Chapter 5 Initial Procurement in Modern Society
After returning, he found that the location was the place where he found the ring and opened the space door for the first time. The time was still early in the morning, and there was no big change in the surrounding scenery. If it weren't for the fake gray robe and fake braids on his body, and the silver dollars in his pocket, he really thought he had a dream.
I followed the path to the clinic to confirm the time. Sure enough, he had been away for a whole day before. For this reason, Director Zhang of the clinic, an old man in his fifties, even scolded him.
Li Zhigao didn't explain anything to him. After all, this old man has been here for so many years. It doesn't matter if he has the ability or ability. The key is that he doesn't even have much medical ethics. He has long regarded the village clinic as their own home, and has a big deal. He also prescribes medicine all day long to make small gains and earns the little medical kickbacks. In other words, the place is small, so nothing has happened yet.
Of course, he probably can only stay here and show his might in his life. He had no choice but to listen, but now, why bother to be angry with him again?
Sure enough, before Director Zhang finished his training, Li Zhigao interrupted his speech, and then resigned calmly under the other party's surprise gaze. Anyway, he was just a temporary worker who had not signed a formal contract, in other words, it was easy to leave.
After leaving here, Li Zhigao first went back to the house he rented in Xiaohe Village, took a shower, changed his clothes, ate two bowls of instant noodles, and then rode his military-green second-hand Yangtze River 750 three-wheeled standby motorcycle, and returned to the city at a lightning speed, and went straight to a more grand pawn shop called Jinsheng Ceremony.
"Well, this is the Mexican Yingyang in 1893." After some appraisal, the master named Zhao nodded to Li Zhigao, "It's a real thing, good-looking, and has never been washed. It seems to be well preserved. However, the recent market of this Yingyang is normal. Well, if you want to sell it to us, I will count these four coins for you 480 yuan per coin, how about it?"
"Haha." Li Zhigao smiled and took back the silver dollar, but did not agree. Even if the other party offered 500 yuan per coin, he still shook his head.
In fact, Li Zhigao was not here to sell silver dollars. He just wanted to try it out to see if this thing is real and to check the market by the way. Now that he knows the market, he will naturally be satisfied.
Liu Runsheng had given him five silver dollars. When he had already stayed in the hotel, he had already given one to the inn owner as collateral for staying in the hotel, leaving only these four. He still planned to keep these silver dollars, so he could not spend them casually.
If it wasn't that buying silver dollars here was too expensive, he really wanted to buy more and use them first. However, it was obvious that buying silver dollars from modern society to spend money on the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China was not a good idea. On the other hand, it would be more cost-effective.
After leaving the pawnshop, he went to the bank again and took out all his savings. After calculating, he only had more than 5,200 yuan on hand.
Seeing this number, Li Zhigao smiled bitterly, and then he realized how poor he was, more than 5,000 yuan, and his income was not as good as his ten-day or half a month these days.
But it was normal to think about it. His family was not rich, and he was just a student before. Although he worked a lot of jobs in college, his income was not high. In addition, he had a girlfriend during that time, so the expenses were naturally large and he had basically no savings. After graduation, he went to work as a rural doctor, and his income was not high, so he could pay for living expenses. Most of the savings he had over 5,000 yuan later earned by writing novels online.
In fact, during his novels, he made a profit of 5,000, which was far more than the five thousand. However, he was too young at that time and didn't know how to spend money when he made money. As a result, he took out most of it and bought a sideboard motorcycle. Fortunately, his girlfriend broke up with him at that time, and he became more stable because of this. He spent very little money so he could only leave this amount of savings.
"But that's all the past." Li Zhigao touched the black ring on his little finger, "It will get better soon."
Next, we have to make a big purchase.
He had thought about it before that with his current ability, he was not suitable to make too big. He should first make money quickly and accumulate funds. In the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, what was more profitable than medicine?
Watch? Well, that one can have it, but the purchase cost is a bit high. You can buy some goods in small quantities as embellishments. Try the market first.
Pen? You can also have this one. I used a ballpoint pen to trade in that world for the first time. However, the ballpoint pen is a bit sensitive, so it is better to have a pen. You can tell from Liu Runsheng that this pen and the like will definitely be easy to sell.
