PFC Chapter 292 Visiting 5 Streets of Fuchang
Chapter 292 Visiting 5 Streets of Fuchang
When Lin Shu woke up again, it was already bright daylight.
The children and Gu Jiu were no longer on the bed, and there was movement in the small living room outside.
Lin Shu wanted to get up, but as soon as he moved, he felt sore all over and his limbs were weak.
Gu Jiu got up early today and had breakfast with his two children. He was now sitting in the small living room playing with building blocks with the children.
He saw Lin Shu walking out holding onto the wall, the corners of her mouth curled up slightly, and he quickly walked over to support her, "Wake up, do you want to have breakfast now or take a rest? If you want breakfast now, I'll call and have them bring it up."
"I'm so hungry that I can eat a cow." Lin Shu glared at him and spoke with gritted teeth.
Gu Jiu pursed his lips and laughed softly, agreeing with a particularly good temper: "Okay, I'll ask the waiter to bring up a few more nutritious and stomach-nourishing breakfasts, Madam, you can enjoy them slowly."
Lin Shu was sitting on the sofa to rest. When the children saw her get up, the eldest child looked at her with concern. The second child was the most direct. When he saw his mother get up, he happily jumped onto Lin Shu.
"Mom, have breakfast."
"Okay, little baby, come and have breakfast with mommy later." Lin Shu held up Erbao's little face and kissed her on the forehead.
Four or five items were served for breakfast. Fortunately, the portion of each item was not too large. One of them, pumpkin porridge, was the favorite of the two children.
The sweet pumpkin porridge made Dabao and Erbao eat half a bowl each.
Gu Jiu helped Erbao wipe the porridge from his mouth and asked, "Where do you want to go today? The Great Wall or the Forbidden City?"
"We're not going anywhere this morning. We'll take the kids to Capital Amusement Park and have a good time there for half a day. Then we'll go to the Temple of Heaven Park in the afternoon."
Gu Jiu had no objection to the arrangement for his daughter-in-law.
After playing in the amusement park for half a day, the children were happy, but Lin Shu was extremely tired.
After lunch, the two children fell asleep before they had even spent an hour in the Temple of Heaven Park. It was impossible for the couple to carry the children around, so they had to go back to the hotel to rest.
In the evening, Lin Shu took a hot bath to relax her body. Lying on the bed, Gu Jiu helped her massage her legs to relieve muscle pain.
The next day, Lin Shu didn't want to go to the park or the Forbidden City. He wanted to let his body recover for two days before arranging any activities that required a lot of exercise.
A family of four took a bus to No. 5 Fuchang Street.
The capital began to restore the second-hand goods market in 1980. In order to improve their family lives, many of the capital's original inhabitants took out their old furniture, decorations, calligraphy and paintings to trade.
It’s not that no one used to sell them in the past, but at that time, if you wanted to set up a stall, you had to be sneaky. Normally you would sneak along the wall, and if you were discovered by law enforcement officers, you had to run fast.
When Lin Shu and Gu Jiu arrived here with their child, the small street, less than a hundred meters long on both sides, was full of second-hand goods.
Having just bought two courtyard houses in the capital, Lin Shu is very interested in these old furniture from the Ming and Qing dynasties.
If you are lucky, you may come across various round tables, eight-immortal tables, high-legged tables, armchairs, etc. made of precious woods such as huanghuali and red sandalwood.
"You want to buy furniture?"
Gu Jiu saw Lin Shu turning around the old furniture and knocking on it here and there, thinking that the furniture was old and ugly. Some of the furniture had been used for who knows how many years and were covered with patina.
"Well, I think these furnitures are all good. It seems that each piece of furniture has witnessed the rise and fall of a family. The sense of history is so strong that each piece of furniture seems to have a story."
Through the system reminder, Lin Shu discovered a large wardrobe made of rosewood. The wardrobe was exquisitely crafted and the carvings were lifelike.
There is also a dressing table of the same style next to it.
Gu Jiu looked at the wardrobe in front of him and felt that although the workmanship was good, the color looked too dark in the house. "If you want to buy furniture, we might as well go to Bailou Mall. There are large double-door wardrobes imported from Romania. Nowadays, it is popular for young men and women in the capital to buy large double-door wardrobes when they get married."
Lin Shu seemed not to hear what he said and started bargaining with the stall owner.
Gu Jiu was right. Young people of this era like fashionable furniture. Look, the two pieces of furniture were finally sold for 70 yuan.
The price of two pieces is less than that of a large wardrobe imported from Romania.
The imported double-door wardrobe costs only eighty yuan.
Because she would not be leaving for the moment and the furniture could not be sent back immediately, Lin Shu gave the stall owner a deposit of ten yuan. After she finished shopping on the street, she would find a truck to transport the furniture back to the newly purchased courtyard house.
Most of the old furniture here is made of camphor wood, with some fine wood mixed in occasionally.
Of course, if you want to buy good wood, you need to have a good eye. Lin Shu doesn’t understand wood, but she has a system to remind you.
In this era, although the second-hand market is generally improving, some timid people still dare not openly display calligraphy and paintings and antiques for trading.
So there are a lot of antiques on some of the furniture.
"This bookshelf is nice." Lin Shu patted an old bookshelf and placed it in the study.
[Host, the Babu Qiangong bed next to you is made of Huanghuali wood. There is a secret box under the head of the bed. There are many valuable things in it. It is worth buying it.]
Look, the system reminded her again.
The system is close to plants and trees, and it knows better than anyone what materials furniture is made of.
"This bed is so big, how are we going to transport it back later?" Lin Shu turned around and saw the Qiangong bed next to him.
This kind of bed was usually made as a dowry by wealthy families for their daughters in ancient times. Parents would start collecting good wood since they were young, and then start making it. A thousand-piece bed would take a carpenter two years to complete.
This shows how precious it is.
The stall owner was a middle-aged man. After hearing Lin Shu's words, he smiled and explained, "This bed was my grandmother's dowry when she got married. After my grandparents passed away, they have been piled up in their original room.
I'm short of money recently, and I think this bed takes up a lot of space, so I want to move it out to make some money. As for transportation, don't worry, this bed can be disassembled for easy transportation. I can introduce a carpenter to help you assemble it when it's delivered to your house."
"So how much is this bed? If the price is right, I'll buy it. If the price is too high, I'll go look again."
Lin Shu’s meaning is very clear, buy if the price is right, give up if the price is too high. As a stall owner, you must not ask for an exorbitant price.
"I believe you know how difficult it is to make this thousand-work bed. I heard from my grandmother that it took five months to carve the bed. Look, there are flowers carved on the bed legs." The stall owner raised his thumb and pinky finger and said, "Six hundred yuan, no bargaining."
To be honest, according to later prices, this price is not expensive, but it is not cheap either.
Lin Shu patted the non-existent dust on his hands and smiled faintly: "Brother, do you know how many eggs and meat you can buy with 600 yuan? If you are sincere about selling, give me a sincere price. I will buy it if I think it is suitable. You should know that this thing is not suitable for eating or drinking. I even think it is unlucky to sleep on it because a dead person has slept on it."
Lin Shu bought it for collection.
In the future, this kind of Babu Qiangong bed, because of its precious wood, can be put in a museum.