Ordinary life starting from a courtyard

Chapter 155: Chapter 154
Iron gates, iron windows, iron chains.

Hold on to the iron window and look out.

What a wonderful life outside.

Xu Damao's eyes were full of speechless, and he sat blankly on the single wooden bed, watching Zhou Wenliang singing some bad songs, and remembered to kick him.

"Brother, stop singing, are you here to see my joke?"

Zhou Wenliang laughed: "No, I didn't mean to see you sitting there without talking, I sang a few lines to make you happy.

How about it.Are you happy? "

"I'm so happy!"

Xu Damao was not in the mood to tease his son at all, and sighed: "Liangzi, find a way to help my buddies..."

Zhou Wenliang had nothing to do after work, so he came over to look at Xu Damao, which really made Ma Hua talk. Xu Damao was not beaten at all, which is a bad review.

Take a look at that time when He Yuzhu was beaten badly, but after he came out, he immediately became honest.

"Mao, it's not that I don't save you, do you know how much trouble you have caused?
The factory is still having a meeting to discuss your matter, and now there is a lot of noise!

I feel that you are hanging this time. "

Xu Damao panicked and turned pale: "Are we still discussing it now??"

Zhou Wenliang couldn't help laughing: "You think so!
When I came here this morning, I heard that the books you lost are all technical books.

When the workshops want to use it, when they want to find the parameters, they can't find the book, and they report it to the factory manager, so you have this problem, no one can save you. "

Xu Damao grabbed Zhou Wenliang and asked him to save himself.

Zhou Wenliang shrugged his shoulders, expressing his helplessness.

Xu Damao took a step back in disappointment and sat on the wooden bed.Staring blankly at the window.

Zhou Wenliang: "Don't be discouraged, it's because of who you left before, go again!"

Xu Damao shook his head: "It might not work this time."

Zhou Wenliang asked in surprise, "What's the matter? You're already like this, and you still can't think of a way."

Xu Damao sighed deeply: "It's no use, I have some conflicts with Deputy Factory Manager Li. If he doesn't make trouble, I will thank his eight generations of ancestors."

Sitting next to him, Zhou Wenliang shook his head: "Then I can't help it, you'd better ask your father to figure out a way to pay back the money.

This way you can still come out. "

Xu Damao scratched his head, moaning feeling helpless: "It's more than 600 yuan, where should I go to fix it!"

Zhou Wenliang held back his smile, lost more than 300 books, and asked him to pay 650, which is enough.

Books are already expensive now. A comic book in a bookstore, a comic book, ranges from [-] cents to [-] cents. The academic books in this factory are more expensive, and this kind of book is thick, not as thin as a comic book. For one book, he was asked to pay six hundred because he was a factory worker.

Xu Damao suddenly turned his head and looked at Zhou Wenliang.

Zhou Wenliang waved his hand: "Don't look at me, did you borrow money?

I have only been working for a few years and I just got married, so how can I still have so much money. "

Xu Damao thought so too, and with a bitter face, he meditated hard.

"By the way, how many do you have now?"

"What do you want to do!"

Xu Damao just wanted to borrow money, because he didn't know where to borrow it now. His father borrowed some from outside, but he was borrowed once before, and now no one lends it to him.

"Didn't you take a fancy to my gold pocket watch? You've seen it too. Tell me what you want."

Zhou Wenliang was overjoyed, he has been waiting for your words for a long time here.

However, Zhou Wenliang didn't dare to accept Xu Damao's things like this, otherwise what would this kid do if he reported him in the future.

"I've seen it, and indeed I've seen it, but I was too young at that time, so I only knew it was gold, and I forgot about it.

And ah, I don't have much money now, and you definitely can't give a price for a gold watch like yours. "

Seeing Xu Damao dying of disappointment, Zhou Wenliang smiled and patted him on the shoulder.

"Hey, don't be depressed, I can't give it out, someone can give it out.

Don't be too happy, I don't know what it is like, how much it will be paid, I can take it for you to have it appraised. "

Xu Damao curled his lips: "It's nothing to say. My father has already gone to the trust store to confirm it. They gave 150 yuan, and my father is not willing to sell it."

Zhou Wenliang was surprised. When he got it from a trust store, he could still offer [-] yuan after the price was lowered. It seems that this gold watch has a lot of background.

"Where is the gold watch now? Where is your father?"

"Here, I wanted to sell it on consignment, but my father didn't want to."

"I'm already like this, and he still doesn't want to part with his gold watch, I..." Xu Damao patted the bed board indignantly.

Zhou Wenliang nodded knowingly: "Alright, if you want to sell it, just ask Uncle Xu to give me the watch, and I'll take it over to have a look. If you don't want to buy it, forget it."

Not long after Zhou Wenliang left, Xu Damao's mother, Cai Genhua, came, and Xu Damao hurriedly asked, "Mom, have you got all the money?"

Cai Genhua frowned, and shook her head: "In order to raise money, your father has borrowed from everyone who can, and has collected more than 300 yuan so far."

Xu Damao sat there in a daze, muttering to himself: "Why is it so small, this is not enough."

Cai Genhua cried and beat Xu Damao: "It's not enough. Your father borrowed it before, and now we borrow it. Our family owes a hole in our ass. How can we pay it back in the future?"

Xu Damao excitedly grabbed Cai Genhua's hand: "Mom, don't think about the future, think about the present, if you don't raise enough money, I have to go in."

