Chapter 56 Overseas Chinese Remittance Coupons

In the haze, Li Wenkai heard the sound of his neighbors talking, and the sound of buzzing pigeon whistles came from the sky, and the air was filled with the smell of coal balls.

The fireworks of the world.

"I'm back?" Li Wenkai looked at everything familiar and said to himself.

It seems that traveling through time has nothing to do with the place, but with a problem with your own mind. You can travel through time by just drinking and sleeping.

It turned out that Li Wenkai was worried that he could only travel through time in a rental house, but now it seems that it is not.

Compared with 2020, Li Wenkai felt that life here is much more real. Neighbors are not like that, even living on the same building and on the same floor, they are always willing to go to each other. No one knows who, even if they meet on the stairs, they walk sideways, and they don’t feel like neighbors at all.

When I got up and looked out the window, it was snowing heavily. "What time is it now?" Li Wenkai asked in anger.

"At seven or eight o'clock." The little girl replied outside.

Well, I'm finding a reason to take out my space watch and wear it.

Li Wenkai thought.

Take it out directly from the space, which will make people suspicious.

I mean my aunt sent it from Xiangjiang, but if you have to leave and pay a little attention, you will find that you have never received a order from the post office.

After eating the breakfast porridge and stir-fried sauerkraut cooked by my younger sister, Li Wenkai, who was tired of eating meat, had a big appetite and ate more.

"Today is New Year's Day. Where do you want to go, my brother will take you there." Li Wenkai said to his sister.

"No, it's so cold, what's so fun outside?" the little sister refused decisively.

She used to be like this. Since she had the fruit jelly, sandwich biscuits and ham sausage hot dogs given by Li Wenkai at home, her little sister has gradually become a home girl. In her eyes, the things in the supply and marketing cooperatives outside are not as delicious as those at home, and they are not fun. It is better to eat biscuit jelly at home. It is so cool, why bother to get frozen outside?

"Okay, but you still have to go out for a walk. It's not okay to be at home all the time. You have to go out for more walks and observe life. From tomorrow, you have to write a diary every day. I will read it. The number of words is less than 100 words. If you can't do it, there will be no snacks in the future, such as jelly, biscuits, ham sausage, hot dogs, etc.." Li Wenkai said, "20 words are one jelly, 50 words are two jelly, one sandwich biscuit, 100 words are four jelly, one ham sausage, and hot dogs are optional..." Li Wenkai said the conditions.

My younger sister is only in the first grade now and her requirements are not too strict. She mainly develops this good habit and uses the words she has learned.

Studying is boring, and it is difficult to increase enthusiasm without some rewards as motivation. Li Wenkai has never encountered such a child who really likes to study.

"Writing a diary?" The little girl became too big when she heard this.

"Otherwise, Chinese is mainly about composition. If you don't write well, everything will be useless. Chinese is the foundation of other subjects. If you learn Chinese well, you will have strong understanding ability. This is very helpful for other subjects." Li Wenkai let out a few mouthfuls of white porridge, and then continued: "Tonight I hid everything and made it possible to have snacks."

Suddenly, my snacks were cut off. My younger sister felt that the sky was falling apart, but seeing that my elder brother was so serious and determined, she found an excuse and said, "I don't have a diary."

"You don't have to worry about this, I will solve it." I know you would say that, Xiaoshu.

"Okay." The little girl said dejectedly, like a deflated ball.

So Li Wenkai told his younger sister how to write a diary.

At the beginning, Li Wenkai had no requirements, as long as the younger sister could write enough 100 words, it basically met the requirements.

We must start by cultivating interest, and just start to win.

"Is this Li Jianzhang's home?" Suddenly someone called his father outside the door. Li Wenkai frowned and responded. He opened the curtain and found that it was from a post office.

"Yes, it's my father." Li Wenkai responded.

"There is a letter from your father here, please hold it." After the other party said that, he took out an envelope from his green work bag and handed it to Li Wenkai.

"Thank you, thank you for your hard work." Li Wenkai said politely to the other party.

Now that there is no receipt for the receipt, the items will be delivered directly to your home.

"Who wrote it?" His father was gone, who still wrote a letter?

