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If you plan to go abroad, you must exchange currency. It is difficult to exchange foreign currency these days, and we are in a sensitive period. Yao Chunyu thought of storing gold, as gold is the hard currency.
It was not difficult to exchange for gold. The price of gold in China was not expensive in the 1960s. Yao Chunyu had the most expensive grain, so he did not have to worry about not being able to exchange for gold.
It is best to use flour of a certain age, as flour is easily affected by moisture. Yao Chunyu prefers to eat rice.
She took out three pounds of Fuqiang flour from the cellar and sent it to the home of a female junior high school classmate.
The female classmate's name was Sulina, which was also chosen in line with the Soviet Union's trend. She was very pretty and fair-skinned, with a bit of petty-bourgeois air, and her family was very well-off.
"Oh my god, thank you for the Fuqiang flour!" Su Lina happily took the Fuqiang flour. Although flour was not a valuable thing, it was too difficult to buy it on the market now. Scarcity makes things valuable, so getting some Fuqiang flour was not an easy task.
Su Lina hadn't eaten food made of pure flour for a long time. She took out a gold bar from the box and handed it to Yao Chunyu.
A gold bar is small and exquisite. Although it looks small in size, gold has a high density and a small gold bar weighs one kilogram.
Yao Chunyu put away the gold, a faint smile on his face, "If you want to find fine grains to eat in the future, you can tell me."
Su Lina said affectionately: "Of course, I will never forget my old classmates!"
Although she was somewhat curious about Yao Chunyu's gold collection, she thought it might be a hobby and it was inconvenient to get to the bottom of it.
Sulina's family was well-off. The older generation liked to collect gold bars, and they collected several boxes of gold alone. Although gold was rare, it was not as precious as food.
The fragrant, plump white flour buns and the soft and fragrant noodles are so nostalgic!
After Yao Chunyu left, Su Lina's grandmother found out that she had exchanged a gold bar for three pounds of flour, and she scolded her for wasting gold.
Su Lina protested: "Grandma, you haven't seen it a few days ago. Someone exchanged a house for a month's food."
Grandma Su said earnestly, "Silly child, gold is the most valuable thing. What is a house? It is the most valuable thing when the world is in chaos. You can buy things wherever you go. Don't you know... During the war, we changed more than a dozen kinds of paper money here, but gold was the only thing that could be spent all the time."
Su Ma interrupted with a smile, "Mom, Nannan finally got some fine grains, just for fun, just exchange it for gold. Let's just eat noodles happily today. Special times call for special treatment."
To be honest, Su's mother favors her daughter. Gold is rare, but fine grain is not cheap. One pound of gold may not be able to exchange for three pounds of fine grain. Grandma is old-fashioned and stubborn. She doesn't understand how difficult the current situation is.
Grandma Su finished her delicious meal of lard noodles and felt so happy that she didn't bother to worry about the gold.
After the whole family finished eating the noodles, the aunt took the bowl to the sink to wash. There was a knock on the door, and a square-faced man holding a bag of things in his hand said in a low voice: "Grandma, I brought you something good!"
The square-faced man was none other than Guo Aiguo.
He peeled off the tightly tied bag layer by layer, finally revealing the heavy, crystal clear fragrant rice. The family looked at the bag of rice in surprise, lifted it up and weighed it, and found that it weighed a full ten kilograms.
This bag of fragrant rice is so fresh that it seems to have just been harvested. Even before you get close, you can smell the fragrance of ripe millet. It is fragrant, and the grains are plump and crystal clear. I wonder how delicious it will be when cooked into rice.
The old lady said to her grandson, "You came at an unfortunate time. We just had our fill. Here is this bowl of noodles that your cousin exchanged for gold. It's delicious. Do you want to try it?"
When Guo Aiguo heard his grandmother's joke that three pounds of flour could be exchanged for one pound of gold, if it were any other time, he would have just frowned and gotten over it, after all, fine grains are really hard to get.
Now he enjoyed the fine grains at two yuan a pound, but now he felt it was too expensive. He frowned and said with disdain: "It's not worthwhile to exchange gold for grain. Don't be stupid next time."
Su Lina stared in surprise that her uncle, who was usually the most generous, didn't even praise her.
The most clear-headed old lady in the family, when the grandparents and grandchildren were chatting, Guo Aiguo lowered his voice and said to the old lady: "Grandma, I can get fine grain now, it's not expensive, two yuan a pound. Next month, I will give you another ten pounds of grain. You just need to know this. I'll tell you, don't tell anyone else."
The old lady was very happy to hear this, her cheeks flushed, "This is a big deal."
This is much more practical than exchanging gold for food!
After listening to her grandson's description, she learned that he bought the grain from a group of farmers. She heaved a long sigh and said, "They are honest people. You two should have good relations with them, understand?"
