Accidentally Born in the ‘60s:
Zhen Zhen carried the big yellow croaker and was not in a hurry to go to Bingcheng. She quietly appeared in her barn in a flash, and when Mrs. Li and Wang Sufen were not at home, she hurriedly opened the old sack in the barn and found it from inside. A set of old and disrespectful clothes from Mingbei's childhood quietly returned to the mountains.
Standing on the edge of the mountain stream, Zhen Zhen put on old clothes, untied the hair rope and messed up her hair, grabbed a handful of mud from the water, smeared the eye sockets and nose a little, and then rubbed her face. Throwing some dirt on it. After cleaning herself up, Zhen Zhen looked at the reflection of the stream, not to mention her body was dirty, her face was even darker, it was horrible to see.
Zhen Zhen sat on a stone by the water, and first sent her consciousness to Bingcheng to observe the situation of the Meng family. At this time, Mr. Meng had already packed several large boxes of his collection of antique calligraphy and paintings, and looked at the empty study reluctantly, his face full of sadness.
"Master!" The housekeeper brought a cup of tea and put it on the table. Master Meng looked at him with a bit of sigh: "Old Guan, you have been with me for more than 20 years."
"Yes, sir." Lao Guan's face had a bit of nostalgia on his face: "If it hadn't been twenty years ago, the master rescued me from the hands of the Japanese devils, I'm afraid I would have been lost long ago."
Lighting a cigar, Mr. Meng took a deep breath, and the smoke spread as he spoke: "At that time, your wife and children died, and you haven't remarried in these years. I haven't been back to my hometown, can I still contact my nephew from my hometown now?"
"In the past few years, there have been intermittent correspondence, and they also send some money and tickets to their homes during the New Year's Eve. They have been counting on me for help, and they are quite warm to me." Lao Guan replied: "But I did not Tell them what I'm doing outside, I'll send all the letters to the factory, and I'll remember what the master taught me before."
Master Meng nodded, opened the suitcase on the bookcase, took out a handbag and handed it to Laoguan: "There are 1,000 yuan, a letter of introduction, a train ticket, and some food stamps, cloth stamps, and industrial stamps. You keep things like that."
Lao Guan's expression froze on his face, his hands were trembling, and before he could speak, tears fell first: "Master, you don't want me anymore?"
"It's not that I don't want you, it's that I really can't take you away." Master Meng stood up and patted Lao Guan's shoulder: "We have been called master and servant all these years, but I have always regarded you as a brother. Look, you followed me when we were prosperous, and you didn't leave me when it was difficult, but now we have to separate. Laoguan, to be honest, I'm not sure whether we can get on the boat after we drive to Tianjin. Follow me and be strong."
"Master, when you are outside, you have to have someone to run errands and take care of you. Besides, you have to have someone to bring tea and water. What should I do if I don't follow you?" Lao Guan cried and burst into tears: " I have lived more than 20 years, sir, I am not afraid of death, let me follow you."
"The prosperous age is not too young, and he should support these things. Laoguan, my family are all capitalists, and now it seems that the only way is to leave this road as soon as possible, you don't have to follow us to suffer, or Go back to your hometown and live your life well." Mr. Meng stopped talking about this topic, put his handbag in his arms, and then hugged him heavily: "You have been with me for so many years, and you know that it is the most difficult. What I control is people’s hearts. I’ll give you the 800 yuan for the Great Unity. The remaining 200 yuan is exchanged for cash and change. There are 10, 20, 50, 10 yuan, enough for daily expenses. You must hide your money when you get home, don't put too much outside, and if something happens, there is a way out."
Lao Guan wiped his face, looked at Mr. Meng with tears in his eyes, and nodded with a choked expression: "Don't worry, sir, I know all this, when I get home I still live in my old house, and those nephews will come if they want. Sitting at home, I can live by myself without coming.”
Master Meng nodded and let go of Lao Guan's shoulders: "I put some old clothes with patches in the warehouse downstairs. You can change them before you leave." Lao Guan nodded and looked intently. Master Meng glanced at him, knelt down and kowtowed heavily.
The door of the study was closed again, and Mr. Meng got up and walked to the window. After about ten minutes, the old man dressed as a peasant walked out. He was hobbled with a broken sack on his back. came out.
Standing in the yard, Lao Guan turned around and glanced at the bungalow where he had lived for many years, his face full of tears. He touched the lush flowers in the courtyard, raised his head as if aware of it, and made eye contact with Mr. Meng, who was standing at the window on the second floor. Master Meng waved his hand with his cigar, Lao Guan raised his arm and wiped his tears with his sleeve, then turned and left. Standing at the window to calm down, Mr. Meng pressed the burning cigar into the ashtray.
