I Had a Home In 1982

   Chapter 139 138. Red Coral Sculpture (Happy Weekend)

   Wang Yi was overjoyed when he heard that there was an old object.

   It seems that this movie-watching trip was an unexpected joy.

   Boldly took him to Lijiazhuang, a very ordinary fishing village, larger in scale than the production team in Tianya Island. There are two or three hundred seaweed houses scattered in an orderly manner, and there are also red brick and blue tile houses in the period.

   Judging from the appearance of the village, Lijiazhuang is much stronger than the Wangjia production team. Several new houses have been built in the village, and they are all red brick and green tile houses. They are not afraid of wind and rain. The doors and windows are large, and the living room is bright and comfortable.

  Duobao Island covers a large area, the village is easier to plan, the streets here are more tidy, and they are all stone pavements on the island, which are stable and accessible in all directions.

   It will be time for dinner. There are white smoke from many chimneys, and the aroma of the food in the streets and alleys is very clear.

  Wang Yi followed Bold and hurried past, wondering in his heart.

  What's the matter? He has walked past many bungalows in 22 years, but he has never smelled such a strong aroma of food as in 1982.

   This makes no sense.

   In 22 years, the meat was more oily, there were more seasonings, and it stands to reason that when it comes to the point of the meal, it is easier to smell the aroma. However, in 1982, every household was reluctant to put oil and there was no seasoning. How did such a clear aroma of food come out?

   Wang Yi thought that it might be related to the degree of closure of the kitchen.

   In 22 years, even in rural areas, most of them had range hoods. In 1982, they were all kitchens with earthen stoves, and they didn’t even have exhaust fans. When cooking, the doors and windows must be left wide open to remove the fumes.

   Even some people's kitchens are open, that is, a shed is built in a corner of the yard to cover the rain with the walls on both sides, and the stove is below, so that the aroma of cooking will definitely come out.

   Such was the case with the family they were going to.

   Boldly pushed the door open and a dog rushed up, barking wildly, and the man cooking in the yard quickly shouted, "Da Hei, come back!"

  The **** dog stopped and growled.

  The boldly raised feet make it hesitant.

  The owner came over and kicked it, and it tucked its tail and ran away whimpering.

   The man in the coarse Lenin suit smiled when he saw the boldness: "Captain Wang is here? Come to watch a movie tonight? It just happened that the dishes at home were just out of the pot, so let's have two together."

   When he saw Wang Yi again, he quickly wiped his hand on his clothes and stretched out: "Oh, is this the principal Wang of your Tianya Primary School?"

  The clothes were ripped apart to reveal a vest with the words 'Agriculture Learning from Dazhai'.

  Wang Yi politely shook hands with him: "What principal, I'm the only official staff member in the whole school, you can call me Xiao Wang."

The    voice sounded wrong to him.

   Fortunately, he has experience in this field: "My name is Mr. Wang, Mr. Wang. This is Mr. Wang that our entire production team respects. It's amazing."

   "Mr. Wang, this is Li Yanhua, a comrade from the Duobao Island militia team. I have been chatting under the lamp in our team these two nights."

   A teenager came out of the room and shouted, "Dad, where's the food? Hurry up and serve it, I'm waiting to eat and watch the movie, so I have to eat it quickly!"

  Wang Yi said: "I'm disturbing you for dinner. You see, we didn't prepare gifts when we came here. It's okay to be bold. Don't tell me in advance that you're coming to disturb your house, or I'll bring something."

   "It's time for you to eat. I still have some peanuts in my pocket. You can leave the next meal. This is the spiced peanuts from the city. It tastes good."

   He also had a bag of vacuum-packed spiced peanuts in his pocket and gave it to Li Yanhua.

   boldly thought he was too polite: "Mr. Wang is unnecessary. I have a good relationship with Lao Li. Today we are not visiting him as a guest, we are asking him to visit his uncle's house."

  Li Yanhua smiled and nodded and repeatedly rejected the peanuts that Wang Yi handed over, but the boy at the door heard that there were five-spice peanuts running out, and looked curiously on tiptoe.

