Chapter 5 Initial Procurement in Modern Society
After coming back, he found that the location was still the same as the place where he first found the ring and opened the space door for the first time, and the time was still early in the morning, and even the surrounding scenery had not changed much. If it weren't for the gray robes and false braids on his body, as well as the silver dollars in his pocket, he would have thought it was a dream.
I went back to the clinic along the path to confirm the time, and sure enough, he had been away for a whole day before, and for this reason, Director Zhang of the clinic and an old man in his fifties also reprimanded him.
Li Zhigao didn't explain anything to him, after all, this old man has been here for so many years, whether he has the ability or not, it doesn't matter if he wants to have a relationship, the key is that he doesn't even have much medical ethics.
Of course, he can only stay here in his life to make his might, he had no choice but to listen before, but now, why be angry with him anymore.
Sure enough, without waiting for Director Zhang's training, Li Zhigao interrupted his lecture, and then under the surprised gaze of the other party, he resigned indifferently, anyway, he was a temporary worker who had not formally signed a contract, in other words, he was a temporary worker without preparation, and it was easy to leave.
After leaving here, Li Zhigao first went back to the house he rented in Xiaohe Village, took a shower and changed his clothes, and ate two bowls of instant noodles, and then rode his army-green second-hand Yangtze River 750 three-wheeled sidecar motorcycle, all the way back to the city, and went directly to a more magnificent pawnshop called Jinsheng Pawn.
"Well, it's the Mexican Eagle Ocean of 1893." After some appraisal, the old master surnamed Zhao nodded to Li Zhigao, "It's genuine, it's in good condition, and it hasn't been washed, it seems to be well preserved." However, this kind of Eagle Ocean has recently become ordinary, well, if you want to sell it to us, I will count you for four hundred and eighty yuan a piece, how about it? ”
"Huh." Li Zhigao smiled, took back the silver dollar, and did not agree, even if the other party offered five hundred yuan a piece, he still shook his head.
In fact, Li Zhigao didn't come to sell silver dollars, he just wanted to give it a try, see if this thing was real, and just look at the market by the way.
Liu Runsheng had given him two silver dollars before, and when he had already stayed in the hotel before, he had already given the innkeeper one as a mortgage for the hotel, and this one was left. He also planned to keep this silver dollar, so that he could do it over there for emergencies, or even keep it as a souvenir, so naturally he couldn't spend it casually.
If it weren't for the fact that it was too expensive to buy silver dollars here, he really wanted to buy more and go back to use them first, but it was obvious that it was not a good idea to buy silver dollars from the modern society to spend money in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, and on the contrary, it would be more cost-effective.
After leaving the pawn shop, he went to the bank again, took out all his savings, and calculated that the total amount on hand was only more than 5,200 yuan.
Seeing this number, Li Zhigao smiled bitterly, only then did he know how poor he was, more than 5,000, which was not as good as people's income for ten days and half a month.
But it's normal to think about it. His family is not wealthy, he was only a student before, although he worked a lot of jobs in college, but the income was not high, and he talked about his girlfriend during the period, the expenses were naturally large, and there was basically no savings. After graduating, he went to work as a village doctor, and his income was not high, and it was good to earn enough money to pay for his living expenses. was able to have more than 5,000 savings, most of which he later earned by writing novels on the Internet.
In fact, during the period when he was writing novels, he could still earn more than the five thousand, but he was too young at the time, and he didn't know how to spend the money when he made it, so he took out most of it to buy a sidecar motorcycle, and he also lost that his girlfriend broke up with him at that time, and his surname became stable because of this, and he usually spent very little, so he could leave this little savings.
"But that's all in the past." Li Zhigao touched the black ring on his little finger, "Soon, it will be fine." ”
Next, it's time for a big purchase.
He had thought about it before, with his current ability, it was not suitable to be too big, it should be for the purpose of making quick money and accumulating funds first, and in the era of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, what was more profitable than medicine?
Wristwatch? Well, that can be had, but the purchase cost is a bit high, you can buy a small amount of goods as an embellishment, try the market first.
Pen? This can also be had, the first time I traded in that world was to exchange it with a ballpoint pen, but the ballpoint pen is a little sensitive, or a fountain pen is good, look at Liu Runsheng's appearance, you know, this fountain pen and the like must be easy to sell.
