1949 I am from the future

()【2】The first pot of gold

From Cao Xiaoqiang's point of view, after experiencing great sorrow, great joy, great shock and great horror, there is no doubt that this time travel is a turning point in his life. Unless his head is broken, he must take advantage of this opportunity.His mind was going to explode after thinking about it. Finally, he said to himself that he should make good use of this opportunity to benefit himself and the new China in that parallel space.Because it was an era of material poverty but extremely high spirits and forge ahead. It was the era when our grandparents faced the cold eyes and ridicule of the West, and never knelt down to beg for mercy after suffering. It was the era when the foundation of the world's factory was laid.

As an engineering student, the first thing Cao Xiaoqiang thinks of carrying across time and space is all kinds of equipment needed to build a modern industrial power. Taking it there and selling it can be said to be beneficial to the country and himself.

But right now, there is only more than 5000 yuan left in **Si's salary card, which can be regarded as letting Xiaoqiang understand once again what it means to stump a hero with a penny.May I ask, what is there in this time and space that can be bought for 5000 yuan and can be resold in another time and space at a huge profit?

In the end, Cao Xiaoqiang chose the watch, thanks to the advanced experience shared by countless time-traveling predecessors on the Internet, so that this stupid bastard could find the most lucrative and easiest-to-carry item in the first place.

Thanks to the super industrial capacity of this time and space, and the convenience of network informatization, on Taobao, old brand manual mechanical watches like Puhai can be bought for only about 120 yuan, and in that era, the price of a watch The value can be exchanged for 1949 to 300 yuan, which is [-] million French currency before the currency system reform. The price of foreign watches is more expensive, reaching [-] yuan to [-] yuan or even higher. settlement, please understand).In [-], the People’s Bank of China’s gold purchase price was three to four yuan per gram. If you exchange it for gold and bring back the time and space where the gold price is more than [-] yuan, it is about [-] times the profit. Thinking of this, Cao Xiaoqiang made up his mind and just did it. !

Early the next morning, Cao Xiaoqiang asked for sick leave from the company.On the phone, Wang Bin, the owner of Zhutou, took a deep tone, as if Xiaoqiang owed him 2000 yuan, and repeatedly emphasized that Xiaoqiang's salary for this month would be ruined.Unmoved, Cao Xiaoqiang resolutely asked for a week's vacation.He has long felt that living in a crowded metropolis is too depressing. People seem to be farm animals raised by capital. They are busy all day long to cater to their owners and get more feed. Even the right to reproduce requires the same species first— — The right family.Capital, on the other hand, can be unrestrained and indulge in carnival.Xiaoqiang longs for freedom and a different life. He will never give up this opportunity to change his life and the world.

Cao Xiaoqiang contacted a seller from Beidu that he found on Taobao, and chose to make a face-to-face transaction. At a price of 90 yuan each, he bought a 40 yuan domestic mechanical watch that was said to be of good quality. Olard.In Cao Xiaoqiang's opinion, an English name is better than having a Puhai brand written on it, otherwise it would be troublesome to explain it in that time and space, and such a Chinese name would not make any sense.

Back at the residence, Cao Xiaoqiang took out all the evidence from this time and space in the watch packaging, such as the manual inspection certificate, etc., box by box, leaving only the beautiful packaging box containing the watch.Then put them one by one into a medium-sized cardboard box with the words scraped off.

Now everything is ready, just wait until after dark, and find a place where there is no one to cross.Xiaoqiang found the hotel where he committed suicide before, and came to the nearby community.In my impression, this place before 1949 was not far from the place where Xiaoqiang crossed Shuijing Hutong last time, and it was a large open space.

Like everything else in the world, time passes incredibly slowly when you're actually waiting for dark.Cao Xiaoqiang smoked half of the two packs of cigarettes he carried with him. During this period, countless possibilities of time travel failure flashed back and forth in Xiaoqiang's mind. Calm down, gradually gradually, Xiaoqiang calmed down, entered a state of drunkenness, and didn't think about anything.

It was dark, and it was time to set off.

According to the instructions of the blood soul, Xiaoqiang pricked his finger with a needle and put a drop of blood on the carton. The dark red blood made the carton look a bit like a crime scene.

"Start the blood sacrifice and head to Beacon No. [-]." Xiaoqiang muttered to himself like an idiot in a sci-fi movie.