  Wang Yi threw the peanuts to him and said, "The dishes are here, hurry back to eat."

  The boy was overjoyed when he saw the bag full of peanuts, and immediately went back to the house.

  Li Yanhua was furious, but he just scolded his son a few times and didn't go in to grab the peanuts.

He tried his best to invite the two of them to go in for dinner, but Wang Yi refused, so Li Yanhua asked, "Listen to the bold meaning, you are going to my uncle's place to see the old stuff? I'll take him to see his red coral? This one looks better than the old stuff. "

  My grass!

  Wang Yi's heart suddenly exploded with a rolling thunder.

Red Coral!

   This is really good stuff!

  Red coral is a type of coral, but because some of them are very beautiful in texture, they are like gems when polished, so they are organic gems.

This kind of coral only grows in the deep sea, and the shallowest is also in the 50-meter sea area. It often grows in the sea at a depth of one or two hundred meters. It is very precious and has been regarded as a treasure since ancient times. In the eyes of Buddhists, it is one of the Seven Treasures of Buddhism. In the eyes of the ancient dignitaries, wealth and auspiciousness were things.

  Essentially, red corals are formed by the accumulation of coral polyps. Like other corals, they grow very slowly, and only a few special straits are produced, so they have been precious since ancient times.

   And it is not only precious in China, but also very precious and rare in Southeast Asian cultural circles and even European and American cultural circles.

   In the era of 22 years, the natural resources of red coral have been banned from mining, and there are also international bans, and red coral is not allowed to be traded across borders.

The reason why Wang Yi knew about the red coral was that he had read a news story that someone pretended to be confused and brought a batch of red coral decorations back from Japan, and then was handled by the customs, and went to jail because of the huge amount - the news report said at the time. The red coral he carried was worth tens of millions!

   So when I heard that there were red corals here, Wang Yi was both happy and helpless.

   The happy thing is that if he can take the red coral back from 1982, he will definitely make a lot of money. Unfortunately, even if he can bring it to 22 years, he may not be able to sell it.

  Illegal transactions he is unwilling to touch.

   Seeing the change in his expression, Li Yanhua smiled: "Principal Wang, don't you know that my uncle's father has red coral? You're surprised."

  Wang Yi shook his head and said: "I really don't know, Da Da didn't tell me anything, just said that you had an old item in your house and brought me here."

   "However, we don't have red coral in the sea, right? How could your uncle's family have these things?"

  Li Yanhua said: "My uncle is very rare, we don't have it here, but there is a little devil in the Baodao Strait. He went to the ocean to fish when he was young."

"You also know that the trawl nets used in this ocean fishing are large nets and deep nets. Sometimes they are caught close to the bottom of the sea, and they will fish up the stony corals on the bottom of the sea, and then occasionally catch red corals. The uncle is very rare."

   Wang Yi secretly said that I am also rare, but unfortunately it is of little value to me.

   So he smiled and said, "Gentlemen don't take people's favor. Since these red corals are your uncle's treasure, let's not come to see them. The elderly may be taboo."

  Li Yanhua gave him a surprised look, he didn't expect Wang Yi to answer like this.

   Bold is also very surprised: "Mr. Wang, are you not going to see it? Isn't that a waste of time?"

   Wang Yi explained: "It's not a question of whether we go to see it or not, it's that people may not be willing to let us see it."

  Li Yanhua hurriedly said: "I'm happy, I'm happy, if you want to see Mr. Wang, I'll show you."

   At this time, his other son came out again and ran out barefoot: "My father and my mother beat me!"

   A woman shouted angrily from behind: "Get back, don't go out and show shame! That peanut rice is given to your father, you grab it and eat it? Kill it!"

  The boy cried and said, "Who makes it delicious? It's crunchy and fragrant, it's delicious!"

  Wang Yi secretly said that the five-spiced peanuts are really delicious. He is going to pass the time when he is going to watch a movie.

  Li Yanhua went in and persuaded a few words, then came out with a black-faced steamed bun, and said, "Go, before the movie starts and it's still dark, I'll take you to my uncle's father's house to have a look."

