Chapter 109 Gold
At around eleven o'clock at night, Chu Heng got up again, put on his clothes and went out, blending into the lonely dark night.
Go to Pigeon Market to find Ergou and give him a batch of grain and oil in exchange for 3,400 yuan.
The two of them didn’t communicate much during the whole process. Picking up the goods and getting the money was straightforward.
After arriving home, Chu Heng was not in a hurry to go to bed. Instead, he took out all his savings and placed them neatly on the table, including new ones, old ones, odd ones, and piled high.
"he...tui!"
"Ten yuan, twenty, thirty..."
Chu Hengxi counted the money one by one with a wide smile, and as time went by , the expression on his face gradually evolved from the initial joy to numbness.
At this moment, he remembered the famous saying of a certain king, money is really just a series of numbers!
After counting for more than twenty minutes, Chu Heng counted the amount of cash in his hand.
A total of thirty-eight thousand, four hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty-six cents!
In this era, for an individual, it can be said to be an astronomical sum of money.
If this was the result of corruption, the peanuts given to him would be enough to treat everyone in the hospital to a drink.
After counting the money, Chu Heng found another bundle of hemp rope and tied all the money into piles of hundreds of pieces according to different denominations. After finishing, he divided the money into two parts. One portion cost thirty-five thousand yuan, and he had other uses for it.
The remaining more than 3,400 are used for daily pocket money.
A big dog owner is heroic...
The next day.
Chu Heng woke up as soon as the sky was bright. The warm morning light reflected on the curtains, and the bamboo patterns on them seemed to come alive and looked full of vitality.
Today he was a little lazy and didn't want to move much, so he didn't go to the pigeon market to do some shopping. He lit a fire in the stove, washed himself, and ate a few meat buns, then hugged the antique guide. Started chewing.
At around 7:30, he put away his books and went out to work.
When Ni Yinghong also arrived, Chu Heng rushed up to share with her the good news about the in-laws on the tenth day of the Lunar New Year.
The girl was overjoyed when she heard this. She excitedly took apart the woolen socks that a bitch had knitted for her brother the day before yesterday when a bitch made her angry. She had been looking forward to this day for a long time.
"I will go home with my parents in the evening... um..." Just in the middle of her words, Ni Yinghong suddenly frowned, a touch of pain appeared on her smooth face, and she unconsciously covered it with her hands. Holding his lower abdomen, he forced a smile and continued: "I will tell my parents when I get home."
Chu Heng couldn't help but feel nervous when he saw this. He thought she was sick. He was about to ask, but then he thought After counting the time, a look of surprise appeared on his face.
It turns out that relatives are here.
"Wait for me for a while."
After saying this, he ran back to the office, took out the brown sugar and jujubes and put them into his enamel jar, poured boiling water in and made a full cup of jujube brown sugar water. , then carefully returned to the front room with the steaming cup in hand.
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When Chu Heng placed a large glass of brown sugar water in front of Ni Yinghong, the girl was instantly warmed up and moved to the point of being moved.
Holding the hot cup, she raised her head with love and looked at the tall, handsome, caring man in front of her, and smiled softly: "You are so kind."
This is her man, although She's a bit cheap and a bit promiscuous, but she still cares about her in her heart, so she's worthy of being entrusted to her. Chu Heng lay on the checkout counter, leaning his head on his hands, and said with a smile: "If you want to thank me, how about you go to my place to learn an instrument at night?"
" Can you be okay?" Ni Yinghong suddenly rolled her eyes and her cheeks felt a little hot. Why does this guy always want to offend others?
Thinking that she would soon become the bride of this dead man, the girl immediately panicked. How would he torment me? ! !
Chu Heng, a slut, liked her shy and timid appearance. When he saw the girl lowering her head shyly, he shyly approached Ni Yinghong and teased Ni Yinghong for a while, until she took out a sweater needle and wanted to poke him. Then I returned to the office satisfied.
I took out my abacus and account book to write some calculations, and played a few games of chess with Old Man Lian. The whole morning passed in an ordinary way.
After lunch, Chu Heng ran out of the grain store without even being gentle with Ni Yinghong, and went straight to the bookstore where Na worked.
This time he was not looking for antiques from the old man, nor was he looking after the children, but he was looking for some gold from the old man.
The thirty-five thousand yuan he allocated last night was just for this matter.
Before meeting Na Qingyuan, Chu Heng made money just to stock up on houses and do business after the city was opened to the outside world. However, after meeting these old people and children, he had other ideas.
During the reform and opening up, he was just in time to catch up with the tail end of the gold bull market. If he turned his temporarily useless money into gold now, and waited until the peak of the bull market to find a way to sell it abroad, the price would be almost the same as now. Several times the amount, the money obtained was still the hard currency at that time, which was far more cost-effective than hoarding money in hand.
The current gold purchase price of domestic banks is 241 taels, which is approximately equivalent to 1.76 ounces. By January 1980, the international gold price seemed to be more than 850 US dollars an ounce. About an ounce, one tael is equivalent to one thousand four hundred and ninety-nine dollars.
This business is a huge profit!
And in that era, foreign exchange was indeed much more useful than RMB!
Chu Heng was not worried that the old man and the young would not sell his gold.
At this time, the old and young people in Sijiu City, except for a few who joined the public-private partnership and received dividends, the others relied on selling off their old capital to maintain a luxurious life. Today they would exchange some silver dollars, tomorrow they would sell gold bars, and the day after tomorrow they would Antiques for sale.
As long as he purchases gold at a higher price than the bank, I believe those people will be willing to sell him the gold bars in their hands.
After all, no one wants to have trouble with money, right?
Chu Heng had a busy journey and soon arrived at Huaxia Bookstore located on Liulichang West Street.
It is said to be a bookstore, but in fact it is similar to a cultural relics store. It also deals in cultural relics. However, the project is very simple. It only sells old books and periodicals, and rubbings of inscriptions and inscriptions. It also sells newly printed ancient books, reproduces and publishes ancient Chinese documents, and provides supplements to readers. Broken books and single-volume newspapers and periodicals of a single year.
Chu Heng found a place to park his car, and walked into the ancient Huaxia Bookstore. He asked someone to inquire, and soon found the person who was sorting books next to a huge bookshelf. Qingyuan.
He strolled over and said hello with a smile: "I'm busy, sir."
The old man unexpectedly turned his head and asked with a smile: "What's wrong with you, kid?" Are you here?”
“I have something to do with you. Let’s go out and talk?” Chu Heng pursed his lips toward the door.
"Didn't you find some treasure again?" Qingyuan didn't think about it elsewhere, because the intersection between the two was antiques, and it was because of this that they usually met.
"We'll talk about it when we get out." Chu Heng pulled him out of the bookstore and found a no-man's corner to stand. He first took out a cigarette and lit it for the old man, and then said what he meant: "I'm looking for you today. I’d like to ask you to help me collect some gold.”< br>
"What do you want that thing for?" The old man was very surprised. Unlike before, gold is not allowed to be circulated among the people. If you want to exchange it for money, you can only go to the bank and sell it. Very few people will do it here. It’s time to buy this thing.
“Don’t worry about it.”
Chu Heng blew out the cigarette with a smile, put his arms around the old man’s shoulders, and whispered in his ear: “I don’t care how much you spent to get it. , I will pay you two hundred and forty-five cents, how about this deal?”
Everyone in the world is profit-seeking. He gave the old man a sufficient price difference. I don't believe he will not be tempted.
(End of this chapter)