Life 1984

Chapter 44 This money is enough to marry ten wives!

In the afternoon, Li Yunhai took the money and relevant documents and went to the nearby industrial and commercial office to register.

The Bayi Road Industrial and Commercial Office only has a small facade facing the street. A few people work inside, which is similar to the street office. The people working inside are all old comrades at the level of uncles and aunts, and they do things very seriously and carefully.

There are many prerequisites for applying for a business license, and the procedure is cumbersome and usually takes one or two months to complete.

Li Yunhai handed in various materials and received a receipt for applying for a business license.

With this receipt in hand, if someone comes to check him, he can make sense.

The business license he applied for stated that the business scope was: maintenance of household appliances and office equipment, as well as recycling, leasing and selling of second-hand household appliances and second-hand office equipment.

The name of the store he filled in was: "Hailan Repair Shop."

These days, those who are self-employed are all idle members of society, so there is a popular saying: "One is state-owned and the other is collective, and there are no three or four individuals."

To Li Yunhai's surprise, comrades from the Industrial and Commercial Office told him that the hotel industry, second-hand goods industry, and even repairing radios and clocks were "special industries" that required approval and seal from the industrial and commercial and public security departments, which would take more time. long.

After hearing this, Li Yunhai thought that I had wrongly blamed those police comrades. They came to check on me, which was really their duty, and they were not just meddling in other people's business.

Immediately afterwards, he took the money and went to the bank to open an account.

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China was separated from the People's Bank of China on September 1983, 9.

So far, our country has four major banks.

Li Yunhai came to a bank.

There is nothing fancy about this bank.

Facing the street to the north, there are several gray bungalows in a row. There are two wooden and iron doors in the middle. The scars on the iron sheets are rusted into black bumps. On the wall next to the door frame is a wooden bank sign with black characters on a white background and cracked in the middle. Open a gap one finger wide.

Li Yunhai walked up the three steps and walked into the business office. He saw a row of brick and cement counters in front of the door, painted in light green, half a person high and one meter wide.On the counter are business prompts such as "Accountant", "United Bank", "Cashier", and "Savings" with red letters on a white background.

Next to the counter, there are several groups of "T"-shaped operating tables made up of three wooden tables at equal distances. On the operating table are abacus, seals, stamp pads, sponge boxes, pens, and account books. , iron boxes and other supplies.

Looking around, the several open rooms are filled with tables, chairs, benches, cabinets and shelves, washbasins, brooms and other items.

What surprised Li Yunhai most was that there was an electric fan at the bank counter, but it was placed on the ground and only blew toward his feet.He quickly understood that they were afraid that the electric fan would mess up the documents on the table.

Li Yunhai stood in front of the counter with the "Savings" sign.

There was a female comrade sitting inside, in front of the operating table, flipping through a stack of account pages with one hand and clicking the compass with the other.

Li Yunhai tapped the counter with his finger and said, "Comrade, I want to save money."

The female comrade raised her head, glanced at Li Yunhai with dissatisfaction, and said displeasedly: "Wait a minute, didn't you see that I am closing the accounts?"

When Li Yunhai was studying, he often went to department stores on the street to buy pens, ink and paper. He was used to seeing the bad attitudes of male and female salespersons in department stores. At this time, he was criticized by a female comrade in the bank who was dissatisfied. He had no temper at all and had to stand quietly. There he watched her pull the abacus.

The tellers in this era, whether they are in department stores or bank counters, or in the entire service industry, are all extremely arrogant. It is very rare for strangers to see their smiling faces, and ordinary people I can only get used to it and not be surprised.

Most of the banks at that time were based on the service method of the planned economy era of "waiting for customers to come to your doorstep". Whether love comes or not, love will not survive.Whether the service attitude is good or not, in this "only one store, no other branch" situation, customers have no choice.

Li Yunhai has also learned abacus and abacus. It must be said here that although this lesbian's service attitude is not very good, her abacus is really good and she is definitely at a high level.She flipped through a thick account page with her left hand and pulled the abacus with her right hand, and the total was completed in less than 5 minutes.

The teller pulled the account book and abacus aside with his hand, raised his head, breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at Li Yunhai: "Do you have a passbook?"

Li Yunhai said that he didn't have a passbook from your bank, so he wanted to open one now.

The teller took out a form and asked Li Yunhai to fill it out, then asked him: "Do you have a private seal?"

Li Yunhai replied, yes, I engraved a private seal.

Passbooks in this era were still written by hand. How much money was deposited and how much money was spent were written with a pen, and the last column had to be stamped.

In an era when identity documents were not yet common, private seals were equivalent to proof of identity.Almost every household can produce one or two private seals.

The use of seals is very wide. Private seals are needed to collect wages, collect labor insurance supplies, make deposits and withdrawals, receive letters, mail money, send and receive telegrams, handle business, etc.In particular, some people who are not well educated and have difficulty writing their names will regard a private seal as the best substitute for a signature.

The teller helped Li Yunhai open an account and asked him how much money he had saved.
Li Yunhai said to save [-] yuan.

He had [-] yuan in his briefcase, and another [-] yuan was wrapped in old newspapers and rope.

At this time, he placed all 2 yuan on the counter and stuffed stacks of money inside from the window.