   He said boldly again: "Captain Wang, my uncle has a very weird temper. He has been a bachelor all his life. If he provokes you, don't worry about it."

   smiled boldly: "Look at what you said, I'm still an ignorant child or what?"

  The old man lived in the northwest corner of Lijiazhuang. It was an old seaweed house.

  Li Yanhua pushed open the door and went in and shouted, "Dad, have you eaten yet? I'll give you a steamed bun."

  An old man peered through the inner door of the main house: "It's the second child. I haven't eaten. What did I eat today? Why did you remember to give me steamed buns today?"

  Li Yanhua smiled and said: "There are guests from Tianya Island, they want to see your baby, I will bring them here to see."

  The old man frowned when he heard this.

   Not too happy.

  Li Yanhua asked: "What's wrong? You're not very proud..."

   "I'm proud of myself, it's not your turn to be proud of you." The old man interrupted him angrily, "Are you like the boss, looking for outsiders to ask for my things?"

   "You two can't hide oil in a dog's stomach, and a turtle's mouth can't contain meat! Your brothers are not good things, so you want to join outsiders to grab my foundation!"

   His temper was indeed moody, and suddenly he was furious.

  Li Yanhua got used to his temper, and was also annoyed: "Who wants to rob you? This is Wang Xiangxiu, the captain of the Tianya Island militia team, and a soldier under Wang Xianghong's old party secretary!"

  Wang, Wang Xiang stink?

  Wang Yi looked at Da Da in amazement, and boldly raised his head to look at the sky.

   No wonder people on the island call him by his nickname and no one calls him by his first name.

   Wang Xianghong's reputation is useful here.

  The old man looked at Bold and asked, "Are you a soldier under Wang Zhishu?"

   nodded boldly: "Yes."

  The old man shook his head: "I don't believe it."

   boldly stared and said, "Why don't you believe this? What kind of temper does our secretary have? If someone pretends to be him outside to take advantage of others, he will definitely lead our militia team to arrest people!"

  The old man laughed when he heard this: "Well, it's Wang Zhishu's temper."

   boldly pointed at Wang Yi and said, "This is Mr. Wang from our Tianya Primary School. Our branch secretary admires him now!"

   "You admire this young man with no hair on his mouth?" The old man shook his head again: "I don't believe it."

   He asked Wang Yi, "What's your name?"

   "My name is Wang Yi."

   "What's your father's name?"

   "My father's name is Wang Xiangwen."

  The old man asked several questions in a row, and after verifying the information, he found that they were indeed from Tianya Island, which made his face look good: "It turns out that it is from Wang Zhishu, and Wang Zhishu's people can be trusted."

   He continued to ask: "Do you want to see my baby?"

  Wang Yi said: "Yes, we have never seen such a good thing. I only read the introduction of red coral in books before. I didn't expect that there is such a treasure on our outer islands."

   "The book says that the thousand-year-old corals are 10,000-year-old red, as red as blood and bright red. I also heard from your nephew that they are very delicate and beautiful, but it's not that we don't believe it, it's that we all want to open our eyes."

   Hearing what he said, the old man was very happy: "Isn't that charming and beautiful? Young people, you don't understand, from the history of ancient and modern China and foreign countries, red coral has a very high status."

   "Coral has always been a symbol of auspiciousness and wealth in our country. It is specially used to make precious handicrafts. In the Qing Dynasty, some officials wore red coral caps and beads. Guess what kind of officials are these?"

   Wang Yi said: "What is it like?"

  The old man clapped his hands and said, "Second rank officer!"

  Wang Yi suddenly showed a respectful expression.

  The old man continued: "The lamas and monks in Tibet all hold rosary beads, don't you know? Among them, only the rosary beads of the most powerful living Buddha are red coral, because red coral is the eight treasures of Buddhism!"

Li Yanhua said: "Dad, don't say that some of these are missing. They are here for the red coral. You can show them. You show them. I will ask Xiaoming and Xiaobao to come and play with you on Sundays. "

   A smile appeared on the old man's face: "That's fine, but they don't want to stay here when they come. See if I don't have anything good here and leave."

