The sun sets.

Zhushi Village, a small two-story loft.

The burning clouds on the horizon quietly ran up, and the glow made Lin Yang's face red, and when he looked up, the black tiles on the roof, the green woods, and the white earthen walls all made the burning clouds in the distance reflect a gorgeous brilliance.

Memories of the burning clouds.

Lin Yang couldn't remember exactly how long he hadn't seen such a spectacular burning cloud in the sky.

In Lin Yang's memory, the fire burning clouds have the same color as childhood, the same colorful, and colorful. There are red, golden, purple slightly, pear yellow, rose red, grape gray, eggplant purple, half purple and half red, silver white, half gray and half lily, purple red, blue blue, grass green, dark green, dark red, yellow and clear, red and gorgeous......

When he left his hometown as an adult, he barely witnessed the burning clouds in the sky, replaced by artificially made neon signs in the big city, flowing like floating clouds.

Lin Yang believes that his eyes and the burning clouds in front of him are not illusions brought about by nostalgia, but the vicissitudes that he can see with the naked eye.

There are many reasons why modern people think that there are fewer burning clouds, first of all, of course, it is related to urban lifestyle, haze, and the increase in building density, after all, compared with when they were children, most adults watch the sunset less and negligible, let alone sunset. But even if these factors are excluded, it is true that the sunset of the last decade or two has been much lighter than our childhood, and this is not a joke.

After admiring the burning clouds, Lin Yang was idle and had nothing to do to run errands for Li Feipeng, bought a pack of Qingmei brand cigarettes and came back, as soon as he entered the room, Lin Yang saw Li Feipeng sitting at the desk tinkering with something.

"Brother Feipeng, here you go." Lin Yang handed the cigarette to Li Feipeng.

"Eh, Lin Yang, you put the cigarette first......" Li Feipeng didn't smoke in a hurry, but was carefully opening the envelope.

A white envelope.

Lin Yang quipped: "Brother Feipeng, is the envelope you are holding in your hand a love letter written to you by Sister Xiaoshuang?"

"Shh......h How many times has my brother told you, don't mention your little sister's name at every turn, you don't have a long memory, do you? You say it again! Don't think I won't dare beat you! Li Feipeng was really angry, Lin Yang, this kid always deliberately mentioned her name, and sincerely wanted to embarrass himself.

"Pederson ???" Seeing that Lin Yang was indifferent, Li Feipeng's eyes suddenly opened as big as an egg, and he even dragged his English at Lin Yang.

Ahem......

Don't get me wrong, the eggs mentioned above are bird eggs......

As the saying goes, stretching out his hand not to hit the smiling person, Lin Yang hurriedly replied with a smile: "I understand, Brother Feipeng."

Lin Yang asked again: "Since it's not a love letter, what are you doing?"

Li Feipeng said contemptuously: "You little kid understands a fart, and you don't understand what you said, didn't you see that my brother was cutting stamps?"

Lin Yang was stunned, and he was also curious.

I saw that Li Feipeng picked up a small pair of scissors, pointed at the white envelope, cut out the stamp together with the envelope paper glued to the back, and then soaked it in water to make the glue slowly dissolve, and after a while, the stamp and the envelope were separated. Then, Li Feipeng gently washed off the remaining glue and flattened the stamps to dry.

Lin Yang said with a smile: "Brother Feipeng, I didn't expect you to be quite ambitious, and you were actually collecting stamps."

"Yo, you're a little bastard, okay, can you still understand that my brother is collecting stamps?" Li Feipeng couldn't help but be a little impressed.

Lin Yang said with interest: "That's it, messing with Brother Feipeng is more effective than drinking the life No. 1...... By the way, Brother Feipeng, how many stamps have you collected so far? Can you lend me to enjoy it? ”

Li Feipeng looked embarrassed and was silent for a while before he spoke: "Two kinds of ...... Just started collecting, and there is no stock for you to enjoy for the time being. ”

In this era when there is no Internet, the main way for people to contact each other is to use the guò telephone, but the phone bill is really ridiculously expensive, so people are more likely to write letters through guò to maintain their feelings.

