Gu Biao walked into Xinhua Bookstore in a big way, and looked for it himself as usual, but he didn't find it.

Then I asked the clerk.

The official answer is naturally that the "Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry Self-study Series" has not been printed for more than ten years, and this set of books is white, so it is out of stock.

Gu Biao was unhappy when he heard it:

"Is this comrade in stock? What does it mean to 'have no goods because this set of books is in vain'? The great leader taught us that we should pay attention to the laws of the objective world and not be idealistic. If there is a product, there is a stock, and if there is no goods, there is no goods, how can the fact be transferred because of whether it is a white specialty?"

"That'...... It's out of stock!" the female clerk was stunned, afraid of taking responsibility.

She didn't want to serve such a difficult guest, so she said that there was no stock.

Gu Biao still didn't give up: "I heard that your store is in cooperation with Hujiang Publishing House. They have all the inventory they can't sell. I asked all over the country, and they all said that it was only possible to have them here from you! Is it easy for me to come from Qiantang to buy books?"

Who knows, Gu Biao didn't say that he came from out of town, so that's fine.

As soon as she heard that he was a foreigner, the female clerk's sense of superiority rose to the ground: "Hey!

Ma Feng next to him saw that the boss was humiliated, and his blood suddenly surged, and he rolled up his sleeves and was unhappy: "Who are you talking about from the countryside?"

"Well, don't mind, I'm a redneck. Gu Biao stopped Ma Feng.

The magnanimity of the city is more explosive than the big man who played the right match with Brother Black Fly on "Mong Kok Carmen", "She has been powerful all her life! Let her be powerful for two days!"

Maybe it was because he heard the noise here, and the other salesman secretly notified the leader, and after a while, a middle-aged man in a Mao suit walked over, which should be similar to the role of the store manager.

The middle-aged man was obviously more able to speak than the saleswoman, asked about the situation, and reasoned with Gu Biao at the moment: "Little comrade, we do have the set of books you asked, but they are all inventories that have been pressed for many years, and they are illegal publications to be disposed of. There is a new edition of the "Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry Self-study Series......"

"I insisted on buying the old version, and the old version had a lot of dry goods. Gu Biao didn't let it go at all.

The middle-aged man was not happy, and scared him with a straight face:

"Oh yes! Little comrade, your thinking is very dangerous! You are going to embark on the crooked and evil path of 'satellites going to the sky and red flags landing on the ground.' I can't talk nonsense about this just now, and I can be kind and pretend that I haven't heard it. If you go back half a year, you will call it the current anti-song life......"

Gu Biao had endured it long enough, so he took out a letter of introduction from his pocket and slapped it on the counter.

"Then I want to buy the February and March issues of the Journal of Engineering of Jiaotong University, including the refrigeration major of the Department of Physics. And the old version of the "Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry Self-study Series" I just mentioned!"

When the middle-aged man saw the red seal on the letterhead, his heart jumped slightly, and he secretly wondered if he had encountered some hard goods with some ideas.

However, the contempt for knowledge in the whole society in the past ten years has made him have no expectations for the energy of cultural people.

The disciples of the stinky old nine still want to go to the sky?

In these years, who dares to say that they are irreplaceable when they come to check papers and buy mathematics, physics and chemistry tutorials?

He gestured and went to get the letter of introduction.

Gu Biao waited for his hand to touch the letter of introduction, and slapped it on the back of his hand.

The middle-aged man was in a settled mood, and secretly thought that he must be a scare person with Western leather goods.

"Hmph, if it's fake, I'll have to send this kid to the police station!" he thought to himself.

Gu Biao said unhurriedly: "It's okay to see it, but this is the top secret, you can't spread it after you have seen it, let alone let others see it, you just need to cooperate with me." ”

The middle-aged man was bluffed and suspicious, but his heart was still inclined to the judgment that "Gu Biao is a bluff".

He unfolded the letter of introduction, and then did not look at the contents, but first looked at the official seal below.

Whether the matter is important or not is not determined by the content, but by the official seal.

