Jianbao Lingyan

After arriving at the new workplace, Xu Wei's workload has increased significantly. In the past, Xu Wei's job was just to ensure that the supply of goods can be matched, but now, Xu Wei also occasionally serves as a guest cook, preparing hot instant noodles and fried eggs for customers. , Use the microwave oven to heat the sausage.

For this reason, Xu Yanzhen raised his nephew's wages uprightly, from the previous 200 yuan per month to 260 yuan.For a boy working in a private store, this is a lot of wealth, especially since he doesn't have to save money to send home.

The antique street is very lively every day, whether it is a rest day or not, it is more than ten times more lively than the market in Xu Wei's hometown.Every morning at seven o'clock, as soon as the store opens, many people will come to the store for breakfast.A serving of instant noodles, an egg or hot sausage, or with some other food. At noon, many people rushed to buy a piece of bread and sausage, and then hurriedly took the food and went to eat. Running back, the night is when the store is relatively quiet, and small vendors generally don't have dinner in small stores.They either go home, or get together in twos and threes, and have a hot meal in a small restaurant nearby to reward a hard day.

There are only three people in the newly opened grocery store, a cashier, who will let Xu Er take over unless there is an occasional emergency, and a brother Li in his 30s. But very good.Under normal circumstances, Xu You and Brother Xiao Li staggered to work, so that there would always be two people in the store.

For Xu Wei, the antique street is full of mystery. Often, a very ordinary little thing will be set with a legend, or funny, or heavy, or romantic story by the stall owner, and then the customer will come back with a very If you buy it at a high price, you will still smile after buying it, as if you bought something very precious.

Of course, Xu Wei also saw several items with colorful halos on the Antique Street, but the items were somewhat expensive, some costing tens of dollars, or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.The high price made Xu Wei dare not buy any of them, even though Xu Wei hadn't had any new dreams for him to watch for a long time.But Xu You, who was so shy in his pocket, never had the courage to spend all the money on his body to buy a dream that he didn't know if it was worth it.

Obviously, due to the particularity of practical reasons, Xu Wei's method of judging the value of an antique is different from that of ordinary people.

As the weather is getting colder, the number of people on Dongtai Road has gradually decreased, and many vendors in Antique Street have stopped selling their stalls, and some of them have begun to quietly and unsell goods that have not been sold for a year. Lower the price, and want to sell the backlog of goods as soon as possible.

After Xu Wei changed shifts with brother Li, he walked in the antique street, using the knowledge recorded in his diary to carefully identify the things in the vendors' hands.

Xu You knew that the halo he saw in his eyes meant that the thing had the obsessions of the predecessors, and it also meant that the thing was indeed an ancient relic with a long history.However, Xu Er was not sure that things without halos were not antiques, so Xu Er began to use his own hands to identify the good-looking things in the hands of street vendors.

However, if he sees something with a halo, Xu Wei will still stop and play with it. After all, it is the only thing Xu Wei can see in color.

"Xiao Er, how about it? Let's take a look at these things in Zhang Zige's hands. I took them out of the old house. They are definitely old things. Come and give me an opening."

Zhang Zi is a street vendor who is quite familiar with Xu You in this area. In the lingo of the antique circle, it is called Baobaozhai.

"Brother Zhang Zi, I want your blue and white bowl, but it's too expensive, I can't afford it." Xu You scratched his head, a little embarrassed.There is a small blue and white bowl with branches in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty on Zhang Zi's booth. Zhang Zi's asking price is 1200 yuan.

Xu You had never spent so much money on something before, so after getting acquainted with Zhang Zihun, he often came to see the small bowl, but he never dared to say that he would buy it.

"Don't tell me, kid, your eyesight is really good. Brother, I'll let you see the best one on my stall." Although Zhang Zi has almost no real good things, but the small blue and white bowl with branches in Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty is very beautiful. It was he who consulted an old master, and that old master helped to do the appraisal, and it was Zhang Zi's darling.

Zhang Zi only took it out twice before being seen by Xu Wei.

"That one won't work. In fact, I don't plan to sell it. I want to take it home as a family heirloom." The small bowl also has a special meaning to Zhang Zi, after all, it is the first one he found in so many years. Favorite old stuff.

"By the way, I have some new copper coins here. Do you like any of them? One to ten yuan is not expensive. Choose a few." Zhangzi has not opened for three days, and today finally someone can fool him. How can I let it go easily.

This batch of ancient coins was collected by Zhang Zi from a colleague who was eager to go back to his hometown. It didn't cost much, but the amount was large.

When Xu You heard that there were copper coins, his eyes lit up.

In the antique market, there are quite a lot of real copper coins, but most of them are coins from the Five Emperors of the Qing Dynasty and silver coins from the Republic of China. There is almost no halo, but it is better than nothing. Halos, only some vague shadows can be seen.

Zhang Zi's batch is quite large, fully filling a small snakeskin bag.

Zhang Zi carefully took out all the copper coins inside, and spread out the copper coins with his hands, "Let's take a look, pick a few and take them back to impress your relatives and children. Today, my brother sees that you really like it. One counts as three yuan for you." Money, parity."

