"Qingqing, how about we go to Xi'an sometime? There should be a lot of Tang tri-colored pottery there. If we find a lot of Tang tri-colored pottery, we can put one in every city and then we can travel freely all over the world!"
Lin Chengyu suddenly remembered that the biggest reason they were able to travel freely between Hong Kong was because of the Tang tri-colored pottery that served as a bridge between the two cities.
He clearly remembered that it was still the 1960s, and transportation in that era was not very safe, especially airplanes, which were considered dangerous.
"After we finished things in Hunan, we quickly called the village and asked them to transport the dried seafood needed by the factories to Guangzhou as soon as possible."
"We won't go back; we'll go straight to Xi'an. The industry there is very prosperous, with many factories. If we can sell our dried seafood to those factories, I think the village chief and my uncle wouldn't refuse."
Song Ziqing was also very interested in Lin Chengyu's suggestion. After all, she felt that with more Tang tri-colored pottery, they might not have to take airplanes and trains anymore.
Airplanes are too dangerous and lack safety guarantees, while trains are too slow and take a long time to travel from one city to another.
Lin Chengyu and Song Ziqing are a pair of restless people. They both get tired of staying in the city for too long. If they had more Tang Sancai (a type of pottery), they could travel to various places, making it safer and more convenient for them, whether for travel or business.
Tang Sancai is a traditional Chinese ceramic, renowned for its exquisite craftsmanship and unique shapes. Most importantly, its surviving quantity is dwindling; in the last one or two decades, Tang Sancai will have become a rare and precious antique.
Lin Chengyu believes that if they can find enough Tang tri-colored pottery and place them in various cities, they can realize their dream of traveling freely through these pottery pieces.
Song Ziqing was very interested in this idea, and she also thought it was a very good one. They began to study the history and production techniques of Tang Sancai (Tang tri-colored pottery) and planned to travel to Xi'an to find more Tang Sancai.
However, a few days later, after arriving in Xi'an, they found the place to be in a state of chaos.
The streets and alleys were filled with people chasing each other, which made the two of them very uneasy.
The two of them pretended to be normal and took out the letter of introduction, then went to the hotel to check in.
They went to the black market as usual, and this time, they still got a lot of good things, but none of them were Tang tri-colored pottery.
They then realized that finding enough Tang tri-colored pottery pieces was not easy. They would need to spend a lot of time and effort searching for and collecting them.
In the days that followed, Lin Chengyu and Song Ziqing began searching for Tang tri-colored pottery in various black markets in Xi'an, but to no avail.
I have collected quite a few other antiques, calligraphy, paintings, porcelain, and I was very lucky to collect several sets of writing brushes, ink, paper, and inkstones, all of which are exquisite!
"Xiaoyu, when you went out to gather information just now, did you find out why the city is in such chaos?"
Song Ziqing truly never imagined that among all the cities they had visited, only Xi'an would be in such chaos. The entire city was like ants on a hot pan, and the people on the streets all had incredibly ferocious expressions.
On every street, there were men and women wearing tricorn hats being struggled against by others; most of them were quite old, which made Song Ziqing feel very sad.
However, she felt incredibly fortunate that her parents were now safely residing in Hong Kong.
"These people were Red Guards who came back from all over the country. They were criticizing landlords and capitalists, and some were university professors, just like my parents!"
Lin Chengyu felt that Song's parents had really escaped a disaster by being sent to the countryside early on. Now, seeing these professors who were once respected, he felt like a down-on-his-luck monkey, being pointed at and gossiped about, and occasionally being pelted with rotten vegetable leaves, small stones, and mud.
"Xiaoyu, didn't the TV say that when people throw things, they like to throw rotten eggs? But I haven't seen a single rotten egg in the whole city!!"
Song Ziqing originally thought these people would be pelted with rotten eggs, but after looking around several streets, she didn't find any rotten eggs.
"In this day and age, people can't even get enough to eat, so where would rotten eggs come from? Besides, the rotten vegetable leaves you see are just weeds, not even vegetable leaves!"
Lin Chengyu sometimes found it amusing to see Song Ziqing make some common-sense mistakes.
Since I wasn't actually born in the 1950s or 60s, I didn't have a deep understanding of the specific circumstances of those times. When I thought about problems, I often considered them from the perspective of the social environment of later generations.
Song Ziqing realized that Lin Chengyu was making fun of her again. "Xiaoyu, I just couldn't recall the specifics for a moment! Should we go to the various scrap metal collection stations now? These people have been criticized and denounced, so their homes must have been ransacked, just like ours before!"
"The environment at the scrap yard is so terrible, and we're not short of money now, why do you have to work so hard? We might as well just pay the people at the scrap yard to collect all those treasures for us!"
Lin Chengyu couldn't bear to see Song Ziqing suffer for a little wealth.
Song Ziqing, however, said without any apparent concern, "What's the big deal? I can live the life of a rich person, and I can also live a simple life in the rural areas of Hainan, helping everyone with things like seafood."
Eating dust is much better than washing seafood in freezing water in the dead of winter! If you're really worried about me, I'll just pack the treasures; the glorious task of finding them is yours!
"After all, you're a professional. When you helped me pick out the top antiques, several of the pieces you found were highly sought after by people at the auction house."
"Alright, let's go now. Let's treat it as going to find second-hand furniture. In a bit, we'll find a place, take out a unicycle from the ring space, and then load the furniture onto it."
Seeing her insistence, Lin Chengyu didn't refuse anymore. After all, if they didn't pick up the free treasure, it would either be picked up by someone else or destroyed by someone who didn't know its value.
Their plan was excellent. The two of them traveled from morning till night, visiting all the scrap metal collection stations in Xi'an and collecting countless treasures, including many antique furniture pieces. These pieces had been disassembled into individual pieces, and the two of them would need to find professionals to restore them later.
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