The 80s were a very dynamic time, and many of the heroes of legends were born in this era.

On weekends when school is closed, Jiang Yulou goes home to reunite with his family and enjoy a rare warm time.

Obviously, the life of the family is getting better, but the eldest brother looks depressed, and the whole person looks a little decadent.

In the garden, the two brothers were sitting in the pavilion, and Jiang Yulou asked with concern, "Big brother, do you have something on your mind?" ”

"Ugh." Jiang Yuanchao sighed, but he didn't say anything.

Jiang Yulou frowned and said, "Big brother, we are brothers, is there anything else I can't know?" ”

"Brother, big brother, am I very incompetent?" Jiang Yuanchao hesitated for a moment and said.

Jiang Yulou said excitedly: "Big brother, what kind of nonsense are you talking about?" In my heart, you have always been a man who stands up to the sky! ”

What he said was true, if it weren't for the eldest brother Jiang Yuanchao sacrificing himself, where would he have the opportunity to go to college, I'm afraid he would have been forced to drop out of school after junior high school.

Jiang Yulou stared at his eyes and asked seriously, "Did someone gossip?" ”

"Don't blame others, you say that I'm a big man, idle at home all day long, don't do any work, what do you say?" Jiang Yuanchao hesitated for a moment before he said.

Jiang Yulou was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood what the eldest brother was thinking.

He patted his head in frustration, it was also that he had been too busy lately to care about his family.

Speaking of which, the eldest brother has been moving to Yanjing from Shanghe Village for a while, and he is not familiar with Yanjing at first, so it makes sense not to let him find a job. But now, a few months have passed, and the eldest brother is still like an unemployed vagrant, and he will definitely not be able to pass this hurdle in his heart.

After thinking about it, Jiang Yulou asked, "Big brother, what do you want to do?" ”

"I ...... I'll do farm work. Jiang Yuanchao's honest face couldn't help but turn red, and then he stretched out his arm in a hurry and said, "But I have a lot of strength and can do physical work." ”

Looking at the simple eldest brother in front of him, Jiang Yulou felt very uncomfortable.

He patted his eldest brother's two arms and said seriously: "Eldest brother, I took you and your parents here to enjoy happiness, not to be a cow or a horse." ”

"Ah, brother, I ......" Jiang Yuanchao opened his mouth wide, and his eyes were red.

"Big brother has no ability, and he can't help you."

Jiang Yulou's heart warmed, he knew that this was the reason why the eldest brother had been depressed recently.

"Big brother, do you want to do business?"

"Doing business? I...... I won't. ”

"I can't learn it. Let's go down to business now. ”

"Go now?"

Jiang Yulou doesn't want to rest now, let alone write, but has a bicycle with his eldest brother and rides out of Goldfish Alley.

……

"Jingle bell!"

Jiang Yulou rang the bell, "Big brother, this is it." ”

Two bicycles, one after the other, stopped at the entrance of the post and telecommunications office. The two brothers locked their bikes and walked into the hall to find that there was a queue inside.

Jiang Yuanchao looked at the crowd in line and asked in a low voice, "Brother, what are we doing at the Post and Telecommunications Bureau?" ”

"Buy stamps." Jiang Yulou said mysteriously.

In later generations, the post office was almost closed, but now it is a real department, sending letters, parcels, telegrams, money orders, etc., all have to be handled here.

The two waited in line for a quarter of an hour before it was their turn.

Jiang Yulou said to the teller behind the counter: "Hello, I buy stamps." ”

"How many?"

The teller dragged a quadrangular company and was about to tear it.

"Do you still have monkey tickets, I want a version."

"A version? Are you sure you want a version? ”

"Yes, there are still mountains and rivers in the whole country that are red, and let's have a set."

"Little comrade, are you collecting it?" The teller recalled.

"Well, I'm a big fan of stamps."

“……”

The teller had a strange expression, but he didn't say anything.

The concept of philately is now new, there are not many enthusiasts, and people are ashamed to associate stamps with money – or rather, people are ashamed to talk about money.

I saw that she rummaged through the cabinet for a long time before finding a few booklets.

The first is the Zodiac Monkey Ticket, a version of 80 pieces, each with 8 points.

"The monkey ticket is six yuan and four cents, and the others are gone."

Jiang Yulou is mainly a collection of fine products, and secondly, of course, in order to make money!

"Do you still have monkey tickets?"

It's just a version that doesn't make enough money.

"It's gone, there's only one version left." The teller rolled his eyes.

"Then the mountains and rivers of the whole country are red, why are they gone?"

"Tsk!"

The teller was impatient and said: "The mountains and rivers of the country are red, and some of them on the market have been put away and destroyed. ”

"Didn't I run out of money......

He smiled and walked out of the post office with the booklet.

The reason why he bought these was to collect them and so on.

For example, the mountains and rivers of the country are red, known as the king of stamps. At the beginning of its release, people thought that there was nothing special about it, because hundreds of different themes were issued every year, and even if it was the same theme, there were many different editions, and they did not care about the peculiarities of this stamp.

Later, when everyone slowly found out that this was a wrong ticket, it was too late to collect it on a large scale, because the country had already recycled and destroyed it on a large scale at that time, and now there are less than 100 pieces in existence.

Later generations, because the stamp printing and circulation is only very small, coupled with recycling and destruction, so the number of surviving is very small, many places do not have one, according to some senior stamp collectors estimates, the current new complete condition of less than 10 pieces, according to the public auction auction auction records, the highest price as high as 12 million yuan.

As for the monkey stamps, they are even more famous in the world of stamp collecting.

The hobby of collecting philately arose in China from the fifties, and the issue of monkey stamps did not attract the attention of many philatelic enthusiasts in China.

It wasn't until news broke that the post and telecommunications department planned to issue a set of zodiac stamps that the monkey stamps were sought after in the philatelic market.

Later, it once reached an astonishing price of more than 10,000 yuan for a single piece and 1.2 million yuan for the whole page, and the collection industry called it "Golden Monkey".

Moreover, the author of the monkey ticket is Huang Yongyu;

The number of issuances is also extremely scarce for various reasons.

It is said that when it was first issued, it was originally going to be issued with 8 million, but later it was reduced to 5 million considering the small number of philatelic collections, but in the process of printing, due to technical reasons, it was damaged due to technical reasons, and only more than 4 million came out in the end, and even fewer were handed down to future generations.

If it were just that, the price of monkey tickets wouldn't be so high.

Legend has it that the price of monkey tickets is still promoted by some people behind the scenes for profit, which has caused the price of monkey tickets to soar all the way.

After leaving the post and telecommunications office, Jiang Yuanchao asked suspiciously: "Brother, what are you buying so many stamps for?" ”

"Collecting is one thing, and it's about making money." Jiang Yu said.

"Stamps make money too?"