Chapter 20: Changing Silver Dollars
After dinner, my father went to my uncle's house to borrow a bicycle, and my mother was going to a meeting of the commune's education group today.
Grandma took a hitchhiker to the market to sell eggs, and while picking up eggs in the basket, grandma muttered strangely: "This year's hens lay eggs early, and they only rested for a day after three or four in a row, and they were still big, and they saved almost a hundred in less than half a month." ”
"I'm feeding you well. "Yoyo invites credit.
"Yes, yes, why didn't you forget that the chickens are fed by us, and tomorrow grandma will boil eggs for you to eat. ”
"Grandma, everyone in our family eats boiled eggs. "Yoyo fights for the welfare of the whole family, the original delicious local eggs, just thinking about it makes my mouth water.
Dad was afraid that Didi would also go to the market with him, so he took him to the clinic in advance.
Sitting on a wooden children's chair tied to the front beam of the bicycle, her mother told her: "Don't shake your legs, be careful of the twisting of your feet." ”
Grandma sat in the back with a basket, "Our eggs are big, and we lose money when we sell them to the consignment, and we give five cents for the size of the eggs, and it is easy to sell them for six cents on the set." ”
Thinking of the later generations of firewood eggs were sold for five yuan, you sighed heartily: the current price is too cheap, if you can put it in your own mall to sell, it can't be said to be a million profits, but it is a real 100 times profit.
Yes, the food here is pure and natural, pollution-free and pollution-free, and it is a standard safe food. In later generations, such food was not only ridiculously expensive, but also limited to a certain level of people.
The great god of crossing has provided such a convenient opportunity, and if you don't use it, you will be struck by lightning. Yoyo is determined to create an unprecedented business to carry out space-time trade between the present and the future, in addition to e-commerce, and make himself a space-time merchant to play.
However, according to the observation of the past half month, although the prices of this era are low, all kinds of materials are in a state of extreme shortage. Not to mention the bulk of the supplies, even sporadic ones are also very difficult. What's more, I'm still a 5-year-old and basically have no autonomy.
The ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny. You looked at the sky and sighed, which made her mother and grandmother laugh, "You little goblin, what kind of demon are you!"
Listening to grandma's laughter, you thought to yourself: It's really a demon, but when you say it, you don't believe it.
The eggs sold in the market are concentrated in front of the grocery store, and there are not many people, and now the spring has just begun, and the hens have begun to lay eggs.
More than a dozen people gathered together, and in front of them were a basket containing twenty or thirty eggs.
Grandma put the basket together with theirs, and the advantage was immediately apparent, and the size of her own eggs was obvious. Immediately, a few people gathered around, vying to buy it. But no one could ask for them all, and in the end, 90 eggs were divided into three people, and each asked for 30.
"One person, one piece eight. "Yoyo has settled the score.
The buyer felt strange and boasted to his grandmother: "Auntie, your child is really hearty, and he will settle accounts when he is so old." ”
Grandma replied happily: "Her mother teaches and has been learning since she was a child." ”
After selling the eggs, Grandma led Yoyo to a courtyard to the east of the local product store. Yoyo saw that the rural credit cooperatives were written in red paint on the courtyard door, but grandma said it was a bank. In a corner where no one was around, Grandma took out 4 silver dollars from her waist and handed two to Youyou.
"At the end of the year (Spring Festival), your uncle Aijun got a bicycle ticket for your parents, and the family's money is less than 100 yuan, you follow your grandmother to exchange money, a silver dollar for two yuan and five, our mother and mother can exchange ten yuan at a time, and you can save enough for two more trips. ”
Puzzled, he asked, "Grandma, why don't you change it all at once." ”
"A person will let him exchange two silver dollars at a time, which are a few private money put by the old man, and he doesn't dare to change it if he has more, for fear of being criticized. ”
You looked at the silver dollars in his hand, they were all Yuan Datou, which was the most surviving silver dollar. In his previous life, he was a hobby of collecting, and about silver dollars, Yoyo is still more knowledgeable.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, in order to implement the new currency, the state imposed particularly strict restrictions on the circulation of gold and silver. During the turmoil, gold and silver became the "four olds" again, and treasure became a scourge.
It was not until the latter part of the Cultural Revolution that the state resumed gold and silver exchange, and people hurriedly exchanged their inventory for cash.
First, life is difficult, second, fear of being raided and criticized, third, they do not understand the country's policies, and they are afraid that the bank will cancel the exchange of gold and silver. The recovered silver dollars were melted down and repurposed, causing the collector's price of silver dollars to climb in later generations.
The bank's business office is not an external store, but is located in two houses in the courtyard. There were several elderly people who were exchanging silver dollars for two pieces.
You looked carefully and recognized not only Yuan Datou and Sun Xiaotou, but also the treasured dragon coins in later generations.
Youyou's eyes are full of stars, this is a treasure in his own mall, even the most worthless Yuan Datou is priced at tens of thousands, and the rare ones are millions of yuan.
Now no matter the type, it is 2.5 yuan, and you can't wait to buy it yourself, but unfortunately you don't have any money in your hand. The 100-yuan bill of later generations is now a piece of flower paper, not only can it not be used, but it also has to cause trouble.
Even if you find the third set of RMB, you can't tell the origin when you take it out. By the way, try to pick up the money.
After the exchange was painful, he went out of the bank with his grandmother, bent down on the ground and picked up a ten-yuan coin, which was actually taken out of his own mall.
"Grandma, I picked up ten dollars. ”
"Where did you pick it up?"