He thought of it and did it. He soon rode his bike to the small commodity city and went to a more familiar pharmacy. When his better college classmates worked here, they would not lose money to him.
When he went there, his classmate was not here, but everyone else knew him, so it was no different if his classmate was there, and he would also be given discounts. Because everyone knew that he worked in a health center and didn't even have to find a reason, he wholesale a batch of sulfonamide drugs such as Xinnuoming in the pharmacy, all of which were looking for the cheapest ones.
In addition to sulfonamide drugs, he also bought some cheap broad-spectrum antibiotics such as streptomycin, fluphenolic acid, penicillin, etc., plus isoniazid, rifampin and other drugs for treating tuberculosis. This was prepared for Liu Runsheng's mother. Even if it is not used, it is still ready.
In addition, I have also made a batch of disinfectant, iodine, alcohol, gauze, red medicine and other external medicines, and bought a set of medical devices such as needles, glass injectors, masks, white coats, rubber gloves, a full set of infusion devices, stethoscopes, thermometers, mercury column blood pressure measuring instruments and other medical devices.
In short, it may not be possible to open a clinic if you come down with medicine and equipment, but it is more than enough to walk around the countryside to show people common diseases. If you go to the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, it will definitely be a killer weapon and sweep everything.
After buying the medicine, he wholesales two hundred stainless steel-shelled pens, miscellaneous brands, bargains, and wholesale prices are five yuan per piece, but they look very good and can scare people. I believe there should be a market in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China.
After buying these, Li Zhigao thought about it and went to a clothing store that cared for performance supplies. After choosing for a long time, he finally rented a set of performance costumes for American upper class figures in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
This performance suit is a complete set of tuxedo suits, such as high-top hats, black leather shoes, cloaks, tops, trousers, shirts, bow tie, pink handkerchief, white gloves, etc., and most of them are relatively high-end imitation silk fabrics, including many small lace embellishments, which look high-end, elegant and upscale.
In addition to the tuxedo suit, he also added a civilization stick with exquisite decoration and gilded gems on the head of the stick. Of course, the gems are naturally not real diamonds, but cubic zirconia called Soviet diamonds. This fake diamond is very well-made and cut with modern craftsmanship. It is not only elegant in appearance, but also shiny in lustrous, luxurious but not vulgar. With the level of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, even if it is an expert in gemstones, if it is not carefully distinguished, it cannot tell the truth or falsehood at all, let alone ordinary people.
Li Zhigao had already thought about it. It was really uncomfortable to wear a fake braid in the late Qing Dynasty, and it was not safe to wear it. If he didn't want to wear a fake braid and didn't want to be caught, there was probably only one way, that is, to be a fake foreign devil and take over his own weight.
He had read many novels about that period before, and found that those fake foreigners such as compradors dressed in foreign style were not restricted by the Qing government's braids, and there were various preferential treatments. However, a set of dresses in the Qing Dynasty were expensive, and most people could not afford dresses, let alone tuxedoes. Ordinary people really had no conditions to dress up. Look at the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China and those who were wearing dresses and making revolutions, there were a few rich second-generation rich n generations who were rich at home.
As for the identity issue, he also thought about it and planned to pretend to returnees in the United States.
You should know that the United States is an immigrant country and pays great attention to personal standards, so it does not have an ID card, so the driver's license becomes an alternative to American ID card. In the era before President Roosevelt in World War II, due to the lack of intelligence agencies, Americans were extremely secretive about personal identity. If you want to check the intelligence of a person or a Chinese living in the United States, you basically can't find anything. Compared with the powerful intelligence capabilities of the United States later, it is simply incomparable.
On the contrary, at that time, Britain, Germany and other powerful countries had few immigrants from abroad and were on the verge of a war. The atmosphere was tense, and the state organs had relatively strong control over the population of their country. At least it was easier to check a Chinese. In addition, Li Zhigao's English actually had a lot of American flavor. Therefore, overall, pretending to be a student in the United States is the best choice.
The high-ranking Americans in the early 20th century were not much different from those in the British, but the difference was only in some details. For example, the overall look of the British, or the body is more compact, and they are more beautiful than comfortable to wear, while the American style is a little looser and more free, making them more comfortable to wear.
