Chapter 486 Harvest

This sudden quarrel was very loud in the trust store. It is human nature to watch the excitement. At this moment, both customers and employees walked towards the counter where the sound came from, wanting to see what was going on.

The quarrel was about the grocery counter, which is full of daily necessities, such as old clothes, fur jackets, quilts, and old shoes. You can find almost everything here. There was no plan in this era. As long as someone came to buy, the trust store would collect it, resulting in groceries. There is already a huge pile piled up at the counter, which looks quite overcrowded.

Han Li walked up to the front and heard people talking about it. He knew what was going on. It turned out that a buddy who had gone to the countryside to jump in the queue had a quarrel with someone over the price of yellow rubber shoes.

When this friend returned to the city last year, he sold the yellow rubber shoes he had worn for a year to a trust store. The recycling price they offered at that time was 80 cents.

This guy probably wanted to take the opportunity to earn a few packs of cigarettes for himself, so this year he collected three pairs of yellow rubber shoes from the place where he jumped in line and carried them all the way back to Sijiu City. However, this year the salesperson only gave them 40 cents.

This guy was dumbfounded. He didn’t expect that he would have to pay for it after carrying a few pairs of stinky shoes all the way back, so he started to argue with the salesperson. More and more people were watching the excitement, and this guy kept talking. He said that the trust store caused him to lose money this time.

As soon as he said this, the eyes of several trust store employees around him lit up. Several people swarmed up and pushed this guy to the ground. At the same time, someone called his colleagues to call and said that they had caught a T-machine and D-handled him. people.

Han Li looked at the man who was being controlled and secretly shook his head. The price of a new pair of yellow rubber shoes now is between one and a half to two yuan. It costs about 20 cents to buy a pair of rubber shoes from the black market. Or so, that is to say, this guy's brain is twitching, because a few cents has put a stain on himself.

After watching the fun, Han Li returned to where the "Babu Bed" was placed. The more he looked at the bed, the more he liked it. Unfortunately, now he could only look at it and enjoy it, and there was no place to put it after he bought it.

Finally, Han Li sighed in his heart. If he could buy or sell a house now, he would definitely buy back this bed.

Next, Han Li came to the "Lost and Found Office" at the counter in the first section. At this moment, the guy selling yellow rubber shoes was being held here, waiting for people from the relevant departments to take him away.

The three people who originally listened to the record stopped listening and gathered around chatting like the others.

Han Li went over to inquire about the situation at this counter. When he learned that the oldest radio here had been there for four or five years and was not allowed to be sold, he had an idea in mind.

Han Li focused his mental energy on the radios that had accumulated the most dust, and took out the originals he wanted. After thinking that he didn't want to listen to the radio with headphones, he took off a few more speakers and went home for backup.

At this time, people from the relevant departments came, and after a few simple questions, they took away the guy who was selling yellow rubber shoes.

The original parts of the ore radio have been found, and Han Li bought a set of welding equipment and other necessary things at the trust store.

For welding in this era, few people used electric soldering irons, and most people used fire soldering irons.

This is a tool made of copper, and its name is "brazing".

The working principle of a fire soldering iron is to use fire. You can use an alcohol lamp, a kerosene lamp or a cooking stove, but the alcohol lamp is the cleanest.

Because the electricity in this era was not stable, the fire soldering iron was the first choice for many electronic component enthusiasts until the late 1980s. If they wanted to solder something, they could just put it on the burning stove.

After Han Li bought these things, he left the trust store. At this point, half of his purpose of coming out today had been completed. Whether he could complete the rest really depends on luck.

Dongjiaomin Lane: It was called Nanxunfang in the Ming Dynasty, and belonged to the territory of Zhenglan Banner during the Qing Dynasty. Because Jiangnan rice was sold here for a long time, it was called Dongjiang Rice Lane during the Guangxu period, and was renamed Dongjiaomin Lane during the Xuantong period.

In the tenth year of Xianfeng (1860), the Qing government was defeated in Erya, and this place became the consulates of many countries.

In the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu (1900), the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded Yanjing and forced the Qing government to sign the "Xinchou Treaty".

From then on, Dongjiaominxiang was classified as the "embassy boundary" of foreign countries. All affairs within the boundary were handled by each country on their own, and the Qing government could not interfere at all, directly turning this place into a country within a country.

On January 6, 1950, our country took back this place and all the buildings were requisitioned.

By 1959, all embassies from various countries had moved from here to outside Jianguomen in the eastern suburbs, and the history of the embassy district in Dongjiaomin Lane ended.

Han Li's next destination is Dongjiaomin Lane, but whether he can gain anything depends on God's will.

Dongjiaomin Alley starts from Tiananmen Square East Road in the west and ends at Chongwenmen Inner Street. Because it was once the embassy district, many Western-style buildings still remain on both sides of the alley even after those years.

