Chapter 125 Chapter 125 Heirloom
Shu Niannian looked at them carefully. Among them, there was a silver dollar that she had seen at an auction. Ten years later, this silver dollar could be exchanged for a 100-square-meter apartment in Haicheng.
However, it is not worth much now. Shu Niannian carefully rewrapped the silver dollars and placed them on the ground. The value of these silver dollars is higher than a bag of gold, so they must not be damaged.
Shu Niannian continued to unwrap the oil paper packages, but what was left were all small yellow croakers. She unwrapped 80 small yellow croakers, each weighing 100 grams, for a total of 8,000 grams. Based on the market price of 80 yuan per gram, these 50 small yellow croakers were worth 640,000 yuan. Qingyan's account should be able to spend about 1 million yuan now, making a total of 1.64 million yuan.
Zijinhua Commercial Street is 600 meters long and 5 meters deep. Excluding the roads and flowerbed parks that extend in all directions, the total area of commercial stores is about 5,000 square meters. The price of the best-selling store is 1,000 yuan per square meter, but the best-selling store is a minority after all. The prices of other stores that are not the best-selling store range from 600 to 800 yuan per square meter. In other words, she needs to spend 3.5 million to buy all of Zijinhua Commercial Street.
And now she only has 1.64 million.
The three sets of jade jewelry could be sold for some money, but Shu Niannian was reluctant to part with them. Jade was different from small yellow croaker. Small yellow croaker could be bought back after being sold, but it would be difficult to buy back jade after it was sold. Besides, jade of such good quality was probably Ye Jinhong's heirloom. No matter how urgent she needed the money, she couldn't sell the heirloom.
Shu Niannian wants to buy an entire commercial street. To outsiders, it may be that she is vain and has a lot of money. But only she knows how cost-effective it is to buy the Zijinhua Commercial Street now.
The storefronts on Zijinhua Commercial Street are one-story bungalows, and buying a house comes with a residential plot. In other words, by spending 3.5 million, she can not only buy all the storefronts on Zijinhua Commercial Street, but also all the land on Zijinhua Commercial Street. This is land! Not to mention the commercial street storefronts where every inch of land will be valuable in a dozen years, she is getting a piece of land for free when buying a house now!
Moreover, she had inquired from others and learned that the foundations of the storefronts on Zijinhua Commercial Street were very solid. Some homeowners had already built two-story villas on top of the storefronts. In other words, in the future, she would only need to spend a very low cost to build a two-story or even three-story commercial building based on the one-story storefront.
No matter how you calculate it, this is a sure win business.
After dinner, Shu Niannian first called Ye Jinhong and asked him if she could sell the gold bars. In fact, she wanted to ask Ye Jinhong whether the gold bars came from a legitimate source, but she felt that according to Ye Jinhong's personality, he would not collect illegally obtained financial resources. Sure enough, Ye Jinhong said yes without hesitation, "These gold bars are ancestral property left by our ancestors. They were not safe in the past few years, so I hid them. They should be fine now. If you are not sure, ask your mother and let her help you deal with it."
Shu Niannian felt warm in her heart. Ye Jinhong did not interfere with her at all. He did not doubt her at all, did not stop her, and did not accuse her of blind investment. He was very relieved and naturally handed all his private money to her and let her deal with it.
The two talked for a while, and Shu Niannian hung up the phone reluctantly. She thought about it and decided to talk to Lin Xuanyin. After all, these 8,000 grams of small yellow croakers were the ancestors of the Ye family. As a new daughter-in-law who had just married into the family, it would not be easy for her to use the money without going through her mother-in-law.
Ye Zhiqiu also took leave to come back to arrange the wedding of Ye Jinhong and Shu Niannian. His work was very important and he could not be away for too long. After drinking Shu Niannian's daughter-in-law tea, Ye Zhiqiu returned to work.
