hunting in 1986

Chapter 134 133 Sky-high Antique Paintings, 1988

At the village market.

Li Yan hugged the dozen or so pieces of rags she bought, and after paying the money, she found that Wang Yuan had disappeared. It was okay to buy some rags and lose her husband, so she searched quickly and found Wang Yuan's figure.

"Xiaoyuan, I thought you ran away? Huh? Er Lei is you?"

"Let me introduce you, this is my sister Shen Ying." Shen Erlei warmly introduced Wang Yuan and his wife.

Wang Yuan looked beside him, only to see Shen Ying wearing a silver-gray padded coat, wearing glasses and exuding a bookish air.

Shen Erlei's father once proudly mentioned Shen Ying to Wang Yuan, who was studying at Tsinghua University.

Wang Yuan was surprised and said: "Today I saw a real person, hello, college student!"

"Hello."

Shen Ying was a little shy, and spoke softly, which was very different from Shen Erlei's loud voice.

Shen Erlei led a few people to the south: "I came here to open a purchasing station, and we have already negotiated, let's go and sit in the store for a while."

On the way, Wang Yuan and Li Yan explained Shen Ying's identity, she was also very surprised, and then there was a deep sense of envy in her eyes.

"This is the first time I've seen a college student in my life. It turns out that a college student also has one nose and two eyes."

Li Yan muttered in a very low voice, but Wang Yuan was very close to her so she could hear her clearly, and she couldn't help laughing at how cute her daughter-in-law was.

The newly opened shopping store is a yard not far from the south of the township police station, and the low fence has been half decayed.

It's just that there is a wooden sign on the outside of the fence, and it is written crookedly in blue ink:
"Buy bear skins, AD skins, fox skins, and rabbit skins at high prices."

The first few characters were written too big, causing the latter characters to get smaller and smaller. The first character "Gao" was as big as a big white steamed bun, and the last character "Skin" was as small as a cat's paw.

The manager of the buying store is a hunchback, looking very shy, he opens the door and invites everyone in with a bared smile.

After they entered the house, they sat at the kang table and chatted. The wife of the hunchback manager brought them fried peanuts, and then left with a smile.

click~
Shen Erlei squeezed the peanuts with his fingers, then threw the peanuts into his mouth and chewed:
"The manager of this store is surnamed Wang. No one knows what his name is. Anyway, he is a hunchback. Others call him Wang Guozi. He was introduced to me by a person from our township. I pay him 60 yuan a month. , Xiao Yuan, what do you think?"

"It's good. I've seen him carry a basket and pick up cow dung by the side of the road. It's not bad to have a profitable business now."

Wang Yuan looked out the window, and saw Wang Guozi walking south with a basket of vegetables, probably on his way to shopping.

Judging by the way he grinned from ear to ear, he should be quite satisfied with the business of opening a purchasing station.

Shen Erlei said with a smile: "Don't look at Wang Guozi, but he can draw, and the snow-covered woods he painted are really beautiful!"

"Yeah? Is there such a skill?"

"Yeah, I heard that his family was not well-formed back then, and his back was beaten like this." Shen Erlei sighed instantly.

This topic was a bit heavy, and soon the two consciously chatted about other things. Shen Erlei intentionally asked his sister Shen Ying and Wang Yuan to chat more.

He knew that Wang Yuan had friends in Yanjing, and if Shen Ying encountered difficulties, maybe Wang Yuan could help. A girl's family went to other places to study, and the brothers of the Shen family were very worried about their sister.

After learning from Shen Erlei that Wang Yuan had been to Yanjing, Shen Ying was also a little surprised: "Are you going to Yanjing for fun? The travel fare alone is really expensive."

"Before, my friend contacted me for a job, which was to help the Yanjing State-owned Store collect pine nuts, so those who came and went often went there."

Shen Ying was a little puzzled—a farmer from his hometown helped the state-owned store in Yanjing harvest pine nuts?

It seems to work, but it always feels a bit awkward. She is not discriminating against farmers, but most of them have never even been to the county.

Not only did Wang Yuan go out of the province, but he also went to the capital, where he hooked up with the state-owned store over there. Shen Ying was full of doubts that this Wang Yuan really had such a great ability?
But she was not familiar with Wang Yuan, so she didn't ask further.

Shen Erlei said suddenly: "By the way, Xiaoyuan, I want to tell you something."

"talk."

"It's just that I collect grain, vegetables, pork and chicken from the countryside, and then sell these things to the city. Li Shen's restaurants can't eat all of them.

