In Caijiawan, because the Yang family was relatively good at running a family (landlords and rich peasants could not succeed by bullies), the houses of the Yang brothers were all independent courtyards.

Yang Guangyao's house, also known as Yang Xia's house, has a total of nine main houses in a three-sided courtyard. There are five rooms on the front, the middle is the hall house, the first on the left is where Yang Guanghui and his wife live, and the second on the left is the wardrobe room, which contains some wooden boxes and cabinets and relatively valuable items; There are two rooms on the right, the first on the right is the bedroom of the three Yang Xia brothers, and the second on the right is the granary.

In front of the five rooms of the main house, there are two tiled rooms on the left and right, in the past, this was called the left and right wings. The first left wing room is the bedroom of her sister Yang Chun, and the second left wing room is the farm tool room and firewood and grass room; There are two rooms in the right wing, one is a stove house and the other is a pig house and thatched house, which is an indispensable building in the countryside.

After being reborn, Yang Xia, after gaining the right to speak, quickly encouraged Yang Guangyao to build a shack outside the firewood house for stacking firewood and grass, and vacated the original firewood house to use his bedroom and study.

Yang Xia's reason is very simple, he is too old to live in the same room with his two younger brothers all the time. Of course, later Yang Xia wanted to write, and his reason was even more sufficient.

A crying child has milk, but a dry child has not only milk but also meat. Since Yang Xia got back the first manuscript fee, Yang Xia has been able to be half the head of the family.

Therefore, Yang Xia's house, he specially locked it. In addition to Yang Xia, who can enter and exit freely, another person who can enter and exit at will is his grandfather Yang Yangao.

Because in this house of Yang Xia, there is Yang Xia's most cherished collection. And these collections can be said to be the credit of him and his grandfather Yang Yangao.

Collection, at this time in China is still absolutely unpopular, generally speaking, the collection originated in the eighties, if you insist on a sign ** piece, that is, the first "monkey ticket" issuance, in 1980, the country began to issue the first set of zodiac commemorative stamps, and the first is the "monkey ticket", since then, the value of the monkey ticket has increased year by year, until the value of the later generations more than 10,000 yuan, The issue price of 0.08 yuan stamps, 20 years later can be sold to 10,000 yuan, a premium of at least 120,000 times, what kind of investment than this stamp more profitable?

In fact, the monkey ticket is just a symbol and representative of the collection. In this era, there are too many things suitable for collecting, and almost all things are rolling in price tenfold and hundredfold in later generations.

After being reborn, Yang Xia only did three things related to money, strictly speaking, one is to write by himself to earn manuscript fees, which is the root and foundation, with this, the others can be implemented, or only then can they have "prestige" to practice; The second is the collection, after having the manuscript fee, Yang Xia began to lobby his grandfather to help, the grandfather himself is half an old intellectual, and the cognition of old objects is much stronger than Yang Xia's half a jar of water, therefore, the collection is presided over by the grandfather, of course, Yang Xia has the opportunity and does not forget to take back the valuable things first. The third is to bring the family to the market and contract the pond fort project in Chiquan District.

In the collection, grandfather Yang Yangao and Yang Xia have an amazing agreement, that is, in this matter, there should not be too many people involved, let alone too many people in the know, even if the number received is insufficient, it doesn't matter. The reason for this is not that others will raise the price or grab the market or anything after others find out, but that the acquisition of these old objects at this time is still a considerable risk, you must know that most of these old objects have been destroyed in the era of the four olds, and you dare to buy them with money, what do you want to do, are you going to work against the dictatorship of the proletariat?

Doing it quietly is not only to protect yourself, but also to protect the seller.

In Wucheng Township, strictly speaking, it is not a good place to collect, and some large households, when the establishment of New China, mostly collapsed, and there is nothing to inherit; As far as Yang Xia knew, in Wuxianmiao Commune, only one big landlord was shot at the time of liberation, but nearly 20 landlords had their homes raided, and more old things were burned down in several major movements.

The problem is that people nowadays can't go out of the district and township at all, or one day a round trip is the longest distance, and it is easy to spend the night outside. Of course, there is an exception for a relative who has to go to eat and drink for a happy event, but then you have to ask the production team leader for leave.

However, Grandpa has his own way. Grandpa told a few old friends who had a good relationship back then that his grandson was a cultural person, and he usually liked to write articles and do research. As for the capital, the grandson is not lacking, and he has the manuscript fee.

So, among the old men over 60 years old, such a chain has been quietly formed, where there is an old object, an old man to lobby the other party to sell it or not, if you want to sell it, how much money can be given; Then the old man came to Yang Yan's high place, or the middle person, or the middle price difference, in short, to get things done, as little as one or two cents of income, as much as two or three yuan of income, because of this kind of income, suddenly made these old people happy.

Of course, the actions of these old people are similar to those of the underground/party back then, and most of the contacts are one-line contacts, which are obviously extremely mysterious.

