Hello, 1983

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Both Wilson and Tom are undoubtedly pragmatists.

They initially resisted Chinese medicine, but they were actually misled by propaganda.

After they were forced to take cold tablets at Liu Qingshan yesterday, they went back to sleep and the flu was mostly cured.

The two also called out "the magical power of the East", so they ran over.

It doesn't matter what kind of bark or grass root you have, or a weird bug, what can cure a disease is a good medicine.

If there is an ancient Chinese saying to describe it, it is: Facts speak louder than words.

Liu Qingshan shrugged his shoulders: "Unfortunately, the pills are gone."

ah?

The two brothers stared at each other with disappointment.

Everything is a truth: taste the sweetness, then know the value.

Just like yesterday, it's still not necessary to force it to them.

I just heard Liu Qingshan continue: "I'm gone, but the health bureau has bought a batch of goods from our pharmaceutical factory. If your consulate needs it, you can apply for it."

After he finished speaking, he also handed an empty medicine box to Wilson, so that they would not know what medicine they were taking. What if they took the wrong medicine?

Originally, he still had a few boxes of cold tablets, which could be given to them, and it was not worth a lot of money.

However, after Liu Qingshan thought about it, it would be better to ask them to buy it themselves, this is the formal way.

Most importantly, it is also a good publicity for cold tablets.

If it really spreads: Even foreign guests buy this kind of cold medicine, why not rob it?

These days, commodities that are exported to domestic sales can be looted.

Soon Wilson and Tom drove away, returning to the consulate and handing over the pillbox to his superiors.

in the consulate,

Most of the people also had runny noses.

Because of the difference in physique, white people have a worse immunity to the flu. If it is not good, the cold will really kill people.

The people at the consulate also witnessed the illnesses of Wilson and Tom with their own eyes. Yesterday they were similar to them, and today they are almost healed, so they have also developed a strong interest in this pill.

Even the Consul General was alarmed and went directly to negotiate with the relevant departments.

In addition to these consulate staff, they also shoulder the heavy responsibility of taking care of their own nationals.

And big cities like Hujiang also have the most foreign guests.

This flu has spread widely, and most of those expatriates are also sick. With this kind of good medicine, of course, the expatriates in their own countries must be given priority.

This time, the movement was not small, and the deputy mayor in charge of the matter was alarmed.

After listening to the secretary's report, he was also amazed: "Those foreign guests usually avoid our traditional Chinese medicine like snakes and scorpions, how did they change their temper this time?"

The secretary was also puzzled, but the leader asked, he had to say something.

After thinking about it, he said, "It should be more effective."

There seems to be only one explanation.

The deputy mayor nodded, and then sneezed twice. When the secretary saw it, he hurriedly asked for instructions: "When the medicine is distributed to the foreign guests, I will also bring you a box."

After getting the approval, the secretary left the office and started to make phone calls. First of all, he contacted the health bureau to explain the reason, and the leaders of the health bureau were also overjoyed:

"Secretary Guan, foreign guests are willing to use our country's medicines. This is unprecedented. We have to publicize it well."

At this time, people all had a strong sense of national pride, and they were even a bit sloppy, so there were a lot of things that people later found incomprehensible or even ridiculous.

Of course, Secretary Guan is also good at dealing with this. It happens that people are panicking at the moment. It is also good to use newspapers or TV to promote it to appease the hearts of the people.

You know, two years later, the hepatitis A infectious disease in Shanghai was rampant, with hundreds of thousands of cases and even many deaths.

It was at this time that the omnipotent medicine Banlangen was born, and it played a very good role in stabilizing the hearts of the people.

And just like that, a massive campaign revolves around the flu and its flu-busters.

The leader of the Health Bureau took people to the consulate to deliver medicine and medicine, and wrote the main theme of Sino-foreign friendship, accompanied by several reporters from TV stations and daily newspapers.

Quick-acting cold tablets, along with radio and television, quickly became well-known to the majority of Shanghai residents, so they scrambled to buy them.

That guy is even fiercer than grabbing non-staple food.

It's a pity that the two bags that Lu Xiaolong brought were just a drop in the bucket.

After the curative effect was confirmed, the Health Bureau also showed its due strength and directly arranged for the plane to be transported by air. After all, the disease waits for no one.

