Chapter 248 What is leek
Schools in America generally adopt a semester system. The nine-month school year is divided into two semesters of 16 to 18 weeks; the first semester starts at the end of August and ends in mid-to-late December. Starts in early January and ends in late May.
Only when you go to university, some schools will adopt the quarter system. They divide the course of the year into four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter. Each season corresponds to a semester. Each semester is basically ten to twelve weeks. Only one semester can maintain the status of students. Due to the short class time and frequent exams, the pressure on the students is also very high.
But regardless of whether it is elementary school or university, regardless of whether it is a semester system or a quarter system, after a relaxing and happy Christmas holiday, these guys will return to school one after another and devote themselves to relatively intense studies.
Because of this, every year from January to February is a period of time when various entertainment activities are relatively shrinking. In the past, there was the Christmas holiday, a gold-absorbing behemoth, and later, there was the psychological pressure of resuming work, production and school. The consumption desires of adults and children will be straight decline.
But this year, it is different from usual.
In the past, every school season, at the door of major bookstores and book rental markets, there were a group of college students crying and mourning, waiting for the funeral.
Because the price of books is too expensive, and the school does not provide textbooks, if you buy any one, it will be close to three digits.
If you are studying medicine, it is even more life-threatening, and if you want to prepare all the books, the unforgettable heartache caused by the outflow of white money can fully prove that knowledge is indeed obtained from hard work. of.
But this year, in the eyes of those big friends who are stuck renting books at the start time in order to save money, the situation is different.
While these guys waited in line for the staff to rent books for themselves, a bunch of little guys of different heights and ages were standing on tiptoes in the locked sales area beside them, raising their heads. look forward to.
"What are these little guys doing?" After a few glances, the suspicious college student asked, "I remember that the textbooks for primary and secondary schools are provided by the school for free, right? Unless these guys are all private?"
Hearing these words, the little sister who lived in the same dormitory with her turned her head and looked at each other. When she saw the poster in a child's hand, she said clearly, "Oh, you mean them? Buy "Haha!" Leigh Potter."
"What? Harry Potter?"
The blond female college student did not retrieve the book in her mind, "What is that?"
As soon as these words came out, the little sister also showed surprise on her face.
Turning her head and glanced at the other party, she felt that her sister just crawled out of that broken place in Mississippi.
"How long have you been on the Internet? Or haven't you read TV newspapers since the holidays? Don't you know "Harry Potter"? It won the first place on the "New York Times" bestseller list as soon as it was released The recommender was George Lucas, who said that after reading this book, he had a hunch that "Harry Potter" would become as popular as "Star Wars" all over the world. And Steven Spielberg Ge also stood up to comment on this book. He said that the stories in the book brought him back to the beauty when he was filming "E.T.", and now he can't wait to make this imaginative book into a movie. Woolen cloth!"
"David Olsen, you know? It's the father of the Olsen sisters. He also said recently that after he got Harry Potter, the bedtime story of the three Olsen sisters was changed from "Grimm's Fairy Tales." , Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales, One Thousand and One Nights and Aesop's Fables became Harry Potter, and after hearing the first story, they clamored for the follow-up!"
"Yahoo also has a "Harry Potter" section, and many people are discussing where to buy the book!"
"Huh?" With such a situation, the female college student exclaimed, "Is this book so popular?"
"The last time a book was so popular was "Jurassic Park", right?"
"If it wasn't popular, why would these people stop at the door of the bookstore to buy it?"
The little sister asked back, and then said: "Do you also want to buy a copy? It's not expensive, just the price of a normal bestseller, $29.99. It doesn't matter if you can't read it, take it Go back to your sister..."
"Hey hey..."
Upon hearing the price, the blond female college student refused with a smile.
Just kidding!
The book fire is back to the book fire, but if you want her to spend $29.99 to buy a book that you don't understand at all, isn't that the head was struck by lightning? Money is not such a waste!
Of course, it doesn't matter if you don't buy it, you can still watch the excitement.
During the queuing gap, she kept looking at the book counter. After about three to five minutes, there was a toothache creaking sound suddenly, and the students who were queuing up to rent books frowned and turned their heads to look at the books. At that time, those bean sprouts standing in front of the rolling gate, like the little A Chai who heard the bell for dinner, shivered and regained their energy in an instant.
"The door is open! The door is open!"
The excited shout was like a charging horn.
"Is it still the counter?"
Affirmative inquiries have already marked the direction first.
When the staff in the store nodded and opened the glass door, the men and women who had been waiting at the door for a long time rushed straight to the bookshelf with the cover poster of "Harry Potter" like ghosts entering the village.
"Yeah! I got it!"
The watermelon-headed boy who was the first to **** the book roared excitedly.
But before he could start showing off, the four-foot-tall lad was overwhelmed by the shadows that followed.