The purpose of writing a letter must be to send a letter, and to send a letter, it is natural to use stamps.

Maybe sometimes, you send a letter to a long-distance lover, and you wrote "I love you" to your lover in the letter last month, and when the other party receives the letter next month, maybe, you have changed your mind and no longer love her.

People of each generation, who are keen to collect, are different.

In the age of the Internet in the 21st century, there are all kinds of things that people like to collect.

Collection, however, is a university question, and it always varies from person to person, no matter what is collected.

For example, otaku like to collect AV, but there are quite a wide variety of AVs, including Chinese mainland domestic actions, European and American actions, and Japanese and Korean actions......

Some changes. State of people who like to collect stockings, or avoid. Pregnancy. sets, and even garbage bags that can be found everywhere.

There are also some comic people who like to collect all kinds of funny memes on the Internet.

……

Of course, Lin Yang thinks that what he collects is not as good as collecting banknotes.

However, banknotes are subject to depreciation, as inflation is constant, so banknotes are not suitable for long-term storage.

Most people who like to collect, will choose valuable items.

However, collecting antiques, pearls, gold coins, etc., after all, is too tall and not suitable for ordinary people, and ordinary people have no funds to play.

On the contrary, it is stamps, which have always maintained a certain market in China.

For philatelic enthusiasts, philately is not only a hobby, but also a kind of knowledge, but also an investment.

By 2016, there were an estimated 30 million collectors worldwide, in addition to learning about the world's history, geography, flowers, plants, fish, insects, and people.

Philatelic products not only contain stamps, but also include postal supplies such as covers, sheets, shorts, stamps and other postal supplies issued and used by postal agencies.

Philatelic products come in a variety of forms, including First Day Covers, International Levit Air Envelopes, Souvenir Envelopes, Original Picture Cards, Postal Postcards, Postage Envelopes, Souvenir Sheets, Booklets, Souvenir Sheets, Commemorative Postmark Posts, Stamp Cards, etc.

Philately is the collection, appreciation and research of stamps and other philatelic products. Stamps are known as the "national business card", and each country issues stamps, all of which select the best, most beautiful, most representative or commemorative things of their own country, and display them on the stamps after careful design. The content involved is political, economic, cultural, military and other aspects, all walks of life have everything, making the small stamp between the square inches become an all-encompassing museum and a small encyclopedia containing rich knowledge.

In his previous life, Lin Yang also joined in the excitement and joined the vast army of collectors.

It's just that it was when he was a child, and stamps were still too extravagant for him at a young age.

A penniless kid like him, who can afford to collect, is naturally a thing that doesn't cost money.

Collecting cigarette shells is what he used to love the most.

Lin Yang still remembers that when he came home from school one afternoon, something suddenly slipped out of his schoolbag, and his father Lin Shizhong picked it up and saw that it was a crumpled Zhongnanhai cigarette shell.

Lin Shizhong immediately became angry, raised his slap and was about to slap it, Lin Yang hurriedly hugged his head and defended: "Dad, I didn't smoke, this cigarette case was picked up."

Thereupon. Lin Yang said as he poured out a few cigarette cases from his schoolbag.

At that time, Lin Yang clearly remembered that many boys in the class were collecting cigarette shells, and they lost a layer of tin foil inside, only took the outer packaging, flattened it, and sandwiched it in the book.

Fortunately, whether it is stamp collecting or collecting cigarette shells, Lin Shizhong regards it as a matter of cultivating sentiment.

Lin Yang's mother, Zhang Meilan, was against it at first, but later heard the news from somewhere that someone had picked up a rare cigarette shell and sold it to a collector for 1,000 yuan. You must know that 1,000 yuan in the 90s was not a small amount, not to mention that it was picked up for nothing. Zhang Meilan decided to support this road to prosperity without capital and profit, she also picked up a few every once in a while, and came back to ask if Lin Yang was a rare variety.

The idea is good, but what if it comes true?

The cigarette shells that Lin Yang collected in his previous life didn't earn a penny in the end.

He couldn't remember where the cigarette shells that had piled up in the room had gone.