133: Chapter 132 “Picking up Money 133: Chapter 132 “Picking up Money Lin Xia suddenly spent over sixty yuan, and it really hurt, but these were essential items she had to buy, so she comforted herself that she just needed to quickly earn the money back.
As Lin Xia walked ho with the man who sold the sewing machine, helping him push the cart, a streak of realization flashed through her mind when they passed by the post office.
She said she seed to have forgotten sothing!
The monkey stamp!
My goodness!
She rembered the set of monkey stamps issued in the ’80s which later beca a hot commodity.
Before her passing in her previous life, a single stamp could sell for over a thousand yuan, and a complete set could fetch over a hundred thousand!
Now an entire set probably only cost a few yuan, and storing up a few sets to wait for their appreciation in value would be great.
That would be quicker than making money in any other business, and although it would take many years, she at least had sothing to look forward to!
Lin Xia was soone who acted upon her thoughts, and she hastily finished delivering the sewing machine with the man.
Once ho, she and the man left the sewing machine by the storeroom door without even bringing it inside.
After watching the man leave, Lin Xia locked the main door and checked her current funds.
In total, she had three hundred and eighty-seven yuan and thirty-two cents, counting both coins and bills.
If she hadn’t bought the sewing machine, she would have had over four hundred yuan.
Actually, she wasn’t greedy.
If the post office really had them, she planned to buy about ten sets.
That way, in a number of years, she would have amassed a substantial fortune without even realizing it.
Lin Xia hurriedly locked the main door and rode her bike straight to the post office without stopping.
On the way, the cold wind didn’t feel cold at all against her face because from the inside out she was burning with excitent, yet she also feared it might be a false hope.
Upon reaching the post office and standing before the counter, Lin Xia steadied her emotions and tone, “Comrade!
Do you have last year’s monkey stamps?”
The postal worker, a middle-aged woman, answered coldly, “Yes!
How many do you want?”
Lin Xia didn’t get upset at her attitude, knowing that’s how things were at that ti.
If she wasn’t controlling her emotions, even when faced with the woman’s cold deanor, she certainly could have smiled through it.
She cleared her throat to hide her grinning mouth, and tried to respond with a normal reaction, “Do you still have complete sets?”
The woman glanced at her, “You want a complete set?
Six yuan and forty cents a set!
A full sheet has eighty stamps!”
Six yuan and forty cents!
Wow!
That’s so cheap!
Lin Xia held back her inner ecstasy and excitent, continuing to feign calm as she inquired, “Comrade!
How many sets do you have?”
She didn’t dare to seem too anxious, fearing they might think she was crazy.
The woman put down her pen, “Nine sets!”
Nine sets, Lin Xia calculated in her head, a set for over a hundred thousand, nine sets could sell for a million!
My god, a million!
She hadn’t seen that much money in her two lives!
Lin Xia’s heart pounded wildly, and she clenched her fists and gritted her back teeth, “Hmm!
Alright!
I’ll take them all!”
The woman looked at Lin Xia as if she was an idiot; she couldn’t understand what got into this young girl.
These stamps were unsold, and they hadn’t t their sales target.
They had been about to “force” the employees to buy them internally, but today they encountered soone who voluntarily bought so many.
If soone else was taking them, didn’t that spare them from having to buy it themselves?
The woman’s attitude instantly improved, “You’ll take them all?
Alright,” she did the math, “It’s fifty-six yuan and sixty cents in total!”
Lin Xia appeared calm as she bought the nine unsold sets of monkey stamps and, after leaving the post office, found a secluded corner to store the nine sets in Jade’s room.
Next, she ran to two other post offices in town and acquired a total of sixteen sets of monkey stamps, spending one hundred and two yuan and forty cents altogether.
As Lin Xia pedaled ho, she felt as light as a feather, as if she was floating on air.
She rembered that back in the nineties, a set of monkey stamps could fetch over a hundred thousand yuan; with her sixteen sets, that would be over two million yuan in the future!
Though it would take over a decade for them to appreciate to that value, she nonetheless felt ecstatic, as if she had stumbled upon an incredible bargain!
She longed to shout with joy, but since the streets were crowded with other cyclists, she forcibly suppressed the urge.
By the ti Lin Xia got ho, Lin Qiu had arrived ahead of her.
She was milling around the sewing machine by the storeroom door, her face aglow with pleasure.
“Sis!
Your sewing machine!
Why is it still in the storeroom and not in the house?” As soon as she opened the door and saw the sewing machine, her delight was indescribable.
That day she had been at her master’s place, where her master even teased her, suggesting she could bring her family’s sewing machine over to practice sewing in straight lines.
“Wasn’t I waiting for you to help carry it?” Lin Xia joked, in high spirits.
While she couldn’t share the news of her monkey stamp purchase with her siblings, she could at least let them feel her joy.
“Then let’s move it, sis!
Did sothing good happen to you?
You look so happy.
Did you find so money?” It was the first ti Lin Qiu had seen her sister so thrilled, her eyes and brows brimd with happiness.
Lin Xia chuckled.
Wasn’t it just like finding money!
“Exactly!
Found so money!”
“Really?” Lin Qiu took her seriously, her eyes glittering as she asked softly, “How much did you find?”
“Two yuan!” Lin Xia casually concocted a number.
“That’s a lot!
Sis, you’re so lucky!” Lin Qiu felt a pang of regret, “How co I’ve never found any money?”
Lin Xia laughed, “It’s not your ti yet, but you’ll find so money in the future too!”
The sisters carried the sewing machine into the house together.
The bedroom wasn’t very spacious, so they placed it directly in the living room.
Lin Xia found so black thread and scrap fabric, instructing Lin Qiu to thread the machine and get acquainted with the needle, and then she hooked up the belt.
They gave it a test run and, indeed, it functioned well and didn’t feel heavy when pedaled.
“Sis, it’s great!” Lin Qiu was so excited she kept sewing in straight lines nonstop.
Seeing her so happy, Lin Xia felt joyful too, “Alright!
You keep practicing, I’ll go cook and make sothing delicious for you all tonight!”
“What delicious thing are you making?
Sis, let do it!” Lin Qiu offered to cook as she spoke, but Lin Xia pressed her down by the shoulders.
“No need!
You keep practicing on the sewing machine!
I’ll do it.
I’ll make you so sour cabbage and boiled pork.”
Now, in winter, the at could be preserved by freezing; she had bought so at a few days earlier, ate so, and there was still quite a bit left, frozen in a big jar outside.
Today she was truly happy, so the al had to be special.
In addition to making this dish, she also ward up five eggs in a pan.
When Lin Dong ca ho from his friend’s, he was surprised and overjoyed to see a sewing machine in the house.
The boy, being curious, gave it a few pedals himself, which made Lin Xia and Lin Qiu burst into laughter.
When it was ti to sleep, Lin Xia listened to Lin Dong and Lin Qiu’s steady breathing in the darkness before quietly entering Jade’s room to admire her monkey stamps.
Even though it was just her consciousness entering, Lin Xia was still captivated by the red background of the monkey stamps, examining them over and over, enraptured.
She wished that ti could fast forward to the nineties when she could casually sell off a few sets and provide a comfortable and carefree life for her siblings.
To safeguard her sixteen precious sets, she decided to find a wooden box or case the next day to store them;
Otherwise, with the magical automatic drying feature of Jade’s room, she was really worried about accidentally damaging those valuable monkey stamps.
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