Bai Luochuan also knew about the flea market. Wei Xian had told them about it before. Although there was no second-hand goods market in the border town, there would be temple fairs during festivals, with many people setting up stalls and a lively atmosphere.
He waited for Mi Yang to announce the end of the meeting, and after he walked towards him, he whispered to him, "Why do you suddenly want to make this? Where should I put it?"
"The school is asking for donations, so I thought that instead of asking your family for money, you might as well sell some old things. I've calculated that we can buy a batch of pencils and notebooks together, and wholesale will be cheaper." Mi Yang said to him as they walked, "Put them next to the school playground. There is a small rockery over there, so there is just enough space and there will be more people after school."
Bai Luochuan nodded and said, "I'll go too."
Mi Yang agreed. Young Master Bai had been included in his original plan, so it would be strange if this person didn't follow.
Mi Yang did not go to the Bai family this time. He went back to his own home first and searched through the drawers and cabinets for things. Although the family was not rich, Cheng Qing and Mi Zehai did not treat their son badly. In Mi Yang's small wooden box for toys, there were some purchased toys, sandbags made by Cheng Qing, small wooden guns made by Mi Zehai, and other toys such as cloth tigers mailed by his grandmother and several aunts from Shanhai Town. In total, he found quite a few things.
Mi Yang picked a small metal frog that looked quite new. It had a green shell and a knob on one side of its body. After winding it up, it could jump several times by itself, which was very interesting. He also found a Russian nesting doll and a box of military flags. He put them in his bag while searching and walked to the bedroom. On the small table in the bedroom was a small frog kettle and a copper horseshoe alarm clock, the same as the one in Young Master Bai's house. There were also a few toys here, but they were sent by the Bai family, so he couldn't take them out to resell.
Mi Yang looked around and found some odds and ends and put them in his bag.
Cheng Qing happened to come back from get off work. She put the steamed buns she bought in the kitchen, tied an apron, and called Mi Yang, "Yang Yang, go buy a bottle of soy sauce for mom. We don't have any at home."
Mi Yang put down his things and went to run some errands. When he came back, he saw that there was a little guest in the house.
Bai Luochuan was sitting in the living room helping to shell beans. When she saw him coming, she made room for him and whispered, "Aunt Cheng said that we need to pinch off the ends of these, then break them open and take out the beans..." There was already half an bowl of food in the bowl next to him, which showed that it had been quite a while.
Mi Yang brought the soy sauce over, washed his hands and started shelling beans next to him, and the two of them huddled together to talk.
Bai Luochuan came to discuss the flea market with Mi Yang. Bai Luochuan had a lot of things and had already packed out two boxes. He wanted to team up with Mi Yang to set up a small stall.
Mi Yang thought for a moment and said, "I'll go over and take a look at night."
Bai Luochuan was very happy. He stayed at Mi Yang's house for dinner. Cheng Qing made them a small bowl of shredded pork noodles and fried two side dishes. After they finished eating, they packed up and left together. Cheng Qing looked at Mi Yang carrying his schoolbag and bag, and smiled and said, "Are you going to play with Luochuan again? Will you come back tonight?"
Bai Luochuan rushed to say: "I'm not coming back. Aunt Cheng, let Xiaoguai live in my house."
"Okay, I see he lives in your house for most of the year." Cheng Qing brought two apples to Mi Yang. Their company had just distributed a box of apples as welfare, so they were asked to bring them over to eat together. "Remember to come back for breakfast tomorrow morning."
Mi Yang agreed: "Hey."
Mi Yang went to Bai's house, changed into slippers and followed him to the bedroom upstairs. Bai Luochuan really packed out two boxes of toys - the two cardboard boxes were filled to the brim, sorted into categories, and looked quite neat.
Mi Yang said: "We don't need so many, let's pick some."
Bai Luochuan followed him and sat on the carpet to choose. He had many relatives in his family, and they sent many gifts during the holidays. Old Master Bai was a man who wanted to pamper his grandson, so he bought a lot of toys and snacks.
