Chapter 19 The secret in the banner
I fell asleep not long after I went back and lay down last night. I slept very well and woke up feeling refreshed in the morning. Huang Zhu thought about what the girl Zhenzhen said last night and found that she must also have a crush on him.<
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Huang Xiu finished washing, locked the door, and went out on his tricycle. He went to the same store as yesterday morning to eat Xiao Long Bao.
Without wasting time, Huang Zhu went directly to the demolition area. Today he planned to quickly browse the houses of those residents who had been relocated to see if he could find anything of collectible value.
This time Huang Zhu did not choose to go to the historic building with blue bricks and tiles. He saw a three-story house in front of him. The yard gate and the upstairs windows were smashed. It must have been moved out. He put the tricycle in the house.
After pushing into the yard and locking it, I started to scan around the yard. On the right side of the entrance to the yard, it looked like a kitchen. There was a large water tank in the yard, and a flower bed with some plants and a flower bed.
Huang Zhu really had no place to plant the vine, otherwise he would have liked to dig it up. There was a pepper tree in the corner on the left side of the yard, and some broken jars and clay pots were scattered on the wall.
I didn't find anything particularly valuable on the side. Huang Xiu entered the kitchen. There was also a cabinet inside. When he opened the cabinet, he found a stone mortar for pounding garlic, as well as bowls, plates and other kitchen utensils. Huang Xiu felt that this
The stone mortar was of some value, so he took it out. He also looked at the other bowls and plates, and they were all ordinary. There were no such types as "people's communes are good", "serving the people", "grasping the revolution and promoting production", etc. But these
You can also ask for it. When you have a car in the future, you will have time to take it back to the countryside to set up a street stall during the Chinese New Year. As long as it is cheaper, you can sell it. Huang Xuan does not plan to bring these with him today. He plans to sweep up the more valuable things first and wait.
There are no more things to pick up, let's get these again. Huang Su knows that there are not many demolition areas now, just some that occupy land for road construction and have to be demolished as a last resort. Basically no one will go to those houses that have moved away to hunt for treasures or pick up things.
, only when large-scale shantytowns were renovated almost ten years later, did anyone go out to buy scraps or antiques. Huang Zhu looked again in other places in the kitchen. There was nothing particularly valuable, so he returned to the yard with the stone mortar.
Put it on the tricycle.
Huang Zhu then went to search inside the house again, and finally found an abacus, a porcelain teapot, and a liter of rice. After putting everything on the tricycle, he went to the house where the next family moved.
He found something inside the house, including a lead block weighing several dozen kilograms found in a dilapidated old house. Of course, this was his estimate. At that time, the lead block was blocked by a pile of old wine bottles.
If Huang Sheng hadn't wanted to see if there were any early rare wine bottles worthy of collection, he wouldn't have gone through the wine bottles. This was an unexpected gain. In this unprepossessing old house, he also found a large jar of fish.
Hooks, hundreds of floats (fish floats), and a bottle of fishing sinkers (used to sink fishhooks). Huang Zhu was afraid that it would be unsafe to put it on the tricycle, so he rode the tricycle back to the rental house.
Huang Zhu unloaded the contents of the car to the rental house, leaving only the lead. He planned to sell it, and now he needed to collect money to buy a metal detector. He locked the door of the rental house and rode a tricycle to the nearest scrap recycling station.
He saw Lao Cao loading a truck, preparing to drag the scrap metal he had collected to sell. Huang Zhu walked up to Lao Cao and asked him how much lead he collected per pound. Lao Cao said 3 yuan per pound. Huang Zhu thought for a moment
, felt that selling it as scrap was not cost-effective, so he asked Lao Cao to borrow his scale for use. Huang Zhu put the lead block on the scale and weighed it. It weighed 76 kilograms. No wonder it was so heavy to move. If he sold it as scrap, he would just
It can be sold for 228 yuan. He thought that people who sell fishing gear and make fishing nets should use this. This can be made into sinkers. He doesn’t know how many to make.
Thinking like this, Huang Xiu moved the lead weight to the tricycle and rode the tricycle to Fishing Gear and Net Street, which is also over Labor Street and not far from here.
"Boss, do you collect lead here? I have a large piece of lead here. Do you want it?" Huang Zhu said to a middle-aged man who was taking out a fishing net from the house. There was another man in the room who was weaving a net. The reason why
I chose this shop to ask because Huang Zhu saw that this shop was doing very well. Generally, shops with good business must have integrity. At this time, several people came over to choose fishing nets.