Cai Genhua cried and shook her head, slapped Xu Damao, venting her emotions: "Why do I have a son like you?"

Xu Damao let his mother beat him.

Cai Genhua finished venting her emotions, looked at her son with a disheartened face, and muttered, "No, I'll go find Lou's family..."

Xu Damao quickly said: "Don't, the Lou family warned us not to look for it last time. If you go again, you will annoy them. I didn't have to go in. Maybe you will go in. I really have to go in."

Cai Genhua sighed, wiped away tears, and looked at her son, disappointed no matter what.

"You said how good this marriage is, you insist on fooling around with dubious women outside, so that the Lou family will notice it, and it will lead to so many things in the future.

Such a good girl from the Lou family is now married to someone else, you say you, hey, let me say something. "

When Xu Damao heard this, he became even more irritable, "Mom, stop talking, go back and find the gold pocket watch that my dad hid, and send it to Liangzi."

Xu Damao was so annoyed that he was upset.In the past, he dreamed of marrying a girl from Lou's family, and he would be able to stand up. Who would have thought that it would be like this, but now that he is married to someone else, he feels uncomfortable.

I heard that she married a driver who drives a big car!
If you drive a big car, you can have yourself, okay?

However, she was really pregnant, which made him feel the most uncomfortable.

I don't know if it's hard or not, but Zhou Wenliang is really hard, because Xu Guangkun and Cai Genhua came when he got home after get off work.

In Zhou Wenliang's room, Xu Guangkun and his wife were sitting on the stool by the table, and the three of them said some polite words. Xu Guangkun took out a mahogany brocade box from a black briefcase, his face full of reluctance, and he held the brocade box tightly with both hands. .

In the end Cai Genhua pushed him and motioned for Zhou Wenliang to take a look.

Zhou Wenliang looked funny, this is really regarded as a family heirloom, don't you know that the Xu family is going to die, so why not exchange some money and enjoy yourself in time.

No, they couldn't get the money even if they exchanged it.

Xu Guangkun carefully opened the brocade box, put it on the table again, and reluctantly pushed it over.

"Xiao Liang, be careful, this belongs to the Fourth Prince of the Republic of China."

Zhou Wenliang was surprised, especially when he looked at the gold pocket watch in the brocade box. The gold case of the pocket watch was enamel painted with red lotus carvings. It was so exquisite that even the watch chain was gold.

Zhou Wenliang picked it up carefully, the weight is not light, about 150 grams, the thickness is 17.3mm, and the dial diameter is 56mm.

Gently press the button on the crown, the cover is flipped up, and the case and dial are in sight.

There is a picture embedded on the shell, which is a head portrait of a beautiful woman in a cheongsam of the Republic of China, with a quiet, elegant and soft face.

The dial is a very retro golden engraved movement with curlicue Arabic numerals and small seconds. The minute and second hand scales are slender and clear, and marked with small numbers.

The Arabic numerals are inlaid with small diamonds, and the whole is very delicate and exquisite.

Zhou Wenliang didn't like it very much in his heart, and he couldn't put it down to some extent.

He knows a little bit about pocket watches, which are also called big eight pieces.

What is "Big Eight".

That's a lot to say.

From the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Matteo Ricci, a western missionary, dedicated two clocks and watches to the court, which opened the door to exchanges between China and the West.

Watches and clocks have won the favor of the royal family and high-ranking officials for their decoration, interest and practicality.

From the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 19th century, the scope of users of clocks and watches in China gradually expanded, and European watch manufacturers imported a large number of pocket watches, chime clocks and other products.

Among them, pocket watches exclusively for the domestic market came into being.

This is the "Big Eight".

Beijing and Tianjin are also called "long watches".

Most of them use silver as the case material, white porcelain dial, large eight pocket watches with Roman numerals, transparent case back and exquisitely carved gilt movement.

The name "big eight pieces" comes from the fact that the main components of the movement are composed of 8 parts.

These foreign business firms in the Guangzhou area found that Chinese people believed that the word "eight" was homonymous with "fa", which meant auspicious prosperity.

And Zhou Wenliang was holding a watch in his hand, and he read it right. It should be a pocket watch, eight big pieces.

During the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, the JUVET "Youxi" company was very popular in China.

Because of the exquisite craftsmanship and unique art and characteristics of "Youxi", it was welcomed by relatives, officials and gentry of the Qing Dynasty.

At that time, everyone was proud of owning a pocket watch, and it became a watch brand for the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and it was also a symbol of the status of the nobility in the Qing Dynasty.

Yougui's "Eight Pieces" are also known as Huaxia Market Watches.

It has a special historical background and watchmaking technology in Switzerland and China.

Especially the enamel craftsmanship with very high artistic value cannot be reproduced again.

Therefore, Youxi's "eight pieces" clocks are favored by collectors, and they have been sold at high prices in major auctions around the world.

Most of them are collected in museums or private collections, and are known as "the most collected" in the watch industry.

Xu Guangkun looked at where Zhou Wenliang was playing, his heart ached, and he kept reminding: "Be careful, hey, be careful..."

Zhou Wenliang finally got annoyed, closed the watch case, put it back into the brocade box, and said, "Uncle Xu, do you want to sell it, or?"

Just as Xu Guangkun was about to speak, Cai Genhua said first, "It's sold."

Zhou Wenliang nodded: "That's fine, I'll take it over for people to see."

Cai Genhua quickly thanked him, but Xu Guangkun opened his mouth, finally sighed, and sat there without speaking.

(End of this chapter)