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

Chapter 34: Chapter 0034 Rich Reward 2_1 Chapter 34: Chapter 0034 Rich Reward 2_1 Never mind the main diamond being of substantial size, even the side diamonds were quite sizable too, in fact, whether pink diamonds or white diamonds, their brilliance was extremely good, but the style was a bit old fashioned, it looked very similar to what Feng Qingxue had seen in movies or TV shows, like the ones from the ’20s or ’30s of Old Shanghai.

The jade and diamonds were of top-notch quality.

Even though Feng Qingxue was prepared, she just couldn’t take her hands off these two sets of jewelry.

They were simply too beautiful and too valuable.

In her previous life, she lived so many years, apart from seeing such top-notch items on the news, owned by the wealthy, where else could she have had the opportunity to see such things in real life, let alone own them?

Now, these top-notch jewels were right in front of her eyes, about to be hers.

Seeing her delight, Aunt Xu gave her a knowing smile.

“Back then, oil-drill diamonds were bought with gold, one karat was worth dozens or even hundreds taels of gold.” Aunt Xu said.

Feng Qingxue was intrigued, “Auntie, by your tone, did you live in Old Shanghai?”

As far as she knew, only people from Old Shanghai referred to diamonds as oil-drill diamonds.

“I lived there for more than a decade.” Aunt Xu’s voice was filled with nostalgia, “That’s where I met these two old friends of mine today. But we all originally came from here, otherwise we wouldn’t be such good friends, we also went through labor reform here.”

Aunt Xu closed the wooden box and shook her head, “Let’s not talk about it anymore, it’s all sorrowful.”

Who could have imagined that they, once the proud children of heaven, would fall to such a state? It was like falling from heaven to earth. If they hadn’t donated most of their family wealth to resist Japanese aggression, and made contributions to the country, they might not even be alive now.

“Okay, Auntie. I will come over early tomorrow morning.” Feng Qingxue packed up the jewelry.

Before she left, Aunt Xu reminded her, “That old lady lives a more refined life than I do, and her old man spoils her. If you could get more refined food, please do. With me and your uncle here, they will not treat you unkindly.”

“Okay.”

Feng Qingxue agreed to Aunt Xu’s request, and then went to visit Zhao Tianqi’s house.

After she knocked, a middle-aged woman opened the door.

Although it’s not entirely accurate to call her a middle-aged woman, since she was only about thirty. She had a clear and bright appearance, her features were not bad, but the era had left her face full of hardship and pallor, along with bruises all over her face.

“Comrade, hello, I’m looking for Old Zhao and Tianqi.” Feng Qingxue guessed she was Zhao Tianqi’s mother.

She was right, the woman was Zhao Tianqi’s mother, Zhao Guohong. She looked at Feng Qingxue for a moment, initially did not react, but once she did, she immediately greeted her warmly, “Comrade, are you the kind sister that Tianqi mentioned? Comrade, thank you for saving my mother and my son, please come in, come in. Tianqi has gone out to play, my mother is at home.”

As soon as they walked into the yard, Old Zhao, who heard the voice, came out from inside the house.

“My girl, you’re here, come sit inside.”

It seemed that Old Zhao was already recovered, she moved agilely.

While they were sitting and talking inside the house, Zhao Guohong quickly served a porcelain pot of water, “Comrade, have some tea. If we hadn’t met you, who knows what would’ve happened to my mother and Tianqi.”

Thinking of what her family had been through, the tears involuntarily fell from Zhao Guohong’s eyes.

Feng Qingxue sighed. Apart from comforting her, there was nothing else she could do, after all, these difficult days would last for more than a decade.

With the calamity of ten years not yet arrived and life is already so difficult, what will it be like when the time comes?