Rebirth 13, starting from the big demolition treasure hunt

Chapter 21 I’m not the demolition officer and I won’t drive you away.
Wu Yuansheng rode his tricycle and walked towards the long alley.

After eating a melon weighing about six pounds just now, he obviously felt that his stomach was a little full.

When he walked to the door of a waste recycling station not far from the demolition area, he saw a man riding a motorcycle just coming out of the door of the recycling station.

This man Wu Yuansheng knew was a person who specialized in collecting books, calligraphy and paintings, comics, stationery, stamps, cigarette labels, wine labels and other paper collectibles.

I don’t know his name, Wu Yuansheng, but I often hear others call him Lao Jia.

Lao Jia is more than 20 years older than him. I heard that he opened a second-hand bookstore that specializes in selling used books.

Before his rebirth, Wu Yuansheng bought books from his stall several times when he went to the antique city to set up a street stall on weekends.

Some of these books are about collecting, some about fortune-telling and feng shui, and some about planting flowers, cooking and breeding.

At this time, there was a large tin box fixed on the back of Lao Jia's motorcycle, and a snakeskin bag filled with things between the box and where he was sitting.

Judging from the contents of the bag, it looks like a book. It is estimated that Lao Jia just went to this waste recycling bin to buy old books and other things.

Nowadays, during demolition, many people’s items that they don’t plan to take away from their homes, and those that can be exchanged for money, are usually taken to waste recycling stations and sold.

Some books from the 60s, 80s, and now can be easily found in scrap collection stations.

Of course, it’s not just books, there are also many newspapers, periodicals, calligraphy and paintings, envelopes, various receipts, etc. mixed with books.

Compared with books, these other paper things mixed in books are valuable and collected by more people!
When you have free time, go to these scrap collection stations and look for valuable things.

When Lao Jia buys books in these places, he basically buys them by the pound. When he sells them outside, he usually buys them by the book, which costs five, ten or even dozens of yuan a book.

The profits here are still huge.

When he was thinking about it, Lao Jia had already run far away on his motorcycle. He didn't know Wu Yuansheng. Although he glanced here, he didn't say hello.

Seeing Lao Jia disappear on the road on his motorcycle, he continued to ride towards the old alley in the demolition area.

When he arrived at the place, Wu Yuansheng began to look for old houses in this long alley where the doors and windows had been smashed and the residents had moved out.

After walking for a while, he saw from a distance that the doors and windows of an old house with a two-story wooden structure and a historical building were smashed.

He pushed the tricycle to the door of the house, parked it, locked it, and walked in directly.

As soon as he entered the door, Wu Yuansheng saw some stones scattered on the ground at the door. These stones looked like pebbles.

Although they are pebbles, these stones are either strangely shaped or have special patterns on them, and there are some more as you go further in.

Seeing such a scene, he knew that someone in this household must be picking up and collecting strange stones!
No longer paying attention to the stone, he stopped and took a look at the situation inside the house.

The house is a two-story duplex with a wooden structure and many large beams and columns.

Standing in the lobby on the first floor, you can see that the floor and corridors upstairs are all paved with wooden boards.

There is a wooden staircase leading to the second floor on the wall opposite the door of the hall. There is an aisle there, and there is a small door on the innermost wall.

One side of the wooden staircase is not against the wall, and the edge is fixed and supported by wooden boards.

Looking through the small door in the passage, there seems to be a courtyard outside.

There are also some stones scattered beside the stairs and in the corridor. In addition to cobblestones, these stones also have other stones.

There are several stools and chairs scattered in the hall.

On the wall facing the door, there are two old single-seat sofas placed on the wall, and a wooden coffee table is placed between the two sofas.

There is a gray stone on the coffee table. It is not very big and has a strange shape.

There is a set of modular cabinets on the innermost wall facing the stairs.

There is also a large gray stone on the cabinet, as well as an incense burner, a porcelain statue of the God of Wealth and other items.

