The provincial capital of Harbin City.

Aunt Xue and the second dog mother and son in the building.

In addition to the donkey meat that Ergou bought, Aunt Xue also made fried hairtail, stewed mandarin fish, stewed deer steak and several other vegetarian dishes.

"Do you like these dishes? I'm not good at this craft, and I don't know how to cook."

The smile on Aunt Xue's face never disappeared, and she poured wine for Wang Yuan and wanted to pour a cup for Li Yan, but Wang Yuan waved his hand and refused for Li Yan.

Li Yan doesn't drink liquor, and in the end, Aunt Xue can only pour it for herself.

The second dog secretly poured himself a small cup.

"These dishes are already very good, we can't finish such a large table of dishes."

Wang Yuan sandwiched a piece of hairtail, the hairtail was very wide, and the surface was also wrapped in a layer of egg and batter mixed with the liquid.

The fish is fragrant, and even the surface liquid is delicious.

"This hairtail fish is delicious, it's so delicious...... Well, this is a deer's ribs? It tastes like venison, a little spicy but appetizing."

Wang Yuan was full of praise for the dishes made by Aunt Xue, and Aunt Xue was very happy to keep serving Wang Yuan and Li Yan.

While eating and chatting, Aunt Xue suddenly said that she had cultivated 100 acres of land in the countryside and planned to open a small farm.

"A hundred acres of land? Where is it?"

Wang Yuan was very surprised, one is that most people now want to run to the city, or even abroad, and there are too few people who are willing to go from the city to the countryside.

Many people who go out from the countryside actually despise the countryside in their hearts.

"The Pioneer Village of White Mist Township."

Aunt Xue is eating mandarin fish meat, and she can eat mandarin fish meat when the river is not opened, which is really a pleasure.

"It is a family's land, I found a formal job for his son in the county seat, bought a yard for their family, gave 10,000 yuan, and their family gave me all 70 acres of land."

"That's not enough for a hundred acres?"

"The remaining 30 acres were bought in their village, and some families have hundreds of acres of land and sell them for more than ten acres, and then they have changed the land, and now the 100 acres of land are connected together."

After listening to Aunt Xue's words, Wang Yuan was a little embarrassed, many people are indeed very envious of city people, decent work, not so dirty, tired, and convenient life...... And most importantly, pensions.

When you retire in the future, the state will give money, and even give a lot of money, but what about the elderly in the countryside? If the children raised are not filial, then they will have little money when they are old, and their lives will be quite difficult.

Wang Yuan wondered if that family would regret it in the future, but after thinking about it, he felt that he wouldn't regret it.

70 acres of land is only planted with some conventional crops, and even future generations will not make much money.

"Then what are you going to do with opening a farm? Raising livestock?"

"Xiaoyuan, listen to me, that's what I think...... Dig a pond to raise fish, and then set aside a plot of land to grow crops, bud rice, rice, soybeans, sorghum, cotton, peanuts, etc. Finally, we will raise pigs, ducks, chickens, cows, and sheep in whole parts......

Aunt Xue's face was full of longing, she very much hoped to have a piece of land to toss as she wanted, and she didn't care whether she made money or not.

Wang Yuan gulped down the donkey meat in sauce and added:

"Then build one or two small courtyards, and make a few small pavilions, and pave some complete stone paths between each other, and plant all kinds of flowers on the side of the road...... When it snows, a group of people will have a barbecue on the hour."

Aunt Xue clapped her hands excitedly, and she and Wang Yuan thought of going together.

Aunt Xue smiled and asked Wang Yuan if he wanted to sponsor something, Wang Yuan immediately said that he would sponsor 20,000 yuan to repair the farm, and Aunt Xue happily agreed to wait for the farm to be repaired and leave a small yard for Wang Yuan's family of three.

The sauce donkey meat is very delicious, and a large plate of sauce donkey meat is almost eaten up by several people in the end.

At the end of lunch, Aunt Xue counted the two dogs again, it turned out that the two dogs played everywhere every day, and all kinds of spending money made Aunt Xue very dissatisfied.

She wants Ergou to find a partner to get married quickly, and it is best to have another child and settle down to live a good life.

