The Xinhua Bookstore was empty. In these times, when people struggled just to fill their stomachs and books were far from cheap, very few people came to buy them.
Gong Mingjie had cleared a corner for them with a small round table and a few chairs, where Xu Qinghuan and Song Wanlin sat to talk.
This could be considered the first proper, serious conversation between mother and daughter. Jiang Xingye went to the Supply and Marketing Cooperative across the street, bought two bottles of soda for them, and kept guard outside.
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