Chapter 255 What? Xuemin, you bought an apartment in Overseas Chinese Apartment (please book it in full)
"Hey, Xuemin, wait a minute, I have something I want to ask you to help me with!"
Cheng Xuemin just bought four packs of aunt's towels from the overseas Chinese store and was going to take them back to his wife, Feng's children, when they were leaving!
The store director here, Lao Yang, stopped him!
“Lao Yang, what’s going on?”
Cheng Xuemin stuffed his aunt's scarf into the grocery bag so that Lao Yang wouldn't see it, and turned around to say hello.
"Xuemin, that's it!"
"Didn't our overseas Chinese store add a new batch of imported goods this time?"
"In addition to the electric fan you wanted last time, we were also commissioned to get an air compression regulator..."
Lao Yang nodded to Cheng Xuemin and handed him a cigarette out of habit. However, when Cheng Xuemin didn't take it, he realized that he didn't smoke.
Then he lit one and started to mention this matter to Cheng Xuemin.
"What? Lao Yang, did you bring that air conditioner in?"
Cheng Xuemin has bought the house in the Overseas Chinese Apartment here, and is thinking about asking Lao Yang to help him apply for it and get an air conditioner from outside!
I originally thought it might be a little impossible to get air conditioning in.
After all, countries such as Omega are now very strict on technology blockade. During the current Cold War, not to mention that the technology is not sold to the outside world, even the products are not sold to us.
Especially products involving high-end technical content like air conditioners are absolutely prohibited from being exported and sold to us.
Therefore, Cheng Xuemin thought about letting Lao Yang give it a try.
After all, I just came back from my previous visit to the United States. It was an ice-breaking trip between the two countries, and the results I brought back were quite good.
For example, after returning, we have begun to select outstanding students from universities to study abroad in Laomi and conduct academic exchanges between universities.
Why was Cheng Xuemin's previous seller, the original owner of the apartment in the Overseas Chinese Apartment, Ms. He, who combined Chinese and Western styles, so anxious to use foreign exchange coupons?
I just got the approval and became the first batch of places to go abroad for exchange after the re-opening.
certainly!
She has sold all the properties, and it is obvious that after taking advantage of this opportunity to go out, she will not come back again.
I will definitely not come back for at least ten years.
Situations like Ms. He's situation should not be too common among the first batch of people who are allowed to go abroad.
The vast majority never come back.
They are all thinking, after finally getting out, who will rush back again?
Just like some said!
The air in Laomi is fragrant.
Maybe this is also a common cognitive phenomenon among people in this era.
Moreover, this cognitive phenomenon will continue to deepen with the deepening of communication with Lao Mi, and the trend of going abroad will become more and more common.
Selling houses and properties are all about trying to squeeze out the money and make money.
But when they returned to their hometown more than ten years later with savings of millions or even tens of millions, and wanted to return home and buy a house, they were shocked to find out!
They worked hard outside and earned foreign exchange coupons for most of their lives. In the end, when they came back, they found that it was not enough to buy back the apartment they sold when they needed foreign exchange coupons to go abroad.
I wonder if it is sad or not! ?
Of course, this is a later story!
What Cheng Xuemin didn’t expect now was that they had just had an ice-breaking trip. How come Lao Yang’s overseas Chinese store even brought in products involving high-end technology such as air conditioners?
"Air conditioning?" Lao Yang, on the other hand, was startled when he heard an unfamiliar word pop out of Cheng Xuemin's mouth.
"It's the air compression regulator you mentioned, Lao Yang. Translated from outside, it's called air conditioner for short!"
Lao Yang, you brought everything in, but you don’t even know its scientific name?
"Oh! It turns out that this air compression regulator is the air conditioner that Xuemin mentioned to me last time!"
Only then did Lao Yang suddenly realize that he had really found the right person today, and he quickly asked, "Xuemin, since you know this air... air conditioner, can you install it?"
Lao Yang stared at Cheng Xuemin in front of him with full expectation.
"Install?!"
Cheng Xuemin was stunned by the transformation of Lao Yang. What did Lao Yang mean by this? ?
You co-authored a foreigner's purchase of an air conditioner, but you don't know how to install it?
Is this the case?
"yes!"
"We were entrusted by a foreign guest to bring in an air conditioner. Originally, their installer would come in with him!"
"But due to an emergency, their installation master couldn't get in for a while!"
Lao Yang then explained the cause and effect to Cheng Xuemin, and continued to say bitterly, "Foreign guests come in and put air conditioners in their homes, but no one installs them, no!"
"Our store must send someone over quickly to help them install that air conditioner!"
"But our people have never seen that thing in their lives, how can they pretend!"
Lao Yang said bitterly, they had never seen that thing before, let alone how to install it.
Let’s have some exchanges!
On the one hand, he wants Lao Yang to quickly find someone who can install it. On the other hand, he must give the green light to his outside installation master and ask the installation master to come over quickly.