As soon as he thought of it, he quickly rode to the small commodity city and went to a more familiar pharmacy, where he worked as a good college classmate, and he would not lose himself.
When he went, his classmate was not there, but everyone else knew him, so it was no different if his classmate was not there, and he would also give him a discount. Because he knew that he worked in the health center, he didn't even need to look for a reason, so he wholesaled a batch of sulfonamides such as refroxyxinazole in the pharmacy, all looking for the cheapest ones.
In addition to sulfonamides, he also bought some cheap broad-spectrum antibiotics such as streptomycin, haloperic acid, and penicillin, plus isoniazid and rifampicin drugs for the treatment of tuberculosis.
In addition, a batch of disinfectants, iodine wine, alcohol, gauze, red potions and other external uses, as well as other commonly used medicines, were also made, and a set of medical equipment such as needles, glass intramuscular injectors, masks, white coats, rubber gloves, a full set of infusion sets, stethoscopes, thermometers, mercury column blood pressure measuring instruments and other medical devices were bought.
In short, such a batch of medicines and instruments down, opening a clinic may not be successful, but it is more than enough to walk in the countryside and show people common diseases, if you go to the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, it will definitely be a big killer, sweeping everything.
After buying the medicine, he wholesaled two hundred stainless steel shell pens in the small commodity city, miscellaneous brands, bargains, and the wholesale price was five yuan a piece, but it looked very good-looking, very capable of bluffing, and there should be a market in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.
After buying these, Li Zhigao thought about it, went to a clothing store that engaged in performance supplies, chose for a long time, and finally rented a set of performance costumes for American high-class figures in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
This set of performance costumes is a complete tuxedo suit, what high hats, black leather shoes, capes, tops, pants, shirts, bow ties, pink handkerchiefs, white gloves and the like are included, most of them are relatively high-end artificial silk fabrics, which also have many small lace embellishments, looking high-end and atmospheric.
In addition to the tuxedo set, he also added a beautifully decorated civilization stick with a gilt head and jewels, which, of course, were not real diamonds, but cubic zirconia known as Soviet diamonds. This fake diamond is very well made, and with modern technology multi-faceted cutting, not only elegant appearance, but also lustre, luxurious but not vulgar, with the level of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, even if it is an expert in gemstones, do not take it to carefully distinguish, it is impossible to distinguish the real from the fake, let alone ordinary people.
Li Zhigao had already thought about it, going to the late Qing Dynasty, it was really uncomfortable to wear a fake braid, and it was not safe, if you didn't want to wear a fake braid, and you didn't want to be caught, I'm afraid there was only one way, that is, to be a fake foreign devil and take advantage of foreign self-respect.
He had read a lot of novels written about that period before, and found that those fake foreigners such as compradors dressed in foreign style were not restricted by the braids of the Qing government, and there were all kinds of preferential treatment. However, a set of dresses during the Qing Dynasty was expensive, and ordinary people couldn't afford to wear dresses, let alone tuxedos, and ordinary people really didn't have the conditions to do that. Look at those who wore Western clothes to make revolutions at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, how many of them were not rich second generations and rich N generations who had money in their families.
As for the issue of identity, he also thought about it and planned to pretend to be a returnee from the United States.
You know, the United States is a country of immigrants, and it pays a lot of attention to individuals, so there is no ID card, so the driver's license has become a substitute for the ID card of Americans. In the era before President Roosevelt in World War II, because the intelligence agencies were very ineffective, Americans were extremely secretive on the issue of personal identity, and if they wanted to check the intelligence of a person or a Chinese living in the United States, they basically could not find anything, and compared with the powerful intelligence capabilities of the United States later, there was no comparable surname at all.
On the contrary, at that time, Britain, Germany and other great powers, with few immigrants and were already on the verge of World War I, the atmosphere was tense, and the control of state organs over the population of the country was still relatively strong, at least it was relatively easy to find a Chinese, and Li Zhigao's English actually had a lot of American flavor, so on the whole, pretending to be a student in the United States was the best choice.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the American elite did not differ much from the British in terms of dress, but only in some details. For example, the British dress looks more compact, or more tucked, and is more beautiful than comfortable to wear, while the American style is slightly looser, freer, and more comfortable to wear.
Li Zhigao's set of performance costumes, if it is really worn in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, it will definitely attract attention.
