Chapter 26: The Crane Boy (3)

At this time, the grandfather came into the house to look for something,

"Eucalyptus, when you go to sleep, will our grandparents and grandchildren shake the empty bamboo together?" When Lan Eucalyptus heard this, she immediately became interested,

"Okay, grandpa, don't you sleep at noon?"

"I don't sleep, the older I get, the less sleep I get, and I can't sleep at night after my lunch break." Grandpa happily continued to rummage through the cabinets, and Lan Yu was so excited that he didn't want to sleep, so he watched carefully.

The grandparents' room is like a huge treasure chest full of childhood memories. The walls are made of exposed red bricks, with unique textures and rough textures that give a sense of rawness and modernity, and the mottled light and shadow are full of the beauty of the passage of time.

The drawers of the two cabinets and desk were piled to the brim, and the lower part of the bookcase on the left contained the villain's books, a thin comic strip that could fly the wings of the blue eucalyptus imagination in those days before television was popular.

The plots of "Gourd Baby", "Journey to the West", and "Sanmao Wandering" have long been engraved in her mind, and it is a time that is getting farther and farther away.

Compared with the current comic books, the villain's calligraphy and painting style is more simple, the story is more concise, and it will not feel difficult to read at all.

The upper part of the bookcase on the left contains a philatelic album from my grandfather's private collection. In the era before the rise of express delivery, stamps existed

Known as the "national business card", each country issues stamps, all of which select the best, most beautiful, most representative or commemorative things of the country, which are carefully designed and displayed on the stamps.

The content involved is political, economic, cultural, military and other aspects, all walks of life have everything, making the small stamps between the square inches become an all-encompassing museum, a small encyclopedia containing rich knowledge.

The American philatelist Bierman once said, "Philately teaches history and geography; Philately is a pastime; Philately keeps people warm; Philately brings fun to people from different backgrounds; It's also a great place to invest; It has an exchange value on an international scale, and stamps can cross national borders without losing their intrinsic value. Overall, philately is a source of personal pleasure and satisfaction. "I remember when I was a child, my grandfather was careful every time he took off the stamps, as if the process had an extremely sacred sense of ritual.

Grandpa first cut off the part with the stamp from the envelope, put it into a shallow flat-bottomed container with water and soak it for about 20 minutes, after the stamp falls off naturally from the lining paper, clamp the corner of the stamp with tweezers, put the other hand into the water, carefully wash off the adhesive on the stamp, and then put the stamp on the basin, control the water and put it on the absorbent paper prepared in advance, and then place the stamp in a cool and ventilated place to dry until it is dry, sandwich it in the book and flatten, and wait for the stamp to be completely dry before collecting it in the album.

Grandpa's collection of stamps is extensive, and he still has China's first stamp. Eucalyptus remembers that the stamp featured a soaring dragon in the center, surrounded by clouds and waves, as it was called

"Dragon Playing with Pearls" picture. There are also Western paintings on the stamps, whether it is an elegant and solemn classicist school, or an enthusiastic and unrestrained romantic school, the style is everything, and the two stamps that she is most impressed by are "Venus in the Clouds" and "Lady Lecamill", which is also the enlightenment of eucalyptus art.

The bookcase on the right is mostly my grandfather's lifelong collection of books, and a whole layer is left at the bottom to store the videotapes.

At the end of the last century, computers were not yet widely available, and television was the main entertainment window for people. When grandpa saw the TV series he liked, he recorded it on videotape, not only his favorite "Yongzheng Dynasty", "Iron Tooth Bronze Tooth Ji Xiaolan", "Water Margin", "Li Wei as an Official", "Smiling Proud Jianghu", "Prime Minister Liu Luoguo" and so on, as well as Lan Eucalyptus's favorite "Little Dragon Man", "The Legend of the New White Lady", "Black Cat Sheriff", "Snow White", every time she went to her grandfather's house for a weekend, she had to watch these again, and the plot was almost reversed.

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