So, in the huge family compound, only Shu Niannian and Lin Xuanyin are left. Lin Xuanyin is currently fiddling with the flowers she bought after get off work in the living room. Flowers are a luxury in this era, and most people don't dare to be so petty for fear of being gossiped about. But Lin Xuanyin doesn't care about that. She has had this hobby since she was a child. Even during the turbulent years, she would buy flowers from time to time to decorate her room.
You can eat less food, but you can't lack flowers.
Maybe everyone is used to her preferences, and over time, no one talks about her behind her back. If Lin Xuanyin doesn't go to the flower shop to buy flowers for a period of time, the neighbors will probably not be used to it.
Roses and lilies are neatly arranged in vases, and the faint fragrance of flowers wafts in the air. The lilies are pure white, and the roses are pink, making the days brighter in this gray era that has not yet been completely opened up.
Seeing Shu Niannian standing not far away looking at the flowers, Lin Xuanyin quickly waved for Shu Niannian to come over, "Do you like flowers too?"
Shu Niannian nodded. "Just looking at flowers makes me feel good, but I prefer to make flowers into essential oils, aromatherapy, skin care products, etc."
Lin Xuanyin patted Shu Niannian's hand proudly, and praised her proudly, "Oh, this requires a lot of skills. I also liked it when I was a child, but I couldn't make such delicate things. I only knew how to arrange flowers. Two years ago, I collected flower petals and dried them to make sachets and pillows, but I only used them. I also wanted to make one for Jinhong and his father, but they said they didn't like such sissy things. Humph! What do you mean by sissy things? If they don't like it, I'm not willing to make it. Forget it."
At this point, Lin Xuanyin cast her eyes on Shu Niannian's face. She stared into Shu Niannian's eyes and asked eagerly and shyly, "If you like it, I would like to make one for you. Let me tell you, the flower petal pillow can help you sleep, and if you use it often, it can also beautify your skin. Do you want one?"
Facing Lin Xuanyin's expectant gaze, Shu Niannian nodded decisively, "Yes, thank you, mother!"
Lin Xuanyin patted Shu Niannian's hand again with great joy, "Oh, what a good child!"
Shu Niannian chatted with Lin Xuanyin for a while about the wonderful uses of flower petal pillows, and then brought the topic back on track. When Lin Xuanyin heard Shu Niannian say that she wanted to buy the entire Zijinhua Commercial Street, Lin Xuanyin was stunned. She thought that she and Ye Zhiqiu had lived a decent life all their lives, so how could he marry such an ambitious daughter-in-law?
It's normal to be surprised! It would be abnormal to be as calm as Ye Jinhong, Shu Niannian thought.
After all, the other party is the mother-in-law. For the sake of family harmony, Shu Niannian told Lin Xuanyin the set of words that she had prepared long ago to persuade Ye Jinhong. Lin Xuanyin frowned, and Shu Niannian felt that something was going to go wrong. Generally, mothers-in-law don't like daughters-in-law who have their own opinions, and she not only has her own opinions, but she is also a good spender. She felt that she would be nagged by Lin Xuanyin today.
Shu Niannian lowered her head silently, ready to be criticized. Unexpectedly, Lin Xuanyin turned around and took a notebook and pen, and wrote and drew in the notebook. Shu Niannian thought that Lin Xuanyin scolded her for writing a speech. Two minutes later, the first sentence she said was about Shu Niannian's current funding gap. "Counting those small yellow fish from Jinhong, you are still short of 1.9 million. This is not a small amount."
Lin Xuanyin narrowed his eyes and thought for a while, then said, "I have some small yellow croakers in my room, I can also take them out for you in case of emergency. Just follow me."
Shu Niannian was stunned. What kind of family is the Ye family? Why does it seem that small yellow croaker is not rare at all among them? !
Now was not the time to express her feelings, so Shu Niannian followed Lin Xuanyin without saying a word, and picked up the tool she had used before to pry bricks in the yard - an iron shovel.
