Love is certainly heart-stirring, but love cannot be the only thing in a person's life.
Everyone has their own family, friends, expectations, ideals and life goals, and we cannot stick together all day and night.
So after enjoying the romance of the two-person world for a week, Hong Yanwu and "Tang Xin'er" started to get down to business.
The "Service Department for Overseas Chinese" located at No. 7 on the fourth floor of Wangfujing Department Store was established in 1960.
In the early days of its establishment, in addition to individual public personnel sent abroad, which was extremely rare at the time, the people received here also included the highest-level leaders and their families.
They are the so-called "Four Vice-Presidents" (Vice-Presidents of the Party and State, Vice-Premiers, and Vice-Chairmen), "Two Highs" (President of the Supreme People's Court, Chief Prosecutor of the Supreme People's Procuratorate), and "One Marshal".
The main services provided here include custom-made clothing for people going abroad, leaders and their families, and the product range includes imported brand-name home appliances, watches, perfumes, fabrics, chocolate, brandy, whiskey, sanitary napkins, jewelry, etc.
Top-quality black caviar from Russia and foie gras from France are common here. Domestic "famous, high-quality, special and new" products are also available.
It should be said that at that time, it not only formed an effective complementary role with Donghuamen "No. 34" in terms of "special supply demand" for leaders. In addition, it formed an effective complementary role with the "International Friends Service Department" and "Overseas Chinese" at that time.
Store" is also the only three foreign-related stores in Beijing.
This situation lasted until December 1, 1964.
Due to the full coverage and merging of three foreign-related stores with the same functions, the "Beijing Friendship Store" was established at No. 25 Donghuamen Street. Since then, the "Service Department for Overseas Personnel" has become truly worthy of its name and has become a service department only for people going abroad.
Dedicated service department.
However, although the reception level here has declined, since most of the people who could go abroad at that time were the social elite, the "department building" is still full of various cars parked every day.
There is also a doorman at the entrance behind the "department building" all year round. It is still a place where ordinary people have almost no chance to set foot.
So to say that someone is thinking about how to make money here is definitely beyond the scope of what ordinary people can imagine, and no one will believe it.
But this kind of thing has become a fact.
At nine o'clock in the morning on June 20, 1978, two men and two women came quietly to the entrance of the "Service Department for Overseas Chinese" behind Wangfujing Department Store.
It is Hong Yanwu, Chen Liquan, "Tangxiner" and "Ciermei".
What makes these people unique is that not only are their clothes brand new, they are also very elegant and clean, and they have stayed here for a long time.
Whenever someone passes by, they will observe them carefully first. Once they feel that it is suitable for them to make contact, someone will try to go over and have a conversation.
Needless to say, it must have been Hong Yanwu's idea to dress up carefully. He even spent his own money to buy new outfits for everyone, so that everyone had to change into them.
This need to "pretend to be rich" is actually very similar to the need to "pretend to be poor" when scalping tickets at the cinema entrance.
It is because most of the people who can come here are government officials and high-level intellectuals. Snobbishness and judging people by appearance have always been the most common characteristics of these people.
If they were dressed like ordinary people, most of them would be as cold as the salespersons on the fourth floor and too lazy to talk to them.
On the contrary, it would be different if everyone looked like a cadre with a good background or a child from a well-educated family. Not only can it successfully reduce other people's resentment, but it can also reduce other people's defensiveness.
At the same time, from the perspective of facilitating transactions, only by acting as if you have a lot of money and being somewhat attractive to these people who have a higher eye will they be willing to talk to you.
Indeed, Hong Yanwu's idea was very necessary. At first, "Cier Mei" didn't care much about it. She just put on new clothes because women naturally love to be beautiful and don't want to give up free clothes.
But it didn't take long for her to realize the benefits herself.
First, some people are very principled, many people are extremely vigilant, and are disgusted by their requests to take advantage of loopholes.
Fortunately, she was well-dressed, bright and beautiful, so these people would believe her excuse of "getting married for her younger brother" and treat her more tolerantly.
Otherwise, it would not be a matter of letting him off lightly or just giving him verbal persuasion and education. Otherwise, he would have to alert the public security organs.
Second, the prettier a beautiful girl is, the more lethal she is to young men. As long as there are no female single boys around, she can easily lead the conversation to the topic and find out all about the other person's details.
In this way, after going back and forth, she and "Tang Xin'er" gradually became familiar with the routine of picking up conversations.
They all know that they should try their best to avoid middle-aged and elderly men and women, and they will no longer take the initiative to attack people of both sexes and children.
