Lying on the small single bed in his childhood, Zhang Jiaming slept until eight o'clock the next morning, his parents had already gone to work, and his sister Zhang Jiali was having breakfast, and saw Zhang Jiaming coming out of his bedroom, so he beckoned his younger brother to wash up and eat breakfast while it was hot.

Zhang Jiali brought a bowl of steaming soy milk to Zhang Jiaming and said, "Jiaming, when you finish breakfast, my sister will take you to the City Children's Palace to play, okay?" ”

Sister's words made Zhang Jiaming a little surprised, in the impression, although my sister loves him more, but my sister doesn't like to take him out to play, even if Zhang Jiaming takes the initiative to beg, Zhang Jiali will find all kinds of excuses to excuse herself, is the sun rising in the west today?

Zhang Jiaming raised his eyes and looked out the window, and found that the sun was still rising in the east this morning, and he also wanted to know what his sister's wishful thinking was, so he "squeaked" and took a sip of soy milk and said: "Sister, I'm sorry, I still have something to do today, let's do it another day." ”

After listening to Zhang Jiaming's reply, Zhang Jiali also felt a little surprised, in the past, every winter and summer vacation, his parents went to work, Zhang Jiaming always begged him to take him out to play, what's wrong today?

"Jiaming, today the City Children's Palace held a Spring Festival Song Contest, and all the finalists will receive a new backpack, and if they win the first place, they will also get an accordion."

Zhang Jiaming knew where the stalk was when he heard it, but he deliberately pretended to be confused, "Sister, listen to what you mean, you also want to sign up for the competition?" ”

"No, it's not clear that my sister eats a few bowls of dry rice, but Jiaming, you can do it! Sister believes that it is not a problem to enter the finals at your level, but it is not surprising that you finally won the first place, and then the schoolbag will be given to my sister as a New Year gift, and the accordion will be placed at home and we will use it together. ”

"Sister, I really have something to do today, don't embarrass me, okay?"

Seeing Zhang Jiaming's attitude, Zhang Jiali was a little angry, put down half of the breakfast and prepared to go to the Children's Palace by herself, and muttered to herself: "It's so difficult for sister to beg you to do something big with sesame grains, forget it, sister will never beg you in the future." ”

Seeing that his sister was really angry, Zhang Jiaming felt a little uneasy in his heart, patted his chest and said: "Sister, I promise you, when school starts, I will give you a beautiful schoolbag, and I will also give you an electronic piano, the sound that guy plays is much better than the accordion." ”

Zhang Jiali pushed open the door of the house, stood outside her door and said: "First of all, my sister doesn't want the schoolbag you gave out at school, the color is so old-fashioned, and secondly, an electronic piano costs two or three hundred yuan, where did you get so much money?" I warn you, don't do anything illegal, or it will be strange if you let your parents know and not break your leg! ”

"Don't worry, sister, a gentleman loves money and takes it in the right way, I will definitely make money with my own hands to buy it for my dearest sister."

Zhang Jiali snorted and laughed, "I will play poor with my sister, stay at home and watch TV, don't run blind." ”

Zhang Jiali closed the door and went downstairs.

Zhang Jiaming came to his parents' room and saw a stack of manuscripts on his father's desk, the name of which was "A Brief Analysis of Some Problems and Solutions of State-owned Enterprises in Our City". The manuscript is nearly 20 pages long, the content is detailed, the examples are vivid, and the solutions come up with are also practical, which should be said to be a rare good article.

In the early 80s, the central government put forward the requirement of a younger cadre ranks, and at that time, as long as you had real talent and real learning, anyone who could enter the eyes of the higher departments would usually be promoted and reused. It's a pity that this article made a wedding dress for others, cheapened the opportunistic Liu Tengda, and let this villain sit all the way to the throne of the third in command in Yangjiang City.

Zhang Jiaming read through the whole text and thought that this was an article that his father had finalized. In order to prevent long nights and dreams, Zhang Jiaming made a bold decision, he wanted to copy this manuscript, sign the name of his father Zhang Weiqun, and send it to the newspaper today.