The title of the red seal on the first piece of paper is not intimidating, it was issued by the "Qiantang Oxygen Concentrator Factory". And it's all handwritten.

The middle-aged man immediately relaxed: "Hmph, the little red guy in a small factory in the countryside dares to come to Hujiang to ask the local unit to assist and cooperate?

Gu Biao was secretly amused and reminded: "Look at the last paragraph, let you read the appendix." ”

The middle-aged man paid attention to the handwriting on the letter of introduction, and the last paragraph of the letter read, "This task of our factory is to cooperate with the secret research project of the first machine department, see the appendix for details." ”

The middle-aged man hurriedly flipped to the back, only to see the official seals of the central ministry and a mysterious special committee above, and a cold sweat suddenly fell.

Fortunately, Hujiang is also the most industrially developed city in China.

Although this Xinhua bookstore is not the largest in Shanghai, it has cooperated with several units such as Jiaotong University, Tongji and Hujiang Publishing House.

Therefore, the middle-aged man, as the manager here, still has some knowledge.

Because for this mysterious project, Gu Biao is not the first to come to him to ask for technical information and let him cooperate in finding books.

He could see that the appendix was genuine.

The middle-aged man immediately put on a smiling face and asked kindly: "Eh, that, is this project of your factory the same project as that of Wujing Factory?"

Gu Biao didn't know what the middle-aged man's Wujing factory was doing, so he asked directly.

The middle-aged man patiently explained: "Wujing Factory makes artificial crystal glass, and their Miao factory director asked me last month what about the latest chemical journal of Jiaotong University, and I also helped him find it...... I see that the appendix of your letter of introduction is on the same letterhead. ”

Gu Biao thought for a while, nodded and said, "Silicon tetrachloride crystal glass, then it should be together, they are making containers, and we are making the protective gas filled in containers." ”

When the middle-aged man heard Gu Biao's words, all his doubts immediately disappeared, the smile on his face blossomed, and he hurriedly instructed the female clerk to find the book: "Quick! Find all the materials that this little comrade needs!"

The female clerk was stunned and couldn't understand why the store manager changed her face so quickly, but she did it anyway.

Gu Biao took care of it: "I only need one copy of other journals, but I want two sets of "Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry Self-study Series". Remember that journals and book series are invoiced separately. ”

At this time, he felt Ma Feng secretly poking his waist beside him.

"What's the matter? get down to business first!" Gu Biao was puzzled.

Ma Feng's eyes rolled, and he said shyly: "Brother Gu, can you buy 3 sets? I also want one set." ”

Gu Biao couldn't help laughing: "What do you want this thing for? You barely passed math in junior high school, so it's useless to ask for this." And 20 yuan a set, not a decimal number. ”

Ma Feng gritted his teeth: "I don't know that much, but seeing that you have wasted such a big thing in order to buy this set of books, I think this set of books must be very valuable!

What needs to be grabbed by people must be a good thing. I can't learn, there will always be an opportunity to sell to others at a high price in the future. As for the money, I'll pay you back 1 yuan first—the hairy crab hasn't eaten yet. I'll help you do things in the future, and I'll pay you back slowly!"

Gu Biao was amused by Ma Feng's simple three views.

This kid's business vision is really a chicken thief.

"Okay, then I want three sets!" Gu Biao immediately changed his words.

And the store manager can only let the saleswoman take 3 sets.

After a few minutes, the saleswoman carried nearly forty heavy books and hurled back to the front counter. (3 sets of 30 volumes, but there are also regular refrigeration journals.) ）

"The three sets have a total of 60 yuan, plus these journals, a total of 68. The middle-aged man personally calculated the price, and asked Gu Biao to collect the money with a smile on his face.

Nowadays, there is no intellectual property law in China, and the "Copyright Law" and "Patent Law" were not enacted for the first time until seven or eight years later.

Therefore, the cost of journals and journals in universities is very cheap, and it is only calculated according to the printing cost. Editing and creation are considered voluntary labor, supported by the wages of their own units.

