Siheyuan: Bringing Warehouses to 1959

This is a Shanghai brand 17-diamond semi-steel men's watch with the classic "Shanghai" trademark, golden numbers and hands, and a retail price of 60 yuan, excluding tickets.

Some people say that Shanghai brand watches are in short supply, the prices are not that cheap, and they are sold out as soon as they are put on the shelves.

Coincidentally, Zeng Wangcai knew more about this. The actual situation was that in 58, the Shanghai Watch Factory began to produce Shanghai brand 17-diamond semi-steel men's watches. The initial production cost was relatively high, 47.80 yuan per watch. After tax, the ex-factory price was 58.14 yuan, and it was sold for 60. The factory lost 4.66 yuan for each watch produced, not counting the workers and equipment.

After careful consideration, wholesale and retail prices were set to be the same.

After more than half a year, in 59, the cost of the watch dropped to 23.24 yuan, so the factory price dropped to 49.6, and the retail price remained unchanged at 60.

The real high-price period for watches was actually from 62 to 64. During this period, a high-price policy was implemented. The price of this watch changed three times, 180 yuan, 100 yuan, and 80 yuan. It was not until the 17s that the 19 diamonds were changed to 125 diamonds and the price remained at yuan.

The prices of imported Enicar have also changed, but not much. Currently, the prices of semi-steel and full-steel are 105 yuan and 140 yuan respectively. When the price reaches the high price stage, it will double to nearly 400 yuan.

Therefore, now is a good time to buy a watch.

To be honest, Zeng Wangcai has no need for watches. There are plenty of watches in his space, but it is inconvenient to take them out. Let alone investment. Anything he can take out from the space is better than this.

As for the supply issue, we can’t even fill our stomachs now. Unless there is a real demand, who would buy watches?

In this way, the salesperson's attitude towards Zeng Wangcai can be understood.

"Hey, comrade, he's talking to you. Are you deaf?" The salesperson's attitude did not anger Zeng Wangcai, but Zhang Xiuzhi couldn't stand it.

"Who are you calling deaf?" The salesperson in his thirties stopped chatting with his colleagues and turned to give Zeng Wangcai a stern look. "If you want to buy something, just buy it. What are you looking at? What's so good about it? If you can afford it, you can go home and look at it every day. If you can't afford it, you can look at it here until you're tired. You still can't afford it."

If this kind of bad attitude happened in the future, the person would definitely be exposed on the Internet and be doxed, but it is really normal now.

In the service industry, there is generally no sense of service and a bad attitude.

This is not just the case with shops; state-owned restaurants are the same. For them, it doesn't matter whether they sell more or less, or even whether they sell anything or not. There is no such thing as performance.

These people have developed a good eye and can judge people by their appearance. It would be strange if the salesperson had a good attitude towards Zeng Hu, Zeng Bao and Zhang Xiuzhi when they saw that they were not dressed well.

Nowadays, many people can afford watches, but that does not include rural people with patches all over their bodies.

Zhang Xiuzhi had a hot temper and couldn't stand this. She pressed the counter with one hand and was ready to jump in and beat the guy up.

Zeng Wangcai immediately hugged Zhang Xiuzhi when he saw her: "Auntie, don't do it. You are so strong that it will kill or injure me. Please speak properly..."

When Zhang Xiuzhi was hugged, her face suddenly turned red and her whole body went limp.

The salesperson was a little panicked when he saw Zhang Xiuzhi was about to take action, but now that the crisis was resolved, he started to speak in a mean way: "You speak as if it were true. Don't you see where this place is? Wangfujing, do you know? The police will arrest you if you cause trouble..."

"That's right, my aunt is right." Zeng Wangcai agreed with the salesperson and patiently persuaded Zhang Xiuzhi, "This is not the place to hit people. Even if we want to hit her, there are plenty of opportunities. Let's wait for her to get off work, follow her home, and find out where she lives. She won't be able to run away then, so we can beat her up in the alley or throw our heads at her window glass. If we're really not satisfied, we can throw manure at her..."

