1942, I lived on hunting

Li Hao got off the bicycle with one leg and walked side by side with the old man. "There is everything. It's very messy. It's not convenient here. Let's go inside and take a look!"

Grandpa Yu pulled Li Hao into the house, closed the door, and asked his daughter-in-law to take his grandson outside to play and keep watch. Only then did he let Li Hao take it out and have a look.

Li Hao first took out some chicken eggs and duck eggs, and then some black fungus, bamboo shoots, white fungus, dried fish and dried shrimp, then pork, mutton, beef, two chickens, a duck and a few packed flying dragons, followed by peanuts, walnuts, millet, rice and oatmeal, and finally some milk powder, some bird's nests, some donkey-hide gelatin, some white sugar and brown sugar, some canned food and a few bottles of multivitamins and calcium tablets.

Old Master Yu looked at the things scattered on the floor and took a few deep breaths. It wasn't because the things were not good enough, but he was calculating in his mind how much so many things would cost. As he was calculating, his teeth began to hurt, and he couldn't help but take a deep breath.

With so many things on the black market, two thousand yuan would not be enough to buy them. The most expensive ones are the cans of milk powder and bird's nests. Those things are hard to come by. Grandpa Yu wanted to buy the can of milk powder on the black market, but he didn't have enough money. Unexpectedly, Li Hao directly sent him several cans. How could he afford it?

Seeing these things, Grandpa Yu kept shaking his head and sighing. Li Hao couldn't figure out what the old man was thinking. "Grandpa, these things are not suitable? How about I carry them back and change them?"

Old Master Yu smiled bitterly and said helplessly: "The things are very good, and most of them are suitable for your Uncle Wu to eat and use. I can see that you put a lot of thought into them. But we don't have that much money, and it may not be enough for us to exchange them! The things you brought are too expensive, and I don't know which ones to keep if I want to keep some."

Li Hao waved his hands: "What? This is for you, just eat it. I'll get you a few more treasures later, just don't feel bad!"

Old Master Yu did not refute. Instead, he immediately took Li Hao up to the attic, opened a secret door, went down a long vertical ladder with a flashlight, and entered a dark room.

Mr. Yu: "There are some calligraphy and paintings in this room. I'm afraid there might be a fire, so I didn't put out an oil lamp. Let's just use the flashlight to look at them. Tell me if you like any of them."

Mr. Yu's collection is very diverse, after all, it is a mixture of family heirlooms and items he bought with a small amount of money. However, the majority are various bronze ritual vessels and ancient books, as well as some jade and porcelain. There are very few paintings and calligraphy, all of which are placed in an oversized box.

Li Hao was not interested in bronze ware, and had even less interest in jade. However, there were a few jade bracelets that looked pretty good, so he asked the old man for them. Even if Li Hao didn't like them, he could give them to his wife!

There weren't many colored porcelains, but there was a pretty good pastel gourd vase, which Li Hao specifically requested. Mr. Yu also recommended a few blue-and-white porcelain plates and vases to Li Hao, but he was reluctant to give the largest jar to Li Hao. The old man said it was Yuan and Ming blue-and-white porcelain, and Li Hao immediately became interested. Although Li Hao didn't know much about it, he did know the famous Yuan blue-and-white porcelains such as Guigu Going Down the Mountain and Xiao He Chasing Han Xin Under the Moon.

But the old man's jar was not a jar with figures, but a floral pattern. When Li Hao asked about the figure pattern, the old man said that he had seen a plum vase with a drunken concubine, but it disappeared in the war, which was a pity.

Seeing that it was not a jar with figures on it, Li Hao gave up trying to take it away. Instead, he unfolded the calligraphy and painting with the help of the old man and began to look at it.

Li Hao didn't understand calligraphy and painting at all, and even had to guess what kind of seals were on the paintings and calligraphy by association. Fortunately, the old man only liked some calligraphy works, and didn't care much about some paintings. He kept a few paintings that were meaningful to him, and gave all the others to Li Hao.

Li Hao saw a set of paintings. Grandpa Yu said they were on screens in the past. The paintings were very bold and immoral, making people blush and their heart beat faster at the first sight, which fully demonstrated how open-minded the ancients were.

Upon hearing Li Hao's comments, Old Man Yu was at a loss whether to laugh or cry. He said that these were Tang Yin's paintings, and such a set was very precious. It was possible that a brothel in the Ming Dynasty had specially ordered them from Tang Jieyuan at a high price. They were very valuable. If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense.

Li Hao laughed when he heard this. Tang Yin is Tang Bohu! He knows him. Since it is his painting, I have to give it a good criticism. Take it away!

There were also some landscape paintings and flower-and-bird paintings, such as Fan, Dong, Ma, and Zhao. Grandpa Yu introduced them to Li Hao, but he didn't remember a single word. He only remembered one flower-and-bird painting very clearly.

Mr. Yu said that this was from Emperor Huizong of Song, the famous emperor painter. Emperor Huizong of Song had a sincere love for painting. He used his imperial power to promote painting, which led to unprecedented development of painting art in the Song Dynasty. This dog emperor was a master of both calligraphy and painting. The most amazing thing was that he created a calligraphy font that was later called "Slender Gold". He also loved to paint flowers and birds, and was a rare artistic emperor in ancient times.

Li Hao took a look at it and found that it was indeed a good painting. Not only was it lifelike, but the artistic conception was also beautiful. Even someone who didn't know much about the subject like Li Hao had to praise it as a really good painting!

Seeing that Li Hao was interested in the emperor's calligraphy and painting, Mr. Yu reluctantly gave Li Hao a piece of calligraphy in the thin gold style by Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty, Zhao Ji.

In addition to these things, Grandpa Yu also collected some miscellaneous items, including purple clay teapots, snuff bottles, ivory, horn and other products, all of which he packed up and gave to Li Hao.

Mr. Yu asked Li Hao if he wanted some ancient books, but Li Hao said he was only interested in travel notes, strange stories, vernacular novels and poetry collections, and didn't want history books or Confucian classics. This was exactly what the old man wanted, so he happily picked out the books Li Hao liked and packed them for him, thanking Li Hao for not choosing his favorite.

The two of them took great pains to move the things out of the dark room. The main reason was that they needed to be extremely careful when moving these things. If they were accidentally bumped or dented, it would be heartbreaking.

Li Hao was happy, and the old man was even happier. He exchanged some items that he didn't like very much for something that was worth more than 2,000 yuan that he urgently needed. How could he not be satisfied? It made him want to go to the black market more often to find bargains. Speaking of finding bargains, Li Hao was very excited, so the old man told him a little story about finding bargains.

It is said that in the capital before liberation, an old woman was selling sour plum soup, and the soup was served in a large Ming Dynasty bowl, but of course the old woman didn't know.

An antique dealer passing by saw this and thought that if he bought the bowl directly from the old woman, it would arouse her vigilance, and the deal might not be successful even if he paid a high price. He had to find a way to buy the bowl without attracting too much attention.

Just at this moment, a funeral procession passed by. The antique dealer had an idea. He walked into the funeral procession first, and then squeezed out of it.