In the hall, there are also jars broken by the demolishers, fragments of jars, a few gray stones with the same color as the stones on the coffee table and combination cabinet, and several wooden mats made of wood.

After scanning the general situation in the house, Wu Yuansheng started to look at the stones on the ground.

He first took a look at a gray stone with a strange shape that was not too big.

He had seen this kind of stone before and heard others say that it was Taihu stone and was an ornamental stone.

In his previous life, he remembered that someone held a strange stone exchange meeting in the Antique City.

At that time, collectors who liked to collect stones took some of their collected stones to exchange and sell them.He also specifically inquired, studied, and studied for a period of time.

Taihu stones are used as ornamental stones, and some people also put them as ornaments at home.

After taking a closer look at these Taihu stones, he found that they were all old stones, at least from the Republic of China period.

This two-story historic building should be at least as old as the Republic of China.

Maybe these stones are preserved from that time.

If you pick up these stones and sell them to those who play with strange stones, they will probably want them.

Wu Yuansheng picked up these strange-looking Taihu stones together and put them in several different convenience bags.He counted them, and there were five in total.

After packing up the Taihu stones, he planned to pick up a few more pebbles on the ground and take a look.

Just as he was about to pick up stones, he heard footsteps outside the house, and soon a man in his 50s walked in.

"Did you come in to pick up something? I saw you parked your tricycle at the door!"

The man said directly to him after entering the door.

"What do you do?"

Without answering the man's question, Wu Yuansheng asked him instead.

"Don't get me wrong, I'm not from the demolition office, and I won't drive you away!" the man continued.

"I came here to pick up some things that others didn't want after moving! The doors and windows of this house were smashed, and there was nothing blocking them. Anyone can come in!"

Wu Yuansheng thought for a moment and realized that he would often pick up things around here in the future, so there was no need to hide it.

"This family has a lot of things. Since the elderly people passed away, their sons rarely come back when they are on business trips, and none of the things in the house have been sold!
If it weren't for road construction and demolition, their house wouldn't even be touched! "

"Really? How do you know!"

"I live across the street, how do I know this? Yesterday, the demolition workers came and smashed the doors and windows, and came in to take things away, but they moved a lot!

This family is rich, and so are their descendants. They all live out of town, and the house has been compensated, so they don't care about the little things in the house. "

"That's right! Then what did they take away?"

"Some old appliances, bicycles, motorcycles, sewing machines and other things! Anyway, there are a lot of them!"

"Are you coming here now to pick up things and use them back?"

“No, I won’t be able to live in the house over there for long, only half a year at most!
Aren't we going to build a riverside road here? Even if we pick up some things and take them back, they will be thrown away soon.

I saw your car was parked outside, I just came to take a look! "

"You said that this family has so many stones on the ground. Did anyone in their family like to collect strange stones in the past?"

"Yes! When the old man was here, he often went to the sand field in the river to pick up stones. A relative of his family contracted the sand field.

At that time, when he picked up a stone that he thought was good, he would show it off to our neighbors and tell us how much it was worth.

A stone is a stone, not gold. How much is jade or Hetian jade worth?

Now that people are gone and future generations don’t like it, why don’t these stones be thrown away! "

Listening to this man talking, Wu Yuansheng felt that he didn't like these stones very much.

Come to think of it, most people would like to collect these pebbles.

After all, the stone is there, no matter how good the picture and shape are, if it is sold, no one will buy it if the price is high.

"No wonder there are so many stones and you don't pick up some and take them back."

"I don't like these things! What do you want them for? Even if you want them, I can go outside and pick them up anytime!"

"That's what you said! Are you an old resident here? This place has been demolished. Will you still live near here in the future?"

“We are considered old residents, but we won’t live here anymore, and we don’t know when the house here will be built.

The newly bought house is not far from here. It is over at Yulong Bay. Have you heard of it? "

(End of this chapter)