On July 1, 1980, the national postal system officially began to implement the postal code system.

In the major post offices in Beijing, when customers held envelopes and curiously observed the new red squares on them, no one noticed that there were very few "monkey tickets" on the counter, and there was no full-page ticket.

No one will know that this already easy wealth is about to slip through their fingers completely.

On July 4, following the successful holding of the Export Commodities Exhibition in Hong Kong. For the first time, the "department store" in Beijing appeared goods from Taiwan, mainly electric fans, televisions, tape recorders, watches, folding umbrellas, etc.

And this day is also the day when Hong Yanwu calculates the value of the "red envelope".

According to his own statistics, several cities were counted together, and the final cost was more than 30,000 yuan, and what fell into his pocket were 4,863 full-page monkey tickets and 100 loose tickets for fun.

This is not far from the goal he set himself. That's the equivalent of eating one-tenth of this set of stamps. According to the historical price estimates that have appeared, these stamps will be 730 million in the future. Can he still not be beautiful?

So he drank high that day. And in order to commemorate this great victory of great significance of the times, he also wrote a letter expressing his feelings with the strength of wine. Then a four-party "monkey ticket" was specially pasted and stuffed into the mailbox, ready to be sent to himself as a souvenir.

Unexpectedly, a few days later, when the postman delivered the letter to the east courtyard of Guanyin Academy, he just caught up with Hong Yanzheng to go home from work, and the letter fell directly into Hong Yanzheng's hands.

As a result, as soon as Hong Yanzheng got the letter, he not only immediately recognized Hong Yanwu's handwriting, but was also angry by the stamps on the letter.

At that time, the postage for sending letters in the same city was four cents, and the postage in other cities was eight cents. You can't spend it like this if you have money!

The boss was embarrassed and went back to open the letter. As a result, this look is even more flaming in the brain, and the temperament is on the head!

Dare to love Hong Yanwu actually wrote only one crooked poem.

There was a loud bang in the sky, and Lao Tzu appeared brightly. Blame me for being drunk and immoral, and tearing up the national emperor list - Hong Yanwu Geng Shen Nian souvenir".

It's obviously a deliberate waste of money!

Come on, as soon as the "tearing up the emperor's list" went back this night, he was retributed by the world. Hong Yanwu was indeed scolded by his eldest brother for his "drunken and immoral".

Fortunately, the value of the monkey ticket has not been recognized by the society, otherwise Hong Yanzheng would have to scold Hong Yanwu for a whole year if he knew that the Quartet could top 60,000 in the future.

There is an idiom called "July fire", and many people think it is to describe the hot weather. But in fact, on the contrary, the real meaning of this word refers to the westward movement of Mars, and the weather is getting cooler.

In July of this year, on the fourth day of the official release of the "Trial Measures for the Retention of Profits of State-owned Enterprises" by the Beijing Municipal Government, the release of a movie did bring a sense of coolness to the unbearable summer heat. That is my country's first tourism scenery movie - "Lushan Love".

The storyline of this movie is not too complicated. Zhou Yun, a Chinese-American girl, was playing in Lushan and met Geng Hua, a young man from the mainland. The two fell in love at first sight. Later, due to the frequent contact between the two, it was rumored that Geng Huali was in contact with foreign countries, causing Zhou Yun to leave in pain.

Five years later, with the increasing intensity of reform, Zhou Yun came to the mainland again, and found Geng Hua, who was already a graduate student, and prepared to marry him. But Zhou Yun's father was a retired officer of the Three People's Party, and Geng Hua's father was a sworn enemy on the battlefield. This incident then became an obstacle for the two of them.

In the end, after repeated painful thinking, the two fathers finally agreed to the marriage of the two. Zhou Yun's parents also returned to the mainland from the United States, and they had a perfect ending of "they have lived a beautiful and happy life since then".

In fact, the reason why this movie became the most popular among the audience that year and suddenly set off a storm in the hearts of thousands of young men and women. In addition to Zhang Yu and Guo Kaimin, a pair of young actors, excellent appearance and just the right performance. There were two other reasons that seemed shocking at the time.

One is Zhang Yu's bold kiss to Guo Kaimin in the film, breaking the forbidden area of domestic films for many years. made the first kiss on the screen of the Republic.

The other is that Zhang Yu changed forty-three sets of costumes in the film, making "Lushan Love" an almost unprecedented film in which the heroine shows the most fashion.

As a result, Zhang Yu and Guo Kaimin both became recognized on-screen couples because of this movie, and for a time became the popular idols sought after by countless audiences, and became the dream lovers of young men and women.

What is more practical is that in addition to the effect of product placement has been proved by the first example, the Lushan Scenic Area has greatly increased the number of tourists since then, and has become the most attractive scenic spot after that. The film also seems to teach a generation how to fall in love.

Young people vied with each other to imitate the plot of the movie, and since then, they have not only talked about work, ideals, and exchanged "revolutionary salutes" in love letters. Instead, there are more euphemistic expressions of affection.

