It turns out that every qiē is a misunderstanding.

When Zhang Li rushed into the police station, two masters from the Beijing Garment Factory also rushed to the police station. After identification, the two masters unanimously said that these clothes were not produced in their own factories.

"First of all, the style of the clothes is wrong, this look is the design of the southern coastal area, which is more bold, more exposed, with a low neckline, and this skirt." The master picked up a long dress with a bandeau design, shook his head in confusion, and said to the police: "With all due respect, this skirt may not even be considered a finished product, it is estimated to be a defective product, how can you go out if you wear it like this?" The neck and shoulders are exposed, we are a regular garment factory, and we will never let this defective product enter the market and ruin our signboard. ”

Later, the police took the two masters of the garment factory, as well as Zhang Li and Tian Guo, to Zhang Li's house to inspect other goods.

"No, no, these clothes are not produced by our garment factory." only glanced at those colorful fashionable clothes, and the masters shook their heads again and again to deny, "Those clothes are very inferior in quality at a glance, how can they be produced by our factory!" It's nonsense. ”

These words made Zhang Li and Tian Guo a little unable to get off the stage. Zhang Li looked at them unhappily: "Hey, I said master, if you deny it, deny it, don't slander the quality of my clothes, okay?" I personally picked up all these clothes from Guangzhou one by one, why is the quality so poor? Foreigners love it! ”

"What foreigners like must be good things? You young people, now you are blindly worshipping foreigners, and you are almost forgetting that you are the descendants of Yan and Huang. The old master choked dissatisfiedly, "Also, since you are good at this thing, why do you buy it for tourists in the name of our Beijing garment factory?" Isn't this a blatant deception? Do you know how much the people in our warehouse have been wronged for this? It stands to reason that our garment factory has enough reason to take away all your clothes! ”

"Don't don't don't be a master, don't be angry, it's all our fault, let's change, you have a lot, don't compete with our two ignorant little kids, we are also doing business for the first time, no experience, at that time, just thinking about how to sell clothes, the mouth didn't open the door and purred out. Since childhood, we have worn the clothes from your Beijing garment factory, but unfortunately when I was a child, I didn't study hard and couldn't go to work in your factory, so I can only use this method to set it off, you can rest assured, we won't dare next time. Afraid that things would make a big fuss, Tian Guo hurriedly comforted the two masters, she knew that the reason why people let them go and didn't sue for infringement was entirely because the Chinese people's sense of rights protection was weak at that time, and they suffered losses, and it would be okay to educate them in the name of state-owned enterprises.

Zhang Li also knew that she didn't pay attention, and followed Tian Guo to bow three times with sincerity to the two masters. Later, the two of them went back to the police station to sign a bunch of things, and it was already more than ten o'clock in the evening when they came out. At the beginning of the lights on the street, there were two tired people, and I don't know how long they walked, Zhang Li suddenly asked: "Xiaoguo'er, are you hungry?" ”

"Sort of."

"There's a Sichuan restaurant in front, let's go, I'll invite you!"

The restaurant is not state-run, so it stays open until 9 p.m. A few streets further through the famous Beijing Railway Station, it was quite late, but when Tian Guo pushed the door and walked in, there were still diners eating in twos and threes, with large bags and small bags piled up at their feet, eating a mouthful of food, taking a look at the bag, for fear of losing it.

The shop was not big, so they picked a table by the window in the corner. Zhang Li ordered a plate of kung pao chicken, a plate of fish-flavored eggplant, and two bowls of rice, but later felt that it was not enough, so she added another husband and wife lung slices and two bowls of rice.

I had to ask for food stamps for rice, but Zhang Li didn't bring it, so I talked to the boss for a long time, and finally paid 2 cents.

"This is called husband and wife lung slices, I ate them in Chengdu last year, they are very delicious, the meat is very tender, you can taste it." Zhang Li picked up two pieces of meat and put them into the Tianguo bowl.

The spicy oil was red, and Tian Guo's eye circles were also red. "Sister Li, I'm sorry, I hurt you"

"Oh, are you alright? What's wrong with me? Is it a loss of money, or a loss of goods and people? Zhang Li widened her eyes, feeling that Tian Guo had a lot to do, "Sue you, after eating this meal, I will continue to go to Xiushui to practice with my sister tomorrow, what a big deal, tell sù that when you first practiced the stall, I have encountered more disgusting things than this, didn't you survive it?" I have long told you that it is not easy for women to do business, why, you won't be afraid? ”

Tian Guo shook his head and smashed the meat with chopsticks, "I'm not afraid, it's just that I have a special heart in my heart, I have no grievances with anyone on weekdays, why should they harm us!" ”

She knew that there must be a lot of mouths among the surrounding merchants, did it seem that there was nothing to do?

Seeing her gritting her teeth with resentment, Zhang Li couldn't help but smile, "You, you're really stupid, don't you know that your peers are enemies after working in society for so long?" I don't believe that your barbershop doesn't have such a jealousy thing! Sue you, where there are people, there is right and wrong, not to mention that now the wolf has more meat and less meat, and he can't rob us on the surface, so he can only make it bad secretly. But this also reminds us that we really have to pay attention to what we say after the wall has ears. Okay, don't think about it so much, let's eat first, you see the dishes are cold. ”

After returning home, Tian Guo lay on the bed tossing and turning and couldn't sleep. I always feel that this is for her today.

