Rebirth 13, starting from the big demolition treasure hunt

He didn't go home for lunch, so he planned to find a restaurant in the old street to eat.

While driving the van along the road, Wu Yuansheng saw a crusher in the distance near the river, crushing brick debris transported from the demolition area.

Unlike before when they were dumped as rubble, now the red bricks, cement boards, various tiles and other "waste materials" from demolished houses are utilized nearby, crushed with crushers and used for road paving and road repair.

(In recent years, the price of sand and gravel has risen sharply. A truckload of them costs a lot of money. However, brick slag from the demolition area is basically not wanted by anyone. If you buy it, it is quite cheap.

Currently, these "materials" are being crushed in preparation for road construction after the beginning of the year.)

Not far ahead, at a corner, he saw a few people doing recycling.

They are Boss Zhang, Boss Fan, Boss Wang, Boss Wu, and Hei Lei is also here.

(Except in the countryside, he basically knows all the people who collect waste in the demolition areas in this city.)

At this time, several people gathered on the roadside and were chatting.

There are always some items in their cars.

"Brother Lei! Have you eaten without us?"

When he drove the car next to them, he stopped and said to Hei Lei.

"Not yet. I eat late and I need to dismantle the broken air conditioner in the car later. You eat first and we'll get together another day."

He glanced at Wu Yuansheng and said with a smile.

"Okay then! Does anyone have anything to sell? If so, take it out and let us see it!"

While talking to Hei Lei, he also asked other people.

"Boss Wu, I have some old books here, as well as two award certificates, an old graduation certificate, and two old photos!"

Boss Fan heard what he said and said to him.

"I have a bottle of old wine, some badges, and two paintings here!"

Boss Zhang followed up.

"I have an old scale, an inkstone, and a purple clay teapot on my car."

Boss Wu also smiled and said to him that his surname was just slightly different from his own in tone.

As the three men said this, he drove the car forward a short distance, then stopped, got out and walked up to them.

Soon, Boss Fan took out the two award certificates, a graduation certificate, and two old photo books he had just mentioned.

Wu Yuansheng took it and took a look at it.

There are two certificates, both from the same person, from the 1970s, one is a sports meet certificate and the other is a three-good student certificate.

The diploma was from another person, from the 1960s, in the form of a single piece of paper with a chip on the corner.

Award certificates, graduation certificates or marriage certificates like these are not worth much now, but 10 years ago, when the houses were just being demolished, they could be worth a hundred or eighty yuan or even more.

But at present, because too many tickets have been dismantled, not many people buy them at a few dollars each.

There were two old photo albums, both in black and white. He flipped through each one and they looked OK.

One is from the 1970s and the other is from the 1980s.

Some of them were very special, for example, the life at that time. In one photo, he saw a family of seven people eating around the table. There were only four plates of fried dishes, and the plates were not big, and there were very few dishes on them.

An old photo from the 1980s shows candied haws being sold at the gate of a cotton purchasing station.

The photos show people pulling carts or driving tractors to sell cotton, people passing by pushing or riding bicycles, and several adults holding children and standing in front of a person selling candied haws, ready to buy.

The candied haws at that time were all made of red dates, and were inserted in bunches on a simple "tool" made of a bamboo pole, straw and film.

A photo of seven children rolling hoops.

In the photo, five of the children are watching and two are rolling.

There were three girls and two boys watching.

The two people rolling the hoop were a boy and a girl, and they looked to be about eight or nine years old.

The photo is from the eighties.

Wu Yuansheng also played with this kind of iron ring when he was a child.

He has received or picked up some of these "toys" in the demolition area.

Looking at the photo, he planned to find a few iron rings when he got back and let Wu Qi and Wu Ming try to play with them.

Such toys are very dynamic and can not only exercise the body, but also improve sensitivity and reaction ability.

There is also an old photo from the 1970s, taken in front of a family's home in a mountainous rural area. There are also people eating, and among them is a little boy of eight or nine years old who has finished his meal and is licking the bowl.

Judging from some people's clothes, there is still a lot of pudding.

The living conditions back then were definitely not comparable to those now.

