"Okay, then, you ride the bike in front and I'll follow you in the car."

The reason why Fangyuan drove over was because he was prepared to buy it and bring it back if possible.

"Okay!" The middle-aged man nodded.

Fangyuan drove and followed the middle-aged man for a few miles, and soon arrived at the place where the middle-aged man lived.

This is a large courtyard. After parking the car, the middle-aged man pushed the bicycle in front, followed by Fangyuan and Shi Jianxin.

The courtyard is very large, and there is a courtyard beyond the gatehouse. Judging from the women working and chatting in the courtyard, it seems that there must be many families living here.

However, the middle-aged man's home is not here, but passes through an aisle from the side and into the back.

Here is another courtyard, and the middle-aged man’s home is here.

Because Fangyuan saw a middle-aged man driving a bicycle.

"Lao Li is back?" One of the two middle-aged men who were playing chess in the yard looked up and asked.

Only then did Fangyuan find out that the middle-aged man’s surname was Li.

"Well! How about playing chess?" Lao Li replied.

"Who are these two..." the middle-aged man playing chess looked at Fangyuan and Shi Jianxin and asked.

"Oh, they came to see the wine at home." Lao Li said.

"Old Li, it's better for you. You ordered those drinks at that time, unlike us who ordered those messy things and now we've finished them."

After hearing them chatting, Fangyuan also heard something.

Several people seemed to have worked in a state-owned store before.

After the price liberalization this year, private stores have sprouted everywhere. Whether it is services or other things, private stores have advantages over state-owned stores.

This has led to the demise of a large number of state-owned stores.

Similarly, it also resulted in a group of people becoming unemployed.

Many state-owned stores cannot make ends meet and cannot even pay wages.

Wages cannot be paid and shops are closed. What will happen to wages? So we have low wages based on commodities.

Everyone else chose other random products, but only Lao Li chose these Xifeng wines.

Others don't know what he thinks, because Xifeng wine is not very popular in the imperial capital.

When it comes to wine, people in the imperial capital still prefer Erguotou.

Also, Erguotou is cheaper, so you can choose more.

In other words, if you choose Erguotou, you can also choose some other products.

Although Xifeng wine is popular in the imperial capital, it is not cheap.

Lao Li chatted for a while with the two middle-aged men who were playing chess, and then took Fangyuan and Shi Jianxin to his house.

Lao Li's home is on the east side of the yard. It belongs to the east wing and has only two rooms.

This shows that the population of his family is not large.

Of course, this is only relative. In this era of relatively tight housing, it is quite common for five or six people to live in two rooms.

There is no one in Lao Li's family, probably either going to work or going to school, so Fangyuan doesn't know how many people there are in his family.

There are two rooms, one is the living room and the other is the bedroom, and the living room also doubles as the kitchen.

The small room also has a single bed, which makes the living room seem particularly small.

There wasn't even a single electrical appliance in the house, not to mention a TV or a refrigerator. I didn't even see a radio.

"I'm kidding, the house is a bit small." Lao Li said with a smile.

"No, no, most people in the imperial capital are not like this now." Fang Yuan shook his head and said.

"The wine is here, show me." Lao Li said, pointing to a neat pile of wine placed in the corner of the living room.

"Yeah!" Fangyuan nodded without any nonsense and walked over directly.

Fangyuan did not open the box, but looked at the date on the box first.

Nowadays, unlike later generations, the production date is printed directly on the box.

Instead, an inspection form is affixed to the box, and the date is stamped on it.

Fangyuan quickly looked through the wines. There were twenty-six boxes in total, with twenty-four bottles per box.

The production dates range from 1956 to 1970, and those before 1960 account for most of them.

To be honest, these Xifeng wines are not uncommon here. It can be said that he has a lot of them.

He even said that he has many wines that are older than these, but this does not mean that he does not like these wines.

You must know that in later generations, any bottle of Phoenix brand Xifeng wine from the 1950s and 1960s was a rare variety.

Fangyuan opened a box. It was a box of Xifeng wine that was 56 years old.

It is a press-top glass bottle with the Phoenix trademark in gold letters on a red background affixed to the bottle mouth.

The beer bottle-shaped bottle has a red wine label attached to it.

The red wine label is in harmony with the color of the bottle, and the phoenix on the pattern refers to Xifeng Wine and Fengxiang County, Shaanxi Province, where it is produced.

The phoenix is ​​one of the totems of the Chinese nation. The white phoenix pattern on this wine label occupies a large area, with graceful wings spread, luxury and elegance.

This Phoenix trademark has been in use for 87 years, that is, last year.

Nowadays, the trademark of Xifeng wine sold outside is no longer Phoenix, but Xifeng.

After reading it, Fangyuan put down the wine, turned to Lao Li and said, "These wines are quite old, I can keep them."

"Then how much can you give me?" Lao Li asked, rubbing his hands.

Fangyuan took one look at the Xifeng wine again and said, "I can give you 481 boxes of Xifeng wine from five to six years ago."

"How...how much?" Lao Li asked with wide eyes, looking at Fang Yuan in disbelief.

You must know that although the market is now liberalized and pricing is left to the market, it is the so-called market economy.

But the price of Xifeng wine is not very high. Now the price of a bottle of Xifeng wine is only five or six yuan.

In fact, this is not cheap anymore. You must know that the current per capita salary is only seventy or eighty yuan, which means that one month's salary can only buy half a box of Xifeng wine.

Fangyuan gave him four hundred and eighty-one boxes, which was equivalent to twenty yuan per bottle, a difference of almost four times.

Otherwise, he wouldn't be so surprised. Don't forget, there is no concept of old wine at this time.

At most, if good wine is kept longer, the taste will be purer and more fragrant.

There is absolutely no way anyone would pay several times the price to buy these drinks.

"Four hundred and eighty-one boxes, if you think it's okay, I'll take it."

"Okay, okay." Lao Li nodded quickly, fearing that he would be too slow to agree and Fangyuan wouldn't accept it.

After agreeing, Lao Li looked at Fangyuan and asked, "What about the others?"

"I'll give you 460 for 1957, 440 for 1958, 420 for 1959, 400 for 1960, and the remaining three hundred and one boxes."

The rest are those from 1961 to 1970.

To be honest, the value of these Xifeng wines is not high, especially at this time.

But this is talking about now, and it will be different in later generations. A bottle of Phoenix brand Xifeng wine in 1984 can easily cost more than 6,000 in later generations.

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Chapter completed!