The prosperous era of courtyard houses

Chapter 49, Uncle Gu’s collection

After drinking, Zhou Can took Li Weiguo, Zhao Guobing and follower Zhou Bo downstairs to find the old man who worked in the postal service during the Republic of China.

The old man's house is on the first floor of the building behind.

After going downstairs, the four of them walked around to the Tongzi Tower at the back.

The old man was quite leisurely and had two small vegetable plots in the flower beds on the left and right sides of the front door of his house on the first floor.

It's not big, just about ten square meters on both sides. I planted some onions, ginger, garlic and cabbage.

The waiter did a good job. The vegetable seedlings in the field were green and shiny. It seemed that they were taken care of every day.

When he reached the door, Zhou Can ran over and knocked on the door.

"dong dong dong"

"Who is it?" The uncle's voice came from inside the room.

"Uncle Gu, I am Zhou Can."

"Boy Chan, the door is unlocked, come in."

With Uncle Gu's permission, Zhou Can pushed open the door first, followed by the other three.

The furnishings in Uncle Gu's house are relatively simple. Zhang Wei's portrait is hung on the wall of the main room. The coffee table, sofas, tables and chairs are all a bit old, but they are kept very neatly, giving off a simple and tidy atmosphere.

Uncle Gu is over sixty years old and has been retired for a while. He usually spends his free time tending to his vegetable patch or wandering around his family’s courtyard. He knows all the children from every family in the courtyard and he is in good spirits. Reading glasses, holding a book and studying there.

Seeing everyone coming in, Uncle Gu looked up at everyone, looked at Zhou Can, and said with a smile: "Boy Can, why are you free to come to the old man's place today?"

"Don't I miss you? My mother made some meat dishes and brought them to you. Don't mind it." Zhou Can put the lunch box in his hand on the dining table and said to Uncle Gu with a smile.

"Haha. Don't dislike it, don't dislike it. Don't be too troublesome next time. I don't lack anything."

Uncle Gu was very happy. He was very happy to be remembered.

Then he said to Li Weiguo and others: "You guys, please come in and sit down. You're welcome."

After saying that, he invited everyone to come in and sit down, poured a glass of water for everyone, and took out a box of golden chicken biscuits from the house and distributed them to the four people for them to eat.

Li Weiguo was not interested in the biscuits and gave them to Zhou Bo casually.

Zhou Bo had no resistance to snacks anymore. He took them as soon as they were given. He took the biscuits without any courtesy and started to nibble them directly.

Such good snacks are not often eaten on weekdays because the Zhou family's family is in a good condition.

"I haven't seen these two guys very often. Which hospital are they from?"

Li Weiguo's actions attracted Uncle Gu's attention, and he asked about their origins.

"They are my classmates from elementary school to high school. The tall one is Li Weiguo, and the gentle one is Zhao Guobing. They are my friends from elementary school to adulthood. They usually come to our hospital less often, so you haven't seen them often. ." With that said, Zhou Can pointed out Li Weiguo and Zhao Guobing to Uncle Gu.

"Oh, good..., yes, they are both talented people." After looking at the two of them, Uncle Gu smiled and nodded.

"By the way, uncle, my brother Li Weiguo likes to collect all kinds of stamps since he was a child. I thought that you have the most complete collection of stamps in the whole hospital, so I brought him to have a look. He wants to change some and go back to collect them. I wonder if you are always willing to do so. Cutting off love." Zhou Can talked about everyone's purpose.

"Stamps, these things are not cheap. If you have some money, don't throw it all in. But since you like it, show it to you guys and take away what you like."

Uncle Gu is old, and collecting stamps is just for work. He keeps all the stamps issued by the post office every year, and he doesn't go out of his way to collect them. After so many years, he still saves a lot.

With that said, he walked into the bedroom, and a few minutes later he took out a small box and placed it on the table with a thud.

The box is about 45cmx25cmx25cm in size and can hold a lot of things.

The box was opened, and inside there was a thick pile of stamps, many of which were full-page stamps, while single stamps were placed in the corners of the box.

Such old stamps almost blinded Li Weiguo. How long would it take to save so many.

Zhou Can and Zhao Guobing were not interested in these either, so they asked Li Weiguo to come closer and choose for themselves.

Li Weiguo looked up at the uncle excitedly and asked, "Uncle, can I take it out and take a look?"

"Haha, it seems that you really like stamps. Just look at them if you like them. It's no big deal. I also liked them very much when I first started working as a postman. Every time new stamps were issued, I would buy some myself, plus the bureau would occasionally Pay some benefits, and over the past few decades, I have slowly accumulated so much." Uncle Gu didn't care about these things, and let Li Weiguo do as he pleased.

Li Weiguo nodded and took out the stack of stamps from the box.

Judging from the condition of these stamps, we can probably tell that they were stored in chronological order.

The upper layer is obviously brand new, while the lower layer is older, and some are even yellowed.

There are plastic sheets between every few pictures on the entire page, which is quite protective.

Li Weiguo spread the entire page of stamps flat on the table like a poker, starting from the earliest stamp on the left.

It's okay if you don't look at it, but when you look at it, you almost jump with excitement.

There are two editions of the thin paper dragon, a full edition of the thick paper dragon, and even the most precious wide-border dragon has a full edition of 25 pieces.

They are all well preserved and in good condition with no obvious damage or stains.

A complete edition of the broad-edged dragon would have been auctioned for a high price of 91 pounds in 37.4. It is truly a treasure among treasures.

Put these three dragon stamps aside and continue to look at the stamps at the back.

There are three editions of Panlong stamps in this set, with 12 pieces in total. The patterns are very beautiful.

Qing Panlong stamps are official ordinary stamps issued by the State Post Office of the Qing Dynasty in 1897. There are 12 stamps in the set with three designs.

蟠龙图：面值半分（紫）、1分（黄）、2分（桔黄）、4分（棕）、5分（玫红）、1角（深绿）；

Carp picture: 2 corners (purple), 3 corners (rose red), 5 corners (yellow-green);

Flying geese: 1 yuan (dark red and rose red), 2 yuan (yellow and orange), 5 yuan (dark green and rose red).

The stamps have the words "IMPERIAL CHINES EPOST" in English across the stamp.

A set of Panlong stamps is worth about 1 yuan. Although it is not as valuable as the big dragon, it is still a good collection.

Flipping further back, there were many stamps that Li Weiguo had never seen or heard of. He skipped these stamps, put them aside, and continued to flip through them.

Picking and picking, I found that I knew quite a few of the more valuable stamps, such as: stamped with Chinese/Chinese/Republic of/Guo/Provisional/Interim/Chinese/Legal stamps, there was a full page of 46 stamps;

BJ's new sailboat has 4 points and "tentatively 3 points" back-up votes have three full pages;

Two full pages of Blue Army stamps; three pages of military/people stamps; six pages of Tian/An/Men Shining Light stamps;

The rest are all newly issued stamps after the founding of the People's Republic of China. They may not be very famous and Li Weiguo has never seen them, but the patterns are very beautiful.

There are about tens of thousands of stamps in this whole box. Counting the face value alone, there are thousands of dollars here. This old man is really amazing, he can actually save so many stamps.