When the group returned to the hotel, they met Li Bo accompanying Hu Zhijie and Liu Yanping back from outside, and Hao Yawei, who had always been unrestrained and smiling, also followed behind them with a cold face, and seemed to be a little emotional. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Hu Zhijie and the others are not technical cadres, and they are mainly responsible for political and ideological work and logistics services when they come out with the group, so they did not follow Luo Xiangfei and them to Lyme Company, but used this precious time to go out shopping. Since none of the three of them knew German and it was their first time in Germany, Li Bo could only accompany them out. However, Li Bo is not used to this kind of thing, and there is no delegation from China who does not take the time to go shopping on the streets.

"Lao Hu, the purchase is gone, and the harvest is not small. Luo Xiangfei looked at the few shopping bags that Hu Zhijie was carrying, and asked with a smile. Everyone grew up eating whole grains, and Luo Xiangfei is not upright or pedantic enough to despise this kind of publicly-funded tourism.

"Alas, I bought something for my wife and daughter, which Xiao Liu suggested I bought. Hu Zhijie was a little embarrassed, pointing at Liu Yanping and said. After all, everyone went out to negotiate in the morning, and he, a person in charge of the delegation's political and ideological work, went to the street to make purchases, which was a bit unreasonable.

Liu Yanping didn't care, she smiled and said to Luo Xiangfei: "It's okay for everyone to stay in the house in the morning, the TV in the house speaks German, and we can't understand it." I thought, since I came here, I had to visit other people's cities, which can be regarded as learning from other people's advanced experience. So I asked Xiao Li to accompany us out for a walk, and by the way, I bought some gadgets that I can't see in China. By the way, Director Luo, I saw a pair of sneakers in the store that are particularly beautiful, Yutong must look good in them, when are you going to take a look? By the way, Lily, I think you look good in them. ”

Liu Yanping said that Yutong is Luo Xiangfei's daughter, named Luo Yutong, who is currently studying economic management at Yenching University. As the director of the office, Liu Yanping is naturally very familiar with the family members of the leaders. As for her last sentence, it was said to He Lili. In this delegation, only Liu Yanping and He Lili are women, and they have the most common language when it comes to shopping and shopping.

Sure enough, without waiting for Luo Xiangfei to say anything, He Lili jumped up first: "Really, Sister Liu, it won't be particularly expensive, I can't afford anything expensive with this little subsidy for going abroad." ”

"Before you came out, your father didn't help you change some foreign exchange?" asked Liu Yanping. This He Lili is not from an ordinary family, her father is a leader in another ministry, and his level is still above Luo Xiangfei. Liu Yanping and He Lili also knew each other in the past, and they often greeted He Lili's parents by the way...... , well, this greeting has no extended meaning, and it is not at all the same thing as greeting the family on the Internet in later generations.

"No, my dad can pick the door, he asked me to be hard and simple......" He Lili pouted, made a coquettish look, and then stepped forward to look at Liu Yanping's procurement results.

Liu Yanping can also be regarded as the earliest chopping family. Before going abroad, she tried to find someone to exchange some foreign currency, which was going to come to Germany to buy some fashion goods. Both of her family are government cadres, and they are a bit of a level, so their family is quite well-off, and they can afford such a procurement that is extremely shabby in the eyes of Feng Xiaochen, a traverser.

Seeing Liu Yanping being entangled by He Lili, Luo Xiangfei breathed a sigh of relief, chatting with a woman who had returned from procurement was a painful thing in any era. He turned his head to look at Hao Yawei and asked with a smile, "Yawei, you didn't buy anything?"

"The things in this capitalist world are too expensive, and how can cadres like us afford them. Hao Yawei said with a sigh.

"Haha, something that even our budget director is too expensive, what does that have to be. Ji Ming laughed gloatingly. The budget department is the department in charge of money, and the money spent from Hao Yawei is more than a billion dollars, and finally there is a time when he says that things are expensive.

"Go! The budget office is not my money. Hao Yawei scolded with a smile, and then explained: "I actually took a fancy to a Leica camera, and when I asked, it cost more than 2,000 marks, and I couldn't afford it without eating or drinking this trip." ”

In those years, when cadres went abroad temporarily on official business, the state would give some subsidies. At the level of Hao Yawei, when he went to Germany on business, he had 50 marks of food expenses a day, and a total of 500 marks of pocket money for the first 15 days. If you stay abroad for more than 15 days, you can add an additional 30 DM per day to your pocket money. The cost of food is a lump sum system, and if you save it, you can use it yourself. However, you can't skip a meal, right? In those days, there were no instant noodles to carry, so the money that could be saved from the mouth was really not much.

When many cadres have the opportunity to go abroad, they will find someone to exchange for some foreign exchange in order to buy something abroad, just like Liu Yanping. In the early 80s, 1 West German mark was equivalent to about 8 cents of RMB, and people with a lot of money could exchange it for one or two thousand marks if they had a way, so that they could buy a lot of satisfying toys in Germany.

