Chapter 673 (2/2)

”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.