Mi Yang took out the Sony Walkman with a frown on his face and said, "We don't need things like this. None of our classmates has that much pocket money to buy it." He picked up several other equally valuable things, but kept an Ultraman toy that could emit lasers. It was quite big and looked new, but it was from two years ago. Bai Luochuan always thought it was ugly and threw it in the warehouse.
Mi Yang saw a palm-sized game console inside, took it out and looked at it, and asked curiously: "Isn't this the one you play Tetris on? Why don't you want this one?"
Bai Luochuan said indifferently: "I'm tired of playing. It's boring."
Mi Yang said "oh" and left the game console as well.
There are a lot of things, but most of them are not easy to sell. For example, this game console must be seen by many people and many people want it, but the price is too high. Nowadays, there are very few primary school students who can spend more than ten or twenty yuan at a time.
They packed out a small box of things. During this time, Aunt Wu came to give them some fruit. She was very happy today and her face was full of joy.
Mi Yang ate the cut apples and said with a smile: "Auntie seems to be very happy today, is there something good?"
Aunt Wu said happily: "Yes, I saw a lottery on the street today, 2 yuan per draw, and I won a bicycle in one draw!"
Mi Yang suddenly had an idea.
After Aunt Wu left, he got up and found a cardboard box, wiped it clean, cut a piece of red paper, wrote the word "lottery" on it and pasted it.
Bai Luochuan asked curiously: "Shall we also draw a lottery?"
"Yes, let me calculate how much I can earn." Mi Yang took out all the toys in the box and roughly calculated that the things from Master Bai were all good and could be used as first and second prizes, especially the game console, which could be used as the special prize. The rest of the small prizes would be their small items, and the smallest consolation prize was a glass marble.
Mi Yang estimated that this pile of second-hand toys - except for the game console - would not be able to sell for 20 or 30 yuan, but if he made 100 lottery paper balls and each draw cost 30 cents, he could get back 30 yuan with interest if he sold them all.
You only need to spend 30 cents to have a chance to win a game console worth tens of yuan, and there will be small prizes every time you win. It is still very attractive.
He told Bai Luochuan about it, and Bai Luochuan immediately understood. He counted the number, went downstairs and brought up a bag of lemon fruit candies, took down Mi Yang's two little cloth tigers, pushed this one over, and said, "Give me these two, I like them very much, and take this bag of candies to the lottery."
Mi Yang expanded the small prizes a bit, and in addition to glass marbles, there were also many lemon candies.
After writing down the one hundred awards, there were still two or three vacancies left. Mi Yang thought for a moment, lowered his head and wrote "Choose any subject for tutoring, Mi Yang will help you pass 90." He felt happy as he wrote it.
Bai Luochuan saw this and frowned, "You still want to tutor others?"
Mi Yang said: "I wrote it for fun, it's quite interesting."
Bai Luochuan waited for him to finish writing, then reached out and took the note, folded it himself and carefully put it in the box. He originally wanted to remember the location, but Mi Yang picked up the box and shook it again, and now everything was messed up. Young Master Bai looked conflicted, frowned and said nothing.
Mi Yang prepared the booth for the two of them, and planned to write some more flyers and distribute them privately tomorrow as a small advertisement. Bai Luochuan didn't let him write, and went downstairs to find Mrs. Bai to talk about it. Mrs. Bai asked clearly that it was written, and by the way, she helped them copy some flyers. When she brought the thick stack over, it was still warm.
She smiled and said, "Your idea is good. It saves money and shows love. I didn't expect that we in Luochuan have such a good business sense. Your grandfather and uncle will be happy to know about it."
Bai Luochuan said: "It's not what I thought, it's Xiaoguai."
Mrs. Bai immediately praised Mi Yang, using the same tone. Bai Luochuan immediately looked proud, holding his chin high and said proudly, "Yes, he is so good."
