Chapter 108: Finally Buying Furniture
Chapter 108: Finally Buying Furniture
The next day, May 5th, weekend.
There is only one thing to do today, which is to go to the bookstore and buy a book about patents, and that's it.
In 50, Taiwan established its first specialized patent management agency, the Patent Office, which was responsible for patent application, examination and authorization.
The State Council promulgated the "Provisional Regulations on Protecting Invention Rights and Patent Rights", which was the first law and regulation on patents promulgated after the establishment of the city.
It was not until April 1985, 4 that the Patent Law was officially implemented.
However, at present, the city of Beijing is facing many challenges of reconstruction and development. In this context, intellectual property rights are not considered as a primary issue.
Before going out, Li Kailang saw that six Han engineers had already started construction.
After Engineer Yang was injured, although he could not do heavy work, he was still able to do odd jobs. Having such an experienced person around made the project more orderly.
Li Kailang didn't bother them. He got on his bike and headed towards the bookstore.
However, before going to the bookstore, Li Kailang first went to the location of the enemy's courtyard.
I had planned to come here before, but I didn't dare stay long because of the military and police surveillance.
Soon, Li Kailang arrived here and could clearly feel that things here had returned to normal, and there was no feeling of being under surveillance.
Li Kailang saw a breakfast shop full of people, so he decided to go and ask around.
"Comrade, please give me some fried dough sticks, steamed buns, and some soy milk!" Li Kailang shouted, and found a seat to sit down.
"Okay, wait a moment!"
"Lao Wang, please tell us what happened to that enemy spy? We have been waiting for you for several days."
Old Wang smiled mysteriously and said in a low voice, "I heard it from my third uncle's brother-in-law's nephew's third son, who is a policeman."
"The enemy spy was sent to the hospital that night. His face was covered in blood and his body was covered in wounds, bruises and purples."
"We all know this, just tell us what we don't know." Someone interrupted.
Li Kailang also became interested and listened attentively.
Lao Wang kept everyone in suspense and remained silent for a while before he said, "Okay, let me tell you something you don't know. Do you know where this enemy spy went in the end?"
Everyone shook their heads.
"I heard from my third uncle's third son that the enemy agent stayed in the hospital for only a few days and then went to another hospital."
"Aren't you already in the hospital? Why do you have to go to another hospital?" someone asked in confusion.
Lao Wang smiled proudly, "You don't know, that enemy agent is stupid, he doesn't know anything, I asked him for several days, but he couldn't answer anything. I thought he was pretending, but he was really serious."
"What happened next? Wasn't anything found out?" someone asked.
Lao Wang shook his head. "Well, the people are stupid and can't get anything out of them. The police have checked the yard several times and can't find anything."
"It is said that there were footprints in the enemy's house, but they were trampled away by them."
"Then there are no footprints in other places. That person must have climbed over the wall to get in. It is impossible for him to come in through the main door. What about the footprints on the wall beams?"
"This guy is amazing. He didn't even leave any footprints. How can the police investigate?" said Lao Wang.
Li Kailang nodded secretly. When he climbed over the wall to leave, he intentionally erased his footprints.
"Will that mean we can't catch the person who climbed over the wall?" Li Kailang said at the right time.
Everyone looked at Lao Wang when they heard this, and they didn't doubt Li Kailang at all.
Lao Wang nodded. "Indeed, didn't you see it? There were people guarding here during those days. If there were any clues, they would have gone out to look for them long ago."
Everyone nodded. If there were any clues from the footprints, Li Kailang would not have stayed here until now.
One can infer a person's height, body shape, occupation, and determine the type and model of shoes based on footprints alone.
If they really could deduce it, they would be able to find Li Kailang after some investigation, but Li Kailang did not feel any surveillance in the past few days, so it was obvious that he was not under surveillance.
Now that the truth had been clarified, Li Kailang did not stay any longer. He left his meal ticket and money and headed towards the bookstore.
The bookstore is naturally Xinhua Bookstore, which is very close to the supply and marketing cooperative.
At this time, many stores were configured according to the location of Xinhua Bookstore.
How important is the status of Xinhua Bookstore?
It is said that every time a base was captured, four major things had to be done immediately: building a bank, a post office, a supply and marketing cooperative, and opening a Xinhua Bookstore.
The slogan of Xinhua Bookstore at that time was "Wherever there is a vital base, there is Xinhua Bookstore. Wherever there are the people, there is Xinhua Bookstore."
If it were put in 58, it wouldn’t be much different.
Generally speaking, books that are not available at Xinhua Bookstore are also difficult to buy outside.
For this reason, Li Kailang went to Xinhua Bookstore with full confidence, which was a key step in his patent application.
Li Kailang was looking for patent books in foreign languages, so he naturally went to the foreign language section.
Half an hour. 45 minutes 1 hour
"How not?"
Li Kailang searched in the foreign language area for an hour but didn't see any books about patents.
Most of them were literary works such as poetry and novels, which were far from the patent books he was looking for.
