Chapter 035 Unexpected Joy
Zhao Qingshan returned to the office and saw an envelope on the desktop. He was the recipient and Yan Moumou sent the sender.
Zhao Qingshan opened the envelope, took out the letter paper, and wrote in the elegant pen in one hand. Yan Moumou wrote:
"Zhao Qingshan, are you okay in Jianggang? I hope you will get better and better... I have passed the political review and will go to the United States to study in the near future... Don't worry, take care of yourself."
In the late 1980s, a trend of studying abroad suddenly emerged.
Yan Moumou, who stayed in the capital, is about to go to the United States to study. Before leaving, she wrote this letter to her college friend Zhao Qingshan, spreading eight pages of paper, and comprehensively reviewed the deep friendship they established between 1983 and 1986.
"Just leave, just call, and I have to write a letter."
Zhao Qingshan still has feelings for Yan Moumou. He knew that she had been away for many years, and when she came back, her identity became a Chinese American.
Time and time again I ask myself.
Ask yourself if you can leave you.
Time and time…
Ouch I'll go!
Zhao Qingshan's eyes lit up and his body shook.
After reading the letter, he noticed a detail.
A stamp is posted on the envelope, with a face value of 8 cents, number T-46, issued in 1980, with a red background, a cute monkey...
This... this is the 1980 monkey ticket!
1980 is the Year of the Monkey. my country issued zodiac stamps for the first time this year. This monkey has an extraordinary status.
Millions of monkey tickets were issued in 1987. By 1987, many people did not realize that it was worth much more than 8 cents and sent it as postage.
Miss Yan was so kind and righteous. Before leaving, she gave me a big gift... Zhao Qingshan was so happy. At the same time, she was glad that Miss Yan was not very sensitive to stamps. It was also very coincidental that she posted a stamp casually, which happened to be a monkey stamp for 80 years.
Letters, and letters. After graduation, Miss Yan wrote several letters to me!
Zhao Qingshan searched and found five letters, three of which were from Miss Yan and the other two from male friends.
Zhao Qingshan’s habit is to put back the envelope after reading it, so the envelopes and stamps can be preserved.
He was quite disappointed. The stamps on the five letters were very ordinary and kept until the 21st century. Two of them were worth at most dozens of dollars and hundreds of dollars.
Zhao Qingshan remembers that precious stamps were popular among Hong Kong people. It started in 1989 and 1990. The prices of precious stamps, including monkey stamps in 1980, surged all the way, with auction prices from tens of thousands of Hong Kong dollars to hundreds of thousands of thousands, and the most expensive ones could be sold for millions.
Take a philatelic to develop a noble and elegant hobby.
From then on, Zhao Qingshan became a philatelic enthusiast. He quickly went to the post office and bought a bunch of stamps that are not worth much now and are not worth much in the future to fill the storefront. Almost all valuable stamps were issued before 1981, and they were crippled among the people and could not be bought in the post office.
Jianggang has established a Philatelic Association, which means that some people have realized the collection value of stamps.
Zhao Qingshan quickly signed up for the Jianggang Philatelic Association. He wrote the application note for Zhang's membership, waiting for approval.
One day in late March, Zhao Qingshan came home from get off work and rode his bike past the door of Jianggang No. 3 Middle School and happened to meet Meng Xiaoqing, and the two rode together.
Meng Xiaoqing is now not interested in game consoles. He said that his grades have improved by one point and surpassed one by one. "Pressing at classmates" is much more satisfying than playing game consoles.
Zhao Qingshan asked: "Xiaoqing, do you have a university you like?"
"I have been in Jiangcheng for eighteen years and have never left this city. In fact, I have been to Hankou and Hanyang very rarely, but Wuchang has been to a little more. I want to go outside to see it when I go to college."
"The outside world is very exciting, go out and experience it. Which university do you want to apply for in which province or which university do you want to apply for?"
"The ancestors of our Lao Meng family were from Shandong, and I want to go to Shandong to study for a university."
"Confucius, Mencius, Yan Zeng, don't call him randomly. Who are you? Meng Xiaoqing?"
"I am the Ling generation, and my old man is the Xiang generation. His original name was Meng Xiangxi, but later it was changed to a rustic name like Meng Shuizhi. I want to change it back to Ling generation, and let's talk about it after the college entrance examination."
"There are quite a lot of universities in Shandong. Xiaoqing, which one do you want to apply to?"
"I don't know either."
"You ran to Shandong without even thinking about it. The appeal of your saints and ancestors is so strong? What is your professionalism? Which major are you interested in?"
“I want to learn English.”
"What's the point before learning English..." Zhao Qingshan stopped abruptly. The future depends on his personal subjective initiative and his keen overall view of going with the flow. Since Meng Xiaoqing's subjective intention is to learn English, let him learn it.
"Tomorrow is Sunday again, and my parents are at home. In our study group, can I go to Brother Xiaoshan to study for a day? Brother Xiaoshan, will you work overtime tomorrow? Will we go to your house for convenience?" Meng Xiaoqing expressed his earnest hope.
"It's convenient to work overtime."
"Oh great!"
Chapter completed!