I Want to Be Uncle
by Shi Wei
About This Novel
At that time, I was selling newspapers around the station, selling evening newspapers during the day, morning and afternoon, and finishing get off work at night. I am thirty years old and Du Pianpian is twenty-four. I call her sister. I have a fixed stall at the entrance of the station, which Li Tou from the Municipal Disabled Persons' Federation secured for me from the station. The entrance and exit of the company where Du Pianpian works is also facing this place. For a while, my newsstand added a new business: selling sugar cane. A consignment fruit seller told me that I would keep selling newspapers anyway. He would put a bucket of cut sugar cane next to him and he would give me a commission on the small amount I sold. If anyone bought it, he would charge 50 cents. This price is exactly the same as the price of an evening newspaper, I remember it. If you want to buy two sticks, you have to pay in two installments. One stick is still 50 cents, and the price is still the same as the evening newspaper. Du Pianpian and her colleagues came to buy sugar cane. These chirping girls always love to laugh, and they won't stop laughing no matter what.
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