The teller was obviously surprised!
She stood up, glanced at Li Yunhai in surprise, and her tone became much gentler: "Comrade, which unit do you work for?" Li Yunhai smiled and said, "I am a self-employed person, Hailan Repair Shop."

The teller exclaimed: "That's amazing! You've made tens of thousands of dollars."

She put the money in a pile on the table, and then started to count the money.

Every time she ordered a knife, she wrapped it with a money belt.She also had a relatively advanced manual banknote binding machine on hand, with enough banknotes of the same denomination for ten knives, so she tied them into a bundle with twine on the banknote binding machine and affixed a seal with the denomination on it.

There are twenty bundles for 2 yuan.

After the teller finished counting, he asked Li Yunhai to fill out a deposit slip, then write the date, deposit amount, and stamp on the passbook.

The deposit process in the four banks is similar. After completing the procedures, it is already five o'clock in the afternoon.

Li Yunhai took 7200 yuan, randomly packed it in a bag with old newspapers, put it in a net bag, came to Director Lin's unit, and gave it away when he got off work.

In the evening, Li Yunhai brought a large bag of money and visited Lin Zhi's house again.

This time it was Tang Yuxia who opened the door.

"Why are you here again?" Tang Yuxia looked Li Yunhai up and down, feeling that this man was still haunted?
Li Yunhai asked respectfully: "Hello, aunt, is Lin Zhi at home?"

As soon as Tang Yuxia said she wasn't at home, Lin Zhi ran out of the room inside.

"Li Yunhai!" Lin Zhi smiled sweetly, "I'm at home! Come in quickly! My cousin and I are playing inside!"

Standing next to Lin Zhi, there was also a teenage girl who was slim and graceful with pink makeup. She was Lin Zhi's cousin Lin Xin.

Lin Xin pursed her lips and smiled: "Sister, he is the Li Yunhai you mentioned? He is quite handsome!"

Lin Zhi hummed and said to her mother, "Mom, get out of the way!"

Tang Yuxia reluctantly stepped aside.

Li Yunhai smiled slightly, said excuse me, walked in, put a large bag of money on his coffee table, and said: "Ms. Lin, I went to the bank today to ask, and the current ratio of U.S. dollars is 1 to 2.2. Ten thousand US dollars, which is 2 RMB. Here is [-] yuan. Can you please click and count?"

Looking at the table full of money, the two sisters Lin Zhi and Lin Xin were so shocked that they covered their mouths. This was the first time they had seen so much cash!
Tang Yuxia was also shocked and asked curiously: "Li Yunhai, do you make so much money doing repairs?"

Li Yunhai smiled innocently: "It's okay. I mainly buy and sell second-hand copiers now. I didn't expect this market to be huge."

Lin Zhenbang walked out. Although he was a man who had seen the world, he was shocked to see so much cash. He said calmly: "Comrade Li Yunhai, take this money back! Xiaozhi is joking with you." Yes, her backpack is not worth so much money!"

Li Yunhai thought that people were pitying him and did not want compensation from him, so he said sternly: "It is only natural to pay back debts, and God will not bless you if you default on debts. Although I am a poor boy, I still understand this simple truth. Uncle, aunt ,excuse me!"

After speaking, he turned around and left.

Lin Zhenbang shouted from behind: "Hey, Comrade Li Yunhai! Come back! This -"

The door was not closed, and Li Yunhai had already walked out of the door.

When the word "money" came to Lin Zhenbang's lips, he swallowed it back, fearing that the neighbors would hear it and make unnecessary guesses.

Li Yunhai was young and had long legs, so he ran downstairs in a few seconds.

The Lin family looked at the pile of money and looked at each other.

Lin Zhenbang pointed at his daughter and said, "What a good thing you did! You just made a joke, but people took it seriously!"

Lin Zhi chuckled and said, "How did I know he was so rich! When I met him, he told me that he only had a few dollars in his pocket and was living in a bathhouse! In just half a month, he That’s how much money I made!”

Tang Yuxia sat down, picked up the money and looked at it: "They are all real banknotes! This Li Yunhai really knows how to make money! I underestimated him! In this society, people who can make money are really It’s up to you!”

Lin Xin held Lin Zhi's arm, pulled her and smiled: "Sister, do you know how much it costs to marry a wife? Let me tell you, this pile of money is enough for Li Yunhai to marry ten wives!"

Lin Zhenbang picked up the cup and took a sip of water, looked at the money and said, "We can't accept this money. Xiaozhi, you have to return it to Li Yunhai."

Lin Xin chuckled and said: "Uncle, aunt, let me tell you, don't pay back this money. You can just marry my sister to him. This money will be regarded as a bride price. He spent the money to marry ten wives." , you only marry one daughter, and you will make a lot of money!"

Lin Zhi's teeth itched with hatred, she reached out and poked her cousin on the forehead, and said with a charming smile: "Wouldn't Li Yunhai be at a loss if you marry me? Why don't I just marry you too! Buy one, get one free!"

Tang Yuxia shouted: "Is it funny? How can a marriage be a piece of cake? Xiaozhi, listen, I will send the money back to him tomorrow!"

Lin Zhi didn't dare to make any more trouble and said obediently.

(End of this chapter)