hunting in 1986

Chapter 223 222 Persuasion, appraisal, old monkey

The provincial capital Harbin.

In the building of Aunt Xue's two dogs, mother and son.

In addition to the stubborn donkey meat bought by Ergou, Aunt Xue also made fried hairtail, stewed mandarin fish, stewed deer steak and several other vegetarian dishes.

"Look at these dishes, do you like them? I'm not very good at this craft, and I don't know how to cook any dishes."

The smile on Aunt Xue's face never disappeared. She poured wine for Wang Yuan and offered a cup for Li Yan. Wang Yuan waved her hand and refused for Li Yan.

Li Yan doesn't drink liquor, so in the end Aunt Xue had to pour it for herself.

Ergou secretly poured himself a small cup.

"These dishes are already very good. We can't finish such a big table."

Wang Yuan picked up a piece of hairtail, which was very wide and covered with a layer of egg and batter mixture.

The fish meat is very fragrant, and even the noodles that are cooked on the surface are delicious.

"This octopus is delicious. It's really fragrant... Well, this is deer ribs? It tastes like venison. It's a bit spicy but appetizing."

Wang Yuan was full of praise for Aunt Xue's dishes, and Aunt Xue was very happy to keep adding dishes to Wang Yuan and Li Yan.

While eating and chatting, Aunt Xue suddenly said that she had cleared 100 mu of land in the countryside and planned to open a small farm.

"One hundred acres of land? Where did you manage it?"

Wang Yuan was very surprised. One is that most people now want to go to the city, or even go abroad, and there are too few who are willing to go from the city to the countryside.

Many people who have gone out from the countryside actually despise the countryside extremely in their hearts.

"Qianfeng Village, Baiwu Township."

Aunt Xue ate mandarin fish meat between her sandwiches. It was really a treat to eat mandarin fish meat when the river was not open.

"It's the land of my own family. I found his son a formal job in the county, and bought a yard for their family. I gave them 1 yuan, and their family gave me all 70 mu of land."

"That's not enough for one hundred acres?"

"The remaining 30 acres were bought in their village. Some people have hundreds of acres of land and it's okay to sell ten acres of land. After changing the land, the current hundred acres of land are connected together."

Hearing Aunt Xue's words, Wang Yuan was a little bit embarrassed. Many people really envy urban people, who have decent jobs, are not so dirty, tired, and have a convenient life... Most importantly, they have pensions.

After retirement, the state will give money, even a lot of money, but what about the elderly in rural areas?If the raised children are not filial, they will have little money when they are old, and life is quite difficult.

Wang Yuan wondered whether that family would regret it in the future, but after thinking about it, he felt that he would not regret it.

The 70 mu of land is only planted with some conventional crops, and even later generations can't make much money.

"Then why are you planning to open a farm? Raise livestock?"

"Xiaoyuan, listen to me, I think so... Dig a pond to raise fish, and set aside a piece of land to plant crops, such as corn, rice, soybeans, sorghum, cotton, peanuts, etc. All are planted. Finally Then raise pigs, ducks, chickens, cows, sheep..."

Aunt Xue was full of longing. She very much hoped that there would be a piece of land that she could do whatever she wanted, regardless of whether it made money or not.

Wang Yuan ate the sauced donkey meat with big mouthfuls, and added:
"Build one or two small courtyards, complete several small pavilions, pave some complete stone roads between each other, and plant various flowers on the side of the road... When it snows, a group of people will have a barbecue Eat it."

Aunt Xue clapped her hands excitedly, she and Wang Yuan wanted to go together.

Aunt Xue smiled and asked Wang Yuan if he would like to sponsor some money. Wang Yuan immediately offered to sponsor 2 yuan to repair the farm. Aunt Xue happily agreed to leave a small yard for Wang Yuan's family of three when the farm was repaired. .

The sauced donkey meat is very delicious, and a large plate of sauced donkey meat was almost eaten by several people in the end.

At the end of lunch, Aunt Xue came to scold Er Gou again. It turned out that Er Gou played around every day, spending all kinds of money like a playboy, which made Aunt Xue very dissatisfied.

