Chapter 673

Guo Xiang was surprised that the old man was a "rich man".

Although he has no money now, if all the cultural relics he collects are true, they may be worth more than ten million in ten or twenty years.

Guo Xiang looked at the yard. The pattern of the yard was similar to that of his own side, but it was in disrepair and very dilapidated. He might not take good care of it alone. It looked very desolate.

However, with this yard, I don't say how much it will be worth in the future. Can I sell it for tens of thousands even now?

The old man really felt like begging with a golden rice bowl because he was almost killed for 1000 yuan.

"Come in and have a look!" The old man stood up. He saw that Guo Xiang and his wife were good people.

He took the key, opened the door of one of the rooms, and led the two into the room.

Guo Xiang was surprised to see that it was a museum of cultural relics.

The room was filled with all kinds of wooden frames, various bottles and cans, as well as calligraphy and painting.

What is completely different from the outside is that the things inside are neat, clean and spotless. We can see how much the old man cherishes these things.

"Old Rong, you are full of treasures!" Guo Xiang lamented that although she did not study cultural relics, she occasionally saw some treasure appreciation programs on TV in her previous life. She also saw those Ming and Qing porcelain, celebrity calligraphy and painting. Is it worth millions to take any one in future generations?

"Are you for a thousand dollars?" Guo Xiang said.

Rong Yunxiang smiled bitterly, "it's all my baby. I can't bear it!"

Guo Xiang nodded, and she could understand that the old man loved this business. These things were just like his children, reluctant to sell.

"However, no matter how many things you have, your life is very important. If you're gone, you don't know who's cheaper. If you meet someone who doesn't know the goods and throw them away as waste products, you have no place to cry!" Guo Xiang said.

Rong Yunxiang was stunned for a moment. The truth is this truth, but really taking a baby out is like cutting his flesh.

"You owe people 1000 yuan this time. What do you like?" Asked Guo Xiang.

Rong Yunxiang smiled bitterly, "that's not true. This time it's my family heirloom. I finally found it after looking for it for so many years, but I didn't have money to buy it back, so I went to borrow money. I'm a bad old man, and no one lent it to me, so I went to find those people..."

Guo Xiang understands that those people are equivalent to usury in later generations, right? Although it was not on the surface in this period, it is difficult to say whether it was secretly.

"Did you buy it back?" Guo Xiang couldn't help being curious.

Rong Yunxiang shook his head. "I'm two days late. The man rose another two hundred. I..." Rong Yunxiang sighed.

"In fact, that thing is not very valuable. It may not be as valuable as anything I have here, but it is of great significance to my family, so I want to redeem it anyway."

Rong Yunxiang said, "in those years, everything in the family was copied and smashed. That thing also fell into the hands of others. Now it's hard to come back..."

"Then you babies are reluctant to sell. How can you have the money to pay back the 1000 yuan?" Asked Guo Xiang.

Rong Yunxiang was chatting up on his face. In fact, he didn't think of a good way at all. He borrowed it first.

"But isn't it illegal to buy and sell cultural relics now?" Guo Xiang asked in a low voice.

"You don't understand this. I'll tell you well..." Rong Yunxiang came down.

Guo Xiang smiled, "Zhennan, you go home and order some food. Let's eat with Rong Lao and listen to his story!"

"What's so funny?" Rong Yunxiang has a red face.

"It's all right. The food is ready-made at home. I didn't cook it specially. It's just a meal." Guo Xiang smiled.

"Good!" Gu Zhennan nodded, took some medicine from the medicine box and left it to the old man. He went back first with the medicine box.

"Your lover is very good." Rong Yunxiang looked at Gu Zhennan's back and said.

"I think he's good, too." Guo Xiang smiled.

After a while, Gu Zhennan came with the food. Rong Yunxiang took them to the living room. Guo Xiang wiped the table in the living room, put the food on the table, and the three ate here.

"Let me tell you..." Rong Yunxiang talked about the past cultural relics market while eating.

"In the past, even before liberation, there were many antique stores and antique firms all over the country. They had all kinds of good things. You know they were gone after Liberation..."

"In the 1950s, there were more than a dozen time-honored antique shops over Liulichang. The public and private merged and established the" cultural relics department of Arts and crafts company ", and the former antique dealers became the employees of the Department."

"At that time, it was also under the Xinhua bookstore system. Later, it was divided in the 1960s. All parts of the country became 'cultural relics stores' to purchase cultural relics from all over the country. At that time, it was illegal to buy and sell cultural relics privately."

Guo Xiang nodded. At that time, let alone cultural relics, it was illegal to sell an egg.

"At that time, things were so cheap that everyone couldn't eat enough and no one collected them. Everything at home was sold in cultural relics stores. What Qing Dynasty porcelain celebrity calligraphy and paintings were extremely cheap."

Guo Xiang nodded. At that time, there was really no way. It was useless to have those things without food.

"Why did the country take those? Can't you keep it? The country had no money at that time! " Guo Xiang asked curiously.

"At that time, the idea was that 'cultural relics belong to waste products, encourage the exchange of old for new, export cultural relics for foreign exchange, and support national construction'. The main functions of local cultural relics stores were to purchase cultural relics and organize export."

"Ah? Not many cultural relics have gone abroad? " Guo Xiang was surprised. No wonder many cultural relics in later generations had to be bought back at a high price. At this time, many of them flowed abroad.

"Yes, but the country was poor at that time. There was no way." Rong Yunxiang sighed, "at that time, it was said that 'cultural relics are equal to waste', and you can't change a few yuan when you get them to the cultural relics store. At that time, the cultural relics were not purchased according to the age, but according to the size. You can receive porcelain in the Qing Dynasty for three or five yuan, and most of the prices were no more than ten yuan."

Guo Xiang sighed that he really didn't know this before.

"Although it's OK, since that era, the four old cultural relics stores have been broken, and many things have been smashed..." Rong Yunxiang looked sorry.

"At that time, things were not worth money, but they were cheap. I secretly collected a lot." Rong Yunxiang took a mouthful of food and continued, "by the 1980s, reform and opening up had been carried out, and the policy was good. The state has been implementing the policy of returning personal cultural relics."

"Can I return it?" Guo Xiang was surprised.

"Yes, at that time, the cultural relics stores had bookkeeping when they collected them, with names and addresses. Now they are returning them one after another, but some people see that these items are worthless. They only have a few dollars and throw them away. They don't want them at all..."

"Ah? Then I'll pick up the leak! " Guo Xiang smiled.

"That's when I looked everywhere for my family heirloom and couldn't find it. Later, someone heard that I was looking for it and took the opportunity to blackmail me. I couldn't help it..." Rong Yunxiang sighed.