There were 20 people who came to buy medicine today, all paying in cash, which made Chen Xia make a small fortune.
After sending the people away and closing the door, Chen Qiu and Chen Dong watched their eldest brother counting money over there with their eyes wide open.
This was the most money they had ever seen in their lives. They could buy so many pencils and popsicles with that.
It was also from this moment that an idea was planted in their young minds: their family is not short of money.
Chen Xia looked at the two money-grubbers in front of him and handed a 5-yuan note to Chen Qiu with a smile.
"Here, this is your labor fee for tonight."
Chen Qiu is a good girl and doesn't spend money recklessly, so Chen Xia feels relieved to give her 5 yuan.
Besides, it’s time for a 14-year-old girl to hide some private money. A little bit of money will add up to a huge sum of money when she gets married.
As for the little brat Chen Dong, Chen Xia only gave him 50 cents in pocket money.
Even at this point, the little boy was already screaming with excitement. Other students were lucky to have 5 cents in pocket money. Even if he was dumb, he knew that 5 cents could buy a lot of snacks.
Just as the three siblings of the Chen family were all smiling happily and satisfied, there was suddenly a knock on the back door on the other side of the river.
People coming here can only come by boat. When Chen Xia went over to open the door, he saw several farmers rowing a boat, loading a lot of rice to exchange for medicine.
The farmers felt it was fair to exchange 170 kilograms of rice for 6 life-saving drugs, because based on the market price, they actually paid 5 yuan less and got a bargain.
Fortunately, this year is the first year of a good harvest for rural people. Farmers can take out their own surplus grain, and if it is not enough, they can borrow some, so the pressure is not too great.
But if they really had to take out 30 yuan in cash, it would be fatal. The price of rice at the grain station is so low. They don’t have the courage to carry the rice to the city to sell it themselves.
So farmers really didn't have much money in the early 1980s.
Hearing the farmers constantly praising him for being "benevolent, righteous and particular", Chen Xia's face turned as red as a monkey's butt. He felt so guilty.
Chen Xia did not treat them badly. He took out a big watermelon, cut it in half with a knife, and gave each of them a piece to eat.
At this time, two farmers in their 20s pulled Chen Xia aside and asked mysteriously:
"Doctor Chen, I heard you collect old things?"
These two men, one named Yu Agou and the other named Yu Qianming, were cousins. Both looked to be in their 30s. Their clothes were quite tattered and they looked at Chen Xia with hope.
"Of course I will, but I only accept old items. I don't want fakes. Also, if the item is too bad, I won't accept it. Or you can make up the difference."
Chen Xia was just trying to scare them. He was not an antique lover, so how could he understand the value of antiques?
The purpose of collecting antiques is purely to preserve their value and make a profit in the future. To put it bluntly, it is still a form of speculation.
"How can that be? I can't fool anyone but you, Doctor Chen."
As they were talking, Yu Agou took out something wrapped in newspaper from his arms, while Yu Tianming went into the boat to get the so-called old item.
Layer by layer of newspapers were peeled off, and the innermost layer was a handkerchief. The moment the handkerchief was opened, Chen Xia felt his eyes light up.
A crystal clear, emerald green jade bracelet appeared before his eyes.
Chen Xia's mind froze for a moment.
Even if he didn't know much about antique jewelry, he knew about jadeite. His wife and mother in his previous life were particularly fond of this gemstone, and he had accompanied them to buy it several times, but he had never seen such high-quality jadeite as the one in front of him.
"Why does this look like glass?"
An old farmer nearby leaned over to take a look and burst out laughing, "What's the value of this green glass? It's not even as valuable as our rice."
Yu Agou glared at the old farmer, and Chen Xia suddenly came to his senses. He immediately pretended to be a complete naive person and circled around the jade bracelet, saying as he did so:
"Could this be ground from the bottom of a beer bottle?"
In fact, he was screaming in his heart: "I want this bracelet, I must not let it go."
Yu Agou immediately smiled and said, "Doctor Chen is really good at joking. This is my family's ancestral jade bracelet. I got it from my grandmother."
"Agou, your ancestors have been farmers for 18 generations, where did this treasure come from? I think it's just glass," the farmers who were eating melons nearby were all making a fuss.
Chen Xia waved his hand. "Alright, alright, I don't care what this is. It just looks pretty and is perfect for my sister. Ah Gou, how much do you want for this bracelet? Or how many pills do you want in exchange for it?"
At the same time, Chen Xia waved his hand and called Chen Qiu over, and put the bracelet on her directly, leaving Yu Agou no chance to regret.
But when he put on the bracelet, his hands were shaking, and he shouted in his heart: "Auntie, please be careful, don't bump it."
Chen Qiu put it on his hand, turned it a few times under the light, liked the sparkling bracelet very much, and ran away happily.
Yu Tianming felt relieved now, and said cautiously:
"Doctor Chen, look at this treasure. Can you give me a new course of special medicine? My mother has the flu and is dying. We don't have much food at home, so I had to give it out to buy medicine."
Chen Xia wanted to bargain, but then he thought that a farmer couldn't make much money anyway, so he had to give up.
"Alright, your bracelet shouldn't be worth that much money. Since you're using it to treat your mother, I won't bargain."
After that, Chen Xia wrapped six Tamiflu pills in paper and gave them to him, then said:
"If you have any old items or shiny glass like this in the future, you can send them to me and I can buy them with money. What do you think?"
Yu Agou's eyes narrowed into slits from laughing. How could this bracelet be an heirloom in his family? It was clearly something they had confiscated during the raid on the landlord's house.
Moreover, he was not taking this medicine back for his mother to take, but was planning to resell it in Yuezhou City.
This kind of business with no capital investment will make you a profit no matter how many pills you sell. Six pills will cost at least 30 yuan, which is a huge sum of money for Agou.
How to say it, he didn't know that he had lost an opportunity to become a multi-millionaire.
Yu Agou completed the transaction successfully. Yu Tianming came in with a porcelain jar about half a meter high. The farmer couldn't help but complain again.
"Tianming, why did you bring all the jars of pickled winter mustard greens from your house? Can you sell these?"
Yu Tianming laughed dryly and looked at Chen Xia with a guilty conscience.
He was sure that this thing was real. He didn't know whether it was valuable or not, but he got it when they went to the landlord's house together.
Chen Xia leaned in closer and smelled it, and it really smelled like pickles. He walked around it for a while, picked up the base of the jar and took a look. There was no inscription on it, so he was a little unsure.
I had a vague hope in my heart. The thing looked real. Could it be Yuan blue and white porcelain?
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