Immediately, in the dark night, Cao Xiaoqiang, who was holding a cardboard box, swished and disappeared silently. It seemed that no one had ever been to the place where the second person was standing. Only the cigarette butts all over the floor proved that there was indeed someone here just now. . <'s blood disappeared from the body as if it had evaporated, and this was Xiaoqiang's third hemorrhage recently. In 1949, there was no blood transfusion procedure for Xiaoqiang due to the medical conditions, but only normal saline was given to him, which made him weaker.Xiaoqiang couldn't help thinking, if things go on like this in the long run, should he consider going to the gynecology department......

Ten seconds later, the dizzy Xiaoqiang stood in the open space beside Shuijing Hutong with the cardboard box in his arms.There was silence all around, big and small houses were asleep in the night, shadows hung from the water well at the mouth of the alley, playing chess with the moonlight on the flagstone path.In the cold wind in the autumn night, the north is sleeping peacefully and sweetly.

You must know that the northern capital is cold early in autumn, and every family has already covered with thick quilts.Xiaoqiang, who was poking in the open air, looked around and saw no movement, so he shrank his head, ran into Shuijing alley, found a corner sheltered from the wind, and squatted down to wait for dawn.

Time really flies when you are asleep.Xiaoqiang, who was awakened by the crowing of the rooster, rubbed the yellow dirt at the corners of his eyes, sucked his nose which was blocked by a cold, and continued to cat in the shadow of the corner of the wall.

Just before dawn, there was the sound of a resident pulling the door latch. Cao Xiaoqiang, who was still excited after being frozen all night, woke up. He immediately stood on tiptoe, rushed out of the alley, and fled to Qianmen Street excitedly and restlessly. direction.

Although time and space have changed, the direction of the old northern capital in this era is easier to identify than the reinforced concrete jungle of later generations.Although it was not long after dawn, there were already pedestrians coming and going on the street, and Xiaoqiang's attire stood out among them.

Xiaoqiang observed carefully along the way, and he could also see the People's Liberation Army standing guard at every intersection to maintain social order. Xiaoqiang, who has always had a close relationship with the People's Liberation Army, was not afraid, and walked all the way in a grandiose manner, and he arrived at the door of a store called Delong Commercial Bank.Cao Xiaoqiang stopped here, and looked at the white lacquered wooden signboard hung high above the door, with several rows of large characters written neatly with eye-catching black paint, "Foreign watches, radios, gramophones, all kinds of foreign goods".He pondered: OK, then this one.

In fact, along the way, Cao Xiaoqiang has already attracted countless eyeballs. Dressed in a 21st century suit and leather shoes, with a cardboard box in his arms, he is really eye-catching when walking on the street. The men and women passing by on the street have happiness and happiness on their faces. Confident spirit.Those men and women who seemed to be well-educated and from a good family background were mostly wearing long gowns, and there were a few people wearing suits and windbreakers who were sitting in rickshaws, and the drivers hurried past pulling the rickshaws.These cart drivers and rickshaw pullers are all wearing short jackets and trousers made of blue-black or gray-white homemade cloth. In the cold weather, they expose the lean and powerful forearms and calves that are generally seen by laborers in this era.In addition, the people seen on the street, except for the faded homemade cloth, are almost all navy blue and black.

As soon as he entered the store, a boy aged [-] or [-] greeted Cao Xiaoqiang politely:

"Hi sir, please take a closer look at the products in this store. They are all carefully selected high-quality imported foreign goods. You can choose them at will and the prices are fair."

"Excuse me, is your boss there? Call me out and I have something to say to him." Cao Xiaoqiang asked directly in the face, ignoring his criticism.

The young man was slightly taken aback, feeling that this person was rude, but he looked at Cao Xiaoqiang's "good attire" a little more, and said more respectfully:

"Please wait a moment, sir, I will ask Boss Chen to come out for you."

Cao Xiaoqiang put the heavy cardboard boxes on the cement floor of the store, looked around the store, and felt that the storefront of more than 30 square meters was neatly tidied up, wiped clean and shiny everywhere, and the red lacquered wood inside the walnut counter On the shelves, there are old-fashioned radios and phonographs. The old-fashioned electronic tube radio looks like a big wooden box.Those gramophones were more like antiques from the movies that Xiaoqiang had watched before, with large open brass horns on them, and the horns were well inserted.Outside the counter, on the side of the store, stood a larger floor-standing radio and gramophone, the size of a small wooden cabinet.