But two dogs

Her words are like the wind in her ears, or her left ear is listening to her right ear, which is not taken seriously at all.

In the end, looking at Aunt Xue was really excited, Ergou said with a hippie smile:

"What's so bad about not getting married, if you marry a daughter-in-law who doesn't deal with you, and she fights with you eight times a day every day, then what do you think is good? Isn't that reasonable?"

"So, if you don't marry a daughter-in-law, it's better for me? I thank you~"

Give a pole and the second dog will climb along the pole, and immediately continue to say with a hippie smile:

"Oops~ What did the mother and son say thank you or not, it's too raw, you just have that heart, if you really feel sorry for not going, you can give me more pocket money."

"I'll beat you stinky boy to death."

Aunt Xue picked up the broom next to her and called on the legs of the second dog, and the frightened second dog jumped up and ran back to his own room quickly.

"Mom, I'm full, let's go rest for a while."

Bang~

As Ergou closed the door of the house, the surroundings instantly fell silent.

Seeing her son's liveliness, Aunt Xue is actually quite happy, but she is a little worried that her son is not on the right path:

"Xiaoyuan, did you find out? Ergou's personality is indeed different from before, and it has changed too much, hasn't it?"

"It's a big change."

Wang Yuan also noticed that although the original Ergou was poor, his poor clothes were full of big patches, and he couldn't even eat cakes and pickles, he was hardworking and strong, and his heart was full of beautiful visions for the future.

Now—

Although Ergou is giggling on the surface, he doesn't seem to be as happy as he seems to be on the surface, and he no longer easily expresses his truest thoughts in his heart.

He doesn't seem to have so much passion for life anymore, and even Wang Yuan can't see through what he is thinking.

Aunt Xue's husband had already died, and after she found out that Ergou didn't have a heart-to-heart relationship with her, she asked Wang Yuan to help do the work of Ergou, she always felt that Ergou was not a problem to mess around like this.

"He doesn't listen to what I say, but Ergou admires Xiaoyuan a lot, and he will listen to what you say."

Aunt Xue thought of the hard days of these years, and the past was vividly vivid, and she couldn't help wiping away her tears again:

"I still remember a few years ago, when we first met, Ergou collected antiques alone, when he was only a teenager, and a thin and small person dared to go to another county to collect antiques.

If you can't find a place to eat, you beg for food, find a cowshed at night, and endure the cold in a broken house or something, and your hands and feet are frozen, but he thinks it's worth it when he calculates the difference in price earned every time.

I cried in distress, and he could still smile and wipe my tears and say: Mom, I must let you live a good life......

But now how did he become like this?"

Li Yan sat next to her and became sad.

After listening to Aunt Xue's words, Wang Yuan was also a little embarrassed, he really didn't know these things, at the beginning, it was just Ergou who walked the streets and alleys to buy the antiques back, and Wang Yuan added a little price and then bought it from Ergou.

A little difference in price is enough for the mother and son of the two dogs to live.

"Xiaoyuan, did you say that it was the little girl's business at the beginning, that is, Ergou liked that little girl, and the result was ...... Hasn't he come out yet? Hey~ This kid doesn't tell me anything, sometimes I'm so angry that I can't wait to whip him with a stick."

"Ahem, Aunt Xue, listen to me, Ergou is also twenty years old, right? If he's not a child, he can't fight anymore, and he wants to save face."

Wang Yuan promised to ask Ergou, and after knocking on the door, Ergou knew that it was him, so he opened the door.

"Where did you get this magazine? It's still a blonde girl."

Wang Yuan entered the room and saw the magazines spread out on the bed at a glance.

The magazine is an American swimwear magazine, with American women in bikinis posing in various poses, and their backs are villas, luxury cars, yachts, sun and beaches, etc.

This kind of magazine is nothing in later generations, but it is only 1992 now, and the ideology is conservative, especially in the black province where the temperature is generally relatively low, and people are almost all wrapped in black provinces all year round

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The impact on the two dogs can be imagined.

Ergou's face turned red instantly, and he flew to close the magazine and put it away, as if he felt that he had no place to be ashamed and wanted to find a crack in the ground to get into.

