Chapter 783

Lu Xiaoya said, "Yes, this is the chest my mother brought as a dowry, it has a history of more than twenty years."

Su Xinghui nodded. More than twenty years ago, when daughters in Hudong Province got married, as long as the family conditions were slightly better, they would make a few pairs of camphor wood chests as dowry. Only with this camphor wood chest would they have face.

Lu Xiaoya said, "My mother told me that paintings placed in camphor wood chests are anti-corrosion, moisture-proof, and moth-proof, and do not grow mold. So, my treasures are all placed in this chest."

While speaking, Lu Xiaoya opened her chest. Su Xinghui looked curiously into the chest to see what treasures Lu Xiaoya had.

He saw that in Lu Xiaoya's chest, besides a few paintings, there were also a few stamp albums. It seemed that Lu Xiaoya also liked stamp collecting.

Lu Xiaoya took out a few paintings she painted to show Su Xinghui. Su Xinghui opened a painting, which was a side portrait of a man drawn with a pencil. He looked for a long time before he saw that it seemed to be drawn of himself, but Lu Xiaoya's brushwork was too immature, and it was at most one or two percent similar to himself.

Seeing the smile on Su Xinghui's face, Lu Xiaoya said embarrassedly, "It's not painted well, I don't think it looks like it, don't laugh at me."

Su Xinghui said, "How could I laugh at you? You just learned, and it's not bad to have this level."

Su Xinghui put down this painting and opened another one. This was a sketch of a still life, which was the pot of sun flower on her table. Still life was easier to grasp than characters, so this sun flower was painted much better than his portrait.

Su Xinghui nodded, "Hmm, this one is painted better."

Hearing Su Xinghui's praise, Lu Xiaoya was so happy that her face was shining.

Su Xinghui looked at all those paintings and commented on them for Lu Xiaoya. He said to Lu Xiaoya, "Xiaoya, how long have you been learning to paint?"

Lu Xiaoya said, "It's been two or three months."

Su Xinghui said, "To paint to this level, you still have talent. How did you think of learning to paint?"

Lu Xiaoya pouted and said, "Didn't you teach Xia Zhu to paint? And said she was a genius. I don't want to be worse than her, I also want you to teach me to paint."

Su Xinghui laughed. He scraped Lu Xiaoya's small and cute nose and said, "So you were jealous!"

Lu Xiaoya's face turned red, "Who is jealous?"

Su Xinghui smiled without saying a word.

Lu Xiaoya looked at his meaningful smile and stomped her feet, "Fine, just say I'm jealous, okay? Anyway, I am your girlfriend now, you have to teach me to paint well."

Su Xinghui nodded happily, "Fine, I will teach you to paint."

Lu Xiaoya took out a sketch pencil and white paper. Su Xinghui taught her to paint a sun flower hand in hand. This time the sun flower was much better than what she painted herself. Lu Xiaoya said happily, "Xinghui, you teach so well!"

Su Xinghui said, "Just paint according to what I taught you, and you will definitely be able to learn very well in the future."

Lu Xiaoya nodded happily.

Su Xinghui asked, "Xiaoya, do you also like stamp collecting?"

Lu Xiaoya nodded, "Yes, I have liked stamp collecting since I was a child. Do you also like stamp collecting?"

Su Xinghui said, "I have been collecting for decades."

Lu Xiaoya said, "Shameless, you are only twenty-something? And you have been collecting for decades."

While speaking, Lu Xiaoya took out the stamp albums in the chest to show Su Xinghui. Su Xinghui flipped through those stamp albums. Lu Xiaoya said, "I didn't have much pocket money when I was a child, so I didn't have any good stamps, most of them were canceled stamps."

Su Xinghui flipped through it. Indeed, Lu Xiaoya had many stamps, but there were no valuable stamps. Many stamps were canceled stamps, there were many duplicates, and there were not many complete sets. It was estimated that Lu Xiaoya put them into her stamp album as long as she saw stamps.

Su Xinghui said, "Actually, collecting canceled stamps is the true meaning of stamp collecting!"

Su Xinghui's words were not to comfort Lu Xiaoya. The true meaning of stamp collecting is indeed to collect one by one like this, rather than buying one set after another in the stamp market.

When Su Xinghui collected stamps when he was a child, he tore them from envelopes one by one like this. If he could collect a complete set like this, that was his greatest joy. But later, when he had the economic ability and could buy new stamps one set after another, he lost the joy.

As for buying tens of thousands of yuan of stamps at Hou Dali's place, that was purely for investment for appreciation, which had nothing to do with stamp collecting.

Listening to Su Xinghui's words, Lu Xiaoya nodded, "What you said is also true, but sometimes I see those good stamps in stamp collecting magazines, and I am a little greedy. However, those stamps are too expensive now, one stamp is dozens of yuan. Although I can afford it now, I don't want to buy it."

Su Xinghui said, "Then which stamps do you like? Tell me, maybe I have them, and I will give them to you next time I come."

Lu Xiaoya said, "Do you really have them? I like monkey stamps, 'Dream of the Red Chamber', 'Galloping Horse', and..."

Lu Xiaoya said more than a dozen kinds of stamps at once. Su Xinghui said, "Your vision is really not low."

Lu Xiaoya was a little disappointed, "You don't have them either?"

Su Xinghui laughed, "What are you saying? I have all of these you mentioned. How about this: next time I will bring you a set of each of these stamps you mentioned, including the souvenir sheets."

Lu Xiaoya was surprised first, but then she said, "These stamps are too valuable, do you really want to give them to me? It's not very good, right? Forget it, I don't want them anymore, you must like them very much too."

Looking at Lu Xiaoya, Su Xinghui's heart was full of tenderness. He couldn't help but think of the wife in his previous life who wished she could take every cent from him. They were both girls, why was the gap so big?

Su Xinghui laughed, "It's okay, I still have these stamps. I'll give you a set, anyway, isn't my stuff yours in the future."

Lu Xiaoya looked at him with joy and shyness and said, "Alright, then I will accept it."

Seeing that it was getting late, Su Xinghui stood up and said, "Xiaoya, it's past nine o'clock, I'm leaving, you rest early, I'll come to see you tomorrow morning."

Lu Xiaoya said, "Why are you leaving? You stay here tonight."