Rebirth 13, starting from the big demolition treasure hunt

Chapter 529: Such videos are the most authentic

The old street of "XZ District" is close to the river bank. According to the plan, road construction and construction of a green belt along the river will begin at the beginning of the year.

This area along the river is one of the few demolition areas.

The next day, after breakfast, Wu Yuansheng drove his van directly there.

(It’s not that the family doesn’t have a good car. Last year he bought a Porsche Cayenne. This car is usually driven by Yi Xiaoyue. Her previous car was given to Yu Yan.)
If you go to places like demolition areas or landfills, a van is definitely more practical.

In his previous life, he searched for many items in the homes of residents who had moved out of the old street due to road construction and demolition. He then took them to antique shops and set up stalls in antique cities to sell them in exchange for some "living expenses".

Now when he comes here, in addition to looking for objects that may be valuable, he will also take some videos and post them on short video platforms.

Let those who see it have the opportunity to go to the demolition area and pick up some practical things to take home.

It can be regarded as a rescue measure to protect some items.

For objects from different eras, you can collect them, sell them, or give them away.

Wu Yuansheng personally feels that the old things are more environmentally friendly.

Take porcelain for example. In the past, the materials used for firing were real clay, and the pigments and glazes were also minerals.

It’s different now, maybe a lot of synthetic materials have been added.

Some of these synthetic materials are no longer simply porcelain.

Nowadays, many things have deteriorated.

For example, tomatoes among fruits. If you go to a supermarket or a vegetable market, you will see tomatoes displayed for sale at many stalls. All of them are the same color with basically no color difference.

The surface is also very smooth and it won’t go bad even if it is stored for a month.

Real tomatoes are not like that, their color is different, and if they are not eaten for a few days after ripening, they will naturally rot.

Everyone born in the 1980s or who lived in the countryside before the 1980s knows this.

Wherever there is a village, there are old houses. In the old street area, there were also wealthy families or landlords' homes in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China or even earlier.

Maybe it's just a town, and in the suburbs, there are basically no company houses here, only private houses.

Instead of checking out the red brick and tile houses, Wu Yuansheng was looking for the shanty houses that were built in the style of historical buildings.

Soon, he saw a one-story old house with a yard and built in a gable shape with green bricks and tiles that had been moved.

Standing outside and looking in, there is a big sycamore tree inside.

He took out his mobile phone and planned to take some videos and save them while looking for items, and then upload them to relevant platforms later.

Such videos are the most authentic and do not contain any false links.

The gate of the yard had been smashed down by the demolition workers, so he walked straight in.

Everywhere you look, you see broken pieces of pottery jars, basins, jars, and water tanks, as well as discarded straw hats, used shoes, socks, stuffed toys, outdated medicines, etc.

This is similar to all demolition areas.

The people in charge of the demolition took the keys and went to the houses of the residents who had moved out to demolish them. They were vandalizing the houses, smashing things and throwing things around.

Next to the sycamore tree in the yard is the "toilet", and opposite it is the kitchen.

After searching the yard for a while, he found several stone foundations and an old whetstone that was partially embedded in a bluestone.

Stone bases are not very good, but if there are good shapes, you can pick them up and place flower pots on them.

No, he didn't plan to take it. After all, it was too heavy and it was not cost-effective to move it around.

The whetstone is embedded in the bluestone and is not a whole piece. After shaking it a few times, it can move.

This is very interesting. The total weight of the bluestone and the whetstone is about 70 to 80 kilograms.

(The whetstone is light grey, about one foot long, 25 centimeters high, and six or seven centimeters wide, with a crescent shape on top.)
He planned to take it back with him when he left later.

Although this vintage folk item is not valuable, it has a strong sense of vicissitudes and has its own unique historical value.

Turning on the video on his mobile phone, Wu Yuansheng took some pictures of the yard, including the stone foundation, whetstone, and sycamore tree.

With nothing else of value, he went into the kitchen.

The stove in the kitchen is an earthen stove. The pots were taken away and sold as scrap, so only two round "deep pits" can be seen.

