Chapter 265 She Doesn’t Think It’s Expensive at All
The driver is Sun Peng, and there is nothing in this city that he doesn’t know!
Soon the car stopped in front of a scrap collection station.
This is a large yard, and the open space is filled with scrap copper, rotten iron, broken glass, and bone residue.
Now even the leftover bones of cattle, sheep and pigs are recycled.
In addition to collecting glass bottles, we also collect broken glass shards.
There are also things like toothpaste tubes and orange peels that I would never accept in the future, but you can now exchange them for some money.
There is a circle of houses surrounding the compound, and each room contains waste materials that cannot be stored in the open air and are stored in different categories.
For example, newspapers, furniture and so on.
Cheng Hui's eyes scanned the pile of scrap iron for a few times before moving away.
It was reported in later generations that many national treasures were found in scrap collection stations, but most of them were found in scrap collection stations in major ancient capital cities.
It is hard to find any national treasures in their Great Northern Wilderness.
She should just look at the furniture.
Sure enough, the leak is not so easy to pick up.
There was no mahogany, rosewood or the like in the two rooms where old furniture was stored. At most there were some old furniture from the Republic of China period, and the wood was ordinary and not valuable.
After visiting three scrap collection stations, I only found two mahogany dressing boxes and a small mahogany round stool. There was nothing else worth buying.
"Forget it. I'll just buy some furniture. It's a waste of time." Cheng Hui said with some regret.
It is wrong to shop here on Taobao. She should go back to the scrap collection station in Beijing. There will definitely be more there.
Zhao Daxing sent Cheng Hui back to the Andong Factory. He rolled his eyes and went to look for someone.
In such a big "Little Paris of the East", did no one use mahogany furniture decades ago?
Of course there is. Mahogany furniture was at its peak in the mid-to-late Qing Dynasty and was very popular. It had already spread from the palace to the people.
Any wealthy family must have one, otherwise they would be embarrassed to invite guests home.
Although this place was vast and sparsely populated in the past, there were many rich people, so a lot of these things must have been left behind, but they just didn't find the right place.
Zhao Daxing just happened to have a good friend whose family used to be wealthy. When he was a child, he visited his home and saw all the mahogany furniture in his house.
His friend's family also likes to collect these. When he went to visit, his friend gave him a detailed explanation of what rosewood is and how valuable it is.
Otherwise, how would his ancestors, who were poor peasants for eight generations, know about this stuff?
Zhao Daxing took a car, turned left and right, and drove to a village in the city.
This is a huge residential area. The houses here are not newly built housing estates, but old houses passed down from decades ago.
There was no systematic planning during construction, and the roads are wide, narrow, and winding.
The houses are of varying heights. Most of them are brick houses, but there are also some that are half brick and half earth.
This is the shantytown redevelopment area decades later.
Zhao Daxing parked his car outside the residential area, walked in, stopped in front of a half-brick and half-earth house, and knocked on the door.
"Who is it? Ahem." A somewhat old voice came to open the door. When he saw Zhao Daxing, he was stunned for a moment, then immediately asked nervously: "Daxing? Why are you here in the daytime?"
After saying that, he quickly stretched his head to look outside, and seeing that there were no neighbors, he dragged the person in like a thief.
His family used to be wealthy. His grandfather and father were both compradors, and their ancestors were big businessmen and landlords.
How glorious it was in the past, how difficult it is now.
"Is there something wrong?" Dong An asked nervously.
He and Zhao Daxing were childhood friends. Zhao Daxing had been secretly helping them over the years and had even delivered food to his family at night several times when they had run out of food.
I didn’t dare come during the day, this is the first time today.
Zhao Daxing said, "Nothing else, don't be afraid, I just want to ask where all the furniture in your house went? Was it smashed or burned, or was it taken away by someone? Or do you know where they are stored now?"
"So that's it." Dong Ansong breathed a sigh of relief and asked curiously, "Why are you interested in those?"
"There's probably someone who has the same hobby as you, who also likes mahogany furniture and wants to get a set." Zhao Daxing thought about the two-story villa with seven or eight rooms that Cheng Hui mentioned, and said, "Or several sets."
Dong An took a deep breath and said, "Who is this person? How dare he be so bold! Or has the wind changed now? Is it okay to use antique furniture?"
"What antique furniture? It's just some junk!" said Zhao Daxing.
Dong An..... "Okay, tattered."
When he talked about these rags, his face twitched with pain.
He is the same age as Zhao Daxing, and has already looked much older than Zhao Daxing due to the hardships of life. Now with his frown, he looks even more like an old man.
"Don't mention it. Back then, some people rushed in and smashed and burned some things. Fortunately, that thing didn't love it. They didn't have the interest to wait any longer and just left, so most of it was preserved."
They just told the outside world that everything was smashed and burned.
Dong An looked at Zhao Daxing, thinking about the help he had given his family over the years. If he hadn't found jobs for his two children under great pressure, their family of seven or eight would have starved to death by now.
"You are my benefactor. If others ask, I would never tell you. But since you ask, I will tell you. We dismantled the remaining ones. Half of them were sent to relatives in the countryside, and the other half were kept at home as firewood." Dong An said.
A lean camel is bigger than a horse. Not all the rich people back then died, but most of them became poor.
There were more than ten people in their family at that time. They gave up their own house and exchanged it for this half-brick dirt yard, which was quite large.
No one was willing to live with people of bad background like them. Only the Dong family lived here.
Dong An took Zhao Daxing to his family's "woodshed".
There was only a little bit of honeycomb briquettes piled up in the woodshed, and the rest was ordinary firewood. The things inside were covered with sacks.
Dong An went over and lifted up a piece of sack, revealing the wood inside.
He disassembled all the furniture into parts, piling the boards together and the table legs and stool legs together.
If you don’t understand, come and see, this is the wood they picked up for burning!
"I can assemble them into furniture at any time. How many do you want?" Dong An asked.
I'm a little reluctant to give them all to him... because there are so many things here, and he knows how valuable they are. This room cost them tens of thousands of dollars back then!
Zhao Daxing looked at the densely packed legs and sighed, "You are such a cunning boy. Give me a few legs first, and I will ask her how she plans to exchange them. Don't worry, she won't let you suffer any loss."
"Who is it?" Dong An asked curiously.
"You'll know when the time comes." said Zhao Daxing.
He went to find Cheng Hui with a few different legs.
Cheng Hui is checking the cold storage materials prepared for her by Yang Yue. She has to design based on the materials.
Zhao Daxing called her into the car and told Sun Peng to go play somewhere else. He whispered to Cheng Hui for a long time in the car and showed her his legs.
Cheng Hui...There are so many smart people in this world!
She thought for a moment and said, "72 legs for a job in an electrical appliance factory, I can trade as many as I want."
"Tsk, you are so generous!" Zhao Daxing said, "I know this thing was valuable back then. He told me that a stool cost tens or hundreds of dollars. But times have changed. Now this thing is worthless and tattered. You don't have to pay such a high price for it.
"I think he only needs one job for his whole house."
He is still close to Cheng Hui, their childhood friend, and he still sides with Cheng Hui!
Of course, he really thought so, and he still thinks that thing is worthless.
No matter what, it's just a table, chair, and bench, and it's second-hand. It's really unscrupulous to sell it at such a high price.
Cheng Hui didn't think it was expensive at all, she didn't spend a penny~
"Since he is my uncle's childhood friend and not an outsider, I can't show up and ruin the friendship between you two. Just do as I say." Cheng Hui said.
Zhao Daxing was so touched, his face is so valuable!
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