"Take it, take it here and take a look." The middle-aged man looked at Huang Zhu and asked him to take it.
Huang Xiu pushed the tricycle over and pointed to the lead weight on the vehicle for the boss to take a look at. After the boss looked at the lead weight, he asked Huang Xiu to move the lead weight to one of his scales nearby and weigh it, 76.5 kilograms.
The boss looked at the weight, calculated it in his mind, and said he would give Huang Zhu 350 yuan if he wanted to sell it. Huang Zhu thought about it and felt that other fishing tackle shops would probably pay this price at most, so he said
It can be sold. After the money and goods were cleared, Huang Zhu felt happy. This was the money he had to work hard for more than 20 days and not eat or drink. He calculated it in his mind and found that he currently had 600 yuan in his hand.
It’s more diverse. In the past two days, I have finished sweeping the houses of the residents who have moved out in the demolition area. I went to the place where electronic products are sold in the Science and Technology City. It’s time to buy a detector.
Huang Zhu asked the boss about the time. It was only ten o'clock and he could still go to the demolition area. When he arrived at the demolition area, he found a house with long white tiles on the walls. It was the same three-story house.
People also moved away.
Huang Zhu was still familiar with the routine and began to sweep up. This family seemed to have a good family background. The exterior walls were covered with ceramic tiles, and the interior walls were also painted with imitation porcelain, which was white. In that era when water paint was rolled on in a thin layer, something like this
The decoration is quite classy.
Many things in this family's house had not been moved away. Huang Zhu found many valuable things inside, such as an enamel fruit plate with the words "Send Public Grain" written on it. There was a painting of a boat with people on it and grain on it, and the bottom of the landscape.
It’s very artistic. Two photo albums, one in memory of the great leader ***, are scenes of tears streaming down the faces of various units in that era, including textile factory workers, steel factory workers, and machine manufacturing factory workers. The other one is a tribute to the great leader ***.
A photo album contains private photos, including photos of children from childhood to adulthood, as well as photos of outings and family photos. A small bag of stamps was hidden in the stack of books in the drawer. Huang Zhu found it when he was rummaging through the stack of books.
There was no time to look at it now, so Huang Zhu directly pulled out the entire drawer and put it on the tricycle. There were seven or eight identical porcelain bowls with the words "A single spark can start a prairie fire" written on them. Several porcelain teapots were also from that era.
Yes, there was also a purple clay pot and several five-star Moutai bottles. Huang Xiu put all these things on the tricycle. Maybe the family got rich and moved to other places, and basically didn’t take away anything at home.
There were bits and pieces and other things. Huang Zhu saw some high-grade clothes in the wardrobe, so he picked a few pieces to wear himself. If he went to buy them, he would have to spend money. Huang Zhu felt that where he lived there was not enough
I found two stools here and put them on the tricycle. There was no tabletop in the rental house. I happened to see a small round tabletop in the house, so I moved it and put it on the tricycle.
When Huang Zhu was on the second floor, he saw several banners with wooden frames and glass hanging in the hall of the room. The banners were printed with calligraphy and paintings of "more than every year", "luck, longevity, health" and "good luck". Huang Zhu felt that these banners
The calligraphy and paintings were very beautiful, so he wanted to remove the glass from the frame and take the calligraphy and paintings away. Thinking of this, he took down the hanging banners with glass frames one by one and placed them along the ground and against the wall.
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When Huang Zhu removed the framed glass that read "There is more than enough every year", he found that there was a piece of calligraphy inside. Unexpectedly, there was a secret in the banner! There was something hidden inside. This time it was real calligraphy.
, not printed. Huang Zhu unfolded it and read it, and wrote a poem: The white sun is over the mountains, and the Yellow River flows into the sea. If you want to see a thousand miles away, go to a higher level. The signature is Wang X. Huang Zhu also unloaded the poem.
I removed the other two frames and found that there were also two pieces of calligraphy inside, which also belonged to Wang X. It seems that this family must be very close to Wang X.
Huang Zhu had heard from others before that someone was collecting sofas in a demolition area. Once he received a sofa and when he went back to cut the fabric layer on the sofa's surface, he discovered that there were stacks of banknotes hidden inside the sofa.
Chapter completed!