50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 167 Photographic Memory
Sun Zhiwei closed the door to visitors in the kindergarten to avoid a lot of trouble, but he didn't really stay at home.

This year, spring came quickly. The weather turned warmer in February. In March, he organized his colleagues to go out for spring plowing. The land they plowed was the land on the city wall.

This piece of land should have been reclaimed, but the owner didn't come to take it back. He couldn't just give the land back. That would be stupid.

The procedures they used to obtain the land were reasonable and legal. No matter why other units took it back, they could just plant the land as long as they could for one season.

Being self-reliant and having enough food and clothing is also a form of thriftiness.

After a month, all the land was planted with crops. Sun Zhiwei calculated the time and quickly led the team to withdraw. After returning, he closed the gate again.

After that, from April to July, there were fights everywhere, but the garden was peaceful. Sun Zhiwei knew that people would get sick easily if they were locked up for a long time, so he organized the teachers in the garden to edit popular songs and dances and prepare to hold a party.

What is the name of the popular song and dance now? It is called the Loyalty Dance. The dance moves are copied from the large-scale dance epic "The East is Red".

The dance movements are rough, simple, and exaggerated, using pictographic and graphic techniques to express ideas. The dancers are filled with the solemnity of pilgrimage.

The main accompanying songs are "The Helmsman is the Key to Sailing on the Sea", "On the Golden Mountain in Beijing", and "Welcome the Ninth National Congress with Great Enthusiasm".

During the parade, the loyalty dance formation often consisted of hundreds or even thousands of people, connected front to back and stretching for several miles, singing and dancing as they moved forward, sometimes lasting for more than ten miles.

They danced for a while, then walked to rest for a while, alternating between the two movements. The scene, the scale, the momentum, the grandeur, the magnificence, the unprecedented.

Kindergartens must also keep pace with the times and keep up with the characteristics of the times. We should also learn what others can do. After the kindergarten's professional dance teacher choreographed it, Sun Zhiwei took a look and said, "You know what, it's quite beautiful."

I don’t know about other kindergartens, but Beihai is really full of hidden talents, with many highly educated and talented teachers.

Everyone had been bored for so long, and when they suddenly heard that the principal was going to hold a party, they were naturally excited and started preparing enthusiastically.

In addition to dancing, various talent shows have also been released.

Some teachers can draw maps with their bare hands, some can dance ethnic minority dances, singing, dancing and playing are nothing new, there are crosstalk performers, there are quick-paced musicians, and there is even an old group leader who can actually sing Lotus Flower Falls.

The show was prepared for three days before it started. This time it was an internal party, and they only invited family members from the family area. Including the children, there were about seven or eight hundred people.

After dinner in the evening, everyone gathered in the small auditorium starting at 7 o'clock. The performance lasted for two hours, and the cheers and applause never stopped.

In the middle, the host urged Sun Zhiwei to perform a talent. Sun Zhiwei couldn't be separated from the crowd, so he performed "Photographic Memory".

He took a copy of the Xinhua Dictionary and said that no matter who opened the page, he could recite every line and every word.

The Xinhua Dictionary is basically a must-have reference book for everyone, and many children carry it with them.

But to say that one can memorize the Xinhua Dictionary is too exaggerated, and no one would believe it.

So, those who had books in their hands began to ask questions, trying to stump him.

Unfortunately, Sun Zhiwei really has a photographic memory. Although it can't be said to be 100%, he really remembers about 80% to 90% of the "Xinhua Dictionary".

As for the small part he didn't remember, he could still use the space to cheat. In order to show off his skills and not tarnish his reputation as the principal, he ignored the small flaws. So, today, the entire kindergarten, young and old, teachers and children witnessed this super magical scene:
A living, breathing, extraordinary person with a photographic memory appears in their lives, and he is actually their headmaster.

After today's party ended, everyone was still in shock. This party will become an unforgettable memory for them.

In the summer, when he felt that things outside had begun to calm down, Sun Zhiwei relaxed his vigilance and began to allow faculty and staff in need to go out in batches.

Many people's hometowns are in other places, and there are also many people applying for letters of introduction. In the past few days, he has opened a whole book just for letters of introduction.

Writing a letter of introduction is a science. If you don't know how to write one, you will have to write more than ten letters to meet the other person's needs when he or she goes out. If you know how to write one, you only need one piece of paper.

Sun Zhiwei’s skill in issuing letters of introduction was pretty good. There were less than 30 teachers in the kindergarten who needed to leave the school, and he only issued one.

It is true that some teachers have to go to several different places and it is impossible to put all the contents in one letter of introduction.

For example, a teacher's hometown is in Shandong, and his father-in-law's family is in Shanxi. These two families cannot be included on one piece of paper, so he can only get two pieces of paper to be considered a match.

One of the teachers was from Baoding and planned to stay there until the end of September. Sun Zhiwei suddenly remembered that a set of precious stamps was briefly issued for a few days in September.

He planned to ask this colleague to bring him a few sets.

This set of stamps is called "Black Inscriptions". In fact, it was intercepted before the issuance date and was not officially released. Only a limited number of them were circulated because a few post offices sold them in advance.

He could no longer remember which post offices they were from, but he only knew that there were several post offices in Baoding that sold them.

So he asked his colleague to buy him a few copies if he could.

This kind of thing actually requires time to accumulate. The longer the time, the more precious it is. It may not be worth much now, but it will be valuable in 50 years.

In February 2011, at a large auction of rare stamps in Hong Kong, a set of four stamps with the title "Black Inscription" was sold for HK$2 million.

In 2025, at the Poly Auction, the estimated price of a set of four new "Black Inscription" tickets was 500 million to 1000 million yuan.

This kind of investment requires no effort. If you buy it and save it, it will be enough to build a house for your grandchildren in the future.

The kindergarten colleagues took the principal's instructions very seriously. After returning to their hometown, they often paid attention to the newly issued stamps by the post office.

On September 9th, he finally found the package at a post office near his home. He bought two large sheets, but the clerk wouldn't let him buy more, and his colleagues didn't dare to say anything.

At the end of the month, he brought the stamps back to the kindergarten. Sun Zhiwei was not very happy looking at these new stamps.

This thing is only worth a few cents now. It is not certain whether he will still be alive when it becomes valuable. In any case, he will basically not see the day when this thing becomes valuable.

The only investment he could think of was to wait ten or twenty years and then go to a calligraphy and painting shop to buy a batch of paintings by modern painters to keep.

This is much better than any antique. There is no need to worry about being cheated in public stores. In the future, when the painters become famous, the price will go up and it will be a sure profit.

(End of this chapter)