Chapter 4: Shi Family History
The content of the letter was also very simple. It was about some major events that happened in various parts of the country regarding capitalists and landlords during that period. It also expressed the hope that the grandfather could take the original owner and hide it from relatives and friends, quietly leave Hai City, and go to live in Jing City.
My grandfather had already been planning to leave because the market situation was becoming increasingly tense.
After reading this letter, I became even more determined to leave. As for relatives and friends, there was no need to think about hiding it. After years of turmoil, my grandfather had no relatives left. The only close friend he could confide in was the one he made when he was traveling around, and he was not in Haishi at all.
My grandfather wanted to leave at that time, but he still felt that although everyone around him who had seen him and his daughter had the impression that he and his family were an ordinary family, he was still worried that something might be wrong.
After reading the letter, my grandfather secretly sold the house and drove a donkey cart in the middle of the night to quietly take the original owner and part of the family property away from Hai City. He traveled through many cities before finally arriving at his destination, Jing City.
When they lived in Beijing, Grandpa and Shi Luo would still receive packages at their doorstep on the morning of the 15th of every month, but they had never seen the person who put the package.
Originally, my grandfather and the original owner lived together in Beijing and had been living a good life.
Until ten days ago, my grandfather also passed away in the line of duty.
So in this world, except for the father whom he had never met, the original owner was left alone and had no other relatives.
After the original owner finished the funeral for his grandfather, he was in a daze. A few days later, he was tricked by his so-called good friend Zhao Quan into signing up to go to the countryside.
As for why Shi Luo came through, it was because the original owner's emotions stabilized yesterday and his IQ was online. Then he discovered the true face of his good brother Zhao Quan, and was angered to death.
Originally, Zhao Quan had agreed to go to the countryside with Shi Luo, but after the original owner's IQ came up, he found that he was the only one who signed up to go to the countryside, and Zhao Quan had not signed up at all.
After discovering this, Shi Luo went to confront Zhao Quan. Zhao Quan knew that his little plan had failed, so he not only admitted it but also called the original owner stupid and humiliated him in various ways.
He also said that he had originally planned to find someone to help buy the job from the original owner before the original owner went to the countryside. At that time, he would say a few nice words, build relationships, and play the victim, and the original owner would definitely sell the job at a low price.
When Zhao Quan said this, the original owner couldn't bear it anymore and punched him directly.
In this way, he had a very fierce fight with Zhao Quan. The original owner was no match for Zhao Quan, who had been doing manual labor for many years. In the end, the original owner was completely defeated.
The original owner's grandfather was a regular worker in a machinery factory. It wasn't a particularly good job, just a security guard, earning 28.5 yuan a month plus some bills.
Although the position was ordinary, the original owner could have inherited it. However, the original owner foolishly signed up to go to the countryside, so he naturally could not take this job.
The original owner's grandfather got this position by saving the life of the director of the machinery factory. The original owner's grandfather went to work to find a source of money.
To live in Beijing and buy things, you need money and tickets. Although my grandfather has money and tickets to buy anything, he can't explain the origin of money without a source.
The Chaoyang masses are not a modern phenomenon. There were more old ladies with bound feet at that time than today.
If you dare to spend money lavishly without a clear way to earn it, you will definitely be arrested and interrogated as a spy.
In addition, if there is only one old person and one child in the family, and if they have no source of income but live better than anyone else, it will be even more likely to arouse suspicion.
It is precisely because of my grandfather's caution that my original self and my grandfather have been able to live a stable life in Beijing.
On the night when the original owner found out that he had been deceived by his best friend, he couldn't fall asleep at all, and his mind was full of things that happened during the day.
In addition, he lost the fight, and the original owner became more and more angry, and finally died of anger. When he woke up, he became the current Shi Luo.
Thinking of this, Luo sighed. The original owner's child was not very old, but he had a great temperament.
Well, being able to be resurrected in his body is also a favor, so before I leave, I will help him realize Zhao Quan’s wish to go to the countryside. It’s not a big deal anyway.
The train to the countryside is tomorrow afternoon, so it’s better to pack up all the things at home now.
Now all these things at home belong to me, so I feel at ease only when I put them all in a space.
The original owner's grandfather had run around and saved up a lot of good things. In the first two years of living in Beijing, the grandfather took the original owner out on the pretext of visiting the original owner's mother and grandmother's graves and relatives. He went back and forth to Hai City four or five times a year, and it took a lot of effort to avoid everyone's eyes and move all the family belongings to the place where they live now.
If I don't put those things into the space, when I go to the countryside and there's no one at home, if they are discovered by someone, it would be heartbreaking to lose all the money.
If those things were really stolen, it would be a shame for the original owner and my grandfather who had to secretly transport the things, take various means of transportation for a long time, and endure all the suffering they had to endure while being jostled around to avoid being seen.
In the past, people did not always take the train when traveling from Jing City to Hai City. After all, an old man taking a child on a train had to avoid being seen, so how much valuables could he carry?
On several occasions, grandpa borrowed a large truck for transporting goods from the original owner's father through messages, and drove Shi Luo to Hai City on the bumpy road himself.
Fortunately, the original owner's grandfather could drive and had good skills, otherwise the family property he had accumulated would not have been safely taken to Beijing without being discovered by other people.
