Chapter 33 Buying Monkey Tickets
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Zhang Xingming stood by the stove and baked his hands. It was too cold, and it was minus thirty-nine degrees below the sky. He spitted and flew into ice.
After poking the stove, the fire became more prosperous. After a few breaths, Zhang Xingming asked his second brother: "Second brother, do you know someone from the Post and Telecommunications Bureau? You can speak."
"Yes, Tian Shuanzi works in the Post and Telecommunications Bureau. His father is the director, how about he?" The second brother took off his hat and sat down next to the stove.
"Tian Shuanzi?" Zhang Xingming thought for a while, but he had no impression. He had many acquaintances in the post office in his previous life, but that was around 90 years ago, so he probably had all been transferred away.
"Well," the second brother nodded and baked his hand upside down on the stove: "It seems that it is called Tian Hongshun. Usually, Shuanzi Shunzi calls him, but he doesn't remember the Qing Daming. The one who sent the letter was his father, his uncle, and his uncle is a cadre, and he is a great man." Nowadays, the Post and Telecommunications Bureau is a very good unit, and it is very difficult for the children of this bureau to go in and go to work.
"Who is his uncle?" Zhang Xingming was curious.
"Secretary Series."
"Oh--" Zhang Xingming nodded, knowing who it was. In 1992, this was the deputy governor. This was a real big cadre, not an ordinary bull. However, Deputy Director Tian was quite poorly. He was a non-powerful deputy until he retired. After retirement, he cursed the streets, Secretary of the Cong, and the Communist Party every day. He was a local celebrity in the 1990s. If it weren't for his brother-in-law (the husbands of two sisters were called Lian Qiao, and some were called Lian Qiao), he would probably be sure to be arrested and sentenced. This man was too wild. He wrote a quick-row book to scold the Communist Party and cadres, and scolded whoever he caught, poured feces on the leadership car of the Public Security Bureau, blocked the door of the district government for a long time.
"You go find Tian Shuanzi tomorrow," Zhang Xingming said to his second brother: "Let him tell his father that on the New Year, on February 15th, the Post and Telecommunications Bureau will issue a new stamp to ask him to ask him more from his superiors. Then you ask him if we can buy more, can we calculate less, and whether there is an internal price."
"Buy stamps?" The second brother was a little surprised: "Buy stamps for ten thousand yuan?"
"Well," Zhang Xingming nodded and said, "How much money do you have in your hands? Take it out and buy it. The more you buy, the better. Can you take out your family's money? You have to buy it all. By the way, you have to go to Xiamatang and Qiaotou to run all the post offices and buy all the post offices that can be bought. I guess it would be a pity that there are more than 10,000 yuan in Guangnanfen. Mobilize all the people, find relationships if you have any connections, and go to various post offices in various places. When the tickets are returned, they can get reimbursement. They can buy what they can get. You have to arrange this matter quickly." Eighty stamps are each, and 12,000 yuan is more than 1,700 yuan. Zhang Xingming estimated that there are only a dozen post offices, and some probably not. There are bureaus in Nanfen. If you can get more, it will not exceed 200.
"Buy these stamps?" the second brother glared at Zhang Xingming.
"Make money, this is a good thing. Second brother, what I told you is not an ordinary stamp, it is a new stamp that will be issued soon. The stamp printed with a monkey with a red base, called a golden monkey stamp, and there are not many issues in the country. This thing will be worth a lot of money in the future. By the way, you can tell them clearly, don't cry if you buy the wrong ones."
"How much is it worth? How do you know?"
"What I analyzed from the newspaper is definitely worth it, but it will definitely not be sold at a high price right away. It is okay to get a few dollars for each stamp next year." Zhang Xingming took off his shoes and said while baking them. The snow water on the shoes dripped on the stove and it disappeared.
"How many dollars does one cost? That big couplet is worth eighty, and that couplet is worth hundreds." The second brother calculated the account in his heart: "One is eight points, and one couplet is worth six and four, and that couplet is worth hundreds of dollars. Oh my god, it's more profitable than selling iron."
"Well," Zhang Xingming put his hot shoes on his feet and said, "The stamps are made by time. The longer the time is, the more they earn. Selling iron is made by weight. As long as the quantity is larger, you will earn more. One is buying and selling, and the other is investment. It is not the same thing. After buying this stamp, I will put it in 1991 and sell it in the remaining 1996. Then we will have half the money. Second brother, you will be a real rich man. You will drive a car to hug beautiful women. You will have whatever you want, haha."
"Can it really work?" The second brother looked at Zhang Xingming. During this period, all the ideas Zhang Xingming had made money, which made him believe that Zhang Xingming would not fire the empty gun.
"It will definitely work. The newspapers say that philatelics are very popular now, and many people have become rich. Don't worry, you can start a relationship and buy it quickly. The city will go there too. Anyway, you will buy stamps everywhere this first month. You can buy as much as you can. Don't be afraid of more, but you are afraid of less, until you spend the money."