Hundreds of thousands of boxes of quick-acting cold tablets were sold out in less than a week.

The flu that ravaged the Shanghai River was easily repelled by such a small pill.

For a time, quick-acting cold tablets became famous, and the phone for ordering, at Jiapigou Pharmaceutical Factory, rang from morning to night.

Along with that, the drugs independently developed by several other pharmaceutical factories have also been ordered.

The pennant presented by the U.S. consulate through the Hujiang government was also hung in the showroom of the pharmaceutical factory, becoming a testimony to the friendship between the two countries.

But in fact, this pennant is more significant, because it has opened a gap in the misunderstanding and barriers of foreigners about traditional Chinese medicine.

As for the origin of this pennant, Liu Qingshan certainly wouldn't say that it was given by him at the behest of Wilson.

In fact, this is indeed the consulate wanting to express its gratitude. Originally, it wanted to donate a research and development fund to the pharmaceutical factory, and the amount was 20,000 US dollars.

Foreigners like to do this, but Liu Qingshan really doesn't look down on this money, so he discussed with them:

Since it is in Huaxia, then do it according to the local rules and send the pennant.

In the end, the foreigners were really fooled into ordering a pennant, and it was not even a single one. The consulates of several countries sent it.

At the moment, the consulates of many countries are staring at the US consulate, and of course the younger brother must follow the elder brother.

Seeing that the U.S. consulate actually ordered drugs, and it was really effective, so they all followed suit.

Sending the pennant is really not booing, it's really a heartfelt thank you.

Perhaps in Huaxia at that time, a cold or something was a small problem. If there was no medicine, it would be over.

But for Europeans and Americans, influenza is not a small illness. Take the United States as an example. In the 1980s, the average number of people who died of influenza every year was more than 40,000.

This number is really scary.

Looking at the world, it is 300,000 to 500,000 people. Who dares to say that the flu is a small problem?

Since this kind of cold medicine produced in China is so effective, some of the more conscientious foreigners have also bought more than ten boxes of quick-acting cold tablets, which they will take back when they return to China. In foreign countries, there are frequent outbreaks of influenza, which is called being prepared.

In this way, Liu Qingshan has quietly sown the seeds.

He firmly believes that as long as there are seeds, sooner or later, they will take root and sprout.

The most talked about is Jiapigou Pharmaceutical Company: I have never heard of such a pharmaceutical factory before?

Soon there were newspapers to help the people to clear their doubts: it turns out that this Jiapigou Pharmaceutical Factory was established in Jiapigou, a famous village of 100,000 yuan.

People finally linked the two Jiapigou together: no wonder it can become a village of 100,000 yuan, even a pharmaceutical factory.

Think about it in reverse: the medicine produced in the 100,000 yuan village is of course a good medicine!

The thing is so miraculous. Before the advertisement prepared by Liu Qingshan for the pharmaceutical factory was broadcast on TV, the pharmaceutical factory had already become famous, and the effect was stronger than the advertisement.

He Min even called Liu Qingshan to ask: Is the commercial still on air?

In fact, it doesn't cost much to produce advertisements. The main reason is that TV stations cost more to broadcast advertisements. This year, it has increased a lot compared to last year. In prime time, it has reached nearly one million.

Now that it's filmed, let's broadcast it, but you don't have to grab a good time slot, it's usually done, and this is cheaper.

Just strike while the iron is hot, and after another wave of publicity, Jiapigou Pharmaceutical will be stable.

These disturbances did not affect Liu Qingshan too much, at most he had the last idea.

That morning, after seeing off Wilson and Tom, Liu Qingshan led his two younger sisters and followed his mother to visit the alley where her mother used to live.

The location is also in Xujiahui, so I didn’t take a car, and the family of four walked slowly, mainly Lin Zhi, looking for the memories and shadows of the past while walking.

At this time in Hujiang, housing was too tight, so the alleys were extremely crowded and cramped.

When I went to the Bund yesterday, Liu Qingshan even saw a very magical scene: the Wall of Lovers.

In fact, it is a section of the river embankment, which is several miles long. In the evening, there are thousands of couples or even tens of thousands of couples by the wall.

There is a gap of a few centimeters between them.

