Happy times are always short-lived, and festive fireworks only bloom in an instant.

After a full meal, the teachers, students and friends left one after another, leaving only the cups and plates in the courtyard. It's not that no one asked to stay and help, but they were all driven away by Jiang Yulou.

He couldn't ask his classmates and friends to help clean up the dinner plates.

However, Tang Yuewen wanted to stay, but he did not object. In his heart, the girl is already the wife he identifies. Your own family, you don't have to be so clear.

It's just that he is reluctant to let Tang Yuewen do heavy work, at most he just cleans up the plates, that's all.

As for moving tables and chairs, washing dishes, he and his eldest brother did it.

After being busy inside and out, it was getting late.

Jiang Yulou wanted to leave Tang Yuewen at home for the night, but the girl had a class tomorrow, so she could only give up regretfully. So, after talking to his family, he rode a borrowed bicycle and sent her back to Mizuki University.

Before parting, the two of them talked to me for a while, needless to say.

It wasn't until Tang Yuewen walked into the dormitory building that he was reluctant to look away.

When he went back, Jiang Yulou muttered while pedaling the bicycle: "It seems that it is time to buy a car." ”

Anyway, he is now considered a rich man, and it is really inconvenient to travel without a bicycle.

However, in these years, if you want to buy industrial products, you also need industrial vouchers. This thing is only available to people with formal jobs, and Jiang Yulou, a poor student, naturally doesn't have it.

But it didn't bother him.

Although Jiang Yulou doesn't have it, he has many friends, and it is not difficult to squeeze out some industrial coupons for him.

It's just, who are you looking for?

With a little thought, the answer is there.

That is to find the ocean...... Ahem, look for Olivia.

Olivia is a foreigner who has a foreign exchange coupon in his hand and can enter the Friendship Store.

So, the next day, Jiang Yulou was cheeky and found Olivia.

"Dear Jiang, do you have something to do with me?"

"Yes, Olivia, your good friend is in trouble."

"Oh, tell me?"

"I want to buy something, but I don't have an industrial voucher, but you have a foreign exchange voucher and you can enter the Friendship Shop, so I want you to take me in and buy something. Of course, I'll pay for the money. ”

"Little thing, I'd be happy to do you this favor and enhance the relationship between us."

Olivia laughed coquettishly, recently Jiang Yulou helped her get a news about China's policies, which made her praise from the supervisor, and also made her realize the importance of Jiang Yulou to her future.

Moreover, he is so handsome and talented, and he is not at all different from those aristocratic children in Huaguo who like to please her.

If Jiang Yulou was willing, she would be happy to have something happen to him in this foreign country.

Thinking of this, her eyes were drawn when she looked at Jiang Yulou.

Jiang Yulou didn't notice her dangerous eyes, and after getting her consent, he breathed a sigh of relief, "Without further ado, let's go." ”

The two went back to Jiang Yulou's house first and took Jiang Yuanchao with them. This time, he is going to make a big purchase, and if there are not enough people, it will be a little troublesome.

After the crowd was gathered, the three bicycles headed together in the direction of the Friendship Store.

Yanjing's Friendship Store is on Donghuamen Street, and the place is very conspicuous and easy to find.

The Friendship Store sells imported goods such as Hershey's chocolates, Marlboro cigarettes, and Swiss watches, as well as domestic luxury goods such as Moutai and silk.

In addition, scarce goods such as color TVs and refrigerators can also be found in the Friendship Store.

Speaking of foreign exchange coupons and friendship shops, it is particularly interesting.

In some novels and film and television dramas depicting Yanjing in the 80s, some "players" can enter the Yanjing Hotel, Friendship Store, exchange foreign exchange coupons, and recruit girls to be treated.

Foreign exchange coupons are somewhat unfamiliar to some, but Kenneth Stein, a journalism professor at the University of Iowa, once said: "If money could speak, then foreign exchange coupons would be 50% louder than the renminbi."

In the beginning, the Friendship Shop was only open to foreigners, while mainland people could only stop and look at the door.

In fact, the Friendship Store is a special product of the era of material shortages.

In the 50s of the last century, there were "little birch shops" in the USSR for the privileged and foreigners. In the era when everything was on par with the "big brother of the Soviet Union", our country also learned this "special supply system" back.

Since 1951, a number of high-end state-run consumer goods stores have appeared in several major cities in China. Some of these shops later developed into friendship shops as a symbol of friendship with foreign guests.

In 1979, in order to facilitate the import of materials and expand the scope of business, the country began to implement a foreign exchange retention system, which allowed local governments and enterprises to obtain a certain percentage of foreign exchange.

But at the same time, due to the implementation of a unified RMB market in China, foreign exchange is prohibited from circulating in the country. Therefore, in order to facilitate foreigners to spend in China, China began to issue "foreign exchange coupons" designed for foreigners.

Since then, a "dual currency system" has been formed in which the renminbi and foreign exchange bills circulate in the market at the same time. At that time, many foreigners called foreign exchange vouchers "tourist currency".

This kind of exchange coupon is equivalent to the renminbi, and there are 7 denominations and 9 varieties, namely the 1979 version of the One Bai Yuan, Wu Shi Yuan, Shi Yuan, Wu Yuan, One Yuan, Wu Jiao, and One Jiao Coupon.

According to the relevant regulations, foreigners are required to exchange their foreign currency into foreign exchange coupons at domestic banks when entering the country, and use them in equivalent value with RMB within the specified range.

At that time, foreign exchange coupons were considered a "privileged" currency because they could buy scarce goods that could not be bought with the renminbi.

Gradually, some people get some foreign exchange coupons from relatives and friends overseas, or sell the foreign exchange on hand to the state, and a certain amount of foreign exchange coupons will be returned. In this context, the Friendship Shop began to be opened to the common people with restrictions, and foreign exchange coupons became a special pass for people to enter "Friendship".

"It's here, let's get out of the car,"

After the Friendship Store arrived, Jiang Yulou stopped the car, and then said to the eldest brother Jiang Yuanchao: "Big brother, you are waiting for us outside the Friendship Store." You take care of the car, don't lose it. ”

Jiang Yuanchao looked at the friendship store, which was obviously different from ordinary places, and was also a little stunned. Now his younger brother won't let him in, and he just follows his wishes.

In fact, it's not that Jiang Yulou doesn't want his eldest brother to follow up, but that this place actually only allows foreigners to enter. He followed up because he could speak English and could pretend to be a foreigner, and the eldest brother looked like a good citizen of his country, and no one believed him when he said he was a foreigner.

"Let's go, Olivia, let's go inside."

Jiang Yulou said, holding his head high, looking very arrogant, and let Olivia hold his arm.

Sure enough, when the people in the friendship store saw this posture, where did they dare to stop Jiang Yulou and let him easily get in.