Years: Salted fish life since going to the countryside.

Chapter 862: Half Moon in a Moment
Why did Han Li stop to chat with the two little tricycle leaders? It was because when he was walking around in the trust store, he remembered something. It was a report he had read in his previous life about a reporter interviewing a collector and antique connoisseur named Ma.

He said that furniture from the 1970s was incredibly cheap, and even in the 1980s, these antique furniture were still very cheap.

During this period, rosewood could be exported to earn foreign exchange and had a certain commercial value, but it was limited to wood and exquisite furniture that was kept intact. Huanghuali and red sandalwood were not allowed to be exported, foreigners could not buy them, and no Chinese people bought them at all.

Those chairs, tables and various furniture with broken limbs that almost no one was interested in were brought back by Mr. Ma at the price of scrap metal.

Of course, other people are not fools. It is very difficult to buy those truly well-preserved top-quality furniture at the price of picking up junk.

What Han Li lacked was not money, but time and vision. In order to find well-preserved top-quality furniture, Han Li relied on the help of Li Man's master from the trust store.

However, for those furniture made of good wood with broken limbs, Han Li has to rely on these tricycle drivers. These people hang around the city all year round and are familiar with the people in the trust stores. They are great helpers in helping him find these things.

Reason? Nowadays, roast duck in Sijiucheng is roasted with designated fruit wood, so the reason of using these hardwood furniture to boil medicinal materials is also tenable.

(At that time, whether it was red sandalwood, huanghuali, mahogany, or wenge, they were all called hardwood by the people, and officially called mahogany. Until today, the official name of mahogany is still maintained.)
By then, Han Li planned to repair and piece together the furniture that was not severely damaged, or the furniture made of large pieces of material. At the very least, he wanted to make a bed or recliner made of rosewood or huanghuali for his parents.

As for those furniture made of red sandalwood and huanghuali that could not be pieced together, Han Li planned to turn them all into beads and ornaments. Then, his family members, women, children, and nephews would all wear some of them. Wearing them for a long time would help improve their health.

Han Li would not waste the sawdust. He planned to use them to make pillows for his family that would relax muscles and blood circulation and improve sleep.

Therefore, this requires a lot of top-quality woods such as red sandalwood and huanghuali.

Moreover, the information gap between the two parties is more than 20 years, so there is no need to worry that they will intercept or discover it. If someone asks about it, it will be burned and used for boiling medicine. How can they find it from the decomposition space?

Han Li chatted for a long time with two tricycle riders in front of the Xidan Trust Store. After agreeing on a rough price, they left. Then Han Li went to the Dongsi, Qianmen, Guang'anmen and other trust stores, walking the same route. When he returned home, it was already dark.

The next day, Han Li's family had breakfast and started to busy themselves with their own things just like every Monday.

Two weeks passed quickly. During this time, Yun Yingying and her classmates went to school every day, and would bring back any letters from Han Li in the mail room.

Han Li spent most of his time practicing the control of dark energy at his home in Laohudong Hutong. Unfortunately, two weeks had passed and Han Li still had not made much progress.

During the rest of the time, Han Li strolled around the Old Summer Palace for a few days and finally harvested more than 900 kilograms of earth Tai Sui, more than 1000 kilograms of stone Tai Sui, and more than 1000 kilograms of water Tai Sui.

The water Tai Sui being transformed around Han Li's vast peach garden reached 2300 kilograms, the earth Tai Sui reached 1700 kilograms, and the stone Tai Sui reached 1500 kilograms.

However, it is still uncertain whether these Tai Sui have been used multiple times, and we don’t know what the mountains, water sources, and land they have transformed into will look like. If they are all yellow sand, swamps, and hills, they will not be very practical.

Last Thursday, Han Li received letters from appraisers from several trust stores.

He might be the first person to have this habit, and the appraisers in every trust store helped him find a lot of high-quality furniture.

Han Li initially wanted to accept all offers, and on Sundays, he bought back from numerous trust stores some well-preserved tables, altar tables, eight-immortal tables, armchairs, coffee tables, incense tables, desks, painting tables, official hat chairs, bookcases, bookshelves, Luohan beds, couches, screens, clothes hangers and many other pieces of furniture.

Eighty-five percent of these furniture are made of red sandalwood and huanghuali, and the rest are made of rosewood, rosewood, nanmu, ebony and beech.

Many pieces of furniture were originally inlaid with jade and gold, but now only black holes remain where the original inlays were.

But in the end, Han Li felt that he had made a lot of noise this time, even though all these furniture were bought in batches from different trust stores.