For example, last time I collected pigs, he couldn't eat a dozen or so pigs, so I sold the pigs to other restaurants. "Shen Erlei frowned, his face full of distress.

"and then?"

"Then... Li Shen was very angry when he found out about this. We didn't quarrel, but I saw his face was very ugly."

The air is much quieter, only the noise from the market outside comes in. The weather is extremely cold, but it can't stop the enthusiasm of small traders to make money.

Li Yan also looked at Wang Yuan curiously, she found it difficult to handle such a thing.

Wang Yuan thought for a while and said, "Er Lei, listen to me, it's not completely unreasonable for Li Shen to be angry, right?"

"But……"

"Don't worry, if you have extra live pigs, it's normal to sell them to others. After all, pigs belong to you and you can sell them to whoever you want."

"That's the reason!" Shen Erlei felt that what Wang Yuan said was very correct, and it was as if he had found a bosom friend in an instant.

"However, you have to give more consideration to Li Shen's ideas, after all, your things are mainly sold to the restaurant that Li Shen and I jointly opened.

There are already dozens of restaurants, and you can eat most of the things you collect in one bite. If there is a real trouble, it will be difficult for you to find such a big buyer.

Even if it can be found, it will take a lot of effort for no reason. "Wang Yuan said slowly.

He really didn't want Shen Erlei and Li Shen to break up. People are complicated, and there are some small differences between them. Small conflicts are very normal.

If Shen Erlei really broke up with Li Shen, then Wang Yuan would probably help the restaurant find someone to collect pigs and food.

The new person who competes with Shen Erlei is likely to become an enemy, and the final result is that Wang Yuan and Shen Erlei can no longer be friends.

All this is what Wang Yuan does not want to see.

When Shen Erlei heard Wang Yuan say, "Li Shen and I jointly opened restaurants", he suddenly realized that a large number of shares in those restaurants belonged to Wang Yuan.

And Wang Yuan has great kindness to him, even for the sake of the latter's face, he can't be too stubborn, so Shen Erlei said discouragedly:
"It's my fault. In the future, I will charge as much as the restaurant needs. If I don't need so much, then I won't charge."

"Don't don't don't, it's better to collect! The more the better! And sell me the corn you collect so I can raise chickens.

Just don't sell what you collect to the restaurants run by the bald guy, you know the bald guy has a feud with Li Shen, the kind that never dies.

I will chat with Li Shen about this when I have time. "

"That's fine, I understand."

Shen Erlei couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, and couldn't help laughing when he thought of the various "battles" between Li Shen and the bald boy.

"By the way, Xiaoyuan, did Li Shen really sue the bald boy?"

"Of course it's true. The court has accepted it, and all the summons for the court session have been issued."

"Hey, does the court care about this matter? By the way, what does the court care about?" Shen Erlei felt very novel. He had lived for decades and had never heard of anyone going to court to sue.

He frowned and said again: "The court...is it equivalent to the ancient county government? The kind of county magistrate who slaps the board, bang~ ascends to the hall! Mighty!!"

After all the troubles in his heart were gone, Shen Erlei also became more relaxed, and his words began to be irrelevant.

Wang Yuan laughed out loud.

Shen Ying felt quite ashamed, what was her second brother talking about, but she was actually quite curious about the lawsuit in her heart, and she couldn't help but wonder if one day she would have to go to court with others?

Sudden.

A shout sounded from the street outside: "Is Wang Guozi at home?"

Wang Guozi's daughter-in-law walked out quickly, Wang Yuan, Shen Erlei, Li Yan and Shen Ying who heard the shout also looked out.

I saw a man riding a tricycle parked at the door, talking with Wang Guozi's daughter-in-law who walked out.

Shen Erlei and the others didn't care about what they should do after looking away, but Wang Yuan heard a few words such as "painting", "Su Shi", "more money".

The voices in the market were too noisy, and the rest of the conversation could not be heard clearly, and then Wang Yuan saw Wang Guozi's daughter-in-law returning to the east room and walking out with something like a scroll.

In an instant, Wang Yuan couldn't sit still anymore, and after saying "Talk to me first, go out and have a look", he quickly put on his shoes and ran out.

"What's the matter, Xiaoyuan? What happened?"

"It's okay Swallow, I'll be back soon."

When Wang Yuan went outside, he clearly heard Wang Guozi's daughter-in-law bargaining with the man. There were two pieces of porcelain on the man's tricycle, and the quality was very different.

