The sunlight shines through the glass window on the antique shelves in the room, and the small knick-knacks in the shelves shine brightly, watching, stroking, and reminding me of many old memories...
At the end of the last century, our family caught the last train of welfare rooms, and when renovating the house, I saw that many neighbors had made an antique shelf at home, and most of them were in the middle of the two rooms, which could not only place small objects, but also play a role in partitioning, which felt good. Since I hadn't done it beforehand, I bought a ready-made antique shelf to lean against one of the walls of a room.
Despite the antique shelf, it stood there empty for a long time, because there were no "antiques" in the house to put in. But since then, when I go out to shop, I start to pay attention to some small knick-knacks. It was precisely at that time that there was a root carving store department on Changle Road, not far from our unit, so I wandered in several times during the lunch break after dinner.
Only to see that there are a lot of intertwined, strangely shaped root carvings, some such as coffee tables, some like stools, some like dragons, some like horse leaps, some like emeralds, some like melons, the most is a majestic "eagle" of different sizes, one of which is a smaller eagle with wings flying attracted my attention, this eagle eagle is not only god-like, but also similar, the size is also like the real, take it in your hand, carefully observe, there is no trace of artificial carving, I can't help but ask the price, the shopkeeper replied: "One hundred yuan!" You really want to get ninety dollars! ”
I thought to myself that a hundred yuan is not cheap, because in other places and even in other cities I have seen eagle eagles of such a size, and the asking price is only twenty or thirty yuan, but it is rare to find such a delicate workmanship and such a hard and slippery texture like this eagle, but it still feels a little expensive. When I reluctantly walked out of the store, a thought suddenly grabbed me: "Maybe I will be bought by someone else soon!" So I hurried back to the shop and took the "eagle" in my hand, afraid that it would fly away...
But when I went home and put it in a larger compartment in the middle of the antique shelf, I found it slightly larger, but if I extended one of its wings out of the lattice, it was not only just right, but also the feeling of flying in the air, so our antique shelf had this first small ornament.
At that time, Taitung Nanshan Market had not yet entered the room, it was a very lively place, selling rice noodles, selling vegetables, selling melons and fruits, selling fish and meat, selling flowers, birds, fish and insects, of course, there were many calligraphy and paintings and ornamental stones on the fork of the street.
Because I was close to home, and because I wanted to find a few stones to put in the antique shelf, I often walked here in my spare time. For ornamental stones, others may be able to say a lot of famous things, but I know nothing, my selection criteria are very simple, good-looking, cheap, the right size can be, so soon there are a few ornamental stones in the antique shelf of several grids.
A piece of folding fan size inch thick green stone, with some brown stripes on it, like an upright trunk and a patchwork of branches, looks like a winter forest, it was bought for twenty yuan; the other is a pen holder shaped stone, seven or eight inches long, five or six inches high, the texture is yellow, green and white mottled, colleagues came to see what jade, it was bought for thirty yuan; there is a stone that is ten yuan to buy, flat and round, three inches high, two inches wide, seemingly transparent and non-transparent, misty green crystal, and a trace of silver vertical line. But I can't call a name, and I can't say anything famous.
In addition, there are several small items in the Bogu shelf that were brought back from a business trip. For example, in the Shanghai City God Temple bought a half-foot-high copper crane pair, sixty yuan, after returning to the factory two female colleagues saw a very fond, and asked me the price, soon after they traveled to Shanghai also bought the same pair, but it is a sixty yuan, colleagues said to me: "I thought you bought a sixty yuan it!" I said, "I told you it was a pair of sixty dollars, but you heard it wrong!" So they looked at each other and laughed.
For example, a White Jade Bamboo Teapot bought in Beijing Liuli Factory, bought for sixty yuan, the asking price is six hundred yuan, because I saw all kinds of defects, the seller's face was helpless and had to sell at a discount; such as the stacked turtle and the back money bag Luohan bought in the small souvenir street of Wuxi Lingshan Temple, all made of resin, a piece of more than ten yuan; there is also a half-foot-sized turtle-shaped stone stone, and a small porcelain bottle of Guanyin in my hand, which was bought when visiting the Dazu Stone Carvings when I went to Chongqing, and the prices were very cheap, a few yuan and a dozen yuan.
Because I have the most business trips to Jinan, I also buy the most small items, such as copper horses, boxwood old life stars, stone and steel fitness balls bought on the stalls under the Thousand Buddha Mountain, and stone elephants, stone tigers and stone pigs bought in the small market near Jinan Railway Station. The most bought is the wooden fish stone teapot, the wooden fish stone tea bowl, the wooden fish stone lid cup, especially those teapots, with different shapes, pumpkin type, turtle type, bird type, not only drink tea to be interested and have a health effect, and no matter where it is placed, it is also a small ornament...
Think about the time when in order to buy these objects, not afraid of running and tired, actually ran to the place where these things were produced dozens of miles away from Jinan, just to save a few dollars, because these objects are also in the shopping malls of Jinan, but they cost several times the price.
Now retired at home, it is rare to go out, every time I wipe the antique shelves and antique shelves of these small knick-knacks, I feel that although there is no treasure, no antiques, not even a valuable thing, it is a fortunate thing to be able to buy it and put it on the shelf, because each item records my experience of the year, a good mood...