1987: Sleepless Tonight

Although I really don't want to admit that I am inferior to Lu Hao, but the reality is that what Lu Hao can do, he can't.

"I knew I would have just asked him for two tickets." Su Yumei regretted it.

"It's useless to have a tour ticket. You need foreign exchange certificates to buy things, and we don't have foreign exchange certificates." Zhang Yongqiang said.

"That's better than being outside and not being able to go in. Once you go in, you can still show off." Su Yumei said.

She looked towards the street where Santana could no longer be seen, "I don't know what Lu Hao will buy when he brings them in."

"I can't buy many things. The things inside are expensive. They are rich people who earn money from foreigners. Lu Hao is really good at doing business, but don't forget that his beverage factory still owes a lot of foreign debts. In addition, foreign exchange certificates are not so easy to exchange. Foreigners, overseas Chinese, and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan come to China. With their identity documents, the bank will exchange foreign exchange certificates for them to make it easier for them to buy things in China. Lu Hao and you Like me, we are ordinary people in China, where do we get so many foreign exchange certificates?" Zhang Yongqiang said.

"By relying on my connections, I got a few tickets to show off, so I took my mother and Xiaojin in to have a look. Don't be envious."

Qingshan District originally belonged to Wuchang County, which was the ninth district of Wuchang County. In 52, it was assigned to Jiangcheng City and belonged to the suburbs. Although it was under the jurisdiction of Jiangcheng City, it was still relatively backward.

There are two in Wuchang, one is Wuchang District, that is, Wuchang District of Jiangcheng City, which belongs to the urban area of ​​Jiangcheng. Together with Hanyang and Hankou, it is called the Three Towns of Jiangcheng.

The other one is Wuchang County, which will be merged into Jiangcheng in a few years, but because there is already a Wuchang District, after Wuchang County was merged into Jiangcheng, it was renamed Jiangxia District.

After decades of development, Qingshan District has also improved somewhat, and it is no longer as backward as it used to be.

Lu Hao drove the car, chatted with a few people, and soon arrived at Qingshan Friendship Store.

There is a small courtyard at the entrance of the store. There are several cars parked in the yard. There are iron fences around the yard, and there are two guards at the entrance.

From time to time, I can see some people coming in and out, most of them are foreigners, but there are also some Asian faces. They look like Chinese, but they speak all kinds of words.

Some of these people are overseas Chinese, some are compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and some are foreign guests or tourist groups from other East Asian countries.

Teams are important customers of the Friendship Store.

There are two types, one is the state guest group and the other is the tourist group.

The state guest group refers to the representatives of various countries who come to the country. It is rare to come here. They will definitely want to buy something to take back. There are not many places for these foreigners to shop. Friendship Store is an important place, and tourist groups are also very popular. It is easy to understand, that is, to travel domestically.

These people are the main consumers of the Friendship Store, much stronger than the foreign students. After all, the foreign students have no income and are just students who come to study.

Even some wealthy members of the state guest group, as well as the big bosses of the companies in the tour group, spent more than one million foreign exchange certificates in the Friendship Store at one time!

In the eyes of Chinese people, the items in the Friendship Store are luxury goods, and one item may cost a year's income or even higher, but in the eyes of many foreigners, these items are very cheap.

Mysterious orient, mysterious silk fabrics, mysterious antique calligraphy and painting.

It's rare to come once, can't you buy enough?

Lu Hao had been to this place in his previous life, and it was already open at that time. You can enter without a ticket, and you can buy things with RMB.

Prices soared, and many citizens exchanged RMB for gold jewelry in the Friendship Store to preserve their value.

But at this moment, it is obvious that they have not completely let go. After checking the tour tickets at the gate guard, Lu Hao and his group entered the Friendship Store.

This Friendship Store in Qingshan District was founded in 76, and it has been 12 years now, which is neither short nor long. The earliest Friendship Store was established in 58, located in the Cishu Building in Shanghai.

Before the Friendship Store, there was a "Shanghai International Friends Service Department" in 52. This place was only for foreign guests, international sailors and overseas Chinese to shop. It can be said to be the predecessor of the Friendship Store.

A few people walked around the store, and the layout of the store still looked very traditional, with glass counters reaching people's waists, and rows of glass counters with various items placed inside.

Behind the counter stood the salesperson, and behind the salesperson were rows of shelves with other items.

"A lot of foreigners." Wang Guizhi exclaimed, "I didn't see any of them when I was outside, so they all came here."

There are indeed a lot of foreigners in the Friendship Store, and their clothes are very fashionable and avant-garde. Some of them even wear thin down jackets, which are not much different from the down jackets decades later.

In China, most families, even the richer families in the city, wear cotton padded clothes, which are filled with cotton and made of cotton cloth outside. They are warm but bloated.

"Many things have never been seen outside." Su Jin said, "Those silks are so beautiful."

In the Friendship Store, there is an area full of silk fabrics. These silk fabrics are very exquisite, and this is one of the most popular items for foreigners in the Friendship Store.

Silk, antique calligraphy and paintings, handicrafts with distinctive characteristics, and some traditional Chinese medicines all sell well.

"Buy one for each person," Lu Hao said.

"Silk is expensive, right? Brother-in-law, I'm just talking about it, not to buy it." Su Jin said hastily.

She thought it was because of her own words that Lu Hao decided to buy it.

"I want to buy it." Lu Hao smiled. "This thing can't be bought outside with money. If you make money, don't you just spend it? Now that you're here, you must spend money."

These silks, sarongs, and Guotai silk are indeed beautiful.

"You pick it yourself first, I'll go to another place to have a look." Lu Hao said.

He has other things to buy.

"I want to eat chocolate." Nini said.

"There's no chocolate here, it's all for grown-ups." Su Min said.

"You are lying, I have seen it a long time ago, there are chocolates there." Nini pointed to a cabinet not far away.

There are indeed a lot of food in it, not only chocolate, but also peanut butter, pastry, Coca-Cola and so on.

This little girl didn't look at anything else when she came in, she first looked at the food.

"Okay, let's go, Dad will take you to buy it." Lu Hao held Nini's hand.

"It's just that you are always spoiling her. There are a lot of chocolates at home and a lot of other food, so there's no need to buy them here." Su Min gave Lu Hao a white look.

My man spoils the child too much.

"It's not the same. It's imported, so the taste must be different." Lu Hao said with a smile, "Eating is secondary to my daughter's well-being. It's good to let her know more."

Enrichment actually refers to spiritual wealth, but spiritual wealth often requires material wealth to support it.

Learn more, walk more, see more, all of these need money.