"Oh, what are you ashamed of, isn't it just a swimsuit magazine, how normal it is, and our domestic beaches will become like this in the future."

Seeing that Wang Yuan didn't laugh at him, Ergou was a little less embarrassed.

"Will we be like this in China? How is it possible, if a woman in China dares to wear it like this, she will not be scolded to death."

"Haha, the concept is changing little by little, and even this year, some coastal beaches have bikinis, but there are relatively few."

The two chatted easily for a while, and Wang Yuan didn't put on a high-minded and domineering posture that I am a rich man and I will educate you, but just like an ordinary friend chatting casually.

The second dog felt very comfortable getting along.

After talking for a while, Wang Yuan asked about the situation of Ergou, and Ergou took a puff of cigarette:

"I~ just don't feel interesting, I can't do anything."

Ergou's brows furrowed, and he looked through the window at the pedestrians as small as ants in the distance:

"Brother Yuan, what do you say people live for in this life?"

"This...... What do you mean in life? Everybody's opinion."

Wang Yuan smiled and said, "People are like this for a lifetime, isn't life just a process, and when they die, they will be gone."

"Process?"

"yes, the point is, are you happy with the current state of life? Feeling worried? If you're satisfied, you don't need to change, and if you're not satisfied, you need to change."

"Huh~ What's going on?"

"This...... It's different for everyone, you can walk around first, see, relax and see what you're interested in, you're still young and it's not bad to try.

Of course, it's better not to have too much to pay for each attempt, otherwise you may not be able to afford to fail."

Listening to Wang Yuan's words, Ergou's eyes lit up: "Hahaha~ I thought that Brother Yuan would be like my mother, persuade me to get married early and have children early."

"Ahem, you don't even have a partner, a fart child."

After enlightening the second dog again, Wang Yuan left, and it was not his own idea to investigate the words of outsiders, and it was up to him how much he could experience or what changes he could make.

After coming out of Ergou's room, Aunt Xue took Wang Yuan out of the house and took a taxi to a house south of the meat factory to meet someone.

"The people I found before who could identify antiques were not good enough, but this one is definitely okay!"

"Really? What's the name of this person?"

"He himself forgot his name, everyone else called him 'Old Monkey', and he liked to be called that, he was a fortune teller."

Aunt Xue smiled and said:

"Xiaoyuan, do you know Tang Ying in Shenyang?"

"Uh...... Ahem, forgive me for being lonely and unheard." Wang Yuan was a little embarrassed, Shenyang is also from the Northeast, and it is said that he has heard of many celebrities in the Northeast.

"Hahaha~ It's normal if you haven't heard of it, Tang Ying is not a person of our time, he is a figure more than two hundred years ago, he is the assistant director of JDZ Imperial Kiln Factory in the Yongzheng period, he can write and paint, and his attainments in porcelain making are very high!"

"So the old monkey is Tang Ying's descendant?"

"Yes, of course, the old monkey is probably not even one thousandth of Tang Ying's in terms of writing, painting, carving, porcelain making, etc., but in the first half of his life, his family was very rich, and his father was a big businessman. And the old monkey is obsessed with antiques, so he has a lot of antiques, and he is very good at studying antiques."

"Research is enough, we just want to be able to identify, not to make porcelain."

Wang Yuan was also very happy, there were a large number of antiques in his space, and he was eager to distinguish them.

Keep the precious ones, and sell the ordinary ones.

The history of China is too long, so there are a lot of antiques, there are quite a number of antiques not only have no research value, the production is also rough, and there are Tuqin and the like in appearance, and the old phase of the soil is very obvious.

When I found the old monkey, he was lying on the warm kang and smoking a dry cigarette comfortably while smoking his feet.

"Old monkey, are you enjoying it?"

Aunt Xue looked at the old monkey's lazy appearance and smiled, knowing that the other party had always been like this.

"Oh, big girl, you're here, sit down...... Oh, look at my broken mouth, what a big girl, it's obviously the God of Wealth."

The old monkey was wearing a tattered Taoist robe, and if you looked closely, it turned out that the Taoist robe was sewn on the cotton jacket, his hair was all white, and his face was full of wrinkles, but his spirit was very good.