She wants Ergou to quickly find a partner and get married. It is best to have another child and settle down to live a good life.

But Er Gou took her words as if they were ignoring her ears, or her left ear was listening to the right ear, and it didn't matter at all.

Seeing Aunt Xue was really excited at the end, Er Gou said with a playful smile:
"What's wrong with not getting married? If you marry a daughter-in-law who doesn't get along with you, and she fights with you eight times a day, then do you think it's okay? Is that reasonable?"

"So it's better for me if you don't marry a wife? I thank you~"

Given a pole, Ergou climbed along the pole, and immediately continued to say with a playful smile:
"Oh~ It's too natural for mother and son to say thank you or not. You just have to have the heart. If you really feel sorry, you can give me more pocket money."

"I'll beat you to death, bastard."

Aunt Xue picked up the broom next to him and yelled at Ergou's legs, and Ergou jumped up in fright, and ran back to his own room quickly.

"Mom, I'm full, let's go rest for a while."

bang~
As Ergou closed the door, the surroundings instantly became quiet.

Aunt Xue is actually very happy to see her son lively, but she is a little worried that her son will not go the right way:
"Xiaoyuan, have you noticed? Ergou's character is indeed different from before, the change is too big, isn't it?"

"There's really been a big change."

Wang Yuan also noticed that although the first Ergou was poor, his poor clothes were full of patches, and he couldn't even eat pancakes or pickles, but he was hardworking and strong, and his heart was full of beautiful vision for the future.

now-

Although Ergou is joking and joking on the surface, he doesn't seem to be as happy as he appears on the surface, and he no longer expresses the truest thoughts in his heart easily.

He doesn't seem to have that much passion for life anymore, and even Wang Yuan can't see what is going on in his heart.

Aunt Xue's husband died a long time ago. After she found out that Ergou didn't talk to her, she asked Wang Yuan to help Ergou with her work.

"He doesn't listen to what I say, but Ergou admires you, Xiaoyuan, and he will listen to what you say."

Aunt Xue thought of the hard days of these years, the past was so vivid that she couldn't help but wiped her tears again:
"I still remember a few years ago, when we first met, Ergou collected antiques by himself. He was only a teenager at that time, and he dared to go to another county to collect antiques by himself.

If he can't find a place to eat, he just begs for food. At night, he finds a cowshed, a broken house or something, and endures the cold for a night. His hands and feet are rotten from the cold, but he thinks it's worth the difference after calculating the price he earns every time.

I cried in distress, but he could still wipe my tears with a smile and said: Mom, I must let you live a good life...

But why is he like this now? "

Sitting next to her, Li Yan also became sad.

Hearing Aunt Xue's words, Wang Yuan was also a little bit embarrassed. He really didn't know about these things. Back then, Er Gou was just going around the streets to buy antiques, and Wang Yuan added a little price to buy them from Er Gou.

A little price difference is enough for two dogs, mother and child to live.

"Xiaoyuan, do you think it was about the little girl back then, that Ergou liked that little girl, but...he hasn't come out yet? Hey~ this kid doesn't tell me anything, Sometimes I get so angry that I wish I could whip him with a stick."

"Ahem, Aunt Xue, listen to me, Ergou is 20 years old, right? If he is not a child, he can no longer be beaten. He also wants to save face."

Wang Yuan agreed to ask Ergou, and after knocking on the door, Ergou knew it was him, so he opened the door.

"Where did you get this magazine from? Or a blonde girl."

When Wang Yuan entered the room, he immediately saw the magazines spread out on the bed.

The magazine is an American swimsuit magazine. American women in bikinis are posing in various styles, and the backs are villas, luxury cars, yachts, sunny beaches and the like.

This kind of magazine is not a big deal in later generations, but it is only 1992 now, with conservative thinking, especially in a black province where the temperature is generally relatively low and people are covered almost all year round.

The impact on Ergou can be imagined.

Er Gou's face flushed instantly, and he flew to close the magazine and put it away, as if feeling ashamed and wishing he could find a crack in the ground.

"Oh, why are you ashamed? Isn't it just a swimsuit magazine? It's so normal. Our domestic beaches will become like this in the future."

