No one has lived in Wang Fugui's house for a long time, and the water in the water tank has frozen.

There was no kang in the room, just a bed. The bedding had been left there for too long, making it cold and damp.

Wang Fugui scratched his head, with a melancholy look on his face: "No wonder people say that if no one lives in the house, it will lose popularity. Why do I feel that my house is quite old?"

Wu Jiangshan looked at the situation and thought that if they slept here all night, they would definitely catch a cold.

"Let's go and find a small hotel for a night."

Wang Fugui nodded: "If I have time tomorrow, I will come back to light a fire in the house and clean up."

"OK."

The two of them left without staying long. Braving the cold wind at night, they found a small hotel and spent ten yuan for a night.

Early the next morning, Wu Jiangshan was in a hurry to buy appliances. He didn't know whether he would need foreign exchange coupons to buy color TVs and refrigerators.

Wang Fugui said that he knew the place and had acquaintances, so there was no need to ask for help.

Wu Jiangshan really didn't expect Wang Fugui to be so capable, so he followed him in a taxi to a friendship store.

"Are you sure you don't need to roll up the money to buy things here?"

Wu Jiangshan looked suspicious. This was clearly a place dedicated to rolls.

After the reform and opening up, the number of visiting foreigners, returned overseas Chinese, and people from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan has increased day by day.

In order to facilitate their purchase of items and payment in foreign-related places, the State Council authorized the Bank of China to issue foreign exchange certificates on April 1, 1980.

The Friendship Store in the 1980s was not accessible to ordinary people, and foreign exchange coupons were the only currency in circulation here.

Some people have overseas relatives and friends at home, and it is very enviable to be able to get some foreign exchange coupons from there. It is very enviable to use the foreign exchange coupons to visit friendship stores.

So Wang Fugui said that there is no need to roll here. Wu Jiangshan was skeptical and suspected that Wang Fugui was bragging.

Wang Fugui knew that he didn't believe it, so he chuckled: "Others use it, but we don't. Just wait, I'll find someone to go with it."

Wang Fugui was so mysterious, as if he had changed into a different person. But Wu Jiangshan was not impatient and waited at the door of the store.

There were several people standing in front of the Friendship Store, all watching the excitement. They didn’t have foreign exchange coupons with them, so they couldn’t buy the imported goods inside.

But this does not prevent them from wanting to see what others have bought and opening their eyes.

Occasionally, people come in to shop, and they all dress very fashionably.

Wu Jiangshan stood with those people and waited for about twenty minutes before Wang Fugui trotted out.

He held a black bag in his hand and gave it to Wu Jiangshan: "Let's go in and buy something."

Wu Jiangshan was dragged into the Friendship Store by Wang Fugui, and quietly opened the bag. Inside was a thick stack of foreign exchange coupons....

"Hey, where did you get it? Didn't you say you don't need it?"

Wu Jiangshan didn't dare to say anything. Such a package of rolls was worth a lot of money.

Wang Fugui also came closer and whispered back: "My friend is in charge here. You can use it, go through the formalities, and he will take it back directly from the cabinet after using it."

When Wu Jiangshan heard what was going on, he couldn't help but give Wang Fugui a thumbs up: "Okay, I really didn't see it, you still have this way?"

Not to mention buying it at the same price as the one with the volume, even if Wu Jiangshan asked him to pay more, he would have taken a big advantage.

After appraising these volumes, Wu Jiangshan completely let go. Originally he only wanted to buy three large items for his cousin and a color TV set. Now that he has this convenience, why don't he buy more?

He also had nothing at home.

Wanjie can get some things at the southern coast, but how much effort does it take to transport them? Logistics is not that convenient now.

The few shipments he received from Wanjie before lasted for more than half a month. After that, he found a car to pick them up, and the cost was ridiculously high...

Wu Jiangshan and Wang Fugui looked at the counter in the store with great interest. They were selling scarce commodities that could not be purchased with RMB.

Here, you can buy grain, oil, cotton and other items in varying quantities, as well as the latest styles of clothes, shoes, and cosmetics.

As well as Hershey chocolate, Marlboro cigarettes, Swiss watches and other imported goods...

Wu Jiangshan came here to buy electrical appliances, so he went straight to household appliances.

A 20-inch imported color TV only cost 2,300 yuan with foreign exchange coupons. Wu Jiangshan only bought one. This thing will be updated quickly in a few years.

There are many choices of refrigerators, but they were developed early in China. For example, Zhang Dana’s family uses the old Snowflake brand.

Now there are Wanbao and Qindao-Liebherr, which are the Haier brothers...

There will be Changling and Meiling-Ariston in the future. In the creative advertisement at that time, a cartoon boy shouted: Meiling and another cartoon girl shouted: "Ariston".

There is also "Sound voice, quality wins", Wu Jiangshan found that he could even remember the advertising slogan from that year.

But now you need to use tickets to buy a refrigerator, which makes people speechless...

The Friendship Store sold imported refrigerators, but Wu Jiangshan decisively chose the domestic ones. He bought three refrigerators at one time, one for the store, one for his grandma’s house, and one for his grandma’s house.

I also bought three washing machines. As for watches, Wu Jiangshan didn’t look at them here. My cousin doesn’t need such expensive ones.

The main thing is that even if I spend 10,000 yuan to buy a Swiss watch for my cousin, no one in their village will recognize him, and it will be useless to show his expressions to a blind man...

The big freezer I wanted most was not found here.

Wu Jiangshan bought several more sets of cosmetics, chocolates, cigarettes, and foreign wine to prepare as gifts.

The business he wants to do will only get bigger and bigger in the future. In fact, a small restaurant owner in his previous life didn't know anything about business.

However, there is an old saying that it is not strange to be polite to many people.

When it comes to giving gifts, Wu Jiangshan is willing to spend money...

This trip, even with the coupons, cost almost 20,000 yuan. Not only did Wu Jiangshan feel distressed, but even the clerk at the Friendship Store had never seen anyone buying things like this.

The provincial capital is better. There are not many households with 10,000 yuan, but they are not uncommon. But even if there are households with 10,000 yuan, who is willing to spend 20,000 yuan to buy things at a time?

At this time, the average salary of workers in provincial cities was only about 70-90 yuan per person.

Even if you don't eat or drink for two years, you may not be able to save so much money. This trip to Wu Jiangshan made it possible.

His buying method shocked other customers in the store, and several of them simply followed him to see what he bought.

They accidentally became the center of attention, and the shop assistants and customers were all staring at them.

Wang Fugui also didn't expect Wu Jiangshan to spend so much money at once. His backpack was full of money...

Wu Jiangshan finally experienced what it was like to be a rich man. Although Wang Fugui was frightened, he also didn't want to lose Wu Jiangshan's face.

This kind of opportunity to show off is really rare. Helping Wu Jiangshan hold the black bag containing the foreign exchange coupons, Wang Fugui also held up his chest and raised his head, quite like a big boss.

Amidst the whispers of countless people, I finally bought everything, but how to transport it away became a problem.

They don't have a car, so they have to reverse the car back to Hushan. They can't get these three washing machines, three refrigerators and a color TV.

Wu Jiangshan asked Wang Fugui to ask his friend who worked at Youyi Store if he could find a car to deliver the goods directly to Hushan, thus saving a fortune in transportation costs.

Wang Fugui was in a bit of a dilemma, because he didn't have any friends to manage affairs here? These foreign exchange coupons were arranged in advance by Cui Yun in private when he heard that Wu Jiangshan was coming to buy electrical appliances...
Chapter completed!