The small stall and flyers were solved, and the two felt a lot more relaxed.
Mi Yang took a picture book and lay on the bed to read it, humming a song as he flipped through the pages. It was a very old fairy tale "The Frog Prince", and the drawings were quite childlike.
Bai Luochuan walked over, reached out to lift up his pajamas, and touched his belly.
Mi Yang asked curiously: "What are you doing?"
Bai Luochuan put his hand on it and touched it twice, frowning and said, "You didn't eat much tonight. I'm a little worried about whether you are full or hungry."
Mi Yang took his hand and put it up a little, and said with a smile: "This is the stomach, you touch it, I'm full."
Only then did Bai Luochuan feel relieved.
The next morning, Mi Yang and Bai Luochuan moved their stuff to the school equipment room. On the way, they saw many students from Class 1, Grade 3 secretly putting their stuff there. When Xiao Pang was standing guard at the door, he was happy to see them and said, "That's right, Brother Xiao is hiding something in there! We checked and there is no physical education class today, so this is the safest place. I'll be on guard outside for you, don't worry!"
Bai Luochuan and Mi Yang put their things over and covered them with a mat. Tang Xiao also brought a bag and was stuffing it into the box for footballs. They were all working very hard.
Bai Luochuan took another small stack of flyers and said, "I'll give them to the first and second graders. You can give out the rest. Be careful not to let the teacher see them."
Mi Yang nodded, and when Bai Luochuan left, Tang Xiao came over and asked, "What are you sending?"
Mi Yang gave him most of it and said with a smile, "Flyers, we are opening for the first day this evening, come on, Brother Xiao, you are capable and I will give you all these."
Tang Xiao: “…”
Tang Xiao was quite reliable in his work, and he asked his good brothers to help him send out those orders. Soon, a piece of news was quietly spread among several grades of the primary school: a flea market would be opened in the small open space next to the playground in the evening!
After school, Mi Yang and his classmates made an appointment to go to the small open space. They spread newspapers, plastic sheets and other things on the ground and divided themselves into a formation as discussed before. There were dozens of children's stalls in two rows, which looked quite large.
Mi Yang spread the plastic sheet, and he and Bai Luochuan put their box next to it, and put the "lottery" cardboard box in front of them. He looked around, handed the stall to Bai Luochuan, and went to see other classmates. The children in their class had never set up their own stalls, and they were a little excited and nervous. Seeing Mi Yang seemed to have a backbone, they all looked forward to him to give their own stalls some advice.
Mi Yang went to check on them one by one, counted the items on the stalls of several students who had fewer items, and then asked them to merge them together. He only left one student to guard the stall, and the rest of the students arranged other matters.
Yu Tian brought very few things, so Mi Yang transferred her out to do the statistics. This job was originally the responsibility of the squad leader, but the squad leader brought a lot of things, and her little face flushed as she stayed at her stall excitedly, looking reluctant to leave.
Mi Yang took Yu Tian over and said, "Hand over to the squad leader, take the record book, and register it, especially the ones that have merged stalls. Remember it clearly so that we can reconcile the accounts later."
Yu Tian nodded nervously and went over to hand over the work to the squad leader.
The class monitor generously handed her the notebook and reminded her, "Write my name nicely."
Yu Tian lowered her head and wrote seriously: "Okay, Wang Yiyi... Class monitor, is this Yi the same as the Yi in "a little bird leaning on a person"? "
The squad leader said seriously, "No, I rely on myself."
Yu Tian: "Hey, aren't these two the same?"
Class monitor: "Of course it's different!"
…
After preparing for a while, people started to come here one after another. Many people looked at it curiously for a while, but not many actually paid for it.
The first person in the class to open a business was Xiaopang.
Xiaopang and Tang Xiao merged their stalls. He was quite economically savvy and took out a lot of joke books, comic books and the like from home and put them here, renting them out for 5 cents each. He also put a glass jar next to it, which made the jingling sound to collect the rent.
