Literary Master 1983

Chapter 137 Motorcycle

Chen Xiaoxu just stayed there.

Every night, she and Zhang Li came to Yu Qie's house to rest. Zhang Li reported to Wang Fulin, and the two sisters could go home, but they had to go very early in the morning and often came back very late at night.

The more this happens, the more Zhang Li needs someone to accompany her.

The story of the "flower thief" in Yanjing was not a lie. The newspaper said that a female college student from another place was brutally murdered in a vacant lot in Taojiawan, 10 kilometers away from the railway station. At that time, Taojiawan was already a very remote place.

Zhang Li saw the news and comforted herself: "Xiao Xu, we live in the city, the bad guys won't dare to mess around, we are safe when we come back. The bad guys also harmed female comrades from other places who are not familiar with Yanjing."

Chen Xiaoxu said, "What if this bad guy gets lustful and commits a crime in the city? We can't afford it."

Yes, at that time Chen Xiaoxu had just turned 20 years old and Zhang Li was only 19 years old. The two young girls were at their most beautiful. They had little strength in their hands and were easily noticed by others.

Soon after, new reports emerged that another tragic case was found in a vegetable shed in Majiabao, where a girl from Pengcheng was murdered in an extremely cruel way. All the girl's money was taken away, she had more than ten knife wounds on her chest and back, and she was also raped.

Majiabao is between the third and fourth ring roads, much closer than Taojiawan. The criminal's crimes are becoming more and more crazy, and it is possible that he will commit crimes in the urban area one day.

Yu Qie heard about this and came to pick up Zhang Li every day. He advised Zhang Li not to come back at night, but Zhang Li said, "I have already filed a report. Besides, don't I have you? Don't you want me to come back?"

Chen Xiaoxu interrupted, “Yu Qie, it’s us who have you.”

"Yes, Xiaoxu is with me too."

Yu Qie said, "I will protect you during this time. When I go to Thailand, you and Chen Xiaoxu will stay in the Yuanmingyuan crew and are not allowed to go out."

Zhang Li was of course very obedient, but Chen Xiaoxu rolled his eyes and thought: Who are you? I won't listen to you.

During the day, Yu Qie wrote novels at home and went shopping for furniture and goods in Yanjing City. He rode his bicycle back and forth, but it was too hard to pedal anymore. The chain was old, and riding a bicycle all the time was not a good idea. It was very tiring.

Besides, he had to carry two people every day. Zhang Li was in front of him and Chen Xiaoxu was behind him. Even a strong man like Yu Qie couldn't stand pedaling two round trips like this every day.

You need physical strength to push hard.

He thought of buying a motorcycle.

What brand should I buy?
Yu Qie came to Yanjing East Wind Market.

This place was originally called "Dong'an Market" for a period of time. It was located in the famous Wangfujing in later generations, and all kinds of goods, food and drinks were sold there.

During the Qing Dynasty, it was the training ground of the Shenjinying Camp. Later, it was abolished and allowed to be run by vendors. However, due to its proximity to the embassy district, businesses from various countries also came here to do business, and the Dongfeng Market developed into a huge open-air market with stalls.

Opposite it was the largest department store in Yanjing at that time, which was the only retail enterprise in the country approved and enjoying national purchasing rights, covering everything.

Domestic motorcycles are sold in Dongfeng Market. I looked at a few: Jialing CJ50, 50 yuan; Yuhe 670, 250 yuan; Xingfu , yuan...

These first-generation motorcycles all have some unbearable shortcomings, such as high fuel consumption, fast rust, loud noise, and design defects - the worst one is the starter lever of the Happiness 250, which bounces back as soon as it is pressed, causing unbearable pain to the person who hits it.

What a crappy car! Where is the Yamaha-80, the magic car of our Sichuan people?
No!

What about the Jialing Honda 70?
nor.

The Dongfeng market is full of cheap brands. From the late 1980s to the beginning of the new century, the mainland's automobile industry was not very good. Joint venture and self-made motorcycles were once star revenue-generating products, mainly sold to Southeast Asia and the Soviet Union, leaving two or three generations of people in these places with the impression that mainland motorcycles were "shoddy".

