Siheyuan: Relieve stress and relieve worries

Chapter 665 A well-behaved person
Wang Zhan suddenly asked: "Master, when are you going to get married?"

Qi Dasheng took a sip of tea, sighed and said, "Alas, I, your master, am too ugly, no one wants me."

"Master, how old are you now? I have never asked you before." Wang Zhan asked.

"As for me, I don't know the exact year. My master said it was the year when Puyi abdicated, which should be 2017," Qi Dasheng replied.

Wang Zhan said jokingly: "You are amazing. When you were born, you ended a feudal dynasty."

Qi Dasheng laughed and said, "Why did you say exactly the same thing as my master?"

At this time, Wang Zhan moved his ears and heard some noise in the main room. He thought it should be his sister who woke up, so he stood up and ran to the main room. When he got there, he saw that it was really his sister who woke up. When Wang Li saw her brother coming, she acted coquettishly and asked her brother to put on her clothes.

As Wang Zhan put on his clothes, he said, "Come with me and Master and go out for a while, okay?"

Wang Li nodded, blinked her big eyes and asked, "Okay, are you taking me out to play?"

Wang Zhan smiled and said, "I guess so. By the way, do you want to wear the scarf I bought for you?"

"No, it's a bit prickly to wear it around." Wang Li replied, shaking her head.

Wang Zhan said, "Okay, I'll wash it for you when we get back, and then I won't prick you."

When Wang Zhan led Wang Li out, Qi Dasheng said, "Shall we go now? I'll ride that tricycle."

Wang Zhan thought for a moment and said, "No, Master. If we take a lot this time, we'll have to hire someone to deliver it to our home."

Qi Dasheng said, "That's fine. When I get there, I'll contact my comrades there. There's a phone there anyway."

Qi Dasheng took the brother and sister, locked the door, and went out to the Xizhimen freight warehouse.

When we arrived at the warehouse at Xizhimen, we saw a man in military uniform looking around at the door. He immediately saw Qi Dasheng and his two children walking towards us. The man in military uniform ran over and gave Qi Dasheng a hug, saying, "Brother Dasheng, I heard you were coming, and I've been waiting for you for a long time."

"Oh, you little monkey, you have been promoted to platoon leader. Not bad. If you work hard, you can become a general in the future." Qi Dasheng said.

"Brother Dasheng, look at what you said. If I don't get promoted, I won't have any battles to fight in, and I'll have to retire." said the man in military uniform.

"Come, let me introduce you. This is my apprentice Wang Zhan, this is his sister Wang Li, and this is my former comrade-in-arms, you have to call him Uncle Hou." Qi Dasheng introduced them to each other.

Wang Zhan called out respectfully, "Hello Uncle Hou!" Wang Li also followed suit.

"Hello, hello, come in quickly. Do you want to take a break first or go and pick directly?" asked Uncle Hou.

Wang Zhan said, "My sister and I can just go over and take a look. You and my master haven't seen each other for a long time. You two can catch up."

Qi Dasheng nodded and said, "Okay, you two go ahead. I can't tell anything anyway, so it's useless for you to go."

Uncle Hou called a soldier over and said a few words to him. Then the soldier took the brother and sister to the warehouse.

As soon as Wang Zhan and his sister entered the warehouse, Wang Zhan's saliva began to flow. There were too many good things. The ancient rare books were piled up in several large boxes. In the back were some porcelain, wood, lacquer and bronze wares, and then all kinds of furniture, but there was no jade, gold and silver wares. They were probably confiscated. The soldier walked in and introduced, "The houses of those people were confiscated and turned into offices for various departments. Now these things are a bit of an eyesore, so they are piled here. After all, offices only need tables and chairs, etc. These are useless."

When Wang Zhan heard this, he knew that these people were not interested in these things. As for whether they were antiques or not, they didn't care at all. As long as they took up space, they would be cleared here.

Wang Zhan made up his mind to take all the books with him. He also picked out a lot of sandalwood and huanghuali furniture, as long as they were of these two types. He also picked out a few pieces of nanmu furniture, but he didn't know if they were from the palace. No ordinary person would dare to use nanmu to make furniture. He didn't know where they came from. As for porcelain and the like, he would take them all as long as they were not from the Republic of China.

When Qi Dasheng and Uncle Hou arrived at the warehouse, they saw what Wang Zhan wanted, which was almost one-third of the entire warehouse. Qi Dasheng opened his mouth wide and said, "You want so much, can we put it all in our house?"

"Don't worry, I can put it down. Is it okay for me to have so much, Uncle Hou?" Wang Zhan asked with a smile.

Uncle Hou was also surprised, but he still said, "No problem, it's said above, it's okay for you to take them all, I'll find someone to load them up and send them back to you."

Wang Zhan quickly thanked him and said, "Thank you, Uncle Hou. Thank you for your trouble."

When Uncle Hou saw that the child liked old things, he casually said, "Why bother? I'll notify your master when more things are shipped over."

After a while, a team of soldiers came and helped put the things on a Dodge truck and transported them directly back to Maoer Hutong. The soldiers also helped move them to the central courtyard. Wang Zhan told Qi Dasheng that he would sort them out slowly, but he should carry the books to the study first, as these things could not be left outside.

All the things were moved to the central courtyard, leaving only the books in the study room for the soldiers to pile up. After the soldiers left, Wang Zhan started to get busy, as he had something to do during this time.

In addition to helping to move things, Qi Dasheng was also very curious about these things. Wang Zhan did not hide it from his master. Every time he moved something, he gave his master and his sister a brief introduction to the material and dynasty of the item.

Qi Dasheng asked curiously: "When did you learn so many things?"

Wang Zhan glanced at him and said, "I learned this from a cheap master when I was tricked by a shabby old Taoist priest and taken to Shaanxi to help with tomb robbery."

Qi Dasheng knew that he had touched Wang Zhan's sore spot again, so he asked jokingly, "How cheap is it?"

Wang Zhan replied casually: "A small yellow croaker."

Qi Dasheng stared at Wang Zhan with wide eyes. He suddenly felt that he really knew nothing about Wang Zhan. He didn't know what he had experienced in the past two years. Perhaps only by finding the Taoist priest and the blind man could he solve the doubts in his heart.

Wang Zhan was finally satisfied with his study, which had a book storage room, a studio, and an empty room next to it. Wang Zhan planned to build a bathroom, but he didn't know if there was anyone who could do it. The hotel bathrooms in Macau had always been on his mind.

Wang Zhan told his idea to his master, but after talking for a long time, Qi Dasheng didn't understand at all. Wang Zhan gave up and decided to talk about it again when they met next time.

Qi Dasheng was confused, but he still asked, "What do you want to eat tonight?"

Wang Zhan thought for a moment and said, "Let's eat barbecue. Inner Mongolian barbecue is really delicious, especially the meat."

Qi Dasheng curled his lips and said disdainfully: "After eating your master's barbecue, you won't think so."

Wang Zhan looked at his master in surprise. Could it be that his master’s barbecue skills were as good as his cooking skills?
Seeing Wang Zhan looking at him suspiciously, Qi Dasheng said, "You are still young, you don't know what field combat is, right? It means walking around randomly. At that time, we were in the wild. There was no food rations. We ate whatever we caught. The most common way to cook food in the wild was to roast it."

(End of this chapter)