   He was a little annoyed when he said that, and let the three of them enter the room unhappily.

   As soon as you enter, a strange smell peculiar to the elderly enters your nose, and when the wind blows, a stench wafts in. The house is an old seagrass hut, small and cramped, with poor ventilation and poor lighting.

  The furniture in the house is shabby, there is a kerosene lamp on an old wooden table, the tableware and chopsticks for lunch have not been cleaned up, there is a stove, a water tank and a few small wooden stools, and there is nothing else.

   There is a little more furniture in the bedroom, but the door is closed tightly. When the old man went to the bedroom to open the door, Wang Yi was startled and saw that it seemed quite full.

   There is a large wooden box at the door, and there are also small boxes inside.

   He carefully moved one out of it, and boldly and diligently asked to go up to help. The old man immediately scolded anxiously: "Go away!"

The temper of    Bold came on the spot.

   Wang Yi coughed.

   Bold, this temper went down on the spot!

  The old man moved the box to the dining table. After opening it, there was a thick cloth inside, and then opened the cloth:

   A bright red girl appeared!

The girl is a fairy, with a handsome face, auspicious clouds on her feet, a flower basket on her arm, and a crane nestled beside her. It is no exaggeration to say that it is ingenious.

   Wang Yi's eyes almost popped out!

   is not a red coral, or rather an original red coral, but a red coral carving.

   And this carving is obviously not recently carved, there are traces left over from time on it, the old man should play with it from time to time, so its appearance has been shiny.

  This is worth it!

  Red coral cannot be traded in the market, but the previous red coral artwork can!

   Of course, these works of art have an age limit, and they must be old objects. Otherwise, if someone smuggles red coral in and makes sculptures for sale, wouldn’t the ban be useless?

  Wang Yi was instantly moved.

  Bold and heartbroken, he reached out to touch and said, "This little thing is so beautiful."

  The old man slapped him fiercely: "Get out of your ass! Don't touch it, only watch it, if you don't want to see it, get out!"

  Li Yanhua quickly stopped the bold wink.

   Bold is so arrogant, it's just a slap-sized thing, what's the air? I smashed it for you in six years!

  Wang Yi looked at the statue and couldn't help but sighed: "It's amazing, it's amazing!"

   In the end, he casually exclaimed, but it made the old man smile: "You're talking about my carving skills, aren't you?"

   Hearing this, Wang Yi was taken aback: "You carved this?"

   This is clearly master craftsmanship!

  The old man nodded smugly: "Yes, I carved it. This was carved by me in 1958. I would be young and steady, but now I can't. After more than 20 years, I don't have the ability."

  Li Yanhua said with great interest: "My eldest sculptor is amazing, he specializes in carving stones..."

   "It's all for the practice of carving red coral, that's nothing, it's not worth bragging about." The old man said so, but his expression was even more proud.

  Li Yanhua understood his temper, so he followed his words and said, "You haven't seen my eldest father's true abilities. Do you think this little boy is amazing? It's far from it!"

   "Dad, show them the Jinggang Mountains and show them, shock them!"

The old man immediately shook his head: "Why show them that? Are they worthy? That's something ordinary people can't see, no, don't tell me about that, if it wasn't for the group of young people who went to the mountains and the countryside to keep my treasures a few years ago, I won't take it out either!"

   "Don't be like the boss, don't say anything without a heart."

  Li Yanhua asked, "What happened to my eldest brother?"

  The old man said unhappily: "He met a few foreigners from nowhere. He dressed like a dog, but it was actually not a thing. When he came, he wanted to trap my treasures."

   "I told you two, your brothers should give up as soon as possible, and don't hit me with these babies. Hmph, I will take it to the coffin when I die."

   boldly said: "I'm sorry, now that I'm dead, no burial is allowed, everyone requires cremation, and no coffins are allowed!"

  The old man was ruthless: "Then I will smash it before I die, and smash it into powder and pour it on my grave!"

  Wang Yi waved his hand and said, "Sir, don't talk about this first, I think you are in good health, don't worry about it, you still take care of your health, let's try to live another fifty years!"