"I'll dump the old books on the floor for you to see!"

Seeing that he had finished looking at the photos, Boss Fan said.

"Okay! You fall down."

There were two snakeskin bags with the old books, and soon the books were poured onto the ground.

These books are of various types, including novels, magazines, periodicals, dictionaries, documents, reference books, medical books, and a small number of picture albums and comic books.

After a quick look, he selected picture albums and comic books, as well as a few novels and lunar calendars.

If it were five years ago, he would have bought most of the books, but now, he no longer buys them.

Since the beginning of this year, Wu Yun and Wu Yuansheng no longer allowed Wu Jinyi to sell old books and clothes at the construction site.

It is different now than a few years ago. In the past, everyone liked to buy books to read, but nowadays, very few people read books flipping through them. Most people listen to books on their mobile phones.

In addition, there are fewer projects, and there are not as many craftsmen working on construction sites as there were a few years ago, and fewer people are buying used clothes.

Another reason is that my father's health is not as good as it was a few years ago. He is now in his sixties.

Wu Jinyi has saved hundreds of thousands of yuan in the past few years, and with some pension, he will never be short of money in the future.

After looking at Boss Fan's things, he negotiated with him the price of the old award certificates, graduation certificates, two old photos and selected books.

We gave 330 yuan together.

Boss Zhang’s old wine is a bottle of “Xifeng Liquor” from the 1990s, which is considered a good wine.

There are several badges, and one of them has a head facing right, which looks okay.

For badges of great men, most of the portraits are facing left, those facing right are relatively rare and usually much more valuable.

The two paintings, both of which were made not long ago, were framed. One was of a "beauty" and the other of peach blossoms.

The "beauty" is more cartoon-like, holding a lotus-shaped lantern. In the lower left corner of the painting, it says "I searched for him among the crowd for thousands of times, and when I turned around, he was there, in the dim light."

The price he agreed with Boss Zhang for these items was a total of 600 yuan, but mainly because the wine was expensive, he charged 400 yuan.

Boss Wu’s old scale is a large one from the 3s. The length of the scale bar is about meters, and the maximum diameter is nearly centimeters.

The inkstone is rectangular and made of Duan stone. It looks relatively simple and is in very good condition. It should date back to the Republic of China period.

The purple clay teapot is very ordinary, oval in shape, and is made quite recently, probably in the 1990s.

The two men agreed on 300 yuan for the three items.

In fact, he bought many things casually, using them as props for filming or placing them in the company for others to enjoy for free.

He took out a lot of the items he had purchased before and set up a cultural wall at the logistics and express company for special display.

After buying their things and chatting for a few minutes, Wu Yuansheng drove away in the van.

While he was buying things for a few people, Hei Lei had already taken the old air conditioner from his tricycle to the ground and dismantled it.

After asking him again, he still told Wu Yuansheng to go eat by himself, and they could get together again another day when they were all free, and also invite Yao Zhiyong to come along.

No matter how you do, your first friends are still friends, and you should never forget your roots.

(“A tree that grows a thousand feet tall never forgets its roots; a man that achieves great success never forgets his origins!” He will always remember this sentence.)

Today is the first day of the twelfth lunar month. There is an old saying that goes "Don't move house on the sixth day of the twelfth lunar month." There will definitely be no one moving house within this year.

Those who are planning to move will also choose to do so after the New Year. Currently in the demolition area, at most there will be a few people selling unwanted items at home.

He remembered that at this time in his previous life, he was "treasure hunting" here in the winter and liked to eat at a small restaurant called "Zhiweitang".

This shop is on the old street. It is not big, only about 100 square meters.

At that time, he liked to eat the fish head hotpot or "small plate of hairtail" in the restaurant.

A small fish head hotpot costs 30 yuan and is served with tofu and Chinese cabbage. It is quite satisfying for one person to eat.

A small plate of hairtail fish costs 16 yuan. Although the plate is small, the portion of fish is large enough for one person to enjoy it.

The store also provides free porridge or seaweed egg soup.

Remembering the restaurant where he had eaten before, he didn't go anywhere else but went straight to "Zhiweitang".