Lin Xuanyin took Shu Niannian into her bedroom. Under her command, Shu Niannian pried open the third floor tile on the left side of the dressing table. She had just pried open the floor tiles in her room, so she was very familiar with it. Now her posture of prying the floor tiles was as experienced as someone who often pried up floor tiles. Lin Xuanyin watched Shu Niannian pick up the tiles skillfully and orderly, and felt that someone who had not pried up floor tiles for ten years would definitely not be able to develop such a skilled technique.
In fact, Shu Niannian just has a particularly strong learning ability.
You know the brains of top students. If they can't summarize three experiences from doing something once, they think that is a failure.
Shu Niannian brushed away the dirt on the ground, revealing a wooden board of the same material, but this board was larger than the one in her room. Shu Niannian moved the board away, and she and Lin Xuanyin worked together to lift up the wooden box wrapped in oil paper.
This box was much bigger and heavier than the one in her room. After the layers of oil paper were removed, a box made of the same material as the rosewood was revealed. It was also unlocked, and the box was also filled with tightly wrapped oil paper bags. Shu Niannian asked Lin Xuanyin with a smile on her face, "Mother, who did this? The way these oil paper bags are wrapped is exactly the same as the ones in my room."
Lin Xuanyin picked up an oil-paper package and opened it, saying, "Jinhong and I wrapped it together. The Red Guards were too rampant back then, and they were everywhere. Anyway, we had a salary and a place to live, so we wouldn't need these things in the short term, so we sealed up all the things left by our ancestors and buried them. At that time, the situation in the country was very unclear, and no one could predict how it would develop in the future. Would it be a direct entry into a communist society, where we would always eat from the same big pot, or would there be other opportunities? No one could be sure, but people always have the idea of being prepared for danger in times of peace, and we did too. When I buried the things, I thought that if there were changes in the future, these things could still be used as capital for future generations to seek development. As the old saying goes, money makes the world go round. No matter what, having money is better than having no money."
Lin Xuanyin opened the first oil paper package, and inside was a blue and white porcelain wine glass. Shu Niannian didn't know much about these things, so she couldn't tell anything about them, but judging from the color, shape, and pattern, it was a good item. Lin Xuanyin introduced it to Shu Niannian, "This is blue and white porcelain from the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty. It uses Sumaliqing. The characteristics of this blue and white porcelain are rich colors and a dizzy effect. Take a closer look, is the color of the winding branches gradually spreading outwards?"
Shu Niannian took the blue and white porcelain wine glass and looked at it carefully. The rich pigment did have the effect of radiating outwards.
"This is said to be a royal item. I heard from Jinhong's grandfather that when he was very young, his family had a complete set of blue and white porcelain wine vessels, but they were later broken into pieces and only this one was left."
There was a hint of sadness and helplessness in Lin Xuanyin's tone. Shu Niannian thought that the "broken" that Lin Xuanyin mentioned was definitely not the ordinary broken. There were too many cultural relics that were "broken" during the turbulent times. The specific details and causes of the "broken" were the unspeakable pain of that era.
Lin Xuanyin put down the blue-and-white porcelain wine glass and opened the second oil-paper package. The moment this oil-paper package was opened, Shu Niannian felt that the dim room was much brighter. Lin Xuanyin held a dozen pearls the size of egg yolks in her hand and said to Shu Niannian with a smile, "I originally wanted to give these to you as a betrothal gift, but then I thought it would be a bad idea. This thing is too eye-catching. In order to prevent thieves from getting their eyes on it, I think it's better to give it to you secretly like this. Here, this was called Dongzhu or Yemingzhu in the past. It is said that the ladies in the palace liked to use these things to inlay on phoenix hairpins or headpieces to show their nobility and status. This is the treasure of Jinhong's grandmother. She likes pearls the most. She has a lot of pearl jewelry, but she didn't keep them later. Now I don't know where they are scattered."
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