Of course, men collect antiques.

Wang Guozi's daughter-in-law was very angry: "The head of the family said that it is 500 yuan, and I will not sell it for a cent! You paid 400 yuan when you came back, and you will give 420 yuan when you come back. Is it 20 yuan more?"

The man was sitting on the tricycle, frowning and complaining: "This painting is really not worth that much money, 420 yuan is already a lot, so don't be too greedy..."

Wang Yuan interjected: "Wait a minute, can I have a look at the painting first?"

The man felt that something was wrong, so he scolded directly: "Who are you!?"

Wang Yuan was taken aback, looked at the man in disbelief and said, "Huh? You are so awesome, come and tell me where you are from! If you are from my hometown, I will forgive you, but if you are not from my hometown I'll beat you up now!"

"What's the matter?"

Seeing that there seemed to be a quarrel outside, Shen Erlei, Shen Ying, and Li Yan all ran out. At this time, Wang Guozi, who went to buy pork head meat and liquor, also came back, and the voice became noisy for a while.

The man who bought the antiques really wasn't from his hometown, he was from the county town, so he shrank back and didn't speak because he was afraid of being beaten.

Wang Yuan just frightened him a few times, and let him go when he stopped being arrogant, and he got his wish to see the painting.

Shashasha~
After unfolding the picture scroll, an ink painting instantly came into view. On the left side of the painting are a few tall and vigorous pillars with obvious bamboo joints. It seems that you can feel the wonderful picture of the bamboo leaves shaking in the wind.

On the right side of the pillar is a pool of water, and there are several stones of different sizes beside the pool.

There are several stamps in the upper right corner of the painting, but the one that most attracts Wang Yuan's attention is Su Shi's famous stamp.

"Fuck, is it really Su Shi's painting? Fuck, bum..." Wang Yuan was as happy as if he had found a vault, and he was so excited that he was going to explode.

Shen Erlei leaned over to Wang Yuan's right and looked at the painting: "Who is Su Shi? What is this painting? I don't think it is as good as Wang Guozi's painting."

Shen Ying obviously knew Su Shi, but she was only surprised by seeing Su Shi's painting, but she didn't understand the value of this painting.

Wang Yuan took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down, and then said to Wang Guozi, "This painting costs 500 yuan? Okay, I'll buy it."

"What do you want to buy?" Wang Guozi was very surprised.

The man who was more surprised than him was the man who collected the antiques. The man's name was Qian Jianguo. He was already blushing with anger and had a thick neck. He was not afraid of being beaten and immediately yelled:
"I want to come! If I want to buy it, I will buy it. Which round will I get you!"

"It's ridiculous." Wang Yuan said: "In fact, you didn't buy it. Oh, if you don't buy it, you don't allow others to buy it? Are you the one who doesn't want to sell it?"

"Who says I won't buy it? I'm about to buy it right now."

Qian Jianguo couldn't help being excited. In fact, he had already reported the existence of this painting to his boss - a painting sold for 500 yuan, and he would definitely need the boss's nod before he dared to buy it.

His boss did agree to spend 500 yuan to buy this painting, but Qian Jianguo took the initiative and wanted to lower the price. After all, the commission for buying this painting was only 2 yuan.

If the price can be lowered by tens of dollars, the extra money will be his!

Dozens of dollars is worth the money earned in a month, very tempting!
But now it's a chicken-and-egg fight.

Qian Jianguo couldn't accept it no matter what, so he wanted to go up and grab the painting as soon as his head got hot, but it was futile after all, and instead he was directly beaten by Wang Yuan.

"Bang bang bang~"

"You still want to rob in broad daylight? A painting worth 500 yuan is enough for you to go in and squat for a few years!"

"Paint, give me back the painting! I'm willing to pay 500 yuan for the painting!"

"It's too late! Besides, you can't buy it for 500 yuan, because I can pay 510 yuan. Can you continue to increase the price?"

In an instant, Qian Jianguo was at a loss for words.

There were a lot of people in the market, and many people gathered around after finding out that there was something lively to watch, pointing and pointing.

Wang Yuan didn't want to be treated like a monkey, so he pulled Wang Guozi into the house, and after giving him 500 yuan, it was considered a settlement.

Wang Guozi was also very happy. He didn't expect that the painting left by his father was really worth 500 yuan.

In fact, if Wang Yuan hadn't appeared, Qian Jianguo might have sold the painting at a low price if he tried harder. Unfortunately, if there was no if...