Zhang Jiaming copied the manuscript for nearly two hours before he finished copying the manuscript of more than 5,000 words, he folded the manuscript and carefully put it in his pocket, and took a dime and a half cents from the piggy bank in his house, ready to go to the post office to send a letter.

Zhang Jiaming hung the house key around his neck, was about to go out, downstairs from time to time crackling firecrackers reminded him of something, he came to his parents' bedroom, opened the big closet door, from the pad wardrobe under the newspaper out of a pile of colorful paper coupons, Zhang Jiaming still clearly remembers, when he was in the first grade, because he was ignorant, he used them to fold paper airplanes, after being beaten by his mother, he realized that this thing is a treasury bill, a few years later can be used to exchange money.

Treasury bills are issued by the state in August 1, and are marketable bonds to raise funds for the construction of the state, which are compulsorily deducted from the wages of all in-service workers in the country every month, and because they need to wait until five years to repay the principal and interest, some families who are anxious to use the money will sell them at a discount to the hawkers who buy the treasury bills.

Zhang Jiaming counted it, and there were six hundred and fifty yuan, several of which still had the creases left by his folded paper airplanes back then. At this time, there was a shout of "collect treasury bills" from downstairs. Zhang Jiaming pushed open the window and asked the vendor downstairs, "Hey, how do you exchange treasury bills?" ”

The peddler raised his face and pointed at the little head sticking out from the fourth floor and said, "Ten yuan treasury bills are exchanged for seven yuan." ”

The little head copied the little tender voice and said, "Hey, buddy! It's too cheap, can you give it a little more? ”

The forty-year-old peddler almost didn't have a crooked nose, and thought to himself, little rabbit cub, my son is in his twenties, you little hairy kid calls me buddy? But for the sake of business, he greeted him with a smile: "Brother, I'm a cheerful person, how about a fixed price, ten yuan for seven yuan five?" ”

Xiao Nen's voice spoke again, "You are also almost, business is business, business is business, business is business, I didn't sell it when the buddy before you gave me eight yuan just now, big brother, you said that I can sell you for seven yuan and five?" ”

The peddler's face turned green, and he turned around and left on the broken bicycle that didn't ring except for the bell, "Whoever wants to exchange eight yuan can go to whomever you want, little rabbit, take me to make fun of it!" ”

Xiao Nen shouted in his voice, "Hey! How can you speak? If buying and selling is not benevolent, who do you scold? Don't go, tell the uncle! ”

Through the test just now, Zhang Jiaming has figured out the current market situation of the black market trading of treasury bills, and if it is exchanged according to 10:7.5, the 650 yuan treasury bills can be exchanged for 487 yuan and 5 cents, and it seems that he has taken advantage of the capital to sell firecrackers during the Spring Festival.

At that time, the festive atmosphere of the Spring Festival was very strong, and some firecrackers would be set off when there was money or no money for the Spring Festival, and at least two firecrackers should be put up, one hanging at zero o'clock on Chinese New Year's Eve, and one hanging when getting up in the morning, as for the better family conditions, in the first ten days of the Spring Festival, a few firecrackers will be put every three to five days, creating a strong festive atmosphere in advance, and the firecrackers will continue until the end of the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month, which just covers Zhang Jiaming's entire winter vacation.

Zhang Jiaming chose to sell firecrackers during the Spring Festival, there is another reason, he once remembered that there was a classmate named Zhou Wei in his class, his father was a train driver, every time during the Spring Festival, his father would always bring some firecrackers from a place called Shangqiu in southern Henan, although this kind of firecrackers look small, but they are very loud, especially at night when they are released, they will emit the same light as lightning, so they are also called electric light cannons.

At that time, there was no such electric and optical cannon for sale in the Yangjiang market, and the firecrackers brought by people on the railway from other places were also distributed to relatives and friends, and they did not want to sell them in the market. Now, Zhang Jiaming, who has come again, sees this business opportunity.

Zhang Jiaming spent two cents at the post office to buy a larger brown paper envelope, and spent four cents to buy a stamp, put the manuscript in his pocket, wrote the addresses of the sender and the recipient on the envelope, pasted the stamps and threw them into the green cylinder mailbox at the door of the post office, and then got on a round-headed bus and went straight to the third dormitory of the railway where Zhou Wei lived.