Chapter 314 Wife, in your situation you have no choice but to get a room!
With the warm reception from President Sun, Cheng Xuemin and his colleagues received another unexpected surprise.

It is said that in order to encourage the whole nation to earn foreign exchange, the higher authorities have implemented a number of preferential policies.

The biggest policy is to give our domestic citizens the same preferential treatment as foreign compatriots.

In the early days of the founding of the country!
Foreign currency U.S. dollars entering our country must go through the head office and be forcibly converted into RMB.

Whether it is foreigners coming in or US dollars remitted by overseas Chinese, they must all be unconditionally converted into RMB or exchanged into foreign exchange coupons.

Not a single US dollar bill is allowed to circulate in the entire market.

However, this policy was opened up to foreigners more than a decade ago, allowing foreigners to come in and privately keep 10% of US dollars in cash.

Of course, this preferential offer is based on a one-time remittance of US$10,000 in foreign exchange, in order to enjoy the 10% of the US dollar cash retained by the client.

For foreign exchange with USD below 10,000, not a single USD cash will be left!

So, this is also a little special benefit that foreigners enjoy here.

But what Cheng Xuemin didn’t expect was!

As early as last month, in order to stimulate and encourage the whole nation to earn foreign exchange, the authorities encouraged and called on overseas Chinese to remit more US dollars and foreign exchange to their relatives and friends in China. This loophole that was only opened to foreigners was unexpectedly opened to us ordinary citizens as well!
Now that the country is about to start comprehensive reform and opening up, the modern equipment and technology needed require a large amount of foreign exchange and US dollar cash to import, so there is a shortage of money and foreign exchange and US dollars.

So while everyone is earning foreign exchange, some loopholes have also been relaxed.

originally!

In fact, this has no impact on the vast majority of ordinary people. After all, foreign exchange (US dollars) is a rare thing and far away from ordinary people. Therefore, after the policy benefits came out, people around Cheng Xuemin did not make any comments.

Even my father-in-law, Mr. Feng, who works at the Foreign Languages ​​Bureau, had never mentioned this to Cheng Xuemin and others.

But who would have thought that when they came here today, President Sun would give them such a big surprise.

According to the preferential policy, Cheng Xuemin’s foreign exchange US dollars exceeded 10,000 and was as high as 300,000. He could definitely enjoy the same policy as foreigners and could keep 10% of the US dollar cash for himself.

Ten percent of three hundred thousand is thirty thousand U.S. dollars!

What does it mean? Still don’t understand?

Just a simple sentence!

When Cheng Xuemin came here before, he thought that the 300,000 US dollars in foreign exchange, in addition to being converted into RMB and kept in the passbook, could only be exchanged for a portion of foreign exchange coupons at a one-to-one ratio to purchase those imported goods.

it’s good now!

If Cheng Xuemin and Feng Jiayou wanted, they could take 30,000 US dollars home today.

US dollar cash!
In the past, foreign exchange and US dollar cash were absolutely strictly controlled, and the general public was not allowed to have even a single US dollar cash in their hands.

Of course, there is definitely some secret hiding of goods through illegal channels.

But once discovered, the consequences will be very serious.

Fortunately, current policies are keeping pace with the times, and the control over foreign exchange and US dollar cash has been relaxed, so Cheng Xuemin can openly keep 30,000 US dollars in cash for himself.

If I bring this home, it will definitely dazzle my family members.

Because people of their generation have only heard about the U.S. dollar on radio news, but very few have ever seen real U.S. dollar cash.

If I bring back 30,000 US dollars in cash…

Ok!

In fact, there was no big surprise. Everyone, whether they were supposed to come or not, had already gathered around Cheng Xuemin.

When she heard that she could keep 1% of the U.S. dollar cash, even her daughter-in-law Feng Jiayou’s eyes were bright with surprise, not to mention her sister-in-law Feng Jiamo’s eyes, which were too bright.

of course!

Cheng Xuemin and Feng Jiayou were not such a show-off. In order to impress their family, they actually took out all the 30,000 US dollars and took it home.

You would definitely choose to deposit it in a passbook and withdraw it when you need it in the future!