The four of Wang Yuan strolled around the market again. He invited Shen Erlei and Shen Ying to his house for dinner, but Shen Erlei said that there were still many things to do at home, so they left.

The market was crowded with people, and as the sun rose, the number of people going to the market not only did not decrease, but gathered more and more.

da da da~
Somehow, a tractor drove to the market. Facing the turbulent crowd, it was impossible to drive through, and the people who went to the market were also blocked, so they could only pass one by one from both sides of the tractor.

Wang Yuan and Li Yan were very far behind, standing on tiptoe and looking forward, it might take about ten minutes to get there. The two simply walked around the small alley next to them, intending to go directly behind the tractor.

"Hurry up, they are going to take a detour, let's follow them."

"Why is the tractor still driving towards the market? If you are blind, you can't see so many people in the market."

"I really want to pull the driver down and beat him up."

A group of people in the back followed Wang Yuan and his wife to make a detour, and walked south after exiting the alley. They wanted to return to the market through another small alley.

But here is an open space covered with snow, and a large number of people gathered on the west side tens of meters away. It turns out that this is a place to sell firecrackers.

boom! !

A seller ignited the fuze of a cannonball, and then threw the firecracker into the pit with all his strength. After a loud noise, the ice surface cracked, and a jet of water shot up directly!
Cheers continued in the distance, and the crowd who saw this scene were very excited, and some itchy people started to buy firecrackers one after another.

Wang Yuan and the others were far away, and he couldn't help but shine his eyes: "Niubao, put one on the night of the New Year's Eve, and everyone in the village will be awakened."

Li Yan held him back and refused to let him buy it: "Don't buy it, put one in the village, the glass will shatter, and it will be even worse if it blows up people."

"This thing is really dangerous, just buy some small whips later."

A group of people returned to the market from the small alley and continued to wander. When they saw a seller of candied haws, Wang Yuan bought two bunches of candied haws and ate them with Li Yan.

Sudden.

Wang Yuan saw his grandmother from the crowd approaching. The old lady was carrying a vegetable basket, walking briskly while talking to the two old ladies next to her, with smiles on her face.

Li Yan also saw the old lady and pointed it to Wang Yuan with a smile.

"grandmother!"

"Huh? It's you Xiaoyuan. I just bought Roujiamo. I'll get you two to eat."

Grandma lifted the blue cloth covering the vegetable basket, took out two warm meat buns and handed them to Wang Yuan and Li Yan.

There are a lot of Roujiamo in her basket, because there are too many grandchildren, and there are too few to buy.

The old lady next door is from the village next door. They have presbyopia. They squinted to see Wang Yuan and his wife, curious about their identities. Grandma happily introduced:
"This is the second grandson of my eldest son's family, and this is the grandson's wife."

"Oh, it's so good, I've grown so big in a blink of an eye? I don't even dare to recognize her when I saw her on the road."

"Yeah, he was only in his teens the last time I saw him, right? Are you married now?"

After chatting for a few words, Wang Yuan and Li Yan separated from grandma. After eating the meat buns given by grandma, Wang Yuan asked, "Swallow, is it delicious?"

Li Yan pursed her lips and smiled, and ate the Roujiamo in small bites: "It's delicious... By the way, is the painting you bought really that good? It's worth 500 yuan?"

"Of course it's true! Don't worry, your man won't make money-losing deals."

Wang Yuan remembered that only three of Su Shi's paintings appeared in the aftermath, namely "Rain Bamboo Picture", "Xiaoxiang Bamboo and Stone Picture", and "Dead Wood and Strange Rock Picture".

All three paintings are valued at more than 4 million RMB!

How terrifying!

Although the painting in Wang Yuan's hands has never been publicly released, he estimates that the valuation will not be lower than others. It can be said that a painting can last a lifetime!

After wandering around the market for a long time, it was past 11 noon when they got home on their motorcycles, so they hurriedly cooked and ate.

Time passed, and in the blink of an eye, it was the night of New Year's Eve. After dinner, Wang Yuan and Li Yan leaned on the quilt and prepared to watch the Spring Festival Gala.

Huhuhu~ The cold wind is still blowing outside the window, bang bang bang~ There are bursts of firecrackers from time to time, but the house is warm, relaxed and comfortable.

Wang Yuan casually glanced at the tear-off calendar on the wall—February 1988, 2.

"After today, it will be 1988!" Wang Yuan hugged Li Yan tightly, looking forward to the new year on his face.

(End of this chapter)