The scrap yard used to be a factory building. It was left vacant after the factory moved and was later converted into a scrap yard.
The old man was a very particular person, so he placed all the calligraphy and paintings that were afraid of rain inside the factory. He also piled up a lot of things in the yard outside, including pots, pans, and everything else.
Jiang Yue had always thought that there were only three rooms in the scrap yard. Unexpectedly, the old man took her to the back of the factory building, where there was actually another room. The old man tremblingly took out the key to open the lock, and a stale musty smell hit her face.
"Ningning, wait here for your mother." Jiang Yue raised her hand and fanned the room. The smell in there was unpleasant, so she asked Ningning to wait outside and she went in with the old man.
Looking at the dark room, Jiang Yue had considered whether the old man was a bad guy who deliberately lured her here. But she changed her mind and realized that the old man only had two teeth left and his back was bent like a shrimp. If the old man was a bad guy, Jiang Yue was confident that she could knock him down with one punch.
Besides, after returning home last night and being scolded by Gu Ye for not being alert enough and having poor fighting ability, Jiang Yue made her own chili water overnight and found a small oil bottle to hold it, which is now in her bag.
She was ready. If someone was lying in ambush here, she would immediately spray pepper spray into that person's eyes.
Just as Jiang Yue was daydreaming, the old man walking in front of her stopped.
"Look, is this it?" The old man coughed twice and opened the curtains to let the light in.
Jiang Yue saw a porcelain vase on the table, with a white base and blue glaze, and it was perfectly preserved.
Before Jiang Yue even got close, he recognized at a glance that this was the Yuan blue and white porcelain that Pei Xueyun had found in the original book. The original book spent a lot of space to describe this porcelain, from the time Pei Xueyun obtained the porcelain to the time it was sent for auction, with tens of thousands of words in total. It was hard for Jiang Yue not to recognize it.
What's more, Jiang Yue herself can identify antique porcelain. Her grandfather is an expert in antiques. She recognized at a glance that this was a real antique.
"Uncle, how much is this vase?" Jiang Yue couldn't hide her excitement. She didn't expect to be so lucky today. She actually found Yuan blue and white porcelain at the scrap yard.
The old man slowly stretched out five fingers.
"Fifty yuan?" Jiang Yue was ready to pay immediately. Not to mention fifty yuan, even if the old man asked for five hundred yuan, she would not think it was too expensive.
"Five dollars!" The old man's voice was as slow as his movements.
Jiang Yue shuddered suddenly, shocked, "Uncle, are you sure?"
The old man looked at Jiang Yue as if she was a fool. "Girl, I'm selling it myself, how can I not be sure? Five dollars, that's five dollars, not a dollar more!"
Jiang Yue: “…”
Well, since the old man said so, she had no choice but to take out five dollars and hand it over.
"Take it!" The old man took the money and waved his hand.
"Uncle, if you have such a vase in the future, please keep it for me!" Jiang Yue did not forget to remind the uncle.
This scrap yard of yours is truly a treasure!
"I noticed you were carrying a backpack last time, why not this time? This bottle will fit in the backpack." The old man rummaged around in the corner and found a basket filled with straw. He said to Jiang Yue, "Put it in there. The straw will protect it from breaking. That's how I brought it back."
Jiang Yue marveled at the old man's attentiveness, and then secretly despised her own petty mind in her heart. Just now she was wondering if the old man was a bad person.
The old man went out for a while and came back after a while, followed by a middle-aged man driving a horse-drawn carriage.
"Send it to the military family compound. Nizi, just give me fifty cents for the fare."
Jiang Yue naturally had no objection. The old man and the man helped to move the rosewood table and the paintings and calligraphy onto the carriage, and then moved the baskets. Jiang Yue was very careful, fearing that they would bump into anything.
On the way back, Jiang Yue didn't dare to ride a bicycle. She followed the carriage all the way, for fear that the carriage would go too fast and get bumpy, which would damage her Yuan blue and white porcelain.
After finally returning to the division headquarters, Jiang Yue registered at the gate and led the carriage to the family quarters.
The table she bought was too conspicuous, and naturally attracted a group of people from the family compound to watch. When Jiang Yue walked over, Zhou Guihua and the others gathered together again.
"Why did Jiang Yue buy a three-legged table? Doesn't their family have a table?"
"You have too much money to burn. Who would buy a table with three legs? If this were my man, I would slap him in the face, you spendthrift woman!"
"Did you see that there was a basket on the carriage? What was in it? It was mysterious and covered with a lid so we couldn't see it?"
"Who knows what kind of shameful thing it is! Tsk tsk tsk ..."
“…”
Jiang Yue was extremely excited at the moment, and she didn't care what others said about her. It was a Ming and Qing Huanghuali table, so what if it had three legs? After a few years, the price of this antique would go up, and those people would be scared to death.
Not to mention the value of Yuan blue and white porcelain.
"Brother, thank you so much!"
The uncle's nephew's surname was Liu. He helped Jiang Yue move the tables, paintings and calligraphy into the yard. Jiang Yue thanked him for driving the carriage carefully along the way and gave him an extra fifty cents for the fare. Brother Liu refused at first but then happily accepted it.
Jiang Yue carefully took out the vase and asked Brother Liu to take the basket back and return it to the old man.
After a while, someone came to inform Jiang Yue that there was a delivery truck in front of the army gate, saying that it was bringing cloth to her.
Jiang Yue asked Ningning to stay at home and she rode her bike out.
To Jiang Yue's surprise, Su Xin actually came with the delivery truck.
"Jiang Yue, I've brought you some cloth." Su Xin got off the car and first smiled at the sentry on duty. Although Su Xin was not as bright and stunning as Jiang Yue, she was also a pretty girl. This smile made the young sentry feel embarrassed.
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