themselves, but they also need reinforced concrete tiles.

Although tractors are expensive to pull materials, they save trouble and load a lot. Not only are they powerful, but they can also be self-unloading.

Therefore, they hardly need to find customers by themselves. Customers will take the initiative to come to the door to book a car. The supply is simply in short supply.At least four or five times a day, he and Ma Jianshe can earn at least a few dollars a day, excluding the money given to the car owner.

Yuan Xia was also surprised, everyone said that the 80s were very poor, but in fact, there are still many people who can afford to build houses.

Yuan Xia likes tractors, which are the lowest-grade construction vehicles, and all the dump construction vehicles he makes are developed from here.

Ma Jianshe soon discovered that he had definitely made money by finding Yuan Xia as a partner.Yuan Xia not only knows how to drive well, he can also repair cars.

Once the car turned off halfway, but it wasn't because it ran out of gas, and it couldn't be shaken anyway.Ma Jianshe was in a hurry, he never expected that the car would break down, and he was a novice driver, so he didn't know where to find someone to repair the car.

But Yuan Xia didn't rush, took out the tool bag from under the car seat, and fiddled with the car without much effort.

Ma Jianshe was so shocked that his jaw dropped: "Yuan Xia, how can you repair cars? Where did you learn it?"

Yuan Xia said: "I didn't learn it, I just watched your dad repair the car occasionally. I figured it out on my own, and the principles are the ones we learned in physics books, not far from it."

"My God! You can do it just by looking at it?" Ma Jianshe opened his mouth. Could this be the difference in IQ?

When Yuan Xia raced the sports car, the results of the college entrance examination also came out.

Yuan Xia didn't estimate the score, anyway, he finished the exam and filled out the volunteers in advance, so the score assessment doesn't make much sense, besides, it's not accurate.

The teachers thought he failed the exam, but when the results of the college entrance examination came out, he scored 510 out of 326.

The teachers are very happy, because this year's main line is 292 points. With this score, he can be admitted to a very good university, and Yuecheng University is naturally no problem.

On the evening of August 8th, Yuan Xia and Ma Jianshe came home from work. As soon as they entered the factory gate, they heard the gatekeeper Lao Liu smilingly say to Yuan Xia: "Yuan Xia, congratulations, you have been admitted to university!"