Xu You was very happy, because there were really a few copper coins inside, with a faint yellow halo on them.Xu Wei picked out the three halos more clearly, and then mixed a few common Five Emperors coins into them.

"Brother Zhang Zi, I want these nine, take a look." After speaking, Xu You put his hand into the inner pocket of his clothes, as if to pay for it.

Zhang Zi didn't even look at the copper coins, but said to Xu Wei, "Forget you 25, who told you to call me brother." Then he took out a small cloth pocket and put nine copper coins in it. Pass it to Xu Wei, and take the 25 yuan from Xu Wei's hand.

"Brother Zhang Zi, thank you, I will come to your house again in the future. Brother Zhang Zi, I think the two people who are in the same place as you have gone home, you are not leaving this year"

After the transaction was over, Xu You was also very happy, and started chatting with Zhang Zi again.

"I won't go back this year. Taking advantage of the fact that there are many people buying new year's goods and giving gifts during the new year, earn more, and bring my wife back next year." Zhang Zi fell in love with someone, but because he didn't have money to buy a house, he kept stalemate. Going to fight.

"Oh, then I wish you a prosperous business." Xu You cupped his hands, feeling that he had taken advantage of the other party, so it was really embarrassing not to say a few nice words.

"Oh, I would like to borrow your good words, I will borrow your good words." Zhang Zi was also very happy. Business people like to hear good words, especially when it is approaching the end of the year.

Xu Wei felt very satisfied. The New Year's goods he bought for himself during the New Year were these copper coins that might bring new dreams.

Then Xu You went to a porcelain shop called Xuandetang, and bought a jar that he had long been optimistic about. A complete dream.

And this jar cost Xu You 100 yuan, equivalent to half a month's salary.

Xu Er planned to give this jar to Chen Zhibei after finishing the dreams inside.This stems from something that Xu You only discovered last month. Chen Zhibei knows Chinese medicine, and is very good at processing and decocting medicinal materials.

Last month, the weather turned cold and there was a snowfall, which caused Guo Meili's confinement disease when she was young.As a result, after taking the prescription prescribed by Chen Zhibei, the relief was obvious in less than half a month. Xu Yanzhen, who was overjoyed, bought a seven-pound big sea fish and brought it back as an extra meal for the family.If it wasn't for Chen Zhibei's paralyzed face, and his life-and-death refusal to go to the restaurant, Xu Yanzhen even wanted to set a table at the famous Deyi Building in Shanghai, and thanked him solemnly.

This jar should be the medicine jar used by the ancients to boil traditional Chinese medicine. Xu Wei saw it in his notes. When Xu Wei’s great-grandfather was in his later years, his wife was not in good health. money, to fetch medicine for his wife, and practiced the skill of boiling traditional Chinese medicine.Therefore, Xu You is no stranger to the medicine jars used to boil traditional Chinese medicine.

When he got home, Chen Zhibei was already cooking in the kitchen. This year, like Xu Wei, Chen Zhibei didn't plan to go home.

"Brother Beizi, I'm back. What are you eating today? It smells so good." Xu Er guessed that Chen Zhibei cooked meat today. Recently, the car repair shop where Chen Zhibei worked was doing very well. Bei has raised his wages, about 500 yuan a month.Chen Zhibei, who has become rich, cooks a big dish almost every day, and Xu Wei, who eats it, feels that he has gained a lot of weight recently.

"Braised pork." Chen Zhibei ordered a large spoon and put a little salt in it.

Xu You swallowed a mouthful of saliva, Xu You had eaten this dish a few times, and it was always when they held wedding banquets at other people's homes, and he only ate one or two yuan.

"Brother Beizi, is there enough money for meals? I just paid my salary today." But nearly half of it has been used up, and Xu Wei felt troubled in his stomach thinking about the money spent today.

"Enough." Chen Zhibei walked to the table with a bowl full of freshly cooked braised pork, "I sold the stock, and I will eat meat every day from now on."

"That's good." Xu You quietly breathed a sigh of relief, as long as the family still has money to eat, other Xu You didn't care.

Chen Zhibei looked at Xu You in surprise, and found that Xu You's focus was completely different from what he wanted to express.

"The stocks have made money, a lot." Chen Zhibei had no choice but to add this sentence, but seeing Xu Er looking at him in surprise, he obviously couldn't believe it.

"That thing can really make money?" Xu Er always thought it was a place to save money, just like a bank.But the bank will not deduct your money because of bad things you bought.

"Yeah. How many times?" Chen Zhibei decided not to tell Xu Er that the stocks he manipulated made their deposits exceed five figures, so as to save the child from being suddenly made The money scares.

Chen Zhibei took out a card from his pocket and handed it to Xu Wei, "This is a new passbook issued by the bank, please put it away."

Xu Wei took the bank to read, put it in his pocket without looking at it, and then stared at the bowl of braised pork.

"Eat." Knowing that he couldn't read it, Chen Zhibei thought helplessly.