When Zhuang Rui just graduated from university, Liu Chuan encouraged him to join him. However, Zhuang Rui felt that his four years of college could not be in vain. Secondly, Liu Chuan's business was already on track, so he just came to eat.
It's ready-made, it's not interesting, so I haven't agreed to it. Now that the pawn shop wants to promote his position, he has no intention of doing it, and he doesn't answer Liu Chuan's words at the moment.
"Rogue, you are so hot and happy in the house. There is an aunt outside taking shelter from the snow. Why don't you let people come inside to warm you up? Your kid also grew up like Lei Feng. Why are you now like Huang Shiren?
Yes, I will tell my mother when I get back and I will ensure that you have a bad New Year."
Zhuang Rui looked through the glass door and saw the old lady's body shivering in the cold wind. He couldn't bear it, so he spoke.
"Huh? There was no one at the door just now. I don't know. Don't tell my mother, otherwise you will teach me a lesson again. I will invite someone in right now." Although Liu Chuan had a rough face,
, actually had a cold face and a warm heart. After seeing the old lady outside, he quickly opened the glass door.
"Auntie, come in and warm yourself up. Wait until the snow lightens before you leave. It's too cold outside." Liu Chuan's voice sounded, but maybe it was because his face was more distinctive. The old lady stared at her.
Liu Chuan took a look and shook his head firmly.
Seeing this, Zhuang Rui also walked out and said, "Auntie, come in and warm yourself up. It's still snowing, and we're not bad people."
"Then...then thank you."
After the old lady saw Zhuang Rui, the vigilant expression on her face relaxed a lot, and she agreed after a moment of hesitation. Liu Chuan was very depressed. This shop was his own, but it was Zhuang Rui who was being thanked. He had been since childhood.
This guy is a good person and is really unreasonable.
There were outsiders in the store, and Zhuang Rui didn't talk as unscrupulously as before. After letting the old lady go to the stove to warm up, Liu Chuan started hitting his Super Mario again. The gnashing of teeth didn't look like that at all.
Good person, the old lady held the package in her hand tightly and carefully moved the bench farther away. It seemed that she would feel safer if she kept a little more distance from Liu Chuan.
"Mom, what are you doing here in such a cold weather? Buying pets for your children?" Seeing that the old lady was a little cautious, Zhuang Rui asked.
"Brother, stop joking. We don't have enough chickens and ducks in our village. How can we have time to raise these things? Isn't this a waste of money?" The old lady saw the pictures of pets posted on the walls of the store and knew it.
What is for sale here?
After Liu Chuan heard what the old lady said, he twisted his mouth and didn't say what he wanted to say, but he must have felt unhappy. If the old lady had this idea, he wouldn't have to do this business.
"Then what are you..." Zhuang Rui poured a cup of hot tea and brought it to the old lady.
The old lady had something on her mind, so when she met Zhuang Rui, she just poured beans out of a bamboo tube and told her story.
This old lady was originally from Jiaxiang, Shandong, and her surname was Wang. According to her, her natal family was also a wealthy family in the past, and her ancestors had been high-ranking officials, but they later declined. In the 1970s, she married her husband in Tongshan County, Pengcheng.
If you are good at carpentry, you can still make a living even if your family is not wealthy.
The two sons in the family are also trying their best. The eldest son is a senior in college in Nanjing and will graduate a few months after the Chinese New Year. The second son has also been admitted to college this year, but in this way, two college students have to study.
The economy became tense. I owed a lot of debt to relatives and friends. I borrowed here and there to pay for the tuition fees of my two sons. However, in order to make more money, my husband went up to the mountains to steal logging materials. Who could
Knowing that they had been discovered by the forest rangers, they rolled down the mountain in a hurry and broke their legs. Not only were they injured, but they were also fined 5,000 yuan, which immediately plunged the family into misery.
When the old lady got married, her mother's family didn't have anything as a dowry. They just gave her a few ancient books. She said that in the prosperous times, these books were very valuable, so the old lady kept them as if they were treasures.
I didn't even bother to take it out when I went to school. Now my wife is lying in the hospital. If I don't have money for treatment, I'm afraid he won't be able to save one of his legs. So without telling my two sons, I dug out a few books under the box and came to Pengcheng to take a look.
Can it be sold?
After arriving in Pengcheng, I asked a few people and found out that this book should be sold in the antique market. The old lady rushed here despite the heavy snow, but she didn't expect that the market was deserted. She went to several shops to ask, and after reading it, they all said this book
It’s not worth anything. It’s only five yuan a book. If you want to sell it, don’t sell it.
The antique market is now covered with snow, and stalls cannot be set up. Now the old lady doesn’t know what to do. Seeing that it is already afternoon, she is thinking about finding a car to go back to Tongshan County in a while.
, I was standing in front of Liu Chuan’s shop just now, but I was complaining to myself that the matter was not completed and I spent more than ten yuan on the ticket.
Hearing that it was an ancient book passed down from his family, Zhuang Rui's heart moved. His couplets were also passed down from his family, so he said, "Mom, can I read those books of yours?"
The old lady originally sold books. After hearing Zhuang Rui's words, she opened the package in her hand and took out two books with yellowed pages and tattered corners and handed them to Zhuang Rui.
Zhuang Rui took it carefully. In order to prevent the old lady from seeing the strange vision in his eyes, he raised Shuping in front of his eyes, blocking the old lady's sight. Then he looked at it intently. To his disappointment, the spirit energy was not there.
If there was any abnormal movement, he took his spiritual energy back into his eyes, and then began to look at the contents of the book.
These two books are in volumes one and two. The name is: "Wei and Jin Thoughts". The author is Liu Dajie. Zhuang Rui checked the publication date and found that it was published by Zhonghua Book Company in December 1939. It is not a rare ancient book, at best.
Even early prints are preserved in some larger libraries. Zhuang Rui has no interest in these. Since he can't increase the aura in his eyes, it is naturally useless. He shook his head and Zhuang Rui prepared to buy the two books.
The book was handed back.
"Young man, I have another book here. Those people were unreasonable just now, so I didn't show it to them. See if this is valuable..." Seeing Zhuang Rui carefully looking at the book in his hand, the old lady's eyes
With a glimmer of hope, he carefully took out a book from the package and handed it to Zhuang Rui.
Zhuang Rui first put the two books in his hands on the table, and then took the book handed over by the old lady. He frowned before he read it, because the book was so worn and the words on the cover were almost unreadable.
Zhuang Rui could only vaguely see the four words "Xiangzu Biyan", which should have been written in calligraphy, and there was no signature on it. It was a bit like the TV show "The worm eats the mouse, and the book is broken".
Anyway, reading it would not consume the spiritual energy in his eyes. Zhuang Rui did not open the book and looked at it intently, but he did not have much hope in his heart.
