Obviously, those were three street stalls.

The three of them embellished Wang Mingyuan unhurriedly, in this dark night, like a ghost that can't be shaken off.

Wang Mingyuan settled a lot this time, put his hand in his trouser pocket, and quietly switched to electric shock mode, making up his mind that if he really dared to mess around, he wouldn't mind letting them taste the taste of soul separation.

He still walked unhurriedly.

Thinking about it carefully, he vaguely understood why those people near the station were unwilling to deal with him, nine times out of ten, he was also regarded as a bad person by those people.

Who wanders around the streets in the middle of the night?

It's not serious at first glance!

Stations have always been the most chaotic in various places, and this cannot be avoided even in 2023, when the management of public security is already very good.

What's more, the security conditions at this time were not good.

And when he was also watching the cat's paw video, he watched a very conscientious professor surnamed Wen say that during this period, there were 40 million unemployed young people in China.

And what can these unemployed young people who have nothing to do?

You can imagine it.

It is also due to various factors that the 80s are the peak period of frequent occurrence of various vicious events.

When he first entered Mangxian County, Wang Mingyuan didn't know much about this era, and he still had a great sympathy for young people, after all, the general environment was like that, and sometimes he was really helpless.

But now it was different, and the more he knew, the more frightened he became.

Even Li Ming and the other six were already on the verge of danger at that time.

At the beginning, he took out such a "huge sum" of 700 yuan, Li Ming and others dared to reach out and take it, if it wasn't for being taught a lesson by himself and being introduced to the right path in time but succeeding, he really didn't know what they would have developed.

He can forgive five or six, but he can't forgive ten hundred, in case he encounters a few who have become extremely vicious, and if one is not careful, it will be himself who loses.

Sometimes, the heart must be hard, these days, Wang Mingyuan has been calculated a lot of times, and he deeply understands the cruelty of this world, he must adapt, and he is soft-hearted, often harming himself!

The three of them followed Wang Mingyuan for a long time, Wang Mingyuan never entered the alleyway, and the three of them who were afraid of missing the opportunity were a little impatient, and no matter if this was on the avenue, one of them sped up their pace, crossed Wang Mingyuan in front, and turned back like a poisonous snake version staring at Wang Mingyuan: "Leave the things on your body, let you leave with good hands and feet." ”

Wang Mingyuan didn't say anything, his footsteps didn't stop, his eyes were staring at the man, when he stretched out his hand to stop him, Wang Mingyuan suddenly accelerated, and the electric rod in his hand immediately struck, pressing against his abdomen.

The arc flickered, making a continuous explosion, and the sound was very harsh in the night.

Where did that person think that Wang Mingyuan would do it directly without saying a word, and under the ravages of the arc, his body shook and fell to the ground.

Unceremoniously, Wang Mingyuan stomped the man's calf.

The sound of bones breaking was followed by the man's terrible howl.

This scene startled the two people who were walking quickly behind him. I was stunned and didn't dare to step forward: this person's methods are too weird.

Wang Mingyuan glanced back at the two of them, and then flew up with a kick that turned over and sat up and hugged the guy who wailed because of the fracture of his calf, and kicked him to the ground again, followed by another kick, and the sound of Kacha sounded again, this time it was the right arm that was broken.

Such a ruthless move made the two of them tingle for a while.

It's kicked to the steel plate.

And so brutal!

"Brother, there is something to say!"

"Who is a brother with you, they are already going to rob me, what else do you have to say?"

Wang Mingyuan sneered and looked at the two, stretched out his finger and hooked at the two: "Do it!" ”

The two were stunned for a while, their eyes wandering between their wailing companions and Wang Mingyuan, unable to advance or retreat.

At this moment, the sound of a motorcycle came from the road in the distance, and when the two saw this, they directly left their companions, turned around and ran, and soon disappeared into the dark alleyway.

Wang Mingyuan glanced back, and there were two three-wheeled motorcycles that came across the bucket. Four large caps are shared on two motorcycles.

Seeing this, Wang Mingyuan hurriedly put the electric baton into his personal space.

The wail of the man who was overturned could not be noticed without trying to attract attention.

The two motorcycles suddenly accelerated, stopped not far from Wang Mingyuan, and the four of them jumped down one after another, and the pistol in the holster on their waists had already been taken out, surrounding Wang Mingyuan.

Wang Mingyuan raised his hands very knowingly: "Comrade, I am a good person!" ”

A few people didn't care what Wang Mingyuan said, two people stepped forward, one searched Wang Mingyuan, and the other searched the person on the ground.