There is a lot of firewood near the stove for adding fire. These firewoods include wooden sticks and large firewood split from tree trunks.

Seeing this, he felt that the previous owner was still using the most primitive method to add fire to cook. This was nothing, because when he came in the morning, he saw many people nearby using the stainless steel wood stove to boil water by adding wood blocks, sticks, etc.

This kind of kettle is convenient and easy to use. Just throw some firewood into the fire storage area in the middle and leave it alone. After a while, the water will boil. He has used it before.

Hanging on the wall are brushes for scrubbing pots, baskets for washing rice and cooking, chopstick cages, and some condiments such as dried chilies, star anise, and peppercorns in convenient bags.

There is a counter connected to the stove, a cupboard near one wall, and a small octagonal table next to it with a side length of about one meter and a height of about 70 centimeters.

There were also four old-fashioned armchairs, two of which looked broken.

In the corners of the walls on the ground, there are also jars, cans, a small water tank that can only hold one load of water, a round plastic woven basket and other items.

There are many plates, bowls, wine glasses, glass bottles, jars, pots and other kitchen supplies on the cooking counter and in the cabinets.

After searching in two places, he found a bowl and three small wine cups.

The bowl is from the 1950s and has a flower painted on it.

Three small wine cups from the Republic of China period, trumpet-shaped, plain with no patterns.

Wu Yuansheng also took a video with his mobile phone of the situation in the kitchen.

He found a clean plastic bag in the drawer of the cabinet and put the bowls and wine glasses in it. Then he left the kitchen and went back to the main room.

The house has not been renovated and still maintains its previous appearance. The roof is a wooden structure, and on the walls you can still see wooden pillars supported by stone foundations connected to the beams above.

With this design, anyone can tell that it is quite old.

There is a hall in the main house with four doors on the two walls, which are the four bedrooms, which is equivalent to a four-bedroom and one-living room layout.

In the hall, there are also outdated old furniture such as tables, stools, and chairs.

Opposite the door is an old solid wood cabinet with some items on it and inside.

There are also cabinets, boxes and other furniture in the four bedrooms.

After searching one by one, he found a box of old crayons used for drawing in the 1980s, a box of "Beijing brand" carbon paper from the 1990s, and a small square seal carved out of bamboo.

Two enamel cups, a diary, a few letters, and some old tapes.

Among them, the enamel cups were used by local units in the 1980s, one was a textile factory and the other was a food factory.

He flipped through the diary briefly and found some records of his daily life when he was working in the food factory.

The letter and the tape were dated from the 1990s.

On the door of an old cabinet, he saw two porcelain door handles from the Qing Dynasty and pried them off.

The handle is in the shape of a green-glazed gourd and looks very beautiful.

This kind of handle, different from the copper pull ring, can be considered another collectible.

There were some ground-cage fishing nets in the house, and he picked out three that looked better, which he could use to catch lobsters in the canals in the suburbs.

He also took several videos while searching for these items.

After packing up all his things and taking them out, he looked at the floor of the house and couldn't help but think:
"If you dig the soil under the ground of this house along the corner of the wall, you should be able to dig up some copper coins or copper yuan. After all, this is a house from the same era as the old city demolition area."

However, in the past two years, he has retired from using detectors to search for items.

On the one hand, it is because many places have been swept through again and again by others, and on the other hand, there is little construction and there is nowhere to look.

After putting the things away, he went back again and moved the bluestone and the whetstone embedded in it to the van.

He spent the rest of the morning raiding two more historic buildings.

In these two houses where the residents had moved out, Wu Yuansheng also found some items that he thought were worth collecting.

One of the houses still had a roof, on which he found several items that were used on ships decades ago.

Two old wooden oars, a wooden rudder and a wooden wheel for releasing the rope.

Because they were close to the river, many people used to go fishing in the river. There were fishing nets at these two houses, and he also picked up two or three each.

There are many things that I can’t use all of, so I can give them away when I have the chance.

Similarly, he took photos or videos in these houses, intending to slowly send them out and share them with others.

(End of this chapter)