Rebirth of the Nine-Three Era

Huo Buqiang drove to Zhongbao Village and saw Sun Laizi and a few workers preparing to go to the roof.

Li Huadong is setting off firecrackers.

He stopped the car and said to Sun Fuzi and others: "I will go up to the roof to test it with a compass first, and you will first remove the tiles from below."

He skillfully peeled off the tiles from the wall, quickly reached the ridge, and pretended to use a compass to measure it. In fact, he was weighing whether there were gold or silver coins placed at the ridge.

It took more than ten minutes to clear away all the tiles on the main ridge, but no gold or silver coins were found, so I had to give up.

He said to Sun Laizi: "It can be demolished, please pay attention to safety."

He went to the nearby canteen, bought a box of mineral water and a pack of cigarettes, and asked Li Huadong to give it to some demolition workers.

This time both young women were here.

He deliberately asked: "What is the relationship between you two?"

Li Yanli said: "She is my sister-in-law, and my husband and her husband are brothers. Do you understand now?"

Huo Buqiang thought to himself: It's really not like one family doesn't belong to the same family. Both sisters-in-law are greedy for money.

Lai Jinlan was excited today because Li Yanli was also there, so he didn't joke with Huo Buqiang.

She was counting the goods in the canteen with Li Yanli.

Last time Kang Minghao said that Lai Jinlan's husband Sun Shenghui was working as a master in a garment factory in Guangdong.

Huo Buqiang deliberately teased them: "It turns out that this grocery store is a partnership between the two of you. You two are great. You can take care of the family. You can't farm, and you know how to open a store to make money in your free time."

Li Yanli said: "It is precisely because the men in the family are useless that women will find ways to make money."

Lai Jinlan still kept a straight face and said nothing.

Huo Buqiang said: "I don't seem to owe you money, right? Why are you keeping a straight face and saying nothing?"

Li Yanli said: "She is in a bad mood, don't mess with her."

Lai Jinlan said angrily: "Men are not good people. They will do mischief if they have money in their pockets."

Huo Buqiang said: "It's the same with women. Women will cause trouble if they don't have money."

He thought of that woman Wang Shuilian. While she was greedy for one man's money, she couldn't forget another man's body.

He now thought: Wang Shuilian must not have forgotten Qing Dayong's body. This guy was useless, but his body was stronger than his own.

Women always miss their first man.

He felt a little sad at this moment, as if his first time had been given to a street girl in an alley.

He and his uncle and aunt collected scraps and lived in the same abandoned work shed. Although the two beds were more than ten meters apart, the sounds were still very clear.

One night, the second uncle drank a little wine and went about his own business without any scruples. It was drizzling outside. He didn't want to go outside to play, but the noises made by his uncle and aunt made him grab an umbrella and go out. .

He found a video room and watched the midnight show. In the past, he only left after twelve o'clock, thinking that the passionate movies after twelve o'clock were not suitable for people of his age.

But he watched it that night.

Like a piece of slaked lime thrown into water, the heat all over his body bubbled out.

He spent dozens of dollars to experience it for the first time in his life. He didn't feel anything at the time, but he regrets it now.

At this time, he seemed to understand Wang Shuilian again.

The feeling was the same as the inertia he had developed. When he arrived in a strange city and the night began to fall, the monster in his heart was ready to move.

When he went out at night, he seemed to be most interested in the provocative figures on the streets.

After chatting with the two young women for a while, Huo Buqiang found out that Lai Jinlan's husband, who was working as a master in a Guangdong garment factory, called back to say that there were too many orders for the New Year this year and he was not planning to come back to celebrate the New Year.

So Lai Jinlan planned to take his children to Guangdong to find him and celebrate the New Year with him.

Jiang Ming is only a few hours away from Haikou, and he can go back and forth in one day. He has not been home all year round, and even during the Spring Festival, he said he would not go home.

Although Sun's parents said that Sun Shenghui would not dare to mess around outside, if he dared to find other women outside, his parents would cut off relations with him.

But as a woman, Lai Jinlan knew that the man in her family must have changed her mind, and she was determined to go over and have a showdown with him face to face.

The grocery store was opened by the two sisters-in-law, so she decided to transfer the entire store to Li Yanli.

She asked Huo Buqiang: "When will you return to Jiangming? Can I take my son to Jiangming in your car?"

Huo Buqiang said: "It was just demolished today. I think we can pull two carts of old wood across Jiangming tomorrow. If you go, I will take you there."