"The First Evolution"

Wang Mingyuan had nothing else on him except a few dozen yuan and a letter of introduction issued to him by Long Yaowu of the Ministry of Armed Forces.

The man on the ground was different, with a dagger pinned to his waist and an earthen powder gun found in his underwear.

Seeing these things, Wang Mingyuan couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

He has seen this kind of short earthen gunpowder gun, Zhang Shouzhong has one there, don't look simple, it is made of a wooden handle and a steel pipe, usually used for hunting, don't look at the accuracy of the mountain, but after being filled with black powder and iron sand, the power of a shot can not even be carried by a black bear with rough skin and thick flesh, let alone a person.

Fortunately, I did it myself...... If they let them use it, they'd be out of luck.

Wang Mingyuan secretly rejoiced.

"What's the situation?" A large cap asked.

"This man on the ground robbed me with two other people, and I subdued one of them, and the other two ran away when they saw you coming." Wang Mingyuan replied truthfully.

"Who are you, and why are you still hanging out on the street at this time?"

"My name is Wang Mingyuan, a militia from Mangxian County, there is a letter of introduction from the Armed Forces Department of Mangxian County, I came to see Zhou Jianjun, director of the Bureau of Agricultural Reclamation, I arrived in Mingcheng late, the guest house at the passenger station is already full, I am looking for a guest house everywhere, but unfortunately the road is not familiar, this has not been found, but was followed by these three people, stopped to grab something, I am purely self-defense."

A big cap turned on a flashlight and looked at Wang Mingyuan's letter of introduction: "That's right, it's a letter of introduction issued by the Armed Forces Department of Mangxian County, and what he said should be true." ”

Another big cap was looking at the man lying on the ground with a flashlight: "Hiss...... Why is this person so familiar? ”

As soon as they heard this, the rest of the people also came over, and soon someone recognized it: "Isn't this Jiang Xianchang, a habitual offender we have arrested several times but have not been caught?" ”

"Yes, yes, that's him."

"Finally caught!"

A big cap looked at Wang Mingyuan with a smile: "It's okay, little brother, you are really ruthless here, you did a good job!" ”

"The matter is already obvious, let's hurry back to the bureau, speed up the interrogation, and catch his accomplices as soon as possible." The big hat at the head said with a serious face: "Also, you also have to go with us, the information needs to be further confirmed." ”

Wang Mingyuan nodded, he was arranged in a straddle motorcycle, and the guy was handcuffed, regardless of his broken hands and feet, he directly lifted it up and threw it in another straddle bucket.

The group turned the car around and went to the bureau.

Wang Mingyuan's identity confirmation was very simple, and he called Long Yaowu directly, and it was quickly confirmed.

Then someone directly sent him to a nearby guest house on a sidecar motorcycle and arranged to stay. As for the follow-up, it is not something that Wang Mingyuan can ask.

Early the next morning, another big cap came to the door.

Wang Mingyuan thought that something had changed, but he didn't know that people were here to send rewards.

The reward is not much for Wang Mingyuan, only two hundred yuan plus some nationwide food stamps.

In this year, it's not a lot. Wang Mingyuan is very content.

It's just that he didn't expect that when he came to 80 years and first entered Mingcheng, it would be like this. This also made him realize that he would have to be very low-key in the future, and it was indeed easy to make money in this era, but it was also really messy!

If it's too flamboyant, it's easy to become someone else's hunting target.

Coming out of the guest house, Wang Mingyuan finally saw the normal and lively Mingcheng.

On both sides of the street, there are old wooden and tile houses, and the crowd of people coming and going is bustling and surprisingly lively.

These small two-storey wooden buildings, although not high, have a variety of grocery stores and grocery stores, as well as some purchasing stations.

The streets are crowded with pedestrians, and there are already many people who own bicycles, of course, most of them still travel by shaking their legs, and you can often see horse-drawn carts and mule carts, and even donkeys and camels into the city, but these animals have bags of dung tied to their buttocks.

You can also see buses coming and going, but you can wait for one at a long interval, unlike now, where you can wait for about ten minutes on the platform.

There are obviously many more vendors on the road than in Mangxian, but most of them carry their burdens into the city to sell vegetables and fruits, and some wear various ethnic costumes to set up stalls to sell special snacks.

Here gives Wang Mingyuan the feeling that he is speculatively grasping this piece, and the intensity seems to be much smaller.

walked all the way, and didn't see anything that was kicked off.

However, after thinking about it and combining his own understanding, Wang Mingyuan can understand the current situation.

As a provincial capital, it is also a place where many ethnic groups live, which has its own particularities. And most of the things sold are necessities of life. As for meat, oil, grain cloth and the like, it is still controlled by various stores.

