1980 My Literary Era.

Chapter 208
Two days later, Lin Weimin and Qu Xiaowei picked up Guo Yudao at the train station.

He came with his wife, seeing each other after two years, Guo Yudao's face was sallow with a hint of gray.

"Old Guo!"

In terms of closeness, Lin Weimin and Guo Yudao didn't have the best relationship among the four people in the dormitory of the Institute of Literature.

But after seeing Guo Yudao again after two years, Lin Weimin couldn't help but feel a little joy of reuniting his old friend.

He waved his hand, and there was still a smile on his face after a long absence, but seeing Guo Yudao's face, he realized that this seemed not very good, so he restrained his expression.

"For the people! Xiaowei!"

"Old Guo!"

Several classmates hugged and patted each other on the back.

Guo Yudao laughed first: "It's been a long time since I've seen you!"

Lin Weimin and Qu Xiaowei said: "That's right, I'm looking forward to your coming to Yanjing!"

After exchanging a few words at the exit, several people left the station.

The car was called by Lin Weimin, a small Toyota, [-] cents per kilometer.

Little Toyota directly dragged them to Xiehe, and Lin Weimin found Yu Junli, Meng Weizai's daughter-in-law.

It was Lin Weimin who helped her daughter buy the piano before, but this time seeing Lin Weimin was very enthusiastic.

"Sister-in-law, I really have troubled you this time." Lin Weimin said.

"They're all on our own, so why are you so polite? Last time Yanni bought the piano thanks to you!"

Yu Junli didn't look like a doctor in dealing with people and things, but rather like a person working in the government. Lin Weimin guessed that this might have something to do with the work of his husband, Meng Weizai's son.

In later generations, the resources that this couple can mobilize in this society are by no means comparable to those of ordinary people, but at this time in 82, the couple actually asked to come to Lin Weimin to buy a piano for their daughter, which is enough to see At this time, everyone is still divided.

The hospital in his hometown highly suspected that Guo Yudao's liver might be cancerous, but due to limited strength, he dared not make a diagnosis. Guo Yudao and his wife had to go to Yanjing for a checkup.

The examination would take a few days. Yu Junli temporarily arranged for Guo Yudao to be hospitalized, and also helped make an appointment with Professor Ou Yuanmin, who has a lot of research on tumors in Xiehe.

When Junli left, Guo Yudao's wife and Lin Weimin came out to see Yu Junli off, and Guo Yudao's wife kept saying thanks to Lin Weimin outside the ward.

As he spoke, his eyes turned red, and Lin Weimin comforted him: "Sister-in-law, don't be so discouraged, maybe it's a misdiagnosis?"

Guo Yudao's wife shook her head and said, "Who doesn't want to be misdiagnosed? But I have been with Lao Guo for so many years, and I know his temperament very well. He will never go to the hospital unless the pain is unbearable. Look at his face now, he has lost almost twenty catties in this month. It's not cancer, is it possible?"

Lin Weimin's heart was heavy, what Lao Guo's wife said was right, even a layman like him could see the problems in Lao Guo.

The hospital only asked them to come to Yanjing for a follow-up visit just to be on the safe side. It would be best if they were diagnosed with cancer and stayed in Yanjing for treatment.

"Sister-in-law, you have to be strong. Lao Guo's examination has not been done yet, what if the result is good? Besides, even if the result is not so ideal, it still needs to be treated, and you can't just give up so easily."

Guo Yudao's wife wiped away her tears, nodded and said, "That's for sure. Lao Guo is the pillar of the family, and he is the sky of our family."

After comforting Guo Yudao a few more words, the two returned to the room.

Guo Yudao was talking happily with Qu Xiaowei, but according to Lin Weimin's observation, Guo Yudao seemed to be forcing a smile.

Lin Weimin went out to buy some daily necessities for Guo Yudao and his wife. Because he had a lot of foreign exchange certificates in his hands, Lin Weimin had no shortage of all kinds of tickets. There was no shortage of foreign exchange certificates. A little is enough.

Then they arranged Guo Yudao's wife to the guest house closest to the hospital. Lin Weimin and Qu Xiaowei's mission was successfully completed this time.

Before leaving, Guo Yudao took Lin Weimin's hand, "Weimin, Xiaowei, thanks to you two."

Lin Weimin's expression was relaxed, "Old Guo, when did you become so polite? Isn't this me and Xiaowei in Yanjing? If we were in other places, the two of us would be too far away. You, just feel at ease in the hospital for examination, and wait for the illness. Well, when Xiaowei and I go to your Xining to play, can you treat us both with food and drink?"