Because of his grandfather's dedication, Yang Xia's collection was quickly enriched, although he did not collect any earth-shattering collections, but the general folk items were also dazzling.

One of the largest and most scattered collections is coins. At this time, almost every peasant family would have a few small or large coins, and they would give these coins to the children, and let them sew them into the keys and use them to kick and play. In addition, such coins are often strung on key chains as decorations. In short, in the countryside at this time, copper coins were a very common thing.

In his previous life, Yang Xia was also half a jar of water in terms of collection, not even half a jar of water, especially in terms of coins, Yang Xia didn't understand it at all. Therefore, he had to agree on a few principles for his grandfather, the age is old, the condition is intact, the price can be 1 jiao or 2 jiao, the ordinary amount of large late Qing copper coins, up to 5 cents a piece.

However, even at this price of picking cabbage, Yang Xia's coins are growing at an average rate of more than 10 pieces per day, and Yang Xia does not ask for anything else, as long as there is one more valuable out of the hundreds, even if it is issued. Of course, Yang Xia's collection, even if it is an ordinary coin, will not lose money, in the future generations, which will not sell for a few yuan and dozens of yuan, compared with a few cents and a dime at this time, although the price has grown a hundred times, but Yang Xia does not suffer.

Most people do not believe in the official statistics of the rise in prices, but the peasants have their own unique statistical methods, one is the price of grain, the second is the price of meat, and the third is the price of clothing.

At this price, how could Yang Xia's collection lose money?

The other type of collectibles is all kinds of porcelain, and most of them are porcelain for daily necessities. Bowls, sea bowls, tasting bowls, large bowls, medium bowls, small bowls; plates, all kinds of odd-shaped large and small plates, saucers; In addition, there are cups, pots, bottles, basins, boxes and other supplies, and the shape of some objects, even Yang Xia doesn't know what to use it for, and at this time, he can only consult his grandfather.

"Grandpa, are all these things collected from the Wuxian Temple Commune?" Looking at hundreds of pieces of porcelain of all kinds, Yang Xia felt a sense of accomplishment.

"Where, half of these things were bought by the Donggou Brigade, and half were from the Xigou Brigade and the two nearby brigades, Wuxianmiao Commune, a total of 11 brigades."

"How can there be so many?" Yang Xia felt very surprised, in his impression, in a large team, it was already remarkable to be able to dig out three or five old porcelain objects, and the number was hundreds, which was definitely beyond his expectations.

"What is this, in the early years, there were more of these old objects, but unfortunately, when the large collective ran a food group, it was broken a lot, speaking of which, you kid can be regarded as doing a good deed, if you let these objects continue to remain in the hands of the villagers, maybe one day they will be broken again."

"Hey, that's, that'......" Did Yang Xia do a good deed? So Yang Xia blushed and looked at the other collections, all kinds of jadeite and jade. As shown in movies and television footage, in Chinese folklore, when a son marries a daughter-in-law, the mother-in-law will hand over a pair of heirloom jade bracelets from her wrist to her daughter-in-law. Therefore, this kind of jadeite and jade pieces have a wide collection in the countryside, and this thing is not broken four old can be broken, think about the five taels of silver to buy the thing, if it is really broken four old, the farmers may have to find the team of people desperate!

Buying this kind of object, Yang Xia can only do his best, and the quantity has been controlled, because even in this special era, it is also the most valuable object in the hands of farmers, a pair of the most ordinary bracelets, you don't pay 50 yuan soft sister coins, you are embarrassed to trade, maybe, your 50 yuan only in exchange for the general jadeite pieces, maybe your 50 yuan in exchange for the best jadeite pieces, in short, the Yang family is unlikely to negotiate the price or only accept those valuable.

As a result, Yang Xia only dared to try to collect these bracelets, because there was no money, and the manuscript fee was used for collection, which was obviously less. Fortunately, Yang Xia is not in a hurry, at this time, basically no one in Huaxia has realized the value of these old things, and Yang Xia still has time.

However, the more conspicuous things such as bracelets are a bit expensive, but another type of small jade pieces of small jade is not so expensive, that is, all kinds of jade Guanyin and jade Buddha hanging on the chest, these things are obviously the primary elimination objects of the four olds, but because these things are too small, as long as the parties are hidden, it is difficult to find, so these jade Guanyin jade Buddhas also have a large number of preserved in the folk.

Moreover, these things are completely different from the handicrafts of later generations, most of these things that circulated among the people at this time are genuine products made of jade and jade, and a few glass handicrafts that were handed down during the Republic of China, with the kung fu of Grandpa Yang Xia, can also be identified as a ** inseparable from ten.

The most important thing is that the price of these things is extremely low, generally 1 yuan to 2 yuan a piece. This, for Yang Xia, is completely equivalent to sending money, no matter how bad it is, these Buddhas, Guanyin, will be hundreds of yuan a piece in the future.