The Fiery Era of Siheyuan

Chapter 298, Camera
After seeing off Shazhu's family, Li Weiguo raised his hand to check the time, it was just before ten o'clock, and the heavy snow had stopped outside, so he happened to go out to send things to Master by the way.

So he left immediately, put out his cigarette butts, picked up the clothes, shoes, hats and radio he bought for the old man, locked the door, put on his bicycle and walked out.

After leaving the courtyard, we rode against the cold wind for a few minutes, and soon arrived at Heizhima Hutong.

When I arrived at Master Wang Zhenhai's house, I didn't knock on the door. I just opened the door and went in. At this time, my old man was sweeping the snow in the yard with a broom.

"Master, I'm here to see you."

Hearing Li Weiguo's voice, Mr. Wang turned his head and said with a smile: "Stinky boy, didn't you say you only came at the age of [-]? Why are you here now?"

Li Weiguo pushed the car to the corner of the courtyard and parked it, and said with a smile: "Hey, there's no rule not to come before New Year's Eve."

"I bought you some clothes and tried them to see if they fit you. If they don't fit, I'll change them for you." Li Weiguo said as he untied the things from the back seat of the car.

Hearing that Li Weiguo had spent money on him again, Mr. Wang couldn't help complaining: "I have plenty of clothes, but I don't lack any. Why do you keep buying them for me? It's a waste of money."

Although he said so, Mr. Wang was very happy to be remembered by his apprentice all the time, and the smile on his face never stopped.

"If there is no shortage, we can also buy a few more sets to wear." Li Weiguo laughed.

"Okay, if you buy it, buy it. Let's go inside first to warm up by the fire. It's very cold outside."

Saying that, Mr. Wang stopped sweeping the floor, put the broom aside, and led him into the house to keep warm.

Following the old man into the house, Li Weiguo put all the things in his hand on the dining table, and then unpacked them one by one.

"Master, come and try on these clothes, shoes and hats first."

"haha okay."

After buying all the things, Mr. Wang was not pretentious, so he started to try them on.

Not to mention, everything was bought according to the old man's size, basically they all fit, and the old man was very satisfied.

After trying on the clothes, shoes and hats, the old man put away all the clothes, and when he saw a cardboard box on the table, he couldn't help asking curiously: "Wei Guo, what is this?"

"Guess what?"

"It's tightly wrapped, I guess a ball. You like to talk or not."

Mr. Wang gave him a blank look, ignored his trickery, and went to fetch the thermos to make tea for him.

Well, the old man is not cooperative at all.
So instead of tempting him, Li Weiguo directly opened the cardboard box of the radio.

The carton was opened and the Shanghai brand Fang Tuo Tuo was taken out, which immediately caught Mr. Wang's attention.

"Hey radio? Good stuff! Where did you get the tickets?"

"Sent by Cao Demao from the finishing workshop."

From Cao Demao?

Once Li Weiguo said this, Mr. Wang knew what was going on.

In the past two months, the second child of the Cao family, Tongjian, was arrested. The security department basically knew about it. As the manager of the office, it was normal for Li Weiguo to be asked to come to his door.

Although he recognized the source of the ticket, the old man still complained: "A radio costs more than 100, what do you do with this money, you really have money to burn."

Li Weiguo said with a smile: "Hey. Didn't I see that you usually live alone and lonely, so I bought you a radio, and you can listen to cross talk broadcasts when you have nothing to do, just to relieve your boredom."

The old man shook his head, there was nothing he could do about it, but his apprentice was very filial and bought everything, so he would use it first. In fact, he had wanted to buy it for a long time, and the tickets were easy to deal with, but he was used to living a frugal life. I just don't want to waste that money.

After taking the radio, Mr. Wang quickly plugged it in, and then fiddled with it a few more times, and soon there was a clear broadcast sound from the radio.

Seeing his skillful operation, Li Weiguo couldn't help but asked curiously: "Huh? Master, have you ever played with it?"

The old man smiled proudly: "That's right, I think I never captured anything when I was fighting devils and fruit soldiers, let alone radios, I have played a lot of gramophones."

As soon as he talked about the past years, the old man became interested and couldn't help but chat a few more words. Li Weiguo smiled and did not disturb his interest. He just sat aside and listened quietly, chiming in from time to time.