Mrs. Meng was still packing her things. At this time, Haohua's master bedroom was in a mess. The lids of various jewelry boxes were open, and people were dazzled by diamonds, pearls, rubies, and emeralds; exquisite cheongsams, handbags, etc. , Fur piled up the bed, Madam Meng almost turned over the treasures at the bottom of the press box.
Mr. Meng endured the impatience in his heart, and tried his best to say in a calm voice: "These can't be taken away. Pack the jewelry in a box, and I will sell it together."
Mrs. Meng was in a hurry: "My jewelry is excellent in terms of quality and size. If you sell it, you may not be able to buy such a good quality."
Mr. Meng rubbed his brows wearily: "We must leave here in a simple, low-key and quick manner. Let me tell you, even the clothes you bring with you should be as simple as possible. You quickly pack up and put our clothes on. The clothes are in a suitcase, so I go out and ask old friends if there are any who are willing to buy antiques."
"All the people who take the boat to Hong Kong Island are celebrities from all walks of life. Why don't you bring some jewelry." Mrs. Meng bit her lip unwillingly.
Master Meng took two steps and turned around: "We are running for our lives, not traveling. If you can't bear your jewelry and clothes, why don't you stay."
Mrs. Meng said in a sentence that did not contain emotion, and her heart went cold. Seeing that Mr. Meng left without looking back, Mrs. Meng did not dare to delay any longer, and hurriedly followed Mr. Meng's request and tried to use what the two could use. stuff stuffed into a suitcase. She didn't dare to look at the dazzling jewelry any more, she endured the heartache and closed the jewelry boxes one after another, and put them all into the empty boxes, waiting for Mr. Mengmeng to deal with them.
Zhen Zhen didn't show up right away when she saw Mr. Meng coming out of the house. She didn't have much idea about the value of gold bars and antiques in this era. Thinking that Mr. Meng is willing to go out to negotiate a transaction, but now, looking at the situation, it seems that there are not many who dare to buy, so it is better to follow and see how much can be exchanged.
Obviously, Mr. Meng didn't have much hope for his transfer of antique calligraphy and paintings, but he was reluctant to throw away those treasures like this. Ask, as for those friends and business partners in the wine market, Mr. Meng didn't even dare to ask, because he was afraid that he would be sold after walking away.
Mr. Meng didn't take the family car, but went there on foot. Fortunately, the capitalists in Bingcheng didn't live far away. After walking for about ten minutes, they arrived in front of a western-style building.
Ranging the doorbell, the housekeeper came out and looked at Mr. Meng for a while, and hurriedly opened the door to invite him in: "Why did Mr. Meng go out at this time."
"Come to visit your husband." Mr. Meng walked in quickly, but just as he entered the living room, Mr. Meng's footsteps stopped.
"Why didn't Mr. Meng go in?" the housekeeper behind asked, and then shouted: "Master, Master Meng is here."
A man about the same age as Mr. Meng was overjoyed when he saw Mr. Meng: "Brother Meng, come in quickly, I was just thinking of visiting you tomorrow."
Looking at the boxes and cages all over the floor, Mr. Meng had a bit of bitterness on his face: "Brother Bai is also going to leave the ice city?"
"What? You too?" The two looked at each other with a wry smile.
"I got the news that this movement involves a power struggle, and this kind of thing can't be seen in a day or two. Instead of staying and watching, it's better to evacuate when the situation is not serious. ." Mr. Bai handed Mr. Meng a cigarette: "Why are you free today?"
Master Meng sighed: "I also planned to do the same, but I can't take the antique calligraphy, painting and jewelry at home. I wanted to ask you if you want to buy it? In the end, seeing your posture..." Master Meng shook his head. He shook his head, and then remembered that Mr. Bai had a lot of connections, and couldn't help looking at him with anticipation: "Brother Bai knows a lot of people in the antique collection, do you think who can get rid of the antiques in my family, and the Manqing porcelain and so on. That's all, my Yuan Qinghua is a rare treasure, and that calligraphy and painting..."
Mr. Bai shook his head with a wry smile: "I don't hide it from you, my brother, I didn't even look for a way. The golden antiques of a prosperous age, not to mention your collections, there are so many treasures in my family, I don't know if I can sell them for three A big yellow croaker."
"Why is it so worthless." Mr. Meng beat his chest and paused: "If it weren't for the fear of bringing too many things, I would be reluctant to sell any of them."
"You think I'd give it up?" Mr. Bai looked at the pile of boxes in the living room with a heartache on his face: "To be honest, bro, I'm leaving early tomorrow morning, and the tickets for this journey have been bought by someone. That's all. If I can't find someone to take over in a few hours, I'll just leave things here."
Thinking of the rumors these days, Mr. Meng's face turned pale: "If those people broke in, wouldn't these treasures be destroyed by them?"