Hao Yawei is known as the "cold-faced Hades" when he works, but he still has some hobbies of his own, one of which is the most obsessed with photography. Over the years, his biggest dream was to buy a Leica camera, so he secretly saved some money from the cigarette money his wife gave him every month, and over the years, he also saved more than 1,000 yuan.

This time he went abroad, he saved a little from the state-subsidized "clothing fee", plus the pocket money he went abroad, he could barely buy a Leica camera worth 2,000 yuan. But the problem is that the foreign exchange he exchanged before he went abroad was only 500 marks, and now with pocket money and so on, it is 1000 marks. The German store doesn't recognize the yuan, he can't get the mark, how can people sell him the camera?

The other companions in the regiment naturally also have foreign exchange issued by the state, but Hao Yawei knows that everyone comes with a procurement task, and no one is allowed to buy some souvenirs for his wife and children at home, so how can he exchange foreign exchange for him? To paraphrase the grammar of later generations, everyone is familiar with each other, and foreign exchange is not something that can be exchanged casually.

Seeing that everyone was discussing the matter of buying things, Luo Xiangfei simply waved his hand and announced, "That's it, this afternoon, let's move freely." If you want to go around the city of Frankfurt, you can go around. However, I would like to make a few points: first, everyone must abide by the discipline of foreign affairs and not do anything that insults the national dignity; second, everyone must remember the name and location of the hotel when they go out, and it is best to ask Xiao He to write a note to everyone and bring it with him, in case you can't find the hotel, you can ask the police; third, I suggest that you do not run out of money in Frankfurt, and we will go to Bonn tomorrow, I believe that business there will be more prosperous than Frankfurt. ”

The last sentence, Luo Xiangfei said with a smile, where everyone spends money, it is not under his care as the head of the regiment, he is purely for everyone to have fun. As a leader, you can't keep a face on your subordinates all day long. It's normal for people to finally go out of the country and want to buy some new toys, Luo Xiangfei himself is no exception, before leaving, his wife also stuffed a roll of Deutsche Mark in his bag, and asked him to buy a few decent clothes in Germany to go back.

"Okay, Director Luo is wise!"

"Long live Director Luo!"

The crowd cheered and ran back to their rooms. A leader who allows everyone to move freely is indeed a wise leader. When the leaders of some units led the regiment abroad, they were afraid that something would go wrong with their subordinates, which would affect him and restrict everyone to the death. Everyone has heard a lot about this kind of thing.

Feng Xiaochen didn't plan to buy anything. The German goods of that era were extremely cool in the eyes of others, but in Feng Xiaochen's opinion, they were dirty. He doesn't have a girlfriend, so he doesn't need to think about who to bring souvenirs to. As for his parents and younger brother at home, he does not plan to bring anything back to them at present, he knows that in a few years, the income of Chinese will be higher than now, and foreign exchange will be relatively relaxed.

What Feng Xiaochen wanted to do most at the moment was to hurry up and have lunch, and then go back to his room to sleep beautifully. They only arrived in Frankfurt last night, and today they didn't even get over the jet lag, so they went to the Lime Company, he relied on the two cups of strong coffee he drank in the morning to survive a morning, and now Luo Xiangfei gave everyone time to move freely, and it would be a fool not to sleep.

But the tree wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop, Feng Xiaochen ate in the hotel restaurant, and before he could walk back to the room, he was blocked by Ji Ming, Yang Yongnian and Hao Yawei: "Xiao Feng, after eating, then let's go?"

"Where are you going?" Feng Xiaochen said in surprise.

"Go out on the streets. Ji Ming was even more surprised than Feng Xiaochen, it seemed that Feng Xiaochen's question was ridiculous to the extreme.

"I didn't say I was going to go out on the street. "Feng Xiaochen said, who made an appointment with you?

Yang Yongnian said with a smile: "Director Luo has said free activities, if you don't go on the street, are you still going to stay in the house and sleep?"

"yes, I'm just going to bed. Feng Xiaochen nodded seriously and said, "I haven't reversed the jet lag, I'm sleepy." ”

"Uh-huh, it turned out to be jet lag, I said why am I so sleepy. Ji Ming rubbed his eyes and said, he was also sleepy in the morning, and now he has found the reason. However, he didn't mean to go to sleep at all, but pulled Feng Xiaochen and said: "I've heard people say that the time difference is a thing, and it will pass after carrying it." It's hard to come to Germany, what's the point of sleeping, let's go, let's go to the street together, we are counting on you to be our translator. ”

I see......

Feng Xiaochen touched his forehead with his hand, his biggest problem was that he was too capable! If he didn't know German, how could these three department-level cadres beg him to go to the street with him in vain.