As the saying goes, the Buddha wants gold, and people want clothes, wearing such a shiny suit, it is estimated that there will be no more unsightly policemen looking for trouble.
As for why it's renting, not buying, this, although this set of clothes is not silk, but the materials and workmanship are very good, plus the pile of bits and pieces, the price of the whole set is still very expensive, he can't afford it at present, but it's still okay to rent, at most he will have money in the future, and then buy it.
After renting the clothes and feeling that something was almost there, Li Zhigao went to buy a retro exquisite suitcase and a vintage pocket watch with exquisite appearance and diamonds and gilt.
The leather case is actually artificial leather, which is very cheap, but it just looks solid on the outside; As for pocket watches, although they look very retro and the materials used in the exterior are also very particular, they are actually quartz watches.
The suitcase is okay, but the pocket watch, the surface is all gilt hollow with diamonds, it looks very luxurious, in terms of design style, it belongs to the classics with some modern elements, no matter how you look at it, it is also the same high-end atmosphere on the grade, showing a luxurious and elegant aristocratic style, absolutely worthy of his tuxedo suit.
This pocket watch is also the surface light, although the craftsmanship is good, but the decorations on it are high imitation fakes, such as gold wire is not real gold, diamonds are not real diamonds, it looks good, of course, because it is a quartz watch, the time is much more accurate than ordinary mechanical watches.
After buying these, Li Zhigao remembered, it seemed too wasteful to just buy a pocket watch and pretend to be there, this thing was also very valuable at that time.
simply gritted his teeth and used the rest of the money to buy ten mechanical watches with stainless steel shells.
The appearance of these ten domestic mechanical watches is far less good-looking than that quartz pocket watch, no diamonds, no gilding, just an ordinary stainless steel shell, or a small factory miscellaneous brand, but because it is a mechanical watch, the workmanship is good, and it can be 30 meters waterproof, so the price is not cheap, each watch is more expensive than his retro pocket watch, the wholesale price is at least two hundred and two, and the ten watches add up to a total of two thousand two for him.
Originally, he wanted to buy cheaper, but unfortunately this year's mechanical watches, there is no real bargain, and cheap quartz watches and electronic watches are far from comparable, he bought this batch, is already the cheapest mechanical watch here, of course, not in this commodity city to buy, carefully search on the Internet, there will definitely be cheaper, but he did not have that time to wait.
But think about it, these watches are sold to people, and naturally they can't do things as high-tech as quartz watches or electronic watches, so they can only be mechanical watches.
After getting these, Li Zhigao looked at it almost the same, and no matter how much, his three-wheeled sidecar motorcycle would not fit.
After buying another set of goggles and a German M35 steel helmet, he took all his things and rode back to the bungalow he rented when he was a doctor in Xiaohe Village.
The reason why I returned this place is naturally because of secrecy, after all, crossing this kind of thing is still a safe point, so it's better not to let people know.
After returning home, Li Zhigao began to start secondary processing of the things he bought, that is, to remove some sensitive packaging, lettering, and logos.
For example, he removed the capsule skin, tore off the label of the medicine bottle, re-wrote the ingredients with a pen, and if the tablets had English letters, they were simply ground into powder. Others such as pens, watches and the like are easy to say, after all, he chose them when he bought them, at most there are some engravings of English letters, nothing sensitive, and even more classy.
When all this is done, it is also dark, so I go to sleep to a full heart, and when I wake up, I find that the ring's ability to travel has ended the freezing period, and I can cross again.
I took a shower, ate and ate, dressed neatly, and put all the big bags and small bags in the house on my three-wheeled sidecar motorcycle.
What the? Why don't you put it in the space? That's because the storage and release function of the space storage has not yet come out of the freezing period, and he can't wait.
Besides, the last time he crossed, he didn't use the storage space, but the clothes on his body, ballpoint pens and the like, also crossed over, so he felt that maybe a certain range of things around him could also be crossed.
This time I rode a motorcycle, just to try it, to see if I can take the things around me with me, even if it doesn't work, it doesn't matter, anyway, my clothes pockets are full of things, so I don't have to worry about going there without anything.
Seeing that the preparations were almost complete, Li Zhigao got on the motorcycle, recited the spell, and disappeared in place at once, crossing into another world.