Many children were attracted by this small bookstall. More and more people gathered around it, and the sound of coins being put into the glass jars became louder. Little Fatty was so happy that his teeth were not visible. A child nearby was a little anxious because he couldn't sell anything, so he called Little Fatty for help. Little Fatty also worked hard to sell his friends' things. Mi Yang came over and saw it. Just when he was a little relieved, he saw that Little Fatty collected a dime for the promotion after the promotion, and put the money into the glass jar with a smile.
Mi Yang: “…”
It's a shame that this kid doesn't go into business.
Mi Yang was too busy taking care of the other children to pay any attention. Bai Luochuan, who was drawing the lottery, didn't shout much. He just rummaged through the paper balls and searched for a long time, with a frown on his face.
People started to come to the lottery booth. The price for each draw was 30 cents, which was the price for a small bag of plums. The children were more willing to try their luck than to eat the plums.
Bai Luochuan stared at the other person drawing the lottery, and his heart began to lift as he watched them exclaim and groan.
After a while, a kid from the lower grade said, "Huh?" and said, "Choose any subject for tutoring... What is this?"
Bai Luochuan immediately stood up and said, "Give me this, and I'll let you draw two more times."
The other party was a little hesitant.
Bai Luochuan stared at him and said, "Three times."
The child immediately and happily gave the note to Bai Luochuan and started drawing again. He was lucky enough to win a first prize, which was the Ultraman toy that looked quite big, which immediately aroused envy from the people around him.
Bai Luochuan's lottery booth was like a living advertisement, with many primary school students flocking to try their luck in the lottery.
While taking the money, Bai Luochuan stared at the notes in each of their hands, fearing that someone would take the note for tutoring and sneak away - he was worrying too much, because apart from him, no other elementary school student would like the award for tutoring.
The children's stalls were going on in full swing. On the other side, Mrs. Bai and her guards were also talking to the school leaders. They passed by here and just pointed at them from a distance, smiling and saying, "Look, those are our two little ones. I'm not bragging, they both rank first in their studies. One is in the first grade and the other is in the third grade. They got together yesterday and thought of setting up a stall to help the children in the mountainous areas. As a mother, I will definitely support them. I've asked about it. They will only be there for three days. Principal, I hope it won't cause you any trouble?"
The principal immediately smiled and said, "No, no, our school especially welcomes such smart and caring children. We will definitely praise them when we raise the flag next Monday!"
At the simple flea market next to the playground, Mi Yang was holding a point-and-shoot camera and taking a few photos in the last light of the evening.
Every day, Border Town Daily has a small column for students to submit articles. It is only the size of a palm, but it is the best place to guide public opinion. After Mi Yang took the photos, he had already started thinking about how to write the article. It would be best if it was more sensational and showed selfless love. For safety reasons, only he could do this job.
It was reported in the newspaper, and it was a good deed done by good people, so the matter was settled. Even if Teacher Wang wanted to cause trouble for them, he would have no reason to do so.
Mi Yang was thinking about the manuscript he was going to write while helping the children passing by. He put himself in the shoes of an adult, so he helped everyone to the best of his ability and was more considerate and caring towards the girls. If a boy helped a girl in elementary school, he would always be teased, but Mi Yang was different. Mi Yang was young, so both boys and girls liked him.
The word "gentleman" had not yet become popular at that time, but all the children in Class 1, Grade 3 liked Mi Yang.
Mi Yang takes care of everyone psychologically, but in action the children surround him and take care of him.
This made Mi Yang feel quite emotional.
It was getting dark, Mi Yang saw that the time was almost up, blew a whistle, and all the kids who set up stalls began to pack up their things and send them to Tang Xiao. This was also agreed in advance, Tang Xiao and Xiao Pang and other boys were responsible for logistics.
Mi Yang spent five minutes simply reading the sales situation. After confirming that there were no missed records, he said to everyone: "Today's record was done by classmate Yu Tian. She was very serious. I think writing should also be considered a reward. Those who have money can contribute money, and those who have strength can contribute strength. Let's work together to complete the donation target, okay?"
