Chapter 337 [Under a Pile of Abandoned Letters]

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Smith didn't know how to persuade Yang Yong when he saw that he was so depressed, so he scratched his head and smirked more seriously to help Yang Yong rummage through the old things in the room to see if he could find some valuable items, so as to make Yang Yong's mood feel better.

Seeing Smith working so hard to help him flip through those meaningful broken shoes, Yang Yong was still very moved, sighed, pulled up his mask, and began to flip through the classical writing desk made of mahogany next to him.

This classical writing desk made of mahogany is very quaint and has three drawers on it, next to it is a separate cabinet, all the cabinets and drawers are not locked, but there is a copper lock nose on it to lock the desk.

I rummaged through the first drawer, which was full of high-end black leather notebooks, and when I took them out at random, I found that these were ledgers, and they were recorded in great detail, from 1840 onwards, the owners of the house, the bits and pieces of the family's life, and the price of all the goods purchased.

This ledger is very thick, two centimeters in size, and the drawers are all exactly the same book, a total of more than 20 books, it seems that this is the owner of this house recorded the price changes over the past hundred years? It is also a great achievement to be able to persist for more than 100 years, and to experience the account book of several generations of family members, this set of account books can be sold for at least thousands of dollars, which is more or less a windfall, with the income of this set of account books, Yang Yong's depressed mood has improved, and he flipped through the desk in front of him with great interest, since there is an account book, there should be more things.

The drawer in the center of the desk was opened, and some stationery was piled up inside, including some waste pens, ink bottles, and some small scissors, small paper cutters and other tools, these rags were piled up, and Yang Yong even found two Parker fountain pens that were more than 100 years old in those waste pens, which was also a relatively good thing.

The third drawer is placed in some old photos, most of them are black and white, from which you can see the former glory of this family, and I feel surprised that the history of the entire family shown in the old photos, the most scenes in the photos are some military scenes, there are scenes of battlefield gunsmoke, and the back of the photo is marked with the time, place, people and other details of the photo.

What surprised Yang Yong the most was that this family was actually a military family, and since 1876, how many people have joined the army in each generation of the owner family of this house? has experienced all the wars of the United States, large and small, and even the last owner of the house actually participated in World War II and made war exploits in the European theater.

It is not an exaggeration to say that the whole family can be said to be a military family, but it is a pity that this military family that has made great contributions to the United States actually has no heirs, and after the death of the last master three years ago, the whole family dispute disappeared, and his family's residence was recycled and sold to Yang Yong by the US government.

These old photos are large and small, most of them are black and white photos are very well preserved, these old photos reflect the honor history of a family, although the family has no heirs, but Yang Yong still decided to preserve these old photos, this is a historical witness, this is a strong proof of the history of a family's honor.

If Yang Yong renovates and rebuilds this 0.3-acre manor, he puts these old photos in the photo and hangs them to prove how glorious the family history of the owner of this manor should be, which is a selling point, at least to commemorate some old military fans who come to visit and live here, so that the house fee he earns will definitely increase.

The hundred-year-old photos are already very damaged, and if you grasp these old photos with a little force, they will only fall off and be broken, so Yang Yong carefully found a small basket nearby, knocked off the dust, put these old photos into a small basket and saved them, and put them at the entrance of the house Don't forget to take these things with you when you leave, and of course, the more than 20 accounts in the first half of the year are put in the basket together.

After the three drawers were searched, there were only two small cabinets left on the entire desk, and Yang Yong took the lead in opening the small cabinet on the left, which was a bag made of van cloth, round and round, which contained a lot of things, but he took this anti-cloth bag in his hand and checked it, and found that it was very light inside, and the bag contained paper products.

Yang Yong put the bag on the countertop of the writing desk, and then opened it, and what caught his eye was some bundles of letters pinned together, these letters were well preserved, and even the stamp of the post office on them was clearly visible, these letters were bundled into bundles, each bundle had more than 100 letters, large and small envelopes, large and small, and there were envelopes of all colors.

Yang Yong casually took out a letter from the cloth bag, took off the rubber cover on it, and looked at it casually, holding hundreds of large letters in his hand, but most of them were the products of correspondence more than ten years ago, and the stamps on them were some new and more common stamps.

The envelope is also the most ordinary white envelope, the content of the letter is strange and everything, most of them are the content of the correspondence between the original owner of the house and his old comrades-in-arms, most of the content in the letter is in the form of memoirs, and there are also greetings about the other party's life? When to get together and so on, there is nothing to pay attention to.

After a general look, the letters in my hand were re-sized and superimposed on top of each other with a rubber cover, and then rummaged through some letters that looked relatively old to see if there was anything else to find? Don't really say it, let Yang Yong find something more special.

The original owner of the house was a military family, no matter what he did, he was very organized, and these letters were stacked together and labeled, and most of them lived in the era of these letters, most of which took about twenty years to form a large bundle of letters sandwiched together.

The first few bundles Yang Yong saw were all hardware formed in recent decades, an average of twenty years to form a large bundle to rummage down Yang Yong was more excited, Yang Yong saw the letters of the World War II period, and then there were letters from the First World War period, and these letters of eighty or even hundreds of years were very well preserved, without moldy and hairy, and there was no moth-eaten performance.

What makes Yang Yong feel most excited is that the stamps affixed to the letters are well preserved, and they are firmly glued to the envelope, and some of the color stamps have not faded, or remain the same, the stamps on these hardware are priceless small pieces of paper, especially some of the letters sent back to the United States from the European battlefield during World War I and World War II The number of stamps is huge, and every country has it.

Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, each stamp is in very good condition, the only disadvantage is that these letters are used, and all of them are stamped with the stamp of each country's post office. (To be continued.) )