"Okay, I'll go find Shuanzi tomorrow. This matter will definitely be done. If we buy more stamps, he will not run away. He will have to get more bonuses."
"Don't say it's leaked. Let's let people know that they can make money and what's wrong with us. They have to deal with it internally. They have to make up a reason, just say that rural relatives can't buy stamps when they write letters. If you ask you to buy more relatives, you can buy more. If you can't, add more relatives. We will add more relatives. There are dozens of uncles, grandparents and aunts." Zhang Xingming reminded his second brother. The second brother nodded, indicating that he understood and began to consider how to buy more.
When the two of them returned home in the evening, Zhang Xingming asked his mother to take the money to his second brother. His mother took out two hundred yuan, but he could see the reluctance on his face, which made Zhang Xingming laugh and cry. This was not asking you to take it out for flowers, but why did you look like this?
Under the guidance of my mother, Sun's father and mother also took out 200 yuan, and the eldest sister and second brother raised 300 yuan. The second brother said that he was under great pressure. If this matter was done, it would be a matter of two words to keep the body intact.
So in the first month of 1981, the second brother and his group were running around. Needless to say, the Nanfen Post and Telecommunications Bureau had a lot of money, Qiaotou, Xiamatang, Fengcheng, Dandong, all districts and surrounding cities, even the second brother of Fengtian ran twice, and finally came back empty-handed on March 4th. This time he went to Fengtian again. He didn't buy it. He had no goods at all. He took more than 12,000 yuan, spent 11,987 yuan and 2 cents, and bought 1,873 monkey tickets back. Zhang Xingming was overjoyed in this result. Think about it,
Five million pieces are only 62,500, and they still have to be divided into provinces and cities across the country. If Liaodong Province is not a national heavy industry province, I guess they can't even buy these. My second brother still has more than 500 yuan and a few dozen yuan train ticket. After most of the month of the journey, my second brother wanted to vomit when he heard the sound of the train. (The ticket from Nanfen to Fengtian was three yuan at that time) Zhang Xingming told his second brother to fully reimburse the ticket and meal fees for these business trips, and another subsidy of twenty yuan. In the first month of the year, people would run around, which would make people more affordable. My second brother nodded and said he knew it and would do it tomorrow.
Then he started to divide the spoils, including Sun Dad, Sun Mother, eldest sister, second sister, elder brother, and mother, divided the stamps according to the amount of money paid. All the rest were from him and his second brother, and half of each person were kept by him. Of course, he had told his parents in advance that there was other people's money in it, otherwise his mother and father knew that he and his second brother earned more than 10,000 yuan in more than three months, so he would definitely have to confiscate some of it, or a large part of it.
The battle to buy stamps declares victory.
After dividing the stamps, Zhang Xingming solemnly reminded everyone present to keep it confidential and not to tell anyone. Second, keep the stamps in their hands properly. This thing is actually quite expensive. If it is damp, discolored, or dirty or broken, it will be worthless. The comrades present said that they all understood it and would keep the stamps as if they were protecting their hearts and livers and serve them every day.
When he was sleeping at night, Zhang Xingming had just gotten into the bed when his brother crawled into his ear and whispered: "Erming, I'll take me with anything in the future. I don't know if you're making stamps. Don't you have any good things with me? I don't even tell me."
Zhang Xingming looked at the brother's little face and couldn't help but be happy and said, "I will keep it together with you. When I take it out and divide it in the future, I will definitely have your share. Oh. I can't play with that game, I can only keep it well. It's useless to give it to you now. If it is broken, it will be gone."
The brother blinked his eyes and thought for a while, nodded and went back to sleep.
Zhang Xingming looked at his brother's side face while sleeping and thought to himself: Brother, how can you not have anything but you? Not only are there, but there are many more. In this life, let you go up and down the mountains and rivers quickly. We have to use everything better than others.
A few days later, like in the previous life, the bad luck of Heihu came. The police station issued a notice that all residents must deal with their own dogs within a time limit. If the deadline is reached, the police station will send someone to beat them and will be fined.
So every household started beating dogs.
Heihu couldn't escape this fate. Although his parents were dragging him all the time, the deadline was still there. The police station got out a car and shot dogs with guns everywhere. The dog owners were fined. Seeing that they couldn't escape, my father found a few workers and prepared to beat the dogs. But after a few hits, he felt unbearable and let go again. Heihu ran away. My mother said that she would run away, and she wouldn't need to hit her anymore.
Unexpectedly, after a few days, Heihu came back and had to fight again. My mother couldn't bear to see it and avoided it. This time Heihu didn't run away, but just sobbed at his father, and didn't attack or hide, and just died.
My mother, brother, Zhang Xingming and the other two cried for a long time.
(The Black Tiger is real, and the dog beating happened in summer. I didn’t want to write it, but after thinking about it, I have to give Black Tiger an explanation. Black Tiger is the most spiritual native dog I have ever seen since I was a child. I love dogs all my life, so it may be because of it.)
Chapter completed!