Lai Jinlan said: "Okay, I will take your car to Jiangming tomorrow. What time will it be tomorrow?"

Huo Buqiang said: "About ten o'clock tomorrow."

Li Huadong told him: "Yesterday, I almost walked through Zhongbao Village and found some old furniture. The quantity is similar to that in Xiashan Village. The price negotiated this time is lower than that over there. When will the truck be called?"

He said that he now had capital and could pay the villagers first.

Huo Buqiang said: "Then let's go to Jiangming together tomorrow to haul goods. Call three trucks, two to haul wood from the old house, and one to haul old furniture."

He said to Li Huadong: "I will guard the construction site tonight. You go back to Haikou and pick up the money tomorrow morning to pay for the old furniture. I will take the truck back to Jiangming in the afternoon, and I will give you the payment when I come back."

Li Huadong agreed.

Huo Buqiang called several truck drivers and made an appointment with them to come to Zhongbao Village to pick up goods tomorrow.

He asked Li Huadong to watch some workers demolishing houses at the construction site, and he drove to Shangbao Village.

Park the car in the open space in front of the Kangjia Feeding Hall, walk along the village alleys, and go door to door asking others if they have any old furniture.

After spending some time with Wang Shuilian, he can basically understand their Haikou local dialect.

Although he can't speak, he can still communicate when he meets a local old man or old woman.

Because although those old men and women are not used to speaking Mandarin, they can understand it.

Especially when negotiating the price.

He visited several houses and had already agreed on an Eight Immortals table and two Immortal chairs.

Tell them to bring the truck over tomorrow and they will pay and deliver the goods.

After the old man negotiated the price with him, he was still dubious. They couldn't believe that a master's chair was worth two thousand yuan and an Eight Immortals table was worth five or six thousand.

Someone suggested that Huo Buqiang pay a small deposit, and they believed it.

Huo Buqiang said: "What kind of deposit do you need to pay? Tomorrow I will bring my truck into the village. You can bring some old furniture over and I will pay you cash on the spot."

I spent several hours visiting hundreds of households in Shangbao Village and talked about more than 20 pieces of old furniture.

Some of these villagers thought what he said was true, while others were dubious.

In fact, the price he offered was lower than what Li Huadong and Zhang Xiaoying offered. The lower he offered, the more the villagers seemed to believe it.

If the price is too high, they say you must be a liar.

How could an old piece of furniture be worth thousands of dollars?

Huo Buqiang encountered a strange thing. There was an old man who owned two coffins made of huanghuali. The entire coffin was almost made of several whole pieces of wood, and the front and rear baffles were also made of old materials.

The old man and lady looked to be in their seventies, and they walked tremblingly.

He is a lonely old man with no children in the village. I heard from the villagers that the old couple made a lot of money when they were young and their family was well off, so they built two huanghuali coffins for them to use when they grow old.

Since they had no biological children, the two raised an adopted son.

Who would have known that this adopted son was a wolf who was lazy at home and gradually ruined the old man's wealthy family.

A few years ago, they plundered all the silver and gold coins they had accumulated, including coins, and ran to Guangdong.

The old man is getting older, and he has to pay people to cultivate several acres of paddy fields. The two of them have no other income, so it is very difficult to eat.

Hearing that a boss was collecting old furniture in the village, he went to look for it with a cane.

Take Huo Buqiang to his home.

There is an Eight Immortals table in the living room, two master chairs, and the sacred cabinets placed against the wall are all made of huanghuali wood.

The old man asked him: "How much are these pieces of furniture worth?"

Huo Buqiang saw that he was pitiful, so he said: "I will take someone else's thousand for this master's chair, and I will give you a thousand and a half. I will take two thousand for this Eight Immortals table, and I will give you three thousand for this god's cabinet." I’ll give you two thousand…”

The old man said with a straight face: "Young man, are you treating me like a fool? I did business when I was young, and I know some things. By saying this, you are bullying me because I am old and my brain is no longer useful."

Huo Buqiang was secretly surprised, thinking that he said that his price was low, so he was unhappy.

He hurriedly said: "Uncle, tell me how much it is worth. If appropriate, I can pay you."

The old man said: "This master's chair is worth 800, this Eight Immortals table is worth 1,500, and this sacred cabinet is worth 1,200. I would laugh in my dreams. You raised the price too high, but I still don't know what to do." ."

Huo Buqiang said: "Uncle, I will drive a truck over tomorrow and help you load the old furniture into the truck. After I pay you the money, will you believe what I said is true?"

