1980 My literary era

Two days later, Lin Weimin and Qu Xiaowei picked up Guo Yudao at the train station.

He came with his wife. When they met again after two years, Guo Yudao's face was sallow with a hint of grayness.

"Lao Guo!"

If we look purely at close relationships, among the four people in the dormitory at the Institute of Literature, Lin Weimin and Guo Yudao did not have the best relationship.

But when he saw Guo Yudao again after not seeing each other for two years, Lin Weimin couldn't help but feel a bit of joy at seeing an old friend again.

He waved his hand, with a smile on his face that looked like a reunion after a long absence, but when he saw Guo Yudao's face, he realized that this didn't seem good and restrained his expression.

"For the people! Xiaowei!"

"Lao Guo!"

Several classmates hugged each other and patted each other on the back.

Guo Yudao laughed first: "It's been such a long time!"

Lin Weimin and Qu Xiaowei said, "That's right, I'm looking forward to you coming to Yanjing!"

After exchanging pleasantries at the exit, a few people exited the station.

The car was ordered by Lin Weimin. It was a small Toyota and cost 80 cents per kilometer.

Xiao Toyota directly pulled several people to Xiehe, and Lin Weimin found Meng Weizai's daughter-in-law Yu Junli.

Lin Weimin helped her daughter buy a piano before, and she was particularly enthusiastic when she saw Lin Weimin this time.

"Sister-in-law, I really want to trouble you this time." Lin Weimin said.

"We are all our own people, why are we being so polite? It was thanks to you that Yanni bought a piano last time!"

Yu Junli didn't behave like a doctor in dealing with people, but rather like a person working in the government. Lin Weimin guessed that this might be related to the work of his husband, Meng Weizai's son.

In future generations, the resources that this couple can leverage in this society are by no means comparable to ordinary people. However, at this time in 1982, the couple actually asked to go to Lin Weimin to buy a piano for their daughter. This shows that At this time, everyone is still doing their job.

The hospital in his hometown highly suspected that Guo Yudao's liver might be cancerous, but due to limited capabilities, it did not dare to make a diagnosis. Guo Yudao and his wife could only come to Yanjing for examination.

The examination would take several days, so Yu Junli temporarily arranged for Guo Yudao to be hospitalized, and also helped make an appointment with Professor Ou Yuanmin, who was an expert in oncology at the Union Medical College.

When Jun Li left, Guo Yudao's wife and Lin Weimin came out to see Yu Junli off. Guo Yudao's wife kept saying thank you to Lin Weimin outside the ward.

As he spoke, his eyes turned red, and Lin Weimin comforted him: "Sister-in-law, don't be so discouraged first. Maybe it was a misdiagnosis?"

Guo Yudao's wife shook her head and said: "Who doesn't hope that it is a misdiagnosis? But I have been with Lao Guo for so many years, and I know his temperament very well. Unless the pain is so unbearable, he will never go to the hospital. Look at his face now, he has lost almost 20 pounds in this month. It’s not cancer, is it possible?”

Lin Weimin's heart was heavy. Lao Guo's wife was right. Even a layman like him could see the problem with Lao Guo.

The hospital only asked them to come to Yanjing for follow-up examination just to be on the safe side. It would be best if they were really diagnosed with cancer and stay in Yanjing for treatment.

"Sister-in-law, you have to be strong. Lao Guo's examination hasn't been done yet. What if the result is good? Besides, even if the result is not so ideal, it still needs to be treated. You can't give up so easily."

Guo Yudao's wife wiped her tears and nodded: "That's for sure. Lao Guo is the backbone of the family, he is the god of our family."

After comforting Guo Yudao for a few more words, the two returned to the room.

Guo Yudao and Qu Xiaowei were chatting happily, but according to Lin Weimin's observation, Guo Yudao was more like forcing a smile.

Lin Weimin went out to buy some daily necessities for Guo Yudao and his wife. Because he had a large number of foreign exchange certificates in his hands, Lin Weimin now had no shortage of various types of bills in his hands. There was no shortage of foreign exchange certificates for any bills. What bills he needed could be exchanged for foreign exchange certificates. A little is enough.

Then they arranged Guo Yudao's wife to the guest house closest to the hospital. Lin Weimin and Qu Xiaowei's mission was successfully completed.

Before leaving, Guo Yudao took Lin Weimin's hand and said, "Weimin, Xiaowei, thank you both."

Lin Weimin's expression was relaxed, "Lao Guo, when did you become so polite? Aren't Xiaowei and I in Yanjing? If we were elsewhere, we would be out of reach. You, just stay in the hospital for examination and wait for your illness. Okay, when will Xiaowei and I go to your Xining to have fun, why don't you entertain us both with good food and drinks?"

