Siheyuan: Grassroots Counterattack

After wandering around for a long time, the real person Li Tianyi found some good stuff. Rare domestic medicinal materials and the like were not for sale, and the only things on sale were some items from foreign exhibition booths.

Li Tianyi had consulted about this issue before, and the person in charge said that they had no regulations in this regard. As long as Li Tianyi had money, he could buy it, but the goods sold at the exhibition were basically paid for in US dollars or British pounds.

So basically they seldom buy these things. Of course, sometimes if the country takes a fancy to a certain product, it will arrange for people to buy it.

Li Tianyi has a large amount of US dollars, British pounds, francs, etc. in his space, but he has never had the chance to take them out. Now he can take this opportunity to use them to buy something.

Of course, you have to think of a good reason and it has to withstand investigation. Also, you can't buy things in large quantities, because you can't explain the source of your funds. If the amount is small, you can say it was exchanged on the black market, but if you use a large amount of foreign currency to buy things, it will be dangerous.

Li Tianyi understood this principle, so he just looked around at the exhibition. If he saw something he really liked and it didn't have any special meaning, he would buy it. For example, he bought several toys for An An.

After the exhibition was completely over, Li Tianyi and his team returned to the guesthouse and had a good night's rest. The next day, he began to busy himself with organizing new customer information.

After two days, I finally finished organizing the information and handed it over to the Foreign Economic and Trade Commission.

Li Tianyi told the tour guide that he wanted to go to the department store in the city. After all, it was not easy to come here, so he had to bring something for his family, right?

The tour guide did not make it difficult for them. They had been here before in the same way and had been here many times, so they had no desire to buy anything.

People like Li Tianyi who come here for the first time will go out for a walk.

After Li Tianyi found out the route, he set off on the tram. In this era, no matter where the department store was, it was always crowded.

Li Tianyi did not go to crowded places, but went to the watch counter to take a look. However, he lost the desire to buy after just one look. The price of watches is the same across the country, and it is the same whether you buy them here or in other cities.

So Li Tianyi came to the place where clothes were sold and observed the styles there. They were almost the same as those in Beijing. Li Tianyi didn't know what to buy, so he left the department store in frustration.

Li Tianyi was walking aimlessly on the street alone. Guangzhou at that time was not as prosperous as it is in later generations. Most of the houses on the roadside were bungalows, and the few scattered buildings were only a few stories high.

There were very few cars on the road, and not everyone had a bicycle; the majority of people on the street were walking.

As he was walking, Li Tianyi smelled the fragrance of dim sum. He looked to the side and saw a state-owned dim sum shop. Li Tianyi walked in and saw a dazzling array of dim sum. Li Tianyi looked at them one by one, then pointed at a dim sum and asked, "Hello, comrade, how much is this dim sum?"

The woman who was making flower ropes looked up at him and saw that he was wearing a Zhongshan suit and leather shoes without a patch on his clothes. A smile immediately appeared on her expressionless face. "Hello, comrade, this snack is 2 yuan per pound, 1 snack ticket per pound."

Li Tianyi felt embarrassed when he heard this. He had money but no tickets, especially the tickets for snacks, which he had forgotten.

"Comrade, I forgot to exchange my snack coupons. I have national food coupons here. Can you buy some snacks with me?"

The salesman's smile froze, and then he looked around and whispered, "Comrade, I have two snack tickets here. Do you want to exchange them? If they are national fine grain tickets, then one pound of snack ticket can be exchanged for two pounds of fine grain tickets. If they are coarse grain tickets, then one pound of snack ticket can be exchanged for four pounds of coarse grain tickets. What do you think?"

Li Tianyi thought it was appropriate. After all, these snacks were made with oil and sugar, and were definitely more valuable than simply storing grain.

So Li Tian nodded and took out the money and tickets from his pocket, "Comrade, just 8 jin of coarse grain tickets, and weigh me two jin of snacks, one jin of this, and one jin of that."

"Okay, please wait a moment, comrade." The salesperson happily took the money and receipt and packed and weighed the snacks neatly.

Li Tianyi didn't want to wander around anymore with snacks in his hand, so he took the tram back to the guesthouse.

As soon as he entered the guesthouse, he saw the team leader sitting on a chair at the door, and Li Tianyi hurriedly greeted him.

The team leader breathed a sigh of relief, "Comrade Li, you are finally back."

"Ah?" Li Tianyi was very surprised. What did the leader mean by this? "Captain Zhao, do you want to talk to me about something?"

The team leader was about to speak, but after looking around, he said, "This is not the place to talk. Let's go to your room." Then he pulled Li Tianyi upstairs.

As soon as we entered the room, the team leader said, "Comrade Li, your superiors have just assigned you a task."

Li Tianyi put down the snack bag in his hand, stood up straight, and looked at the team leader. The team leader didn't waste any words and immediately continued: "Our country has purchased a batch of machinery and equipment from a foreign country. We agreed with the other party to deliver the goods in Hong Kong Island and then transport them to the country by sea."

"We need to send a mechanical expert to inspect these machines, and you happen to be in Guangzhou, so the superiors decided to send you to Hong Kong Island. You will leave tomorrow, and someone will pick you up when you arrive in Hong Kong Island."

"Make sure to complete the mission."

After that, Li Tianyi started packing his luggage, and then packed up the things he bought and some unused things and mailed them back. At the same time, he also called Li Huaide and asked Li Huaide to tell his family that he had an urgent task and would be back later.

Li Huaide said he understood, and he did not ask about the mission. For someone at Li Tianyi's level, once the mission was mentioned, it would definitely be kept confidential, and the confidentiality level must be very high. This was not something that a department-level cadre like him could inquire about.

At the same time, Li Tianyi also told Xiaoxue to remember to pick up the package as he had mailed something to her home.

The next morning, Li Tianyi went downstairs with only a cross-body bag on his back. A jeep was already waiting downstairs. This time someone would drive him to the other side of Hong Kong Island, and then he would take a small boat to smuggle into Hong Kong Island.

The car drove for a whole day and arrived at the destination around 10 o'clock in the evening. During that day, Li Tianyi only ate some dry biscuits and drank some cold water in the car. He was very tired at this time. The comrade who received him also knew his current condition and did not say anything else. He just took him to the guesthouse and arranged for him to rest.

The next morning, Li Tianyi met the comrade who received him. This comrade told him in detail where to cross the river that night, how to exchange secret signals with the comrades on the other side, etc. Li Tianyi carefully wrote down every key point, read it over and over again three times, and then burned the paper in front of the comrade.