"Who told me to have no backstage?" She sighed, and when she turned over, she saw the shadow of the leaves hitting the window pane, and the mottled appearance made her suddenly think of Liu Mazi with a pitted face.

That's right, since there's no backstage, why don't I find one myself?

After being mixed in the society for some years, Tian Guo understands that giving gifts is also seeing people on the dishes, just like dancing, you have to rush to the idea, otherwise it will backfire, for example, if people are Barcelona fans, you have to give a Real Madrid jersey, this is not disgusting! Thinking of Liu Mazigao's identity, and having been to Hong Kong and abroad, Tian Guo felt that she couldn't just find a department store to buy something like before when she gave a gift, this time, she had to give something that ordinary people couldn't buy.

However, she is just an ordinary person, where can she buy unusual things?

Hey? She suddenly thought of the friendship store outside the Jianguo Gate.

Before his rebirth, Tian Guo had never heard of any friendship shops, but after arriving here, he learned that in the late 70s, with China's reform and opening up, as a symbol of "friendship", shops were specially established in some big cities that only accept foreigners, diplomats and government/government/officials/officials. The items sold inside are imported from the West, such as cigarettes, peanut butter, shrimp chips, chocolates, etc., which are not available in department stores outside.

Tian Guo once heard Niu Huanran say that in 81, the Peking Opera Troupe received a wave of foreign guests from the United States, and Aunt Wu Zhen borrowed the light to follow in once, saying that everything was sold inside, such as coffee, pizza, hamburgers, and Coca-Cola

You have to use a coupon to buy something in the friendship store, and people don't sell it without a coupon. Wu Zhen didn't have it, so she could only follow behind other people's buttocks. But before leaving, the foreigner gave her three shots of Coca-Cola and a box of Hershey's chocolates. Niu Huanran said, "The things Americans make are really funny, and the Coca-Cola has bubbles in it, just like drinking beer." The taste is also weird, you say it's sweet, it's not too sweet, and it's a little bitter when you taste it carefully at the end. ”

Tian Guo asked him: "Is it good to have the Arctic Ocean?" ”

Huan Ran pouted, "It's far from the Arctic Ocean, but it's okay." "Of the three drinks, one was given to Tang Sijia, one was left by Huan Ran, and the other was drunk by the whole family." You don't know, on the day of drinking Coke, our whole family's expressions were very pious, following up the temple to worship the Buddha, and the atmosphere did not dare to breathe, my sister-in-law was even more amused, saying that people who didn't know thought that our family would □□commit suicide by drinking together! ”

"Do you still want to drink it?" Tian Guo asked with a smile.

"Sometimes I want to, sometimes I don't."

"Do you want to?"

"Yes!"

Tian Guoxin said don't worry, at most in another five years, Coke and Sprite will be available in major stores in China.

However, as I said before, you need to have a voucher to buy something in the Friendship Store. The renminbi is equivalent to a blank sheet of paper, which is worthless.

Foreign exchange coupons were officially issued in 1980, and the denomination is equivalent to the renminbi, which is divided into one dime, five jiao, one yuan, five yuan, ten yuan, fifty yuan and one hundred yuan. Tian Guo saw a foreign exchange coupon when he was a child, it was an American aunt who bought clothes, and after the price was negotiated, she took out a foreign exchange coupon and handed it to Tian Guo, the denomination was ten yuan, the blue bottom, and the picture was the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River.

Of course, Tian Guo knew the words "foreign exchange coupons" and "Bank of China", but she didn't dare to accept them, she had never seen this, what if she couldn't spend it? I explained it to my aunt, and in the end I still received ten yuan. Waiting for Tian Guo to tell Zhang Li the next day, Zhang Li blew up at that time, "Oh, my stupid sister, if someone else wants to come to that coupon, how can you push it back, oops, oops" hugged his head and made a painful and remorseful look.

Tian Guo patiently explained: "That thing can only be used in the Friendship Store, I'm afraid we won't be able to spend it if we collect it." ”

At that time, there were books and newspapers in English sold in friendship merchants, so only foreigners were allowed to enter, and Chinese were not allowed to enter. Tian Guo thought, even if he received the foreign exchange coupon, he couldn't spend it, so why collect it? As a result, Zhang Li knocked her head hard, "You, you, you look very clever on weekdays, why do you make a fool at a critical moment, that exchange coupon is a rare thing, we can't spend it and sell it to scalpers!" A ten-dollar forex coupon earns at least three dollars! ”

Yes! Tian Guo was dumbfounded, how did she know that there were already scalpers in Sijiu City in the past eight years.

"Isn't it illegal to resell foreign exchange coupons without permission?" Tian Guo was surprised, he always felt that this was like laundering/black money, and the risk was extremely high.

"What about breaking the law? The profits are high, the returns are high, and everyone is not a blatant transaction, who cares, besides, the police/police still want foreign exchange coupons! I heard that you don't need a ticket to sell bicycles and TVs in the friendship store, and there is no quota for selling cigarettes, so you can buy as much as you want, and you don't do it if you have such a business? ”

"Where do the scalpers usually squat?" Tian Guo asked curiously.

Zhang Li said with a head: "There is everything, next to the bank, Wangfujing business district, and in front of major hotels, it is said that there are the most in an alley behind the Beijing Hotel, and there are not only Chinese, but also foreigners!" ”