Siheyuan starts from the stationmaster

Chapter 51 Visiting the Rude

Broken Hou asked with a smile: "Young man, I remember your name is Bai Zirui, right? Last time you said that you were the deputy head of a recycling station and I was considered a colleague. The few books I gave you. Have you noticed any of them?" What's the point?"

Bai Zirui said gratefully: "Master Hou, those few books you gave me are so precious, they have benefited me a lot. I have also gained a few things during this period of time. I am here today to ask Mr. Hou for advice. I hope you will not hesitate Teach me."

After he finished speaking, he picked up the Fenjiu and peanuts hanging on the handlebars, and when Broken Hou saw it, he thought to himself: "This kid is quite polite."

He smiled and said, "That's good! Let's go."

Bai Zirui said respectfully: "Master Hou, please lead the way. I will take care of you when I arrive at your place today."

Poor Hou nodded, turned around and walked towards his home, and came to No. 137 Yanzhi Hutong. Bai Zirui parked his bicycle, took off the Fenjiu and peanuts from the handlebars, and followed Poor Hou through the narrow aisle. The first room on the right is his residence.

Broken Hou opened the door and led him into the house. When Bai Zirui entered the house, all he saw were ancient paintings, furniture, porcelain and other antiques.

Behind each antique is a story with twists and turns, and the strong sense of historical vicissitudes hits his face, making him dizzy and fascinated.

Seeing the shock on Bai Zirui's face while sitting on a grand teacher's chair, Broken Hou said with a little pride, "Little boy, the things in my room are okay!"

Bai Zirui nodded and said, "Master Hou, your collection really opened my eyes, these are treasures passed down to us by our ancestors.

You can preserve these treasures completely in this storm, so that future generations can see the cultural and artistic treasures of our Chinese nation. "

Poor Hou said with emotion: "It's considered that you are knowledgeable, so I gave you those books in vain. It seems that you have really gotten started. Hurry up and take out the things you found so that I can gain more knowledge." !"

Bai Zirui put Fenjiu and peanuts on the quaint table next to him, and said with a smile, "Master Hou, the ancients were all heroes in cooking wine, how about the two of us picking up people's teeth and appreciating wine today?"

Broken Hou laughed heartily and said, "Okay...Okay, you are very good at my temper."

Then he got up and looked for two antique wine glasses, Baizi opened a bottle of wine and peanuts, sat on another grand master's chair, took out the tobacco rod and put it on the table.

Broken Hou returned to the table with his wine glass and sat down, poured two full glasses of wine, raised his glass and said, "Little boy, just for what you said just now, I would like to toast you."

Bai Zirui said respectfully: "Master Hou, I don't dare to take this seriously, you've ruined me like this."

Broken Hou said: "Xiaozai, you are like a bitch, are you an old man in the capital, hurry up and do it."

After he finished speaking, he took the lead in raising his head and drank the wine in the glass. Bai Zirui said loudly: "Thanks to Master Hou for looking up to the younger generation, then I'd rather be respectful than obedient and risk my life to accompany the gentleman."

After finishing speaking, he smothered the wine in the glass boldly, and Poor Hou nodded and said, "This is how you look like an old man in the capital."

He put the wine glass on the table, and when he was about to pour the second glass of wine, he spotted Bai Zirui's tobacco rod on the table sharply, and said with a bright eyes: "Little boy, this is the item you found, take it Come let me."

Bai Zirui put the cigarette stick in front of him and said respectfully: "Master Hou, please help me palm my eyes."

Broken Hou took the tobacco rod in his hand and looked carefully, and found that the tobacco rod was made of copper and could be stretched. Then he saw the engraved "***" in English, and his eyes flashed.

He put the cigarette rod on the table, and said with emotion: "Good thing! Boy, how did you get such a good thing?"

Bai Zirui replied: "When I came to visit you today, I passed by an alley by bicycle, and a child was playing beside a sand pile with something in his hand. When I passed by, the thing in his hand was shining brightly from the sun. I fell down in the eye..."

He told the story of the incident, and Poor Hou joked after hearing it: "You boy is really lucky, you found a good thing here! Do you know the origin of this cigarette stick?"

Bai Zirui replied: "I suspect that this pipe belongs to Earl Elgin of England, he is the culprit who ordered the burning of the Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens - the Old Summer Palace, I really want to kill him.

His English name is James Bruce, and the two English letters "***" on the tobacco rod should be the abbreviation of his English name. "

Broken Hou poured a glass of wine in a daze, and said with a sigh of relief: "On October 1860, 10, Prince Liugong Yixin of Guizi and the British representative, Earl Elkin, signed the "Sino-British BJ Treaty" in the lobby of the Ministry of Rites outside Andingmen. , this unequal traitorous treaty, and gave him a retractable cigarette rod in public, which is the cigarette rod you got today.

Although my ancestors were relatives of the emperor, thinking about the various unequal and humiliating treaties signed by them made my younger generation feel ashamed, especially the old witch Cixi, who would rather be with friends than slaves, and measure the power of China. Is it something that people do to unite with the country? "

Bai Zirui said persuasively: "Uncle Hou, these are all stupid things done by your ancestors, and have nothing to do with you, a junior. You don't have to blame yourself so much. Aren't we Chinese people standing up now?"

Poor Hou said impassionedly: "Yes! We Chinese have stood up, and we don't have to be bullied by foreigners anymore."

After finishing speaking, he drank another glass of wine, and Bai Zirui hurriedly said, "Master Hou, hurry up and eat some peanut wine."

Broken Hou grabbed a few peanuts and stuffed them into his mouth, and said while eating, "Little boy, let me see if there are any good things out there."

Bai Zirui took out a handkerchief-wrapped palm-sized box from his pocket, put it on the table, opened it and pushed it in front of Ragged Hou, and said with a serious face: "Master Hou, is it true that you palmed it? "

After seeing the big Qi Tongbao in the missing corner of the box, the tattered man's face changed greatly and he was very excited. He stood up and took out a box from the room. After opening it, he took out a pair of white gloves to put on, and carefully took out the box from the small box. The large Qi Tongbao with missing corners was carefully observed over and over again.

Maybe it was because I felt that I couldn’t see clearly with the naked eye and even used a magnifying glass. Finally, I took out various tools to measure continuously. After more than ten minutes of tossing, I put the big Qi Tongbao with missing corners in a small box for a long time. tone.

After he poured himself another glass of wine and drank it, he said with deep emotion: "Little boy, this is the missing big Qi Tongbao collected by Dai Xi that many people have dreamed of for decades. After his death, he disappeared. He would not hesitate to have someone buy his old house and dig three feet to find it, but in the end he found nothing, and it will fall into your hands."

Bai Zirui said with a sigh: "Master Hou, this is when our recycling station transported scrap copper and iron. I dropped it on the ground and I picked it up by chance. Otherwise, it would have been returned to the furnace of the steel factory and remade. .

I really don't know how many precious antiques and cultural relics have been destroyed in this way, which is really sad and regrettable. "

(End of this chapter)