I don't know if the people on both sides can hear you when you are whispering?

The reason for this spectacle is that the housing was tight at the time, and the house was only a dozen square meters, and several pairs of eyes were staring at it. How could there be space for you to fall in love?

In the evening, the parks are also closed, and the number of electricity poles cannot be rolled over the road.

It just so happens that the environment and scenery on the river embankment are not bad. It is quite romantic to lean against the lover's wall and enjoy the river view while falling in love.

Only later, this section of the river embankment was rebuilt, and the Wall of Lovers ceased to exist.

So in order to keep some souvenirs, Liu Qingshan also quietly took a few photos, all of which are distant views, and they look really spectacular.

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Walking in the alley, there is still a strange smell, called the fourth and fifth wrinkled nose.

Soon, Liu Qingshan found a urinal. No wonder it smelled so strong in this summer.

And not only that, there are big wooden barrels outside the doors of every house. When you wake up at night, all excretion is here, and when you wake up in the morning, it is poured into the public toilet.

Looking up, the wires on it are like spider webs, and there are clothes hanging in the air, just like the national flags of the past.

Today happened to be Sunday, and at the entrance of the alley, you could see children playing in groups. It was a hot day, and the little boy, still shirtless, passed by in front of his eyes, rolling in a hoop.

The little girl also jumped the rubber band and jumped the grid. Seeing Liu Qingshan and the others, they all looked up at their little heads.

Liu Qingshan also heard them whispering: "They must be people from Hong Kong Island, they are really foreign."

"Will I come back to look for relatives? If only I had such relatives in my family!"

These years, unlike in the past few years, if the family had overseas relations, then wait for criticism.

Now if there are overseas relatives who come back, the family will tremble.

Lin Zhi also heard the discussion of the little kids, so he stopped, leaned over and said in a low voice in the local dialect:

"We are not from Hong Kong Island. I used to live here, and this time I came back to visit relatives."

Liu Qingshan saw that the corners of his mother's eyes were slightly moist.

Maybe it was from these little girls that I saw the shadow of my past. Maybe it was in this place. Decades ago, my mother also danced rubber bands with her little friends...

Next to a big tree, Lin Zhi stopped, she gently stroked the mottled trunk with her hands, and tears finally fell.

Liu Qingshan looked up and saw a long lane in front of it. It was a bit quaint. On the old wall, there were still a few broken characters "Kangleli" written in traditional Chinese characters.

Is it here?

Liu Qingshan held the fourth and fifth children one by one, not asking them to disturb his mother's memory.

Lin Zhi took out a handkerchief, gently wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and then a smile appeared on her face.

She seemed to have made up her mind, took a step, and walked towards the recreation.

When Liu Qingshan saw it, he quickly followed.

Maybe because it was a rest day, the alley was extremely crowded, and there was a row of washing machines, all of which were rumbling in the laundry.

After all, it is a metropolis, and there are really not so many washing machines in other places.

Seeing Liu Qingshan and his party, the eldest girl, the little daughter-in-law, and the aunt and aunt who were doing the laundry cast curious glances one after another.

Of course, there are also a few little men among them, Hujiang men, who are very family-oriented.

This Gu family can also be understood from another perspective, that is, he is more afraid of his wife.

Lin Zhi's footsteps were getting faster and faster, passing through the washing machines. Then, her footsteps stopped suddenly, and her body suddenly trembled.

On the other side, there was an old wooden cart, squeaking and shaking.

The wooden cart should be self-made, with four simple small wheels below and a car body on it.

A gray-bearded old man sat in the bucket, rocking the handlebars with both hands, driving the chain and crunching along.

The old man was wearing a shabby white vest on his upper body, and big shorts modified with trousers on his lower body, and his exposed legs were shriveled.

His face is full of wrinkles, like the carving knife of the years, engraving a chain of growth rings.

His eyes were blank and lacking in life, and his hands were shaking mechanically, as if shaking the wheel of time, slowly driving towards the end of life.

Lin Zhi finally couldn't help it, ran a few steps, rushed to the front of the small wooden car, bent down, and was flush with the old man in the car.

Tears rolled down her cheeks, her lips twitched, and after a while, she said:

"Dad, I'm Nan Nan, Nan Nan is coming back to see you!"