Chapter 363: Going Home with the Color TV
The next morning, Gao Mingcheng got up early, went out to have breakfast, and then drove the truck back.
When there was no one on the road, he hummed a song in a very good mood. Even if he was out of tune, it did not affect his good mood.
How much is the profit of smuggling? Let me put it this way. In the 2017 Hong Kong Film Awards Best Film "Trees Draw the Wind", the leading actor Ye Guohuan, who is also the real-life "Three Thieves of Hong Kong", Ye Jihan, was a thief who robbed gold shops. Later, he found that "smuggling" could make more money. He immediately quit and became a smuggler who hid his identity.
This shows how tempting the profits here are!
To give another example, Mr. Huang, who was once the richest man, started from scratch by selling electrical appliances, and most of his electrical appliances were smuggled.
Gao Mingcheng gained the friendship of Fan Licheng, so most of the goods that Sai Yanfei gave him were small-scale Panasonic color TVs. In the capital, the price of a 21-inch remote-controlled color TV is 4,500 yuan.
However, you need a color TV ticket to buy it!
Starting from 1987, color TVs were supplied with tickets, and the color TV tickets that came into being became "hard currency". The earliest ticket cost a few hundred yuan, but later it was speculated to thousands of yuan.
In 1988, the country introduced a strict price limit policy. The national price of color TVs in the mainland was much cheaper than that in coastal provinces such as Guangdong. For example, Philips color TVs were 700 yuan cheaper in the mainland than in Guangdong.
This news sounds good at first glance, but in fact, if you want to buy a color TV in a store, you often have to "hard-match" it, that is, you are forced to "buy" various unsaleable goods, the amount ranging from tens of yuan to nearly ten thousand yuan.
Such regulations made it impossible for many people to buy color TV sets, but during this period, color TV sets were very popular. Many people would rather not eat meat for half a year, and the whole family would tighten their belts and save money to buy a color TV set.
Whenever buying a color TV, the whole family would go out together. In addition to carrying the color TV, they also had to carry a bunch of "combination" goods, such as thermos bottles, toilet paper, duck down quilts, tables, chairs, benches, almost everything.
People in later generations may find this kind of thing unbelievable, but in fact, similar things happened in later generations. For example, if you want to buy a Hermès handbag, you need to complete certain matching items before you are eligible to buy it.
These information flashed quickly through Gao Mingcheng's mind, and the smile on his lips never disappeared.
He had not planned to buy a TV before. Firstly, he could not get a color TV ticket. Secondly, although the average price of a domestic color TV was only 1,332 yuan, the quality was not that good. Imported color TVs were not only expensive, but also impossible to buy without some connections.
In this case, he simply gave up the desire to compete with others and waited patiently for color TVs to become popular. It would not be too late to buy one then.
But now there are three Panasonic 21-inch remote-controlled color TVs in his car!
When Gao Mingcheng thought of the surprised looks on Xuanyuemei and Gao Shufang's faces when he brought back the color TV, he felt refreshed all over and not tired at all.
He wanted to drive back to the county in one breath, but the journey was long, and even if he drove as fast as he could, he would not be home until the next morning.
The car stopped in front of a clothing store.
Gao Mingcheng opened the car door and jumped out of the car with swift movements.
Even before the truck stopped, Xuanyuemei and Gao Shufang in the store noticed something, so they walked towards the door and just happened to see Gao Mingcheng getting out of the driver's seat.
"Mingcheng, you're back! Why are you a few days later than usual?" When Xuanmei saw Gao Mingcheng, her eyes lit up with surprise, and the tension in her heart finally settled down.
She had heard that sports cars were risky.
And she had also seen Gao Mingwan's head and hands wrapped in gauze.
She thought that Gao Mingwan and the master were both injured when they were driving the car, so if Gao Mingcheng went out alone to drive the car, he would not even have a helper if he encountered any problems.
In addition, Gao Mingcheng came back a few days later than usual, so she has been worried these days.
Gao Mingcheng also noticed the worry on Xuanyuemei's face, so he went forward and hugged Xuanyuemei.
It was broad daylight, and even though they were husband and wife, hugging in the street still made the beauty blush, struggle slightly, and glare at him coquettishly.
"I was delayed by something urgent, but that's a good thing! Let me use some connections to get a phone installed, so that if I have something urgent, I can call you to inform you." Gao Mingcheng confidently said that he wanted to install the phone.
It feels so good to have enough money!
"Okay, let's talk later. I'll unload the goods first!" Gao Mingcheng said, and prepared to unload the goods.
After unloading, he still has to return the truck to the transportation company.
When he was unloading the goods, Gao Shufang and Luo Li also came out to help. As the goods were heavier, they worked together to move them.
Many beauties are pregnant and cannot do heavy work, so they can only watch from the side.
Gao Shufang looked at the dazzling array of goods, her heart felt like a cat was scratching it, and her eyes looked at this and that.
Before the second brother left, he promised her that he would give him a gift!
What will that gift be?
I really want to know it sooner!
At this time, Gao Mingcheng personally carried the color TV out of the car.
"What is this? The words on it are so strange, I don't recognize them!" When Gao Shufang saw the words on the TV box, she doubted her own ability for a moment and didn't even recognize the words.
Gao Mingcheng smiled. The words printed on the box were "Xiao Ri Zi" (a Chinese character for "Little Day"). Gao Shufang naturally didn't recognize them. Not to mention Gao Shufang, even he didn't recognize them. He could only guess. After all, the words in "Xiao Ri Zi" were derived from Chinese characters, so there were some Chinese characters in them.
"This is a color TV! I'll put it at home first, and then debug it when I come back." Gao Mingcheng said with a smile.
The two words "color TV" seemed to have magic power, instantly shocking the three women.
After being surprised, they were delighted.
When I was in the village, there wasn’t even a black and white TV, but in the county, some families still had black and white TVs, but color TVs were rare.
But what do they see now?
They saw Gao Mingcheng brought back color TV sets from outside! And not just one, but two!
Of course, there were actually three, but Gao Mingcheng did not take the color TV out of the car.
After moving all the goods into the store, Gao Mingcheng said to Xuanyuemei, "Don't touch the color TV yet. You can count the other things first. I have to return the car now and will be back later."
"Hey." Many beauties responded with smiles.
Gao Shufang really wanted to ask what her gift was, but she didn't have the courage to ask, so she could only watch Gao Mingcheng drive away.
"Shufang, Luo Li, come and help me count." Xuanyuemei said.
"Hey." The two responded, both with curiosity on their faces, they went to count the goods that Gao Mingcheng brought back.
Naturally, most of these goods were clothes, and then there were some miscellaneous items. They didn't recognize many of the things, but subconsciously thought they must be very expensive, so they didn't dare to touch them. They could only put them aside and wait for Gao Mingcheng to come back and ask.
In addition, Gao Mingcheng did not open the canvas bag that he carried with him in front of Gao Shufang and Luo Li, but took it to the room on the second floor.
After closing the door, Xuanyuemei opened the canvas bag alone.
As soon as she opened it, she was dumbfounded.
So much money!
There was not only money inside, but also a gun and a dagger.
Looking at these things, many beautiful hearts beat wildly.
Gao Mingcheng...he wouldn't do anything bad, right?
(End of this chapter)
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