"What if it's ruined? You can't risk your life for these dead things." After taking his last puff, Mr. Bai seriously persuaded Mr. Meng: "Listen, brother, if there are real people who buy them, There is no price negotiation, just sell it if you give it the money, it will be more dangerous if one day is delayed." Master Meng left the Bai Family Mansion heavily, Zhen Zhen watched Master Meng come out, and her consciousness quickly returned to her body.
Standing up from the side of the stream, Zhen Zhen checked her outfit again facing the stream, and she landed on a big tree not far from Master Meng in a flash.
Seeing Mr. Meng coming over, Zhen Zhen slid down the tree trunk, holding a dime in one hand and a piece of candy in the other, and ran quickly to Mr. Meng's side, showing a silly and innocent smile : "Master, someone asked me to give you a message."
Master Meng looked at the unkempt little girl in front of him, his eyes turned on the cash and candies in her hand, he thought that Zhen Zhen was a child who was randomly looking for a letter from the roadside, and could not help but nervously looked around : "Who called you here? What's the matter?"
"Someone asked me to send you a message, asking if you sell those antique calligraphy, painting and jewelry, two large yellow croakers?" Zhen Zhen smiled innocently, but instead of looking at Mr. Meng, she stared straight at her hand candy cubes.
"Really?" After talking with Mr. Bai just now, Mr. Meng was ready to give up those treasures. He didn't expect to turn around as soon as he went out, but when he looked at the child in front of him, he remembered the one who refused to come forward. After the ecstasy, Mr. Meng immediately became alert again: "Who asked you to bring it? How to trade."
Zhen Zhen blinked her eyes, showing a slightly thoughtful look, in the anxious expression of Master Meng, she suddenly realized: "Oh, yes, he said that if you agree, you can pay for gold bars, antique calligraphy and painting jewelry first, etc. You don't have to worry about it, just leave it at home and he will pick it up himself."
Master Meng hesitated for a while, then looked back at the Bai Family Mansion not far away, Zhen Zhen immediately added: "By the way, that person asked you to ask Mr. Bai for help, if he is willing to give up his love, that person is willing to Three large yellow croakers came out."
In all fairness, even though there are some rare treasures in the two's collection, it is considered a kind person to be able to offer this price at this time. Mr. Meng hurriedly ran back to the Bai's mansion. After a while, Mr. Bai hurried out with Mr. Meng.
Looking at the child who looked just like the little beggar in front of him, Mr. Bai was stunned. He looked at Mr. Meng and asked in disbelief, "You mean her?"
"It is estimated that he is here to send a message." Master Meng replied, then squatted down and asked that Zhen Zhen, "If we agree to where to get the big yellow croaker."
Zhen Zhen was eating toffee with relish when she heard Master Meng ask, and then she handed over an extra paper bag that came out at some point in her hand. Mr. Meng and Mr. Bai looked at each other and hurriedly took over. Seeing that no one was coming, they quickly opened a corner carefully, revealing a touch of gold inside.
Mr. Meng quickly wrapped the paper. Mr. Bai didn't think Zhen Zhen was dirty. He took her hand and said softly, "Let's talk at home, there's a lot of candy there."
Someone has already gone this way, Zhen Zhen hurriedly nodded her head, and when Mr. Bai's mansion was in, Mr. Meng couldn't wait to put the paper bag on the coffee table, and roughly tore off the paper outside, neatly tidy The five large yellow croakers placed together appeared in front of everyone.
Mr. Meng and Mr. Bai are both people who have been immersed in the business field for decades. There are also many people who have passed this gold bar. Once you get started, you can see the true and false by looking at the quality.
Mr. Bai looked at Jin Zi with a kind smile: "Little boy, what did the person who asked you to pass the message say?"
Zhen Zhen repeated the words again, and then emphasized: "When the person gave me this package, he said that you must leave early in the morning, the door and the door are locked, and the things can be put in the house."
"Then how does he pick up the goods?" Master Meng asked, but Zhen Zhen replied with a blank expression, as if she didn't understand the meaning of the words.
Mr. Bai waved to Mr. Meng, ordered the servants to bring two packs of biscuits and one pack of toffee to Zhen Zhen, and patted her on the head cheerfully: "Little boy, thank you very much."
Zhen Zhen hurriedly ran away with her things in her arms, and Mr. Meng asked Mr. Bai hesitantly: "Brother Bai, whose handwriting do you think this is?"
Mr. Bai shook his head: "Maybe it's the government or a high-ranking official, no matter which force it is, it must be someone who is extremely familiar with us, otherwise it wouldn't be so accurate to value things without seeing them. Okay. He doesn't mean anything to us, otherwise he wouldn't give it to the big yellow croaker first. Just for this, we haven't donated money to them for building roads and schools in vain over the years." Mr. Meng nodded, stood up and picked up his own The two large yellow croakers: "Since this is over, then I will take my leave."
