"Old Yun, take these paintings and calligraphy to be appraised, and then sell them."
"Now that we have money, why should we sell calligraphy and paintings?"
"Sell it and pay off your mortgage first, then keep the rest to stock up. Besides, turning these into cash and putting them in the bank to earn interest is faster than collecting them and turning them into cash. We're all just ordinary people, we don't know how to appreciate these things, and you still want to keep the money and not spend it like before?"
Yun Shudai quickly slapped her forehead: "I'm stupid. Okay, I'll go to the auction company tomorrow."
This time, He Wan went directly to Haicheng.
During the two days that Yun Shudai spent traveling by train in Laohe, she selected two pieces of calligraphy and painting and took them to an auction house to have them appraised.
These two paintings and calligraphy works are worth over 100,000 and over 20 million respectively.
Finally, they found another porcelain vase, which was worth 30 million.
Yun Shudai asked them to auction off three items.
Aside from going to the auction company, she didn't go out again. Watching the people building the carport and the people installing charging stations, the yard was bustling with activity. An'an and Tiantian also came over these past two days.
An'an took Tiantian to the company for training these past few days, and Shushu came over on her own initiative without asking either of them for help.
They receive wages even when they are on break, and they feel bad about not having to do anything.
So I've been helping Sister Shushu keep an eye on the bike shed these past two days.
Sweetie has taken a liking to Sister Shushu's vegetable garden and has been helping Sister Han tidy it up these past few days.
Yun Shudai didn't have time to stock up on goods for Lao He either.
I calmed down and started drawing.
Looking at the two competitions I submitted to last time, the results are still pending.
Today, I suddenly had the idea to draw a flower field in the style of the Republic of China era.
But we didn't have much free time here for more than a few days. They said that "Half a Pillow of Snow" needed post-production dubbing.
Before setting off, Yun Shudai specially prepared two buckets of gasoline for Lao He and put them in her spatial storage.
It's not easy for them to get gas for their cars.
...
After arriving in Haicheng, He Wan first went to visit the pharmaceutical factory in the city.
She didn't know anyone and stayed there for two days. She found a director who had five children, four boys, who were all growing up and often secretly went to the black market to buy food at night.
Yun Shudai had an idea. That day, she deliberately went to their doorstep, carrying fifty catties of rice and five catties of pork in a bamboo basket.
"Hello, Auntie. We just finished the autumn harvest and received some grain."
The aunt looked around at the doorway, pulled her inside, and whispered, "Comrade, what are they?"
"Rice, pork."
The auntie asked in surprise, "What's the price of rice?"
"Nine cents."
The aunt gasped in shock: "This is way too expensive."
She then called the man inside the house out.
When the director looked at the rice, he saw that the grains were distinct and it was indeed better than the rice he had bought on the black market before.
He hesitated and said, "Young man, could you lower the price of this rice? If you could, we'd like to buy it all for you."
He Wan smiled: "Rice can't be cheap... but it can be free."
The couple was a little confused by what the man said.
“Director Wang, I’m from Dali Village, Daliang County, Daliang City, Heilongjiang Province in northern China,” He Wan said, taking out her letter of introduction.
The couple didn't dare to answer, their eyes filled with wariness as they looked at He Wan.
Knowing they would react this way, He Wan quickly explained, "There's a clinic in our village that's severely lacking medicine, so the village secretary sent me to the pharmaceutical factory to find some. I've been asking around at the factory for the past few days and only found out that Director Wang is in charge of the warehouse. I'm sorry to have come here today, but I really don't have any good ideas."
Sister-in-law Wang exclaimed in surprise, "You're from the North, and you've come all the way here to get medicine?"
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