The small western-style building with red roof, colored glass window grilles, western-style gatehouse, western-style church, and Dongjiaomin Lane can be said to be unique in the current Sijiu City.

But it's not that easy to get around here. The embassies in Dongjiaomin Lane are now occupied by various units. Among them, Lao Maozi's embassy is the office of the Supreme People's Court, and the units in other places are also comparable.

This is exactly what you don’t know if you don’t visit the Imperial Capital, so it’s best not to even think about it when you go shopping.

Han Li strolled along the alley while pushing his bicycle, just like those who came here for the first time, looking at the characteristic buildings around him and walking forward slowly.

Because his mental power now covers only 31 meters, many places cannot be explored at all, but at present he has only this stupid method.

Han Li has been walking for a long time without any discovery. Just when he was a little impatient, he walked to the vicinity of the former British Embassy and made a discovery.

Two skeletons were found at the bottom of a big locust tree on the backyard wall. One of the skeletons held a long knife in his hand and stabbed the body of the other skeleton.

The skull of the skeleton holding the long knife had a long braid on it, and the rotten clothes explained his identity.

The clothes on the other skeleton were also rotten, but it could be vaguely seen that they were Western clothes. A blackened cross was hung around the neck of this skeleton, and there was a round glowing bead the size of a rice grain next to it.

This round bead is almost the same as the "Japanese Language Mastery" that Han Li found in the mountains last time. This is the goal of Han Li's trip. Although he doesn't know which language it represents, it doesn't matter to Han Li. He won't dislike such things no matter how many there are.

Decomposition and fusion, Han Li's English, which was barely enough to pass the CET-4 and CET-6, was maxed out in his mind, and according to his guess, this should be British English, which means that the skeleton with the cross should be British.

The long sword no longer looks like a long sword, but the black cross seems to have some value, so Han Li put it into the decomposition space.

As for the two skeletons, Han Li did not move the one holding the big sword, but he directly decomposed the other one into powder, and then scattered it at various intersections to be run over by cars and people.

All this did not slow down Han Li's pace too much. When he came to the vicinity of the former American embassy, ​​he harvested two coins here, with "Mind your business" written on them, so there was no empty car.

Maybe there were too few foreigners who died here, and they had even fewer obsessions. Han Li did not learn any other languages ​​in Dongjiaominxiang. It seemed that if he wanted to learn something in this regard, he could only go to those former battlefields.

However, Han Li is now proficient in English, and when he can go abroad, he will be able to deal with most situations.

Although Han Li comforted himself in his heart, he was still a little unwilling to give up.

So he ran from Dongjiaominxiang to the first embassy area that had been built and put into use, but unfortunately he did not gain anything. Finally, he ran to the second embassy area where some buildings had been completed, but the situation was the same.

At this time, Han Li had to give up and ride his bicycle home. As soon as he opened the street door, he heard the two sisters correcting each other's pronunciation.

"Brother Li is back. What's in this big bag?"

"Everyone is very enthusiastic about learning English. I plan to make two crystal radios so that everyone can listen to the English broadcasts they need."

"Crystal radio? Is it also a radio?"

"Yes, but it should be simpler and the receiving frequency should be a little worse. However, there should be no problem with so many radio stations in Sijiu City."

As Han Li spoke, he put the soldering iron on the stove and took out all the things he bought.

Under the gaze of the two sisters, Han Li used his steady and fast hands to start winding copper wires and welding diodes. Soon a crystal radio was made.

Han Li taught the two sisters how to operate it. Watching them excitedly fiddling with the newly-made radio, he started making the second one. After the family got off work, Han Li made a total of four crystal radios.

The whole family was not calm at this time. They were fiddling with the things in front of them. Although the effect was weaker and the sound was a little noisy, its function was almost the same as the radio bought in the store.

The sisters were full of admiration, and Han's mother was even more smiling, but at this time Han Li poured a basin of cold water on his family.

"Although I can make this crystal radio, it is only for our family use. It's best not to tell outsiders."

"Why? My son has such a skill, but he can't tell others?"

"Mom, first of all, it's not easy to find all these original parts. It's hard to put together a crystal radio. Another thing is, what if everyone knows that I can assemble a radio and ask me for help?

Don't help? Then the relationship between us will be distant. It's not good to only help this one and not that one. That's purely offending people. But if I help too many people, will the higher-ups make trouble for me because of this?"

"Why do you make trouble for my son?"

"Isn't this simple? For example, digging into the corners of *** and fleecing ***."

Hearing this, Han's mother shuddered and woke up immediately. She had experienced too many similar things in the street office over the years. Not to mention such a big item as a radio, some people just collected some bristles after slaughtering pigs and made them into brushes and were labeled as fleecing ***. Thinking of this, Han's mother hurriedly said.

"Oh, that's true. You can't joke about my son's future. So you guys should keep your mouths shut. Just keep this to yourself and your family. Don't tell others about it."

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