Chapter 316: In the Dark
"Weishenme said that?" I asked Brother Cao puzzled.
"I didn't just say it, antiques in prosperous times, gold in troubled times. At that time, what kind of calligraphy, calligraphy and paintings, and those antiques in bottles and cans were not worth anything at all, not to mention that a piece of jade used as money for the dead could not be exchanged for a meal at that time.
But Yuan Datou is different, it was originally silver, you must know that gold and silver are the most popular circulating currencies in times of war, and people collect them everywhere. Although the face value of Yuan Datou is one yuan, what can be bought is definitely more than the value of the silver dollar itself.
Lao Yu was crazy after touching Yuan Datou, and he was not busy in vain this night. I can't earn a piece of ocean even if I work for a month. So, first skimmed out the skull of Rich Master Li and his father, grabbed Yuan Datou with both hands and wiped it on his dirty clothes a few times, then put it to his mouth and blew hard, quickly took it and put it to his ear, listening to the buzzing sound, it was really true, and Lao Yu was happy in his heart. ”
Popularize it, I have silver dollars at home, both real and fake, so I know very well what Brother Cao said about blowing it and putting it in my ears to listen to the sound is a swollen thing. Let me explain here: because silver dollars can be counterfeited, just like the current counterfeiting, but at that time it was still in the monetary stage, unlike now, everything is fake.
The method of counterfeiting silver dollars is nothing more than adding copper, zinc, tin, and lead to it. Fake silver dollars are doped with other materials, so the biggest difference between them and real silver dollars is the density.
Under the basically similar force mode, the vibration, tremor and resonance sound produced are different. The sound of the real silver dollar is pure and tactful, soft, and feels calm; The copper silver dollar has a high-pitched voice, and it sounds a little harsh; The sound of adding lead is very muffled, and there is no sound when adding more lead; As for the amount of zinc and tin, you know that it is very light. Readers with conditions can try it, it's quite interesting, when I was a child, I always played with two silver dollars, one real and one fake.
Lao Yu put the Yuan Datou close to his body, touched the coffin at the bottom of the pit again, and found that the bones inside had been cleaned before crawling out.
Lao Yu, who crawled out, first carried a shovel back to his parents' grave, and cried for a while, anyway, he was not filial, and he had no queen, and then used a straw basket to move his parents' bones to the grave of Rich Li's house several times, and according to his own feelings, arranged the bones of his father and mother and put them properly in the coffin of Rich Rich Li and his father, and then filled the soil. But that tombstone, Lao Yu didn't move from beginning to end, he was not stupid, he knew that if even the monument was replaced, it would really be looking for death.
Lao Yu carried a shovel and looked at the bones of Rich Master Li and his father scattered outside the cemetery, and he couldn't help but feel a little unbearable, this is a special person to be kind, so he picked up the bones of Rich Man Li and his father and put them in the grave of his own house, of course, a few bones may have fallen halfway, after all, they are not their relatives, so they will drop it. After burying the bones of Rich Master Li and his father, he went home to sleep with peace of mind.
At the beginning, my grandfather only asked Lao Yu to move the bones in his ancestral grave to the grave of Rich Li's family, and did not ask Lao Yu to switch the graves of the two families. As a result, Lao Yu thought that he had a good heart, and let the bones of Rich Man Li and his father be buried in the graveyard on the dark side, which hurt Rich Man Li.
After Lao Yu got home, he couldn't sleep after tossing and turning. Why? If you think it's exciting, you're wrong, man, you're hungry. Jia Shu, you haven't been hungry. "Brother Cao was about to continue, but I interrupted.
"Brother Cao, on the day I first arrived in Beijing, I removed the tuition fee of the year, and I had 30 yuan left in my pocket, how did I survive until now? You may not believe me when I say this, Brother Cao, I can eat four big bowls of authentic fried noodles in old Beijing, plus a greasy Peking duck, and after eating, I can also destroy a big watermelon and a dozen melons by myself; In the same way, I can eat only three steamed buns for a week and make soup made with instant noodles. So don't complain to me, I can live to this day, and I have suffered no less than you. "Brother Cao always thought that when he was older than me, he would experience more things, but he didn't know that some things had nothing to do with age.
To put it mildly, Brother Cao can't go to the heavens and earths in Beijing in his life, and he can't even go to those high-end saunas in Dongguan, and I really don't want to go to the former, because there are people I don't want to see, and as for the latter, if I have the opportunity in the future, I really want to see it.
Brother Cao waved his hand, "I'll continue, I'll continue." ”
"I don't mean anything else, Brother Cao, just concentrate on telling me the story about your family's feng shui, yes, just tell me about your ancestral "Hidden Dragon Jue"!" Since Brother Cao has given me steps, if I don't go down, it will really be shameless.
"Lao Yu pinched the big head of Yuan, and repeatedly summed up what to buy. It doesn't matter if you think about it, your stomach will be even hungrier. In desperation, Lao Yu came to the kitchen and drank a few scoops of cold water, wanting to cushion his hunger, but his stomach hurt for a night.
Early the next morning, as soon as the sky was bright, Lao Yu pinched the Yuan Datou and went to the rice store to buy two large bags of white noodles and imported American rich and strong noodles. That's it, there's a few pennies left. With these few cents, Lao Yu ate a few fritters, drank a bowl of soy milk, and felt this beauty in his heart, and then returned home with flour.
When I got home, I began to steam steamed buns with noodles, and I guess I was afraid that the flour would be stolen, so I steamed a bag of steamed buns at a time, which is not crazy, and packed several large baskets (a tool similar to baskets).
Looking at the white-faced buns in the basket, I am old in the beauty of my heart. Oops, after so many years, I can be considered full. According to my grandfather, as long as he moved his family's ancestral grave to the sunny side, he would live a richer and richer life in the future.
Lao Yu was happy here, and he heard the neighbors outside shouting that the Japanese were coming, and Lao Yu thought, although this flour is easy to carry, but when you escape the famine, where can you find a place to make a fire and cook? It's still safe to make a bun.
Anyway, I have some firewood at home, and I am full of food and drink, and I have the strength, so I can hurry up and make the remaining bag of flour now.
As soon as he said to do it, the old man came to the kitchen again and began to make a fire to cook. The surrounding neighbors are very surprised, what is this old man smoking crazy today, the chimney has been smoking for a day, this is planning to smoke himself?
to be continued