"Uh......"

The salesperson's face turned green when he heard this. It turns out that you are not giving in, you are the most sinister one.

Zeng Wangcai's sinister threat is effective. These days, if you are targeted by someone, you may die without knowing how you died. Even if you don't die, if there is really broken glass or feces splashed on your house every day, not to mention the money, it will make you sick to death.

Zhang Xiuzhi was amused, but then she remembered that they were still arguing, and her face immediately turned stern again.

The crisis was temporarily resolved, and Zeng Wangcai said calmly: "Comrade, can I take a look at this watch now? Don't worry, if I am satisfied, I will definitely buy it."

The salesperson was skeptical, but still worried about being targeted, so he took out the watch.

Zeng Wangcai took a quick look, opened his schoolbag, and first took out a stack of money. This stack of money was what they had earned in the past few days. Although it was less than two hundred yuan, taking out ten or five yuan together was very shocking in this era when the average salary was only in the twenties or thirties.

When the salesperson saw the money, he knew he was wrong.

Zeng Wangcai really wanted to show off a little, and he could also buy a watch. He could buy one and give it to his father. If he didn't want to resell it in the future, he could at least make 300 yuan, so it was not a loss.

"One, two, three...this is sixty yuan." Zeng Wangcai slowly counted out 60 yuan, then reached into his bag again. This time, he took out not money, but bills.

There were all kinds of tickets: food tickets, cake tickets, cloth tickets, tobacco tickets, alcohol tickets, a whole bunch of miscellaneous things.

These tickets are more shocking than money. Money is useless without tickets.

"Found it. This is a watch ticket. Comrade, you can issue the ticket. I want this watch!" Zeng Wangcai said slowly, "Well... In order to avoid misunderstanding, let me explain that the source of these tickets is completely legal. Comrade, there is no need to trouble the comrades in the police station. If you don't believe it, you can ask Director Zhang of Jiaodaokou Street and Director Qian of Beixinqiao Purchasing Station."

This is the advantage of being legal, it can withstand scrutiny.

When the salesperson saw so many tickets, he did doubt the legitimacy of Zeng Wangcai's possession of them, because it was unreasonable. No ordinary family would be so nervous about tickets. Legend has it that one family lost ten kilograms of food coupons and almost hanged themselves. Who would be like Zeng Wangcai and carry the tickets with him without regard for their value?

The commotion here attracted the attention of many salespeople and customers in Wangfujing, who were all surprised at Zeng Wangcai's financial resources and the generous amount of tickets.

Therefore, Zeng Wangcai spoke very loudly just now, in case some enthusiastic citizens reported the case. He was not afraid of being investigated, but was afraid of trouble.

Now that the two directors with names and surnames have been thrown out, trouble can be avoided.

With money, tickets, and a sinister threat, the salesperson immediately issued a ticket, and Zeng Wangcai bought his first luxury item.

"Xiuzhi, this account will be charged to me and will be deducted from my share." Zeng Wangcai gave the watch to Xiaobao to play with.

Zhang Xiuzhi answered the question irrelevantly: "You are so mean, you fool just like to use shady tricks!"

"???"

Big sister, which side are you from?

Zeng Wangcai didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "This is all for you, are we really going to fight here?"

"If it weren't for you, would I have quarreled with her?"

"Okay, thank you."

It smells like that, like a couple quarreling.

At this time, the Tiger and Leopard brothers were studying watches.

Zeng Bao looked at it for a long time and said, "Brother, what time does this mean?"

"Haha, you said you couldn't understand, but you're still being stubborn." Zeng Hu counted one square at a time, "I'll teach you, one, two, three... Now it's nine o'clock... One, two, three, seventeen minutes, this needle is the hour, this needle..."

Awesome, 3:45 is said to be 9:17.

It's not unfair that you two couldn't graduate from elementary school...