Chapter 105 Huanghuali Chair
Shi Xiaoai finally realized that Yang Hui was not someone who would suffer any loss.
So she didn't stay long, just looked for a while and then went home.
Wang Xiaofeng was worried about her own mother. Although she was scared, she couldn't help but ran to the entrance of the alley to watch after a while. Then she became Shi Xiaoai's real-time observer.
She heard that despite Yang Hui's harsh words, the people in Courtyard One still didn't stop resisting. After all, this was related to the vital interests of every household, and they couldn't give up so quickly.
Seeing that the office was useless, they went to the police station to report the case.
But the comrades from the police station had just taken over the case of Shi Daxi's family the day before, in which people from Courtyard No. 1 were implicated in the crime.
It would be strange if I would treat them well when I heard them reporting the case!
Although the police were dispatched, after listening to Yang Hui's account of what happened and showing her proof of property ownership, the comrades from the police station not only did not take any action against her, but instead began to do ideological work on the residents of Yard No. 1.
The police officer clearly pointed out that their current behavior of occupying private residences and not returning them is itself an illegal act.
Not to mention that Yang Hui only accommodated her relatives in her own house, even if she directly drove them all out and asked them to vacate the house immediately, she would be protected by law.
According to Wang Xiaofeng, those people were shocked when they heard the news. Before she came back, two families had already become noticeably more relaxed and even began to ask whether the moving expenses Yang Hui had mentioned before were still valid.
Because there was electricity and the weather was warm, the tea stall closed a little later than usual that night.
It was almost half past seven when Xiaoai and the others finished their work.
It was already dark.
When the group pushed the cart past Yard No. 1, they found several flatbed trucks parked at the gate of the yard, with furniture, boxes, and various small items tied to the trucks.
There were constant noises in the yard and people coming and going. It was obvious that someone had already started moving.
Looking at this scene, Shi Xiaoai couldn't help but silently give a thumbs up to Yang Hui in her heart.
It didn't take seven days. Three days later, Yang Hui asked someone to send a note to Shi Xiaoai, asking her when she could complete the handover procedures?
Shi Xiaoai went to the gate of Courtyard No. 1 again since the power outage.
She found that the yard had become even more messy and chaotic after not being there for a few days.
Those who moved out were likely to leave with hatred, so naturally they didn't cherish the house at all before leaving. They even wanted to scrape off a few feet of the ground.
Not only was there nothing useful left as far as the eye could see, the walls and the floor were covered in dirt, and many windows had even had their glass removed.
The lock noses and latches on some of the doors were removed. She even saw a big hole where the door handle should have been!
Looking at all this, Shi Xiaoai was so shocked that she couldn't help but twitch her lips.
"I asked someone yesterday, and there are still a lot of procedures to go through to transfer the ownership of the house. It will take at least one or two months in total. I may not be able to wait."
Just when Shi Xiaoai was still looking around, Yang Hui, who had arrived early, came out from the yard to greet her.
She is also a straightforward person. After meeting, she didn't even exchange pleasantries and went straight to the point.
Shi Xiaoai was stunned by what she said and couldn't help asking, "Are you in a hurry?"
"It's urgent." Yang Hui didn't hide it: "I'm in a hurry to go to Haicheng and will leave in the next few days. I want to get the money before I leave."
"Aren't you going to take the college entrance exam?" Shi Xiaoai remembered what she said a few days ago.
Yang Hui hesitated.
This time she didn't answer immediately, but said vaguely: "Let's talk about it later. I have to go to Haicheng first."
After all, this was someone else's private matter, and the two of them were not familiar with each other, so Shi Xiaoai naturally couldn't ask any more questions after asking one question.
She looked around the house and then asked half-jokingly, "Where did your cousin and uncle move to? I wonder if they really have some infectious disease?"
Yang Hui sneered, "You believe that? Others may not know, but you don't know what's going on. I found those people from the countryside and I pay them two dollars a day each!"
She glanced at Shi Xiaoai and said, "I've really spent a lot of money this time."
Shi Xiaoai didn't respond to her.
He looked at her meaningfully before continuing, "Who did you learn this trick from? It's really mean. You kicked them out and vacated the house, but you also left a big bomb, didn't you?
You do this to fool people first, and then turn around and sell the house to me. Those people will come to their senses in two days.
By then, you can take the money and leave, but I will still be here. Won’t they come to make trouble for me? "
She stopped walking, turned around and faced Yang Hui, saying in a half-joking, half-serious tone, "What you did was really not very kind!"
How could Yang Hui not know what she said?
When she heard Xiao Ai's revelation, her face turned slightly red.