For example, when you go abroad in the future, or go to Hong Kong for inspection and exchange, you can take these US dollars with you and put them to great use.

In addition to being able to keep U.S. dollar cash for yourself, there is also another preferential policy that is the same as that for foreigners and overseas Chinese, which you can now enjoy!

After President Sun told Cheng Xuemin, Feng Jiayou and others about this equally preferential policy, everyone present was stunned!

There is such a good thing!

Then, Feng Jiayou and the others also quickly passed the thought through their minds.

Governor Sun just said that now that the loopholes have been opened up, we ordinary people can enjoy the extra preferential policies on foreign exchange just like foreigners.

That is to say, the U.S. dollars that foreigners remit from outside, in addition to the compulsory settlement and exchange at the People’s Bank of China, are actually compensated by additional subsidies!
In addition to the forced exchange at the normal international exchange rate, in order to compensate and appease them, we have to give out additional subsidies such as food coupons, meat coupons, cloth coupons, etc.

for example!

For every hundred U.S. dollars that foreigners or overseas Chinese remitted, in addition to the normal settlement and exchange, they could also receive five kilograms of national food coupons, one kilogram of meat coupons, one kilogram of oil coupons, and ten feet of cloth coupons.

With one hundred US dollars in foreign exchange, you can get these food coupons, meat coupons, oil coupons, and cloth coupons!
Here, Cheng Xuemin has up to 300,000 US dollars in foreign exchange to be settled. How many 100 yuan are there in it? How many kilograms of food and meat coupons can he get?
This was not to say that he didn’t know. Even if Cheng Xuemin thought about it for a moment, he was still shocked by the huge amount of subsidies for food and meat coupons!

Three hundred thousand US dollars, even if you keep 10% for yourself, there are still 270,000 that need to be forcibly settled.

How many hundreds are there in 270,000?
How many grain and meat coupons can I get?

Cheng Xuemin needs to think carefully about this!
Two hundred and seventy thousand is two thousand seven hundred times one hundred, which means that the food coupons can be used to receive 13,500 kilograms, or 13.5 tons of food.

There were 2,700 kilograms of meat stamps and 27,000 feet of cloth stamps.

What concept?
Let’s not talk about other cloth coupons and stamps, let’s just talk about this meat coupon!

Two thousand seven hundred kilograms. If we calculate based on the assumption that a big fat pig weighs two hundred kilograms, that would be more than one hundred pigs!

As for the dozens of tons of food coupons, let’s not even talk about it!
Anyway, after thinking this through, not only was his wife Feng Jiayou and the others dumbfounded, but even Cheng Xuemin was screaming in his heart that he could not finish it, he could not finish it at all.

In the past, their family had many people, and the usual food and meat coupons were far from enough. Most of the time, Cheng Xuemin had to spend money to secretly exchange them at the pigeon market, or directly spend money to buy food and meat.

It’s not like now, when we suddenly became rich and have more food, more money, and more clothes than we can eat!

“President Sun, these food and meat coupons have no expiration date, right?”

Everyone was thinking that they couldn’t finish it and wondered how many years it would take to eat it.
Soon, the smart Feng Jiayou asked President Sun.

“There are some!”

After listening to Feng Jiayou’s question, President Sun nodded politely and explained, “According to the above regulations, these food coupons, meat coupons, stamps and cloth coupons are all time-limited!”

“Usually it’s valid for one year, and it’s invalid after it expires!”

I explained that considering the amount of subsidized food and meat coupons was indeed very large, for an ordinary family, they would definitely not be able to eat or wear them all within a year!
As expected, just like ordinary food coupons, they are valid for only one year, so there is no way we can finish them!

Feng Jiayou wanted to say something, but Cheng Xuemin, who was quick-eyed and quick-handed, secretly grabbed him and stopped him.

Of course Cheng Xuemin knew what his shrewd wife wanted to say.

Since we cannot finish eating so many food and meat coupons, can we get less? Can we convert them into cash?
How could he tell the president of a big bank about this blatant speculation in person?
Isn’t it just a dozen tons of food coupons that must be eaten up within a year?

