Chapter 10: Treasure
The scrap station, in many people's minds, is full of waste paper, scrap iron, scrap copper and the like, and it is very dirty, what is there to see in such a place.
However, this is only the surface, in fact, there are a lot of treasures hidden inside the scrapyard.
In the sixties and seventies, I didn't pay any attention to old items or anything, and at that time, everyone thought about how to eat enough, as long as they could be exchanged for food, what antiques were not antiques, and they were sold directly.
You can't eat enough, and you're still thinking about what antiques aren't antiques.
This time, Zhou Jianguo is going to take a look to see if there are any antiques or anything like that, and by the way, he will also collect some scrap iron, scrap copper and other materials, and then use the power of the cave world to test and make sewer pipes, flushing toilets or something.
In order to avoid exposure or attract anyone's attention, Zhou Jianguo did not choose to go to the scrap yard near the courtyard, but took a bus to a scrap yard in the suburbs at the other end of Kyoto.
This scrap yard is not large, there are only five staff members in it, and all of them are middle-aged and elderly people in their forties and fifties.
"Hey, kid, what are you doing here?" An old janitor who looked to be in his fifties looked at Zhou Jianguo and asked.
Zhou Jianguo's body is extremely thin due to his perennial illness, and although he is thirteen years old, he looks like he is only in his early tens.
"Uncle, I'll buy some second-hand furniture and dishes, which I need to use at home." Zhou Jianguo said bluntly.
"You buy?" The janitor was full of disbelief.
"Go, go, kids, play, this is not the place for you to play." The janitor was ready to drive people away, Zhou Jianguo was too young, and he thought that Zhou Jianguo was playing here.
"Uncle, I'm thirteen years old!" Zhou Jianguo explained helplessly, looking at the old man still didn't believe it, he only took out two big black sheets to show him, and the janitor believed it.
"Boy Zhou, the second-hand furniture and dishes you want are over there." The old man at the gatekeeper kindly pointed to a direction on the left hand side and said, "At that moment just now, Zhou Jianguo had already introduced himself.
"Okay, Uncle Xu, then I'll go over and have a look first."
"Well, go ahead, be careful, those pieces of furniture aren't light, don't hurt them." Uncle Xu admonished again.
There is no way, who told Zhou Jianguo's body that Zhou Jianguo's body looks quite thin now, and anyone who sees it is not at ease.
Zhou Jianguo smiled and nodded, and soon, he came to the place that Uncle Xu pointed to.
As soon as he came here, Zhou Jianguo was shocked, and what appeared in front of him was a large pile of second-hand furniture, so large that it was countless, almost filling the surrounding space of forty or fifty meters.
Desk, Eight Immortals Table, Coffee Table, Dresser, Chair....... With a wide variety of second-hand furniture, it can be said that everything is available here.
"Unfortunately, most of them are crippled." Zhou Jianguo shook his head, there are a lot of furniture here, but the nine floors are all broken.
Either a corner is missing here, or a leg is missing there, or a handrail is missing...... Anyway, every piece of furniture has some breakage, not much intact.
"Also, the intact furniture has long been sold in second-hand furniture stores, where will it be placed like garbage at the scrap yard." Zhou Jianguo smiled self-deprecatingly.
It's the 60s, everyone is very poor, where the furniture in the home will be easily lost, even if it is broken, it is repaired and continued to be used, so those furniture that will be thrown away will only be some broken and difficult to repair.
Now these pieces of furniture in front of Zhou Jianguo are like this, they are dilapidated, and they can't be repaired at all.
However, Zhou Jianguo didn't care about this at all, because a surprise had already appeared in front of him.
didn't need to look closely, Zhou Jianguo saw that the three chairs in front of him were made of rosewood, but the appearance was really not good, and they looked similar to garbage, so they were discarded here like this, and no one cared about them.
"The first thing I saw was rosewood, wouldn't it be too prickly!"
Zhou Jianguo suppressed the excitement in his heart, the pile of wood in front of him was rotten wood in the eyes of others, but in his eyes, this was a huge gold mine.
For example, the rosewood in front of him, in his previous life, this was more expensive than gold, but now it is discarded here like garbage, Zhou Jianguole's mouth almost smiled crookedly.
The rosewood chairs were treated like this, which showed that there were definitely more similar furniture made of high-quality wood, and now all he needed to do was find them all.
"It's a huge treasure trove!" Zhou Jianguo looked at the 'dilapidated' furniture everywhere and shouted in his heart.
"Hurry up and see how many treasures there are here." Zhou Jianguo couldn't bear it any longer, his spiritual power opened, and in an instant, everything within a radius of 100 meters was in front of his eyes.
"This is red sandalwood, this is huanghuali, this is golden silk nanmu ......."