Li Wenkai looked at the sending address on the envelope in confusion. It was written by his aunt from Xiangjiang.

"Auntie is really sending a letter!" I used to lie to people that the things were sent by my aunt, but now it's really true.

As soon as I opened the envelope, there were two pieces of letter paper with some thoughts written on it. Finally, I said that I had sent some things, including cookies, fructose, etc., and a remittance slip of 2,000 Hong Kong dollars.

"Someone gives me a pillow when I sleep." I was thinking about how to find an excuse to make a panic, but now I have it.

"Who sent it to my elder brother?" the younger sister asked.

"You can see it yourself." After saying that, he handed it to the little girl.

My younger sister is good at studying and recognizes a lot of common words and can recognize the content written on the envelope.

"It's my aunt, and I'm sending something again." The little girl said excitedly.

This is the first time, don't use it again.

"You are at home, I'll go to the unit to issue a certificate." Don't worry about this, you need the certificate from the unit, and the same is true for receiving express delivery. You can't get it without the certificate from the unit or the village committee brigade.

"Today is New Year's Day, is anyone going to work?" the younger sister added.

"I will only know when I go." People at this time regard the unit as their home and must have arranged people to be on duty. It is unlike the unit that has no one during holidays decades later. "I'll ask Section Chief Zhou." Li Wenkai said and walked towards Zhou Aiguo's home.

I got the news that there are people on duty in the Personnel Department today.

I rode my bicycle to the personnel department of the unit and issued a certificate. I saw a tricycle from the unit, borrowed it from the unit, and then walked towards the post office on the tricycle.

There are two certificates in total, one is a certificate of exchange for Hong Kong dollars in remittance orders at the bank, and the other is a certificate of receiving express delivery at the post office.

First go to the bank to exchange the money.

"You count." The bank staff verified Li Wenkai's proof one by one, and then counted a stack of big unification money and many tickets handed it to Li Wenkai.

A total of 50 great unity.

In 1979, the exchange rate between Hong Kong dollar and rbm was 4:1, which means that Hong Kong dollars were exchanged for 25 yuan rbm, and 2,000 Hong Kong dollars was 500 yuan.

"Comrade, can you ask, what can this overseas remittance coupon be used for?" This was the first time Li Wenkai saw this thing. When he saw a stack of overseas remittance coupons in his hand, he counted it and found that the face value was exactly 2,000 Hong Kong dollars.

"This is the first time you have received a Hong Kong dollar sent by your relatives?" the bank staff asked, looking at Li Wenkai.

"Well, comrade, can you talk?" Li Wenkai asked.

"Don't it all say it on it? This is a foreign exchange coupon. It is used at the same time as cash. You can buy oil, noodles, or even a bicycle sewing machine..."

I understand that overseas Chinese exchange coupons are tickets that need to be used together with RMB cash. This is equivalent to various types of tickets. You can buy the goods directly in specific stores.

On July 30, 1957, a certain proportion of material purchase and sales vouchers (commonly known as overseas remittance coupons) were issued to domestic foreign exchange collectors, and overseas remittance coupon holders purchased short-term goods or production materials in special stores or counters. This system was abolished until the early 1990s.

"Thank you" Li Wenkai put away his money and the overseas exchange coupons and went straight to the post office.

They are all fruit biscuits and a pair of men's black leather shoes. They are of quality. I think it was bought by my aunt for my father. Li Wenkai gave it a try and it suited his feet very well.

There is also a black coat, the one worn by Brother Ma in the movie.

"If you wear a white scarf..." Li Wenkai thought of Gao Jin's style in "The God of Fortune", "and with the toad mirror he brought from modern times, and holding a tape recorder in his hand, he is a fashionable young man." Forget flops.

With the certificate from the unit, the procedures were handled smoothly.

Put the things on the tricycle, walk back, find a corner where no one is around, and put the tape recorder, camera, film, and toad mirror in the space, two extracurricular books "Ancient Fables", "Andser's Fairy Tale", "100 Whys", "100 Elementary School Students' Composition", a box of eggs, a box of instant noodles, a box of children's nutritional milk powder, and a No. 1 battery, all of them were taken out and put into the tricycle, and walked back.
Chapter completed!