"Hello, do you need any help?" The waiter walked over and said with a smile.

The words sounded in my ears, which made Zhao Guoyang come over his mind.

"Uh, please help me get ten of these automatic pencils, thank you!" Zhao Guoyang said with his hands raised the automatic pencil.

"Okay, please wait!"

After a moment, the waiter handed the packaged automatic pencil to Zhao Guoyang and calculated the price. It was fifteen yuan, not cheap.

When Zhao Guoyang paid, he asked intentionally or unintentionally: "By the way, I don't know if there are any better automatic pencils in your store? I just looked around and didn't find it."

The waiter hesitated and turned to look at the manager next to him.

The manager seemed to have been paying attention to Zhao Guoyang. After hearing his words, he interrogated: "There is really no such thing! This comrade, the consumers we face in our Children's Products Store on June 1st are basically children. The best automatic pencil is the one in your hand."

Seeing Zhao Guoyang's expression of disappointment on his face, the manager added: "I heard that the May Day supplies store is a bit higher in grades. However, if you want to give it to someone, it is better to go to the Friendship Store to have a look, so there is the highest-end one there..."

When the manager mentioned the four words "Friendship Store", Zhao Guoyang suddenly realized.

The product of Friendship Store was born in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when the country was just opened to the public. It belongs to a relatively special type of store in the state-owned nature.

Generally speaking, friendship stores are only open in major first-tier cities in the Republic. Their main purpose is not to make money, but to serve as a symbol of friendship.

These friendship stores, usually sell items imported from Western countries, cannot be bought in other stores.

For example, peanut butter from Manchester, Hershey Chocolate from Pennsylvania, and some brand-name clothing can only be purchased at the Friendship Store.

In addition, Friendship Store also sells some domestic handicrafts to foreign merchants and foreign friends, such as porcelain, jade, etc. Of course, the price is much higher than the market price of these goods in the origin of the goods.

However, because of the monopoly nature of the friendship store, customers have no choice.

Friendship stores usually only accept foreign exchange vouchers as currency. The goods they sell, including some uncensored Western journals, such as the Manhattan Times, etc.

Therefore, doormen usually prevent any customers suspected of being a Chinese from entering the store. Many times, some curious people often peek out of the door through the glass to see what goods are sold in the store.

The waiters who can work in the Friendship Store are all elites selected through layers. They are definitely strong in terms of personal morality and politics.

When the manager mentioned the "Friendship Store", Zhao Guoyang was a little annoyed that he had rejected several foreign friends' exchange contact information at the Songjiang Auto Show.

However, now the auto show is over, and even if you want to ask someone for help, it is impossible.

Fortunately, the automatic pencils I bought in front of me are enough for me to study for the time being. Zhao Guoyang thought about it and stopped worrying.

...

When Zhao Guoyang took a walk around and returned to the hotel, it was already evening.

When he came in, Director Wang Ziqing, Liu Renhe, Jiang Hong, Liu Yaohong and others were sitting in the lounge area in the hotel lobby and chatting about something.

As soon as he saw him come in, Wang Ziqing got up to greet him in person.

"Guoyang, why have you been out for so long? I thought your Director Ma had 'escorted' you back." Seeing Zhao Guoyang return safely, Wang Ziqing's expression relaxed.

Zhao Guoyang said his afternoon itinerary with a little embarrassed.

After saying that, he glanced at the leaders of the Mechanical Working Committee who had already brought their luggage by his side, and said in confusion: "Director Wang, are we rushing back overnight?"

"Yeah, that's right!" Wang Ziqing nodded and patted Zhao Guoyang on the shoulder.

"After a while, Director Liu and the others will go to the train station first. You can take the car with me."

Zhao Guoyang was stunned for a moment and touched his cheek, not knowing why.

Wang Ziqing saw Zhao Guoyang's doubts and explained directly: "It's Senior Official Zhuo, so I must have a good chat with you. You also know that Senior Official Zhuo came in a hurry and didn't even bring his secretary. There were seats for both of us in the car."

After hearing this, Zhao Guoyang felt relieved. It was probably because of his series of performances on the summit forum that had been reported to Senior Official Zhuo by Director Wang.

After chatting with Zhao Guoyang, Wang Ziqing signaled him to sit down and wait for a while. He then turned his head and explained something to Liu Renhe, Jiang Hong and others.

With this gear, Zhao Siyan, who had not spoken behind her, slowly walked to Zhao Guoyang's side.

"Hey, Zhao Guoyang!" Zhao Siyan gently touched Zhao Guoyang's arm and greeted.

"Ah? Siyan, you are here. I haven't seen you just now. I'm still wondering where you are going." Zhao Guoyang scratched his head and said casually.

Zhao Siyan couldn't help but laugh at herself and said, "Hey, where can I go? I don't have that good luck and was received by Senior Official Zhuo..."

Hearing that the researcher Zhao seemed a little jealous in his tone, Zhao Guoyang couldn't help but feel secretly amused.

In the past two days, Zhao Guoyang has had a lot of contact with her and has some understanding of the personality of this graduate student of similar age.

Perhaps because she is a girl from a big city, Zhao Siyan is quite generous and usually doesn’t have any jealousy. Her words are actually just a joke between friends.

From this point, Zhao Guoyang could see that Zhao Siyan seemed to have regarded herself as a friend.

The silence between the two remained maintained for a long time.

Finally, Zhao Siyan couldn't help but speak first, "Well, Zhao Guoyang, my teacher and I will follow Director Liu and the others later. I don't know when we will meet again after we parted this time."

"You are such a very special and interesting person. I think I will never forget the time I spent with you..."

Zhao Guoyang was a little surprised by the directness of this researcher Zhao. Of course, he knew that the other party said this was definitely not because of the love between men and women, but because of friendship.

However, it still takes a certain amount of courage to speak out like her.

After thinking for a while, Zhao Guoyang looked up at Zhao Siyan and said, "Haha, Siyan, you are wrong. With the continuous progress of our country's science and technology and the rapid improvement of industrial level, transportation will definitely become more and more convenient in the future, and the natural barrier will become a thoroughfare."

"Don't say that Jinling City is only more than 160 kilometers away from our Ninghai City. Even if it is more than 1,600 kilometers, it will not be difficult for us to get together again."

Zhao Guoyang nodded to Zhao Siyan, and glanced at Professor Zhu, who was talking to Wang Ziqing over there and said, "Besides, because of the nature of the work, I will definitely trouble Professor Zhu in the future. So, don't worry, I will definitely find you, don't be upset at that time!"
Chapter completed!