Chapter 83

Inside the counter, there are many jade wares.

Susie saw some jade hairpins and jade bracelets. The quality of the jade was not very good, and the price was not too high, only a dozen or a few tens of dollars.

Then there are silver dollars, silver jewelry, children's silver anklets, etc. Susie doesn't have much interest in these things.

After reading everything inside, Susie stopped in front of a small blue and white porcelain bowl and did not leave.

The pattern on the small bowl is very exquisite, and the texture of the porcelain is fine and moist like jade. Susie asked the salesperson to take it out to have a look at the bottom model—Made in Chenghua, Ming Dynasty.

The moment she saw the bottom line, Susie was a little excited.

Ming blue and white flowers are always easy to fetch high prices at auctions. Although this bowl is small, its appearance is particularly good. If it is brought to an auction in a few decades, it will be at least tens of millions.

A small blue and white bowl from the Hongzhi reign of the Ming Dynasty in her own collection cost tens of millions.

The appearance, pattern, and texture of this bowl are all better than hers.

Susie looked at the price tag—ten dollars.

The state-run store couldn't bargain, so Susie took ten yuan, and the salesperson issued an invoice, carefully wrapped the small bowl and handed it to Susie.

Susie put the things into her travel bag very carefully, and sandwiched them between her clothes, lest they might be bumped.

After leaving the door, Uncle Liao smiled and said, "You like these things? These things just look good, and you can't sell them."

"If you like, we used to have some offerings and porcelain bottles hidden in the cellar in the Taoist temple. I will take you there one day, and you can choose whatever you want."

Su Qian reckoned that Uncle Liao's and his Taoist temple's things should all be from folk kilns, and those things were worthless.

However, this was also Uncle Liao's kindness, she smiled, "Then thank you Uncle Liao, that's all I like, and I like pretty things."

After leaving the cultural relics store, Uncle Liao inquired about the way, and took the two of them to the suburbs.

Seeing Uncle Liao walking ahead on crutches, walking like flying, Su Qian really admired him.

She turned her head and whispered to the six sons: "I can't get your master a car or something. If it doesn't work, I can get a donkey to ride on."

The six sons shook their heads with a smile, "Then master should say that I wasted money indiscriminately."

"Don't worry, let's go like this. If we encounter a hitch on the road, a kind driver will give us a ride."

He glanced at the back of Uncle Liao in front of him, and said slyly: "Thanks to Master being disabled, usually we stop the car, and the driver will let us go up if he sees that Master is inconvenient."

Uncle Liao didn't turn his head back, "Sixth son, are you planning something for your master?"

The six sons hurriedly said loudly, "No, Master, how is it possible?"

As he spoke, he hurried to catch up.

After walking for a while, Uncle Liao stopped a tractor. The tractor was not a walk-behind tractor, but a large tractor with a steering wheel. The bucket was empty. The driver said that he had gone to the city to pay the public food and turned back.

Several people climbed into the car and sat in the trunk, and the wind blew Susie's hair into a mess.

Uncle Liao didn't have a fixed place to collect things, so he followed the driver to their brigade.

When he arrived in the team, Uncle Liao was not too busy with work, he found a family to live in, and agreed that the three of them would eat and sleep at his house for [-] cents a day.

According to Liu Zi, staying in a hotel is the worst kind and it costs about [-] cents a bed. They try to live in folks' homes as much as possible, so that they don't have to cook for themselves and save money.

The family I live in is a family of four, a couple with two children, a boy and a girl.

The housewife arranged for Susie to sleep with her daughter Xiaoxiang, the boy's room was vacated for Uncle Liao and his six sons, and the boy slept with his parents.

When it was time to eat at noon, Susie was very happy. Although there were only a few boiled vegetables and a pickle, all the rice she ate was white rice!

Susie ate a big bowl of white rice with pickles, and she still couldn't get enough of it.

After dinner, Uncle Liao took the letter of introduction to the production team leader. Only then did Susie find out that the radio factory had given Uncle Liao the identity of a buyer and issued a letter of introduction.

The letter of introduction is genuine, which means that you can freely accept metals such as gold, silver, copper and tin wherever you go. It is legal and you are not afraid of investigation.

However, Uncle Liao seldom accepts copper tin, which is too cheap and heavy to carry, and generally only accepts gold and silver.

Uncle Liao himself didn't expect that the team leader here is still warm-hearted. He showed him the letter of introduction, and he actually broadcast directly in the brigade, asking everyone to support the country's production, and sell all the gold, silver, copper and tin that are not used.

This saves a few people's work, just wait at home for someone to come to the door.

Soon an old woman came over, "Do you accept gold?"

Uncle Liao nodded and stood up, "Let's talk in the room."

Uncle Liao and the old lady entered the house, but Liu Zi and Su Qian didn't follow. There were too many people, and they were afraid that they would be on guard.

Not long after, the old woman came out of the house, and walked away with a look of joy and regret on her face.

The six sons asked Uncle Liao, "How much did you charge?"

Uncle Liao said: "Two gold rings, a pair of gold earrings, a total of sixteen grams of gold, it is said that her youngest son is going to marry a wife, and they want a dowry of more than 100 yuan, which is far from enough."

The six sons tut tut, "The people in Jiangnan are rich, and the dowry costs more than 100 yuan! Our place is at most a few tens of yuan."

Uncle Liao chuckled, "It didn't cost me any money to marry your teacher's wife. Even the house is the old house of her Lan family, which I renovated later."

Several people were talking, and someone came over.

The man was carrying a small bag in his hand, Uncle Liao signaled to Susie, "You come in too, you have to look more to get familiar with it."

After entering the room and closing the door, the man untied the bag and pointed to the contents inside, "Do you accept these?"

Susie saw a bronze mirror and some gold jewelry inside, which looked like hairpins.

She reached for the bronze mirror, and Uncle Liao picked up the gold jewelry.

As soon as he got started, Uncle Liao shook his head, "Your thing is not gold."

He took a closer look and said with certainty, "It's silver and gold."

The man naturally knew these things in his heart. He took them to the cultural relics store and looked at them, and the people there said the same thing. The price they gave was too low, so he didn't sell them.

Uncle Liao said: "If you sell it, I can take it and give it to you at the price of silver."

"You can't get any gold out of it."

The man hesitated, "Do you want this bronze mirror?"

Uncle Liao said, "This bronze mirror—"

Seeing that Susie was looking over and over again, he reminded: "This thing is useless, and it won't sell for much money."

Susie was a little hesitant to buy it. The price of bronze mirrors ranged from very high to very low, and she didn't know how to look at them. She didn't know the exact age of the bronze mirror and whether it was worth it.

She thought for a while, "Two yuan, I won't take it no matter how expensive it is."

No matter what, she couldn't lose two yuan.

(End of this chapter)

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