Return To 1977 Chapter 322: Get indicators
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Although love makes people's hearts beat, it cannot only be love 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" also 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 government-sponsored personnel who were extremely rare at that time, the reception here also included top-level leaders and their families.
The so-called "Four Vice-Presidents" (Vice-Presidents of the Party and State, Vice-Premier, 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, in addition to customized clothing for overseas personnel, leaders and their families, product varieties include imported brand-name home appliances, watches, perfumes, fabrics, chocolate, brandy, whiskey, sanitary napkins, jewelry, etc. .
The 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, not only did this place form an effective complementary role with Donghuamen "No. 34" in terms of "special supply demand" for leaders. In addition, together with the "International Friends Service Department" and the "Overseas Chinese Store" at that time, it was also the only three foreign-related stores in Beijing.
This situation lasted until December 1, 1964.
Due to the full coverage and merger of three foreign-related stores with the same functionality, 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 dedicated department that only serves people going abroad.
However, although the level of reception here has declined, because most of the people who could go abroad at that time were the social elite. Under the "Department Building", cars of all kinds are still 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 there are people thinking about how to make money here. That is absolutely 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 is different about these people 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.
Every time someone passes by, they will observe it first. Once they feel it is suitable for contact, someone will try to go over and chat.
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.
This is because most of the people who can come here are government officials and senior 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 high-achieving 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 are rich and powerful can you be somewhat attractive to these people who have high aspirations, will they be willing to talk to you
Indeed, Hong Yanwu's idea is very necessary. At first, "Cier Mei" didn't care much. She only put on new clothes because women naturally love to look beautiful and don't want to give up free clothes.
It didn't take long for her to realize the benefits herself.
First, some people are extremely principled, many are extremely vigilant, and are disgusted by their requests to take advantage of loopholes.
Thanks to her being decent, bright and beautiful, 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 go lightly, or just giving him verbal persuasion and education. Otherwise, he would have to alert the public security organs.
Secondly, the more beautiful a beautiful girl is, the more lethal she is to young men. As long as there are no female single young men around, she can easily lead the conversation to the topic and find out all the details about the other person.
In this way, over and over again, 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 seeing 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 are the people with the most rigid minds and love to talk nonsense. Moreover, there were people accompanying him, so even if they were really selfish, they would not dare to expose them. Pretending to be serious is an inevitable reaction.
So they only pay attention to single young men or middle-aged women. Because young men are the easiest to deal with, and old ladies are the easiest to be greedy.
Although most of those young men wear glasses, even those old women have a certain social status. But after all, they can't overcome this natural attribute of themselves.
This is human nature.
It's just a pity that although "Tang Xin'er" and "Cili Mei" are gradually getting the hang of it, they feel more and more relaxed in social interactions. However, due to various other objective reasons, it is still not easy to succeed smoothly.
First of all, it is difficult to distinguish the object.
Don't forget, the "Service Department for Overseas Personnel" also has the business of custom-making clothing for people going abroad. Many people use the 500 yuan clothing fee given by the government to make clothing. Of course, asking these people is in vain and wastes time.
In addition, the "tax-free index" is really a good thing. No one is stupid, even if the returnees don’t have enough financial resources. But who doesn’t have close relatives and friends? As soon as relatives and friends open their mouths, they will probably give away the favor. Who knew you could still make money by keeping it?
So, after two hours of busy chatting, "Cier Mei" and "Tang Xin'er" each chatted up more than ten people, but all of them got nothing. Coupled with the hot weather, both of them started to sweat a little.
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 came in time, and as soon as the soda arrived, "Ciermei" didn't wait for Chen Liquan to hand it to him, and grabbed it himself.
Don’t mention it, spending an extra five cents per bottle is really effective. The cold drink was chilled by the water, and the restless "Ciermei" drank half of the bottle in one go. He breathed a sigh of relief and finally looked better.
Of course, what Hong Yanwu cared about most was actually 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 I 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 that the two of them "burned" their eyes. "Ciermei" came laughing and playing cymbals.
"Tang Xin'er" is such a clever person, but he only smiles faintly.
"Xiao Wu said you look very good today..."
"Ciermei" was stunned and touched her face.
"Really or fake?"
Hong Yanwu quickly cooperated seriously.
"That's great!"
"Hahaha..." Several people laughed now.
I don’t know if laughter brings good luck, or maybe hard work pays off. Unexpectedly, five minutes later, after a few people chatted and drank sodas, the store 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 girl was good at bargaining, and the fifty yuan offered by "Ci'ermei" was not enough, so the deal ended up being sixty-five yuan.
Whether it’s a loss or a profit, it’s really confusing.
The most confident person is Hong Yanwu. Without any hesitation, he directly asked "Tang Xin'er" and "Cier Mei" to go in and buy things with the indicators.
It will be really fun when the two of them come out again. Because the stuff inside is so cheap.
They bought a "brick" tape recorder for only 115 yuan. You can't buy it outside at all. They all felt that if the price was increased to 234, there would be people asking for 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 looked at it and said, "NationalPanasonic, this is the RQ-2106 mono recorder and player originally manufactured by Panasonic in Japan. In the first half of the year, the department store sold this, and the price was 260, not 280. It sold out within a few days after it was put in stock. It’s been robbed.”
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" doesn't care about this. She just stared at Hong Yanwu with a smile in her eyes, "How come you still know foreign characters? You also know Japanese things?"
Hey, you look so affectionate. It was obvious that her little mind was shocked by Hong Yanwu again.