The men and women who squeezed in front of the bookshelves all stretched out their hands, trying to **** all the possibilities within sight.
If you look at it from the bookcase lady’s point of view, it’s dressed up beautifully after a night’s rest, but just after opening for business, countless tentacles sprung up like an autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, hollowing out its body, and then…
Leave only a mess and drift away.
"Oh! Shit! How many books have you gotten? Why didn't I get them?"
When the guys who snatched the books were panting and rushed to the cash register to line up to check out, a chubby man with a full sense of tonnage appeared in front of the bookshelf with a confused face. Because there was too much collagen on his face, he His eyes were squeezed very small, and he, who usually can deal with everything with a small slit, now has his eyes widened.
If you have to describe it, then at this moment, he is like being possessed by a fat cat.
roared, but found no one answered, so he turned his head and neck, trying to argue with the clerk.
Just as his gaze swept across, he suddenly discovered that the watermelon head who had snatched the book earlier just got up from the ground.
Because of his patronizing to show off, this young man was hit by a wave of people. When he hid aside and waited for the crowd to recede, there were a few shoe prints on his trousers and hem, and even his own shoes , also fell a few feet away.
Seeing the single Nike shoe, the fat little eyes turned around in a circle, and then, he picked up the shoe that was very close to him very intimately, and then kindly handed it over.
"thanks, thanks."
Seeing this situation, the ravaged watermelon head thanked repeatedly.
But when he took the shoes and wanted to take them back, he tugged twice, but didn't move.
'Um? '
On the watermelon head's head, countless small question marks popped up.
When he cast a puzzled look at the fat pier, the puffy puff, who was holding on to the shoe, showed his fangs.
"Take a book in exchange."
"What?"
"I said, take Harry Potter for your shoes."
"!!"
As soon as these words came out, Watermelon Head was startled, and the book placed beside him was immediately moved under his lap.
Looked at the fat man twice, and seeing that the other party's words did not seem to be fake, the little guy shouted angrily: "Shameless!"
"Shameless? As long as you can buy a book!"
Fatty smiled triumphantly, clasped his hands, and said, "Give me the book, or you will go home with one foot today."
Such words made Xiguatou breathe hard, and seeing the fat man reaching out to grab it, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration, turned his head quickly, and shouted at the security personnel at the door of the store: "HelpMe!!"
"Someone here is going to burn books!!"
"Oh! No! He already took out the lighter!!"
The heart-piercing roar attracted the security guards. Seeing the guy with the electric baton approaching at the sound, the fat man who was still smiling panicked and pulled back his shoes.
First, he glared at Watermelon and roared, "MotherFucker!!"
Then he raised his hands and shouted: "Wait! Wait! This guy is lying! I didn't burn books at all! I just want to make a deal with him!"
But the security guard didn't think so much, pointed at him with an electric baton and said, "Son, please put down your weapon."
Speaking of weapons, the white man looked at the fat hand again, and the obvious logo made him frown.
"Uh...put down...Nike?"
"Yeah!~" Fatty shouted excitedly, "I'm holding Nike!"
"Ha ha ha ha…"
"So cute! These two guys are so cute!"
After witnessing the scene where the big bully the small and finally turned over, the surrounding college students all laughed.
It seems that these children are too funny, but it is more like that the behavior of these guys grabbing books just now is too exaggerated, so while shaking her body and trying to hold back her laughter, the female college student also turned to the little sister in front of her. Tucao said: "Don't you think the behavior of these children is really stupid? Isn't it just a book? Is it necessary to make such a fuss?"
"Hmm~" the little sister shrugged, and when she also witnessed everything and showed a happy smile, she also agreed: "No way, who made them all children? It's understandable to be childish..."
"Besides, wasn't it the same when we were young? A hot thing appeared. No matter whether others have it or not, we have to have it anyway. If we don't have it, we won't be able to lift our heads among classmates and friends..."
"Comparison~" The blond female college student smiled, looking at the little guy with eyes full of nostalgia, "Fortunately, we have grown up, otherwise we don't know how much money we will contribute to those businesses."
"Yeah!" The little sister nodded in agreement, handing the books she borrowed to the clerk for registration, and after the other party calculated the price, she took out her card to pay the bill, "Oh, by the way, I will go to see "Titanic" tonight." "Is it? I haven't seen it for a week. I heard that someone in our class has read it sixteen times? How many men have paid for that Bitch!"
"Wow! Sixteen times? Is that an exaggeration? I only watched it nine times!"
The blond female college student who was still observing the follow-up of grabbing the book turned her head in surprise. After seeing the determined look on the little sister's face, she handed the book to the clerk and nodded: "Go, why don't you go?"
"Even though I've watched it nine times, I can't get enough of it!"
"Jack and Rose's love is so touching! Every time I see Jack die, I cry..."
