Chapter 488

Hou Dali brought Su Xinghui into the main room, took him into a room inside, turned on the electric light, took out a bunch of keys, and opened a camphor wood cabinet in the room.

Camphor wood can prevent insects and moisture. Furniture made of camphor wood is the best for preserving stamps, calligraphy and paintings, books, silk, and other things that are easily moth-eaten and moldy. The box in Su Xinghui's room for stamps and other collectibles is made of camphor wood. This camphor wood box was the dowry when Guo Suhua married Su Wenjun. At that time, her family made four camphor wood boxes. Su Xinghui wanted a box to hold things, so he asked Guo Suhua for one.

Hou Dali's use of this camphor wood cabinet to preserve stamps is a very professional practice.

Hou Dali took out several large stamp albums and two pairs of white thin gauze gloves. He and Su Xinghui each wore a pair of gloves before they began to flip through the stamp albums.

In these stamp albums, there are really many good things. Many stamps are in sheets, and at that time, one sheet was eighty stamps.

Su Xinghui flipped and flipped, and flipped to a page in the stamp album that was sandwiched with two full sheets of Monkey Stamps. He said in surprise: "Uncle Hou, you have so many Monkey Stamps here?"

Hou Dali said: "That's right. I estimate that the Monkey Stamps of everyone else in Shangjun County combined are not as many as mine. Speaking of which, the market has been bad in the past two years, and many people are almost bankrupt and have to sell these good things at low prices. I just happened to make a big profit the year before last, so I took the opportunity to buy a lot at a low price. Even so, I still went to Jiangcheng to buy them."

Su Xinghui said: "Uncle Hou, can you let me have these two sheets of Monkey Stamps?"

Hou Dali hesitated: "You want both sheets?"

Su Xinghui nodded: "My friend told me, buy as many Monkey Stamps as you can."

Hou Dali hesitated for a long time before nodding: "To be honest, I really don't want to sell these two sheets of Monkey Stamps. It's nothing to sell other scattered Monkey Stamps, but these two full sheets are really hard to find. If I keep them for a few years, the price might double. But since I brought you here, I will let you have them. But you promise me, tell your friend not to tear these two sheets of Monkey Stamps apart again. It's a pity if they are torn."

Su Xinghui could understand Hou Dali's mood. Although the Monkey Stamp has not yet ascended to the throne of the King of Stamps, it is already a very precious stamp in the hearts of many stamp collectors, not to mention this kind of full-sheet Monkey Stamp, which is even more precious. If these two sheets of Monkey Stamps were torn into pieces, they would lose a lot of value.

Su Xinghui nodded without hesitation: "Okay, I promise you, I will tell my friend not to tear these two sheets of Monkey Stamps."

Hou Dali then said: "Alright, then these two sheets of Monkey Stamps are yours."

Hou Dali took out an empty stamp album, put the two sheets of Monkey Stamps in it, and asked: "Do you want other stamps?"

Su Xinghui said: "Didn't you say there are some scattered Monkey Stamps? Give them all to me."

Hou Dali searched in the stamp album and found more than fifty scattered Monkey Stamps, including some Monkey Stamp blocks of four. He put them in protection bags and put them in the empty stamp album.

Su Xinghui flipped through other stamp albums and was pleasantly surprised to find two "Mei Lanfang Stage Art" souvenir sheets, as well as some other relatively precious souvenir sheets, such as the "Galloping Horse" souvenir sheet and the "Love Science from Childhood" souvenir sheet, each with more than a dozen, and other souvenir sheets with slightly larger circulation starting from dozens.

Su Xinghui picked out all the stamps with large room for appreciation, and Hou Dali put them in the empty stamp album. Su Xinghui said: "Uncle Hou, that's it, you calculate how much money."

Hou Dali took out a calculator and calculated. The big head of these stamps is of course the two hundred or so Monkey Stamps. Hou Dali said: "Little Su, logically speaking, if you buy so many Monkey Stamps, you should be given two yuan less for each, but the price of this full sheet of Monkey Stamps is higher, so I will just calculate them all at thirty-one each. Do you have any opinion?"

Su Xinghui knew that the price of thirty-one was not high, so he shook his head: "I have no opinion."

Hou Dali added: "This 'Mei Lanfang Stage Art' is calculated at one thousand yuan each. Do you have any opinion?"

Su Xinghui had seen the two "Mei Lanfang Stage Art" souvenir sheets, and the quality was very good, belonging to the top grade. One thousand yuan each was not expensive, so he shook his head again and said: "No opinion."

Next, Hou Dali reported the prices to Su Xinghui one by one and asked Su Xinghui if he had any opinion. The prices he reported were still very reasonable, and Su Xinghui had no opinion.

Hou Dali used a pen to write the price and quantity of all stamps on paper one by one, and then calculated the total price. These stamps are worth a total of 16,730. He said to Su Xinghui: "The fraction is wiped out, just 16,700."

At that time, this was a big business. Hou Dali looked at Su Xinghui. Su Xinghui took out two bundles of hundred-yuan bills without blinking, counted thirty-three bills from one bundle, put them in his wallet, and handed the remaining money to Hou Dali: "Uncle Hou, please count it."

Hou Dali counted the money and nodded: "Not bad, then these stamps are yours. You take this stamp album with you."

Su Xinghui nodded: "Uncle Hou, then I will take this list. You give me another receipt to prove that you have received this money, so that I can account to my friend."

Hou Dali nodded in understanding, and then gave Su Xinghui a receipt.

Su Xinghui put the stamp album in his bag, feeling very excited. The stamps he bought for more than ten thousand yuan today will be worth millions in ten or twenty years.

Just those two sheets of Monkey Stamps can be sold for more than two million in the future, plus those scattered Monkey Stamps, it will be nearly three million, and the value of other stamps in the future will be about two million. This adds up to five million, which means that even if Su Xinghui is not going well in the future, he will at least have a wealth of five million to bottom out, and it is completely legal income.

Touching the stamp album, Su Xinghui suddenly felt that he had a bottom line.

Su Xinghui asked again: "Can I see your coins?"

Hou Dali nodded: "Yes."

Hou Dali carefully put away the stamp album and took out many coins, including silver dollars, copper coins, commemorative coins, and even some foreign coins.

Su Xinghui knows that among the coins, the most appreciated are several special silver dollars. In ten or twenty years, the value of these silver dollars will rise to hundreds of thousands or even millions. If you can find a few, it is also a huge wealth.

However, this level of silver dollar is obviously not so easy to find. Su Xinghui looked for a long time in the pile of silver dollars, but could not find the few silver dollars with the highest value. This is also normal. Things are rare and expensive. It is not precious if it is so easy to find. ===== CHAPTER 490 =====