During this period, Li Kailang also asked the people in the bookstore, but they didn't know the meaning of the patent and just asked Li Kailang to look for it in the foreign language section.
Because of Big Brother, the foreign language learned in the old city is Russian, and other languages are considered minor languages.
This made Li Kailang's search even more troublesome. He was like a headless fly, searching hard in the foreign language area.
Another hour later, Li Kailang was still not found.
"Since there is none here, let's find another place."
Li Kailang rode his bicycle to the next Xinhua Bookstore.
Li Kailang had the same experience. He searched for a long time but couldn't find the patent book, and he felt distressed.
"What should I do? If I don't have this book, how can I apply for a patent?"
With this patent, people above us will pay attention to it. Otherwise, this patent can only be circulated within the city and cannot be circulated outside, so we will not make any money.
There is even the possibility that it will not be taken seriously.
"Jingle Bell--"
Outside the Xinhua Bookstore, a bell suddenly rang. Li Kailang looked outside and saw a postman riding by, ringing his bell.
"Postman, letter? Letter! ! ! ! "
"Trust!!!" Li Kailang suddenly slammed his palm. In addition to Xinhua Bookstore, there is also a trust store.
The trust store has a wide range of products, and many rare items can be found there.
"Comrade!" Because of Li Kailang's strange behavior, the bookstore manager walked towards Li Kailang.
However, Li Kailang was anxious and did not hear the administrator's words. He ran out and rode his bike towards the trust store.
"Hey!" the administrator complained in a low voice.
Li Kailang rushed all the way to the outside of the trust store.
A luxurious aura gushed out and went towards Li Kailang.
Trust stores are generally divided into a sales department and a purchasing department.
The sales department is responsible for display and sales.
The Purchasing Department is responsible for purchasing and consignment.
According to the different business scopes, trust stores can be roughly divided into three categories:
One category is those who buy and sell miscellaneous items, ranging from high-end items such as cameras, handicrafts, watches, to clothes and the like, such as Dongsi, Caishikou, Tianqiao, Qianmen, etc.
Another category is those who buy and sell furniture, such as beds, tables and chairs, boxes, wardrobes, etc. Donghuamen Trust, for example, specializes in buying and selling safes and office cabinets. There is also a category that buys and sells bicycles, including complete bicycles and bicycle accessories, such as Beixinqiao Trust.
Li Kailang came to Dongsi Trust Mall, which was more in line with his needs.
After entering the trust, Li Kailang went straight to the book area and after searching for a while, he finally found a patent book.
Li Kailang flipped through it quickly. The book was translated into both Chinese and English.
It not only talks about the benefits of applying for patents, but also gives several examples of people who made a lot of money after applying for patents, as well as patents applied for in recent years.
Most importantly, Li Kailang discovered that there was a patent for an early three-point seat belt.
The book says: American pilots Roger Griswold and Hugh De Haven invented a Y-shaped three-point seat belt that can limit the forward leaning of the upper body and registered a patent in 1955.
The patent continued to earn a lot of wealth for the two inventors.
In fact, the Y-shaped seat belt was originally invented for use in airplane seats, not cars.
Due to the buckle design, this type of seat belt requires the cooperation of both hands to fasten or unfasten, which is a bit cumbersome to use and difficult to meet emergency escape needs.
At the same time, its structure is not scientific enough, and the seat belt cannot perfectly fix the user in the seat.
The human body can still move when under stress, and the buckle fails to protect the human body due to its improper position.
However, this Y-shaped seat belt provided inspiration for Swedish engineer Nils Bohlin to invent the modern V-shaped three-point seat belt.
In 1958, Nils Bolin was employed by Volvo Car Corporation of Sweden. Prior to that, he worked for the Swedish Aerospace Industry, where he was responsible for designing catapults for pilot seats.
Nils Bolin had also seen the Y-type three-point seat belt.
In the same year, Nils Bohlin invented the V-shaped three-point seat belt that we all know today.
之后于1958年8月29日在瑞典提交了专利申请，并以此为优先权于1959年8月17日向美国和英国提交了专利申请。
The United States granted the patent on July 1962, 7, with the patent number US10, and the invention name was "seat belt". [Source: Science Popularization China.]
Volvo's V-belt really became famous in 1967.
That year, Volvo released the "28000 Accident Report" at a traffic safety conference in the United States.
The report records all traffic accidents involving Volvo cars in Sweden in 1966. The data also shows that three-point seat belts can effectively reduce or even prevent injuries to passengers.
From then on, Volvo opened up its V-shaped three-point seat belt patent [free of charge], and the three-point seat belt began to become standard.
Patents were not liberalized free of charge until 1959.
Since 1968, the United States has required that forward-facing seats in cars be equipped with seat belts.
[The above is real information. The author has researched for a long time and it is not fabricated! Lest someone say that the author is talking nonsense. ]
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"Good, good, good!" Li Kailang couldn't help but say "good" several times while holding the patent book.