When we were talking happily, the old man suddenly seemed to think of something: "Oh, yes, I seized something back then, and you young people may like it. You wait here, and I will get it for you."

With that said, the old man got up and went into the bedroom, and soon he pulled out a satchel.

"Master, what is it?"

"See for yourself." The old man handed over the satchel.

Li Weiguo took it curiously and opened the satchel, revealing a camera inside.

Open the brown camera leather case, carefully take out the camera inside, take a closer look, the body is made of metal, black, with the words "LEICA" on the body and the case, and the serial number on the body is 108.

"I'll go, master, where did you seize this treasure?"

Li Weiguo was shocked when he saw this thing. He recognized it at a glance.

This is precisely the rare prototype of the Leica 0 series.

This thing is a good treasure.

Leitz camera (referred to as Leica), the world's first mass-produced 35mm camera, is considered a milestone in modern photography.

20世纪20年代中期第一台徕卡相机问世前，恩斯特·徕兹（Ernst Leitz）于1923年至1924年间生产了大约23款0系列原型机。

Due to various reasons, there are only a dozen Leica 0-series prototypes left in later generations, and all others were lost in the war years.

These surviving prototypes, including two rare prototypes with serial numbers 122 and 105, were auctioned for 240 million euros and 1440 million euros respectively, breaking the world record for the most expensive camera in history.

I didn't expect that such a rare treasure would be seized by my master by chance. I have to say that the old man is really lucky.

Mr. Wang said with a smile: "You got it by killing a devil officer on the battlefield."

"Originally I wanted to hand it over to my father-in-law, but this thing was malfunctioning at the time. Our boss gave it to me when he saw that it was of no use. Later, it took my boss's efforts to find someone to fix it."

"This thing is still usable. If you like it, you can play with it. Anyway, it will be ashes if you put it here."

Mr. Wang also knew that Li Weiguo usually liked some weird old things, and he would not take them if he gave them money, so he just gave him this treasured trophy.

Li Weiguo's eyes lit up: "Really? Then I will take it away?"

"Take it away." The old man waved his hand and didn't care.

With the old man's permission, Li Weiguo was overjoyed and started playing with it fondly.

Taking pictures these days is a very extravagant thing. You can go to a photo studio to take a one-inch black-and-white photo for [-] cents, and a two-inch one for [-] or [-] cents. Colored photos are more expensive, and the price directly doubles up. People can't easily afford it.

With this wonderful machine, I will look for some 35mm film later. If it can be used, I will be able to take photos freely. At most, I will have to spend some money on developing the photos.

After playing with it for a few times, Li Weiguo carefully put it back into the case and put it away, planning to take it out to try again when he had time.

After delivering the things to the old man, Li Weiguo didn't stay any longer, chatted with the old man for a while, swept the snow for him, and then returned to the courtyard with the things.

When they returned to the courtyard, Shazhu and his wife had just come back from outside. They carried a dozen large and small bags of non-staple food, and they happened to meet Li Weiguo at the entrance of the courtyard.

"Brother Yo Zhu, sister-in-law, are you back from shopping for the new year?"

"Yeah, I just went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy some non-staple food." Silly Zhu responded.

Then Silly Zhu saw that he had just come back from the outside, and asked him in a low voice: "By the way, Wei Guo, the ticket we mentioned earlier?"

Li Weiguo smiled. It seemed that Silly Zhu was quite anxious, but he didn't intend to stretch him. He took out the sewing ticket from his pocket and handed it to him.

"Here, the ticket is for you to come back."

"Hey, thank you, Wei Guo."

Sha Zhu and his wife were overjoyed immediately, the thing they had been thinking about was finally settled.

So the couple didn't say anything else, and sent him 40 yuan when they got home.

After getting the sewing ticket and going home to put away his things, Sha Zhu couldn't wait any longer, borrowed a bicycle from Yushui, and immediately went straight to the department store with his wife.

About an hour later, the couple returned in a hurry carrying a Shanghai brand sewing machine.

As soon as they returned to the courtyard, the news of Shazhu's family buying a sewing machine quickly spread throughout the courtyard.

Everyone didn't expect that Shazhu, a brash man, would grow up so quickly. First he married a wife, and now he bought a sewing machine. The days are getting more and more prosperous. This really envies many people.

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