She quickly dug out the things at the bottom of the box and counted out a stack of colorful bills. "These bills are issued by your brother-in-law's unit. They can't be used up. There's no point in keeping them with me. You can use them as a favor."
"Mother-in-law, how could I forget what you can think of?" Guo Aiguo nodded, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
My grandmother didn't know how carefully he treated her. Last time, he gave her 40 kilograms of food coupons, bicycle coupons, cloth coupons, sweets and snacks coupons, oil coupons... He gave her a lot of things. Regardless of other things, the bicycle coupon alone was quite valuable.
It must be difficult to buy a bicycle in the countryside, right
The old lady counted out twenty big black tens and said, "Next time, ask them if they have enough food. If they do, buy more. Don't be so stingy. I'll ask your brother-in-law to help you."
This is what Guo Aiguo was waiting for. The police are now cracking down on speculators, and those speculators are probably afraid of being caught. With the old lady's protection, they can at least be safer.
He nodded and took the money.
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Military district compound.
Su Ye received another small note from Guo Aiguo and his wife saying that they wanted to buy food. After reading the note, she felt both worried and happy.
The good news is that the opportunity to make money has come again, but the bad news is that the money is delivered to my door but I have no chance to earn it!
Ms. Fang asked Su Ye in a small note if he could provide more food, as they still needed 30 kilograms of food.
Although Su Ye despised their "big appetite", she thought these two customers were really high-quality customers, generous and considerate. The last time she took the initiative to give them 40 kilograms of food coupons was not enough, so she gave them another 40 kilograms this time. Su Ye could get 30 kilograms of food coupons from school every month. She couldn't spend the food coupons and there were many sources, so she had to sell the food coupons again.
Su Ye disguised himself and went to the black market, where he sold the food coupons in batches at a low price.
She didn't ask for a dollar like other traders. Thirty to fifty cents per catty was enough to represent her hard work. In less than ten minutes, Su Ye had sold out forty catties of food coupons.
Su Ye changed his position again and sold a bicycle voucher. The bicycle voucher is very valuable, because there is a quota for bicycle vouchers issued to the market every year. A factory only has three or five quotas every year, so it is not easy to get a bicycle voucher.
However, the benefits of the army are still quite high. If Gu Xiangqian wants it, he can get a bicycle coupon by writing an application.
So Su Ye sold the bicycle coupons without hesitation and earned 30 yuan. He didn't sell it in a hurry, and it was not impossible to sell it for 50 yuan if he waited a few more days.
As for the cake and snack coupons, candy coupons, and cloth coupons given by Guo Aiguo and his wife, Su Ye kept them for herself. These consumable coupons, which were only given by the school, were not enough for Su Ye to fill his own gaps.
Su Ye went to the public toilet to change her makeup. She had a stack of hot banknotes in her pocket. She counted them and it was 106.80 yuan. Adding the money she had saved from selling grain, the total was 401.80 yuan.
The small treasury is growing bigger and bigger, and Su Ye is confident that he will be able to save up a small gold mountain in the future.
Su Ye didn't have a single grain of rice for the thirty kilograms of food that Guo Aiguo wanted. After selling the tickets, she walked around and came to the compound, brought a kilogram of pork jerky and a box of tea from home, and went to visit a friend she met at the last congress, a provincial-level medical doctor.
When Su Ye was selling tea leaves before, he also gave each of these old friends a pound of tea leaves. Doctor Fei took the gift from Su Ye, opened it, and was surprised and said, "You are really too polite. I feel so embarrassed if you keep doing this."
There was a thick layer of oil paper in the box. After opening it, a faint aroma of sauce hit me in the face, and what caught my eye were pieces of braised dried meat.
It is dark in color, shiny and extremely delicious.
Su Ye smiled and said, "Not really, I came here today to ask you for a favor.
I have a student who is very naughty. He doesn't know much, but he has a good heart. Recently, he offended a person in society. The other party was very narrow-minded and had to pick on the child, so he went to the hospital to forge a medical record and wanted to send him to the police station on charges of hooliganism. "
"If this slander is established, wouldn't it ruin the child's life? I want to ask you, is there any way to revoke this false accusation?"
After listening to Su Ye's description, Doctor Fei thought for a moment and said, "I know this doctor. Please wait a moment. I will give you something useful."
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An hour later, Su Ye had an extra package in her hand. She shook the other person's hand and left her old friend's house.
Su Ye came to the No. 1 Municipal Hospital and went straight to the hospital's personnel office.
She handed the letter to the clerk in the office and said with a smile, "Dr. Liu in your hospital often secretly prescribes nutritional supplements for himself, takes the patients' nutritional powder, soybeans, and pig bones for himself, and resells the nutritional prescriptions and fabricates medical records. This matter is of great harm. Can you deal with it seriously when it is reported to us?"
The young office clerk read the letter and glanced at it casually. Before he finished reviewing the materials, he said seriously, "Comrade, please don't talk nonsense. The doctors here are all good comrades who are dedicated to their work and patriotic."
