Zhang Xudong carried his sister back home and his grandmother was already cooking in the kitchen.
Zhang Xudong asked his sister to do homework and went to the kitchen.
"Grandma, have you finished eating all the food I left for you?
Why are there only three bowls of thin soup and dregs porridge to drink today?"
Zhang Xudong asked his grandmother while taking out rice and flour from the space to eat.
Grandma smiled bitterly and said, “Next spring the famine will be even worse, and there will be a shortage of food everywhere.
After you left, one day your grandmother Li came and cried, saying that her little grandson was sick.
She wanted to buy some eggs or some meat to nourish her child.
But she went to the supply and marketing cooperatives, food companies, and even the black market, but there was nothing to buy.
I felt sorry for her and since we usually got along well, I gave her five eggs.
Your grandmother Li took the eggs back happily, and then brought me a Chenghua-style cockfighting cup.
She said she had nothing to thank me with, but she thought the oil bowl at home was quite beautiful, so she gave it to me.
I declined, saying that the bowl was a good item and could be kept for the children.
But your grandma Li said that there is not even a drop of oil at home now, so what’s the use of this oil bowl?
She dropped her things and left. I had no choice but to send another two kilograms of millet to her home.
This spread quickly, and anyone who couldn't get through would bring something to exchange for some food.
Some brought calligraphy and paintings, some brought gold, silver and jade articles, and some brought porcelain bottles and bowls.
Some even brought rosewood dowry boxes.
Most of these are good things.
I couldn't bear to see them being ruined.
I exchanged them for some food.
There is a complete step-out bed in the west room, made of rosewood inside and out.
I thought it was a good item, so I exchanged it for some grain and bacon.
I want to save it for when you and Xiaojing get married.
Just like that, I've almost replaced all the food you left behind.
But I didn't ask for any money or tickets, I just wanted to exchange things.
This isn't speculation, it's just neighbors helping each other."
Zhang Xudong broke out in a cold sweat after hearing what his grandmother said.
These things may not be a big deal if you keep them at home now, but they will all be treasures in the future.
However, the next year we will begin to clean up our thoughts, politics, organizations and economy.
And oppose corruption and theft, oppose speculation and profiteering, oppose extravagance and waste, oppose decentralization, and oppose bureaucracy.
These things are like bombs if you keep them at home, they can be fatal.
Not to mention the elimination of old ideas, old culture, old customs and old habits that will begin in five years.
By then, if these things were discovered in the house, even if you were a martyr, you would be dragged out, have a sign hung on you, and have your hair shaved like a yin-yang.
It seems that grandma really can't stay here anymore.
"Grandma, tell everyone tomorrow that you're going to Nandu to visit your great-grandmother, and quickly pay the education base's accounts within the next two days.
You can exchange as much food as you can for ours in the next two days. After three days we will set out to look for our uncle."
Zhang Xudong became furious. He wanted his grandmother to leave this dangerous place as soon as possible.
"Well, luckily I let those two young men manage the money and accounts separately.
I am pure and it doesn't matter when I leave.
My household registration was not transferred and my staffing was not confirmed.
This will free up another stable job for others.
It’s a pity to waste these two courtyards that I personally arranged.” Grandma said nostalgically as she looked at the courtyard.
"Grandma, you can come back after a few years.
I will definitely take good care of our home."
After his younger sister fell asleep at night, Zhang Xudong put all the things his grandmother had bought into his space.
He Jingxian saw the extra things in the space and asked:
"Brother Dong, where did you get all these junk?"
Zhang Xudong didn't expect that He Jingxian was more knowledgeable about antiques than he was.
"Big sister, open the folder labeled old items and take a look.
Look at how much this Chenghua-style cockfighting cup fetched at auction in 2014."
He Jingxian exclaimed after opening the folder:
On April 8, 2014, this cup was sold for HK$281.24 million.
Doesn't that mean that if we keep this cup for 53 years, it will be worth almost 300 million Hong Kong dollars in the future?
Fifty-three plus seventeen equals seventy.
Brother Dong, we will all be seventy years old by then, why do we still need so much money?
You can’t eat much, and you don’t spend much money on clothes. Are you going to save it for you to marry a third wife?
Might as well just throw it away now."
He Jingxian said this and was about to pick up the cockfighting cup and throw it away.
When Zhang Xudong saw this scene, he was so scared that he broke out in a cold sweat.
He quickly hugged the cup and said:
"My dear aunt, please show some mercy!
There are only a dozen or so of these things left in the world.
This is something that if one is broken, there will be one less.
Even if we don't want a penny from it in the future, donating it to a museum is better than breaking it!
Or we can just open a museum ourselves, put it in there and let people visit for free!
Besides, why should I marry that third concubine when I’m already in my seventies?
Do I spend money to wait for someone to cheat on me so I can share the inheritance later?"
After hearing what Zhang Xudong said, He Jingxian put down the cockfighting cup and said:
"So you mean to marry a third concubine while you're still young?"
"I will never marry, not even a second wife, I will only marry you.
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