One treasure after another came into Zhou Jianguo's mind, and in just about three minutes, he saw no less than twenty pieces of antique furniture made of precious woods such as rosewood, huanghuali, and golden silk nanmu.
As for why Zhou Jianguo knew these woods, he won't tell you that when he was a sophomore, he and a few classmates went to the countryside to dig out old mansions whimsically during the summer vacation, so he knew some antique furs......
"So much, how can I take it?" Zhou Jianguo had a headache, there were too many pieces of furniture that he fancied, if he bought them all, not to mention that it would cost a lot of money, and others would definitely suspect that there was something wrong with it after seeing it.
"Forget it, let's just take it away, otherwise, if I don't take away these furniture now, it will not be sent to the stove in the canteen as firewood to burn it later, or it will be slowly corroded by the rain, so it is better to take it away now, at most wait until the future to donate some."
Zhou Jianguo nodded secretly and made up his mind.
"Close!" The pieces of furniture were quietly collected into the cave world, which seemed to be a lot, but it was nothing for the mountain-like volume of the scrapyard.
"Hey, there's a dark grid here!" Zhou Jianguo's eyes lit up, and his spiritual power found a dark compartment at the bottom of a very ordinary wardrobe.
"Hey, two big yellow croakers, five small yellow croakers, more than 100 oceans, and dozens of gold and silver jewelry, jade pendants, make a fortune!" Zhou Jianguo's eyes lit up, and the next moment he directly collected these treasures into the cave world, and his heart was ecstatic.
When he came, he thought about whether he would encounter such a good thing, and now that it has really appeared, Zhou Jianguo is really excited in his heart!
"Hmm......." At this time, there was a fluctuation in the space, and Zhou Jianguo sensed it carefully, only to find that it was caused by the few jade pendants he had just brought in.
"I see!" Zhou Jianguo quickly understood, it turned out that these jade pendants he had just collected into the space contained a certain amount of aura, and the Cave Heaven Orb reacted, it could devour them and absorb the aura inside.
"Before, people said that jade has a spirit and can raise people, I didn't believe it originally, but now it seems that this is indeed the case!" Zhou Jianguo sighed.
It was true that he didn't believe in these things before, but reality made him have to believe that there were indeed some extremely magical things in this world.
It's like the Cave Heaven Orb he got, isn't it the most magical treasure?
"Jade really contains aura, so did the martial arts on TV and movies also exist before?" Zhou Jianguo's mind was alive, and he couldn't help but start thinking about some martial arts in movies and TV.
What kind of flying flowers and picking leaves, the sword qi stretches thousands of miles...... This is definitely the biggest dream in the hearts of all Chinese men.
In the past, Zhou Jianguo didn't have this opportunity, nor did he have that ability, but now he seems to have this opportunity.
"Whew...!" Zhou Jianguo exhaled deeply and suppressed the excitement in his heart.
"Relax, relax!!" Zhou Jianguo took a few deep breaths, and his excited heart slowly calmed down.
"Find some martial arts cheats to practice as soon as possible after you go back, maybe there will be a big surprise." Zhou Jianguo's eyes were full of eagerness, whether it was really martial arts or something, he wanted to test it.
Moreover, to be honest, Zhou Jianguo is very confident in his heart about whether there is martial arts, after all, he has a treasure of heaven and earth like the Cave Heaven Orb, and that martial arts, or cultivation and the like must exist.
At most, it is the difference between low martial arts, medium martial arts, high martial arts, immortal martial arts and the like.
"Come on, future Zhou Daxia!" Zhou Jianguo was full of motivation and quickly scanned all the furniture.
I have to say that this time the harvest is not small, in addition to the previous dark grid, Zhou Jianguo found two more dark grids, and got three big yellow croaker, eighteen small yellow croaker, more than 700 oceans, and hundreds of pearls, jewelry, jade pendants, etc.
It can be said that he has gained a lot this time.
The only pity is that there is nothing like calligraphy and painting, which makes Zhou Jianguo a little disappointed.
Among the antiques, calligraphy and painting are quite a large piece, which is also a thing that Zhou Jianguo is looking forward to, but there are no antiques in calligraphy and painting here.
But after thinking about it carefully, he also understood, because the three dark grids he found were all at the bottom, this place was directly in contact with the ground, day/usual/tide/wet/different/normal, if you hide calligraphy and paintings here, hehe..., it won't be long before these paintings and calligraphy will be destroyed by the moisture seeping out of the ground, so no one will hide calligraphy and paintings in such a place.
After collecting the antique furniture, Zhou Jianguo turned his attention to the second-hand dishes on the side, or antique porcelain.
This time Zhou Jianguo was also disappointed, his harvest was almost zero, most of the second-hand porcelain here is not very good, at first glance, it is fired from a very ordinary kiln.