Alpine pasture

Chapter 43 Garage Sales
The afternoon was sunny and it was a good day for fishing, but this afternoon, Ju An couldn’t go fishing because an animal was going to return to China. Thank God, Amen, although Ju An is not a religious believer, he adheres to the old Chinese tradition of seeing the Buddha. Just worship, it doesn't matter whether you are in a foreign country or a domestic one in the sky.

Driving GMC with Wu Ming and, of course, Wu Song, the two and one monkey took Wang Fan to the airport. After accepting the advice of old Thomas, Wang Fan decided to go back to China and recruit a few promising and savvy people with training value. The patient Siyou Chinese young man sent here to the horse farm to learn from the old American emperor's experience in horse training and horse breeding, and to prosper the domestic market.Of course, Wang Fan, this animal, is not gone forever. After a while, he will come to buy horses or something to continue to add chicken shit to the US imperialists.

Wu Ming wants to stay here and return to China with the tour group. Ju'an didn't pay much attention to the tour group for the past two days, because Ju'an has played with things later, such as horseback riding, sleepy grass, driving cattle, and herding sheep in a messy pasture. Life, you don't have to experience it every day.Every day, Wu Ming and Wang Fan are sent there in the morning, and they are picked up back to the ranch in the evening, but Gu Wuming said that the general reaction of the tour group is, in the words of one group member: "Angkor! This tour is quite ok!".

No matter what happened to the tour group, one scourge was sent away today, and there was only another scourge around. Thinking that this scourge would return to China in two days, Ju An felt relieved. After sending Wang Fan on the plane, he started humming. With a little song:

missing is worse than meeting,
Even if you don't know

I can only say goodbye to you

Wu Ming listened to Ju An sing for a while, and when he opened the car door to get in the car, he said to Ju An, "You, your uncle, can you sing a little bit more in one song, back and forth, just these three lines, brother all the way. Wait for you to sing the fourth sentence, wait until the eggs hurt!".

Ju An touched his head: "Brother just remember these three sentences, the rest will not".

When Ju An started the car and was about to continue singing, he was interrupted by Wu Ming: "If you sing again, I will smash the windshield in front of you, do you believe it?".Ju An had no choice but to give up, and it would cost hundreds of dollars to change the windshield quickly.People can't fight against money, you say no.

When I was driving through the town of Lewistown, I saw a few small cardboard boxes on the side of the road with the words: Garagesale and an arrow on it. Wu Ming pointed to the small sign and said, "This old lady Don’t be particular about it, it’s obviously messing up the urban environment, I’ll go back and write a letter to Xiao Aohei, and ask them to set up a city management department, don’t try to make progress all day long, but also learn our advanced management experience.”

Ju An looked at it and knew that this was the garage sale that Lao Mei used to do in the spring and summer, and said to Wu Ming, "Don't talk about it, that's what people don't use at home, that is, selling things that they don't use at home, that is, It is equivalent to the domestic second-hand market. This kind of business is very popular in Laomei, you think it is illegal to occupy the road.”

Wu Ming immediately felt fresh: "Then don't ink it, hurry up and have a look, let's go and see what they sell."

Ju An had to drive and follow the directions of the small card. After a while, he saw that there was a long table in front of a garage with some things on it. Several children and adults were surrounding them, carrying something.

When Ju An parked the car on the side of the road, he walked over with Wu Ming to have a look, hehe, this town is very small, and Ju An actually knew a middle-aged white man who was busy greeting adults and children to buy things. , was Henry, who brought him home from New York last time.

Ju An walked over and said, "Hello, Henry."

Henry saw Ju An stretch out his hand with a smile: "Hey! You are An".

He shook hands with Henry and said, "This is my friend. You can call him Ming. He is very interested in Garagesale. Let's come and see."

Henry smiled and said, "Just look at it, that's my little daughter Annie, that's my son Michael, our house is tidying up, taking out the things we don't need, and seeing what the neighbors need, and selling the rest The things that cannot be dropped will be donated to recycling organizations.”

Just as he was introducing, Henry's daughter Annie and the two little girls came over, looked at Wu Song on Ju An's shoulder, and said, "Sir, your monkey is so cute."

Henry smiled and said, "This is my neighbor's daughter and my little daughter are good friends. A few little guys made some drinks for sale today." He pointed to the other two little girls.

Ju An pulled Wu Song off his shoulders, put Wu Song in Annie's arms, and said, "You can help me watch it for a while, but when you leave, you must return it to me, its name is Wu Song".

The three little girls immediately said happily: "Thank you sir".They continued to sell their drinks.

Seeing another group of customers coming, Henry smiled and said, "Sorry, just look at them, I'll greet them first."