A smile appeared on Guo Yudao's face, "For sure. By then, I'll let you eat your fill of beef and mutton, and drink the highland barley wine until you can't get out of bed."

Lin Weimin smiled and nodded, "Then it's settled. Xiaowei and I are leaving now, and I will come to see you in two days."

Coming out of the hospital, Lin Weimin and Qu Xiaowei heaved a long sigh. They are laymen in medicine, but they still have the ability to observe.

Lao Guo really missed it this time.

Qu Xiaowei thought inexplicably that when he was at the Institute of Literature, Lin Weimin seemed to have reminded Guo Yudao to go to the hospital for an examination more than once.

He looked at Lin Weimin, "Weimin, do you really know how to read faces?"

"What do you mean?"

"Wang Shuo told me."

"Then thief Sun, do you believe what he says? Have you two met recently?"

"I went to his restaurant for dinner a few days ago."

"Is his restaurant still yellow?"

Qu Xiaowei gloated and said, "It's coming soon, I'm about to sell my property, and I started moving tables when I went."

He said again: "Wang Shuo said, you said that his business of making electronic watches may not be able to continue."

Lin Weimin said: "What is the policy trend, do you know? You guys are ignorant, read more newspapers and magazines, and avoid sleeping with your daughter-in-law."

Qu Xiaowei scolded: "You kid, don't you want to drill yet!"

"Okay, let's not talk, I have to go back to work."

Lin Weimin got on his motorcycle and left, leaving Qu Xiaowei looking at his back. He suddenly thought of the Lageng Shen monkey ticket that he brought Lin Weimin to Yanjing when he first entered the Institute of Literature.

At that time, when Lin Weimin gave him the monkey ticket, he had a dazed expression on his face.

Qu Xiaowei rode his bicycle back home and rummaged through boxes and cabinets. He finally found two unused monkey tickets. He rode his bicycle to work again.

"Old Liu! Old Liu!" Qu Xiaowei called a middle-aged colleague out of the office.

"What's the matter?" Lao Liu asked Qu Xiaowei out of the office.

Qu Xiaowei pulled him aside and asked, "Aren't you collecting stamps?"

"Yes." Old Liu's middle-aged man only has a hobby of collecting stamps.

Qu Xiaowei took out two monkey tickets from his pocket, "Is anyone collecting this Gengshen monkey ticket now?"

Old Liu's eyes lit up when Qu Xiaowei took out the monkey ticket, "Hey, where did you come from? Monkey tickets are not so easy to buy now."

"I bought it when I was writing a letter before, but I didn't run out of it at the time." Qu Xiaowei said casually.

Old Liu looked at the monkey ticket happily for a long time, then returned it to Qu Xiaowei, and said with a bit of regret in his tone: "Unfortunately, there are only two..."

Seeing that he didn't talk about the topic, Qu Xiaowei asked, "Is this stuff collected now? Is it worth it?"

"Of course someone collected it, do you want to sell it?"

Seeing his expression, Qu Xiaowei said warily, "Do you want to buy it?"

Old Liu asked with a smile: "Two yuan a piece, can you sell it?"

"Not for sale."

The face value of a monkey ticket is eight cents, and Lao Liu offered two yuan when he came up. Qu Xiaowei was taken aback, but he also knew that Lao Liu dared to offer such a high price as soon as he came up. The value must not be lower, so I flatly refused.

"You're really smarter than a monkey." Old Liu saw that he didn't find a bargain, so he said truthfully: "The monkey ticket is rising rapidly now, and the market is basically three yuan a piece, and it will be even more expensive if it is a full page." .”

Three bucks?
Qu Xiaowei was a little shocked. From the face value of eight cents to three yuan, this is nearly forty times?
Qu Xiaowei immediately remembered that Lin Weimin had bought several editions plus more than 100 scattered monkey tickets, each of which cost three yuan. After counting so many monkey tickets, it must be at least 500 yuan, right?

After counting this, he couldn't help being surprised, it was higher than his two years of work.

In this era, ordinary people in China have no access to financial products such as futures, stocks, and funds, and the monkey ticket that has increased nearly forty times in two years is enough to shock them inexplicably.

Damn, this kid is really lucky.

Qu Xiaowei thought about this in his heart, and felt that something was wrong, what kind of shit luck, this kid definitely knew in advance that the price of the monkey ticket would increase.

"Hey, Lao Liu, is it worth it for you to pay such an expensive price for this thing?"

Old Liu looked like you have never seen the world.

"As long as there are people who still collect stamps, this thing can't lose money. If you don't collect stamps, you don't know. When the monkey stamps came out, there were not many people who were optimistic about them. Most stamp collectors just bought a few tokens for collection. , but it will be different immediately in the second year.”

