Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1553 Big Painting

On a weekend in mid-October, when Zhou Zhi was repairing the hand rolls he bought from the island country in the studio, Lin Wanqiu suddenly called: "Elbow! The hard food is here!"

"Oh?" Zhou Zhi asked curiously: "Did Li Laosan tell you that I have some spare money recently, sister Wanqiu, are you going to go out of your way to pay it out for me?"

"Tch! Let me tell you, someone on Hong Kong Island is going to sell a large painting by Zhang Daqian, a colorful landscape painting. I'm asking you if you want it?!"

Zhang Daqian's works of various types have been carefully collected and neatly collected, including his self-made splash-color landscapes with the highest artistic achievements. However, there is only one sketch. I have asked Lin Wanqiu to pay attention to it before, but there has been no movement for a year or two. , Zhou Zhi didn’t even think about it in that direction.

Now when I heard it, I suddenly felt excited: "Which one? How big is it?"

"The painting from 1968, "Spring Clouds and Dawn Mists"!"

"Damn!" Zhou Zhi couldn't believe that such a good thing would happen: "Really? Didn't Luo Zhongrong just win it three years ago? Why do you want to take action now?"

"It seems that there is some financial problem. Oh, don't worry about why they want to go out, I just ask you if you want it?"

"I want to, of course I want to, please help me get it quickly!"

"It's a good idea, fly here by yourself," Lin Wanqiu said proudly on the other side: "By the way, An Xin and Leshui are going to England, and you just happened to be here to see them off."

"Hey, the old man has decided to let me go?" Zhou Zhi said, "Then I'll book the tickets right away. We'll see you tonight!"

Nowadays, there is only one flight a week from Shudu to Hong Kong Island, but fortunately, the first class cabins are usually full. Zhou Zhi is now very familiar with the terminal, and they also have a ticket purchase service there. Just make a phone call and it will be done quickly.

Sichuan Airlines' first-class customers now have private cars to pick them up. Yang He is still working overtime in West China on weekends as usual. Zhou Zhi had no choice but to give him a call and explain briefly, seizing the time to stop and fix the repair work in hand, and then casually After finding two changes of clothes and putting them in his bag, the driver who picked him up from downstairs had already arrived.

At 6 pm that day, Zhou Zhi had arrived at Kai Tak International Airport on Hong Kong Island.

Li Laosan and Xu Anxin are here to pick him up.

Xu Anxin was wearing a loose skirt and a thin coat, but no change in figure could be seen, but her face was rosier and brighter than before, which showed that she had taken good care of herself.

But now she was still barefoot and wearing a pair of high-heeled leather shoes, which made Zhou Zhi frown at the first sight.

"How can a pregnant woman still wear high heels? You don't care about this?" However, he didn't dare to talk to Xu Anxin, so he could only criticize Li Laosan: "No, you shouldn't come to a place like the airport!"

"Hey you brat!" Xu Anxin raised his eyebrows when he heard this: "When will it be your turn to take care of me! No one has pulled your ears for a long time, right?"

"You have to be careful about your image in public!" Zhou Zhi immediately reached out and covered his ears: "This is Hong Kong Island! You are the daughter-in-law of the Li family!"

Unexpectedly, these words had an unexpected effect. Xu Anxin took back the hand he had extended and said bitterly: "I'm taking advantage of you!"

Li Laosan then smiled and said: "An Xin has been causing trouble for the paparazzi during this period. I am deliberately fighting with them..."

Only then did Zhou Zhi realize that he was not happy anymore. This cousin had been naughty since she was a child, and now that she is about to become a mother, her temper has not changed. "I heard from Sister Wanqiu that you are going to London? When?" Zhou Zhi asked after getting into the Li family's luxurious Rolls-Royce.

"Just these few days." Li Laosan said: "The business school will start more than a month late. I will go over to accompany you."

"What? I told you to go abroad to avoid the limelight," Xu Anxin said, "But that's fine, if you hadn't caused trouble, Daddy wouldn't have let him go."

Although the father-in-law is called Daddy, cousin An An is doing as the Romans do, but Zhou Zhi didn't have time to make fun of her and asked Li Laosan, "Are you causing trouble?"

It feels very magical. Li Laosan has been very stable in the past few years, and he doesn't look like someone who will cause trouble at all. Besides, with his current ability, connections, and family background, how many things in the world can he face that require him to hide from the limelight?

"Just making blind suggestions shows that he is capable!" Xu Anxin sneered disapprovingly: "I heard that there are opinions from above."

"Is it still about bond futures?" Zhou Zhi understood a little bit. Li Laosan's suggestion to strengthen supervision was equivalent to offending the entire circle that relied on this market to cut leeks. The power of those people was not small, and even the strong dragons could not suppress the local snakes. , this limelight should indeed be avoided.

"I originally set my heart on the bright moon, but the bright moon... alas!" Li Laosan sighed.

"At that time, I asked you to take your time and give your opinion." Zhou Zhi said: "But that's okay. Anyway, you can work on the Three Gorges ship with a satellite phone. There will be no problem in going to London, the world's financial center."

"You don't need to worry about us." Xu Anxin always said carelessly: "Just think of it as a holiday for yourself, but you, why did you persuade Sister Wanqiu to come to Hong Kong Island again? The price of something that can make her come out to take care of it. Can’t it be cheaper?”

"The current owner spent two million Hong Kong dollars when he bought Zhang Daqian's masterpiece in 1991, not counting the commission to Sotheby's." Zhou Zhi has always liked Zhang Daqian's large paintings with splashes of color, but he couldn't accept it. So there have been studies on collectors who have such works, and there have been studies on those paintings.

This is the advantage of collecting masterpieces by famous artists. Generally, they have been exhibited many times, published in various publications many times, and received various reports many times. The context of the collection's changing hands is very clear, so there is almost no possibility of buying a fake.

This is why many rich people who know nothing about art have the courage to enter this industry and collect various art works. They purchase well-ordered famous products through professional auction houses and art houses. In addition to testing their financial strength, they are generally unable to buy them. You can't afford to be fooled if you suffer a loss.

Of course, this is based on the healthy development of the current auction industry. It is completely different from the auction houses and art houses that have shallow qualifications and are actually liars under the banner of auctions in a few decades.

"Did you reveal your true intentions like this?" Li Laosan took the steering wheel and said: "As soon as I heard the news, I ran here from thousands of kilometers away. When others saw your posture, those who were originally panicking to take action would sit down and raise their prices. "

"It's the same sentence I used to describe you before. The original poem is 'I don't know the true face of Mount Lu, just because I am in this mountain'." Zhou Zhi smiled bitterly and said: "Rather than exposing my intentions, I am more afraid of such a good opportunity being intercepted by others. Damn it. But after passing this village, there is no such store!"

"Then you deserve to be slaughtered!" Cousin An An gritted her teeth and cursed: "It seems that tonight is a Hongmen Banquet."

"Elbow, don't listen to your sister's nonsense." Li Laosan said with a smile: "Luo Sheng is a relatively famous painter in Hong Kong Island. He once served as Jesse Cheng's art director. He is also a good friend of Cai Gong. Tonight's banquet is organized by my father. Together with them, my brother and Sister Wanqiu, An Xin and I, and you, I believe we can come up with a result that everyone can accept."

"By the way, Jesse Cheng told me not to worry, the box office share of "Zodiac" has been paid, and it will be enough to spend whatever you do."

"Oh, you are so annoying! We agreed to scare him and not tell him about it yet!" Cousin An An suddenly felt that it was not fun anymore.