Gu Biao counted out seven sheets of unity, took two more yuan to find his head, asked Ma Feng to open the prepared big schoolbag, stuffed all the books into it, and then left the bookstore.

The saleswoman who did a lot of manual work just now, obviously very dissatisfied with Gu Biao.

After the other party left, she whispered in the ear of the middle-aged man: "Store manager, I think these two little red guys are Bai Zhuan, why didn't you twist them to go to the police station just now and sue the current anti-song ......"

The middle-aged man's backhand is a slap in the face.

"You know what! You don't know where they came from! If I dare not sell them today, I will be the biggest anti-song in China! Do you know which great project they are serving!"

……

On the return trip, because of the letter of introduction, Gu Biao and Ma Feng easily bought long-distance tickets, so they didn't need to take another overnight boat.

However, there are only 4 buses a day, so they have to wait three hours to buy their tickets.

The most exaggerated thing is that there is a small restaurant in the long-distance bus station, and it was originally necessary to eat here for national food stamps.

When Gu Biao bought the ticket, he just consulted, saying that he forgot to bring the national food stamp, and could he buy food in a small restaurant while waiting for the bus.

The conductor actually went to ask the station leader on duty.

Then someone took Gu Biao and Ma Feng to buy food.

No food stamps are used.

The follower's Ma Feng's eyes glared out.

He couldn't imagine where Brother Gu got so much energy.

Even the aunt who eats in the small restaurant at the station seems to have been taken care of, and she is very enthusiastic when selling vegetables: "Braised elbows, two pieces of one, one for two catties, or one?"

Buying two catties of meat at a time is already a very luxurious luxury. However, Gu Biao was still driven by greed, and asked more: "Can one person buy one?"

The aunt was stunned for a moment, as if she didn't understand the lifestyle of the local tyrant, but she still replied affirmatively: "Of course you can, we don't need a ticket to buy meat in Hujiang, as long as we have money." You outsiders don't know. ”

This is really not a blow, and it cannot be described that in the later years (after 71 years), the meat in the whole country was tight, and almost all of them were supplied by tickets. But there are no meat stamps in Hujiang - there are still food stamps and other stamps, but there are no meat stamps. (In the late '70s, meat tickets began to be demanded again, and this policy only lasted for six or seven years.) ）

And the price is simply that the price of meat is more expensive than in other places.

In fact, this is the same reason as mentioned in history textbooks that the imperial court dealt with those profiteers who hoarded grain and speculated in Hujiang in the 50s.

In the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the capital attention camp once shouted that "a certain organization can seize power by force, but it cannot solve the problem of feeding the Chinese people, and the laws of the market will teach them to behave."

Therefore, in order to prove the superiority of the system, the imperial court frantically requisitioned grain from all over the country and sold it to Hujiang at unlimited and affordable prices, and burned the capital chain of hoarding profiteers, which achieved great political significance.

In the 50s, grain preservation became meat preservation in the 70s, and it was an image project of the external window. Anyway, in the land of Hujiang projectile, it is more than enough to protect one city with one country.

Based on this situation, people who have a way to get a letter of introduction from Hujiang all over the country have to carry meat home from Hujiang, and the farthest records even include some Yun nobles who came to Hujiang on a business trip.

However, I generally don't dare to bring more, at most four or five catties.

If you are found by the road police on the road, then you will be considered speculative and will go to the detention center.

Gu Biao and Ma Feng both heard about it for the first time, and they were surprised at the moment, and Gu Biao spent four yuan in one breath without any guilt, bought two big elbows, and ate one for himself and Ma Feng.

"Damn, I knew that as long as the food stamps don't need meat stamps, I also brought a woolen dry food. Wouldn't it be over if you ran straight into the store and ate meat? Gu Biao ate violently while self-examining.

Ma Feng was eating with a mouth full of oil, but he was shocked by Gu Fu's local tyrants here.

Eat meat alone...... All-you-can-eat?!

Can you still eat enough meat?

I'm afraid this is already running into the communist era!