Guo Xiang was surprised, then this old man is a "rich man".

Although he has no money now, if the cultural relics he collected are all genuine, then ten or twenty years later, they may be worth more than 10 million.

Guo Xiang looked at the yard, the layout of this yard is similar to his side, but it is in disrepair and very dilapidated, he may not have taken good care of it alone, and it looks very desolate.

But with this yard, don't say how much it's worth in the future, even if you sell it now, it can sell for tens of thousands, right?

The old man really felt like begging with a golden rice bowl, because he was almost beaten to death for a thousand yuan.

"Come in and have a look!" The old man stood up, and he could see that Guo Xiang and his family were good people.

He took the key and opened the door of one of the rooms, and led the two into the room.

Guo Xiang was taken aback when he saw it, this was simply a cultural relics museum.

The room is full of all kinds of wooden shelves, all kinds of bottles and cans, as well as calligraphy and paintings.

Completely different from the outside, the things inside are neatly arranged, and they are clean and spotless, and you can see how much the old man cherishes these things.

"Elder Rong, you are all treasures here!" Guo Xiang sighed, although she has not studied cultural relics, but in her previous life, she occasionally watched some treasure appreciation programs on TV, those Ming and Qing dynasty porcelain, celebrity calligraphy and paintings, and in the later life, it is worth millions to take a random piece, right?

"For a thousand dollars, are you there?" Guo Xiang said.

Rong Yunxiang smiled bitterly, "These are all my treasures, I can't bear it!" ”

Guo Xiang nodded, she could also understand that the old man loved this business, and these things were like his children, and he was reluctant to sell them.

"But, no matter how many things there are, your life matters, if you are not there, these things do not know who is cheaper, if you meet someone who does not know the goods, throw you away as waste, you have no place to cry!" Guo Xiang said.

Rong Yunxiang was stunned for a moment, the truth is this, but if you really want to take a treasure out, it is as heartbreaking as cutting his flesh.

"You owe someone a thousand dollars this time, what are you looking for?" Guo Xiang asked.

Rong Yunxiang smiled bitterly, "That's not it, this time it's my family's heirloom, I finally found it after looking for so many years, but I didn't have the money to buy it back, so I went to borrow money, I was a bad old man and no one lent it to me, so I went to find those people......"

Guo Xiang understood, those people are equivalent to usury in later generations, right? Although there was no one on the surface during this period, it is difficult to say that there was one in secret.

"Did you buy it back?" Guo Xiang couldn't help but be curious.

Rong Yunxiang shook his head, "I'm two days late, and that person has risen by two hundred, I'm ......" Rong Yunxiang sighed.

"Actually, that thing isn't very valuable, maybe not as valuable as anything I have here, but it means a lot to my family, so I want to redeem it anyway."

Rong Yunxiang said, "When it was devolved, everything in the house was copied, smashed and smashed, and that thing also fell into the hands of others, and now it is difficult to come back......

"Then you are reluctant to sell these treasures, how can you have the money to repay the thousand yuan?" Guo Xiang asked.

Rong Yunxiang's face was sneering, in fact, he didn't think of a way at all, so he borrowed it first.

"But isn't it illegal to buy and sell artifacts now?" Guo Xiang asked in a low voice.

"You don't know this, I'll talk to you about it......" Rong Yunxiang suddenly became energetic.

Guo Xiang smiled, "Zhennan, you go to the house to get some food, let's eat with Rong Lao and listen to his story!" ”

"What's so embarrassing?" Rong Yunxiang's old face turned red.

"It's okay, the meals are all ready-made at home, and I didn't go out of my way to do it, just a meal." Guo Xiang smiled.

"Good!" Gu Zhennan nodded, took a little medicine from the medicine box and left it to the old man, and went back first with the medicine box.

"You're a nice lover." Rong Yunxiang looked at Gu Zhennan's back as he went out and said.

"I think he's good, too." Guo Xiang smiled.

After a while, Gu Zhennan came over with food, Rong Yunxiang took them to the living room, Guo Xiang wiped the table in the living room, put the food on the table, and the three of them ate here.

"I'll tell you......" Rong Yunxiang talked about the cultural relics market in the past while eating.

"In the past, before the liberation, there were many antique shops all over the country, all kinds of antique dealers, there were all kinds of good things, and after the liberation, you also knew that they were gone......

In the 50s, more than a dozen time-honored antique shops on the side of Liulichang merged with the public and private sectors to form the "cultural relics department of the handicraft company", and the former antique dealers became employees of the department. ”

"At that time, it was still under the Xinhua bookstore system, and later in the 60s, it was divided again, and 'cultural relics stores' were formed all over the country to purchase cultural relics from all over the country.

Guo Xiang nodded, at that time, it was illegal to sell eggs, not to mention cultural relics.

"At that time, things were so cheap, everyone couldn't eat enough and no one collected these, and those who had things at home were sold in cultural relics stores, what Qing Dynasty porcelain celebrity calligraphy and painting, it was very cheap."

Guo Xiang nodded, there was really no way at that time, it was useless to have those things without food.

"So what did the state take it for? You can't keep it, right? The country didn't have any money at that time! Guo Xiang asked curiously.

"At that time, the concept was that 'cultural relics belong to waste products, and the old ones should be encouraged to be exchanged for the new, and the export of cultural relics should be exchanged for foreign exchange to support national construction', and the acquisition of cultural relics and the organization of exports have become the main functions of cultural relics stores in various places."

"Huh? Isn't that a lot of cultural relics going abroad? Guo Xiang was taken aback, no wonder many cultural relics in later generations had to be bought back at a high price, and many of them flowed abroad at this time.

"Yes, but the country was poor at that time, and there was no way." Rong Yunxiang sighed lightly, "At that time, it was said that 'cultural relics are equal to waste', and you can't exchange a few yuan for cultural relics in the cultural relics store, and the cultural relics at that time were not purchased by age, they were all according to size, and you could receive porcelain from the Qing Dynasty for three or five yuan, and most of the prices were not more than ten yuan." ”

Guo Xiang sighed, he really didn't know these things before.

"Although this is fine, but later in that era, the four old ones were broken, and the cultural relics store was stopped, and many things were smashed...... Rong Yunxiang looked regretful.

"That is, at that time, things were not worth much, but they were cheaper for me, and I secretly collected a lot." Rong Yunxiang took a bite of food and continued: "In the eighties, the reform and opening up was carried out, the policy was good, and the state has been implementing the policy of returning personal cultural relics. ”

"Can you return it?" Guo Xiang was taken aback.

"Yes, at that time, when the cultural relics store received it, there was an account, and the name and address were all there, and now they are returning it one after another, but some people see that these objects are worthless, only a few yuan, and they throw them away after taking them, and they don't want to ...... at all."

"Huh? Then I'll pick it up! Guo Xiang smiled.

"That's when I was looking for my family's heirloom everywhere, but I didn't find it, and then someone heard that I was looking for it and took the opportunity to extort me, but I couldn't help it......" Rong Yunxiang sighed.