Military marriage: After not seeing each other for many years, it was painless to become a mother as soon as we met - Chapter 15

Gu Qingcheng knew she had struck gold; the quality of these items would likely fetch a fortune in future years!

Suppressing her excitement, she continued her crawling search.

She was extremely careful, afraid of missing a single corner.

Her movements were cautious and meticulous, and after a few searches, she had indeed amassed quite a collection!

Besides the agate bracelet she had found initially, Gu Qingcheng also found a top-quality jade pendant and a gemstone necklace.

Afraid of being discovered, Gu Qingcheng only glanced at them briefly before placing them all into her spatial storage. She could examine them later after leaving the area.

Although taking without asking was stealing, these items were all discarded at the junkyard and were unclaimed. Preserving their value by storing them in her spatial storage wasn’t unreasonable, was it?

Besides, even if she didn’t take them, they would all be destroyed anyway; it would be such a waste to destroy such high-quality items!

Gu Qingcheng left the first warehouse, which she had already searched thoroughly without finding anything else.

The second warehouse, however, contained a plethora of valuable items.

Due to historical reasons, prejudice against scholars was still quite strong in that era. The mainstream value was that those who studied were inferior to those who farmed and labored, and that labor was the most glorious.

Therefore, many precious books were discarded.

Entering the warehouse, she found it in complete disarray, with scraps of paper scattered everywhere. Gu Qingcheng looked around, not taking any supplementary teaching materials or common novels, but she did collect all the recent issues of the People’s Daily into her spatial storage.

She was quite lucky; from 1970 to 1975, she had almost every year’s newspaper, though not complete, it still had commemorative value.

Besides newspapers, Gu Qingcheng also found several precious books of seal engraving, such as Tiangong Kaiwu, Bencao Gangmu, and Siku Quanshu, as well as some poetry and medical books, all of which she also stored in her spatial storage.

After all, her spatial storage was large enough to hold many things, so why not put them away?

Gu Qingcheng then went to three other warehouses. To her surprise, in the third, seemingly the most dilapidated and messy ironware warehouse, she discovered the most valuable treasure of the trip!

This warehouse contained several bronze artifacts!

All of them were incredibly valuable and clearly ancient.

She was rich!

Gu Qingcheng couldn’t hide her smile. She stored them all in her spatial storage, planning to sell them for a good price in her future life!

As time went by, it gradually got dark. Gu Qingcheng estimated it was about time to leave and decided to go.

Staying any longer would arouse the old man’s suspicion.

Using a few books as a cover, Gu Qingcheng walked to the door and politely said goodbye to the old man.

Seeing that she wasn’t carrying much—just a few books that weren’t worth much money—and considering the girl’s pretty appearance and polite manner, the old man naturally assumed she was a diligent student.

What was wrong with a diligent student studying hard inside?

The old man didn’t say a word and let Gu Qingcheng go.

Gu Qingcheng turned and left. After walking for about ten minutes, she was planning to take a bus to the guesthouse, but at that moment, another surprise happened!

Gu Qingcheng’s gaze was just casually glancing to the side when she saw a container shaped like an eagle, with four legs at the bottom. The mouth of the cauldron was located between the back and the two wings, and it was carved so lifelike.

Suddenly energized, Gu Qingcheng, a seasoned reader of historical fiction, immediately realized that this was very likely an antique!

Just as she was about to take a closer look, something even more outrageous happened!

A series of crowing sounds came from all around, and four or five roosters were striding confidently towards the container.

Gu Qingcheng happened to be approaching the container as well. The roosters seemed to sense the danger, their sharp eyes fixed on her, as if warning her. ”

You little brat, don’t come and steal our food! Life is hard enough as it is, we only eat once a day, and you still want to come and steal our food!”

Luckily, the roosters couldn’t speak, otherwise they might have been furious if they knew what Gu Qingcheng was thinking.

She was going to take all their eating utensils away!

Gu Qingcheng was pondering how much that thing could sell for when, in a daze, a mechanical voice came from inside her body.

520: Host, this antique has been identified as a Neolithic pottery eagle tripod, dating back approximately four to five thousand years. The pottery eagle tripod, now in the collection of the National Museum of China, stunned Gu Qingcheng.

Neolithic Age?

Four or five thousand years?

My goodness!

Although Gu Qingcheng didn’t understand artifacts, she had at least some basic historical knowledge. The Neolithic Age, as the name suggests, meant that people in that era were still using stone tools; bronze ware hadn’t even been introduced yet.

And artifacts are generally more valuable the older they are.

This thing must be worth hundreds of millions, right?

Gu Qingcheng stared at the container, feeling as if she were seeing gold.

And such a precious thing was now…feeding chickens?

Gu Qingcheng belatedly realized that this multi-million dollar item actually contained chicken feed.

Good heavens! She exclaimed.

These chickens weren’t eating chaff; they were eating gold!

In that instant, Gu Qingcheng’s gaze towards the chickens was filled with jealousy.

The roosters also stood tall and proud, the two sides seemingly on the verge of a fight.

Fortunately, this situation didn’t last long; soon Gu Qingcheng saw the owner of these roosters.

The man was nearing fifty, with dark skin, looking like a typical farmer who lived nearby.

Gu Qingcheng took two steps forward and asked, “Hello, I’d like to ask if these chickens are yours?”

The man nodded, “They’re all ours.”

“Is that cylindrical feeding trough also yours?”

“Yes.”

Gu Qingcheng had a plan in mind. This man definitely didn’t know the value of the Pottery Eagle Ding; he just thought it was a feeding trough, so he used it to feed chickens. Using such a precious artifact to feed chickens was absurd enough.

If it were exposed to wind and rain, wouldn’t it break?

And if it broke one day, wouldn’t this national treasure be gone forever?

Thinking of this, Gu Qingcheng felt a chill run down her spine. She made up an excuse: “Sir, I think your feeding trough is quite special. My grandfather usually likes to collect these kinds of things. Why don’t you take a look and sell it to me at a reasonable price? I can please him when I get back.”

The man looked at his feeding trough and saw that it was indeed quite exquisitely carved.

After a moment’s thought, he said, “Young comrade, then you name a price.”

Gu Qingcheng pursed her lips and said, “Sir, I’ll offer five yuan to buy it, is that alright?”