Decided to find out the secret of this disc early tomorrow morning.
Time passed quickly, luckily today was Sunday so he had no school day, Nam left home early in the morning, while his mother was still awake. First he went to a few restaurants near his house to have breakfast, ordered a bowl of Quang noodles and sat there thinking of a way.
While eating, he thought about finding some places that sell DVDs, but it’s 2025, where would he find those places? After eating, he took out money to pay and cycled around the main streets in the city to see what was there, but he didn’t find any places that sold them. When he looked them up online, there were a few places that did.
But it was far from the city, so it would take a while to order it and have it shipped. Plus, he was afraid that when the delivery arrived, he might not be home. And his mother was there. When his mother received the package and opened it, she discovered that he had ordered this. With his mother’s intelligence, of course it wouldn’t be too difficult for her to think of the DVD he had stolen. If it was discovered then, it would be even worse.
So now the only way is to go find it and buy it directly. While he was stuck, he saw from afar on the right hand corner, there was a small shop with a big sign in front of the door with the title “The place that brings you memories”.
Nam curiously ran to the front of the shop and looked through the glass door. He saw an old man inside reading a newspaper.
It’s really a memory shop, it’s 2025 and there are still people reading newspapers. He looked around and saw a lot of things from the 9x generation in early 2000, there were radios, some special cassettes and DVD players displayed on wooden shelves.
Nam was so happy that he quickly parked his bike in front of the door, pushed the door open, and spoke.
Hello sir
– Oh, hello, what are you doing here?
Yes, I buy this..
Nam pointed at the DVD player, the old man looked at him and paused a bit, Nam asked confusedly.
– What’s wrong, you don’t sell this?
– Ah.. No, I was a bit surprised, because young people nowadays also buy this… Nowadays, kids like you all use smartphones, or go to the computer to see all kinds of things, so when I saw you wanted to buy it like that…. So…
– Oh yes… Because in the past, my family was poor, my dad often bought DVDs for me to watch, so I remember, on the occasion of Dad’s upcoming birthday, I want to buy some for him as a souvenir.
– Oh, I see, you bought this, right? Let me bring it down and wrap it for you.
– Yes…
Nam watched the old man slowly walk away from the counter, he rushed over to support him, watched him grab the DVD player and return to the table, using a large plastic bag to put it in for him, after finishing, the old man quoted him the price, the DVD player was 200k, although it was old, it looked brand new, probably because the old man cleaned and preserved it very well.
Nam didn’t haggle over the price, took out 200k from his pocket and gave it to the old man. This was the money his mother gave him yesterday to go to school to eat out. His family was rich so his mother gave him a lot of money every day.
Holding the DVD player under his arm, he drove home with one hand on the wheel. When he got home, he didn’t see his mother’s porsche in the garage, so he thought that his mother must have gone somewhere.
Open the door and go inside the house, there is no mom, she takes the DVD and runs straight to my room