Today is Sunday. Everyone has worked hard all week, and today is a day of relaxation.
"Dahai, bring me one of your stamps. I will reply to your uncle Xiaoyong later." After breakfast, Chef Cao stopped Sun Dahai.
"Grandpa Cao, the stamps I have there are for philatelic purposes and they won't be good once used. If you want to use stamps, I'll buy them now." Sun Dahai didn't dare to let Chef Cao use his stamps as ordinary stamps.
, that would be very distressing.
That’s right, that’s the famous Gengshen Year (Monkey) ticket.
In January last year, Sun Dahai, who had just been reborn, found out in confusion that the Spring Festival was coming soon. On New Year's Eve in 1980, that is, February 15, the "Gengshen Year" monkey ticket, which would become the main barometer of the postal market in the future,
, will be officially released.
When Sun Dahai went home (he was in kindergarten at the time), he carefully avoided his family, opened the birthday gift given to him by his sister-in-law Sun Weihong - a plaster piggy bank shaped like Zhu Bajie, and counted all his savings.
A huge sum of money, totaling: 2 yuan, 60 cents and 2 cents. Compared with the per capita income in 1980 and his age of 7 years old, it was indeed a lot. Sun Dahai nodded, and then... became worried.
Is this enough to buy a few tickets? But Sun Dahai didn't dare to tell his family, and he was unlikely to make money by himself right away. He was worried: "Can it be said that such a simple, easy, reasonable and legal way of making money, can't
suit me?"
Sun Dahai looked at the money spread out on the bed, and suddenly remembered that the main source of the money was New Year's money! The Spring Festival is coming soon, and there will definitely be some New Year's money in his account. Moreover, the monkey tickets were issued on the 15th and have been sold for a long time.
Well, there won't be a lot of reborn people competing with you for business.
"After this Spring Festival, collect some New Year's money, and then buy stamps." Sun Dahai decided happily.
During the Spring Festival of 1980, Sun Dahai seemed to have suddenly changed into a different person... (No, this will easily reveal the truth, so rewrite)
During the Spring Festival of 1980, Sun Dahai seemed to have suddenly grown up. He was polite, well-behaved, and considerate, and won unanimous praise from everyone in the courtyard. Especially when he faced the family members (parents, grandma, Cao Cao) who came to visit him.
The chef and his wife) were even more enthusiastic, courteous and considerate to the colleagues and friends who paid New Year greetings. While receiving countless praises, he also earned a lot of money. He achieved a spiritual and material harvest.
2 yuan, 1 jiao and 5 cents, this was Sun Dahai’s harvest from visiting relatives (working) and friends (work) during the Spring Festival. This is very good. At that time, the New Year’s money was basically 5 cents.
, only 1 cent will be given if the relationship is very good.
Sun Dahai has a deep understanding of the vigilance of people in this era. It is almost impossible for a 7-year-old child to buy stamps worth more than 4 yuan at a time.
On the first Sunday after the Spring Festival, Sun Dahai coaxed his neighbor Liang Jingjing and her sister Liang Yingying to accompany him on the grounds that he was buying stamps for the kindergarten stamp collecting group, but he was afraid of losing money. He first went to the bank to change the change, and then
Entered the post office.
Sure enough, even when 12-year-old Liang Yingying came forward to make the purchase, she was still stared at with scrutiny by the post office cashier for a long time. Perhaps it was the red scarf fluttering on Liang Yingying's chest that proved her identity and eliminated suspicion, so they were able to go smoothly.
After paying the money, they took the receipt. Taking the receipt, they went to the counter to get the stamps.
The Gengshen Monkey Stamp has 80 pieces in a full page, 8 horizontally and 10 vertically. The same page of stamps will have different prices when sold in the future. The full page stamps are the most expensive, but Sun Dahai doesn’t want them. First, he doesn’t have enough money (he wants 80 pieces in a full page).
6 yuan 4), secondly, it will be too eye-catching when sold; two rows and two columns of four connected stamps, the price is second, the one with white border and printed text is more expensive than the one with only white border, without white border
The price of the four-party couplet is even lower; a single stamp is relatively the cheapest.
Under Sun Dahai's series of flattery and flattering smiles, the aunt at the counter complied with his request. A newly brought out full-page monkey stamp was hollowed out. The stamp in the middle was left for the person behind.
There are 14 sets of four-square couplets in the surrounding circle, totaling 56 pieces, which were successfully won by Sun Dahai. (If you are not strong in the concept of planes, or do not understand the meaning of the white edges, please go to Du Niang to see a full-page monkey ticket picture and see for yourself.
It would be too hydrological to explain it any further.)
In his previous life, Sun Dahai was also a knowledgeable and ambitious literary young man. He was well-read in poetry and books, and saw in a certain urban rebirth article that a little boy who was only 5 years old and was born again bought a book at the county post office in his hometown.
I bought hundreds of monkey tickets and got my first pot of gold in my life...
Sun Dahai imagined the scene described in the article and burst out laughing. Regardless of the monkey stamps with a circulation of 5 million and a sales cycle of more than a year, whether there are 100 editions (8,000 pieces) of new stamps in a county post office
Quota? Not counting the 640 yuan required for 100 editions of monkey tickets, which was a large amount of money at the time (approximately equal to the total annual salary of a full-time official in the government department), not to mention the 5-year-old child spending money on shopping.
Will it make readers laugh? Just saying that you purchase goods in quantities far beyond your normal consumption and hoard goods is a crime that is very characteristic of the times - speculation. Do you really think I dare not have a dictatorship on you?
Sun Dahai invited the Liang sisters to go together. Firstly, it was to make the older Liang Yingying come forward to buy stamps and look more normal. Secondly, the three of them jointly bought 56 stamps so that they would not be so eye-catching. Otherwise, one person, even as an adult, would
If you want to buy more than 50 stamps at a time, you will most likely be asked to show a letter of introduction.
Sun Dahai has been reborn for a year, and this is the only one he is serious about investing in. Because his family is really not short of money. Sun Weiguo and Li Cuifeng, college students ten years ago during the special period, are now rich in experience and in the prime of life. They are working in their respective units.
They are all division-level cadres, and their monthly actual income is more than 60 yuan. This is especially true for Chef Cao, and because of the nature of his job, not only does he earn a high income, he can eat well, and he can often buy meat, eggs, and fish at low prices from farmers.
You can take the shrimps home without using meat coupons. The two grandmothers are retired cadres with long service years. They are also national model workers, March 8th red flag bearers, etc., and enjoy several allowances. Their pension plus allowance is not as good as that of the working three.
People are low-income. Two aunts went to college. In this era, the state not only frees tuition for college students, but also provides living subsidies. Some college students with poor financial conditions can still squeeze out of the monthly subsidy if they live frugally.
Part of it supports the family. The two aunts are not short of money, and the family sometimes gives them some as pocket money. Speaking of which, the only two people in the family now are the brother and sister Sun Dahai. Besides, there is no use having too much money these days.
Flowers, supplies are scarce, commodities are single, and everything must be supplied by ticket.
In addition, Sun Dahai still has baggage in his heart. After being reborn, he has always been very careful about what he says and does. He is worried about two things: First, he is afraid that his inappropriate behavior will lead to major changes in the historical process, thereby causing him to lose his understanding of the future.
The second is to hide the fact of his rebirth and not attract the attention of others, especially certain departments. Sun Dahai, who has lived in two generations, knows that there are several truths that have been verified through many years of practice, the most important of which is: Be serious.