"With this book and the original Y-shaped safety belt, my 'invention' is not so out of place!" Li Kailang couldn't help but feel in a good mood.
Pick up the book and go to the sales counter.
"Hello, comrade, how much is this book?"
The salesperson took a quick look at it, thought about it, and said directly, "This book is 5 yuan."
Li Kailang didn't waste any time and directly took out 5 yuan and gave it to the salesperson.
"By the way, comrade, please give me a receipt!"
"OK, just a second!"
Holding the bill, Li Kailang felt relieved. He pretended to put the clothes into his arms, but actually put them into the ring.
Li Kailang didn't dare leave such an important thing outside.
"Huh!" Li Kailang let out a long sigh, and the stone in his heart was relieved.
"Now that I have some free time, I can go shopping in this legendary trust store! I wonder how many good things there are here!"
The Dongdan Trust Store sells a wide variety of items, basically a little bit of everything, with furniture being the most common.
There are complete styles of chairs, such as official hat chairs, imperial chairs, eight-immortal tables, drum stools, etc.
There are also huanghuali chairs and cabinets from the Ming Dynasty, red sandalwood furniture from the Qing Dynasty, and of course furniture made of other wood species.
Li Kailang felt a little envious, but after thinking it over, he decided not to buy everything and only bought a few items.
One reason is that I have the skills of a carpenter. As long as I have wood, I can make it myself. However, no matter how good the thing is, it is not as good as what I make with my own hands.
The second group is the old people and young people in the old city. Naturally, they also have these furniture at home, and they are better preserved than here.
When there is a famine, you can buy from them at a lower price, or even for free.
These furnitures won't be afraid of gathering dust here. After all, nothing in a trust store is cheap, and no one would dare to buy them in large quantities.
If someone really bought it, Li Kailang would suspect whether that person was a time traveler like him.
The most important thing is that there is not enough space in the ring. Putting down wood is almost the limit and there is no room for these furniture.
But then again, Li Kailang has carpentry skills, but they are not yet developed and he cannot make difficult furniture, so it would be more cost-effective for him to buy furniture first.
Once you gain proficiency, you can put all of these into the ring to collect dust.
After picking for half an hour, Li Kailang selected some furniture.
A set of sofas and coffee tables from the Republic of China, as well as three wardrobes, cabinets, a leg-spreading eight-immortal table and four matching rosewood chairs, a writing desk, a dressing table, and a three-person bed made of huanghuali wood.
And an iron fireplace, which is placed in the living room to burn wood for heating.
The east wing is relatively large, about 40 to 50 square meters. Li Kailang planned to burn the kang in the bedroom, but the temperature of the kang could not reach the living room, so he could only burn the fireplace.
"Comrade, can you tell me how much these pieces of furniture cost?"
"Okay, I can tell at a glance that you are an expert in knowing what to buy. You have a really sharp eye! You only picked out good things, all huanghuali and red sandalwood. Please wait a moment!" the salesperson exclaimed.
After saying this, the salesperson took out an abacus, pen and paper and started calculating the prices one by one.
Unlike salespeople in other places, salespeople in trust stores work on a performance-based system; the more things you buy, the more commission they get.
They also wanted to recruit people, but firstly, the items in the trust were second-hand, and secondly, the prices were too expensive. With that money, they might as well hire a carpenter to make new furniture.
"There are twenty pieces of furniture in total, and the total cost is two hundred and eighty dollars!" After a while, the salesperson calculated it.
Li Kailang estimated in his mind that an average piece of furniture costs 11 yuan. If these pieces of furniture were placed in the future, they would be worth more than one million or eight hundred thousand, which would definitely be a profit.
The most expensive item is the iron fireplace, which costs seventy dollars.
Li Kailang did not hesitate and directly took out 28 big black tens and opened the tickets.
After paying the money and taking the receipt, Li Kailang walked to the door of the trust store. He looked around and saw several delivery workers pulling a cart.
"Comrade!" Li Kailang waved at the three people, motioning them to come over.
The deliverymen were sitting on the cart, smoking and chatting. When they heard Li Kailang's voice, they immediately got off the cart and walked over quickly, dragging the cart.
The deliverymen approached, and the leading man asked enthusiastically, "Sir, what can I do for you?"
Li Kailang didn't waste any words. "I have some furniture here. Could you please help me deliver it to No. 95 Nanluoguxiang? How much?"
The leading deliveryman estimated the price in his mind, "5 cents per truck to Nanluoguxiang."
Li Kailang nodded. The price was not expensive.
"Okay, that's the price!" He asked the three to load the furniture into the car and then sent it over first.
Among these pieces of furniture, the fireplace is the heaviest, weighing nearly 100 pounds, which is enough to show how solidly it is made.
This place is some distance away from the courtyard, and Li Kailang took a quick look around, but there was nothing that attracted him.
Without staying long, Li Kailang rode his bicycle back to the courtyard.
(End of this chapter)