But what is even more unbelievable is that there really is a plot in life that looks like in the movie.

And the most amazing thing is that in reality, this example not only happened to Hong Yanwu's side, but even the male protagonist in the love story is Hong Yanwu's second brother - Hong Yanwen.

So how did this true portrayal of "Lushan Love" happen?

In fact, to get to the bottom of it, the cause still has to find Hong Yanwu's head.

As we said earlier, when Hong Yanwu and "Tang Xin'er" were eating the "duty-free index for going abroad" in the "department store" in Wangfujing, they often tried every means to infiltrate the "Xinhua Bookstore Internal Distribution Group" in Wangfujing Dongdan Ertiao, and pretended to be the children of high-ranking cadres to buy all kinds of "leather books".

Hong Yanwu is not a stingy person, and the "forbidden books" he bought back will never just be read by himself, and the scope will spread widely. In addition to his own family, he will also give it to Chang Xianzhang and lend it to his neighbors Shui Qing and Shui Lan.

Among these people, Hong Yanwen is of course the most convenient and the least empty. Once a week, when he goes home, he takes some books and takes them back to school.

But didn't something happen to "Sugar Heart" later? Hong Yanwu didn't have the heart to get any more books. So since October last year, there has been no new source of books, and Hong Yanwen's spiritual food has gradually stopped.

But you must know that for Hong Yanwen's generation who grew up in the "movement", the meaning of books is extraordinary. Their affection for books is unmatched by any generation.

This is the reason of the times. Because they have just learned a little bit about things, it is the time to learn and cultivate hobbies, and "sports" come, and as a result, they can't do anything at once.

Learn to paint, the cost is too high, whether it is Western painting or Chinese painting, you have to use money to buy paper and pencils. It's better to learn music, it's a one-time investment, and you can buy it by gritting your teeth. But the most important thing is that teachers are too difficult to find.

Because in addition to the teacher's private acceptance of students, there is a suspicion of engaging in a black club. In addition, almost all things have become things that are "sealed and repaired", so that people can't teach them.

Even if you only teach revolutionary themes, if you don't pay attention, something goes wrong. There is also a risk of being charged. So who would want to do such a thankless job?

As a result, in this social context of widespread cultural hunger, reading books has become a "hobby" for most people, especially literary books.

Later, when they went to the mountains and went to the countryside, under such difficult conditions as far away from home, and under the circumstances of suffering various life tribulations, many people's spiritual world often relied on one or two books that had been read countless times, and the Count of Monte Cristo, Valjean, and Gadfly were supported by the living characters.

Therefore, this generation will study hungrily as soon as they are admitted to university, which will cause the "reading fever" of the whole society in the late 70s and early 80s, and poets like Shu Ting, Bei Dao, Gu Cheng, Liang Xiaobin, Jiang He, Index Finger, Meng Ke, and Wang Guozhen will appear among them. and writers like Liu Xinwu, Liang Xiaosheng, Februaryhe, Tie Ning, Lu Yao, Mo Yan, and Du Liang.

Not only do they believe that knowledge can change their fate, but the book also covers almost all of their spiritual world. It is completely equivalent to the soul.

Knowing this, the rest is understandable.

Hong Yanwen, who has been nourished by Hong Yanwu, loves books like his life. He will do everything he can to continue to get all kinds of "leather books" that he could not get to meet the "needs" he relies on for survival.

Hong Yanwen's method is very simple, he just waits outside the "internal book distribution team" of Dongdan Ertiao every Sunday, and chooses the opportunity to discuss with the young customers who come out of it.

He volunteered to pay him money, either by asking someone to buy a few copies on his behalf, or by asking someone to transfer the book he had just bought.

His method really worked, because he could earn extra money without much effort, and someone must be willing to help him with this. But don't forget that the young people who come in and out of this place are the children of what kind of families.

Not to mention that those boys are above the top, they have also grown up in an environment that lacks parental care and training since they were children. Few people know what modesty and courtesy are. Most of them are like wolf cubs, and they know that if there is a cheap, they will go on it, and they will not be cheap enough.

In addition, Hong Yanwen is a nerd who is a dutiful person, so the price he often pays to achieve his goals is unbelievably high.

A book for a few cents, he spends a few dollars to buy a common thing. Ten dollars for a copy is fine. Even for a few books, he would spend twenty or thirty yuan to invite a bunch of people to eat a meal of shabu mutton, which he agreed. It's really a bad trick.

But fortunately, Hong Yanwen really loves books, as long as he doesn't run in vain, he is happy to be able to buy the books he likes, and he never cares about economic gains and losses. He didn't care.

In addition, he is not short of money, since he hit the family and got the compensation back. It has always been given by his parents, his brother and brother, and he still has a subsidy from the state to go to college. Add up to at least 100 yuan of "income" every month. So in terms of economic conditions, it is completely enough for him to practice so badly.

Of course, as long as he goes, it will inevitably attract the attention of the staff. In a few weeks, he aroused the curiosity of the heroine.

The second group has been opened, group number: 608640021

(End of chapter)