"Hello Director Gu."

"Thank you for your hard work, Director Gu."

"Okay, everyone, we're welcome."

As soon as the little farce ended, my father rushed to the cafeteria, glanced around, found the seats of Gu Ao and Gu Min, and came straight to sit down.

Gu Ao saw it and found that the workers' expressions when greeting their father were relatively relaxed, not the kind of flattery and flattering performance.

"Dad, I didn't realize that you have been the deputy factory director for only two months, and it's so popular. It's really a big change every semester." Gu Ao teased and flattered.

"You kid deserves a slap again! Is this what you say?" The father smiled proudly.

My sister quickly mediated.

Gu Ao was quite touched and suddenly felt that it was good to let his father be a state-owned enterprise leader who lost money like this.

He loved reading historical time travel novels in his previous life, that is, those books that killed Tartars in the Song and Ming dynasties. Many mentioned the imperial guards of the Northern Song Dynasty. Because they were hereditary and reproduced by the relatives and generals of the foreigners, they were not good at fighting power, but they were very honest.

Because after a hundred years of peace, the main business of the Song Dynasty generals was in business, and their status as an officer could not be rejected, and they were destined to be born. The advantage of these people was that they did not have the work of empty salaries and blood in all dynasties, and even used their family business to subsidize their soldiers.

Being an official can pay for money. Although you are not good at fighting skills, being honest is absolutely honest.

At least before the comprehensive market economy in 1992, due to various tickets and lottery queuing, the admission qualification has not been banned, and the Gu family also needs someone to make money and someone to make tickets and qualifications.

From then on, Gu Ao relied on his own legal business, and paid the money that was so clean that he could not be cleaner that he could not be cleaner, so he could make his father an honest official and earn a level of treatment.

According to the policy of ordinary people retiring at the age of 60 and postponing senior talents and cadres to 65, Gu Ao did not expect his father to be 65. By 1992, he would be able to retire at the age of 63. He would enjoy a peaceful life, and before he retired, he would be able to relax for a few years.

At the dinner table, Gu Ao followed the news that Xiao's family might have to pay an excuse to greet New Year after the New Year, so that his father could be prepared.

"Dad, I have a 'good friend' from another place. I may come to Qiantang to play on the third day of the New Year and wish my family a happy New Year. You should have heard of it. I came to see my Xiao family during the winter vacation last year."

My father is slow in this regard, and secondly, it is because Gu Ao is only 17 years old. My father is still conservative in controlling premature love, and his family never talks about this issue with him.

So I didn't understand it for a while.

"Oh, you are talking about the siblings named Xiao Sui and Yan Ping, right? You and Yan Ping are also considered to be in the same age as you. When you first studied and entered a prestigious school together, you should have had more contacts.

Why, do you need your family to help you? You kid are richer than me now, and it doesn’t look like your style.”

Gu Ao could only continue to explain: "Yan Ping is not here, it is Xiao Sui, and her mother, Su Ping, and Hujiang Factory who starred in the movie."

"Hey, those who have friendship with you don't come, but his family is here? Why are they bringing elders with them..." After a few seconds of confusion, my father finally realized, "You kid can't be..."

"Yeah." Gu Ao admitted righteously, "I'm talking to someone."

"Cough cough..." My father choked on the soup and didn't know how to speak.

He has been widowed for seven or eight years and does not care about his children's lifelong affairs, nor is it convenient to care about them.

It was Gu Min who played the role of an elder and asked his younger brother some private words: "Hao Suizi and I have really come to this point? I saw some signs last time, but I didn't expect it to be so soon..."

Gu Ao interrupted his sister's gossip: "Let's talk about the details when you go back. Dad, sister, I brought a lot of things to go to Xiangjiang this time, and I pretended to be in the ceremony. Let's clean up the house and change it to a new outfit on the third day of the New Year."

My father's thoughts then returned to the channel: "They are a scholarly family. Although we must have a lot of money now, the future is an era of intellectuals, so people cannot underestimate it. We must prepare well... By the way, what level are his elders at the same time?"

My father is not as good as a literary worker than a culture, so he can only look at the administrative level with the simplest thinking.

People in 20 years may find it absurd: How can a businessman discuss with the person who writes books and makes movies?

But in the era of official position, everything can be of level and everything can be adjusted equally, and there is no improper style.

Gu Ao hurriedly popularized science: "The Provincial Department of Culture is at the department level, and the Federation of Literary and Art Circles is at the deputy department level. The Provincial Writers Association and other associations under the Federation of Literary and Art Circles are county and department-level units.

Suizi's father is the deputy appraisal seat of the Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and the appraisal seat of the Provincial Writers Association is all treated at the county and department level. Her mother is an actor from a studio. Although she is famous, her salary is high, she cannot be discussed at the level."

The father breathed a sigh of relief: "County and department-level treatment? That's good, that's good. We are a good match, and they are not worthy of it! We are a deputy department-level enterprise, Lao Qin is a deputy department-level, and we are also a county and department-level."

In the 1980s, the relaxation of the equality of the family and the pursuit of poetry and distant places was not achieved in one step. It was basically because the myth of self-employed wealth gradually spread that it impacted the inherent family thinking and promoted the "don't bully the young and poor".

