Back to the 60s: The Struggle Career of a Charmed Wife

The materials needed were too many, and with Xia Shuhuai's guard's help, the mother and children spent over two days running to several bookstores to gather the numbers. They sent them out according to the addresses and names. At the same time, the portion of items Adrian brought over for Xibao and the clothes, shoes, and food Feng Qingxue prepared for the family were also sent back to the Wanglou Brigade.

Taking this opportunity, Feng Qingxue bought many colorful stamps, buying whatever was available at the post office, in full sheets. Last time she sent things from Shanghai, she forgot about her stamp-collecting endeavor, but she made up for it this time.

Fubao asked what she was doing buying so many stamps. Feng Qingxue, not fooling her, smiled and said, "In this world, anything is valuable if rare. Paper items are not easy to preserve, and stamps are one of them. Where would you find the earliest stamps now? They might be worth something someday."

Fubao kept this in mind and gradually fell in love with stamp collecting as well, though that is a story for later.

At this time, the military district meeting concluded, and Xia Shuhuai, along with several military district officers, gradually left the hotel. Before leaving, the old man came to see Feng Qingxue and the others with Lin Yifan, and told Feng Qingxue there was a flight to the Capital in three days.

Flights aren't available every day like now, so the news they brought was quite important to Feng Qingxue.

With only three days left, Feng Qingxue made the most of the time to take the children sightseeing in Great Shanghai.

Great Shanghai has the traits of a big city, with several famous attractions. The kids were almost going wild with excitement. Even Fubao was loitering around the department stores and second-hand shops, lamenting his empty pockets, unable to take all the things he liked back home, until they ran into Adrian, who was wandering and taking photos at the Friendship Store.

The goods at the Friendship Store were for earning foreign exchange. Although Feng Qingxue's status allowed her entry with her work documents, there were things she wasn't eligible to buy.

For instance, right now, Feng Qingxue spotted a porcelain plate priced at three hundred bucks. It was a genuine article from the Qianlong Era, with a vivid style.

She had a clear impression of this plate, as it appeared at a late 1980s Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong, with the hammer price exceeding eight million Hong Kong Dollars, plus a ten percent commission. The total value equated to ten million RMB. It was auctioned again in the millennium, its price tripled, and in another ten years, it exceeded one billion, a fact she saw in a cultural relic interview.

She wanted to buy it, but the salesperson wouldn't sell it to her.

"This is for earning foreign exchange for the country, only sold to foreign guests. It requires a foreign passport or overseas remittance certificate to purchase. It's best to use foreign currency, though using RMB isn't impossible either." Facing Feng Qingxue, the salesperson was slightly impatient. The acquisition price of the bowl was one yuan, and the high price was set for foreign guests. Ordinary citizens couldn't afford such a luxury.

Feng Qingxue's eyes lit up, and she directly pulled Adrian over, "Dear friend, would you do me a favor?"

Adrian, warm and kind, understood the situation and readily said, "No problem, I'll buy it for you! Besides this plate, are there any other things you want to buy? I can help you with all of them."

Seeing the foreigner standing with Feng Qingxue, the salesperson's attitude immediately changed, smiling warmly and cordially.

Feng Qingxue said, "Let's buy this plate first, and then I'll check if there's anything else I like."

This was a chance not to be missed.

After years of studying and having almost appraised the entire batch of antiques from the Shanghai cultural relic department, she had developed a certain level of appreciation for antiques. She quickly discovered seven or eight good pieces, including calligraphy and paintings.