The counter in the store is a three-stage structure, why is it called a three-stage structure?Because the two sections on both sides are wooden counters, the middle section is a glass counter, and only this glass counter is inlaid with transparent plate glass on the front and top, which is very eye-catching when guests enter the door.I saw eight foreign watches neatly stacked inside the glass counter, shining brilliantly on the red velvet counter substrate.However, in the eyes of Cao Xiaoqiang from the 21st century, there is only one word in his heart to describe "no feeling".

Those watches, in the eyes of Xiao Qiang, who is used to seeing Rolex Longines in big commercial buildings, look not much different from unearthed cultural relics.

At this moment, a person hurriedly came out from the back of the store. Look at the person, about fifty, with a silk quilted robe with dark patterns of copper coins floating on a navy blue background, a thin short goatee face, and eyes with black plastic feet with tortoiseshell round frames. Hanging in the middle of the bridge of the nose, the pair of eyes behind the lens looked at Cao Xiaoqiang carefully, and said:

"This gentleman is looking for me. I don't know which foreign goods in the small shop he has taken a fancy to?"

"Hehe, old man, please forgive me for being presumptuous. Actually, I came here today to sell to your store the watch I imported from overseas. Please have a look at it, old man."

Said, Cao Xiaoqiang didn't wait for Goatee to answer, opened the carton, took out the watch box and handed it directly.The goatee was a little surprised, but immediately looked as usual again, took the watch box and opened it, took out the watch and looked at it carefully, and said, "I don't know where this watch is produced, sir?"

"what brand?"

"Olad" Cao Xiaoqiang transliterated the name of this second-tier mechanical watch produced by Congqing by himself.

The expression of the goatee seems to show that the more you look at this watch, the more you love it. The all-steel case, glass surface, steel strap, and all the visible parts are so finely crafted (compared to this era).

"Sir, please follow me to the back hall for a detailed discussion." Goatee raised his hand to signal.

So Cao Xiaoqiang followed him to the back hall. After a cup of tea, after introducing each other, he learned that the goatee was called Chen Weifang. Cao Xiaoqiang claimed that he was a foreign trade import and export businessman. Sell.So the two negotiated the price. As expected of the old fox who has been in business for many years, he is really good at bargaining. With both soft and hard tactics, he forced Cao Xiaoqiang's price down from 120 to 80. However, he agreed to help Cao Xiaoqiang exchange the payment for the goods. Gold payment, according to him, the official exchange rate for purchasing gold is too cheap, and the private purchase price is about 4.5 yuan per gram. Therefore, Cao Xiaoqiang paid the price of 23 small yellow croakers (the average small yellow croaker gold bar in the Republic of China is 31.25 grams each). All 40 watches were sold.

In Xiaoqiang's view, this is simply huge profits, and there is no reason not to agree.

Chen Weifang asked Xiaoqiang to stay in the store for a while, and he went to get the gold. Xiaoqiang talked about the business for a long time, calculated the price in his head, and was a little tired, so he drank tea and waited slowly.

An hour later, Chen Weifang came back to the store and slowly inspected all 40 watches, and even opened the back covers of several watches at random for inspection.Chen Weifang clicked his tongue and exclaimed:

"This American Ollard watch is really exquisite in workmanship, and the packaging is also exquisite. If Mr. Cao does this watch import trade in the future, just get the goods, and I will make it up!"

"Boss Chen, just don't worry, the quality of this watch is excellent, and the after-sales service is better. If there is any quality problem within one year, I will replace it with a new one."

"It's so! Please leave a contact information for Mr. Cao." (You must know that if a foreign watch is broken these days, you can only find a watch master to repair it. The repair price is extremely expensive. If you are unlucky, you can repair it twice, and the cost is enough for you to buy it. A low-end new watch)

"I just came to Beidu from Puhai, and I don't have a store yet. I'll inform Boss Chen when I find a suitable store."

"Then it's time to work. It's already noon. Why don't you stay in the shop and have a light meal before leaving?"

Cao Xiaoqiang rejected Chen Weifang's invitation straight away: "Thank you, Boss Chen, for your kindness. I appreciate it. I do have other things to do urgently. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, so I'm leaving." back.