This is not easy to deal with!
If we can’t finish eating it ourselves, we can just sell it secretly and put it on the market to be consumed!

Now with the large number of educated youth returning to the city, every household has added more bowls and chopsticks to varying degrees. The uniformly prepared rations are far from enough!

Basically, you need to spend extra money and exchange it for grain coupons and meat coupons at a high price.

Therefore, in this particular environment, Cheng Xuemin and others can completely digest it privately. There is no need to make things difficult for the president of the bank.

“Xuemin, why did you hold me just now?”

“We can’t even finish eating all the food and meat coupons we have. I mean, why don’t we ask President Sun if there is any policy channel to exchange them for cash?”

really!

After settling the accounts with President Sun and coming out with a big bag of tickets and passbooks, his wife Feng Jiayou was still asking angrily, blaming Cheng Xuemin for holding her back.

“Wife, we can take these tickets back and use them ourselves. You can tell President Sun about it. He has no other choice but to give us the quota according to the regulations. If you really want to exchange them for cash, you are just making things difficult for him!”

Cheng Xuemin smiled and explained to the woman. “Ah?”

Feng Jiayou reacted quickly after hearing this and realized that our current policy is to allocate food coupons based on demand, and any trading behavior is speculation.

Just now, I was so blatant that I went to the president of the head office to engage in speculation and profiteering. No wonder my man grabbed me and stopped me.

But he soon came back to his senses. Thinking of so many food coupons and meat coupons, Feng Jiayou said happily and bitterly, “But there are so many. Xuemin, how are we supposed to digest them?”

“We have to use up more than 10 tons of food coupons within a year. Even if our family eats four or five meals a day, we still can’t finish them all!”

After hearing the woman’s honest words, Cheng Xuemin also joked, “If we can’t finish four or five meals, then we can eat six or seven meals. We can’t just watch so many food coupons expire and become useless, right?”

“what?!”

“Then won’t our whole family become fat pigs?” Sister-in-law Feng Jiamo took over the conversation in surprise and exclaimed.

Then, she took her sister’s hand and begged her sister in a low voice: “Sister, let me see, let me see, let me see!”

Obviously, she was asking her sister Feng Jiayou for the passbook.

I want to see how much deposit there is!
“Here, here, here. Haven’t you just seen them all? Is there anything else interesting?”

It is said that wealth should not be exposed, but this 300,000 US dollars in foreign exchange is a huge sum of money known to everyone. Feng Jiayou and Cheng Xuemin and their spouses cannot hide it even if they want to.

“It must be beautiful!”

“With so much money, how much can you buy?”

Feng Jiamo took the passbook impatiently and opened it happily. Looking at the huge deposit of 560,000 yuan on it, he really didn’t know how to sigh.

This time, out of the 300,000 US dollars in royalties, except for 10% which was kept by themselves and deposited in another foreign currency passbook, Cheng Xuemin and his wife chose 220,000 of the remaining 270,000, which they converted into RMB and deposited in the passbook.

Together with their previous savings, the total amount was more than 560,000 yuan.

The remaining 50,000 US dollars in foreign exchange was converted into foreign exchange coupons at a one-to-one ratio and used to purchase imported goods.

With this calculation, only 220,000 US dollars were exchanged, and the subsidy tickets were not as many as previously calculated.

But it won’t be too little, and it will definitely take several years to finish.

Moreover, when she gets home later and places these food coupons and meat coupons in front of Feng Jiayou’s mother, she doesn’t know how happy and surprised her mother-in-law will be.

In the past, there were many people in the family who ate out, and the monthly food coupons were never abundant or sufficient. Almost at the end of every month, the one who was most worried was my mother-in-law, Mrs. Feng.

it’s good now!

The country has also opened up such a loophole for ordinary people.

In the future, the foreign exchange dollars that Cheng Xuemin earns will only increase, and the food and meat coupons he accumulates to subsidize them will also increase.

By then, you won’t have to worry about food coupons at all!

What I will worry about in the future is how to spend all the food coupons I have.

“Why, are you bloated?”