The old man pointed at him and said, "You young man can talk, I know, you also want the red coral statue, right? I just opened the box and saw your eyes, just like the first time I saw the red coral! "

  Wang Yi smiled dryly and said, "Who doesn't want something so beautiful? But don't worry, a gentleman doesn't get people's favor. If you don't want to sell it, I won't buy it."

  The old man said: "You are Wang Zhishu's soldier. Wang Zhishu has saved several lives in my family. It stands to reason that if you are rare, I would be happy to sell you one. I have to give Wang Zhishu's face."

   Wang Yi was pleasantly surprised.

  The old party secretary has such a great face, and he saves people everywhere. He has saved Zhao Laobian who was catching a truck at the dock in the county, and he has also saved the old couple here?

  The old man continued: "But you can't afford it. If it was okay to leave it a few years ago, at that time these statues were four old and worthless."

   "Now the reform and opening up, foreigners are coming, hum, red coral must be valuable, this thing is rare."

Wang Yi said frankly: "Red coral is indeed rare. As you said, it has been very valuable since ancient times. Shi Chong and Wang Kai Doufu in the Eastern Jin Dynasty smashed a two-foot-tall coral tree at that time. It was not red. What about coral?"

The old man laughed: "Wang Zhishu's soldiers are different, anyway, to tell the truth, it's not like the boss brought those few, motherfucker, he even told me that this thing was formed by the blood of a sea monster sunk on the seabed, no Geely, let me deal with it quickly!"

   said he became angry, and scolded him with his fingers.

   Li Yanhua was also very angry, and said, "My eldest brother has met some people."

  Wang Yi waited for the father and son to feel better, and asked carefully, "Master, how much do you think this red coral carving is worth?"

  The old man said: "Anyway, you can't afford a teacher."

  Bold and uneducated, he said: "Master, don't blame me for speaking badly, I am uneducated and straight-minded. You say red coral is valuable, but where did you come from? You have the money to buy it?"

   Wang Yi said, "Brother Li told us just now that the old man came back from the sea when he was young."

Boldly laughed: "Mr. Wang, you are so simple, all the sea wolves who go to the international sea to fish for fish are not only ruthless but also cunning. Can they not know the value of red coral? Oh, if you get red coral, give it to Uncle Li. Isn't this nonsense?"

The old man    said, "You are right, why would they give it to me for nothing? But the boat is my family's. I scooped it up from the main net myself or bought it from someone else later!"

   "I said just now that Wang Zhishu saved both of our lives. Guess how he saved it?"

  Li Yanhua whispered, "My family's ingredients are not good!"

   asked boldly and surprised: "Why don't I know? Our two islands are not far apart. I can feel your situation in Lijiazhuang."

  Li Yanhua said: "Our family moved here, and it was guaranteed by Wang Zhishu to secretly send our family here."

   "Actually, our family is a migrant from Lijiazhuang, but Lijiazhuang is big and has several surnames. There were many relatives who came to defect during the three-year disaster, so no one still remembers that my family is a migrant."

The old man said: "Yes, my family's money means that I lost, but I lost well. If I hadn't lost my money when I was young, hum, my family couldn't escape even if they wanted to, and they would definitely suffer. batch!"

   Li Yanhua was in a bad mood when he mentioned this, and muttered, "You are quite proud."

  Wang Yi said: "Then old man, if you are willing to sell me this red coral statue for what price? I'm not sure I can afford it."

  The old man held out a finger.

   boldly exclaimed: "One hundred yuan? You are so courageous!"

   The old man sneered and shook his head.

   Boldly heaved a sigh of relief: "Ten yuan, that's about the same..."

   "10,000 yuan!" The old man was too lazy to pay attention to him, so he directly reported the price to Wang Yi.

  Bold and Li Yanhua both straightened their eyes on the spot.

  Wang Yi shook his head like the old man.

   Okay, let’s take it today as a chance to gain insight. This old man knows the value of red coral very well. It is absolutely impossible for him to get his hands on red coral as easily as picking up the first set of RMB on Tianya Island.

   (end of this chapter)