The gatekeeper at the printing factory was stunned when he saw Li Xiyue arrive; it was the first time he had ever seen a young girl drive a car!
He rushed over and opened the large iron gate. "My dear girl! You're really amazing! You can even drive a car!"
Li Xiyue rolled down the car window and waved to the uncle, "Uncle, it's nothing. In the future, every household will have a car. Who doesn't have someone in their family who knows how to drive?"
The man was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said, "That's impossible. How could every household have something as valuable as a car?"
We're just ordinary people; we can only look at these things. We'd be lucky to even get to sit in one at our wedding.
He never dared to dream of every household owning a car!
Li Xiyue smiled and said, "What I said is true. Isn't this the time of reform and opening up?"
Our country will become more and more prosperous in the future, and the people will have more and more money in their hands.
Telephones and cars are common in every household! Your home will be the same; in the future, you'll have electricity and telephones in every building!
The gatekeeper laughed as if he'd heard a joke, saying, "How could that be? Every household has a telephone? Impossible, impossible! Installing a telephone requires approval!"
Young lady, your idea... that's really daring! But thank you, uncle!
He took it as a blessing from Li Xiyue, like the turtle in the wishing well. Making a wish is your business, but whether it comes true or not is none of the turtle's business!
Li Xiyue drove her car into the printing factory's yard. Before she could even get out of the car, she saw Director Zhang walking towards her.
Zhang Changzhang's face was all smiles; seeing Li Xiyue was like seeing the Goddess of Wealth!
He ran over and asked, "Young lady, did you bring the money? To be honest, our factory workers are eagerly waiting for you!"
Li Xiyue said with a smile, "I brought it, I brought it!"
She pointed to the large box on the back seat, which contained 20,000 yuan!
Factory Director Zhang walked to a window on the first floor, patted the window, and called to the comrades inside, "Xiao Zhang, Xiao Li, come out quickly and help move the boxes. Also, tell the comrades in the accounting office to bring out all the account books that the veteran comrades want to be reimbursed. We're waiting for reimbursement!"
These past two days, several long-time employees have been blocking his office door, demanding reimbursement for their medical expenses. Now that he finally has some money, he'll reimburse some of their medical expenses first.
Upon hearing the factory manager's call, the colleagues in the office immediately ran out to help Li Xiyue move the boxes.
Li Xiyue didn't even need to stretch out her hands; she simply walked behind with her hands behind her back.
The crime rate was very low in this era, the people were very kind and honest, and their values were very upright, so she wasn't worried about being robbed at all.
The boxes were moved into the finance office, and several colleagues there rushed over to help count the money.
Inside the space, as Mi Bao watched the comrades sitting around the long table counting their money, countless black lines appeared on its forehead.
She said, "My goodness, counting them one by one, how long would that take? The future is so much better, a few people can do the work with one money counting machine, and it'll be done in minutes."
Li Xiyue said, "There's a money counting machine? Is it specifically for counting money?"
Mi Bao said, "Yes, it's a special money counter. As soon as you put the money in, it counts it out in a flash. It keeps a clear record of how many bills there are and how much money is involved."
Li Xiyue couldn't even imagine what kind of money counting machine it would be. Could it count different denominations of money together?
Mi Bao really wanted Li Xiyue to see the money counting machine of the future, but the money in this era cannot be recognized by the money counting machine, so it was a bit of a pity that she could not take it out for Li Xiyue to try.
One thousand yuan is one bundle, and 20,000 yuan is twenty bundles. After counting them once, the comrades took turns counting them again and made sure that it was 20,000 yuan.
The accountant gave Li Xiyue a receipt, proving that 20,000 yuan had been received.
Li Xiyue put the receipt into her pocket, and in the next instant, she stored it in her spatial storage.
When Director Zhang saw that the money had arrived, he finally felt relieved. He said to Li Xiyue, "The thousand calendars you requested have been prepared. I'll have the factory staff bring the boxes over and load them into your car."
Young man, you're amazing! A girl driving a car! That car must have cost a fortune! Your family must be really rich!
Li Xiyue said with a smile, "You misunderstand. This car doesn't belong to my family. I borrowed it from the factory where a friend works."
Factory Director Zhang nodded and said, "Oh! So it was borrowed. I knew it; I didn't seem to have heard of any documents allowing individuals to buy cars."
Li Xiyue said, "Yes, there are no documents yet allowing private individuals to buy cars. The documents haven't been issued yet, but they should be issued sometime this year!"
Yes, in 1978, you needed a permit to buy a car. Without a permit, you couldn't buy a car even if you had the money.
It wasn't until late 1979 or early 1980 that a document was issued allowing individuals to purchase cars, but the number was extremely limited, and very few people were able to buy one.
It wasn't until the mid-1980s that the first group of people who had become wealthy in response to the call were able to freely purchase cars.
Li Xiyue and Factory Director Zhang walked out of the finance office together and came to her car. The workers loaded ten boxes into her car.
There were 100 calendars in one box, and 100 boxes in total, for a total of 1,000 calendars. Luckily, her jeep was big enough to fit all ten boxes.
Li Xiyue said goodbye to Director Zhang and drove away from the printing factory in her Jeep.
These thousand calendars are samples; she wants to take them back and test their sales.
Cheng Xiaohui was surprised to see her daughter arrive at her doorstep in a Jeep.
Her eyes nearly popped out of her head; her daughter could actually drive...
To her even greater surprise, her daughter unloaded boxes and boxes of calendars from the Jeep!
Calendars were a scarce commodity in those days!
Basically, from now on, every household will start thinking about where to get a wall calendar.
In companies with good profits, calendars are often distributed as employee benefits.
If a company is not doing well, they don't even provide calendars; you have to ask relatives and friends to help you buy them.
Li Wenbo quickly stepped forward and helped his daughter carry all the boxes down.
Li Xiyue opened the box, took out a calendar, and showed it to her mother. "Mom, look how beautiful the ladies in this picture are! Isn't this calendar pretty?"
Cheng Xiaohui couldn't stop smiling as she looked at the beautiful woman on the calendar. "What a pretty girl! How can she be so beautiful? Her clothes are so nice, and this little villa is beautiful too!"
"Hey, why does this beautiful woman in the picture look so much like my daughter?!"
Li Xiyue laughed and said, "How could that be? I'm not that pretty!"
Cheng Xiaohui said, "It's just that we don't have such pretty clothes. If you wore this kind of Western dress and put on this kind of makeup, you would definitely be prettier than her!"
Li Xiyue chuckled. The advantage of not wearing makeup in this era is that if you do, no one will recognize you!
The neighbors immediately gathered around to look at the calendar, asking about the price as they looked at it...
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