Era: Starting from divorce from female college student

Chapter 86, Inquiring about the Situation

Yongkang Hutong, Yard No. 6, the main house in the middle courtyard, the Wei family.

"Sister, when you took the test a few days ago, was there someone named Zhao Mancang?"

Wei Sirong had just returned home from get off work at Union Hospital when she was stopped by her sister.

"How do you know? Do you know Zhao Mancang?" Wei Sirong asked with a puzzled expression.

She didn't know Zhao Mancang's unit, because Union Hospital also had its own medical school, and she thought Zhao Mancang was a teacher at the medical school.

Peking Union Medical College was established in 1917 and began offering undergraduate medical programs in 1919 with an eight-year program.

However, due to historical reasons, last year, Peking Union Medical College merged with the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and was renamed the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, with its affiliated hospital being Beijing Union Medical College Hospital.

According to normal historical trajectory, the eight-year medical school will not be restored until next year, and it is still an empty shell now.

Doctors like Zhao Mancang are basically doctors from medical schools. Some of these doctors are disciples taught by their masters, while others are doctors with excellent talents. In short, they should not be underestimated.

"I know him. He's a breeder at our steel mill. He just became a Level 10 attending physician at our steel mill clinic today. He's getting two salaries now. He's quite impressive."

Wei Yutong chattered excitedly, as if she was the one receiving two salaries.

When her sister heard this, her mouth opened wide. After a while, she came to her senses and said:
"Are you sure it's really Zhao Mancang? The Zhao Mancang who just passed the Level 10 attending physician assessment yesterday?"

"Of course I'm sure. If there's only one person named Zhao Mancang who recently took the Level 10 attending physician assessment at Union Hospital, then that person is Zhao Mancang, the Level 6 breeder at our steel plant."

It took a long time for Wei Sirong to finally confirm that the Zhao Mancang she knew was the Zhao Mancang her sister was talking about.

It is true that you cannot judge a book by its cover, and you cannot judge the depth of the sea by its depth!
After learning that Zhao Mancang was so powerful, Wei Sirong couldn't help but become curious and asked her sister about Zhao Mancang.

It turned out that their parents both knew this person, because the Zhao Mancang the two sisters were discussing was the same Zhao Mancang who used to live in Yongheng Hutong.

"Oh, he's divorced?"

"Yeah, he's divorced. His ex-wife's family is really weird."

When Wei Yutong talked about this topic, she was very excited.

That night, everyone who knew Zhao Mancang was discussing the fact that he was receiving two salaries.

Many people who did not know Zhao Mancang also heard about this incident because someone around them was talking about it.

However, as the protagonist, Zhao Mancang was a little surprised when he saw the experience value information prompted by the system, but he did not take it too seriously.

Only those who have a direct relationship with him can contribute a lot of experience points, while those who have no relationship with him can contribute almost no experience points.

He just didn't expect that Wei Sirong, a female comrade whom he had only met a few times, would actually contribute 10 experience points to him.

There is a pigeon market in Xizhimen, and it is also relatively close to the Huguo Temple.

After Zhao Mancang arrived at the place, he first put the bicycle into the system space, then briefly confirmed his outfit, and then walked in stealthily.

It has been a month since Zhao Mancang traveled to this time and space. He has known about the existence of Pigeon City for a long time, but he has never been there.

After entering what others called the Pigeon Market, Zhao Mancang was a little excited because he didn't expect there would be so many people.

There must have been at least a hundred people at the scene, much like those bustling town markets of later times, with all kinds of people coming and going. No one seemed too worried about being caught, and they were all talking at a normal 40-50 decibels, not 20-30.

Of course Zhao Mancang didn’t understand, because it was 1958 and the pigeon market was a tacit existence from above.

After the emergence of coupons in 1953, many materials became controlled items, such as grain and oil, and later even pork and vegetables became controlled items of different levels.

Especially since last year, tickets have been strictly controlled.

At this time, the normal market gradually transitioned to a pigeon market.

At this time, Pigeon City will not be targeted by the patrolling armband team, and therefore, everyone will not be so cautious.

By the end of the next year, and especially at the beginning of 1960, Pigeon Market had become a place that almost everyone hated.

However, even at that time, the Pigeon City will still exist and will not disappear from the stage of history.

"Comrade, do you want a ticket?"

Zhao Mancang had only taken a few steps when someone approached him and tried to sell him something.

"Do you have bicycle tickets? What about Moutai liquor tickets?" Zhao Mancang had an idea and asked directly.

In fact, he is not very clear about the prices in Pigeon City, so his main purpose today is to find out the situation.

When the second-hand dealer Wu Lisheng heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up:
"A bicycle ticket is fifty yuan, and a Maotai liquor ticket is one yuan. How much do you want, comrade?"

Wu Lisheng thought he had met a big client. After all, it was rare to see someone asking these questions right away, and Zhao Mancang was a stranger.

Ever since Zhao Mancang entered the pigeon market, he has been targeted by those middlemen.

Zhao Mancang was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that Moutai liquor tickets would be so expensive?

You should know that a bottle of Moutai liquor costs eight yuan in a department store. Of course, you need a special Moutai liquor ticket to buy it. Otherwise, you can't buy it with just an ordinary liquor ticket.

Since the 1950s was still the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there was a lot of work to be done, the country's foundation was relatively weak, and printing technology was still relatively backward.

Therefore, various bills of this period were mainly handwritten, and only a few bills such as food coupons were printed.

Moutai liquor tickets are naturally handwritten versions.

Taking a Moutai liquor ticket from Wu Lisheng, Zhao Mancang could see it clearly. In the upper left corner was the printed font, a few traditional Chinese characters of the retail enterprise commodity acceptance form, in the upper right corner was the date such as year, month and day, and the rest was a detailed receipt similar to a form.

Such as product name, unit, original selling price, new selling price, total, etc., and also the seal.

This is a Moutai liquor ticket. With this Moutai liquor ticket, you can only buy one bottle of Moutai liquor.

"How many milliliters is this?" Zhao Mancang asked curiously.

In the 1950s, Moutai liquor had several specifications. For example, half a catty of Moutai liquor was about 270 milliliters, but the bottle was quite large. This thing became the "Little Flying Fairy" in the collector's circle of later generations.

There is also the more common Moutai liquor in a bottle of 540 ml per kilogram, which costs eight yuan, and is the regular style sold on the ticket in Zhao Mancang's hand.

As well as the less common 753ml and original wine jars on the market.

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