He rolled over and slapped himself in a pretentious manner, dusting the dust on the kang and hoping that Aunt Xue would sit next to him.

Aunt Xue naturally wouldn't do what he wanted, so she put a piece of paper on the stool and sat on the stool.

After explaining his intentions, the old monkey agreed very happily - he accepted Wang Yuan's employment to help distinguish whether the antiques were precious or not, and the reward was enough for the wine and sauce beef, and provided a place to live.

"Woo~"

Hearing the three words of sauced beef, the old monkey's saliva couldn't help but accelerate the secretion, the last time I ate sauced beef was invited by Aunt Xue, and the last time was decades ago.

Once upon a time, he was also a young master in fresh clothes and angry horses, and he spent a lot of money, but now...... Not to mention his original name, he didn't even dare to mention his surname.

After a moment of grief the old monkey returned to his original state, and the hippie smiley face seemed to be a world in which nothing but wine and beef cared him for anything.

"Hey~ That little brother, can you let me eat first, I've eaten half a bowl of brown rice since last night, it's miserable."

After a long time, the old monkey knows when to sell badly and can only be beaten more ruthlessly, and sometimes he can get benefits.

Wang Yuan went out to buy him a roast chicken, and the old monkey's eyes lit up, and he couldn't care about pretending to use his hands and mouths at the same time, as if he was in a hurry, and he opened it directly.

Wang Yuan was afraid that he would choke to death, so he patted him on the back.

"You eat slowly, the whole chicken is yours anyway, come and drink saliva...... Your bowl is still broken."

"This bowl was picked up from the grave circle and put on the counter for the rats to touch the ground...... I just broke a small hole, and it's all right."

When he was full of food and drink, the old monkey burped and said:

"Alas~ This life is really fate! If you have a good life, you don't need to do anything at all, and if you have a bad life, don't even think about turning over...... I am the current Cao Xueqin.

Do you know the Dream of Red Mansions? The author, Cao Xueqin, knows, right?"

Aunt Xue didn't want to listen to the old monkey's nonsense, so she made an excuse and left first, the two are similar in age, but their attitudes towards life are diametrically opposed.

The old monkey is a little passable, seeing through the vicissitudes of life in the world, living a drunken life, chic, comfortable, and finally dead and pulled down.

And Aunt Xue has a ruthless spirit in her bones, she would rather die on the way to the charge than surrender, and she is willing to work hard to live a better life, although it is worth it to be tired.

The Tao is different, and it is not conspiratory.

Aunt Xue naturally doesn't look down on the old monkey, and she is worried that if she stays with the old monkey for a long time, the other party's point of view will also affect her view of life - so she walks extremely fast.

Wang Yuan is different, his thinking is very firm, other people's opinions can't shake him, it's interesting to listen to and see more.

chatting with the old monkey was easy, and the old monkey couldn't help but be surprised:

"Interesting, really funny...... Are you really only in your 20s?"

Wang Yuan smiled and didn't say much, although he was only in his 20s in his life, he lived in his 30s in his last life, and life experience can be accumulated...... Of course, it is also related to the fact that his brain is good after crossing and he often thinks about things.

The chicken cooperative also has a warehouse on the outskirts, originally

It is to build a backup cold storage, but now you can let Wang Yuan use it for a period of time.

Wang Yuan put most of the antiques in the space that were uncertain about their specific value, and there were more than 150,000 pieces.

The old monkey was dumbfounded when he saw that there were so many antiques.

"I'm a mother, why are you so full of antiques? Huh~ What kind of thing is this, which dog eats bowls? Something is wrong, why do you even want this kind of."

"What is this? Groove, it is Dingzhou white porcelain! This button lid jar is amazing, the copper sheet of this package, and the flow marks of this glaze...... If it's not wrong, it's Dingzhou white porcelain, a heavy treasure, sell it to me, right?"

"You didn't wake up." Wang Yuan's face was black.

"Hey, just kidding, just kidding." The old monkey felt that he really underestimated this young man, so many antiques, it would cost a lot of money just to buy them.

And he feels that he has found the same kind, he is obsessed with antiques, and Wang Yuan is willing to buy so many antiques, it should be regarded as obsessed with antiques, right?