Mr. Wang Zengqi's "Three Friends in a Cold Year" is about the ups and downs of three old friends in the old society. Wang Shouwu, who runs a wool shop, Tao Huchen, who sets off firecrackers, and Jin Yifu, a painter, are good friends and equally poor. Later, Wang Shouwu opened a straw hat factory, and life became better. Tao Huchen's firecrackers sold well, and Jin Yifei went to other places after watching the exhibition. It seems that this life seems to be getting better. Unexpectedly, in the end, the straw hat factory in Wang Shouwu closed down, fell ill and ran out of money; Tao Huchen's firecracker factory was closed, too poor to eat, so he had to marry his daughter. Jin Yifei, who came back, saved Tao Huchen, who was going to hang himself, and sold the stone seal that regarded him as the lifeblood and gave it to two other friends.
At the end of the story, these three people seem to be poorer than at the beginning. But the friendship and feelings revealed in the story are very touching. Jin Yifu said that these three stone seals can only be used in an emergency. When two friends were in urgent need of money, Jin Yifu sold the lithograph without hesitation. In his view, these two friends are more important than Shi Yin or his own life. Such deep feelings are very touching, especially in that poor period. When you can't even care about yourself, some people are willing to give up the most precious thing in themselves for a friend. Isn't this true feeling the most precious?
Pinqing and boiled blue are one of the groceries in Wang Shouwu woolen shop in Three Friends in Cold Year. What I bought is not expensive, just some pigments for dyeing cloth. Those who couldn't buy cloth at that time could dye their own colors with some inferior cloth.