And now this wealth myth has obviously not begun to form a social atmosphere.

Even Mou Zhongzhe just registered the first private joint-stock company in China a few days ago. Previously, only people with inverted chemical fibers made a lot of money.

Since my father cares about face, Gu Ao can only help him protect his father.

"It would be great if the city had already distributed the small foreign houses in Qingbo Gate to us. Even if they were rented at a high price, it would be a pity to receive their in-laws there." The father had already begun to think about the details of saving face in front of the in-laws.

Gu Ao interrupted with laughter and cry: "Dad, you're thinking too much, the Xiao family is not snobbish."

"They are not snobbish, and we can't be rude." The father waved his hand arbitrarily, "I'll go to the foreign exchange store after get off work today, buy some Japanese appliances, and support the storefront at home!"

...

Gu Ao talked to his father for a lunch break, but was driven away by his father. He ordered him and his sister to buy some appliances to support the storefront immediately so that the customers could visit.

No matter how Gu Ao said it, he could only agree.

He and his sister ignored the hard work of traveling and had to hire another personal tricycle to go straight to the foreign exchange store in the city.

The development history of China's "foreign exchange coupons" was officially launched on April 1, 1980 and abolished in 1995.

In other words, there is still one and a half months before the issuance of the first batch of foreign exchange coupons.

However, forex stores were opened earlier than forex coupons.

After all, the country must ensure that after the foreign exchange coupons are released, there is a place to use them immediately. It is a store waiting for the coupons, but it cannot wait for the coupons.

Starting from July last year, Yuezhou had its first special foreign exchange store in China, and in September it also had it. By the beginning of this year, Qiantang was also opened.

These stores now only charge US dollars and will only change to foreign exchange coupons after April 1.

In these places, you can buy all high-end imported consumer goods. Before that, even if Chinese people had foreign exchange, they could only bring them in in person after buying good things overseas, which was very inconvenient for transportation, especially large items such as household appliances.

Gu Ao has US dollars on hand, so of course he can buy it at will; and he also has a diplomatic passport, which can easily explain the legal source even if he is suspected of being investigated.

The tricycle master drove the siblings across half of the city, panting and stopped next to the exhibition hotel north of Red Sun Square.

Red Sun Square is the Wulin Gate Square that was familiar to Qiantang people in later generations. Because this place happened to be the original site of the northern city gate of ancient Qiantang, it was named after the city gate.

However, the old name "Red Sun" with a very contemporary characteristic has not been changed.

The location of the girl-shaped fountain pool in the square of Later generations is still standing with statues of great men.

The exhibition hotel opened in December 1978 and is the first foreign affairs hotel in Qiantang, which is for foreign guests of various international expos to stay. Last month, a new area was specially set up on the first floor of the hotel and the first foreign exchange store in Qiantang was opened.

The New Year is coming in two days. Thousands of citizens were watched from afar and near the entrance of the hotel, and the police maintained order so that citizens would not block the way to the entrance and exit of the hotel gate.

Everyone doesn't think this kind of onlooker is wasting time or something abrupt.

Because Red Sun Square is a social place for young and trendy citizens to dance ballroom dance and veneer dance.

The group also maintained this habit for decades until it became a square dance.

If you are tired of watching, you will dance for a while, and if you are tired of playing, you will watch again.

Some people wait for an hour and can wait for a foreign guest to buy a 14- or 18-inch Sharp/Toshiba color TV, and they will burst into depressing exclamations, which is similar to looking at a diorama, and when they go home, they can become a topic of conversation among neighbors.

For example, "I have seen an 18-inch Japanese color TV up close today. It is not locked on the counter, but it was taken away by someone. You have never seen it!"

Gu Ao and his sister walked to the door of the store. Because they were wearing home clothes, they were stopped by the guards.

Gu Ao showed his passport before the guard let him go.

"Wow! Is there a Chinese who can go in?!" The onlookers suddenly became excited.

"It's probably a Hong Kong businessman."

"I think it's an overseas Chinese!"

After all, this store has been open for less than a month, and the public finds it new.

At this moment, there was a young girl next to her who had been observing the situation. She suddenly rushed out, hugged Gu Ao's arm, and begged softly: "Can comrade say that I am your female companion and take me in to see the world."

Gu Ao was stunned for a moment, and didn't want to make a big fuss, so he lowered his voice and scolded: "What are you doing? Let go!"

"How about I'll give you 1 yuan, and you can put me in and have a walk." The vanity girl didn't give up.

Gu Ao could only call the guard and then cross the man away.

Looking at the other party's back being taken away, Gu Ao understood for a while.

It turns out that in 1980, a person who could enter a foreign exchange store had the right to get a woman to rub her breasts on your arm and even paid a dollar to take her to see the world.

No wonder Hong Kong businessmen in this era really want to, it would be like a cheat when they go to mainland China to hook up women.

He suddenly felt that he had a good character and was very restrained.

After all, looking at a person's character depends on his character when he has the ability. If a person has a gold finger in the invisibility cloak and does not touch his fingers, then he is a true saint.
Chapter completed!