The fat man has a family heirloom jade pendant, which he has always carried on his body, this piece of jade was given to his father by a leader of the Northwest Field Army, when the chief led the troops into Xinjiang and eliminated a group of bandits in the Niya Oasis, this piece of jade was brought by the bandit leader. It is said that it is a jade pendant, but in fact, the appearance is not very similar, the shape is simple and weird, and there are some messy patterns engraved on it, like a map, and like a text, I don't know what it is actually for.

This piece of jade fat man has shown me many times, I used to have a lot of antiques at home, and when I was a child, I heard my grandfather talk a lot about gold, stone and jade. But I can't see the value of this piece of jade.

The fat man wanted to sell this piece of jade for some capital to do business, but I stopped him, this is what your father left for you, don't sell it if you can, we haven't reached the point of desperation, it's really not okay I asked the family for money, anyway, our old man and old lady paid a lot of wages.

When the two of us saw an empty space on the side of the road, we stopped the three wheels and bought two bowls of braised fire for lunch nearby.

Braised fire is the soup boiled by the pig, which is full of large intestines and the like, soaked in chopped fire, a bowl of more than a dollar, which is both economical and affordable.

I put too much spicy in this bowl, so spicy that my tears and snot came out, and I stuck out my tongue.

The fat man took two bites and said to me: "Lao Hu, I wanted to take you out to make a fortune in the past few years, but I didn't expect that now the national economy has been invigorated, and the situation is not a small good, but a big one." Unlike when I first started practicing stalls, there were no more than three pop song tapes sold in Beijing. It's really a bit of a burden to you, your father was already a division commander before he retired, and he enjoys the treatment of a deputy municipal cadre, you might as well go back and let your old man go through the back door and arrange a job for you in the agency, so don't suffer with me. ”

I patted the fat man's belly and said, "Brother, I'll also tell you something from my heart, if I really want to go to the agency, I can go at any time, but I don't dare to go, do you know why?" I'm afraid, if I sit still in one place, my mind is full of nothing else, it's all my dead comrades, they are dangling in front of my eyes, and when I see them, my intestines will break. Now we're running around doing some small business, and we can diverge our minds to think of something else, otherwise I have to be nervous. ”

After so many years in the army, I didn't learn anything else, but I learned to boost morale, I comforted the fat man: "We're not bitter now, isn't there still boiled to eat, I think I was in Kunlun Mountain back then, so the fuck was really bitter." One year, during the Spring Festival, everyone was homesick, and many recruits cried secretly. The division commander saw that this was okay, and hurriedly made dumplings for everyone to improve the food. The dumplings are eaten, you may not believe it, there are no green vegetables in Kunlun Mountain, the vegetables are more expensive than gold, and the meat is all dumplings with meatballs. The altitude is too high, the water can't be boiled, the dumplings are all raw, and the meat filling inside is red. Can you imagine what that tastes like? In this way, I ate seventy or eighty of them, and they almost didn't kill me, and I was hungry, I hadn't eaten anything cooked in those years, and I was hungry. The next day, I had someone take me to the hospital, I couldn't digest it, and my stomach was like an iron sheet. Do you remember what it says in Red Rock? The eve of the victory of the revolution is always the coldest. Our business can't always be like this, audio tapes don't sell well, we can sell something else. Just like Chairman Mao and his old man said: If you don't let Lushan go up, let's go to Jinggang Mountain, if you don't follow the People's Liberation Army, I'll go to the Red Army. ”

I turned on the tape recorder, and the two loudspeakers played music.

Because the tape recorder is relatively tattered and the sound quality is very poor, no matter how beautiful the song is broadcast from it, it is like striking a gong.

But the fat man and I don't think it's ugly, anyway, it's better than the two of us, the fat man has been in a cheerful mood after my in-depth ideological education work, and he grabbed his calves with the rhythm of the music, and opened his throat to sell: "Take a look, take a look, the original version of Hong Kong and Taiwan, cut off your arms and legs, and sell it, lose money and make a lot of money......"

The passers-by and the people around us who were doing business and setting up stalls all cast curious glances at us, and there was a man selling antiques next to us, he came over to greet us, and when he smiled, a big gold tooth appeared in his mouth, and the big gold tooth took out a cigarette and sent it to the two of us.

I took the cigarette and looked at it: "Yo, the grade is not low, American cigarettes, Marlboro." ”

Da Jinya said while lighting a cigarette for me: "Second master, selling pop songs in the Panjiayuan Antique Market, but no third person in these four or nine cities can think of it, you two are really the first one." ”

I took a big puff of cigarette and puffed out two white smoke from my nose, this American smoke is strong, I looked up and said to the big gold tooth: "You are using this to squeeze us, our brothers and sons are hiding from the industrial and commercial bureau, and they inadvertently ran here and left after a while." ”

As a result, the two sides talked about it, and they were not outsiders in love, the big golden tooth family was on Hainan Island, and they had been in Yunnan before, and their father's generation lived in the People's Liberation Army when they went south. The roots of the family are all from Sanye, and when you say where your hometown is, the elders in the family are several verticals and columns, and which division and which regiment are not far away.

However, Da Jinya's father is not a cadre, his father is a folk craftsman, and later let the national army capture the strong man, Xu Beng's battle, that is, during the Huaihai Campaign, his unit revolted and joined the People's Liberation Army, and he himself has been a cook in the army. After the reform and opening up, he moved from Hainan to Beijing to collect some antique toys and do some business.

It's better to be able to speak than to listen, what kind of inverted craftsman, isn't he just a grave digging thief, others can't hear this, but I was brought up by my grandfather since I was a child, and he told me a lot of these things.

The connoisseur stretches out his hand to know if there is one. Going deeper, I asked the big gold tooth: "Your old man was a captain who touched gold back then, did he find any big zongzi?" (Big zongzi is a code word that circulates among tomb robbers, just like the bandits in the mountains can't directly say that they kill people and set fires, there are a set of black cuts, zongzi refers to the corpses in the tomb are relatively well preserved, not rotten, touching the big zongzi means that you are in trouble, referring to zombies, evil ghosts and other unclean things, dry zongzi refers to the corpses in the tomb are rotten to only a pile of white bones, and meat zongzi, which means that the corpse has a lot of valuable things)

As soon as the big golden tooth heard this, he immediately respected me, and insisted on inviting me and the fat man to go to Dongsi to eat mutton shabu, and talk in detail by the way. So the three of them packed their things and ran to Dongsi together.