She tilted her head slightly to the side, her eyes wandering, unwilling to meet Shi Xiaoai's gaze. After a long while, she said, "Otherwise, why would I have to sell the house to you? You must have a way to deal with them."
"Heh." Shi Xiaoai rolled her eyes: "Are you trying to blackmail me?"
"Not really." Yang Hui finally withdrew her gaze.
She looked at Shi Xiaoai and said with a half-smile, "Let's not tell each other about this matter. Just keep it a secret. Yes, I'm anxious to sell this house, but can you say you didn't intend to buy it before?"
Shi Xiaoai was so clear about her thoughts that she didn't refute him. She pursed her lips and smiled softly.
Seeing her like this, Yang Hui's expression softened.
She rubbed her nose and complained quietly, "I've done all the hardest things. Is it easy for me? I've been fumigating myself with all that damn vinegar and disinfectant these past few days. I'm almost suffocating myself. I feel like I can't smell anything anymore!"
Don't be so ungrateful after getting a bargain. I didn't ask for a high price for this house.
I kicked all those people out for you. If you can't keep your house under these circumstances, then you deserve it."
As she spoke, she glanced at Shi Xiaoai and imitated her, saying, "But I believe you'll be fine. If you don't even have this little bit of skill, you won't be able to run a tea stall."
Hearing her speak so confidently, Shi Xiaoai couldn't help but look at her in surprise.
After meeting her trusting gaze, he couldn't help but chuckle.
She never imagined that the person who understood her so well was not Wang Xiaofeng, who was with her day and night, but Yang Hui, whom she had only met once.
The benefits of dealing with smart people soon became apparent.
Although the two of them didn't even exchange a few words, the house transaction went very smoothly.
Yang Hui immediately went to the Housing Management Office with Shi Xiaoai and completed all the procedures that could be done in advance.
If something couldn't be done right away, she would write a letter of authorization on the spot and entrust the subsequent work to Shi Xiaoai.
This is actually not a big deal for Shi Xiaoai, because the current housing management office has also launched a commissioned processing business.
This type of business is actually mainly aimed at those owners who are out of town and the property they are returning is in the local area and they are unable to come in person to handle it.
But for people like them, after paying a fee of ten yuan, others can handle the subsequent procedures on their behalf.
Shi Xiaoai naturally paid the money happily. This way, she only needed to come back once more when she wanted to renew her property ownership certificate.
After returning from the Housing Management Office, Yang Hui said to her, "I still have some things to pack up in the main house. I'll find a car to take them away this afternoon and then give you the key. You can go look at the other houses first."
Shi Xiaoai knew that Yang Hui had kept a room in Courtyard No. 1, and Aunt Liang had shown it to her when she took her there before.
In Aunt Liang's words, Yang Hui had never lived in that house, and it was filled with the junk that the government had given her when she returned it.
The person Yang Hui found this time lived in that room.
Hearing her say that she was going to pack up the things in that room, Shi Xiaoai thought for a moment and asked, "Have you found your car? Do you need help? If not, I'll ask my brother to come and help you move. Is there anything heavy?"
Yang Hui thought about it and didn't refuse.
She showed a slightly annoyed expression and said, "Thank you for your help, I really haven't found anyone. The main thing is that I don't know when we will be able to complete these procedures, and I can't make an appointment in advance.
There wasn't really anything valuable in my room, just some old stuff. Even though it wasn't valuable, it was my parents' legacy, so I couldn't say no, so I threw it all away.
Shi Xiaoai nodded in understanding.
Because it was still dinner time and Cheng Lin was still busy, it was impossible for the two of them to ask him to come over to help move at this time, so Shi Xiaoai simply went over there with Yang Hui.
Knowing that there was nothing important in the room, she no longer hesitated and took the initiative to ask, "Do you want me to help you clean up?"
"Okay, come over and help me. This way it will be faster." Yang Hui was not polite.
While talking to Shi Xiaoai, she pushed open the door.
As soon as the door was opened, a strong smell of disinfectant and aged vinegar rushed out, making Xiao Ai stagger and take several steps back.
Tears suddenly streamed down his face.
In fact, the smell in the yard has not dissipated yet, but at least the doors and windows of the houses in the yard are wide open now, so the smell is not concentrated, which is a little better.
This room was the place with the strongest smell before, and it had been closed for a few days, so the smell was now extremely strong.
Not only Shi Xiaoai couldn't bear it, Yang Hui's expression was not much better than hers.
She frowned and quickly took out a thick cotton mask from her pocket and put it on her face.
Shi Xiaoai didn't have such equipment.
She looked at Yang Hui speechlessly, then took two steps back, determined not to enter the room at the first moment.
She wanted to wait until the smell dissipated before going in, so she stood at the door and looked at the interior structure of the house.