“I told you to bring your son out, but you just wanted to have an easy time and didn’t want to bring anyone with you. Now you’re fine, aren’t you?!”

Laughing happily, the women took the passbook from Feng Jiamo and gave it to Cheng Xuemin for safekeeping, then started shopping in the department store!

We had already made the agreement when we went out!

Let’s eat out today and take a good walk.

But when they arrived at the department store, Cheng Xuemin discovered that there was something obviously wrong with his wife.

Obviously, she was swollen with milk.

This is why Cheng Xuemin held his son in his arms when he went out in the morning. But Feng Jiayou, as a mother, wanted to keep quiet, so she did not bring him out and left him at home to be taken care of by his grandmother.

it’s good now!

Without a son by your side, who will help you relieve your breast engorgement? !

“Ok!”

Feng Jiayou’s thoughts were seen through. He nodded with an extremely strange expression and said “hmm” softly.

Maybe because it was swollen, Feng Jiayou asked in a low voice: “Xuemin, how about we go home?”

“Look, it’s so hot, there’s actually not much to see. And we’re carrying so much…stuff!”

Thinking of the hundreds of thousands of dollars in her savings book and the tens of tons of food and meat coupons, Feng Jiayou suddenly lost the mood to go shopping. She just wanted to rush home and hide in her own little room, hiding the savings book back in her small treasury.

“Now that they are out, do you think Jiamo and the others will go back?”

In fact, there is really nothing to do on such a hot day!

But it was a rare trip to the city, and my sister-in-law Feng Jiamo and my cousin Qin Xiaolian were very enthusiastic. Besides, the lunch meal they had agreed to have hadn’t even started yet, so how could they go back so easily?
My elder sister Cheng Wenxiu and my second sister-in-law Sun Juan were also having a great time shopping.

And we’ve just arrived at the department store, why don’t we go home?
Isn’t that such a bummer?
“But I’m really bloated and uncomfortable, I, I, I…”

“Why don’t we find a place to squeeze it out?”

Cheng Xuemin looked around and made a ‘reasonable’ suggestion.

“How can it be crowded here outside? Don’t you see there are people coming and going here?” How could Feng Jiayou not want to squeeze them out?
But the department store is in the core area of ​​the inner city and also the most prosperous and lively place. It’s crowded with people coming and going, but it’s not a good idea to do that in the street, right?

“Wife, you are really open-minded! Did I say it’s right here?”

Cheng Xuemin glared at the woman and asked, “Who told you to do this in the street?”
Didn’t you say we should find a place?

“So where do you want to go? How about we go to that alley, I’ll hide in there, and you can help me keep watch outside and block the way?”

Feng Jiayou retorted unhappily, and looked around, only to find that the only place she could go was the alley next to the building, hoping there was a secret corner inside where she could do her job.

Cheng Xuemin was also looking around for a place and ignored the woman.

Normally, department stores usually have breastfeeding rooms, but now, if you don’t compare it to the next few decades, any shopping mall will have a breastfeeding room.

Unfortunately, in this day and age, even the largest department stores do not have such high-end configurations.

Therefore, it is unrealistic to solve the problem on the spot.

Maybe you can find a counter shop and go to someone’s private place to handle it.

But soon!

Cheng Xuemin saw the Friendship Hotel not far ahead, and suddenly an idea came to him.

If there is no breastfeeding room outside, you can just get a room!

Anyway, Cheng Xuemin and his wife don’t have much now, just a lot of money and foreign exchange coupons.

Friendship Hotel is the most special and open large-scale high-end top hotel in China. As long as you have foreign exchange coupons or US dollars in cash, you can directly book a room and stay there.

There is no need to get a letter of introduction issued by your work unit before you can check in like other hotels and guesthouses.

“Wife, there is a solution!”

“You come with me!”

Cheng Xuemin’s evil thoughts got to his mind and he instantly became extremely hot!

He immediately asked Feng Jiayou to get on the bicycle again and rushed to the Friendship Hotel.

“Ah!? Xuemin, where are you taking me?” Feng Jiayou didn’t understand what her man was going to do, and asked in surprise.

“Of course, we’re going to get a room!”

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(End of this chapter)