"Farewell!" Mr. Bai bowed his hands.
Zhen Zhen watched Master Meng leave, and turned back to Beicha in a flash, not at all worried that those antique treasures bought with five large yellow croakers would be swept away. Mr. Bai and Mr. Meng have always been Confucian businessmen with excellent reputation in Bingcheng, and they have done a lot of good things. Just based on their character and past principles, Zhen Zhen did not bargain, but generously paid the big yellow croaker according to their psychological expectations.
Back in the mountains, Zhen Zhen took off her tattered clothes and threw them aside. After a day in the sun, the water was warm, and Zhen Zhen simply went into the water and washed her body while playing with the fish.
The next morning, Zhen Zhen ate breakfast and went out by herself as usual. The family members had long been used to Zhen Zhen being away from home. Except for telling her to come back for dinner at the same time, the others didn't even say anything.
Suddenly landed on a tree near Meng's house, Zhen Zhen swept the Meng's mansion with her consciousness, it was already empty. Zhen Zhen's figure disappeared from the tree and appeared in the Meng's living room. I saw more than a dozen boxes over one meter high neatly placed in the living room, Zhen Zhen opened one of the boxes, and there were boxes of different sizes in it, just opened a larger box, and saw that there were sponges and soft materials inside. There is a beautiful porcelain in the middle of the cloth. Zhen Zhen doesn't understand antiques, so she can only open the flat bottom to see the inscription below, which reads the Yongzheng Year of the Qing Dynasty.
I didn't have time to look at them one by one. It's not safe to put things here. No one knows when the pink guards will rush in. Zhen Zhen hugged a box, and with a flash of consciousness, she brought the box to the Beicha virgin forest. deep. After a busy morning, Zhen Zhen not only brought back the antiques, calligraphy, paintings and jewelry of the Meng and Bai families, but also moved back the books, desks and chairs in the study. It's not that she has plucked her hair, it's mainly the Ming Dynasty huanghuali furniture in these two study rooms, which is also very valuable.
The previous things were moved back, and Zhen Zhen didn't want to let go of the remaining bits and pieces. The two families left in a hurry and didn't take much with them.
I found a place where the trees were not dense, Zhen Zhen found a mountain without roots, and let the boxes sink one by one. Now I don't have time to take a closer look, I will appreciate it later. The boxes were all buried in the soil, but this pile of furniture made Zhen Zhen worry, it would definitely be destroyed by the strong wind and rain on the mountain after a long time in the open air, but in the soil, Zhen Zhen felt that it would not be preserved. good idea.
After walking around these Ming Dynasty furniture twice, Zhen Zhen finally set her sight on the lush trees nearby. As Zhen Zhen's gaze moved, trees rose up one by one, their roots were intertwined, the trunks were tightly attached and grew firmly together, and soon Zhen Zhen was surrounded by towering trees. When the 200-square-meter area came out, only the lower side was missing two trees, as if the door had been deliberately left. With a wooden wall, the roof is the most important thing, Zhen Zhen looked up at the top of the tree, and made a gentle tug gesture, all the branches on the wooden wall suddenly hung down in the middle, intertwined with each other, A sloping roof was built.
Because everything is controlled by Zhen Zhen, the branches keep growing and shrinking during the construction process, until they are completely closed together. Zhen Zhen quickly ran to the outside along the reserved door, admiring the wooden house she built with her supernatural powers.
Because there are tree roots in the ground, Zhen Zhen is not worried about the firmness at all, the only thing she is afraid of is that water will leak from these small joints. One piece is pressed against one another, and it looks like a green house from a distance.
Zhen Zhen excitedly moved all the furniture into the tree house, and then returned to Bingcheng to bring back their beds, quilts, sofas, coffee tables, and even the kitchen. The stove is cooking, and the eyes of a row of liquefied gas tanks are shining. Zhen Zhen even brought back the gas tanks with pots and stoves. In the cupboard, in addition to all kinds of daily rice noodles, treasures such as bird’s nest, shark’s fin, sea cucumber, fish maw and scallops are in the cupboard. Zhen Zhen didn't show any more, Zhen Zhen was busy all day, and finally moved everything back to Beicha, looking around, the house that was luxurious and rich a day ago is now only a bare wall.
Zhen Zhen clapped her hands and smiled with satisfaction, just as she was about to leave, a loud noise came from outside, watching a group of pink guards with pink armbands jumping over the wall and jumping into the yard one by one outside the window, Zhen Zhen was mischievous. With a smile, the figure disappeared into the room.