Seeing that Wang Yuan didn't laugh at him, Ergou became less embarrassed.

"Our country will also become like this? How is it possible? If women in China dare to dress like this, they will not be scolded to death."

"Haha, the concept has changed a little bit. Besides, even this year, some coastal beaches have bikinis, but there are relatively few."

The two chatted relaxedly for a while, and Wang Yuan didn't put on a high-ranking and domineering attitude that I am a rich man and I'm here to teach you, but just like ordinary friends chatting casually.

On the contrary, Ergou feels very comfortable getting along with each other.

After talking for a while, Wang Yuan asked about Er Gou's situation, and Er Gou took a sharp puff of cigarette:
"Me~ I just feel that it's not interesting, and I can't get excited about doing anything."

Er Gou frowned, looking through the window at the ants-like pedestrians in the distance:
"Brother Yuan, what do you think people live their whole life for?"

"This... You mean the meaning of life? Everyone's opinion is different."

Wang Yuan smiled and said: "People only live like this for a lifetime, isn't life just a process, and when they die one day, everything will be gone."

"Is it the process?"

"Yes, the key is whether you are satisfied with your current living conditions? Do you feel worried? If you are satisfied, you don't need to change. If you are not satisfied, you need to change."

"Hiss, what happened?"

"This...it's different for everyone, you can walk around first, have a look, relax your mind and see what you are interested in, it is not bad to try more when you are young.

Of course, the price of each attempt is best not to be too high, otherwise you may not be able to afford a failure. "

After hearing Wang Yuan's words, Er Gou's eyes lit up: "Hahaha~ I thought you would be like my mother, brother Yuan, and advised me to get married early and have children earlier."

"Ahem, you don't even have a partner, you have a fart child."

After enlightening Ergou again, Wang Yuan left. What outsiders say is not his own idea. How much he can experience or what changes he can make is up to him.

After coming out of Ergou's room, Aunt Xue took Wang Yuan away from the house and took a taxi to a house south of the meat joint factory to meet a man.

"The people who can appraise antiques before are not good enough, but this time I can definitely do it!"

"Really? What's the name of the person this time?"

"He himself has forgotten what his name is. Others call him "Old Monkey" and he is happy to be called that. He is a fortune teller."

Aunt Xue smiled and said:
"Xiaoyuan, do you know Tang Ying from Shenyang?"

"Eh, this...cough, forgive me for being ignorant, I haven't heard of it." Wang Yuan was a little embarrassed, Shenyang is also in the Northeast, and it is said that he has heard of many celebrities in the Northeast.

"Hahaha~ It's normal if you haven't heard of it. Tang Ying is not a person of our era. He is a character more than 200 years ago. He was the assistant officer of the JDZ Imperial Kiln Factory during the Yongzheng period. He can write and draw. He is an expert in porcelain making. Very accomplished!"

"So the old monkey is Tang Ying's descendant?"

"Yeah, of course the old monkey is probably not even one-thousandth of Tang Ying's in writing, painting, engraving, porcelain making, etc., but in the first half of his life, his family was very rich, and his father was a big businessman. And the old monkey is obsessed with antiques, so there are a lot of antiques in his house, and he is very researched on antiques."

"Research is enough. What we want is to be able to identify it, and we don't want him to make porcelain."

Wang Yuan is also very happy. There are a large number of antiques in his space, and he is eager to distinguish them.

Keep the precious ones, and sell the ordinary ones.

China's history is too long, so there are a lot of antiques. There are quite a number of antiques that are not only of little research value, but also rough in production.

When I found the old monkey, the latter was lying on the warm kang, smoking comfortably while smoking his feet.

"Old monkey, do you enjoy it?"

Aunt Xue also smiled at the old monkey's tired look, knowing that he had always been like this.

"Oh, big sister, you are here, sit down... Oh, look at my broken mouth, what a big girl, I am the God of Wealth."

The old monkey was wearing a tattered Taoist robe. Looking carefully, it turned out that the Taoist robe was sewn onto the padded jacket. His hair was all white and his face was wrinkled, but he was very energetic.

