War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 184 The Changes of the Maozi
After resting at home for two days, seeing that Sui Sui was about to start school, Wei Ran reluctantly packed up his few luggage.

"You really don't have that 80 yuan?" Sui Sui asked while holding her piano bag.

"I won't take it with me, I'll buy another one when I go back!"

Wei Ran shook his head bluntly. The Youquan bed is considered an antique after all, not to mention the inconvenience of flying around with him. In case of bumps, there is nowhere to buy regret medicine. The hangings on the wall of the study room are solid. Anyway, the parents live opposite the door, so there is no need to worry about being stolen.

"You won't be hit by me, will you?"

Sui Sui asked triumphantly, during this winter vacation, apart from secretly helping Wei Ran to decorate the house, another major achievement she made was to thoroughly learn a piece of fairy exercises. If school was not about to start soon, she would We all started learning the second song.

"When I come back next year, Bibi will know who was hit." Wei Ran finished speaking confidently, then pulled his luggage, and was the first to leave the house during his parents' farewell.

The two rushed to the capital by high-speed rail. Wei Ran sent Sui Sui to the school first, then found a restroom, took out the piano case from his notebook, and took a taxi to Chen Guangling's musical instrument shop.

"Mr. Wei, Happy New Year!"

As soon as Wei Ran got out of the car, Chen Guangling, who had been waiting for a long time, warmly greeted him.

"Mr. Chen, Happy New Year." Wei Ran shook hands with the other party while carrying the heavy piano case.

"This is the guqin bed you mentioned?" Chen Guangling looked eagerly at the piano case in Wei Ran's hand, and led him directly to the piano room on the second floor.

"that's it"

Wei Ran walked in with the other person and said, "Different from the Youquan before, this guqin is inherited from the ancestors, and this time it was specially brought here to ask Mr. Chen to see if there is any tricks in it."

"Let's start with the piano case!"

Chen Guangling and other Wei Ran put the piano box on the table, then put on white gloves, stroked the piano box lightly and said, "Mr. Wei, have you ever heard of Babao gray lacquer?"

"Eight-treasure gray lacquer?" Wei Ran looked blank, "If you said eight-treasure porridge, maybe I would know about it."

"Babao gray lacquer is made by grinding precious gemstones such as gold and silver, pearl agate, coral jade, red emerald or malachite into powder, and mixing them into lacquer. Lacquerware made of this kind of paint, regardless of Whether it is today or ancient times, it can be regarded as a real luxury, and it is easy to throw those LVs and the like today out of eight streets."

Chen Guangling motioned Wei Ran to look at the piano box, "In the Yangzhou Museum, there is an eight-treasure gray lacquer box from the Qing Dynasty. The box is only a circle larger than the Rubik's Cube, but it is considered a very precious cultural relic. Yes. The case of your piano is also made of eight-treasure gray lacquer, but such a large eight-treasure gray lacquerware is rare in China."

Speaking of this, Chen Guangling sighed, "If you are willing to use eight-treasure gray lacquer to make a piano case, in ancient times, even if you are not a high-ranking official, you must be a wealthy merchant tycoon at least. It is no exaggeration to say that this box is probably enough to replace one or two beds of Guqin like Youquan."

"That broken book is really generous."

Wei Ran muttered to himself, suppressed the surprise in his heart and said flatly, "Mr. Chen, take a look at the piano inside."

Chen Guangling nodded, and carefully opened the buckle on the piano case. After seeing the guqin, he couldn't help admiring, "It's really insightful!"

Without Wei Ran's urging at all, Chen Guangling explained, "This is a Liezi-style guqin. The most valuable thing is the tortoise pattern on it. There is an old saying in China that it is difficult to buy a tortoise pattern in a thousand years. This is what it means. At the same time, it is also one of the important basis for judging the age of a guqin.”

Having said that, Chen Guangling stretched out his hand and carefully carried the guqin out, "This guqin is quite heavy. Just like the quiet spring bed before, good pianos are often either extremely light or heavy, but this guqin The weight is really unexpected."

Seeing that Chen Guangling turned the guqin in his hand, Wei Ran asked, "Mr. Chen, how do you explain the word Yaoguang?"

"I checked the past few days"

Chen Guangling said regretfully, "But none of the records I know about the guqin mentioned this guqin, so I can only guess. Judging from the name Yaoguang, I think there are two explanations. Guqin is also called Yaoqin, from this point of view, the name Yaoguang undoubtedly compliments this Qinqin, which is the first type.”

"Another explanation?" Wei Ran asked.

"In our traditional Chinese culture, the last star of the Big Dipper is also called Yaoguang. If it is called according to the Eight Diagrams of the Book of Changes, this star is also called Pojun. of generals and soldiers.”

Chen Guangling paused, and continued, "If you follow this explanation and consider the song Guizhou Wanbo mentioned after this guqin, maybe this guqin was the favorite of a certain general who joined the army at that time."

"General?" Wei Ran nodded secretly, based on his understanding of the broken book, obviously the second explanation should be more appropriate.

Chen Guangling didn't know that Wei Ran had lost his mind, and asked with some expectation, "Mr. Wei, can I try this piano?"