Because these people are the most rigid-minded and love to talk big truths. Moreover, they have people accompanying them, so even if they are really selfish, they dare not expose them. Pretending to be serious is an inevitable reaction.
Therefore, they only pay attention to single young men or middle-aged women. Because young men are the easiest to deal with, and old women are the easiest to be greedy.
Although most of those young men wear glasses, and even those old women have a certain social status, they cannot overcome this natural attribute of themselves.
This is human nature.
It's just a pity that although "Tang Xin'er" and "Silver Plum" have gradually learned the ropes and feel more and more relaxed in socializing. However, due to various other objective reasons, it is still not easy to succeed smoothly.
First of all, it is difficult to distinguish the objects.
Don't forget, the "Service Department for Overseas Personnel" also has the business of customizing clothing for people going abroad. Many people use the 500 yuan clothing fee given by the government to make clothing. Of course, it is a waste of time to ask these people.
, wasting time in vain.
In addition, the "tax-free quota" is really a good thing. No one is stupid, even if the returnees don't have enough financial resources. But who doesn't have relatives and friends? As soon as relatives and friends open their mouths, they will probably give away the favor.
Do you know if you can still sell it for money if you keep it?
Therefore, Liu Liu was busy chatting with each other for two hours, and "Cier Mei" and "Tang Xin'er" chatted up more than a dozen people each, but all of them got nothing. In addition, the weather was hot, and both of them were sweating when they saw it.
How could Hong Yanwu keep the two girls warm, so he and Chen Liquan bought a few bottles of soda to cool down the heat and quench their thirst.
The cold drinks arrived just in time, and as soon as the soda arrived, "Ci'ermei" grabbed it first without waiting for Chen Liquan to hand it to him.
Not to mention, spending an extra five cents per bottle is really effective. The cold drink was chilled by the ice. The restless "Ciermei" drank half of the bottle in one go. He breathed a sigh of relief, and finally
She looks better.
Of course, what Hong Yanwu cared about most was his wife. He handed over the soda and asked in a low voice, "Tang Xin'er."
"How are you? You haven't lost your confidence, have you? Take your time, it's not worth it if you get really angry..."
"Tang Xin'er" was sipping a soda from a straw and shaking his head.
"How can you do that? I'm not in a hurry, I have full confidence in you. This is just a matter of luck. It's 'Ci'ermei', I'll just persuade her later..."
"Oh, oh, what are you two whispering about?" It seemed as if the two of them were "burning" their eyes. "Ciermei" giggled and played the cymbal.
"Tang Xin'er" is such a clever person, but he only smiled faintly.
"Xiao Wu said you look particularly good today..."
"Ciermei" was stunned and touched her face.
"Really or not?"
Hong Yanwu quickly cooperated seriously.
"very nice!"
"Hahaha..." Several people laughed now.
I don’t know if the laughter brought good luck, or maybe the hard work paid off. Unexpectedly, five minutes later, after a few people chatted and drank the soda, the restaurant actually opened.
"Ciermei" chatted with a middle-aged woman without taking it seriously, and unexpectedly got a small "Service Voucher for Travelers Abroad". It's just that the woman had a good deal, "Ciermei"
The offer of fifty yuan was too little, so the deal was settled for sixty-five yuan.
Whether it’s a loss or a gain, it’s really a bit confusing.
The most confident person was Hong Yanwu. He didn’t hesitate and just let “Tang Xin’er” and “Cier Mei” go in with the indicators to buy things.
When the two of them came out again, they were really happy because the things inside were so cheap.
They bought a "brick" tape recorder for only 115 yuan. It was impossible to buy it outside. They all thought that if the price increased to 234 yuan, someone would want it, but they didn't know what brand it was, and they didn't recognize it.
Unexpectedly, Hong Yanwu was an understanding person. He took it and took a look at it and said, "Nationalpanasonic, this is an original RQ-2106 mono recorder and player from Panasonic in Japan. The department store sold this in the first half of the year. Two hundred and sixty is not two hundred."
8. It was sold out within a few days of being put on sale.”
Well, this means that this is really the most popular item right now. If you sell it at the original price, you can earn at least one hundred and eighty.
"Ciermei" was so beautiful when she heard it, and she announced extremely excitedly that in order to celebrate her victory in the first battle, she would treat everyone to a meal at noon.
But "Tang Xin'er" didn't care about this. She just stared at Hong Yanwu with a smile in her eyes, "How come you still know foreign words? You also know Japanese things?"
Hey, she looked so affectionate. It was obvious that her little mind was shocked by Hong Yanwu again.