Yu Tian's face flushed red, and before she could say anything, she was attracted by the word "good" shouted out by the class. She moved her tongue and said "good" as well. She rubbed her eyes hard and smiled widely. Now was not the time to cry!
Before leaving, Mi Yang asked everyone to gather together, put the backs of their hands together and shout "Come on". The children's voices were very loud, and no one knew whose back of the hand touched whose. At that moment, they felt that they were a collective and had a special sense of honor.
In just a few days, in this small flea market, the students in Class 1, Grade 3 got to know each other again. From the most disciplined monitor to the most undisciplined Tang Xiao, they all recognized Mi Yang's leadership, and the whole class worked together to achieve the goal.
The next day, Mi Yang received the newspaper without any surprise, and even a reporter came to interview them. After receiving the newspaper, Mi Yang posted the freshly baked newspaper on the blackboard at the back of the classroom without waiting for Teacher Wang to speak, but to his surprise, Teacher Wang did not say a word about their matter, as if someone had said it.
When they set up stalls next time, everyone was much bolder and more skilled, especially the fat guy who spoke quickly and was likable, and sold the most things. What was even more unexpected was that more and more classmates helped each other, as if it had become a habit.
Mi Yang couldn't help but sigh as he watched, "The power of team building."
The squad leader happened to hear him when he passed by, but he didn't hear clearly what he said, so he asked, "Mi Yang, what did you say?"
Mi Yang smiled and shook his head: "No, I said unity is strength."
The class monitor agreed with this statement very much. She looked at Mi Yang seriously and said, "I found out through this incident that you are indeed more capable than me. Classmate Mi Yang, if you want to run for class monitor, I am willing to give up and take the lead in voting for you!"
Mi Yang shook his hands repeatedly and said, "No, no, I can't do this. I have other things to do."
Bai Luochuan answered from the side: "I'll do it." He glanced at Mi Yang and said seriously, "I'll skip a grade and go to your class next semester. I'll do it."
Class monitor: “…”
I love honor as much as my life, but you treat it as a chore. I'm so angry.
At the end of the third day, Mi Yang led everyone back to the classroom to do the final statistics. Everyone held their breath and waited for the last group's statistics to be counted on the blackboard.
Tang Xiao was writing numbers on the blackboard, and all the classmates were calculating below. Even Xiaopang, who only scored 5 points in math, was trying hard to calculate, because this was the result of their group!
"The final result is that the total profit of the fifth group in three days is 102.7 yuan!"
Everyone in Xiaopang’s group couldn’t help but cheer. They were first, with the most out of the five groups!
The second group that Mi Yang was in finished second with a weak 70 cents. Bai Luochuan sat aside feeling guilty and didn't look at him. He took back all the notes from Mi Yang regarding tutoring and let them draw them for free several times.
Mi Yang went up and took a look at the total amount, nearly 500 yuan, the result of the collective efforts of 40 children. Now these children were looking at him with red faces and shining eyes. They had never been so energetic, full of confidence and expectations as they were now.
Mi Yang said: "Everyone has worked hard, the task has been exceeded, and the average donation per person is 12.3 yuan. Congratulations! Tomorrow, Bai Luochuan and I will go to purchase stationery, and the list will be posted in the class. Next, everyone can have a good rest!"
All the children cheered.
Mi Yang patted the blackboard, signaling everyone to be quiet, and said with a smile: "I brought a camera today, do you want to take a photo together as a souvenir?"
The whole class cheered, “Yes!!”
In the Grade 3 Class 1, 41 children were crowded in a small photo, including Bai Luochuan, all of them were smiling. Mi Yang was pushed to the center of the first row, Bai Luochuan stood next to him, the two held hands, Mi Yang smiled with a shallow dimple on the right side, very sweet.
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Let’s go through the plot a little more, the kids are so cute~!