At the end of October, after Huo Yaowen and his entourage inspected Shanghai again, they returned to the original starting point, Guangzhou.

During the 27-day visit to the mainland, the Hong Kong business delegation traveled from south to north through Guangzhou, Kyoto, Chengdu, Xi'an, Shanghai, and other cities.

As of the last day of the inspection, there were six Hong Kong businessmen cooperating with mainland factories, in addition to Chen Maoxiang and Li Guotai cooperating in the textile industry, Jiang Zhen also chose to cooperate with the mainland in the injection molding machine business, hoping to expand their output and gain more overseas market share.

After the highway out of Sichuan could not be rebuilt, Hu Xiang had no other intention of cooperation, but when Huo Yaowen proposed to build a garment factory, he and Huo Guantai both expressed their willingness to participate in it, and in this way, the "China Garment Factory" was officially established.

The main source of cotton cloth came from Xi'an, a textile city, to Guangzhou, and with the consent of the Guangzhou government, the raw materials were handed over to local factories to be processed into garments, and then transported to Hong Kong.

All the costs were initially paid by the local factory, and then shipped to Hong Kong and delivered in Hong Kong dollars, so that both Xi'an and Guangzhou could earn a foreign exchange.

After a night's rest in Guangzhou, the delegation got up early the next day to take a boat back to Hong Kong Island.

Before parting, Huo Guantai knew that Huo Yaowen was going to stay for a few more days and go back to his hometown Zhongshan to have a look, so he also said with a smile: "Then Yaowen, you will stay for a few more days, go back to your hometown to see more, and we will go back to Hong Kong Island first." ”

Huo Yaowen said: "Well, the matter of Uncle Huo Clothing Company will trouble you, I have sent a telegram to Davide, and he will go to your company to find you at that time." ”

The newly established garment company was cooperated by Huo Yaowen, Huo Guantai and Hu Xiang with Xi'an No. 1 Cotton Textile Factory and Guangzhou No. 2 Textile Factory.

"Good. Huo Guantai smiled, and then handed Huo Yaowen a small leather bag in hand.

Taking the purse, Huo Yaowen looked at him suspiciously, "This is?"

"It's all some renminbi, foreign exchange rolls, cloth stamps, food stamps and so on. I thought that you should go back to your hometown to see, why do you have to bring something back, it may be more troublesome if you change it yourself, so I asked President Liang to help me get a little. If that's not enough, I'll talk to President Liang later, and ask him to find someone to get some more. ”

I have to say that Huo Guantai thought very thoughtfully, and after knowing that Huo Yaowen was going back to his hometown to visit relatives, he also asked President Liang for the first time to get a lot of currency here.

"That's enough, and so much may not be enough. ”

Huo Yaowen opened the leather bag, not mentioning the thick stacks of currency, just those foreign exchange rolls, food stamps and everything were bundles and bundles.

If that's not enough, it's too much.

"That's okay, it's not too early, I should go out, you're done with this side of things, let's go back to Hong Kong Island as soon as possible." ”

"Thank you, Uncle Hor. ”

Huo Yaowen got up to see him off, and when he watched the Hong Kong business delegation leave in a car, he turned around and found the reception person in charge of the Baiyun Hotel and asked him about his arrangements for returning to his hometown.

"Mr. Huo, President Liang has explained before that he will arrange a car to take you back to Zhongshan tomorrow morning. ”

"Tomorrow, can't you just leave this afternoon?"

The man said embarrassedly, "This ...... I don't know what President Liang arranged. ”

Huo Yaowen frowned, Chairman Liang took a boat back to Hong Kong Island yesterday because he had a trip in advance, and I am afraid that he will not be able to contact him for a while at this time, so it is really a bit boring to stay in the hotel for a day.

But when he thought of the leather bag that Huo Guantai gave him just now, he thought about it, and he said: "Then can you find a few people to go out with me to buy something, I will go back to my hometown tomorrow, so I want to bring something back." ”

"That's fine. The man readily agreed, and when he turned around, he found a few people from the hotel and accompanied Huo Yaowen to go out to buy.

……

"Mr. Huo, there is a supply and marketing cooperatives in front of you, and there is a department store further on, which has a lot of foreign goods to buy. ”

Li Cuihua suppressed the excitement in her heart and introduced Huo Yaowen to nearby shops.

Huo Yaowen nodded and said, "Well, then let's go to the department store first." ”

"Okay. Li Cuihua nodded and led Huo Yaowen towards the department store not far away.

Two gay men in their thirties followed closely behind.

After a short time, a group of four people arrived at the department store.

The department store is three stories high, and the first floor is filled with large items such as televisions, refrigerators, bicycles, sewing machines, and so on.

The second floor sells sweets, biscuits, soft drinks, and other foods.

On the third floor, there are some daily necessities such as fabrics and soap.

As soon as I stepped into the department store, there were very few people inside, except for the salesperson standing by the container, there were only a few people standing at the counter selling bicycles, looking east and west, as if considering whether to buy or not.

"Mr. Huo, what do you want to buy?" Li Cuihua was not here for the first time, and obviously knew the layout of the department store very well, and while introducing the things sold on the first to third floors, she asked Huo Yaowen what she needed to buy.