He turned over suddenly, slapped himself pretentiously, and dusted off the kang, hoping that Aunt Xue would sit next to him.

Naturally, Aunt Xue would not do what he wished, she put a piece of paper on the stool and sat on it.

After explaining the purpose of his visit, the old monkey readily agreed - he accepted Wang Yuan's employment to help distinguish whether the antiques are precious or not, and the reward was enough wine and sauced beef, and a place to live.

"Cheep~"

Hearing the word sauced beef, the old monkey's saliva could not help speeding up. The last time I ate the sauced beef was invited by Aunt Xue, and the last time it was decades ago.

Once upon a time, he was also a rich young man in bright clothes and angry horses, spending money like water, but now... let alone his original name, he dare not even mention his surname.

After being sad for a moment, the old monkey returned to his original form. His hippie smile seemed to be a world where he cared about nothing but wine and beef.

"Hiss~ That little brother, can you let me eat the whole meal first, I have eaten half a bowl of brown rice since last night, it's so miserable."

After a long time in the world, the old monkey knows that when he sells miserably, he can only be beaten harder, and sometimes he can get benefits.

Wang Yuan went out and bought him a roast chicken. The old monkey's eyes lit up, he didn't care about pretending to use his hands and mouth, and he gnawed it as if he was in a hurry.

Wang Yuan was afraid that he would choke to death, so he patted his back.

"Eat slowly, the whole chicken is yours anyway, come and drink... Why is your bowl still broken?"

"This bowl was picked up from the cemetery. It was placed on the counter and let a mouse touch the ground... and it broke a small hole. It's okay."

After eating and drinking enough, the old monkey hiccupped and said:

"Alas, this life is really fate! If you have a good fate, you don't need to do much, but if you have a bad fate, no matter how hard you try, you won't be able to turn around... I am the current Cao Xueqin.

Do you know Dream of the Red Chamber?Does the author Cao Xueqin know? "

Aunt Xue didn't want to listen to the old monkey's nonsense, so she found an excuse and left first. The two were similar in age, but their attitudes towards life were completely opposite.

The old monkey is a bit muddling along, seeing through the vicissitudes of life in the world, living a life where he is drunk now, chic and comfortable, and finally died and fell down.

And Aunt Xue has a ruthless heart in her bones, she would rather die on the road of charge than surrender, and she is willing to work hard to live a better life, even though it is tiring, it is worth it.

Different road non-phase plan.

Aunt Xue naturally looked down on the old monkey, and she was worried that if she stayed with the old monkey for a long time, the other person's point of view would affect her view of life-so she left very quickly.

Wang Yuan is different. His thinking is very firm, and other people's opinions cannot shake him. It is interesting to listen to and read more.

Chatting with the old monkey is easy, and the old monkey can't help being surprised:
"Interesting, it's interesting... Are you really only in your 20s?"

Wang Yuan smiled and didn't say much. Although he was only in his 20s in his life, he lived in his 30s in his last life. Life experience can be accumulated...Of course, his brain will be better after traveling with him. Always think about things.

The chicken farming cooperative also has a warehouse in the suburbs, which was originally intended to be used as a spare cold storage, but now it can be used by Wang Yuan for a while.

Wang Yuan put most of the antiques in the space with uncertain value, there are more than 15 pieces.

The old monkey was dumbfounded when he saw so many antiques.

"Fuck me, why are you fixing up so many antiques? Hey~ what is this, a bowl for a dog to eat? It's not right, why do you want this kind of junk?"

"What is this? Damn it, it's Dingzhou white porcelain! This button-topped jar is amazing, the copper piece on the mouth, and the flow marks on the glaze... It's definitely Dingzhou white porcelain. Porcelain, heavy treasure, sell it to me?"

"You haven't woken up yet." Wang Yuan's face was black.

"Hey, just kidding, just kidding." The old monkey felt that he really underestimated this young man. With so many antiques, it must cost a lot of money just to buy them.

Moreover, he feels that he has found the same kind. He is obsessed with antiques, and Wang Yuan is willing to buy so many antiques, so he should be regarded as obsessed with antiques, right?

(End of this chapter)