The old man must have never dreamed that old furniture made of this kind of wood would be worth so much money.

After listening to his explanation, the old man began to believe him.

When Huo Buqiang was about to leave, Old Man Kang stopped him.

"Come upstairs with me and take a look. I have two coffins made of huanghuali upstairs. Can you help me see how much they are worth?"

Huo Buqiang followed him upstairs and saw two exquisitely crafted huanghuali coffins.

He was surprised on the spot. How many years would it take for such a large huanghuali to grow to such a big size?

Two hundred years, or even more than five hundred years.

He visually inspected each board to be more than fifty centimeters tall, and it was a complete piece of huanghuali wood.

The old man opened the coffin lid and found it filled with dry rice.

Old man Kang said: "We use these two coffins to store rice. They will not spoil at all. They are much better than storing them in earthen jars. These are the only things worth a little money at home."

Huo Buqiang couldn't suppress his excitement. He said to the old man: "Uncle, I'll call my boss and ask him how much your coffin is worth?"

He called Yin Yuan.

"Mr. Yin, there is an old man who has two coffins made of huanghuali in his home. The four boards are all one piece. Each board is more than fifty centimeters wide and six centimeters thick. There is no damage at all. How much can you say for the price? his."

Yin Yuan was also very surprised when he heard this.

He said: "If you pay 50,000 once, it won't be expensive to get it back. If you talk to him and you get it back, I'll give you 100,000 yuan. If you pay it twice, I'll give you 100,000 yuan."

Huo Buqiang originally wanted to say that I would give you 50,000 yuan for two coffins, but he thought of the old man's stubbornness.

He said: "Uncle, I will give you twenty-five thousand for two coffins. What do you think?"

Old Man Kang still couldn't believe it. He said: "Twenty years ago, I spent 600 yuan for each coffin made by a carpenter. I bought the wood for 500 yuan, and the carpenter paid 100 yuan for the second coffin. A piece of labor fee. Is it worth that much now?"

Huo Buqiang said: "Of course, the salary in the 1970s was only a dozen yuan, but now it is five to six hundred yuan, which has increased by forty or fifty times."

Even so, the old man still felt that the price increase was a bit outrageous.

In order to reassure him, Huo Buqiang said: "Uncle, I will collect all your old furniture tomorrow. I can pay you a deposit of 1,000 yuan."

Old Man Kang said: "I won't charge you a deposit. You can come over tomorrow to collect it. Just pay the money and deliver the goods."

Huo Buqiang also asked him: "Uncle, I will come to collect these two coffins from you tomorrow, but what are you going to store the rice in?"

At this time, the old lady hurried back from outside. She went upstairs and blamed the old man for bringing the stranger upstairs.

Old Man Kang said that the old woman was stingy. If she is a big boss, why would she steal a few kilograms of rice from you?

I brought him up to see how much the coffin was worth.

The old woman said, "You sold both sets of coffins. What will we use to bury us when we die?"

Old Man Kang said: "Are you worthless bones? If you keep such a good coffin, if we die, we still have to ask whether it will be used by us. Taozi is a wolf, and he will kill us when the time comes." Just dig a hole randomly and bury it. It’s better to live a better life when we are alive. Just now the boss said that he would give us 25,000 yuan for two sets of coffins.”

The old woman also looked dubious.

Old Man Kang said to her: "What he said must be true. Just now he said he would give me a deposit of 1,000 yuan. I didn't accept it. He said it would be better to pay the money and deliver the goods tomorrow."

He also warned the old woman: "Don't go outside and tell others, otherwise they will be jealous if they hear it."

He also asked Huo Buqiang: "Can you drive to my door and try not to let other people in the village see you when loading the car?"

Huo Buqiang saw that his home was very close to the highway, so he could drive the truck to his door.

So he agreed.

The old lady said: "Since these two sets of coffins are going to be sold, let's put the rice inside into those rice jars now."

She asked Huo Buqiang to help them move four or five rice jars to the coffin.

Huo Buqiang helped move the rice vat over and said proactively, "Shall I help you load the rice into the rice vat?"

The old lady said nervously: "I won't trouble you, we can just take our time."

Old Man Kang also thanked him and signaled that he could leave.

Huo Buqiang said goodbye to them and went downstairs. He heard the two people talking upstairs: "There are silver coins and dozens of gold coins hidden in the rice. How can we let him, a stranger, help?"

The old man said: "I only have this little money to survive. Fortunately, I hid it well at the beginning!"