But at a glance, Shi Xiaoai's eyes were attracted by half a bench leg next to a fire near the door.
Her heart suddenly skipped a beat!
Shi Xiaoai no longer cared about the polluted air in the room. She strode in, without even looking at Yang Hui inside, and squatted down to pick up the half-burned bench leg.
Huanghuali!
The legs of this bench are actually made of rosewood!
Shi Xiaoai felt as if the air was stuck in her throat, making it impossible for her to breathe.
I feel so heartbroken that it's about to bleed!
Her eyes fell on the fire bowl that was transformed from a broken enamel washbasin. She stared at the half-filled basin of carbon ash and the few unburned wooden sticks sticking out of the ash. Her eyes almost bled!
She tried to regulate her breathing and not make any sound.
After a while, he raised his head silently.
Yang Hui had no idea what was going on in Shi Xiaoai's mind at that moment.
Seeing her staring at the brazier motionlessly, he thought for a moment and explained, "We didn't prepare any coal briquettes when we came here. We have no choice but to burn these woods in the house because we need to boil medicine.
Don't worry, I'm keeping an eye on it. Apart from burning a few broken pieces of furniture, all the windows and doors in the room were left untouched and are still in good condition.
If you don't believe it, you can check it out. It's absolutely intact."
Shi Xiaoai just wished she could burn all the doors and windows and not touch the broken furniture!
But she couldn't say that.
She tried to calm down and not let anyone see it.
But at this moment she really didn't want to talk to Yang Hui. After all, in her mind, that man was already equated with a prodigal son.
Shi Xiaoai simply began to look around the room openly, since Yang Hui had already asked her to check it.
As she looked around, she was attracted by a folding chair leaning against the wall.
Two of the legs of the folding chair were broken, and the breakage was very fresh, looking as if they had just been crushed.
It is probably because some strong men wanted to sit on it a few days ago, but they didn't realize their own weight and it collapsed directly.
It is precisely because of this that it is now casually thrown on the ground like a pile of garbage.
Shi Xiaoai was very sure that if the group of people had left a day later, this chair would have followed the same fate as the huanghuali stools and turned into a pile of fire sticks.
She walked towards the chair calmly, looked at it carefully, and then she found that it should be a straight-backed chair made of huanghuali wood.
The age cannot be determined at the moment, but Shi Xiaoai knows that this is definitely a very precious old item.
As far as she knew, at the time she arrived, there were only about a hundred Huanghuali armchairs in the world, and most of them were preserved in museums around the world, with very few in private hands.
Shi Xiaoai remembered that in 1996, that is, sixteen years from now, an auction house in the United States would auction a Huanghuali chair that was somewhat similar to this one.
The transaction price at the time was close to $600,000.
After that, the price of the chair skyrocketed.
The reason why it is so expensive is that there are so few of them in existence, and any one that appears will be scrambled for by collectors all over the world.
There is a reason why there are so few of them in existence, mainly because of their shape.
A cross-legged chair is actually a folding chair. Its shape is basically crossed legs, and its characteristics are that it is foldable, light and easy to carry.
Such characteristics determine that its shape is mainly light and thin, so it is easily damaged, not strong, and difficult to preserve for future generations.
Shi Xiaoai secretly looked at the chair on the ground again, wondering how it had survived the test of time and survived until now?
How much luck and fortune is involved?
At this moment, her thoughts flew far away.
Yang Hui saw her standing there in a daze, with her facial expressions constantly changing, and she couldn't help but feel a little curious.
She walked over, patted Shi Xiaoai, and asked, "What are you doing? What are you thinking about?"
Only then did Shi Xiaoai come to her senses.
She pointed at the chair on the ground and asked Yang Hui, "Do you still want this? If not, would you be willing to sell it to me?"
Yang Hui was stunned for a moment, then looked at the ground and asked in disbelief, "Are you talking about this broken chair?"
"Yes." Shi Xiaoai stared at her and said seriously, "I like this chair very much. I want it. Please name a price."
Yang Hui glanced at her and waved her hand: "If you want it, take it. Why would you ask for a price for a broken chair? I'll throw it away if you don't want it."
In fact, Xiao Ai knew it even when she didn't say it.
If she had paid a little more attention to these things, they wouldn't have almost turned into firewood sticks.
But Yang Hui may not understand, but Shi Xiaoai is unwilling to take advantage of this.
After all, antiques and old items at this time are not expensive in themselves. She can go and pick up bargains, but there is no need to rely on fooling others in exchange for profits.
Shi Xiaoai said directly to Yang Hui, "This is an old item, it must be quite old. I like collecting things like this. Name a price and I'd like to buy it."
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