Chapter 113 Learn Something 1
Faced with the old woman's pleading, Feng Qingxue hesitated for a moment, and finally agreed to the deal. She took out 20 kilograms of cornmeal and 10 kilograms of flour, and exchanged them for two pieces of chicken blood stone, a box of pine soot ink, a copybook, and a Qing Dynasty official kiln brush washer.
The old woman felt a little embarrassed, after all, these things are worthless now.
Jewelry and fancy clothes are considered the root of capitalist corruption. Only hedonism pays attention to these, so the country's banks recycle gold and silver dollars, but not jewelry and jade. Antiques, calligraphy and paintings cannot be sold at a high price. People who have these things can only quietly try their luck in the black market, because there are people in the world who know the goods and like them.
So, after the transaction was completed, the old woman stuffed a small cloth bag into Feng Qingxue before leaving.
Feng Qingxue waited until she left before opening the cloth bag, and found that it actually contained a very delicately carved jade pendant. It was top-grade Hetian seed material white jade, delicate and smooth, white and white, with a sprinkle of gold. Although it did not reach the whiteness of mutton-fat jade, it was only a hair's breadth away. Half a century later, many jade merchants sold it as mutton-fat jade.
After collecting the things she exchanged today, Feng Qingxue went to the scrap yard for a round, and went to visit Uncle Xu and Aunt Xu before going home.
Uncle Xu was not at home, and Aunt Xu smiled when she saw her, "Qingxue, you came at the right time. Our old friends gave us a lot of good things. I want to ask you to exchange some fine grains for the New Year. I have to trouble you again."
"What's the trouble? Auntie's friends have given me a lot of things." It's just an exchange, each taking what they need.
Aunt Xu pulled her into the house and handed her four wooden boxes of different sizes.
"They are all the families I helped before. It's about life, so I'm not afraid of them leaking secrets. Besides, if it's not a good thing, they won't be able to show it off. After all, no matter how good this thing is, it can't compare to hard currency."
"What good thing did you give me?" Feng Qingxue said with a smile, and at the same time opened the box, she couldn't help but shudder.
The good things that Aunt Xu mentioned are really good things, and they can be called top-quality.
A set of old-fashioned ruby headpieces, gold filigree craftsmanship, the quality is needless to say, each ruby has reached the standard of pigeon blood red, especially the gems inlaid on the five-tailed phoenix hairpin, which are red and big, bright and flawless, and full of brilliance.
An old pit glass jade bracelet, although there is no pair, but there are pendants, rings and earrings made of the same material, all inlaid with platinum bases from the Republic of China era, the texture of the jade is clear and full of water head, the most rare is the positive sun full green, the whole body is crystal clear, it is the top-quality jade that Feng Qingxue has never seen in her past and present life, and it must be worth billions in half a century.
The largest rectangular box contained a scroll, which turned out to be an authentic work of Wu Daozi, a priceless treasure.
The smallest box contained only a ring, a huge vivid blue diamond ring, which was glittering and sparkling. Its design style was exactly the same as the pink diamond jewelry she had received before, but its value was far greater than that set of diamond jewelry.
After reading them one by one, Feng Qingxue was shocked.
"These things are too precious!" She felt that she couldn't afford to give away any more food.
Aunt Xu waved her hand, "What's the use of precious things? In troubled times, people hide the most precious things in their hands, but these things are not suitable for eating or drinking, just like the person who climbed a tree in the flood with only gold ingots but no food. If they had hidden less jewelry and antiques and more food, they wouldn't have ended up like this."