National Beer

The word "Friendship" is very beautiful, but not all stores can use "Friendship" as a store name.

In this era or in the 30-odd years before, everything named after friendship must be related to foreigners.

Friendship stores are not accessible to everyone. Only those with passports, overseas Chinese certificates, and foreign work permits can enter the store for consumption. Foreign exchange coupons are the only currency in circulation here, and they are also a pass.

"The clothing office is here."

Qin Dong rushed to pay for the taxi. In the afternoon, Yi Jin did not go to the Zhongshan Mausoleum. Coincidentally, she also chose to visit the Friendship Store.

The roof is glazed with green tiles, the eaves are carved with beams, and the walls are creamy yellow and elegant. People with blue eyes and big beards abound. Among these foreigners, the appearance of Qin Dong and Yijin immediately attracted the attention of the waiter.

"Any voucher?"

The waiter let in Qin Dong's foreign exchange coupons.

It has to be said that the interior decoration and layout of the Friendship Store are also far superior to other department stores. From the perspective of this time, it can be said to be extremely luxurious.

The shop is clean and spacious, the counter layout is beautiful, and the product variety is complete. The salespersons wear uniform clothes and store emblems. The men are handsome and the ladies are beautiful.

Shopping is a woman's nature, and Yijin, who is the chief, is not surprised. The two walked side by side. She stopped to nostalgia from time to time, and she did not look like what she had in meetings these days.

The shop is divided into three floors. The first floor is mainly for handicrafts, confectionery, cigarettes, tea and wine.

Qin Dong bought some black currants, chocolate bonbons, and various candies from Harbin Qiulin Company, so that they could block the mouths of the children of Qin Nan and Du Xiaoshu.

The Friendship Store deals in more varieties of cigarettes and alcohol, including domestic precious products and cigarettes from the United States.

"Two Marlboros, one like this." Qin Dong pointed to the cigarette under the glass counter.

Marlboro cigarettes, eleven yuan in a soft pack, and sixteen yuan in a hard box, Yi Jin was immediately surprised. As a young worker, at most a second-level worker, the young man was paid forty to fifty yuan a month. In a while, it cost more than 300 yuan, which is worth his half-year salary.

She didn't know that Qin Dong sold the patent on the first day he arrived in Nanjing. She remembered that she met him in a western restaurant that day and knew that he had foreign exchange certificates on him, but she did not expect to have so many.

On the third floor are valuable commodities such as televisions, cameras, and watches. Refrigerators and televisions are lined up, making Yizhen very shocked. However, she did not stay here too much, but repetitively. Back to the second floor.

The second floor is dominated by gorgeous clothes. The most fashionable clothes, shoes, and cosmetics can be found, seen and touched here.

The waiter behind the counter was very proud, "We have the best products on the market; we must have the products that are lacking on the market; we must also have the fashionable foreign products!"

"That windbreaker." Yi pointed to a beige windbreaker, which was very popular in the 1980s. As the weather got colder, the windbreaker was worn by many fashionable people.

From Qin Dong's point of view, this style of the 1980s would not be outdated even with the eyes of later generations.

Yi Jin put the windbreaker on her body, took a look, then smiled at Qin Dong, "How?" A woman's beauty-loving nature, or Qin Dong's youthful maturity, made her ask Qin Dong unconsciously. Comments come.

"Very beautiful." Qin Dong didn't know whether he was talking about the clothes or the people under the clothes.

"Yeah." Yi Jin tightened the belt around her waist, showing her slender waist and showing her curves. The foreigners in the past also looked at her with admiration. She also stared at herself in the mirror, very satisfied.

"how much is it?"

"Three hundred and twenty yuan."

Oh, Yi Jin was taken aback. She can imagine the price here, but the price is still out of the range she can accept.

The windbreaker reluctantly got out of her body, and Yijin did not return it to the waiter. She took it in her hand and looked at the clothing, the workmanship, and the square buckle. "Xiao Qin, you still have foreign exchange certificates in your hand. ?"

The intellectual and generous, beautiful and dignified female chief raised her head, she gently squeezed her hair back, showing her inner hesitation and desire.

"What's the difference?"

Qin Dong could guess that Yi Jin would not go to the scalpers to exchange foreign exchange certificates. He should have foreign currency in his hand. At this time, in order to increase the country’s foreign exchange reserves, the state encourages individuals to sell foreign exchange to the country. A certain amount of foreign exchange coupons will be refunded in addition to the renminbi payment.

"One hundred and less than two hundred yuan." Yi Jin returned to the female chief's expression, still holding this trench coat in his hand.

"Oh, I happen to have two hundred." Qin Dong said immediately.

In addition to buying windbreakers, you can also pick up something for your family here.

Yi Jin expressed gratitude, "Okay, then Xiao Qin, thank you, I will give you money when I go back."

Two hundred yuan is not too much for Qin Dong, but lending and giving are two concepts, and he can't ask for it.

"It's okay, it's a matter of effort," Qin Dong smiled. Yi looked at him gratefully and walked to the side to try on the clothes. "Give me one too." Qin Dong pointed to the windbreaker.

"What size?" The waiters are all trained, and the voice is very soft.

"Just like her." Qin Dong pointed to Yi Jin over there, "Wrap it up for me later."

He didn't want Yi Jin to see that he had bought so many things, lent another two hundred dollars, and bought a windbreaker. This would make Yi Jin, who borrowed money, feel lowered from the depths of his consciousness, causing unpleasantness.

"Xiao Qin."

Qin Dong couldn't help but smile when Yi Jin style came along. There are fashions of one era, and temperament of the same era. Yi Jin is simply the best interpretation of women's beauty in the 1980s, beautiful and natural, um, "It looks good." ."

Yi Jin looked at him with a smile and let out a long sigh of relief.

...

In fact, in the Friendship Store, it’s good to just walk around like this without buying things. It’s really a treat.

Colorful needle-cotton products, long history of real silk satin, finely crafted wood furniture, lacquerware, seals, exquisite craftsmanship of carved bead and jade, porcelain...The display products behind the counter, red, willow and green, colorful, bright and dazzling, very irritating eyeball.

"Here, clothing department." Yi Jin was fascinated. Qin Dong walked to her and handed her a bottle of Coca-Cola. It was five yuan a bottle, which is more expensive than later generations. The way to drink this time is not to blow the bottle. , But plug in a straw and sip slowly and gracefully.

The Friendship Store has also opened a cold drink department, where you can drink slowly while listening to music, but depending on your clothes, I guess you still have to go shopping.

Yi Jin is very generous. She took it with a smile and looked at the young man in front of her. She had heard that Qin Dong's grandfather was once the chief engineer of Qin Beer, but his father was a cook and wasted her life.

Alas, it's a pity that such a person is not in the hall.

"Xiao Qin, if you have a chance to go to Shen Nan in the future, you must go to Erqing Hall, remember sister Yi..." The straw was inserted into the bottle, and the brown liquid flowed into his mouth.

"I will definitely." Qin Dong nodded his head heavily, and Chief Yi became sister Yi, and their feelings went a step further.

...

There is no scattered banquet in the world, and it's finally the time of parting. Everyone has to return to their posts again to contribute to the Four Modernizations.

But at the last dinner, an episode happened.

"Waiter, do you have Qinwan beer?" Qin Dong pointed to the beer on the table. "If so, can you give me a few bottles of Qinwan beer? Yes...I only drink Qinwan beer!"