A smile appeared on Guo Yudao's face, "Absolutely. Then I will let you eat enough beef and mutton, and drink highland barley wine until you can't get out of bed."

Lin Weimin smiled and nodded, "Then it's settled. Xiaowei and I are leaving now, and I'll see you again in two days."

After coming out of the hospital, Lin Weimin and Qu Xiaowei heaved a long sigh. They were both laymen in medicine, but they still had good observation skills.

Lao Guo was really confused this time.

Qu Xiaowei inexplicably thought that when he was at the Institute of Literary Studies, Lin Weimin seemed to have reminded Guo Yudao to go to the hospital for examination more than once.

His eyes looked at Lin Weimin, "Weimin, are you really good at reading faces?"

"What do you mean?"

"Wang Shuo told me."

"Then do you believe what Thief Sun said? Have you two met recently?"

"I had a meal at his restaurant a few days ago."

"Isn't his restaurant famous yet?"

Qu Xiaowei gloated: "It's almost time. I'm preparing to sell my property. When I went there, I started moving tables."

He added: "Wang Shuo said, you said that his electronic watch business may not be able to continue."

Lin Weimin said: "Do you know what the policy trend is? You bunch of uneducated people should read more newspapers and magazines and avoid getting into bed with your wife."

Qu Xiaowei scolded: "You kid, you haven't even thought about it yet!"

"Okay, no more talking, I have to go back to work."

Lin Weimin rode on his motorcycle and left, leaving Qu Xiaowei looking at his back. He suddenly thought of the time when he first entered the Literary Institute, and he took Lin Weimin to Yanjing to draw the Geng Shen Monkey Ticket.

When Lin Weimin handed him the monkey ticket, he had a confused expression on his face.

Qu Xiaowei rode his bicycle home and rummaged through his belongings, and finally found two unused monkey tickets. He rode his bicycle to the unit again.

"Old Liu! Old Liu!" Qu Xiaowei called a middle-aged colleague out of the office.

"What's the matter?" Lao Liu asked Qu Xiaowei as he left the office.

Qu Xiaowei pulled him aside and asked, "Don't you collect stamps?"

"Yes." When Liu was middle-aged, he only had a hobby of collecting stamps.

Qu Xiaowei took out the two monkey tickets from his pocket and asked, "Is anyone collecting these Gengshen monkey tickets now?"

When Qu Xiaowei took out the monkey ticket, Lao Liu's eyes lit up, "Hey, where did you come from? It's not easy to buy monkey tickets now."

"I bought it when I was writing a letter before, but I didn't use it up." Qu Xiaowei mentioned casually.

Old Liu happily looked at the monkey tickets for a long time, then handed them back to Qu Xiaowei, and said with a bit of regret in his tone: "It's a pity that there are only two..."

Seeing that he was not talking about the topic, Qu Xiaowei asked: "Is anyone collecting this thing now? Is it valuable?"

"Of course someone has collected it. Do you want to sell it?"

Qu Xiaowei saw his expression and said warily: "You want to buy it?"

Old Liu smiled and asked: "Two yuan a piece, do you want to sell it?"

"Not for sale."

The face value of a monkey ticket is eight cents. When Old Liu came up, he offered two yuan. Qu Xiaowei was surprised, but he also knew that Old Liu dared to offer such a high price right away. The price of this monkey ticket The value cannot be lowered, so I reject it flatly.

"You guys are really smarter than monkeys." Seeing that he didn't get a bargain, Old Liu said truthfully: "The monkey tickets are rising rapidly now. They are basically three yuan each on the market. If they are full pages, they will be even more expensive. .”

Three dollars?

Qu Xiaowei was a little shocked. From the face value of eight cents to three yuan, this was an increase of nearly forty times?

Qu Xiaowei instantly thought that Lin Weimin had bought several editions and more than a hundred scattered monkey tickets, each costing three yuan. Counting so many monkey tickets, it must be at least fifteen hundred yuan, right?

Counting this, he couldn't help but be surprised. It was higher than he had worked for two years.

In this era, ordinary people in China have no access to financial products such as futures, stocks, and funds. The monkey ticket that has increased nearly forty times in two years is enough to shock them.

Damn, this guy is really lucky.

Qu Xiaowei thought this in his mind, and felt that something was wrong. How could he be lucky? This guy definitely knew in advance that the price of monkey tickets would increase.

"Hey, Old Liu, is it worth it for you to spend such an expensive price on this thing?"

Lao Liu looked like a kid who has never seen the world.

"As long as someone collects stamps, you can't lose money on this thing. If you don't collect stamps, you don't know that when the monkey stamps came out, not many people were optimistic about them. Most stamp collectors just bought a few tokens for collection. , but it immediately changed in the second year.”