"Hmmm......"

Looking at the dazzling array of goods on the first floor, Huo Yaowen really didn't know what to buy and take back to his hometown, so after thinking about it for a few seconds, he decided to buy a little.

"Let's buy some food first. ”

"That's on the second floor. ”

Saying that, Li Cuihua led Huo Yaowen to the second floor.

Along the way, Huo Yaowen's suit and leather shoes attracted the attention of many salespeople and scattered customers, who exchanged heads and discussed where this person came from.

When he came to the second floor, Huo Yaowen faced the small department store, looked left and right, first walked to a counter selling candy, and said to the salesperson inside: "This female comrade, please help me fill some of this White Rabbit toffee." ”

"Okay, okay. ”

The saleswoman was obviously still curious about Huo Yaowen's dress and appearance, and when she suddenly heard what he said, she also nodded quickly, took out a small shovel from the transparent container with glass, and took out a paper bag from the side to wrap it, and blew it inside, and after the bag bulged, she looked up and asked, "How much do you want for this comrade?"

Huo Yaowen looked at the white rabbit toffee in the big pocket of the container, it looked like it was only thirty or forty catties, and thought about it: "Buy it all." ”

"Ahh

Li Cuihua and the two male comrades who were standing in the back also swallowed their saliva in unison, so much toffee is probably hundreds of yuan!

If you only need money, it's nothing, the main thing is to ask for sugar tickets!

This play field is as tight as a cloth ticket, and it is generally a few catties of sugar tickets at most for a year, and it is impossible to use all of them to buy candy, and the daily white sugar cubes in the family also need to use this kind of ticket.

"I'm sorry comrade, the White Rabbit toffee is limited to purchase, and each person can only buy two catties at most. The saleswoman saw that Huo Yaowen didn't seem to be joking, and she also stammered.

The purchase of White Rabbit toffee is limited to two catties, in fact, it is good for ordinary people to buy White Rabbit toffee at most half a catty, after all, in addition to the sugar ticket, a catty of White Rabbit toffee needs 2.5 yuan, and the general candy only needs more than 1 yuan, which is twice the price, which discourages many people.

"Milk candy is limited. Huo Yaowen was annoyed when he heard that the White Rabbit actually implemented the purchase restriction, and he knew that when he was inspecting Shanghai, he should have asked the leader over there for a little White Rabbit toffee, after all, Shanghai is the source of the White Rabbit, and there should be a lot of supplies.

"What's going on?"

At this time, Director Fang, the person in charge of the department store, walked over quickly, he thought it was the teller and the compatriot who knew at a glance that he had returned from overseas What was the conflict, and asked the teller: "Xiao Li, what does this comrade need?"

Seeing that the leader was coming, the saleswoman hurriedly said: "Director Fang, this comrade said that he wanted to buy all the White Rabbit toffee, but we are limited to purchasing." ”

"Bought them all?" Director Fang glanced at Huo Yaowen, and then glanced at the White Rabbit toffee on the counter, it seemed that there should be thirty or forty catties, and asked with some hesitation: "This comrade, I don't know if you buy so much toffee?"

"Hello Director Fang, I'm going back to my hometown tomorrow to visit relatives, so I want to buy some candy to go back, since the purchase is restricted, then I'll just buy two catties." Huo Yaowen didn't want to trouble others because of this trivial matter, after all, this is someone else's job.

Director Fang was a little confused about where the compatriot in front of him came from, but looking at the appearance of people's suits and leather shoes, followed by three people dressed as waiters at Baiyun Hotel, thinking that they should be important foreign guests, he pondered for a while, and said: "It's okay, since this comrade is returning to his hometown to visit relatives, it's nothing to buy more." ”

As he spoke, Director Fang asked Xiao Li to help the comrade put all the White Rabbit toffee.

"Then thank you, Director Fang. Huo Yaowen thanked.

"It should. Director Fang smiled and said, "I don't know what else this comrade needs?"

Huo Yaowen didn't know how many relatives and friends there were in his hometown, but from Grandma's story, he thought that there should be a lot, twenty or thirty catties of toffee seemed to be a lot, but there should not be much left.

It's rare to come back, and the next time I come will probably be the year after tomorrow, so it's better to buy more.

Thinking of this, Huo Yaowen opened the leather bag that Huo Guantai gave him, and turned out stacks of food stamps and banknotes from it.

Bundles of food stamps, rolls of ten yuan, suddenly blinded Director Fang's eyes.

The salespeople and customers who had been looking at the situation here were also shocked by Huo Yaowen's so much currency.

"That's a lot of money. ”

"Oh my God, that's probably a few thousand!"

"If ten dollars for a roll is a thousand yuan, at least ten thousand yuan. ”

"Ten thousand!!"

In the midst of everyone's low exclamations, Huo Yaowen simply counted the sugar tickets, a total of two hundred catties smaller, he looked up at Director Fang and said, "Director Fang, if you can, can you help me use all these sugar tickets?"

"Bought them all?"

Director Fang swallowed.

"Well, I bought them all. ”

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