If the performance costume rented by Li Zhigao is really worn in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, it will definitely attract attention.
As the saying goes, Buddha wants gold clothes, people want clothes. If you wear such a shiny suit, you will probably not be in trouble with the police who are blind.
As for why I rent it, I don’t buy it. This is why, although this set of clothes is not silk, the materials are made very well. With the pile of fragments, the whole set is still very expensive. He can’t afford it at present, but it is still OK to rent it. At most, if you have money in the future, you can buy it again.
After renting the clothes, Li Zhigao thought it was almost done. He went to buy a retro exquisite suitcase, as well as a retro pocket watch with exquisite appearance, diamond-inlaid gilded.
The leather case is actually artificial leather, which is very cheap, but it looks very real; as for the pocket watch, although it looks very retro and the materials used in the appearance are very particular, it is actually a quartz watch.
The suitcase is fine, but the pocket watch has a gilt hollowed-out surface with diamonds, which looks extremely luxurious. In terms of design style, it is classical with some modern elements. No matter how you look at it, it is the same high-end, elegant and elegant style, showing a luxurious and elegant aristocratic style, which is definitely worthy of his tuxedo suit.
This pocket watch is the surface light. Although the craftsmanship is good, the decorations on it are all high-imitation fakes. For example, gold wire is not real gold, and diamonds are not real diamonds. It just looks good. Of course, since it is a quartz watch, it is much more accurate in time than ordinary mechanical watches.
After buying these, Li Zhigao remembered that it seemed too wasteful to just buy a pocket watch to show off. This thing was also very valuable at that time.
I simply gritted my teeth and bought all the remaining money for a mechanical watch with a stainless steel shell of ten yuan.
The ten domestic mechanical watches look far less beautiful than the quartz pocket watch. They have no diamonds or gilts, but just ordinary stainless steel shells, and are still miscellaneous brands in small factories. However, because they are mechanical watches, they are well-made and can be waterproof 30 meters, so the price is not cheap. Each watch is more expensive than his retro pocket watches, with a wholesale price of at least 22. The total price of ten watches costs him 2,002.
Originally, he wanted to buy cheaper ones, but unfortunately, there are no real bargains in mechanical watches these days. They are far from comparable to cheap quartz watches and electronic watches. The batch he bought is already the cheapest mechanical watches here. Of course, if you don’t buy them in this small commodity city, if you search carefully online, you will definitely have cheaper ones, but he doesn’t have the time to wait.
But think about it, these watches are sold to people, so naturally they cannot make high-tech things as quartz watches or electronic watches, so they can only be mechanical watches.
After finishing all this, Li Zhigao looked at it almost the same. No matter how many, his three-wheeled standby motorcycle would not be able to load it.
After buying another set of goggles and a imitation German m35 steel helmet, he brought all the things and rode back to the bungalow he rented when he was a doctor in Xiaohe Village.
The reason I returned to this place is naturally because of the secret. After all, it is safer to travel through time, so it is better not to let people know about it.
After returning home, Li Zhigao began to process the things he bought, that is, remove some sensitive packaging, engraving, logos, etc.
For example, he removed the capsule skin, and tore off the label of the medicine bottle, and wrote the ingredients with the pen again. If the pills have English letters, they would simply be ground into powder. Others such as pens and watches are easy to say. After all, he chose it when he bought it. At most, there are some English letters, which are not sensitive and even more classy.
After finishing all this, it was getting dark, so I went to have a full sleep. After waking up, I found that the ring's time travel ability had ended the freezing period and could travel again.
After taking a shower and having dinner, I dressed neatly, and put all the big and small bags of things on my three-wheeled standby motorcycle in the house.
What? Why don’t you put it in the space? That’s because the storage and release function of the space storage has not yet come out of the freezing period, but he can’t wait.
Besides, when he traveled through time, he had no storage space, but his clothes and ballpoint pens also traveled through time, so he felt that things around him could also travel through time.
This time I was riding a motorcycle and I was just trying it out to see if the things around me could be taken with me. Even if it didn't work, it didn't matter. Anyway, my clothes were filled with things, so I didn't have to worry about going there without anything.
Seeing that the preparation was almost done, Li Zhigao rode on his motorcycle, chanted the spell, disappeared in place, and traveled to another world.
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