At this time of year, it was not a big deal to withhold some food, and besides, the food had to be bought with one's own money. But it was not a good thing to expose this kind of thing in public. The hospital would definitely make an example of this and expel Dr. Liu. One more is better than one less.
Su Ye observed for a moment, then took out a ten-jin food coupon. Seeing that the other party was unmoved, he added another one, and stacked them one after another... until he added the fourth one.
Su Ye asked with a smile: "Is that enough?"
"I am not a patient of your hospital, and the food coupons are not money. I am just looking for convenience. If you don't want it, I will take this letter to find your director, and if the director can't help, I will find the dean. I can solve this problem in a few days, right?"
Forty kilograms of food coupons, this is a treatment that only a worker doing heavy manual labor can enjoy.
The young clerk swallowed, suddenly came to his senses, covered the food coupon, and quickly picked up the letter.
"Don't worry, comrade! I will get this done for you today!"
It was not unjust for Dr. Liu to be caught by others. Others were afraid of offending Dr. Liu, but he was not. The 40-jin food coupons were real gold and silver, tangible food.
Su Ye stayed in the office to drink tea and took out a book from his bag and began to read it with great interest. Two hours later, a young HR clerk, sweating profusely, brought in a new document with the official seal.
He smiled and said, "Don't worry, comrade. The leaders of our hospital are already in a meeting. If the evidence is true, the punishment will be announced tomorrow at the latest."
Su Ye closed the book and nodded, "Thank you. I hope you don't mind if I use this for a while. I'll return it to you in three days."
The young clerk thought for a moment and nodded quickly, "Okay, just come back on time next week. You have to leave me your contact information."
Su Ye left a contact information.
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After leaving the hospital, Su Ye went to Lu Siyuan's home. Lu Siyuan's parents were at home on weekends. Their son had such a serious illness, and the family was in a gloomy mood.
Yang Chenxing and two or three brothers were comforting them, "It's okay, uncle and aunt, Brother Lu will be fine. You have to believe him, he didn't hit Yu Fuda."
Another person said weakly: "Yu Fuda is still lying in the hospital, pretending to be so..."
This made them not so confident that they had not hurt anyone.
Yu Fuda and Lu's father worked in the same factory. Lu's father was the factory director and he was the deputy factory director. Although the two had worked together for more than ten years, their ideas were incompatible.
The sun was setting and the lights in the house were still on.
Father Lu pinched his nose in the dark and moved his lips silently, "Forget it, I promise him."
Mother Lu pulled him, her face flushed with anger, "No, how can you be so worthy of the workers in this factory?"
Su Ye knocked on the door and said with a smile, "I am Lu Siyuan's teacher, Su Ye. I hope I am not disturbing you by coming to your house at this time."
She threw a document to Yang Chenxing, "Take it to the Public Security Bureau to cancel the criminal record. I have already asked a special doctor to re-examine Yu Fuda. I believe he will be grateful to me."
Yang Chenxing quickly opened the leather document bag, which contained several thin official documents, which listed several mistakes made by Dr. Liu Li during his tenure, including privately prescribing nutritional prescriptions, misappropriating hospital supplies, accepting bribes, and falsifying medical records. He was suspended from his post for investigation and handed over to the public security department for handling.
Yang Chenxing's heart suddenly calmed down. Lu Siyuan's parents took the document and stared at it closely, reading it over and over again. This Liu Li was the doctor who treated Yu Fuda!
In just two days, they went to the hospital again and again, saying everything good and bad, asking for help from everyone and all the connections they could, but they still had no clue. Unexpectedly, Teacher Su solved the problem without saying a word
Father Lu and Mother Lu looked at Su Ye in surprise. Father Lu asked, "Will this doctor be fired after being investigated?"
Su Ye nodded, "Yes, with solid evidence."
Mother Lu's eyes were slightly red. "Teacher Su, I really don't know how to thank you. It's all thanks to you! Without you, I don't know what our family would be like... Teacher Su, can we treat you to a meal? I'll let Siyuan kowtow to you."
Su Ye shook his head and said with a smile: "It's just a small favor, no need to be so polite."
Yang Chen Xingxing was completely convinced by Su Ye at this moment. He gave him a thumbs up and praised: “Teacher Su, you are amazing!”
Su Ye's lips curled up slightly and he smiled without saying anything.
The silent brothers on the side said excitedly: "I will go find Brother Lu right away and tell him to stop hiding and go to school tomorrow!"
Another little brother jumped up and down excitedly, shouting: "Teacher Su, you are so good. I promise to study hard and make progress every day in my life!"
Su Ye smiled slightly and said, "Just remember it. I've forgotten everything about you."
Yang Chenxing patted his chest and said jokingly, “I dare not, I dare not, I can forget everything but this, who can afford to be poor and ugly for a lifetime?”