Monkey has a family heirloom jade pendant that he always carries with him. This jade was given to his father by a chief of the Northwest Field Army. Back then, the chief led his troops into Xinjiang and eliminated a group of bandits in the Niya Oasis. This piece of jade is Jade was worn by the bandit leader. It's said to be a jade pendant, but it actually doesn't look much like it. It has a simple and weird shape, and there are some random patterns engraved on it, which look like maps and words. I don't know what they are actually used for.

This jade monkey has been shown to me many times. I used to have a lot of antiques at home. When I was a child, I heard my grandfather tell me a lot about gold, stone and jade. But I can't tell the value of this piece of jade.

Monkey wanted to sell this piece of jade to get some capital for business, but I stopped him. This is what your father left for you. Don¡¯t sell it if you can. We¡¯re not at the point of desperation. If I can¡¯t do it, I¡¯ll find a home. It¡¯s okay to ask for money. Anyway, our old man and old lady received a lot of back pay.

The two of us saw an empty spot on the roadside, so we parked our three-wheeler and bought two bowls of braised huoshao nearby for lunch.

Luzhuhuoshao is a soup made from pig offal. It contains large intestines and the like, soaked in chopped huoshao. It costs more than one yuan a bowl, which is economical and affordable.

I put too much spicy food in this bowl. It was so spicy that I had tears and runny nose, and I stuck out my tongue to breathe.

The monkey took two bites and said to me: "Old Hu, I wanted to bring you out to make a fortune in the past few years. Unexpectedly, the national economy has been revitalized now. The situation is not a small good, but a great one. It's not like when I first started practicing stalls. At that time, there were no more than three pop music cassettes in Beijing. This is really embarrassing for you. Your father was already a division commander before he retired and enjoyed the treatment of a deputy municipal cadre. You might as well go back and let your old man use the back door. , I¡¯ll give you a job in the agency, so don¡¯t suffer with me.¡±

I patted the monkey's big belly and said, "Brother, let me tell you something from the bottom of my heart. If I really want to go to the agency, I can go to the agency at any time, but I don't dare to go. Do you know why? I'm scared. I If I sit still in one place and can only think about my dead comrades, they are all dangling in front of my eyes. When I see them, my intestines almost break. Now I am running around doing some small business, and I can distract my mind and think about other things, otherwise I will have to go crazy. "

After so many years in the army, I have learned nothing more than how to boost morale. I comforted the monkey: "We are no longer miserable now. Isn't there still braised food to eat? I remember when I was in the Kunlun Mountains, what the hell It's really a shame. One year during the Spring Festival, everyone was homesick, and many recruits secretly cried. When the division commander saw that it was okay, he quickly made dumplings for everyone and improved their food. You might not believe it. There are no green vegetables in Kunlun Mountain. The vegetables are more expensive than gold, but the meat is abundant. The dumplings are all meatballs. The altitude is too high and the water cannot be boiled. The dumplings are all raw and the meat filling inside is red. Can you imagine what it tasted like? I ate about seventy or eighty of them, and I was almost starved to death. I hadn¡¯t eaten anything cooked in the past few years, and I was so hungry the next day. I was sent to the hospital because I couldn't digest it and my stomach felt like iron. Do you remember what Hong Yanli said? The night before the victory of the revolution is always the coldest. Our business cannot always be like this. The tape is not good. Sell, we can sell other things. Just like Chairman Mao said: If we are not allowed to go to Lushan, we will go to Jinggangshan. If the People's Liberation Army doesn't follow me, I will go to the Red Army."

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I turned on the tape recorder, and the two large speakers immediately played music.

Because the tape recorder is relatively shabby and the sound quality is very poor, no matter how beautiful the songs are played from it, it will sound like a broken gong.

But Monkey and I didn¡¯t find it unpleasant. Anyway, it was better than the two of us. After my ideological education work in simple terms, Monkey became more cheerful. He weighed his calves to the rhythm of the music and shouted at the top of his voice: "Take a look, take a look, the original version from Hong Kong and Taiwan, cut off the arms and legs, sell them at a big sale, lose money and make a profit..."

Pedestrians passing by and those doing business and setting up stalls around us all cast curious glances at us. Next to us was a man who set up a stall selling antiques. He came over and said hello to us. When he smiled, his bald face showed a yellow bald spot. The bald man took out his cigarette and gave it to both of us.

I took the cigarette and took a look: "Hey, it's of high quality. It's an American cigarette, Marlboro."

Huang Baldy said while lighting a cigarette for me: "You two are selling pop songs at the Panjiayuan Antique Market, but no one in the forty-nine cities can figure it out. You two are really the first to do it."

I took a long puff of cigarette and blew out two streaks of white smoke from my nose. This American cigarette is very powerful. I raised my head and said to Huang Baldy: "Don't use this to sway us. We brothers are trying to hide from the Industrial and Commercial Bureau. I ran here accidentally and left after a while.¡±

As a result, the two sides talked about it, and they were not outsiders. Huang Baldy's family was in Hainan Island, and he had been in the army in Yunnan before. His father's generation lived there when the People's Liberation Army went south. The roots of the family are all from Sanye. When it comes to where your hometown is from, which group the elders in the family belong to, and which division or regiment they belong to, it doesn't matter how far they are from each other.

However, Huang Baldy's father was not a cadre. His father was a craftsman who fought against the people. Later, the national army captured young men. During the Battle of Xu Beng, which was the Battle of Huaihai, his army revolted and joined the People's Liberation Army. He himself I have been working as a cook in the army. My legs were frozen on the Korean battlefield and I was paralyzed for life. After the reform and opening up, I moved from Hainan to Beijing to collect some antiques and start a business.

Those who can speak are not as good as those who can listen. He said it nicely. A craftsman who fights backwards is just a thief who digs graves. Others cannot tell these things, but I was brought up by my grandfather. These things He told me a lot.

An expert can tell if there is one by stretching out his hand. Going further, I asked Huang Baldy: "Your old man was a gold-touching captain in the past. Did he find any big rice dumplings?" (Big rice dumplings are a code word circulated among tomb robbers, just like in the mountains. When talking to each other, the bandits cannot directly say that they killed people and set fires. They all have a set of slang words. Zongzi means that the corpse in the tomb is relatively well preserved and has not rotted. Touching a big zongzi means that you are in trouble. It refers to zombies and evil spirits. Dried Zongzi means that the corpse in the tomb is so rotten that only a pile of bones are left, and Meat Zongzi means that there are many valuable things on the corpse.)

When Huang Baldy heard this, he immediately respected me and insisted on inviting Monkey and I to Dongsi to eat hotpot mutton and talk in detail. So the three of them packed up their things and ran to Dongsi together.