At this time, it is the rush hour for work, and the flow of people shuttles back and forth, rushing everywhere.

There are busy people, and naturally there are idle people.

When Wang Mingyuan was strolling to Jingxing Street, he saw many elderly people drinking tea and listening to books, walking birds, and fighting crickets in the tea art club, completely shooting the old-school Mingcheng style, without the slightest nervous rhythm, in stark contrast to those who were busy going to their respective posts.

After eating a bowl of chaos in an alleyway, Wang Mingyuan asked passers-by and went straight to the telegraph and telephone building.

Let's contact Jianjun last week first and finish the business.

The Telegraph and Telephone Building, which was a communications hub in those days, was a landmark in many cities. In these years, in addition to the telephones of various units, private individuals do not have them, and if they want to make calls and send power blogs, they all get this place.

Other long-distance communication can only be done by writing letters.

When he arrived at the telephone and telegraph building, Wang Mingyuan was slightly stunned when he saw several mailboxes placed at the door, and then reacted that this telephone and telegraph building, the so-called post and telegraph building, provides telephone and telegraph services as well as mail services.

Post office...... Stamp?

Wang Mingyuan was shocked in his mind, and suddenly remembered the monkey ticket.

When he was sure that he would return to 1980, he deliberately used his mobile phone to check "what is the most valuable in 80 years", and among the entries that popped up was the monkey ticket issued in February 1980.

Wang Mingyuan is not a philatelic enthusiast, so he doesn't know much about it.

However, when the information shows that a version of the stamp can be auctioned at the Jinling auction house for a high price of 2 million, it is very eye-catching.

Since he can return to 1980, he has a great opportunity to contact these things, and for this reason, Wang Mingyuan specially checked the ins and outs of the monkey ticket.

Only then did I know that this monkey stamp is the first zodiac stamp issued in China: the monkey stamp of Gengshen Year

This set of stamps is a big production of the postal department, not only the stamp designer is the senior stamp designer Shao Bolin, but also specially invited Huang Yongyu, a major event in the painting world, and Jiang Weijie, a major engraving event, the three of them collaborated.

It is said that if you look at it with a magnifying glass, you can see that the ink on the stamp is bulging, just like a banknote.

The monkey on the stamp has piercing eyes and visible hair.

This stamp is a masterpiece in terms of shape and craftsmanship.

It is also the birth of this stamp that has created the myth of stamps for more than 40 years: its value has skyrocketed in the following 40 years, from the face value of 8 cents at that time to the extent that it is now more than 10,000 or 20,000 yuan to buy one. If it's a full page, it's even more incredible.

You know, this is only the beginning of the reform, people generally live a simple life, and the philatelic trend has not yet emerged.

Even if this monkey ticket has the special meaning of the Year of the Monkey, the response is mediocre, coupled with its black and red tones, it looks inconspicuous and was once unsalable.

This also makes the stamps that are usually tens of millions of stamps, to this monkey stamp, only millions of votes were printed, and because of some printing accidents, only more than four million were actually issued.

When people buy it, most of them use it directly, and they don't have any sense of preservation at all.

It wasn't until the following year, when the postal department issued the Xinyounian Chicken stamps immediately after the issuance of the monkey stamps, that some philatelists suddenly understood that this was probably the first set of stamps of the postal department, and if the complete set of zodiac stamps was collected, it would be of great significance. As the first issue of a series of stamps, the status of monkey stamps is self-evident.

However, when the stamp collectors began to look for monkey stamps, they found that these monkey stamps, which no one wanted, had become very rare due to various factors.

And this has made its value soar.

Now seeing the telephone and telegraph building, Wang Mingyuan, who suddenly remembered this incident, entered the building full of hope, but after looking at all the counters selling stamps, he never found any trace of monkey stamps.

"Is it because the place is too remote and the circulation is large, so I didn't come to Mingcheng in the end?"

But when I think about it, I think it's impossible.

Stamps are issued nationwide, and Mingcheng, as the capital city of Yun Province, will inevitably have some inflow.

"Excuse me, is there a monkey ticket here?" Wang Mingyuan asked the female staff inside a little unwillingly.

"Monkey ticket? What monkey ticket? The female staff looked puzzled.

"It's one of those stamps with a black monkey on a red background......"

"You said that, I just bought it out two days ago!"

Sold out? Or two days ago......

What a fortune you have to miss.

Wang Mingyuan felt that he had been hit by a nest of hearts and feet, and his heart ached: This is too moldy.

This has already flowed out, how can I find it?