"Of course." Wei Ran nodded, "Also, I want to learn piano with you for a few days."

"no problem!"

Chen Guangling readily agreed to Wei Ran's request, and he could take out two expensive guqins at every turn. Last time, he happily bought an 8000 yuan piano for his girlfriend to practice hands. He is a novice who doesn't understand anything, and he will never neglect.

After some preparations, Chen Guangling sat in front of the guqin named Yaoguang, and as he plucked the strings, he immediately realized that the timbre of this guqin was far better than that of the quiet spring bed a year ago, even better than Any famous piano he has seen or heard before is not inferior or even far superior to it!

Suppressing his excitement, he finished playing a complete piece of music, but this time Chen Guangling never mentioned that he wanted to buy it.If it was the Guqin Youquan from before, he was still somewhat confident, but facing this Guqin, with his little wealth, I am afraid that the most he could buy was the eight-treasure gray lacquer box.

It was also the piano brought by Wei Ran that made Chen Guangling, who was obsessed with love for the piano, happily free up the next five days, and the former also found a hotel near the piano shop to stay in, and spent the rest of his life before going abroad. The last bit of time was devoted to learning the piano with Chen Guangling.

Time flies to March 3th, Wei Ran left some cigarettes and alcohol for Chen Guangling as a thank you gift, and then called Sui Sui out of school to have a meal, and then set foot on the flight to Volgograd flight.

After a long flight, when the plane landed smoothly, he also saw Professor Alexei who came over early and waited at the airport, and Jima dressed like a dog.

"Victor, you're finally back, come back with me." Professor Alexei didn't give Wei Ran a chance to speak, and he grabbed his luggage with Jima and went out.

"No, what's wrong with you two being so anxious?" Wei Ran asked after almost trotting.

"Let me tell you!"

Jima slowed down a little, and when he distanced himself from Professor Alexei, he immediately took out a folded A4 paper from his pocket and handed it to Wei Ran, then said in a low voice, "In the morning of the day after tomorrow, we are going back to the Red Flag Classes at the forest farm. But before that, there are two TV stations that want to interview you, including a German media.

The content on the paper is the question that the first media that will interview you will ask you immediately after you arrive at the studio, and the corresponding answer Dalia has prepared for you.Also, Teacher Dalia asked me to tell you that she will pick out mistakes on the side, whether it is the content of the answer, dress, demeanor or speed of speech, each mistake is worth [-] rubles. "

"What the hell is the price increase?" Wei Ran muttered to himself, and hurriedly read the questions and answers on the paper.

And Ji Ma next to him handed over the second piece of paper, and continued without a pause, "In addition to the interviews conducted by these two media, tomorrow afternoon, there are five museums that want to get the results of those two photos." The authorization for the exhibition is all on this piece of paper, and besides the four museums in Russia, there is also a museum in Poland, but Teacher Dalia recommends that you reject the exhibition request of this museum."

"Why?" Wei Ran raised his head and asked in confusion.

"Why else?" Jima spread his hands as a matter of course, "They are Poles, isn't that enough?"

Seeing Wei Ran's puzzled face, Jima explained with a hippie smile, "Teacher Dalia said that you need to keep some controversy in your body to continue the popularity of this role. According to historical experience, standing on the opposite side of Poland It is undoubtedly the safest, and at the same time, it will gain the favor of most Europeans."

"Jima, I haven't seen you for a month. Are you familiar with Teacher Dalia?"

Wei Ran joked with a smile, it can be seen that Teacher Dalia must have told him something, otherwise Jima would not have said something like "continue the popularity of this role".

Based on Wei Ran's understanding of Jima, at most he would say "Although I like Polish girls' waves, I don't like Poles."

"Correct it"

Jima coughed pretendingly, "Victor, a lot of things happened in the month you went home. First, the two camps of Inta accepted five batches of guests. Secondly."

"Wait? How much? Five batches? So much?"

Jima seemed very satisfied with Wei Ran's surprise, and said happily, "Aurora sent us the second batch of guests, about 30 students and teachers. Ms. Zhou sent the third and fourth batch of guests .The two batches add up to more than 80 people."

"Is there another batch?" Wei Ran asked after him.

"Remember that classmate of Aurora?"

Jima made a gesture of shooting, "The Italian girl who shot at the photo of her ex-boyfriend with a machine gun, she also brought many classmates from Italy half a month ago, and even brought me authentic Italian coffee , of course, it's not good to drink."

"Go on," Wei Ran urged with great interest.

The expression on Jima's face became more and more smug, and he continued following the topic just now, "Secondly, Teacher Dalia and Mr. Karp came forward to buy the hot spring camp and the abandoned military base."

"Did they buy it?" Wei Ran was more and more surprised. How long has it been? Why have so many things happened?
"Not only did I buy it, but I also handed it over to me for exclusive operation and development of tourism resources."

The expression on Jima's face became more and more colorful, "Mr. Karp and Teacher Dalia are now the largest shareholders of those two camps, and I am the general manager of operations of those two camps."

Why did they both buy the camp?Wei Ran thought about it secretly, but before he could guess the result, he was greeted by Professor Alexei and got into the car.

(End of this chapter)