Chapter 1888: Buying 2
There were too many materials to buy, so with the help of guard Xia Shuhuai, the mother and daughter spent more than two days running around several bookstores to collect the required amount, and then mailed them out according to the addresses and names. At the same time, the things that Feng Qingyun asked Adrian to bring back for Xi Bao and the clothes, shoes and food that Feng Qingxue had prepared for her family were also sent back to Wanglou Brigade.
Taking this opportunity, Feng Qingxue bought a lot of colorful stamps. She bought everything the post office had, whole sheets. She forgot about her stamp collecting when she sent something from Shanghai last time, so she made a special effort to make up for it.
Fu Bao asked her why she bought so many stamps. Feng Qingxue didn't fool her and said with a smile, "No matter what it is in the world, it is valuable because it is rare. Paper items are not easy to preserve, and stamps are one of them. Where are the earliest stamps now? Maybe they will be valuable in a certain year."
Fubao kept it in mind and gradually fell in love with stamp collecting, but that’s another story.
At this time, the military district's meeting ended, and Xia Shuhuai and a group of military district generals gradually left the hotel. Before leaving, he and Lin Yifan came to see Feng Qingxue's mother and others, and told Feng Qingxue that there would be a plane flying to the capital in three days.
There are not many flights every day nowadays, and the news they brought is very important to Feng Qingxue.
There were only three days left, so Feng Qingxue took the time to take her children to tour Shanghai.
For example, now Feng Qingxue fell in love with a porcelain plate priced at three hundred yuan. It is a genuine product from the Qianlong period, with a rich style.
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She wanted to buy it, but the salesperson wouldn't sell it to her.
She had a deep impression of this plate. It appeared at a Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong in the late 1980s. The hammer price was more than 8 million Hong Kong dollars, plus a 10% commission, and the total value was equivalent to 10 million RMB. It was auctioned again in the millennium and the price more than tripled. Ten years later, it was worth over 100 million yuan. She saw it in an interview on cultural relics.
The goods in the Friendship Store are all used to earn foreign exchange. Although Feng Qingxue can enter with her work ID due to her level, there are some things she is not qualified to buy.
"This is used to earn foreign exchange for the country. It is only sold to foreign guests. They can be purchased with a foreign passport or overseas remittance coupons. It is best to use foreign currency. Of course, RMB is also acceptable." Faced with the light snow, the salesperson was a little impatient. The purchase price of this bowl was one yuan. The high price was set for foreign guests. Ordinary people don't have that much spare money.
Shanghai has its own characteristics of a big city. Several attractions are quite famous. The children were having a great time. Even Fubao was reluctant to leave the department store and the second-hand shop. He only lamented that he was short of money and could not take all the things he liked home. Until he met Adrian who was wandering around and taking pictures at the Friendship Store.
Feng Qingxue's eyes lit up, and she pulled Adrian over and said, "Dear friend, please do me a favor."
Adrian was enthusiastic and kind. After understanding the whole story, he said readily: "No problem, I'll buy it for you! In addition to this plate, do you want to buy anything else? I can help you with anything."
Seeing the foreigner standing with Feng Qingxue, the salesperson immediately changed his attitude and smiled kindly and enthusiastically.
Feng Qingxue said, "Buy this plate first, and then I'll see if there's anything else I like."
Opportunity is fleeting.
After years of study and experience of appraising almost all the antiques in the batch of antiques from the Shanghai Cultural Relics Department, she has already developed a certain level of appreciation for antiques, and soon discovered seven or eight good things, including calligraphy and paintings.
(End of this chapter)