The key point is that Han Li has no intention of making money from this, so he told the appraisal masters of these trust stores not to contact him if the items are not top-quality or very cheap in the future.

Many of those tricycle riders did not take Han Li's words to heart.

However, there were some smart people who took advantage of their frequent visits to the streets and their well-informed status and managed to pick up some broken furniture this week. Finally, they contacted Han Li and wanted to give it a try.

Han Li had talked with the appraisal masters a lot and had a basic ability to distinguish different types of wood. So when the tricycle drivers came to Han Li, as long as the furniture was not made of common wood such as sycamore and elm, he would buy it at the price of a little more than one cent per pound, regardless of the quality.

This made the tricycle riders very happy. You know, a mahogany round table weighs at least 50 kilograms, and those that are bigger and heavier, weighing over kilograms, cannot be held. A long table weighs at least kilograms, and wardrobes and cabinets weigh even more.

They get these broken furniture for almost no money, and some are even picked up for free. No one would refuse such extra income.

Therefore, Han Li had a lot of people to help him collect broken furniture. That night, he broke down several worthless Huanghuali chairs into sawdust, filling two snakeskin bags before he stopped.

After returning home, Han Li asked He Mi to sew two inner covers and fill the pillows of his parents with the wood chips first. The rest would be for them, and the extra ones would be sent to his eldest sister's family and the Yun family later.

Today is another Saturday. Han Li and his friends gathered and returned to Mianhua Hutong as usual.

However, today, Han Li and Yun Yingying had just entered the alley and had not walked far when they saw many people gathering in one of the courtyards.

"Hello, Auntie. What's going on in our alley today? Why are all of you going to Yard No. 42?"

"Han Li, you guys are out of school now. The old Jin family in Hutong No. 42 bought a TV today, and everyone is planning to go and have a look. Many people haven't watched the first program of Yanjing TV Station since it was renamed ** TV Station."

Television sets were indeed rare items. Han Li had seen television tickets when he went to the black market some time ago.

But Han Li had no intention of buying that thing, otherwise his house would become the gathering place of the entire alley like the old Jin's house now, and it would not be quiet until 10 o'clock in the evening when the TV station stopped broadcasting, and the peaceful life he enjoyed would be disrupted.

After Han Li returned home greeting everyone along the way, he discovered that his father, mother, and second sister who lived relatively close to him, who were supposed to be at home, were not at home. In this situation, they must have gone to Old Jin's house to join in the fun, Yun Yingying said at this time.

"Brother Li, my dad got a ticket for a TV show in Village 14 last week. How about I ask him for it when I get back today?"

"Don't make a fuss. If you want to watch TV, I can just go get a ticket from someone. Why would you use your dad's ticket? He might be able to use it for something useful."

"If we ask others for it, we will have to owe them a favor, right? Why not just use my father's? Besides, they have to prepare a dowry for me. The four major items of the three turns and one ring are basically outdated in the company now.

Nowadays, people care about refrigerators, televisions, electric fans, washing machines and tape recorders. They have to prepare everything for me. If I take a TV ticket now, it can only be regarded as an advance payment, and it can also help them save money to buy a TV."

Han Li agreed with Yun Yingying's idea and behavior in his heart. Although he was not short of money, he was still very comfortable with the fact that his wife liked to take things from her parents' home to supplement her own family. However, he still had to be frank about this.

"Let's forget about it. Those TVs that are almost the size of a human head give me a headache, and I don't want to turn my house into a movie theater. Also, didn't the newspaper report a few days ago that Shanghai has introduced a color TV production line? If we want to buy a TV, we have to buy a big TV or a color TV. Let's give the 14-inch TV ticket in your father's hand to your brother."

As the two were talking, Yun Jingjing was the first to come over on a bicycle, followed by Han Xiaomei, He Mi and Hou Yuhua.

After washing their faces, they gathered together to cook and chat. Han Li made himself a cup of tea and sat in the yard to have a brief conversation with the crow. The two Spring City dogs lay at his feet.

These crows have been well trained by Han's father, and they can now speak much more fluently than when they followed Han Li before.

Han Li was having a great time when he heard the voices of Han's mother, Han's second sister and others from outside the courtyard wall.

"I was so busy watching TV that I forgot to go home and cook. Why did you come home and not cook for me? Why did you join in the fun?"

"Mom, I thought that no matter who comes back from my third sister or my brother, they will stay to cook when they see that no one is home, so I followed them over to take a look."

"You're getting more excited the more I talk about it, right? How can we let your brother do something like cooking when we're all at home?"

"Mom, it hurts, I will pay more attention next time."

(End of this chapter)