Chapter 14

  Early the next morning, Lin Youde came to the door. He had been looking after this house and helping to deal with any issues.

  "Uncle De, so fast?" Daniu came out of the house and was surprised to see him come so quickly.

  "It just so happened that someone came here to buy it. I sold it because they offered a suitable price." Lin Youde said as he took out the money. "

  "This is 1,800 yuan. The three bear gallbdders were processed very well; according to their size, one was sold at 450 yuan, one at 500 yuan, and the other at 700 yuan. I sold the remaining leather to Nancheng Yu Ji. It is now a public-private partnership. They are also engaged in the fur business. After the leather is treated, they will sell it to the north to earn foreign exchange."

  Daniu took the money, counted out two hundred yuan, and handed it to Lin Youde. "Uncle De, this is your part."

  Lin Youde looked at it and took out two bills. "Let's do as agreed; this is too many."

  Daniu smiled and pushed the money back. "Uncle Lin has spent a lot of effort in helping me look for houses in the past two years. Give it to Aunt and let her prepare more New Year's goods for the New Year. I will come again next year, but maybe I won't be able to sell this way in the future. Uncle De should be careful too."

  Lin Youde was no longer polite but looked at Daniu in confusion. "Did you hear any rumors?"

  Daniu shook her head and said, "No, just be careful."

  Seeing that she was unwilling to talk, Lin Youde stopped asking. He didn't stay long and left soon.

  Daniu looked at the stack of money in her hand, counted out a thousand, put it in the inner pocket of her cotton-padded jacket, and decided to spend the remaining six hundred.

  She went to the rgest department store in the city and used the industrial coupons and 145 yuan to buy a Butterfly brand sewing machine and 138 yuan to buy a radio. In the end, she only had two industrial coupons left when she saw that there were still many things she wanted to buy at the counter next to me. After thinking for a while, she took the sewing machine and radio home first. There was a rickshaw driver at the door, and her home was not close, so she gave him 50 cents to help her move her things.

  She went out again to eat at the street corner, ordered a dumpling with three fresh fillings and a pot-fried pork. It was called a three-fresh filling, but it actually had four kinds of fillings: pork, leeks, bck fungus, and shrimp. There were very few leaks now, so there wasn't much here. But they used rge dried shrimps, which were chopped finely and tasted very fresh. The pot-fried pork was not a specialty, and the meal was very affordable now. One serving of meat was a rge pte. The meal cost 1.4 yuan, and she took out half a pound of meat coupons and three taels of grain coupons. It was already very luxurious.

  In the afternoon, Daniu wrapped herself tightly with a scarf and went to another department store for a walk. Not long after she walked, someone came up to her and asked, "Do you want a ticket?"

  "What kind of ticket do you have?" Daniu asked in a low voice.

  "What kind do you want?" The man was obviously very confident.

  "Industrial tickets, sugar tickets, milk powder tickets, cotton tickets, and oil tickets." Daniu said directly without any hesitation.

  "Hey, sister, other things are easy to come by, but I don't have cotton coupons and oil coupons." The man took out a handful of tickets tied with rubber bands from his arms, removed the rubber bands, and the tickets scattered with a squeeze of his hand.

  Dani looked and saw that there were about ten industrial tickets, four milk powder tickets, and ten sugar tickets worth five taels each. "I want all of them. How much are they?"

  "12 industrial tickets cost 70 cents each, 4 milk powder tickets 80 cents each, and 10 sugar tickets 50 cents each. A total of 16.6 yuan."

  Daniu didn't bargain and just gave him 16 yuan and 60 cents. This price was definitely too high, but she also didn't want to bargain here.

  After buying the tickets, she went straight to the department store and bought everything she wanted: four enamel basins, two with Double Happiness peony flowers and two with carp. Each one had a different pattern and looked prosperous. She also bought two enamel pots, one for her father, as her father's original pot had two holes in it, which he sealed himself, and one for her grandfather.

  She only bought half a pound of candy. This kind of candy comes with transparent cellophane, which they don't have over there. She bought this for her younger siblings to eat during the Chinese New Year. That girl Xiaomei loves to collect candy wrappers the most.

  Just as she was about to go to the pastry shop to buy some pastries for her second grandpa, a picture fshed through her mind as she turned around. Daniu paused and walked towards the porcein side. She had just passed by here and saw piles of bowls and ptes on the open space next to the counter.

  "How much are those dishes?" asked the girl.

  "Three cents each, pick any you want." The older woman selling things was leaning on the counter and talking to the salesperson next to her. When she heard Daniu's question, she said this casually.

  Daniu squatted down and took a closer look, and she knew why this could not be sold. These were probably the store's early stocks, all old porcein with many patterns on them. Among them, there was one that she was very interested in, a red undergze dragon tea bowl. In her previous life, she accidentally saw it on TV news, and it was collected by a museum, with an estimated value of more than 1.5 million.

