Xiaowei said: "It's so far, thousands of kilometers, twelve days is not slow, anyway, it will take ten days for us to go back." ”

Xiaohong said, "Ah, what are we going to do in Yangcheng for so long?"

Xiaowei said: "Take a look around, the business here is much more developed than ours, learn and learn." Aren't you going to Bayu when you're done? Won't it take a few days? And Beidaihe. ”

Xiaohong thought for a while and nodded, and said, "Okay, it's about the same." ”

Because the Ferrari people were coming in the afternoon, the four of them didn't go anywhere, so they walked around the hotel, where there were friendship shops and shopping malls, as well as some privately owned shops.

Friendship shopping mall is a product of a special period, learning from the Soviet Russia's small birch shop, is a place dedicated to the service of foreigners and privileged people, in that era of lack of materials, there are goods from all over the world, usually not easy to buy with tickets color TV, refrigerator, Moutai, Swiss watches, bicycles, gold jewelry, antique calligraphy and paintings, etc.

This is also where the state earns foreign exchange, and the RMB cannot be spent here, so foreign exchange coupons must be used. The People's Bank of China has specially printed a special kind of money for places like the Friendship Store, which is used by foreigners in China, and is equivalent to the renminbi, which is called foreign currency exchange coupons. Interestingly, in 80 years, the maximum face value of the renminbi was 10 yuan, and there were 50 and 100 foreign exchange coupons.

Fifty and one hundred denominations are now popular for collections.

At that time, in order to earn foreign exchange, the foreign exchange dual-track system was implemented, and the official exchange rate of one dollar to RMB was more than five yuan, five yuan two to five yuan seven, but in the foreign exchange market it was close to nine yuan.

There are many people squatting in front of the friendship store, carrying a military schoolbag, snorting cigarettes and looking at passers-by. When I saw someone looking into the store, I asked, "Do you want foreign exchange coupons?" Their price was very low, and 10 yuan of foreign exchange coupons cost 90 yuan.

Although the goods in the Friendship Store are very complete, the prices are relatively expensive, and at that time, the goods exported by our country were basically losing money because of the currency exchange, and only in the Friendship Store could make money. Foreigners have no choice, they can't buy things in ordinary shopping malls, so they have to pay a high price to buy from here.

And then a group of people from the privileged class will also buy things here, because there is no limit to everything here. As for why it is the privileged class? Where do the common people go to get foreign exchange? Then foreign exchange coupons have become a sought-after commodity, and people with some ability try their best to get this thing, and the scale of the black market is getting bigger and bigger, and many shrewd foreigners no longer exchange foreign exchange at the officially designated places, but go to the black market to change it.

On January 1, 95, in order to regulate the foreign currency market, and because domestic goods were no longer so scarce, the state stopped the circulation of foreign exchange coupons, and the friendship store became an ordinary shopping mall.

At that time, the salespeople in the Friendship Store were quite awesome, all of them were carefully selected tall beauties, wearing specially approved imported cosmetics makeup, wearing white small lapel shirts, red vests and red bow ties, and fluent English. There is a name tag sewn on the right chest on the vest, and a metal national emblem on the left chest.

The four of them went inside and walked around, the money was not easy to use, and the gray came out again, and a buddy at the door asked with a smile: "Is it not good to exchange some foreign exchange coupons? ”

Xiao Wei glanced at the man and asked, "Northerners?" He spoke Mandarin very well, and when he heard it, he was from the north.

The buddy stood up, put his schoolbag behind him and said, "From Jibei, where are you from?"

Xiaowei said: "We are from the Northeast, how can you change this?"

The buddy said, "It's all three to one, we're all northerners, I'll count two to one for you, how about it?"

At that time, foreigners had to go to the designated place to exchange foreign exchange vouchers, and 10 US dollars were exchanged for more than 50 foreign exchange coupons. Scalpers exchange RMB for foreign exchange coupons from foreigners, 50 foreign exchange coupons for 80 yuan, and then sell the foreign exchange coupons to Chinese people at double the face value, and the intermediate profit is quite large. At that time, the public security caught all the coupons and made a fortune.

Xiao Liu coughed on the side, took out a cigarette and said to Xiao Wei, "Lend me the lighter." ”

Xiao Wei took out the lighter to Xiao Liu, shook his head and said, "Forget it, my friend will come over in the afternoon, I'll just get some with him, you guys are too expensive." ”

The buddy's eyes lit up: "Dude, can you get this thing?" Hey, get more of it, I'll exchange it with you one to six, okay?"

Xiaohong was surprised in her heart and said, "You make so much money?"

The buddy smiled and said, "Make peace, make peace, earn food." Really buddy, can you do it? I'm definitely not going to pay a low price. ”

Xiaowei said to Xiaohong, "Shall we go back or go shopping again?"

Xiaohong looked at the time and said, "I left the room number, why don't you go back, there is no contact information, and I can't find it when someone else's house comes." ”

The buddy said, "Dude, I'll give ninety, okay? Fifty for ninety, the highest price, there's nothing higher in the market, okay?"

Xiaowei shook his head and said, "Forget it, I don't do this, I'm not interested." Turning his head and preparing to leave, the buddy reached out to pull Xiaowei in a hurry, Xiao Liu stretched out his hand to block him, took out his police officer card and asked in front of his eyes: "Is it a face?"

The buddy's face turned white, and he ran when he turned around, and there was a burst of chickens and dogs jumping on the side, and more than a dozen people ran, and Xiaohong began to coo happily.

Turn around and return to the hotel, enter the gate, Xiao Liu said: "There are two plainclothes on the side just now, it is estimated that they are caught and reversed, if you exchange with him just now, we will not be able to leave, the crime of reselling foreign exchange is not small, and it will be troublesome." ”

Xiaowei said: "Really? I don't see it, if you don't make a mistake, maybe I'll change points with him." ”

Xiaohong said: "You said that you were looking for friends to change it? I thought it was true, who are you still looking for?" Your head is spinning so fast. ”

Xiaowei said: "That's right, didn't the people from Ferrari come over in the afternoon, let them help change it." ”

Xiao Liu said: "Change the point, I will also get some." ”

Xiaohong rolled her eyes and said, "You just said that you broke the law, and the crime of knowing the law and breaking the law will be added by one degree." ”

Xiao Liu Hehele said: "This thing is not easy to order, the black market is too expensive to change, just have the opportunity to get some, let's ask someone to change it and not resell it, what's the law?"

Xiaowei said: "Okay, let's change it, just buy a watch for Xiaohong, just now I saw that there is a good watch, and there is jewelry or something, Xiaohong doesn't seem to have any jewelry." ”

Xiaohong puffed on Xiaowei with a small face.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the Ferrari company drove from Hong Kong Island to the Baiyun Hotel. There are no restrictions on them coming from that side by car, just register at the crossing.