Shi Luo went to the basement of his grandfather's bedroom according to his memory. Yes, most of the things he had obtained were in this basement.
There are a total of 180 extra-large wooden boxes, one super-large leather suitcase and a separate small jewelry box in the basement. The large boxes include five boxes of silver bricks, eighty-five boxes of gold bars, gold bricks, and ingots of various sizes, thirty-five boxes of gold and silver jewelry, thirty-five boxes of jewelry and jade, three boxes of Yuan Datou, and seventeen boxes of books, calligraphy and paintings.
Inside the leather suitcase were bundles of ten-yuan bills, one thousand per bundle, ninety-five dozen in total. As for the jewelry box, it contained various loose diamonds.
Shi Luo calmly put all of them into the space. Yes, Shi Luo was really calm. After all, he had collected a lot of gold, silver, jewelry and other things in his previous two lives.
After collecting the things in the basement, he went upstairs and closed the lid. As soon as Shi Luo moved the lid, he knew that his strength ability had come with it. It was not very strong, but he had no problem lifting 500 kilograms of things.
Shi Luo put a large wardrobe in his grandfather's room into the space, opened the lid on the ground under the wardrobe, and found a wooden box inside that was neither too big nor too small.
When I opened the box, I found two wooden boxes, one large and one small.
Shi Luo opened the small flat box, which contained three Swiss Army watches, two Blancpain watches, four Patek Philippe watches, three Cartier watches, and two domestically produced Shanghai Satellite brand mechanical watches from the 1950s.
Shi Luo was quite happy when he looked at these watches. It was not because any watch here would be worth as much as a house in Beijing in a few decades, but because Shi Luo really did not have these watches.
There are many good watches in Shi Luo's space, all of which were collected by the master of the Shi family in the first life. There is also a small part of some fashionable watches that Shi Luo bought that are easy to match with clothes. These watches today can be regarded as enriching Shi Luo's watch collection.
Shi Luo took a look, closed the box and put it directly into the space, and used his consciousness to put it together with the watch in the space.
Then he opened the larger wooden box below. On the top was a land deed, and the rest were piles of money. After counting, there were nineteen bundles in total, with one thousand notes in each bundle, totaling one hundred and ninety thousand. The land deed was the deed of the house where the Shi family currently lived, and it was in Shi Luo's name.
Shi Luo closed the box and put it into the space, then took out the wardrobe and opened the compartment at the bottom. After opening it, it was full of banknotes with a face value of ten yuan. He counted them and found that there were one hundred bills in each bundle, and there were five bundles in total.
There was another thinner bundle. Shi Luo picked it up and looked through it. It was full of various military tickets and national tickets with no date restrictions. They were basically food tickets, meat tickets, and sugar tickets. Most of them were in denominations of five kilograms. There were also a small number of industrial products, coal tickets, cloth tickets, etc. He counted them and there were a total of seventy-three tickets.
After putting everything into the space, he went to the drawer and took out a biscuit box, which contained some loose change and bills, a passbook, and two Plum Blossom watches.
There were money of various denominations. Shi Luo counted them and found a total of 870.32 yuan. The bills included military bills, national bills, and local bills. Local bills were the least numerous, only about twenty or so. There was 500 yuan in the passbook, which was deposited in his grandfather's name.
After Shi Luo put the things into the space, he returned to his bedroom and took out the money he had saved and counted it.
The total amount was 545.75 yuan, and some bills. As for the money, 365.75 yuan was saved by the original owner, and the remaining 180 yuan was the subsidy for educated youth.
The bills include 30 jin of national grain coupons, 15 jin of local grain coupons, 23 jin of national meat coupons, 1 jin of local meat coupons, 5 jin of national sugar coupons, 10 chi of national cloth coupons, 3 jin of egg coupons, and 10 local industrial coupons.
Finally, he went to the small basement in his room. Yes, the original owner's room also had a basement. The original owner's grandfather often said that a cunning rabbit has three burrows and you can't put all your eggs in one basket, so he also dug a small basement under the original owner's room.
There isn't much in this basement, just five small boxes.
Four of the boxes contained my grandfather’s accumulated wealth, including two boxes of small yellow croakers, one box of silver bricks, and one box of jade and other jewelry.
There was also a box containing the money and things that the original owner's father had sent with the packages over the years, including three watches and 15,876 yuan.
Even though the original owner was sometimes easy to fool and confused about other things, he was not easy to fool when it came to money and was extremely shrewd.
In this world, no one except his grandfather could get money from him, and he was also very tight-lipped, otherwise the original owner's grandfather would not have dared to tell him all the family's financial situation after the original owner was fourteen years old.
In fact, it was mainly because my grandfather felt that he was old and his body had suffered a lot from sleeping in the open air in the early years. He was afraid that if he didn't tell the original owner about the family fortune in advance, it would be too late to tell him if one day he passed away. He also thought that the original owner was not young anymore and was sensible, so he told the original owner all the family fortune.
Shi Luo put his own money and his grandfather's money in the space, and took out all the local bills and sorted them out.
These tickets must be used up within two days, otherwise they cannot be used anywhere else outside this area.
Fortunately, there are not many local tickets, and I am going to the countryside, so it is normal to buy more things.
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