[2] The first pot of gold

In Cao Xiaoqiang's view, after experiencing great sorrow, joy and fuss, there is no doubt that this crossing is a turning point in his life, unless his head is broken, he must take advantage of this opportunity. Thinking about it, his brain was about to explode, zuihou, he said to himself that he wanted to make good use of this opportunity to benefit himself and the new China in the parallel space. Because it was an era of material poverty but incomparably high spirits, it was an era when our grandparents faced the cold eyes and ridicule of the West, and never knelt down to beg for mercy after hardships, and it was the era when the foundation stone of the Shijie factory was laid.

As an engineering student, Cao Xiaoqiang's first thought of carrying goods across time and space is all kinds of equipment needed to build a modern industrial power, and bringing them to sell, which can be described as benefiting the country and himself.

But right now, there are only more than 5,000 yuan left in the salary card of Diaosi, which can be regarded as making Xiaoqiang understand once again that a penny is difficult to defeat a hero. Let's ask, what is there in this time and space that can be bought for 5,000 yuan and can change hands in another time and space for a huge profit?

In the end, Cao Xiaoqiang chose the watch, thanks to the advanced experience shared by countless predecessors on the Internet, so that this dumb second goods can find the most profitable and easiest to carry for the first time.

Thanks to the blessing of this super industrial capacity in time and space, and the convenience of network informatization, on Taobao, an old brand like Puhai brand can buy a manual mechanical watch for only about 100 yuan, and in that era, the value of a watch can be exchanged for 100 to 200 yuan, that is, 1.2 million legal currency before the currency reform, and the price of foreign watches is more expensive, reaching 300 yuan to Wu Baiyuan or even higher (after this article, for the convenience of the text, all will be settled in RMB, please understand). In 1949, the purchase price of gold by the People's Bank of China was three to four yuan per gram, and the exchange of gold for gold brought back to the time and space of more than 300 yuan of gold was about a hundred times the profit.

Early the next morning, Cao Xiaoqiang asked the company for sick leave. On the phone, Wang Binyin, the boss of the pig, said in a deep tone as if Xiaoqiang owed him 2,000 yuan, and repeatedly emphasized that Xiaoqiang's salary this month would be in vain. Cao Xiaoqiang was unmoved and resolutely asked for a week's vacation. He has long felt that life in a crowded metropolis is too depressing, people seem to be farm animals raised by capital, busy all day long in order to cater to their owners and get more feed, and even the realization of the right to reproduce requires the same population in the first place - the right to be the right to breed. Capital, on the other hand, can be unfettered and indulge in carnivals. Xiaoqiang longs for freedom and a different life, and he will never give up this opportunity to change his life and change Shijie.

Cao Xiaoqiang contacted a seller in Beidu who he found on Taobao, chose to trade face-to-face, and ate 40 domestic mechanical watches that were said to be of good quality at a price of 90 yuan each. Cao Xiaoqiang seems that the English name is better than writing the Puhai card on it, otherwise it will be troublesome to explain it in that time and space, and such a Chinese name will not make sense.

Back at his residence, Cao Xiaoqiang took out all the evidence from this time and space in the watch packaging, such as the instruction manual inspection certificate, and left only the beautiful packaging box containing the watch. Then they were packed into a medium-sized cardboard box with the text scratched off.

Now that everything is ready, just wait for it to get dark and find a place where no one can cross. Xiaoqiang found the hotel where he committed suicide before and came to the neighborhood. In my impression, this place before 1949 was not far from the last crossing place of Shuijing Hutong Xiaoqiang, and it was a large open space.

As with everything else in the world, when you are really waiting for dark, time will pass incredibly slowly. Cao Xiaoqiang took half of the two packs of cigarettes he was carrying, during which countless possibilities of failure flashed back in Xiaoqiang's mind, the beauty of fantasy and the cruelty of reality were in an uproar, and after that, his mind slowly calmed down, and gradually, Xiaoqiang calmed down, entered a drunken state, and didn't think about anything.

It was getting dark, and it was time to go.

According to the instructions of the blood soul, Xiao Qiang used a needle to break his finger and dotted a drop of blood on the cardboard box, and the red blood lit the carton a bit like a crime scene.

"Activate the Blood Sacrifice and go to the No. 1 Road Mark." Xiaoqiang muttered to himself like an idiot in a science fiction movie.

