59 years after its opening, people are still in Nanluoguxiang.

"Xiao Chen, do you want a watch ticket?"

Ye Jin came in and gave him a ticket.

"Uncle Ye, what do you want?" Chen Feng did not answer.

In the past few days, he sold more than a dozen mallard ducks, dozens of duck eggs and three pheasants. Together with the money he had earned before, he had saved nearly three hundred yuan.

When you have money in your hands, you naturally spend it.

Although watches are one of the three major items, Chen Feng actually prefers to go to a consignment shop because sometimes he might come across an antique watch.

Many children of wealthy people in the old times, after losing their property, had to rely on old items at home to survive.

They don't know what's good and often treat antique watches as ordinary watches and take them to consignment shops to sell.

Chen Feng had often heard people around him brag about how their elders in the family had found good things in consignment stores.

Ye Jin rubbed his hands and said, "Ah, it's like this, didn't you give me a wild boar last time?"

"One of our leaders really likes to eat pig ears, and asked me if I could get one."

"I've been a team leader for several years. If I work harder, maybe I can be selected as a deputy director of the purchasing department next year."

Chen Feng said in embarrassment: "Uncle Ye, this wild boar is not easy to encounter. I can only give it a try."

This kind of thing cannot be guaranteed.

Although he felt that he was lucky and wanted to catch a wild boar, he would definitely catch it.

But I can't make any guarantees in front of Ye Jin.

Without exaggerating the difficulty, how can he highlight his strength and sincerity and make them pay more attention to him.

"No problem. I know it's hard to hunt wild boars right now, but I'm just telling you."

Ye Jin stuffed the watch ticket into his hand.

"Uncle knows how difficult this is. There are millions of people in the city, plus people living outside the city. With so many people going up the mountain every day, wild boars are becoming increasingly rare."

"You accept this ticket not for the wild boar, but to thank you for the wild boar you sold me last time. It made me highly praised in front of my boss and made me famous."

Only then did Chen Feng put the ticket away.

After leaving the cannery, he rode his bike for a spin.

Finally, I went to the watch shop in Wangfujing.

After looking around for a long time, Chen Feng finally picked a product from the Shanghai Watch Factory.

"Hello, 60 yuan."

The saleswoman was a middle-aged woman. Seeing Chen Feng take out the money, she smiled and said, "Young man, you know what's good. You don't know that this Shanghai watch is a rare item."

"People say that if there is no Shanghai watch, no girl will marry."

"If you take this watch with you, it will be much easier to find a wife in the future."

Chen Feng gave an awkward but polite smile.

He bought the watch simply because he thought it would be more convenient for Zhou Qing to have a watch to remind him of the time when he went out every day.

But he forgot why a watch is one of the three major items.

Although my country was able to manufacture watches in the 1968s, it was not until 100 when the Shanghai Watch Factory broke the million mark in annual production for the first time that domestic watches began to enter the homes of ordinary people.

In April 1958, my country's first watch factory, the Shanghai Watch Factory, was completed.

In that year, a total of Shanghai brand watches were produced, and the number distributed to the old city did not exceed 4,000.

As soon as the round-headed, white-faced Shanghai brand watch came out, it was widely promoted in newspapers across the country, and wearing it became a symbol of identity and status.

People are proud to wear Shanghai brand watches.

There is a saying going around now: "If you don't have a Shanghai watch, no girl will marry you."

To put it another way, those who can wear this watch now are all "successful people".

After leaving with the watch, he turned around and went back to the commission store.

It’s the same salesperson from last time.

"Hello, what would you like to buy?"

Chen Feng asked: "Do you have a watch?"

"Yes, yes, this way please."

There are watches placed in the square glass counter.

Chen Feng couldn't recognize which of them were antique labels, he just wanted to get the space and let the venomous tongue comment on them.

"Can I take it and touch it?"

"Sure, I'll get whichever one you like?" the little round-faced boy said enthusiastically.

Chen Feng took a careful look and found that most of them were common brands that he had never heard of. He did not see any famous Swiss brand watches such as Rolex and Omega.

'It's a fart leak.'

Other people who sell watches don’t understand. Are the people in the commissioned stores all fools?

Cursing inwardly, I asked, "Is there a good brand, like Rolex?"

The round-faced girl nodded slightly, but was a little hesitant, and said, "Yes, but this brand is very expensive, more than 100 yuan. You can buy a brand new one. Are you sure you want this old foreign brand?"

"Yes, I have a friend whose father particularly wants a brand with foreign words on it, saying that it will give him face." Chen Feng said with a lot of nonsense.

"There are three existing ones, but two are broken and need to be repaired, and only one is good."

There are three foreign watches, and the one that is intact is Longines.

Longines is a famous Swiss brand. Compared with the record-breaking gold-plated Rolex antique watches that are often auctioned (an antique Rolex watch produced in 1954 and used by the last emperor of Vietnam was sold for 3500 million yuan), Longines antique watches are relatively low-key.

An antique Longines watch from the 60s is only worth about or yuan (many counterfeiters in later generations used or yuan to fool the unlucky people).

But Chen Feng didn't mind.

He simply enjoys collecting these inexpensive little widgets.

There's no way he can afford such expensive stuff.

If you get cheated, you will lose everything.

On the contrary, even if this thing has a hole in it, the compensation is only about 100,000 yuan.

"That's it."

Little Round Face took it out and gave it to him.

"This piece is 90 yuan. If you want, I can give you 100 yuan."

"Okay." Chen Feng said with a smile.

He decided to find a way to make some more money to fulfill his dream of collecting antiques.

Money is of little use.

But without money, it's of no use.

There are many prodigal sons in the city of Sijiu. In the past two years, they must have shipped large quantities of food for the sake of food. They did not seek to get rich, but to collect hundreds or thousands of antiques for themselves.

In the future, my grandchildren won’t have to learn from me and envy other people’s things!

As for getting rich, there will be too many opportunities in the future.

I went back home and waited until Zhou Qing came back at noon.

"Mom, this is for you. I wish you a happy birthday."

Zhou Qing looked at the Shanghai brand watch and felt touched but also felt sorry for the money.

"It's only two months' salary. How much money have you saved? You spend money recklessly. You should learn to save money and save it for marrying a wife in the future."

Chen Feng really wanted to complain that he was only 13 years old and it was useless for him to marry a wife.

But he didn't dare say that because three generations of his family were counting on him.

The old man and the old lady want to hold their great-grandson every day, and they keep saying that in the past people could get married at the age of 14 and have children at the age of 15.

My parents are used to saving money and they live frugally on a daily basis.

Chen Hao and Chen Li simply wanted to enjoy their eldest brother's wedding candy and banquet, and they didn't understand the meaning of marriage at all.

The old lady smiled and said, "My daughter-in-law has worked hard for so many years. Now she can enjoy the blessing of her eldest grandson."

"Brother, buy a new bicycle."

Chen Hao held the bowl and watched Zhou Qing happily put the watch on his wrist.

"And then you can use the old one?"

"Yes, yes, brother, how did you know?"

"Just clean the bike!"