"Right here. ”
"Give it to me, who dropped the money. Grandma shouted loudly
Yoyo hung his head and stood at the door of the bank with his grandmother waiting for the owner, and there was a circle of people around him to watch the excitement.
Not to mention, people's ideological realm in this era is really high, so many people have no one to claim it, and grandma is still anxious for others: "Why is no one looking for it, you can't die in a hurry if you lose so much money." ”
When my mother was gone, I would find it, and I and my grandmother handed over the money to the leaders of the bank and asked them to find the owner. The leaders wrote down the names of their grandmother and mother and the name of the village, and said that they would report to the commune leaders.
I also took a few steamed buns in the canteen of the bank and handed them to my grandmother, saying that the child couldn't help but be hungry to fill them first, and now the steamed buns in the restaurant are also sold out.
Eating the expensive buns in exchange for ten yuan, I pumped straight in distress.
The third set of 62 years is ten yuan, and the price of later generations is more than 1,000 yuan. Now ten yuan can buy 4 fast silver dollars, even the cheapest Yuan Datou is almost 50,000 yuan in the Youyou mall.
On the way home, Yoyo deliberately asked his grandmother why the silver dollar was different. Grandma told Yoyo, "There are a lot of silver dollars, and when you are older, let your grandfather teach you to recognize them." ”
"Grandpa will recognize it?"
"Don't look at your grandfather's work, there are many things that you know, there are no good things that your grandfather doesn't know, enough for you to learn for a few years. You're smart, go home to find your grandfather to learn skills, and let your grandfather relax. ”
"What's the use of learning that, don't bring disaster to your family. Mom said worriedly.
"It's useful, I secretly learn from my grandfather and don't let others know."
It's so useful, although you love to collect in later generations, but the level is just a hobbyist, and you have picked up a few leaks, and there is a chance that you will be eye-catching.
There are ready-made masters here, and you have to learn well. Sister is also like what is written in the travel novel, picking up leaks all over the world.
In these years, picking up leaks is similar to picking up rags, unlike later generations, Nengmeng experts with a high level of fraud. However, even if you collect the rags, you have to have money.
Money, money, money! You still have to make money first, and you have to make money openly.
The good things in my grandmother's mouth are a scourge during this turmoil, and the heirlooms under the thrift of several lifetimes have become the dregs of "feudal capital repair". Those who were reluctant to take the initiative to hand it over, confiscated their homes and were criticized, and they were greatly devastated physically and mentally.
The timid ones secretly destroyed it and sold it as scrap to the acquisition station, and the bold ones hid it more tightly. In the early days of reform and opening up, some people began to buy privately, and many people sold them when they gave money, and antiques and treasures were worth the price of Chinese cabbage in later generations.
When he returned home, Yoyo entangled his grandfather, and told his grandfather about the various silver dollars that people took in the bank, the bald ones with big heads, the ones with small heads with hair, and the ones with dragons, and the two dragons with a dragon. Laughing at everyone's heart, Grandpa happily explained the differences and characteristics of various silver dollars to Yoyo. Yoyo found that what Grandma said was very right, Grandpa was definitely a national treasure-level expert in treasure appreciation.
Youyou shook Grandpa's arm: "Grandpa, you be a teacher for me, and I will learn to recognize good things with you." ”
"What's called a good thing, it's all smashed, burned, what's the use of learning which ones, you see grandpa was almost smashed, let's not learn the troublesome thing." Grandpa said that his face became ugly.
"Grandpa, you teach me, I learned secretly, and I learned to see good things, and I can also increase my knowledge. ”
"You still have more knowledge, and you don't see much in your life. "Daddy hits Yoyo.
Grandpa retorted to Dad: "You can't say that, there are a lot of folk boutiques, and there are also boutiques in copper coins and foreign plates, maybe anyone has an antiquity." Okay, grandpa will teach you. ”
Since then, the family has another topic in the evening, and the master lecture hall has started, starting with the copper coins at home.
More than 30 years later, the family has become experts in the industry.
Mom saw that the weather was sunny and the temperature was high, so she boiled a big pot of hot water after lunch and asked the whole family to wash their hair. Grandma took out the laundry detergent and melted it with hot water for shampoo. The scalp that burned on the head was hot, and the washed hair was dry and astringent, and it was difficult to comb it.
The whole family sat in the sun drying their hair, and they were so depressed that they didn't even have a chance to enter the storage center.
"Astringent is dead. Youyou touched his astringent hair and pouted and drooped his face, becoming more and more like a child, completely forgetting his age of Bensan.
Sanni Guixiang saw it, and when she went home, she also boiled a pot of hot water, and the second grandmother took out a sieve of grass and wood ashes and soaked them in the water basin, and shook them gently.
Grandma saw it and shouted, "Second grandma, don't drench in gray water, I'll get you some laundry detergent." ”
"I'm drenched, I'll ask you for it next time. ”
It's not good, so I hurriedly ran over to see.
After soaking for about 15 minutes, the ashes are brought out, and the water underneath is a cloudy gray-black. After waiting for the grey water to clear (settle) for a while, pour the clear grey water on it into the basin.
Mixed with hot water, the family took turns to wash their hair, a basin of gray water washed black, I don't know whether it is gray or dirty, wash the gray water and then wash the hair with clean water.
Youyou reached out and touched Si Ni Guiping's hair, which was even more astringent than her own.
Taking advantage of the opportunity of grandma and mother to make dinner, Yoyo hid in the house alone, hurriedly entered the living area of the storage garden, soaked in the luxurious bathtub, and gave a set of care to his hair, and Yoyo's body and mind recovered.