"What happened in the second year?" Qu Xiaowei asked.

"The chicken ticket came out again in the second year."

Qu Xiaowei immediately understood, "Is this a zodiac ticket?"

Old Liu nodded, with an excited expression on his face, "That's right. Watch it, kid. When betting tickets and goat tickets are released in the future, the value of monkey tickets will definitely be even higher."

Qu Xiaowei understood the mystery with just a thought. The zodiac stamps that came out later must have a lot of stocks because everyone has understood them.

But monkey tickets are different. No one cared about them in the first year when they came out, and the result must be that the stock is scarce.

Rare things are more expensive, and the hotter the stamp collecting market, the higher the value of monkey stamps.

But the problem is that the hobby of collecting stamps is just a game of a small circle, Qu Xiaowei thought to himself.

"Okay, thank you." Qu Xiaowei got the answer and was about to leave.

"Hey, let me tell you, you really don't sell monkey tickets?"

Qu Xiaowei gave him a silent back.

When she got home from get off work, Liu Haiyan was cooking with her big belly.

"Is your son obedient today?"

Liu Haiyan gave him a blank look, "How many times have I said it, it's not necessarily my son!"

"It's the same with my daughter, you can cook first." Qu Xiaowei took Liu Haiyan's hand and asked, "Do you still keep the letters we wrote before?"

"Keep it, what's the matter?"

Qu Xiaowei said with a smile: "It's nothing, we can make a small fortune."

"what happened?"

Qu Xiaowei told her about Monkey Ticket from beginning to end, and Liu Haiyan became happy after hearing it.

"More than 20, isn't that worth more than 70 yuan?"

"That's right, tomorrow I'll find Lao Liu and sell all these monkey tickets."

"Didn't it say that it can still go up?"

Qu Xiaowei smiled confidently, "Do you believe in this kind of game of drumming and passing flowers? Stamps are not worth eating or wearing, and without the support of those stamp collectors, maybe the price will collapse one day, or it will be in the pocket." Be safe."

Qu Xiaowei's family conditions are very good, but now they are a young couple after all, relying on their combined salary of less than 100 yuan every month.

This salary standard is already very good for a family of two, but both of them are young people, earn a lot and spend a lot, plus the child is about to be born, Liu Haiyan also wants to keep more money in her hands.

After hearing what Qu Xiaowei said, she said, "That's right, let's sell it."

The couple discussed it, and the next day Qu Xiaowei found Lao Liu at his work unit and took out more than 20 monkey tickets.

"Old Liu, do you buy these monkey tickets?"

Old Liu took it over and looked at it, and said with disgust: "You are all letter sales tickets, look, where are the stamps?"

Qu Xiaowei didn't have a hobby of collecting stamps, so naturally he didn't know the difference between brand new stamps, postage stamps, and canceled stamps, and thought they were all the same thing.

"Don't fool me."

"I can do it. If you don't believe me, go and find out."

Qu Xiaowei didn't expect to have such a talk, he asked unwillingly: "Then how much are these stamps of mine worth?"

"You have to calculate the price of these letter tickets according to the location of the postmark." Old Liu pawed for a long time, "This one can sell for 1 yuan, this one is 8 cents, this one is not bad, it can be worth 8 yuan..."

After calculation, the 26 monkey tickets that Qu Xiaowei took out, except for the two well-preserved monkey tickets, add up to 42 cents, and the average price is about [-] cents each.

Plus two intact stamps, a total of 48 yuan and [-] cents.

"We are all colleagues, and I definitely can't make money from you. If you don't believe me, you can go to the market to inquire about it."

After paying the price, Lao Liu was afraid that Qu Xiaowei would be worried, so he said this.

There is still a little bit of trust in a unit that doesn’t see you when you look up. Even though there is a gap between the price and the price in your heart, Qu Xiaowei still said: “It’s not worth asking, so I’ll give you the stamp.”

Old Liu smiled and said, "Yes, then I'll give you the money tomorrow."

After the transaction was completed, the price did not meet the initial expectations. Naturally, I had regrets in my heart, but it was a windfall after all.

After work, Qu Xiaowei happily ran to the vegetable market to buy some pork head meat.

The bicycle roamed the streets of Yanjing, and the pig's head hanging on the handlebar dangled, just like Qu Xiaowei's happy mood.

This boy Weimin still has vision!

Thinking about it, Qu Xiaowei couldn't help feeling a little regretful.When Lin Weimin bought monkey tickets, he really should have followed suit.

In the future, we must keep up with the pace of serving the people!

　Today's first update.Try to write more today, as compensation for everyone.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)