  She took out the bowl, which was exactly the same as the one she remembered. She looked through the others. She didn't recognize them, but they were of good quality and had many patterns on them, which was inconsistent with the current aesthetics. Daniu put the bowls away one by one and saw a paper box next to it. When she opened it, there were twelve cups inside. The girl took one out and saw that it was from the Qing dynasty Kangxi period. There were flower patterns on the cup and a poem on the back.

  "Big sister, how much is this set of cups?"

  The salesperson took a look and said, "Twelve, one yuan each."

  "I want all of them."

  The salesperson came over slowly and counted them. "There are several cracked bowls here. We won't refund them if you buy them back."

  "Yeah, I know." Daniu nodded.

  "Four dolrs and fifty cents for fifteen bowls, plus a set of wine cups; the total is sixteen yuan and fifty cents." The salesperson did the math, wrote down the bill, and asked her to pay.

  Daniu nodded, took the bill, and gave the money. She always felt that the set of twelve cups were not wine cups but tea cups.

  The cups were easily packaged and came in both bowl-sized and rge sizes, with two of them coming with lids. The salesperson tied them up with a hemp rope, and Daniu carried it and found it to be quite stable.

  After that, she bought some pastries and sausages and went home.

  When she got home, she washed the dirty porcein and looked at them carefully. She didn't know the age of the bowls, but through touch and visual observation, she could tell that three of the bowls were good. One was a red dragon tea bowl with a gze that she knew in her previous life. Below it were two white porcein bowls made in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty with red dragon patterns on them, exactly the same as in her mind. The other two should be a pair of "Longevity" porcein bowls with the words "Qianlong Period" on the bottom.

  She didn't know whether they were real or not, but 30 cents was not expensive, so she bought them. But she thought the set of teacups was a good thing, and it was a complete set, in excellent condition, so she also wanted to keep it.

  These porceins might be antiques; they are not valuable now, and in two years, many of them will be destroyed. She shook her head and forgot about it. She entered the kitchen and put these things away since she also had to take the sewing machine and radio back, which was a bit troublesome. The sewing machine could be pced in the box, and the presser foot could be disassembled. Danier found a pair of pliers and disassembled it bit by bit, then found a rope to tie the presser foot and the box together and then wrapped it with cloth.

  After buying all the things, she was almost done with her course. She slept for another night. The next morning, she found a car and took her things to the train station. She found a pce to store packages and stored the things she was taking back with her. She then left the station with the package of mountain products and pastries. To the east of the station was a small two-story building, which was the railway staff housing.

  According to her memory, she arrived at the entrance to the third floor of Building No. 7, on the second floor.

  "Who is it?" asked an old dy in the room.

  "Second Grandma, it's Daniu."

  "Oh, our granddaughter, come in quickly. Your (second) grandpa said this morning that you would definitely come soon." Before the door was opened, an old dy's joyful voice was heard. When the door was opened, an old dy in her sixties appeared. She was not tall, with a head full of white hair combed into a bun, not a strand out of pce, and a round face full of wrinkles from smiling. The old dy hugged Daniy and said, "My granddaughter is here."

  She patted her arm and said, "It must be cold; come in and get on the kang."

  Daniu looked at the short old dy with a smile and said, "I am fine, Second Grandma. Where's Second Grandpa?"

  "Your grandpa went to Old He's house to py chess. I'll call him for you ter.

  "These are the mountain products I brought from home, and my mother made two pairs of cotton shoes for you two."

  "You came all the way here with all these things. Why didn't you find your uncle at the station to bring them back?" The short old dy said with a smile.

  "No, it's not that heavy." The big girl said as she put the things aside.

  The old dy pulled Daniu into the house. The family compound had two rooms with a kitchen and bathroom. There was no living room. There was a big room and a small room. Although they lived in a building, they also had a kang. In the Northeast, if there is no kang it will be unbearable in winter. After entering the bib room, the old dy wanted to help Daniu wear a pair of slippers, but Daniy quickly took them and said, "Second Grandma, I'll do it myself."

  "Hurry up and get on the kang." As she said this, she went to a small room where there was a small stove. She put some coal on the stove and took down the kettle on top.

  She found a teacup, poured hot water into it, added a spoonful of sugar to the water, and pced it on the edge of the kang. "Are your grandpa (Ma Desheng) and your parents all right?"

  "They are fine. Second grandma, don't bother with that. I'm not an outsider."

  The old dy looked at her with great admiration and said, "You are getting prettier and prettier; you are already a grown-up girl. By the way, let me call your grandpa for you." After saying that, she walked out.

  After a while, she heard a knock on the door downstairs and faint voices, and soon an old man came into the room.

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