But Lao Yang couldn't explain these two aspects to the other party for a while.
The most terrible thing is that foreign guests are involved. If it doesn't go well, it will be an international dispute. The pressure on Lao Yang's side is not ordinary.
No, I happened to meet Cheng Xuemin today, and the anxious Lao Yang just asked him casually, just like a doctor.
"Lao Yang, are you going to the Overseas Chinese Apartment now?"
So that’s what happened!
Cheng Xuemin knew what to do, should he install air conditioning?
Cheng Xuemin installed it once in his previous life, but that was a modern loss-reported air conditioner decades or several generations later.
But I don’t know what the air conditioner that Lao Yang bought looks like in this day and age?
So I didn’t force myself to show off, and I promised to pretend.
But seeing that Lao Yang was in a hurry to go out, he casually asked if he wanted to communicate with the foreign guest again.
If so, Cheng Xuemin would just go over and take a look.
"Ah! Yes!" Lao Yang nodded and said anxiously, "Isn't this urging me again? I have to go over and explain to them to stabilize them!"
"How is it? Xuemin, you have read a lot of foreign languages, so you must know a lot. You also know that this thing is called an air conditioner. Do you know how to install it?"
"Let's go and take a look first! There should be a manual, right?" Cheng Xuemin still nodded in disbelief.
"Yes, yes, there must be an instruction manual! But we can't understand it at all!"
"Xuemin, do you want to go over and have a look? You can do that, I know you can definitely do that, Xuemin. I should have thought of asking you to come out!"
When Lao Yang heard that Cheng Xuemin wanted to go over and have a look, he must have been somewhat confident. He was overjoyed on the spot and quickly pushed out a bicycle, calling for Cheng Xuemin to follow him quickly.
"Lao Yang, was this air conditioner commissioned from outside?"
"Then is there any way we can bring in one or two air conditioners from outside?"
Knowing that the air conditioner in Lao Yang's place was only brought in on an outside commission and not counted as goods from our own overseas Chinese store, Cheng Xuemin was a little disappointed.
He also tentatively asked Lao Yang if he could enter one or two of his overseas Chinese stores.
Cheng Xuemin might as well buy one by then and install it in the master bedroom of the overseas Chinese apartment.
In summer, it's better to have an air conditioner.
"Maybe not!"
However, Lao Yang shook his head and continued: "Xuemin, this incident also reminded us that even if we come in, no one knows how to install that thing. That's a lot!"
"The manufacturer doesn't have the installation skills to come in, so we need to send professional people out to learn the installation skills, and they don't necessarily teach them!"
"So Xuemin, some things are not compared to daily necessities, they just come in!" Things are imported and bought, but there is no installation technology, no one understands that stuff!
Then if you buy it imported, why don’t you just store it in a corner and collect dust?
Therefore, this is one of the main reasons why their overseas Chinese store has not approved the air-conditioning despite several reports.
"What if we have the installation technology?"
Cheng Xuemin asked without giving up.
"You have installation skills...Xuemin, are you really good at installing that thing?"
Lao Yang originally wanted to say that even if he had the installation technology, it might not be possible, but he quickly realized it and asked quickly.
"Lao Yang, let's go and take a look first!"
"If it can be installed, I may need your help and entrust an air conditioner to come in!"
Cheng Xuemin still said without any guarantee.
"Okay, Xuemin, if you really know how to install that thing and help us resolve this international conflict, you will be a shame to us!"
"When the time comes, I will definitely help you ask for help from the superiors and arrange for an air conditioner to come in for you!"
Lao Yang was overjoyed when he heard this and immediately expressed his stance.
"I'm not sure, let's give it a try first!"
Cheng Xuemin mentioned it again without any guarantee, and the two of them quickly arrived at the Overseas Chinese Apartment.
"Huh?! Don't you need to sign in and make an appointment?"
"The guard didn't let me in alone the first two times!"
When he arrived at the gate of the Overseas Chinese Apartment, Lao Yang just wanted to go up to the doorman to say hello and make an appointment, but Cheng Xuemin just shouted to the doorman to help open the door!
The doorman opened the door very obediently. The procedures for entering were completely different from the previous two times Lao Yang came here!
At that time, the guard here was very defensive, asking questions and asking the owners inside before they could be let in.
"Lao Yang, I'm telling you the truth! I bought an apartment there a few days ago, and now I'm the owner of it!" Cheng Xuemin smiled bitterly.
He was treated like Lao Yang before and was not allowed to enter without an appointment. But what the doorman didn't expect was that within a few days, Cheng Xuemin turned around and became the new owner of their community!
So, after Cheng Xuemin said hello, he must open the door for him, the new owner.
"What? Xuemin, you bought an apartment here?"
"But aren't the apartments here sold to overseas Chinese and foreigners?"
"Besides, that was all ten or twenty years ago?"