Ju An and Wu Ming looked around. The front of the garage was filled with children's toys, all of which were quite cheap. A children's book that could be opened had a small button on the cover. The zebra was replaced by a cute bear, and I have seen it in China. The folded little story is opened, and when it is opened, it pulls out a big white rabbit, a big bad wolf, etc. Look at the price of a copy of 0.25 US dollars, there are some Small wooden building blocks, I saw that the price is basically a few tenths of dollars.

There are also some slightly more expensive items, which are basically unopened. Ju An saw a foam puzzle on the ground, which was completely unopened and only cost 1 US dollar.

When Ju An and Wu Ming entered the garage, they found that there were several big things in it, such as wardrobes, bedside tables, chairs, lamps, and vacuum cleaners. There was a small note on it, and the price was written on it. Ju An took a look. , a cabinet that looks very good, the kind for small clothes, four drawers in each row, and the upper and lower rows are only priced at $5.A good chair, the kind of desk chair with a pattern on it, is also $5, and others are basically cheap.Only the vacuum cleaner is listed for $10, but it looks brand new and probably hasn't been used a few times.

Wu Ming looked at it and said, "It's really cheap. Now I want to buy something to go back."

Ju An said with a smile: "What do you want these for? Do you want to buy a vacuum cleaner to bring back to China?".

After watching for a while, I left the garage and came to a stall where a few girls were selling drinks. Seven or eight children were lined up in front of me. Wu Song was standing on the stall, nibbling something in one hand. with the other hand, followed by the steel pegs handed over by the little guys, and then threw them into the small box next to them, and then a little girl handed a drink to the little guy who handed the money to say thank you, take a closer look Wu Song had a little cowboy hat on his head at some point, and a sweatshirt with 6 on it. Looking at the sign in front of the stall, it said the price was $0.10 per cup.After lining up in the back, it was my turn to hand Wu Song a steel peg of $025. He wanted to buy two drinks. Who knew that after Wu Song took the money, he immediately put the steel peg back in Ju An's hands.

Wu Ming said: "You little monkey is not raised for nothing, you know that your family's money is good."

Annie handed over two drinks and said, "Wu Song brought us good business, we will invite you two drinks."

Ju An and Wu Ming took the drinks handed over by the little girls and said thank you, and then left the little girls' stall under the urging of the little guys behind.

The two were chatting. Lucy, who they met last time, came out of the house, saw Ju An, and said with a smile, "Hello, An, is Wu Song here?"

Ju An pointed to the drink stand and smiled, "Where are they selling drinks?" Then he raised the drink in his hand: "Our two cups are free."

Lucy looked at the queue in front of the drink stand and said with a smile, "It seems that Annie and her friends are doing well. They hired a good cashier."

After saying sorry to Lucy, he started to help again, only Ju An and Wu Ming continued to stroll leisurely.

Seeing that there were not many people coming, and with Lucy's help, Henry came over to continue chatting with Ju An.

Wu Ming asked: "Do you do this kind of sales every year?"

Henry smiled and replied: "Not necessarily, in fact, this is just an exchange between neighbors. Some things in your house that you can't use yourself may be used by others, so what are the things you can't use in other people's homes? It can be used, just communicate in this way, Garagesale is generally very cheap.”

Ju An said with a smile: "It's very cheap. The highest I saw just now was $10 for a vacuum cleaner."

Henry smiled and replied: "That one is brand new. I have several of these things at home now, all of them brought by my sister and brother when they came for Christmas. We didn't need so much, so we sold them. "Then saw the queue in front of the beverage stall and said with a smile: "Now it seems that the beverage stalls of the little girls are the most popular."

Ju An and Wu Ming also laughed.

During this period, some people came over, and one of them bought the cabinet Ju An just saw. When he went up to ask, he found out that his son rented a house to live alone, and the cabinet could be bought for his son.

After chatting for a while, seeing that it was getting late, he said goodbye to Henry, and when he turned to look for Wu Song, he found that the little girls had sold out their buckets of drinks and were counting the money. Wu Song's hand was about to leave when Annie stopped Ju An and said, "An, this is Wu Song's money."As he spoke, he shoved a small plastic bag containing a steel shovel into Ju An's hand.

Just as Ju An was about to refuse, Henry said next to him, "An, don't refuse, this is a salary for Wu Song. The children are doing the right thing. Wu Song deserves a salary for his labor."

After Ju An took the small plastic bag, the little girls hugged Wu Song one by one and said goodbye to Wu Song.

After Ju An said goodbye to the Henry family, he started the car and walked for a while. In the rearview mirror, he could still see a few little girls waving.

Wu Ming shook the small bag of coins and said, "Wu Song also made money today, listen to me." Then he added, "These children are so polite, I didn't expect the little girls to give Wu Song some money."Seeing Wu Ming shaking his purse, Wu Song, who was in the back seat, was unhappy. He screamed, wanting to return the purse, until Wu Ming threw the bag to Wu Song and held it in his hand. .

Ju An smiled and said, "I didn't expect it either, maybe the concept is different."

(End of this chapter)