Chapter 96

Just after getting home, before he had even put down his suitcase, Gu Xiaobai was sent off on an errand to his grandmother's place by his mother. He had promised before coming here that he would take charge of packing up and selling off all the scrap items at his grandmother's house. Fortunately, his uncles were all on vacation these past couple of days, so most of the sellable junk around the house had already been sorted through. All Gu Xiaobai needed to do was load the worthless scraps onto his three-wheeled cart and haul them back to the garbage station. After bustling about all afternoon, the scrap metal only fetched around a hundred yuan in total. For such a pitiful amount of money, his grandmother still insisted on treating him to milk tea and fried chicken, saying he must be exhausted from working all afternoon. In a flash, Gu Xiaobai was transported back in time to his elementary school days, remembering the small wooden box his grandmother used to carry around to hold money when she went out to sell vegetables. Every summer, whenever he walked to school at noon, she would secretly slip him pocket money to buy iced drinks at the school gates.