I went home at half past three, the deserted courtyard was empty, I went to the small kitchen on the east side to get lentils, and I hid in the middle of the courtyard under the shade of the toon tree on the stone pier to pick lentils one by one. I know how to cook, but the fried food is not as delicious as the fried food by my parents, so every time I wash the vegetables in advance and cut them, and wait for my parents to come home and cook them.

Dinner was stir-fried meat with lentils and cold salad with red cabbage.

While eating, my mother chattered as usual: "Now I have a headache when I hear the word marriage, good people, why do you have to be a partner?" A single person is a single, can you die if you don't get married? Listening to this, I almost squirted out a mouthful of food, "Hmph, no, a small colleague in our finance department is going to have a happy event in a few days, and the invitations have come down, you say, how much money should I give her?" ”

Dad said, "Isn't it enough to give a hundred?" ”

My mom pouted: "A hundred? Did I take it? People give at least two hundred! ”

"You clean up that swollen face and fat man!" Dad said angrily: "Our family throws away the expenses every month, and there is not much money left, so can we eat for face?" ”

Mom slapped the table and glared: "Sensei said me!" You are also full of fat people in the unit! ”

"Dad, Mom......" I put down my chopsticks and went back to the house to get a paper bag, "Well, there's something I want to talk about." ”

"What's this?" My mother couldn't help but snatch the object wrapped in yesterday's Yanjing Morning News, opened it and looked at it, and was stunned: "So much money? Where did you come from? One two three four five...... Boy! That's nearly 20,000 yuan! My dad was also dumbfounded, and his inquiring gaze hit me in the face, "Say, what's going on?" ”

I said: "That's the case, today I saw a few migrant workers digging out a Ming and Qing dynasty brand from the ground in the construction site not far from the school, and the condition was good, so I exchanged it for one hundred and eighty yuan and the watch, and then sold it with the glass factory, which is ten thousand eight." ”

Mom gasped: "A hundred times? Good son! You're so good at roots! ”

I am very satisfied to be able to share some difficulties for my family.

But his father was not as happy as his mother, his face turned pale: "Xiaojing, I didn't tell you explicitly before, but today you listen, this is the first and last time, in the future, you are not allowed to touch antiques, there is a lot of knowledge here, it is not for you to have fun." ”

I hummed casually.

Perhaps seeing my disapproval, my dad snapped, "I'm not kidding you!" Do you hear that? ”

My mom gave me a wink, "Your dad is right, don't touch these messy things in the future." ”

"Got it." I replied solemnly.

The reason why my father is so solemn can be traced back to my grandfather's generation. Grandpa started by selling a few ancestral antiques, and after that, he embarked on the road of collecting, buying at a low price and selling at a high price, which is a bit of a business. But often walk by the river, how can you not get your shoes wet? After a few eyes, my grandfather lost all his family money, almost to the point of being penniless, and died depressed.

Before leaving, my grandfather left a family motto: Don't touch antiques.

My dad was a dutiful son, and since then, he has been very interested in collecting, but he has only seen and not bought, and has never taken a single one home.

I didn't want to dwell on this topic, so I hurriedly told my mother about the encounter with Zou Yue'e during the day and her intention to rent a house.

"Oh, Cheng, I'll call Aunt Liu at night to help her ask."

My dad frowned: "Zou Yue'e doesn't have a good reputation in your company?" He looked at me and said no more.

I understand what my dad meant, indeed, Zou Yue'e sometimes gives people a sense of inappropriate lifestyle.

"Many people, many roads." My mom doesn't seem to like her very much, "If you can, you can help, maybe one day when you can use someone else." ”

After chatting for a while, my mother's eyes finally fell on the pile of famous coins, and she looked at me fakely: "Xiaojing, you are still young, this money will be saved for you for the time being, for your graduation and marriage in the future." ”

Yes? You'll have to leave me some, right? But I said, "Okay, it was meant for you." ”

The father knocked on the edge of the bowl with chopsticks: "Take the child's money too!" Look at your little bit of talent! ”

My mom was anxious: "What's wrong with me?" What's wrong? Can't my son honor me for some money? Can't you? ”

After arguing for a while, my mother reluctantly pushed over 8,000 yuan to me and instructed, "Don't spend it indiscriminately, I won't give you the living expenses for the next semester." ”

I was speechless for a while.

The moon alternates, and the evening breeze is gentle.

Lying on the mattress, I was stunned on the ceiling, my father strictly forbade me to touch antiques, but I want to be a rich man, I want my parents to live a good life, then, contact with antiques must be unavoidable, think about it for a long time, I still don't plan to tell my parents, ready to continue secretly, not that I am not filial, on the contrary, I think I am a very filial child, but I and my father have a different understanding of filial piety.

I think that obedience and "filial piety" are not equated.

Hide it first, and then tell your parents when you make a lot of money, at that time, the wood is already in the boat, and at most you will be beaten.

The next time.

I ran to Daxing Huangcun according to the events recorded in my notebook, and the source of this news was a shop in the antique city who liked Kan Dashan, and it is rumored that he had brought back porcelain from Huangcun from a previous dynasty period, and the specific time was just two days after the Ming Dynasty. But I searched for the address he described, and asked many family members, but I never saw the shadow of porcelain.

After a long day of tossing, I returned empty-handed, thinking, it must be the store that bragged about the cowhide.

After dinner in the evening, I unwillingly dragged my sore body and went out again at dawn.

This time I went to the moat of You'anmen, seven or eight kilometers away from my house. A few days later, an eleven-year-old boy surnamed Liu in the No. 23 courtyard of our Hutongkou will catch a cricket, it is big, good-looking, it is hard to believe that this insect is from Yanjing, I like it very much, and I have asked him carefully, so the information I know is quite complete.

How much is a cricket worth?

There are a few cents, hundreds of thousands, tens of thousands, and hundreds of thousands.

In the evening, there was a cool breeze on the riverbank, which was very refreshing.

Walking slowly along the moat, I pricked up my ears and listened hard to the crickets below. If it were tossed from place to place, I am afraid that it would not be possible to find it until tomorrow morning, after all, there are too many crickets here, so they can only be distinguished by sound. The cry is thin and weak, sharp and piercing, and it is often not a good bug, but a really good bug is a chirp with a bell in the thick.

In the belt described by the child, I walked back and forth a few times, and the section of more than ten meters was not big, but it was not small.

Suddenly, my ears moved, after being bitten by mosquitoes for three or four large bags.

I stopped and stood on the busy street and listened to it again, and the slight sound of insects mixed with the sound of the engine made my heart happy.

Got it!

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