After three drinks, everyone slowed down and started chatting while eating.
Mr. Huang put down his chopsticks and said: "Weiguo, yesterday Dahai introduced your investment plan to me. I think it is feasible. What difficulties do you still have now that you need me to help you solve? The money you want to invest can be
It’s not a decimal.”
Sun Weiguo thought for a while and replied: "I don't have any problem now. This matter is mainly done by Xiaoyong, Xiaoyue and Dahai. However, as you said, this is allowed by national policy. Then I think, since
It is good for the country and good for the people. If they want to do it, I will support them. My father, Sun Cheng, has taught me since I was a child that money is something that can be used only if you don’t bring it with you when you are alive or take it away with you when you die. He is
He said this and did it at the same time. He is my role model and I will not be a slave to money."
"Well said! It's so clear." Huang Laohao suddenly became angry, picked up the wine bowl, and drank the remaining half of the bowl of wine in one gulp.
Mr. Huang was talking about being a teenager, but Sun Dahai was trembling when he saw it. You still think that you are in the same body as when you led the troops in the war. You are 71 years old. If you drink like this, you are not afraid of a stroke? Fortunately, Liu Quanju
It is famous for rice wine. Otherwise, as an old subordinate appointed by Taizong to rehabilitate himself and prepare to pilot Taizong's country-governing strategy, if he is drunk by his own family on the eve of taking office, you will want our whole family to run away.
The rhythm.
Everyone was full and ready to leave. Mr. Huang went to settle the bill, but found that Sun Weiguo had already settled the bill.
Huang Lao said to Sun Weiguo: "Weiguo, you are a junior, how can you get ahead of me?"
Sun Weiguo said innocently: "Mr. Huang, you are the elder, of course I can't let you invite us!"
"Let me tell you, I have been rehabilitated now. The country has repaid all the money I deserved over the years according to my rank. I am very rich now." Mr. Huang said in a low voice. He made a statement
He looks like a rich man, but looks like an old kid.
"You think, we are all going to invest, how can we have no money? Besides, we haven't officially discussed the investment yet, we can still treat you to dinner, but when we start talking, we won't dare to invite you. You are relevant
Leader."
The two were writing ink when Sun Dahai interrupted: "Grandpa, our meal didn't cost much, but we had to pay 5 pounds of food stamps. You don't have enough food stamps with you, do you?"
"Ah?" Mr. Huang was dumbfounded.
He had just been rehabilitated from the cadre school and returned to the city. He ate from a big pot in the cadre school. During the time he returned to the city, he had never paid for his meals. In the hospital, there was an agency affairs bureau to pay for him, and he went to the hospital or the Ministry of Agriculture.
, someone arranged for him to eat, so he didn’t need to worry about it. Mr. Huang himself had not developed the habit of bringing food stamps when he went out.
Mr. Huang couldn't laugh or cry: "Come on, why don't you go out with me and bring a stack of money? Why don't you treat us to dinner? I planned to treat you to dinner before I went out today."
Sun Dahai quickly comforted the old child: "It's okay, grandpa. There will be plenty of opportunities in the future. Besides, you are not used to it now. When your secretary goes to work next week and stays with you, someone will do this kind of thing."
Mr. Huang sighed: "Food stamps, meat stamps, oil stamps, cloth stamps, and various basic living necessities purchased in limited quantities in the non-staple food book... This is our dereliction of duty."
"Everything will be fine. Once our breeding farm is built, at least a few of our families can eat pork at home and no longer have to worry about it."
…
At the gate of Liuquanju, everyone waved goodbye. Brother Cao Yong, Li Cuifeng, Sun Weihong, and brother and sister Sun Dahai went to the Friendship Store together to purchase some rare goods. Chef Cao and Sun Weiguo agreed with Mr. Huang during lunch to see him off first.
Returning to his home in Shichahai, he asked Sun Weiguo to complete the renovation plan for Huang's home. Sisters Jiang and Zheng went home for a lunch break.
…
Outside Jianguomen, a four-story building stands next to the embassy area. This is the Capital Friendship Store, a place where countless fashionable men and women look forward to entering. However, passports and foreign exchange certificates are like two big mountains, blocking them.
Front.
In 1981, it was difficult to enter the Friendship Store. Even if a person came with a foreign exchange coupon, he would be blocked by the guard if he did not have a passport, unless he looked like he was not yellow.
Sun Dahai often came to Youyi Store to buy things in his previous life, but that was only after the 1990s. As long as he had foreign exchange coupons, he could enter. Now it is only 1981, which is the period when the doormen of Youyi Store are most responsible.
.Sun Dahai really didn’t know how they could all get in.
The person who really knows how to get in is his mother Li Cuifeng. On the way here in the car, Li Cuifeng had already explained it.
At the entrance of Friendship Store, two doormen, one on the left and one on the right, were blocking the door like two door gods.
There were many people standing outside the door. Most of them looked at the foreign customers coming in and out of the store with envy. If you saw someone with an oriental face, it was probably a Chinese person who came out. If you were bold, you would go around to inquire about what was inside.
What is it like? What are they selling?...
There are also some people who stare at every customer who comes in and out of the store. When someone passes by, they will whisper: "Ey", or speak broken English and ask someone to purchase certain goods in the store and promise
Buy them at a higher price when you come out. Most of the foreign exchange certificates and some imported goods circulating in the black market are exchanged bit by bit by them like moving mice.
When they came to the door, Sun Dahai and the others were divided into two groups. Cao Yong picked up Sun Yuanyuan and walked in front. Cao Yue held her brother's arm with one hand and held Sun Dahai with the other. The four of them were like a family of four.
As if we were at home, we walked over while talking in English.
When the guard wanted to stop the inspection, Cao Yong impatiently took out his passport, waved it at the guard a few times, and walked into the store door without stopping.
Li Cuifeng also came over with Sun Weihong. Li Cuifeng showed her press card to another guard, pointed at Sun Weihong who showed her Danfu University student ID card, and said to the guard: "She is my apprentice, a newly assigned member of the country.
The intern reporters are here, we have to go in and conduct an investigation."
In the early 1980s, in people's eyes, journalists were a very high-level profession that could represent the country. The news they wrote could be directly seen by the chief. Therefore, the power of a press card was much higher than a letter of introduction at that time.
Sure enough, the guard let him in with a smile on his face, and even offered to help the reporter find a supervisor if necessary. After thanking Li Cuifeng, she took Sun Weihong and walked calmly into the store.
After everyone gathered together, Sun Dahai grabbed Li Cuifeng's sleeve and asked: "Mom, you came in so easily? How did you know that you can bring people in with a press card?"
"In the circle of veteran journalists, this is not a secret. The Friendship Store is jointly managed by three ministries and commissions. We reporters have a wide network of people. If you just look for connections, you can find the people in charge of them. The reporter has a crooked mouth, and the store's
Leaders will be criticized. This has happened several times before. So, as long as you don’t go too far, the Friendship Store basically doesn’t care about journalists entering.”
Li Cuifeng thought for a while and continued: "Actually, there are not many reporters here. Journalists, this profession sounds nice, but the income is not higher than others. They still have to support their families. Who has so much spare money to buy these high-end products?
Yeah, and you can only spend foreign exchange coupons."
Sun Dahai asked in a low voice: "Can't we just throw some things out and make money by selling them at the door?"
Li Cuifeng smiled: "Reporters are generally well-informed, and their eyesight should not be so shallow. Besides, those who can become reporters can be regarded as educated people, just to save this thing, in case they are seen by acquaintances
, or was caught by the police and notified the work unit, do you still want this face?"