Immediately, I saw that in the dark night, Cao Xiaoqiang, who was holding the cardboard box, swished and disappeared quietly, as if no one had ever come to the place where the two goods were standing, only cigarette butts all over the ground testified that there were indeed people here just now.

Xiao Qiang in the time and space tunnel felt that his brain was dizzy, his chest was suffocated, and a hundred CC of blood disappeared from his body as if evaporating, and this was Xiao Qiang's third major hemorrhage recently. In 1949, the medical conditions did not give Xiaoqiang a blood transfusion, but only hung him with normal saline, which caused him to become weaker. Xiaoqiang couldn't help but think that if this went on for a long time, should he consider going to the gynecology department..........

More than ten seconds later, the dizzy Xiaoqiang stood in the open space by the Shuijing Hutong with a cardboard box. There was silence all around, big and small houses were asleep in the night, and the shadows of the wells at the mouth of the alleys hung out against the moonlight on the stone paths. The northern capital of the autumn night is in the cold wind, and it is quiet and sweet sleeping.

You must know that the northern capital of autumn is cold early, and at this moment every family has been covered with thick quilts. Xiao Qiang, who was poking in the open air, looked around and saw that there was no movement, so he shrank his head, and according to his previous plan, he ran into the well alley, found a corner of the wall in a sheltered place, and squatted down to wait for the dawn.

When you're asleep, time really flies. Xiao Qiang, who was woken up by the rooster's crow, rubbed the yellow dirt in the corner of his eyes, sucked his nose that was blocked by a cold, and continued to cat in the shadow of the corner.

As soon as the morning dawned, the sound of residents pulling the door latch came out, and Cao Xiaoqiang, who had been frozen all night but was still excited, was alert, immediately stood on tiptoe, rushed out of the alley as soon as he slipped through the smoke, and fled quickly in the direction of Qianmen Street excitedly and uneasily.

Although time and space have changed, the direction of the old northern capital in this era is more recognizable than the reinforced concrete jungle of later generations. Although it was not long after dawn, there were already pedestrians coming and going on the street, and Xiaoqiang's dress was eye-catching.

Xiaoqiang carefully observed all the way, and could also see that the People's Liberation Army was standing guard at every intersection to maintain social order. Cao Xiaoqiang stopped here and looked at the white lacquered wood signboard hanging at the door, neatly brushing out several columns of large characters with eye-catching black lacquer, "foreign watches, radios, gramophones, all kinds of foreign goods". He pondered: Okay, then this one.

In fact, along the way, Cao Xiaoqiang has attracted countless eyeballs, this 21st century suit and leather shoes, holding a cardboard box, walking on the street is really eye-catching, men and women on the street, with happiness and confidence on their faces. Most of the men and women who seem to be literate and well-off are wearing long robes, and there are a few people wearing suits and windbreakers sitting in rickshaws, and the coachmen are driving the car in a hurry. These cart drivers and rickshaw pullers wore short coats and trousers made of blue-black or off-white homespun cloth, and on a cold day, they showed the lean and powerful forearms and calves that were common among the laborers of this era. In addition, the people you see on the street, except for the faded homespun cloth, are almost all navy blue and black.

As soon as he entered the store, a young man of sixteen or seventeen greeted Cao Xiaoqiang politely:

"Hello this gentleman, please take a closer look at the products in our store, they are all selected imported high-quality foreign goods, choose at will, and the price is fair."

"Is your boss here? Call it out, and I have something to say to him. Cao Xiaoqiang didn't answer his stubble, and asked directly.

The young man was slightly stunned, feeling that this person was rude, but he looked at Cao Xiaoqiang's "good dress" a little, and said more and more respectfully:

"Please sir, wait a moment, I'll go and ask Boss Chen to come out for you."

Cao Xiaoqiang put the heavy cardboard box on the gray ground in the store, looked around and scanned the store, and felt that the store of more than 30 square meters was cleaned up and bright, wiped clean and shiny everywhere, and on the red lacquered wood shelves in the walnut counter, there were old-fashioned radios and gramophones, and the old-fashioned tube radio looked like a big wooden box. Those gramophones are more like antiques from the movies that Xiaoqiang used to watch, with brass horns with large openings on them, and the horns are inserted shiny. Outside the counter, on the side of the store, there is a larger floor-standing radio and gramophone, the size of a small wooden cabinet.

