Chapter 17 Chapter 15 Antique Market

Fatty has a family heirloom jade pei, which he has always carried with him. This piece of jade was given to his father by a head of the Northwest Field Army. Back then, this head led troops into Xinjiang and wiped out a group of bandits in the Niya Oasis. The piece of jade was worn by the bandit leader.It is said to be a jade pei, but its appearance is not very similar, its shape is simple and weird, and some messy patterns are engraved on it, like maps and words. I don't know what it is actually used for. This jade fat man has shown me many times. My family used to have a lot of antiques. When I was young, I heard a lot about gold, stone and jade from my grandfather.But I can't see the value of this piece of jade.

The fat man wanted to sell this piece of jade for some capital to start a business, but I stopped him. This is left for you by your father. If you can’t sell it, don’t sell it. We are not at the point of desperation. I want money, anyway, our old man and old lady paid a lot of wages. The two of us saw an empty space on the side of the road, so we stopped Sanlun and bought two bowls of braised pot for lunch nearby. Luzhu Huoshao is a soup boiled in pig water, which is full of large intestines and the like. It is soaked in chopped Huoshao. It costs more than one yuan per bowl, which is economical and affordable.

I put too much spicy in this bowl, so hot that my tears and nose came out, and I breathed out with my tongue out. The fat man ate two mouthfuls and said to me, "Old Hu, I wanted to bring you out to make a fortune in the past few years, but I didn't expect that the national economy has been invigorated now. The situation is not a small one, but a great one."Unlike when I first started practicing Tan'er, there were no more than three pop song tapes in Beijing.It really hurts you a bit. Your father was already a teacher before he retired, and enjoys the treatment of a deputy city-level cadre. You might as well go back and let your old man go through the back door and arrange a job for you in the agency, so don't suffer with me.

I patted the fat man's belly and said, "Brother, let me tell you something from the bottom of my heart. If I really want to go to the office, I can go anytime, but I dare not. Do you know why?"I'm afraid, if I sit still in one place, I can't think about anything else, it's all my dead comrades in arms, they are all dangling in front of my eyes, when I see them, my intestines will hurt broken.Now that we're running around busy doing some small business, we can still take our minds off and think about something else, or else I'm going to be on my nerves. After so many years in the army, I learned to boost morale without learning anything else. I comforted the fat man: We are not suffering now. Isn’t there still stewed food to eat?I think back then when I was in the Kunlun Mountains, that's what the fuck was really complaining about.One Spring Festival, everyone was homesick, and many recruits cried secretly.The teacher saw that it was okay, so he hurriedly made dumplings for everyone to improve the food.You may not believe the dumplings. There are no green vegetables in Kunlun Mountains. Vegetables are more expensive than gold, but there is plenty of meat. They are all dumplings made of meatballs.The altitude is too high, the water cannot be boiled, the dumplings are all raw, and the meat inside is red.Can you imagine what that smells like?Just like that, I still ate seventy or eighty of them, which almost made me hungry. I haven’t eaten overcooked food in those few years, and I’m so hungry.I was sent to the hospital the next day. I couldn't digest it, and my stomach felt like iron.Do you remember what Red Rock said?The eve of the victory of the revolution is always the coldest.Our business cannot always be like this, tapes are not easy to sell, we can sell other things.Just like what Chairman Mao and his elders said: If Lushan is not allowed to go, we will go to Jinggangshan. If the People’s Liberation Army doesn’t follow me, I will go to the Red Army.

I turned on the tape recorder, and the two big speakers immediately played music. Because the tape recorder is relatively broken, the sound quality is very poor, and even the most beautiful songs are played from it like a broken gong. But Fatty and I don’t think it’s unpleasant. Anyway, it’s better than the two of us. Fatty’s mood became brighter after my profound and simple ideological education. Take a look, take a look, the original Hong Kong and Taiwan version, arms and legs are cut off for a big sale, and you can make money at a loss. Passers-by and business stalls all cast curious eyes on us. Next to us was a man selling antiques on the ground. He came to say hello to us, and a big gold tooth appeared in his mouth when he smiled. Big Gold Tooth took out a cigarette and passed it around to both of us.

I took the cigarette and took a look: Oh, the grade is not low, American cigarettes, Marlboro. While lighting a cigarette for me, Da Jinya said: My lords, you sell popular songs at the Panjiayuan Second-hand Market, but no one in these four or nine cities can figure it out. You two are really the first ones. I took a big puff of the cigarette and exhaled two streams of white smoke from my nose. This American cigarette is very strong. I raised my head and said to Da Jinya: Don’t use this to run on us. Our brothers are hiding from the Industrial and Commercial Bureau. I ran here and left after a while.

In the end, the two sides agreed, Ganqing is not an outsider, Da Jinya's family is in Hainan Island, and he used to join the team in Yunnan, and his father's generation lived there when the People's Liberation Army went south.The roots of the family are all from Sanye. When you talk about where your hometown is, how many verticals are the elders in the family, which division and which regiment belong to it, the relationship is not too far away. But Da Jinya's father is not a cadre, his father is a craftsman who fights against the people, and later let the national army capture the young man, Xu Bang battle, that is, during the Huaihai Battle, his army revolted and joined the People's Liberation Army. I have always been a cook in the army.I froze my legs on the Korean battlefield and was paralyzed for life. After the reform and opening up, I moved from Hainan to Beijing to collect some antique toys and do some business.

Knowing how to speak is worse than being able to listen, what he said is beautiful, what kind of craftsman who fights against each other, isn't he just a thief who digs graves? Others can't hear these things, but I was brought up by my grandfather since I was a child. He told me a lot. Experts stretch out their hands to know if there is one.Going deeper, I asked Da Jinya: Your old man was the captain of Mojin, did you find any big zongzi? (Big zongzi is a code word circulated among tomb robbers. Just like the bandits in the mountains, they can’t directly say that they killed and set fire. They all have a set of slang words. Zongzi means that the corpses in the tomb are relatively well preserved. Rotten; touching big zongzi means that you are in trouble, referring to unclean things such as zombies and ghosts; There are many valuable things on the corpse.)

When Da Jinya heard this, he immediately respected me and insisted on inviting Fatty and me to Dongsi to eat boiled mutton, and talk about it in detail by the way.So the three of them packed up their things and ran to Dongsi together.