It's impossible to pull people one by one to ask!

Alas, there is no time in life to ask for it!

Wang Mingyuan could only pour himself some chicken soup for the soul as a comfort.

It seems that you can only go to a few counties that can already teleport to find Bang Bang luck.

He put this matter aside for the time being, went to the telephone counter, took out the phone number left by Zhou Jianjun for him, picked up the earpiece and put it to his ear, and dialed out one by one according to the numbers on the old-fashioned turntable dial, and the phone was connected after a while.

"Hello, this is the office of the director of the Mingcheng Agricultural Reclamation Bureau!"

"Hello, my name is Wang Mingyuan, and I'm looking for you Director Zhou."

"Please wait a minute......"

After waiting for about half a minute, Zhou Jianjun's familiar voice came from scratching his head on the phone: "Your kid is finally here, where are you?" ”

"In the Telephone and Telegraph Building."

"Wait, I'll pick you up."

After Zhou Jianjun finished speaking, he hung up the phone directly.

Wang Mingyuan was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Zhou Jianjun to come to pick him up in person, he felt very flattered.

Well, it's better than shaking your feet and looking for it.

After Wang Mingyuan paid a dollar for the phone, he sat down on the steps on the side of the door except for the building.

All the way here, but after walking a lot, his feet began to get a little sore.

Not long after he sat down, a middle-aged postman with a green canvas bag approached.

"I was in the building just now, and I heard you asking about Gengshen stamps." The postman asked in a whisper.

Wang Mingyuan glanced at him: "Yes, I wanted to buy it, but unfortunately it was sold out." ”

"I have it, how much do you want?" The postman glanced around and said in a low voice.

Wang Mingyuan was slightly stunned: "Listening to your tone, you not only have it, but there are many more?" ”

The postman nodded, sat down on the steps next to Wang Mingyuan, and said dejectedly: "Why do you think I'm so unlucky?" I only have a salary of about 30 yuan a month, and I scrapped it for three months at once, and I bought a deeper monkey stamp. ”

"Huh? What's going on? ”

"It's not because of this stamp, the unit thinks that the following sales staff are not good to sell, so that we can't sell out of their own digestion, so coincidentally, this just out of the stamps are mostly assigned to me to sell, but, how can not sell ah, seeing that the deadline is coming, I also have no choice, can only be assigned to my hands to sell the remaining fifteen stamps out of pocket to buy.

That's my three-month salary, these days, I have been cursed by my mother-in-law, and I don't even want to go home. ”

The postman touched his face, full of sadness.

And this kind of thing!

Wang Mingyuan was stunned, and then became extremely surprised: "Sell it all to me." ”

"This ...... It's true? The postman stood up suddenly, his face full of disbelief.

"Of course it's true, I bought it at the original price."

"But what are you buying so many stamps for?" The postman still didn't believe it.

"Of course I bought it for use...... Well, there are more letters, buy more and come back to use slowly, and, I belong to the monkey, I think this kind of stamp is more eye-catching! Wang Mingyuan thought about it and felt that it would be more appropriate to find an excuse: "I just like it." ”

"That's right...... Then you wait, I'll go back and get it for you, my home is not far from here, I'll be back soon! Gotta wait. ”

The postman hurriedly jumped down the steps, jumped on the bicycle and began to pedal wildly, and did not forget to turn around and run towards Wang Mingyuan when he went far away, for fear that he would fly.

A few minutes later, the postman rode back with a bag, and saw that Wang Mingyuan was still sitting on the steps, so he breathed a long sigh of relief and handed the bag to Wang Mingyuan: "Look at it, there are 80 stamps in one edition, there are fifteen pages here, and there are thirteen pieces of them." ”

Wang Mingyuan took it and looked at it, although it was just a random bag, it was still very well preserved, there was no damage, and the quantity was right, he immediately counted 100 yuan to the postman.

The postman took it and said: "The first edition is only six yuan four, and the fifteenth edition is 96 yuan, you have helped me so much, those bits and pieces, I will send you well, I will find you four yuan!" As he spoke, he was about to take money into his bag.

"Don't look for it, you postmen are also very weekdays, you can use that money to buy some meat and bring it back, so that your sister-in-law can be happy...... If possible, you can help me ask others if they have any, as long as they haven't used it, I want it! ”

"Good...... I'll help you ask. ”

When the matter that had been so troublesome to him was finally resolved, the postman seemed unusually happy and took the matter to his lips.

After the postman left, Wang Mingyuan excitedly clenched his fist and knocked it on his knee a few times: "Damn, sometimes there will be a chance in life, and I will hit the luck again!" ”