Chapter Twenty-Eight: Picking Up the Treasure
Walking around the outer courtyard, Meng Tao saw a few pieces of furniture that were not damaged, and had the intention to put them into the space, but he was afraid of being detected, after all, these things occupied a very wide area, but if he didn't accept them, he would be pulled away as fuel, and finally he couldn't help it, and under the cover of the mountain of furniture, he received a case inlaid with a tin and a beautifully carved table of eight immortals, four carved official hat chairs, and two Taishi chairs inlaid with jade reliefs, all of which were intact, probably because they were strong enough, the wood was really good, and the dark purple oil was shiny and smooth, Sinking like a rock, Meng Tao couldn't drag it at all, and could only touch it with his hands to retract into the space.
Then drag over a few pieces of destroyed furniture to occupy the spot and disguise the scene.
I was secretly relieved when I received something, but I imagined that in the space, there were desks and chairs on the stone platform of only ten square meters, and I don't know what the mess would be? It is estimated that the immortals are going to scold her again, alas!
Walking through the hall, the inside is the inner courtyard, it seems to be slightly larger than the outer courtyard, the blue brick road on both sides of the same pile of various sundries like a hill, the left is mostly destroyed tables, chairs, cabinets, wooden shelves and cages and other things, the right is a lot of large pieces of porcelain, such as plum bottles, lotus jars, flower pots, tea sets, incense burners, etc., Meng Tao does not understand porcelain, but also can roughly see that these are old antiques, but unfortunately most of them are damaged, either missing corners or leaking the bottom.
Meng Tao circled around the pile of porcelain distressedly, and finally picked out two intact blue and white saucers in the broken flower pots, and looked at the bottom seal that it was actually from the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, and found a treasure! I can't help but say that it is directly included in the space.
After I found a good painted large painting jar, which was used to place calligraphy and painting scrolls in the study of the ancients, I couldn't see the year for a while, but I was sure that the antique couldn't be wrong, there were two lotus jars next to it, it was smashed and the corners were missing, but there were no cracks, and the overall was very good.
Coming out of the pile of porcelain, clapping his hands, walking into the open main house, and seeing the Ming Hall and the two houses on the left and right, stacked in a messy and full of various books, Meng Tao sighed again in his heart: I don't know how many book lovers here, the books that were finally collected have become waste one day, and maybe they will be burned in the end.
Meng Tao found a corner and began to pull into the pile of books, and when she encountered the books she was interested in, she would accept them, of course, if she saw a collector's edition or ancient books, she also had to collect them, and deliberately picked up some primary school textbooks and junior high school and high school mathematics, physics and chemistry textbooks, it is now 1974, and in three years, the country will resume the college entrance examination.
Flipping through two beautifully illustrated children's picture books with excellent paper, she kept them, planning to give them to Xiaocheng later.
When he pulled out a thick book of words, it suddenly caused a collapse, Meng Tao hurriedly avoided the other side, and when the dust was not so big, he came to look through it again, and found that a wooden board under it was blocking a lot of things, Meng Tao moved the wooden board hard, and really picked up good things - several ancient books on traditional Chinese medicine, and seven or eight scrolls, she opened two, from the seal, it was actually a painting of the Ming and Qing dynasties, these were stacked together, should be from a collector's hand, all are ancient calligraphy and paintings, and quickly put them into the space.
After rummaging for a while, it is estimated that the time is almost over, staying here for too long, I am afraid that Uncle Huang will worry, after all, this is someone's job, it is related to the problem of jobs, and she can't cause trouble for others.
Meng Tao held a stack of books and returned to the gatehouse in the front yard, the grandfather and grandson had already finished eating, and Uncle Huang was really standing at the door looking at her, and he didn't go directly to urge her, because he still had to guard Xiao Cheng who was lying on the small wooden bed and wanted to ask him to take a nap.
Seeing Meng Tao holding the book like that, Uncle Huang said, "I'll find something for you to put up, so you can hold it without letting people see it." ”
As he spoke, he walked and took out a delicate white rattan basket with a lid from under the small wooden bed, and handed it to Meng Tao: "This courtyard is full of tatters, and only a few baskets can't be thrown away, I picked them all up, and I can decorate them when I take them home, this one is quite big, I'll give it to you." ”
Meng Tao sighed secretly: Uncle, the pile of rags you are guarding are all precious wood, antiques, if you can put away a few things, repair them, and take them out in a few years, someone will rush to buy them from you, which is worth more than a few baskets.
But she didn't dare to say such things.
took the rattan basket and packed the book, thanked Uncle Huang, and took out a pound of fruit hard candy bought yesterday from the actual space of the satchel, and handed it to Xiaocheng along with two children's picture books.
Uncle Huang saw so many fruit candies, and hurriedly excused himself, Meng Tao smiled and said: "Take it, Xiaocheng is an honest and smart child, when he goes to school in the future, he must study hard, and cultural knowledge is useful at any time." ”
Xiao Cheng got up from the wooden bed, looked at Meng Tao and asked, "Sister Meng, will you come again in the future?" ”
Meng Tao put the candy and the album on the bedside: "I'm not from the provincial city, my home is far away, if there is still a chance to come to the provincial capital, I will come here to see you, okay?" ”
"Good!" Xiao Cheng was very happy, reached out and touched the picture album and candy, and looked up at his grandfather expectantly.
Uncle Huang couldn't bear to disappoint his grandson and taught him: "Then, thank you, Sister Meng." In the future, when you go to school, you will learn from her, study more, I think, literacy is better than illiteracy. ”
"Hmmm! I must learn from Sister Meng, thank you, Sister Meng! ”
After saying goodbye to her grandparents and grandchildren, Meng Tao walked on the side of the street with a rattan basket, feeling that her steps were a little floating, and suddenly remembered: She didn't eat lunch, no wonder her feet were weak and weak!
Hurriedly walked back to the original state-run restaurant, I don't know if there is anything to sell, she found that she always misses the meal, it seems that she has to prepare some biscuits and snacks in the future, so as to save her stomach problems after being hungry for a long time.
Lunch time has passed, the restaurant is empty and there are no guests, and there is basically no ready-made food, the waiter asked Meng Tao to buy a ticket and make a bowl of clear soup noodles for her alone.
Waiting for the noodles to come up, it was really a clear soup noodle, there was no ingredient, so I put salt, drop two drops of sesame oil to shake out the oil flowers, Meng Tao ate a few days of good food, inevitably a little disgusted, but not hungry, fortunately, it tasted okay, the noodles were eaten, half a bowl of soup was left, and left.
The white rattan basket is quite big, people come and go on the street, it is not good to put it away directly, the books inside are Meng Tao's space, but with a schoolbag, and a basket to go shopping, it feels very strange, Meng Tao canceled the plan to go to other scenic spots, walked to the bus station, and waited for the car to return to the steel mill.
Tomorrow is leaving the provincial capital, she also has to pack her luggage, and put the things in the space in the space in the evening and tidy up.