Yu Qie had been wandering around for the whole afternoon, and the time was almost up, so he had to go pick up Zhang Li and Chen Xiaoxu.

A middleman who was engaged in black market business introduced Yu Qie to buy a Yamaha-80 for yuan. This car just came off the production line in Sichuan Province at the beginning of this year. As soon as it came out, it was in short supply and the price was completely sky-high.

Yu Qie thought, I've already spent 3,400 yuan, I might as well just buy an imported car. But I can't buy it in a department store, I don't have a ticket, and I don't have the money to buy it - the imported goods in the department store are the most expensive. There are still a few members of Iwanami Bookstore who are still in Yanjing, Yu Qie tried to contact them and told them his request.

The publishing house found Japanese members of the China Chamber of Commerce, who are currently located in Yanjing and have a number of cars for their own use.

Soon, Yu Qie picked up a new car, the RZ250. This car is a classic of Yamaha, with the strongest performance and the latest equipment in its class, and is a performance car imitating racing level.

It has front disc brakes, rear drum brakes, high horsepower, and is even more fuel-efficient than some domestic cars.

The main reason is that it is so handsome, black, thick and fast. Yu Qie was attracted by it at first sight. He must buy this car. A real man must drive a big car.

When calculating prices, the cotangent comes in handy.

At that time, the official exchange rate of the mainland was inflated. How inflated was it?
Two yuan is about equal to one dollar, and one dollar is equal to nearly 300 yen. Although there is no exchange of RMB for yen, from the payment of some yen loans at that time, about one yuan is equal to 15 yen.

There is a huge bug here:

According to the official exchange rate against the US dollar, one yuan from the mainland should be equal to 0.5 US dollars, which is indirectly equal to 150 yen.

In reality, when countries conduct real transactions, one dollar is only equal to 15 yen, which is only one-tenth of the official amount.

The real exchange rate level is the latter.

In the following five years, the US dollar depreciated sharply, the Japanese yen appreciated sharply to 100 yen to one dollar, and the RMB also quickly fell to 8 yuan to one dollar. At this time, the ratio of RMB to Japanese yen was close to 1:15.

Under the guidance of Iwanami Bookstore, Yu Qie bought the Yamaha RZ250 at an exchange rate of :, which resulted in the price of this yen car being priced at yuan, which was actually cheaper than a joint venture car.

Moreover, due to some undisclosed reasons, there are restrictions on the import of industrial products into the mainland. This car, which rolled off the production line at the Tokyo Motor Show in Japan in 81, should not have appeared in the mainland market.

Therefore, Yu Qie became the earliest owner of Yamaha RZ250 in China.

In the future, all the bald guys who ride motorcycles will have to call him the ancestor.

Buying this car became the most difficult thing for Yu Qie. The subsequent motorcycle license and driver's license test were relatively simple. Few people apply for personal driver's licenses these days, and the vehicle management office is not very strict. Yu Qie walked around the test site a few times, followed the instructions, and the test was over.

Got the driver's license.

Yu Qie looked at his driver's license again and found a blank space on the back page for the vehicles he was allowed to drive. He bought a pack of cigarettes and gave it to the clerk, and thus he became a qualified driver of small cars, large buses, and large trucks.

Everything is ready.

In my previous life, when I was trying to get a driver’s license, I was so anxious just by the first and second subjects. The question bank was revised every year and became more and more difficult. It was better in the 1980s.

He bought three more helmets and hung them on the back of his bike. He wore sunglasses and a denim jacket and rode his bike to the crew to pick up Zhang Li.

"Boom!"

The entire crew saw Yu Qie. Zhang Li was surprised and asked, "Yu Qie! Where did you get the motorcycle... Yamaha, what do you mean?"

"Yamaha! A Japanese brand."

Wang Fulin also came out to see Yu Qie and said, "He looks like Mike in The Man from Atlantic Ocean!"

Of course he knew about it, because Wang Fulin had visited the BBC. The project of Dream of Red Mansions originally came from his visit to the BBC, where he found that they had filmed a series of Shakespeare's historical dramas, and then he proposed to film the four great classics.

(End of this chapter)