There's a garbage bin in my head

Chapter 13 Stamp Collection
While cleaning, Luo Jiu also had an unexpected gain. She actually picked up a plastic bag containing stamps. There was an unused stamp in it, and this stamp was larger than the stamps Luo Jiu had seen before.

Luo Jiu saw those postage stamps pasted on envelopes at home when he was a child. The small ones were three centimeters long and about two inches wide, and the big ones were not much bigger. When Luo Jiu started school, he seldom saw people writing letters. Naturally, stamps are rarely seen.

Later, after Luo Jiu and his elder sister lived with their father in Xiaoyang Village, they could find some envelopes with stamps in the waste collected by Luo Bang from time to time, but they were relatively rare.

For a while, after Luo Jiu learned about stamp collecting from her classmates, she followed suit and started collecting stamps, collecting stamps that she could get.

But when Luo Jiu started collecting stamps, there were already very few people writing letters.As long as Luo Jiu can remember, most people in the village have fixed phones installed in their homes. By the time Luo Jiu was in elementary school, more and more people were using mobile phones. Later, even landline phones were almost eliminated, and more Not to mention writing letters as a means of communication.

At that time, the postman would come to the village every day to deliver newspapers, letters, and packages, but they would all be placed in the village building, and then someone in the village would notify everyone to pick them up there.There, you can occasionally see one or two stamps.

Luo Jiu and the others wanted to collect stamps. Apart from exchanging them with each other, the most convenient way was to go to the post office or the newsstand on the street to buy the whole stamps.

However, Luo Jiu's interest in collecting stamps didn't last long. A stamp album with one or two hundred pages was not even a third full, so Luo Jiu threw it aside. Later, when he graduated from high school, he simply gave it to his class. Liu Tao, known as the little prince.

Not long ago, I heard from my classmates that when Liu Tao graduated from university, he exchanged all his postage stamps for a big house worth more than 200 million yuan in the provincial capital. It is said that there is still a lot of money left.

When someone shared the news in the group, many students said that Liu Tao should have his own share of that house, and Luo Jiu was one of them.

Although only four or five years have passed, Luo Jiu has forgotten what stamps were in the stamp album she gave to Liu Tao at that time.

Most of the stamps exchanged with classmates are almost used, with postmarks on them, and most of them were issued after 2000. Only the whole stamps bought at post offices and newsstands are new, and most of them are There are full-page and full-page pages, ranging from a few to dozens of pages.

But at that time, in order to save money, Luo Jiu generally would not choose to buy the one with too many copies, and most of the time he would choose the one with fewer copies.So in Luo Jiu's mind, the possibility of being worth money should not be very high.

It’s just that I can’t explain clearly. Luo Jiu remembered that he also found some stamps among the waste products collected at home. Luo Jiu usually threw away the ones that were too broken. Only the ones that looked cleaner would be collected by Luo Jiu. In his own stamp album, it is not necessarily the guys who have valuable stamps in them.

But it's all been so many years, and it's all given to others, and everyone is just joking in the group.

However, Liu Tao was not stingy, and directly sent a red envelope worth 1 yuan in the class group. Luo Jiu was lucky and grabbed the most auspicious red envelope - 168.

Later, Luo Jiu went online to check the prices of stamps on the stamp market, only to find that some stamps are really expensive, and it is not surprising that a stamp can be exchanged for a house in a big city.

In the list of the most expensive stamps found on the Internet, a Qing Dynasty stamp called "Red Print Stamped with Small Characters as One Yuan" was actually auctioned for a sky-high price of 577 million, and it is worth tens of millions A single postage stamp completely refreshed Luo Jiu's three views.

In the past, Luo Jiu always thought that someone who bought a luxury car worth millions or tens of millions was considered rich, and a person who spent millions or tens of millions on an antique was a rich man.But ever since Luo Jiu discovered that a stamp that was not as big as a palm was worth so much money, and there were still people buying it, Luo Jiu discovered that these people were the real rich people.

Now that he picked up this bag containing stamps, Luo Jiu suddenly remembered Liu Tao who exchanged stamps for houses, the stamps he gave Liu Tao, and his recycling system that can repair things.

Luo Jiu knew that his father also had the habit of collecting bills and stamps. However, when he started collecting stamps, all the newer-looking stamps in Luo Bang's hands were collected by Luo Jiu into the stamp album, and the rest were Because Luo Jiu didn't like it, because it was too broken.

There are always various things mixed in the rags recovered from the scrap yard, and some old things can be found in it from time to time.

When Luo Jiu was in junior high school, just like today, a family sold all their unused things to Luo Bang because they were moving.

Because it was a time of double robbery at that time, Luo Bang wanted to go back to the village to help his grandparents harvest rice, so the recovered waste products were put there and left them alone, and then he was busy with other things, and some things that were not well sorted were kept put away. There, it took a long time to bother with them.

And among these things, in the stomach of a Phoenix brand sewing machine from the last century, Luo Jiu took out a package of things tightly wrapped in cloth bags.

After opening it, there was a stack of neat banknotes inside, all of which were no longer in circulation at that time. There were various denominations, but the small denominations accounted for the majority, and the ones, twos, and fives accounted for the majority. I didn’t see a few of the 100 or [-] ones.

Luo Jiu counted it at the time, and it added up to more than 1000 yuan. You know, at that time, a person's monthly salary might only be that amount.

But the more valuable ones are ten old silver dollars wrapped in oiled paper and a gold ring. Afterwards, Luo Bang asked someone to estimate the value. The rarer kind.

Knowing that these things are worth so much money, Luo Bang also quietly went to the person who sold the waste products, but after finding it, he found that the whole family had moved to another place, because the old people in the family had passed away, so they moved to other places. Even the house was sold before going abroad.

After hearing the news, Luo Bang was not only a little regretful, but also quietly relieved.

Some of these things were told by Luo Bang to Luo Jiu afterwards, and some were guessed by Luo Jiu himself.

In addition to occasionally finding some valuable things, there are more worthless bills and stamps.In some recovered old books and newspapers, as long as you look through them, you can always find some bills, stamps, and banknotes, especially those banknotes, most of which look very new. kind.

For so many years, Luo Jiu knew that Dad had always kept the habit of collecting these things, and he had never heard of when Dad sold these things. At this time, they should all be kept in a corner of the house.

Thinking of this, Luo Jiu suddenly felt like a fire was burning in his heart.

(End of this chapter)