Quick Wear: I am the shopkeeper at the Merit Pawn Shop

Only then did I realize that the old lady was not a local, but an outsider. She used to have bound feet, but later unbound them.

There was a husband who abandoned his wife and daughter because he was disgusted with her and got together with another woman. Although they lived in the same village, they were like strangers. The woman had died a few years ago.

As for the old lady's daughter, she followed the educated youth to the city and never came back.

The old lady is left alone and helpless.

Jin Qiang brought back a door panel. Although it was not as long as the one in the pigpen, it fits the pigpen well.

But obviously, the old lady was not so easily persuaded.

"Come back tomorrow. I don't want to talk anymore today." After saying that, the old lady drove the people away without thinking twice.

Jin Qiang looked helpless: "Brother Shen? What should we do this time? The old lady is too difficult to deal with."

"If it doesn't work today, then tomorrow. How about this, tomorrow you go outside to collect the things, and I'll chat with the old lady."

"It would be great if you could persuade the old lady just by chatting, but I'm afraid she's playing a trick on you. I just asked around outside and everyone says the old lady has a very weird temper. She drove her husband away over a small thing and kicked her daughter out, and she never came to visit again since then." In addition to buying door panels, Jin Qiang also found out a lot about the old lady.

"Who wants to separate their loved ones unless they are forced to do so? Some people think cheating is a small matter and can be forgiven, especially men, but some people cannot tolerate a grain of sand in their eyes."

"How are men and women the same?" Jin Qiang didn't care.

"Why should a woman forgive a cheating man?" Shen Mo looked at Jin Qiang.

By the way, he patted Jin Qiang on the shoulder and said, "Brother Qiang, you can't have such thoughts. In the new society, men and women are the same. Men are not much nobler than women. Cheating is cheating, it's dirty."

"How can you speak on the side of a woman?"

"I'm on the side of justice." Shen Mo smiled.

"Forget it. Even if the old lady's reaction to this matter is normal, what about kicking her daughter out of the house? Or not wanting to see her for many years."

"How can I explain this? Everyone has their own opinions. Everyone has their own reasons. Would you be happy if your future daughter married someone you looked down upon?" Shen Mo looked at Jin Qiang.

"Bah, bah, bah, I don't have a girl yet, what did you say? Don't curse me."

The next day, Shen Mo went up the mountain early in the morning, picked some flowers, matched the colors, tied them into a bunch, and then went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy some soft, glutinous and easy-to-digest pastries.

I went to the old lady's house again.

The old lady was stunned when she saw the flowers in Shen Mo's hand.

"I didn't expect to receive flowers when I'm old." The old lady took the flowers from Shen Mo's hand and was a little dazed.

Then she turned around and found a white porcelain vase covered with dust from the corner. The old lady washed the dust off, put the flowers in the vase and placed it on the window.

"Can you tell how old this vase is?"

Shen Mo shook his head: "I don't know much about porcelain."

It's not that he doesn't know much about porcelain, he just isn't sure.

Porcelain is too simple and easy to fake, so after seeing the fake porcelain craftsmanship, he decided not to touch it. It is too easy to fall into a trap.

In addition, the client himself does not have much money now, so he prefers to play with something that is sure to win.

Shen Mo never forces himself to do something he doesn't understand.

"You are a very humble person." The old lady smiled and handed him a glass of water.

"I am telling the truth."

Shen Mo took it with both hands.

It was another day of chatting with the old lady, helping to clean the house, and doing other things within my ability. On this day, the old lady also invited Shen Mo to have dinner.

Before leaving, Shen Mo did not ask about the board. He felt that many things were better left to nature's own devices. The fact that the old lady did not refuse meant that there was room for negotiation.

In this way, Shen Mo spent a whole month with the old lady, and Jin Qiang couldn't help but admire Shen Mo's tenacity.

After Shen Mo helped the old lady chop wood and fill the water jar with water, the old lady's expression became serious: "If I sell the board to you, will you not come here in the future?"

"How could that be? I will definitely come to see you when I am free." Shen Mo said with a smile.

He was telling the truth. The old lady was really pitiful living all alone.

"How much can you offer?" The old lady looked at Shen Mo.

"You say? If I think the price is too high, I'll bargain..."

"This board should be worth 500 yuan. I just have one request."

"You say."

"I don't want to sell this thing to foreigners, and I hope you won't let it fall into the hands of foreigners when you resell it. This is what my parents and brother told me when it was passed down from my ancestors."

"Okay." Shen Mo agreed without hesitation. He intuitively felt that there must be something inside the board, otherwise the old lady would not be so serious.

The old lady then wrote down an address and handed it to Shen Mo: "Please help me remit this money to this address. My daughter doesn't want me anymore, but I can't abandon her. After all, we are mother and daughter. This is the last thing I can do for her."

Hearing the old lady say this, Shen Mo's heart suddenly felt blocked. Perhaps this is family love!

Shen Mo kept the address, went to the post office to remit the money, and contacted Jin Qiang to transport the wood.

After Shen Mo transferred the money, Jin Qiang was already waiting at the door.

He patted Shen Mo's shoulder heavily: "You are really amazing. You really did it."

"Don't say that. I always feel weird inside. It's like the old lady is making arrangements for her funeral." Shen Mo sighed.

"It's so lonely to be alone! I am also moved by your sincerity. Who is like you, doing business with customers for a month."

"What's the big deal? The old lady didn't ask me for much money. We can make more than ten times the profit by reselling it. I just spent a month's work. Think about how much a worker earns a month now. That's how it is. Everyone is scrambling to become a worker."

After hearing what Shen Mo said, Jin Qiang thought that it was true, it was indeed so.

Shen Mo handed the remittance slip to the old lady, and when he turned around, the old lady handed a porcelain bottle to Shen Mo.

"Aunt, what are you doing..."

"You've been with me for a month and brought me flowers and food. I don't think you'll need them in the future, so I'll give them to you." The old lady smiled.

"Thank you for the flowers you sent me. Since my parents and my eldest brother passed away, no one has sent me flowers anymore. I am very happy."

"You should keep it. If you like it, I will come over and give you flowers later."

"You keep it. I don't know when I will be gone, and I don't want to give the things I like to people I don't like." The old lady said bluntly.

Seeing that the old lady insisted, Shen Mo finally accepted it.

After returning, Shen Mo and Jin Qiang spent most of the day cleaning the wooden boards.

After removing the thick dirt from the wooden board, it was discovered that there were a few flamboyantly written characters on it, but they were covered with thick black paint, and the blurred outlines made it impossible to tell what the characters were.

The two of them took great effort to remove the black paint bit by bit, and the process took two days.