"What happened to the second year?" Qu Xiaowei asked.

"The next year there was another chicken ticket."

Qu Xiaowei immediately understood, "Is this a zodiac package?"

Lao Liu nodded, with an excited expression on his face, "That's right. Watch it, kid. When the horse tickets and sheep tickets come out in the future, the value of the monkey tickets will definitely be higher."

Qu Xiaowei understood the mystery just by thinking about it. Because everyone knew about the zodiac stamps that came out later, there must be a lot of them in stock.

But the monkey ticket is different. No one paid much attention to it in the first year it came out, and the result was that the stock was inevitably scarce.

Things are rare and valuable, and the hotter the philatelic market is, the higher the value of monkey stamps will be.

But the problem is that stamp collecting is just a hobby played by a small circle, Qu Xiaowei thought.

"Okay, thank you." Qu Xiaowei got the answer and was about to leave.

"Hey, let me tell you, are you really not selling those monkey tickets?"

Qu Xiaowei gave him a silent look on his back.

When she got home from get off work, Liu Haiyan was cooking with her big belly.

"Is my son obedient today?"

Liu Haiyan rolled her eyes at him, "How many times have I told you, he may not be his son!"

"Same goes for my daughter. You can cook later." Qu Xiaowei took Liu Haiyan's hand and asked, "Do you still keep all the letters we wrote before?"

"Keep it, what's wrong?"

Qu Xiaowei smiled and said: "It's nothing, we can make a small fortune."

"what happened?"

Qu Xiaowei told her the story of Monkey Ticket from beginning to end, and Liu Haiyan became happy after hearing it.

"More than twenty pieces, doesn't that cost more than seventy yuan?"

"That's right. I'll find Lao Liu tomorrow and sell all these monkey tickets."

"Didn't you say it can still go up?"

Qu Xiaowei's face was filled with a confident smile, "Do you believe in this game of beating the drum and passing flowers? Stamps cannot be eaten or worn. Without the support of the stamp collectors, the price may collapse one day, or the price will be lost. Safe and sound."

Qu Xiaowei's family is in good condition, but now they are living as a young couple, relying on their combined salary of less than 100 yuan a month.

This salary standard is already very good for a family of two, but they are both young people. They earn a lot and spend a lot. In addition, the child is about to be born, and Liu Haiyan also wants to keep more money.

After hearing what Qu Xiaowei said, she said, "That's right, then just sell it."

The couple discussed it, and the next day Qu Xiaowei found Mr. Liu from the work unit and took out more than 20 monkey tickets.

"Old Liu, do you want to buy these monkey tickets?"

Lao Liu took it over and took a look at it, and said disgustedly: "You are selling these tickets by letter. Look, where are the stamps?"

Qu Xiaowei has no hobby of collecting stamps, so naturally he doesn't know the difference between brand new stamps, letter stamps and canceled stamps, and thinks they are all the same thing.

"Don't fool me."

"I deserve it. If you don't believe me, go find out for yourself."

Qu Xiaowei didn't expect that he would say this. He asked unwillingly: "Then how much are these stamps worth?"

"You have to calculate the price of these mail stamps based on the position of the postmark." Old Liu speculated for a long time, "This one can be sold for 1 yuan 8, this one is 8 cents, this one is not bad, it is worth 2 yuan..."

After much calculation, except for the two well-preserved monkey tickets, the twenty-six monkey tickets that Qu Xiaowei took out totaled forty-two and sixty cents, with an average price of one dollar and seventy each. About cents.

Plus two intact stamps, the total is forty-eight yuan and sixty cents.

"We are all colleagues. I definitely can't make money from you. If you don't believe it, you can go to the market and ask around."

After giving out the price, Old Liu said this because he was afraid that Qu Xiaowei would be worried.

There is still a little bit of trust in a company when you look down without looking up. Although there is a gap between the price and the price in your mind, Qu Xiaowei still said: "What are you asking about? It's not worth it, so I'll leave this stamp to you."

Lao Liu smiled and said: "Okay, then I will give you the money tomorrow."

After the transaction was completed, the price did not meet the initial expectations. Naturally, I felt regretful, but after all, it was a windfall.

After work, Qu Xiaowei happily ran to the vegetable market and bought some pork head meat.

The bicycle was wandering on the streets of Yanjing, and the pig head meat hanging on the handlebar was swinging back and forth, just like Qu Xiaowei's happy mood.

This guy Weimin still has a good sense!

Thinking about it, Qu Xiaowei couldn't help but feel a little regretful. When Lin Weimin bought monkey tickets, he really should have followed suit.

You must keep up the pace of serving the people from now on!

First update today. Try to write more today to compensate everyone.