Lao Yang is the director of the Overseas Chinese Store, and the people he interacts with the most on weekdays are the overseas Chinese and foreigners in the overseas Chinese apartment complex in front of him.
So I must know that houses here are only sold to overseas Chinese or foreigners.
Why did the new professor of Yan University in front of me turn around and buy an apartment here?
"Lao Yang, you also said that that happened more than ten or twenty years ago. Now there is no such requirement. As long as someone wants to sell it and you want to buy it, anyone can buy it!"
Cheng Xuemin still smiled and said, "We only sell it to overseas Chinese and foreigners. Are those old almanacs from many years ago?"
"Then Xuemin, you didn't spend any money, did you?"
"When the houses here were first built, I heard they cost 30,000 to 40,000 yuan a house!"
Lao Yang clicked his tongue when he heard this. This is an overseas Chinese apartment, the best and most modern private residence in Beijing. Everything is decorated in the style of Western capitalist developed countries.
When it was built and sold, the price was as high as 30,000 to 40,000 meters of gold, which shocked many people.
Although more than ten or twenty years have passed, the house is still the most modern and the most bourgeois, and the selling price will definitely not be low!
Three to forty thousand meters of gold!
Now even if converted into our RMB, it would be around 100,000 yuan, right?
The new professor of Yan University in front of me is so rich that he actually bought a house here?
"It's not that exaggerated. It's all hearsay. I heard from my seller that her parents spent 10,000 meters of gold on it!"
"Now...she is in a hurry to go abroad and sells her at a low price. I just missed her!"
Cheng Xuemin shook his head, not explaining too much about the house price.
"That won't be cheap!"
"As expected, he is a master of pens. The royalties he earns come from his money quickly!"
Lao Yang also knew what was going on and didn't ask too much about this sensitive issue. Then he pointed to the left and said, "That house is in Building 6 over there! Which building is that, Xuemin? I'll go back when I have time." I have to come to your house and warm up a pot!”
"Okay, okay, Lao Yang, I'm over there in the second building. If I move the house then, I'll definitely invite you to come over and warm up the pot!"
Cheng Xuemin nodded again and again. The word "warming a pot" in Lao Yang's mouth was in Ludong dialect, and it had almost the same meaning as "warming a house or cooking a meal."
When Lao Yang led him in, he discovered that the foreign guest should be John Bull and spoke their native English, so Cheng Xuemin no longer had to pretend in front of Lao Yang!
Because what he revealed to Lao Yang was that he was proficient in English.
After some greetings, Cheng Xuemin also saw the air conditioner placed in the lobby, which turned out to be a separate wall-mounted type!
This foreigner has some energy, and he actually got the most advanced split wall-mounted air conditioner in foreign countries. Although it is the first generation, it still looks quite friendly to Cheng Xuemin.
"Japanese? Made by Japanese?"
When Cheng Xuemin got the instruction manual, he found that it was all written in Japanese language, which instantly surprised him.
"Xuemin, do you also understand Japanese? Is this made by the Japanese?"
Anyway, the foreigners looking at him eagerly could not understand what they were talking about. Lao Yang looked at Cheng Xue in surprise and asked.
He actually understands the Japanese language?
"If you understand a little bit, you should have no problem reading this manual!"
Cheng Xuemin mentioned it modestly to Lao Yang, but for Cheng Xuemin, who was proficient in several languages, it was really not easy to read this air-conditioning installation manual made by the Japanese.
"Scroll compressor?"
After Cheng Xuemin understood the instruction manual for this air conditioner, he realized why the accompanying installer didn't follow him in!
"Xuemin, what's the vortex compressor?" Lao Yang continued to be confused and couldn't understand what Cheng Xuemin was saying.
"Lao Yang, tell me the truth, how did you get this air conditioner? Why didn't the installation master follow?"
"Is the other party negotiating, asking us to return this air conditioner as soon as possible?"
Cheng Xuemin asked with a very solemn expression.
"Huh? How do you know, Xuemin? I heard this foreign buyer said that if we can't find the installer again, he will ask us to return the air conditioner intact!"
"What's wrong? Xuemin, do you see something fishy here?"
Lao Yang also heard something in Cheng Xuemin's words, realized that there might be something fishy in it, and asked in a low voice.
"Lao Yang, we must have found a treasure! The Japanese manufacturer must have sent the wrong goods and sent the latest generation air conditioner they developed!"
"You know, the Japanese have threatened not to export this air conditioner to us within thirty years in order to block our technology!"
Cheng Xuemin did not open his eyes and tell lies. This split-mounted vortex compressor air conditioner is indeed the latest generation of cross-century advanced air conditioners developed and produced by Guizi.
They have actually threatened not to export to us in the next thirty years in order to strictly prevent technological blockade.
But what Cheng Xuemin didn’t expect was!
Why did such a most advanced vortex separation hanging air conditioner suddenly come in?
This is not a treasure found, what is it?
……
Asking for a monthly ticket!
(End of this chapter)