"Oh, by the way, I heard that Roland didn't win any major awards? But Kate won the awards? Isn't it fair? Roland and Kate are obviously as good, why can't he get the awards? Those awards Are all the old men here are perverts? Think Kate is beautiful and envy Roland handsome? They are discrimination! Do you understand discrimination?"
When the blond female college student walked out of the bookstore with her little sister holding the rented books, the indignant complaint made the male compatriots who were also queuing up to rent books shake their heads again and again—
One of them, who was about the same age, with glasses and a shoulder bag, sighed, glanced at the door, then glanced at the fat pier and watermelon head who had reached a settlement, and said with emotion: "These two women are really funny, aren't they? "
"The first kick said that the two children were naive and cheated by the merchant, and the second kick decided to watch "Titanic" again?"
"Hey! Isn't this still unable to control the desire in my heart?"
"Yeah, yeah, I've read it nine times, and I still want to watch it, isn't that stupid?" Another brown-haired echoed, "It's as good as us. If you say you're here to rent books, you're here to rent books. !"
"What's so good about that movie? Isn't it because the visual effects are great? Other than that, there's just an ordinary love story left, and I found it boring after watching it..." The thick man in a sports sweater also Complaining, "But that's it, my girlfriend has to force me to watch it four times, four times! It's gone for a long time!"
"So stupid!"
"Wow, your girlfriend also pulled you to swipe? Four times is good, my girlfriend asked me to watch it seven times a week with her! Seven times! I can go to eat a meal! It's too wasteful Already!"
"Seven times? With a girl? Brother! You are at a loss! I also watched it six times, but it was six different girls! Hehehe! I always watched the last scene with them. When crying, I will comfort them well..."
"No way, who made many girls as easy to deceive as those children..."
Whoo!
As soon as these words came out, everyone immediately turned their attention to one place.
Wait for them to see the person's appearance clearly, envy, jealousy and hatred surged up in an instant.
The man who spoke looked very similar to Kurt Cobain, with an unshaven beard and fluttering long hair. He was paired with blue eyes, and his melancholy mood was palpable. He could kill many girls at that stop. Taking advantage of watching "Titanic", then...
Bah bah bah! This special code is really a beast!
Just when the men around wanted to show (face) no shame (face) to this guy’s behavior, a voice suddenly came from the cashier, "Hey, Jerry, did you want to buy it last time?" The original Spider-Man movie artbook has arrived."
"Oh! Really? How much?"
"59.99 dollars, if you want the behind-the-scenes collector's edition, it's 79.99 dollars. There are many behind-the-scenes photos in it, all of which are poster-level..."
"Ok, Ok, Ok, get me a behind-the-scenes collector's edition, swipe..."
Nani!
The guys who wanted to learn from the scriptures turned their heads away.
When they saw the clerk take out a beautifully packaged thick album and hand it to the buyer, the guys who had kept saying that the two girls couldn't control their desires all moved over.
With a sound of encouragement, the guy who bought the picture book opened the package, and when those guys found that from the first page, there was a close-up introduction of the spider suit, including the maker of the fabric pattern and Roland's wearing experience. The sound of the bright sword suddenly appeared, and credit cards were slapped in front of the bewildered shop assistant.
"Give me one too."
"me too."
"Hurry up, hurry up, if you have this thing, why don't you sell it!"
Hearing what they said, the clerk showed embarrassment, "Uh... this will be officially released tomorrow..."
"Just one day! It's okay!"
"Yeah yeah, we don't tell, no one knows."
"If you don't sell it, we'll call and complain that you sold something that should have been sold tomorrow to someone else today!"
Facing the 'threat' of these young people, the clerk reluctantly took out the original painting collection they wanted from the storage cabinet behind them, and when they paid the money and left contentedly, those who waited in line behind with books A middle-aged man sighed, whether it's children snatching "Harry Potter", or female college students discussing "Titanic", or young people buying the original "Spider-Man" art book forcibly. Everything was seen by the pedantic middle-aged man.
As a teacher, he was used to seeing all this.
But when different groups continue to buy what they want one after another, a disappointment of educational failure still arises spontaneously.
"Wanwusangzhi! Wanwusangzhi!" The middle-aged teacher handed the selected book to the clerk.
When the clerk settled and collected the money, he discovered the identity of the teacher, and shouted in surprise: "Mr. Liggins?"
"Hey!" The middle-aged man in the hat raised his head.
After seeing his appearance clearly, the clerk even smiled and said, "Is it really you?"
"Huh? What's the matter?"
"Didn't you tell us last time that you want to buy Star Wars Lego? We have a new batch of Obi-Wan, Yoda, Palpatine, and Jabba. Are you interested in taking a look?"
Hearing these words, the eyes of the middle-aged man named Liggins glistened, "Ah? Yes, yes, yes..."
"Don't take them individually, show me the whole set..."
(end of this chapter)
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