Chapter 36
From that day on, Su Miao finally got rid of the dilemma of feeling like an eternity in class. Half of the drawer was filled with junior high school textbooks.
Compared to elementary school, junior high school has several more courses, which is enough for Su Miao to review for a while.
Teacher Meng also helped her find test papers from different middle schools from time to time. There were no exercise books available on the market now, and these test papers were very rare.
Su Miao finished the test paper as soon as possible as if it were a treasure, and then folded it neatly together.
One day after physical education class, she and her classmates returned to the classroom and found that her drawer was a little messy and the test papers were scattered.
Turning to look at Ma Wenjie, she saw that his eyes were wandering and he had a guilty expression. She roughly understood the situation.
Maybe it was because the teacher didn’t punish Su Miao after she reported the matter, and even turned a blind eye to her reading extracurricular books.
Like going directly to her drawer to look for evidence. If we can find some picture books, we can catch the criminal red-handed.
Unfortunately, Su Miao disappointed him. In the drawer, there were nothing but textbooks and a stack of neatly written test papers.
What shocked him most was an English test paper. Ma Wenjie's father used to work in the diplomatic system and his English was very good.
Before I had a younger brother, I focused on training him. His scores in Chinese and math were average, but he was able to enter the first class largely because he was very good at English, and he almost always got full marks.
Before today, he was very sure that he was the best English student in the school, but when he saw the test paper done by Su Miao, his worldview collapsed.
Su Miao didn't care how much he was thinking. She started to clean up the drawer. Forget about the textbooks. These test papers were hard-earned, so she decided to take them home.
"Miao Miao, look!" Li Yuanyuan quietly took out an envelope from her schoolbag.
Su Miao took it and looked at it. The recipient on the envelope was Li Yuanyuan, but the sender's address was actually far away in Shandong.
"Do you have any relatives in Shandong?"
"No, this is my pen pal! You can read the letter. It's from a high school girl. We've exchanged several letters!"
Pen pal! What a nostalgic term. Many magazines have a section on making friends at the back. She used to envy her classmates who could make pen pals.
But sending a letter requires buying stamps, and she doesn't have any extra pocket money.
Yes! Stamps! Why didn’t she think of this investment?
The letter sent to Li Yuanyuan was stamped with an 8-cent stamp of Zheng He's voyages to the West, and the painting and map were very beautiful.
Li Yuanyuan couldn't wait to show her the letter inside.
Dear Sister Yuanyuan:
Good luck with your letter!
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It seems that Li Yuanyuan had confided a lot of her girlish thoughts before, and this pen pal gave her guidance and encouragement from the perspective of an older sister.
Su Miao read the letter carefully and said with a smile, "This sister is really nice. Her handwriting is beautiful and her words make sense."
Li Yuanyuan folded the letter carefully and put it in her schoolbag. "Yes, there are some things I dare not tell my parents, but I can tell her. It makes me very happy to communicate with her."
"Yeah! I'm happy too!"
What made Su Miao happy was not that he now had the conditions to make pen pals, but that he remembered stamp collecting as a way to make money.
Although this is a long-term investment project and it takes time for the stamps to appreciate slowly, as long as you choose the right stamps, the increase cannot be underestimated.
Some rare stamps that were printed but not issued or recalled with errors are not circulated on the market and are difficult for her to find.
She can look for some that are currently in large circulation and have a wide range of circulation, but will appreciate very rapidly in the future.
As far as she knows, the one that best meets this condition should be the T46 Gengshen Year Monkey Stamp published in 1980.
This stamp was issued by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications to commemorate the Year of Gengshen and is the first stamp in the first round of zodiac stamps.
By the year she died, the price of a single Gengshen Monkey stamp had risen from 8 cents to 2,500 yuan, and it continued to increase year by year.
This is just the price for a single sheet. If it is a whole set or a whole sheet, the unit price will be higher. Such an appreciation rate can be considered a strange thing in the entire stamp industry.
At the weekend, Su Miao decided to go to the post office. Generally speaking, the post office would stop selling stamps one year after they were issued and replace them with new stamps.
However, some post offices have special philatelic counters, or the staff have their own stocks that can be traded privately.
She borrowed 500 yuan from her father, and Su Yuanzheng went to the bank to withdraw the money for her without saying a word.
"Dad, won't you ask me what I'm going to do with this money?"
"Of course you have serious needs. If you don't have enough, just ask Dad for more. In just over two months, our family has added another 4,000 yuan to their savings! I feel like I'm dreaming every day. Who would have thought that setting up a stall could make so much money!"
"Dad! Not everyone can make this much money by setting up a stall. It's because we have good skills! Many people even close down due to losses!"
After the reform and opening up, everyone got rid of the "big pot" system, and the gap between the rich and the poor widened rapidly, which promoted social and economic development, but of course also brought about considerable social contradictions.
Although she does not have the ambition to become a billionaire, she will never be eliminated by the times.
Su Miao arrived at the post office and lay in front of the stamp display counter for a long time. There were a wide variety of stamps on display, but there was no monkey stamp that she had been longing for.
This is also expected, after all, it has been five years since this monkey stamp was first sold.
This ticket has been very popular since its release. About 200,000 copies were printed, with 80 stamps in each copy, for a total of about 16 million stamps. However, due to printing problems, most of them were invalidated, and only about 5 million finished products were issued, with a full page of less than 60,000 monkey stamps.
This number is considered small among the normally issued stamps.
The person selling stamps was an employee who was about to retire. He saw Su Miao staring at the stamps for a long time, so he came over and asked.
"Little comrade? Do you want to buy some stamps?"
Su Miao raised his head and replied politely, "Hello, do you have any monkey stamps for sale here?"
The old clerk asked in surprise: "Monkey stamp? How did you know about this stamp?"
"I heard from my dad that there's a little monkey squatting on it. I heard it was released a few years ago. My dad is a monkey, but he never got to buy this one before. It's his birthday in a few days and I want to give it to him."
The old clerk nodded in understanding. "What a filial young comrade! You must be referring to the Gengshen Monkey Stamp. You may not know this, but the price of this ticket has increased, and it's no longer available with your credit."
"Grandpa, I know that monkey stamps are very expensive now, but I am willing to use all my money."
The old clerk was moved by the sincerity of the little girl. After a moment's thought, he said, "Child, the post office is out of Monkey stamps now. However, a friend of mine bought a lot of them when they were first released. I can ask him if he's willing to sell them."
Su Miao said in surprise, "Great! Thank you, Grandpa. If your friend has both the four-part set and the entire edition, I'd buy them both!"
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