The old shop was expanded on the basis of the original Xuanhuitang. The most recent major renovation was more than ten years ago, and there have been no major changes since then. Therefore, the old shop is considered to be a relatively well-preserved place in the Republic of China. Architecture is rare in small third-tier cities like China that pursue economy.
I often hear Bai Ye talking about all kinds of things that go back to the church. After the Chinese New Year, the old man on the fourth floor will go to Beijing to see my dad for New Year’s greetings. Then the next day my dad will bring me and Ning Shan to the old shop for a return visit, so I have been here several times. But after all, he was not as familiar with Xuanhuitang in Chongqing, so he called Baiye's phone from outside.
He happened to be right at this moment. He came down as soon as the phone was hung up. He glanced at Chongyang and said, "Come in."
Although the old shop has expanded a lot on the fourth floor of Bai's hand over the years, the door face does not look big. The width of the three people side by side is also set with thresholds like the shop in ancient times, and it looks like an ancient shop.
Only after entering the door did I know how big it is, "Is this going to see your old man Bai?"
"No." Bai Ye took me and Chongyang around and turned into a study room, "show you something."
Then he picked up a few pieces of paper from the wooden table top piled with papers and handed it to me. Obviously he was looking at these things before I came.
"What is it?" I took it and found out that these are actually two photos, both of which have been photos many years ago.
"This was in 1949, when the former Nationalist government withdrew to the south, my grandfather got it from a Chongqing Kuomintang officer. That person should be a researcher from the Kuomintang scientific research institution, and he has something that I am very interested in."
"And that person seems to want to take advantage of the troubled times to make a fortune, so he packs up piles of internal materials and sells them by catty. They cannot open them before the transaction. Even so, the catties of paper are also sold. On the high price.
"It's like the current gambling stone, I will take the money and give you things, but whether you can get what you want from it, it's all luck."
"My grandfather also bought some of them. These photos are what we sorted out from the stack of materials."
When Bai Ye finished speaking, I also discovered the strangeness of these two photos.
Although they are all old photos, they are still far apart in time. The first one was shot near Wangfujing in Beijing. It was not a professional work, because there were many ordinary people in the shot, and these people were wearing long robes and jackets. , With a yin and yang head on his head, beside some Europeans in suits.
If the photo is real, then it should be taken in the early 1990s, before and after the collapse of the Qing government.
The second photo is a landscape photo. Although it is black and white, the scenery is really good. It should be a snapshot. A man is standing under a tree and looking up at the sky. The background is a traditional Chinese house. From the perspective of clothing, this should be the period of the Nationalist Government.
The weird thing is that the man under the tree in the second photo also appears in the first photo. I don't know if it is a hardware problem. I always feel that this person hasn't changed much in the years before and after, but he has the characteristics of a different era in terms of dressing.
"Look at the opposite side." Bai Ye reminded.
I turned it over and found that the time was marked with the same handwriting on the reverse side of the two photos.
The first one, 1903.
The second one, 1947.
My hand shook slightly, and I looked at the person beside me. The same person who appeared in the two photos seemed to be Chongyang. (End of this chapter)