And the counter in the store is a three-section structure, what about the weishenme called the three-stage structure? Because the two sections on both sides are wooden counters, and the middle section is a glass counter, only this glass counter is a section, and the front and top are inlaid with transparent plate glass, and the guests are very eye-catching when they enter the door. I saw that there were eight foreign watches neatly stacked inside the glass counter, and on the red flannel counter backing, they were shining brightly. However, in the eyes of Cao Xiaoqiang, who comes from the 21st century, there is only one word in his heart that can describe "no feeling".

Those watches, in the eyes of Xiao Qiang, who is accustomed to seeing Rolex Longines in large commercial buildings, look not much different from unearthed cultural relics.

At this moment, a person hurriedly came out of the back of the store, and looked at the person, who was about fifty, a silk cotton robe with dark patterns of copper coins on a navy blue background, a short goatee with a thin face, and the eyes of tortoiseshell round-framed black plastic feet hung in the middle of the bridge of the nose, and the pair of eyes behind the lenses looked at Cao Xiaoqiang carefully, and said:

"This gentleman is looking for me, I don't know which foreign goods I have fallen in love with?"

"Hehe, old gentleman, please forgive me for taking the liberty of taking the liberty, in fact, I came today to sell the watch I imported from overseas to your store, please take a look at it."

As he spoke, Cao Xiaoqiang didn't wait for the goatee to answer, opened the cardboard box, took out the watch box and handed it over directly. The goatee was a little surprised, and immediately looked as usual, took the watch box and opened it, took out the watch and played with it, and said, "I don't know where this watch is made sir?" ”

"United States"

Cao Xiaoqiang thought to himself, I deliberately picked this one without Madeinchina written on it, and the only instruction manual that wrote the origin has been taken and thrown away by me one by one, and now I say where it is made.

"What brand?"

"Aurad" Cao Xiaoqiang transliterated the name of this Congqing second-line brand mechanical watch.

The goatee's expression seems to be the more I look at this watch, the more I love this watch, the all-steel case, the glass surface, the steel strap, everything that can be seen is so fine (relative to this era).

"Sir, please come with me to the back hall for a detailed discussion." Goatee raised his hand.

So Cao Xiaoqiang followed him to the back hall, tea, and after introducing each other, he learned that the goatee was called Chen Weifang, Cao Xiaoqiang claimed that he was a foreign trade import and export merchant, because he didn't dare to stock because of the war, so he was eager to get rid of it and was willing to sell it cheaply. So the two negotiated the price, this old fox is worthy of many years of business, bargaining kung fu is really powerful, under both soft and hard, Cao Xiaoqiang's price from the opening of 120 to 80, but he agreed, to help Cao Xiaoqiang exchange the payment for gold payment, according to him, the official purchase of gold exchange rate is too cheap, the private purchase price is about 4.5 yuan a gram, so, Cao Xiaoqiang with 23 small yellow croaker (the Republic of China small yellow croaker gold bar average of 31.25 grams each) The price of all 40 watches was sold.

In Xiaoqiang's view, this is simply a huge profit, and there is no reason not to agree.

Chen Weifang asked Xiaoqiang to stay in the store for a while, he went to get the gold, Xiaoqiang talked about business for a long time, calculated the price full of his head, and was a little tired, so he took a sip of tea and waited slowly.

An hour later, Chen Weifang returned to the store, slowly inspected all 40 watches, and even opened the back covers of several watches at random to check. Chen Weifang sighed and praised:

"The workmanship of this American Orald watch is really exquisite, and the packaging is also exquisite, if Mr. Cao does this watch import trade in the future, just bring the goods, I will wrap it up!"

"Boss Chen just rest assured, the quality of this watch is excellent, the after-sales service is better, and I will replace it with a new one if there is a quality problem within a year."

"That's it! Please also leave a contact information for Mr. Cao. (You must know that the foreign watch in this year is broken, only you can find the watch master to repair it, the repair price is extremely expensive, if you are unlucky to repair it twice, the cost is enough for you to buy a low-grade new watch)

"I just came to Beidu from Puhai, and I don't have a store yet, so when I find a suitable store, I'll notify Boss Chen."

"Then it's already noon, why don't you stay in the small shop and have a light meal before leaving?"

Cao Xiaoqiang rejected Chen Weifang's invitation: "Thank you Boss Chen for your kindness, I understand, I do have other things to do, and I am rude and rude, so I will leave." ”

So Chen Weifang sent Cao Xiaoqiang out of the door with a spring breeze on his face, and returned to the intersection.