The reborn peasant girl has space for farming

Chapter 441 Old letters and seals are also collected
Today is a great harvest for Granny Liang. She usually sticks to gluing paper boxes for the street. She can only earn a few cents by gluing hundreds of them. It is impossible to save dozens of yuan. She feels that it is in vain. Mei Xi is a real businessman, and he can't wait to exchange all the unused things in this house for money to solve the current life problems.

Her grandson is older and needs money for many things, and there are many things in the house that need to be repaired. It is absolutely impossible to defend himself without a sum of money.

"Girl, do you want to take a look at these envelopes? These letters were sent to me by the old man when he was working in other places. I have already collected the letter paper and I have been reluctant to throw away the envelopes. They are of no use now. You If necessary, I will sell it to you."

Granny Liang kept searching in the house. After the books were moved away, a pile of envelopes in the corner was exposed. These envelopes were all old envelopes before liberation. Granny Liang kept them very well. She wrapped them on the outside of these envelopes. There was a layer of old newspapers. Although the envelope inside was old, it was not damaged at all, and even the stamps on it were in perfect condition.

Bai Meixi looked at the postmarks. Many of them were letters from before liberation. The postmarks came from various places. It seemed that the old grandfather really had ambitions in the past and had been to all places across the country.

Bai Meixi doesn't understand the market situation of envelopes and stamps. The price of stamps in modern society fluctuates up and down. When the market is good, all stamps are valuable. Even used ones can be bought for thousands as long as they can be put together into a set. The price is tens of thousands.

But when the situation is bad, used stamps are worthless at all, and no one will buy them even if they cost one yuan each. It is obviously not worthwhile for Bai Meixi to invest his money in a place like this.

But she just saw that Granny Liang's life was not satisfactory. The things in the house were very simple, and most of them were left behind decades ago. Even the clothes on her body were the same. That thin cotton-padded jacket should have been disassembled and washed many times. This time, many places looked uneven and a lot of cotton was missing. She was still wearing such thin clothes on such a cold day. She must have no money to buy extra cotton.

She wanted to help Granny Liang from the bottom of her heart. Regardless of whether these envelopes were worth anything, she wanted them all.

"I haven't seen anything like this before. Let's put it this way. The vertical envelopes before liberation cost 1 cent for one envelope with stamps, and two 1 cent envelopes without stamps. The horizontal envelopes after liberation cost 1 cent for each envelope. Two envelopes of money and four one-cent envelopes without stamps, do you think this is okay?"

Bai Meixi gave a price that she thought was reasonable. Envelopes and used stamps were worthless in this era. They could only be sold for 1 cent per kilogram of scrap. The price Bai Meixi gave was completely a family price. , 1 old envelopes cost 500 yuan, which is dozens of times higher than selling scrap products.

Granny Liang naturally understood this. After she got the money, she was overjoyed and continued to search the house. For fear of missing this great opportunity, she first opened the wardrobe in the room, rummaged for a while and then shook it. Shake his head.

Then she opened the camphor wood box in the room. This should have been something that Granny Liang used to give her as a dowry. She took out a pillow-sized, jet black wooden box from it. The box was carved with patterns and looked very elegant. It must be an old thing.

Bai Meixi took a look and felt that the box should be made of red sandalwood. This kind of ancient rosewood box is worth a lot of money in modern society. She began to calculate the price in her mind and prepared to take the box from Granny Liang's hand.

"Girl, look at these seals and see if you want them. They were all carved by the old man when he was still alive. Some were given by his friends. They are all guys who have lost their ambitions with playthings." Granny Liang did not intend to sell the box, but just took out the seals inside. Placed on the table, these seals were of different sizes. Some were made of stone, and some looked like jade. One of them was white and particularly beautiful. The texture of the seal was crystal clear and felt very warm to the touch. The words engraved below were Bai Meixi couldn't understand the seal characters, but she could conclude that Granny Liang had a good life before. She must be a young lady from a wealthy family to be able to save so many things.

"Grandma Liang, your family must have been a wealthy family before. Such beautiful seals are rare." Bai Meixi is different from ordinary businessmen. She is not stingy in praising these things. With so many seals, as long as there is one The texture is real ancient jade, so she has found a treasure.

"You come from a wealthy family. When I married the old man, he was just a salesman who walked around the streets selling things. However, he had studied for a few years and liked these useless things. He usually liked to trade with others when he went out to sell goods. I exchanged books for stones and came back to carve seals and inkstones. I didn’t do anything serious, otherwise I wouldn’t have only these two rooms in my family.”

Granny Liang kept sighing when she mentioned her old man, along with some complaints from his bad friends. When people make money, they build houses and buy things. They only collect these things. If these people didn't study together all day long and do not do their jobs, the life of the family would definitely be bad. Better.

Bai Meixi listened to the grandfather's experience very carefully. In her opinion, the grandfather was probably not just an ordinary salesman. In the past, many people collected antiques, jade, and porcelain. Only those who knew how to identify them The old man probably collected antiques casually by taking the opportunity to collect goods from everywhere. However, Granny Liang did not know this. In addition, after the war, the antique business plummeted, which made the family's life poor.

"I can't see the specific material of these seals. I'll give you 5 cents for the big one and 3 cents for the small one." Bai Meixi hesitated for a moment. It was difficult for her to bid for such an uncertain thing. The price is for Granny Liang to make new clothes, which is enough for her to make a thick cotton coat and a new quilt.

"Okay, okay, I know you won't treat me badly, girl. I'll give you this box, just for putting these things." Granny Liang put the seals in an old box, which Granny Liang kept in the cabinet. It looks like there are a lot of signs of wear and tear on it, but you can tell at a glance that it is an old thing.

Bai Meixi priced the box at 5 cents and gave Granny Liang a total of 8.5 yuan.

Today, Granny Liang received a total of 48 yuan, 3 cents and 4 cents. She has not seen such a huge amount of money for a long time. It not only cleared up the house to make space, but also made a lot of money. For Granny Liang, it was a godsend. good thing.

She took Bai Meixi's hand and thanked her profusely, and at the same time helped her introduce another business.

"Girl, you come over again at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and I will take you to another store. Their store has more things. They are friends of my old man."

(End of this chapter)