Chapter 51 Visiting the Shashahou

Baolanhou asked with a smile: "Young man, I remember your name is Bai Zirui, right? You said last time that you were the deputy director of a recycling bin and I was traveling with you. Did you see the few books I gave you?

What's the point?"

Bai Zirui said gratefully: "Uncle Hou, those books you gave me are so precious and they have benefited me a lot. I also got a few things during this period. I am here today to ask for advice from Uncle Hou. I hope you will not be generous."

Give me some advice."

After he finished speaking, he picked up the Fenjiu and peanuts hanging on the handlebars. After seeing them, Bao Pohou thought to himself: "This guy knows some etiquette."

He smiled and said, "That's great! Let's walk."

Bai Zirui said respectfully: "Uncle Hou, please lead the way. I will be at your disposal today."

Po Pohou nodded, turned around and walked towards his home. When he arrived at No. 137 Rouge Alley, Bai Zirui parked his bicycle, took off the Fenjiu and peanuts from the handlebars and carried them in his hands, followed Po Pohou through the narrow aisle.

His residence is the first on the right.

Popohou opened the door and led him into the house. When Bai Zirui entered the house, he saw ancient paintings, furniture, porcelain and other antiques.

Behind every antique there is a story with twists and turns, bizarre twists and turns. The strong sense of historical vicissitudes came to his face and made him dizzy and mesmerized.

Sitting on a grand master's chair, Shapohou Hou saw the shock on Bai Zirui's face, and said with a little pride: "Little boy, I can still manage the things in this room!"

Bai Zirui nodded and said, "Uncle Hou, your collection really opened my eyes. These are treasures passed down to us by our ancestors.

You were able to completely preserve these treasures in this storm so that future generations can see the cultural and artistic treasures of our Chinese nation. You are truly a man of great kindness and merit."

Baolan Hou said with emotion: "You are quite knowledgeable, so I gave you those books in vain. It seems that you have really started to get started. Take out the things you found and let me learn more."

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Bai Zirui placed Fenjiu and peanuts on the antique table next to him, and said with a smile: "Uncle Hou, the ancients were all about making wine and talking about heroes. How about we pick up people's wisdom and do a wine tasting today?"

Bao Baohou said with a hearty laugh: "Okay...well, you have a good temper with me, little boy."

Then he stood up and found two antique wine glasses. Baizi opened a bottle of wine and peanuts, sat on another Taishi chair, took out the cigarette rod and placed it on the table.

Popohou returned to the table with his wine glass and sat down. He poured two full glasses of wine, raised his glass and said, "Little boy, in response to what you just said, I want to toast you."

Bai Zirui said respectfully: "Uncle Hou, I don't dare to take this seriously. You have broken me like this."

The broken man said: "Boy, you are such a bitch, why don't you be an old man from the capital and hurry up?"

After he finished speaking, he raised his head first and drank the wine in the glass. Bai Zirui said loudly: "Thank you, Mr. Hou, for thinking highly of the younger generation, so I would rather obey you and risk my life to accompany you."

After saying that, he drank the wine in the glass boldly, nodded and said, "This is like a gentleman from the capital."

He put the wine glass on the table, and when he was about to pour the second glass of wine, his sharp eyes spotted Bai Zirui's cigarette rod on the table. His eyes lit up and he said: "Little boy, this is the item you found. Take it."

Come let me."

Bai Zirui put the cigarette rod in front of him and said respectfully: "Uncle Hou, please help me palm my eyes."

Bao Pohou took the cigarette rod in his hand and looked at it carefully. He found that the cigarette rod was made of copper and could be retracted. Then he saw the two English letters "***" engraved on it, and his eyes flashed.

He put the cigarette rod on the table and said with emotion: "What a good thing! Boy, how did you get such a good thing?"

Bai Zirui replied: "When I came to visit you today, I passed by an alley on my bike. A child was playing next to a pile of sand with something in his hand. When I passed by, the thing in his hand shone brightly under the sun.

I hit my eye..."

He told what happened. After hearing this, Popohou said jokingly: "You are really lucky, you found a good thing! Do you know the origin of this cigarette rod?"

Bai Zirui replied: "I suspect that this tobacco stem belongs to the British Earl Elgin. He is the culprit who ordered the burning of the Old Summer Palace, the garden of ten thousand gardens. I really want to cut him into pieces."

His English name is James Bruce, and the two English letters "***" on the cigarette rod should be the abbreviation of his English name."

Ruan Ranruo lost a glass of wine sadly and said sadly: "On October 24, 1860, Prince Yixin, Prince Liugong of the Japanese army, and Earl Elgin, the British representative, signed the Sino-British BJ Treaty in the lobby of the Ministry of Rites outside Andingmen.

, this unequal and traitorous treaty, and gave him a retractable tobacco pole in public, which is the tobacco pole you got today.

Although my ancestors were relatives of the emperor, thinking about all the unequal and humiliating treaties they signed makes me feel deeply ashamed, especially the old witch Cixi who preferred to be friends with friends rather than domestic slaves.

Is this what people do to try to win the favor of the country?"

Bai Zirui said persuadingly: "Uncle Hou, these are all stupid things done by your ancestors and have little to do with you, a junior. You don't have to blame yourself so much. Aren't we Chinese people standing up now?"

Bao Pohou said impassionedly: "Yes! We Chinese have stood up and no longer have to be bullied by foreigners."

After finishing speaking, he drank another glass of wine, and Bai Zirui quickly said: "Uncle Hou, quickly eat some peanuts and drink wine."

Bao Baohou grabbed a few peanuts and stuffed them into his mouth. While eating, he said, "Little boy, if you have any good things, let me take a look."

Bai Zirui took out a palm-sized box wrapped tightly with a handkerchief from his pocket, put it on the table, opened it and pushed it in front of the broken Hou, and said with a serious face: "Uncle Hou, do you think this is true?"

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After seeing the missing corner of Da Qi Tong Bao in the box, Shaoxi's face changed greatly and he was very excited. He stood up and took out a box from the room. After opening it, he took out a pair of white gloves and put them on, and carefully picked them out of the small box.

I turned over the missing corner Da Qi Tong Bao and observed it carefully.

Maybe because I felt that I couldn't see clearly with the naked eye, I even used a magnifying glass. In the end, I took out various tools and kept measuring. After more than ten minutes of tossing, I put the missing corner Daqi Tongbao in a small box.

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After he poured himself another glass of wine and drank it, he said with sincere emotion: "Little boy, this is the missing corner Da Qitong Bao collected by Dai Xi that many people have dreamed of for decades. It disappeared after his death. For

He didn't hesitate to dig deep into the ground to find someone who wanted to buy his old house, but in the end he found nothing, and it ended up in your hands."

Bai Zirui said with a sigh on his face: "Uncle Hou, when we were transporting scrap copper and scrap iron at our recycling station, it fell to the ground and I picked it up by chance. Otherwise, it would have been returned to the furnace of the steel plant and remade.

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I really don’t know how many precious antiques and cultural relics have been destroyed in this way, which is really sad and regretful.”
Chapter completed!