Rebirth 1980: Marrying my sister’s best friend at the beginning

Chapter 431 I want all these paintings!
Beijing.City area!

On the asphalt road, Li Yi drove a jeep from a cotton spinning factory quickly.

In the passenger seat beside him, Jiang Xue looked worried.

"Slow down, it's too fast!"

Hearing Jiang Xue's voice, Li Yi realized that he was driving a little too fast.

In fact, it's not Li Yi's fault. The main reason is that we are in an urban area now. Once the speed exceeds 50 yards, it becomes extremely fast, and his speed just now was only 60 yards.

Seeing Li Yi slow down the car, Jiang Xue asked with some confusion: "What makes you so excited?"

"Is it obvious?" Li Yi asked with a smile.

"Of course it's obvious. If there wasn't a car blocking it in front, you could drive this car into the air!"

Obviously, Jiang Xue still had objections to Li Yi driving the car so fast just now.

"Haha, didn't I think of something? It was not intentional!" Li Yi said.

"What makes you so excited?"

"I've heard people say before that the National Museum specializes in selling famous people's calligraphy and paintings, but I forgot about it as soon as I turned around. Fortunately, the old man reminded me!" Li Yi said.

"That's it, you don't like calligraphy and painting, why are you so excited?"

"Who says I don't like it? It's just that I haven't encountered your masterpieces before!"

Then Li Yi continued: "Besides, when we lived in the countryside before, we didn't have access to these things. Even if we like it, if we buy it back, we have no place to display it or collect it!"

"Then do you plan to buy a few more pictures?"

"Correct!"

As he spoke, an inexplicable smile appeared on Li Yi's face!

He did plan to buy a few more paintings, but what Jiang Xue never expected was that this time he planned to buy all the famous calligraphy and paintings waiting for sale in the National Museum at once. He was going to make a profit!

But don’t get me wrong, what Li Yi intends to collect is not the antique collections on display, but the famous calligraphy and paintings of modern writers, and this is also a business of the National Museum.

Yes, the National Museum does sell calligraphy and paintings to external parties, and what is more embarrassing is that no one buys the calligraphy and paintings sold by such an authoritative institution.

This matter has to start three years ago, when the National Museum established a Foreign Guest Service Department. As the name suggests, this department is dedicated to serving foreign guests.

As a result, an embarrassing thing happened. Because the money allocated by the state was limited, the reception of foreign guests could only be based on the standard of 3 yuan per person.

The problem is that the National Museum is the face of our country, so giving foreign guests the standard of three yuan is really a bit "low-status".

After all, three yuan is nothing in the capital right now. Even the worst black hotel costs one yuan a night, and that doesn't include food and drink.

In this case, I don’t know which leader came up with the “good idea” of selling paintings.

As a result, these bossy leaders slapped their heads and decided to select some of the paintings of modern masters and sell them to subsidize them.

They are also talented people, and they also know that these writers are divided into three, six or nine grades. Among them, Li Keran's paintings are sold for 8 yuan a piece, Wu Zuoren's paintings are sold for 5 yuan a piece, and as for Liu Bingsen, who has the reputation of "Liu Ti Lishu" Paintings are a bit miserable, good quality ones cost 8 cents each, while inferior ones cost 6 cents each.

You must know that each of these people will be famous artists ten or twenty years later. Their works are all qualified to be sold at auctions, and now they are sold there at cabbage prices.

The most embarrassing thing is that the foreign guest service department has been selling these paintings for two full years, but in the end, these paintings did not sell much.

Think about it, everyone is running for a living these days. Who has the spare money to buy paintings that are "fancy but not useful"? They are not antiques.

After all, no one knows whether these paintings will appreciate in value after they are bought home, and even if they do, how much will they increase in value?

In this way, in 1981, the "Foreign Guest Service Department" of the National Expo finally couldn't continue to operate. Not a few of the 9000 paintings stored in it were sold, so it was useless to keep them and had to be disposed of.

The problem is, these are all paintings by Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian, Guan Liang, Li Keran and others. They cannot be sold as scrap. 9000 paintings will cost at least hundreds of thousands, but who can come up with that much money in one go? ?
In the end, the National Museum found Mr. Xu, who likes to collect famous paintings, and proposed that he could take home 20 paintings for only 9000 yuan.

As a result, the most jaw-dropping transaction in the history of Guohua was completed, 20 yuan and 9000 paintings and calligraphy by famous artists.

Good guy, the average painting is 22.22222 yuan. This number seems to indicate some problems.Li Yi didn't want to explore the helplessness or other business logic behind this matter. He simply fell in love with these paintings and wanted to cut them off.

The National Museum is located on the southeast side of the Imperial City, not far from Li Yi's home.

Li Yi, who was familiar with the road, came to this place.

After parking the car, Li Yi took Jiang Xue to the museum.

The museum in front of me is not the same as the museum in Li Yi's memory, even the name is different.

When Li Yi came to visit in his previous life, the name here was "National Museum", but now it is "Revolutionary History Museum".

But Li Yi didn't care about this. After he entered, he didn't take Jiang Xue to the various exhibits in the restaurant. Instead, he went straight to the point and told the staff inside that he wanted to buy paintings!

These days, there is no need to be secretive when working on the side business. When Li Yi said he wanted to buy a painting, the staff immediately told him to go all the way along the corridor and follow the instructions to find the Foreign Guest Service Department.

Following the staff's instructions, Li Yi quickly found the so-called foreign guest service department.

I have to say that compared to a place that serves my own family, this place has a high-end and classy feel from the inside out.

However, in Li Yi's eyes, these decorations have nothing to do with high-end, just one word - earthy!

When I opened the door and walked in, I was immediately greeted by a lesbian in her 20s, who said enthusiastically: "Are you from Nanbang or from Xiaoli?"

"Countryman!"

"Hello, comrade, are you here?"

Before he finished speaking, Li Yi said directly: "I heard that you sell famous calligraphy and paintings here. We are here to buy calligraphy and paintings!"

Hearing that Li Yi was here to buy calligraphy and paintings, the lesbian's eyes suddenly lit up and she hurriedly said: "Excuse me, do you plan to buy the calligraphy and painting of that famous artist? We have Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian, Guan Liang, and Li Keran here."

"I want to see it all!"

"Okay, please follow me!"

Later, under the leadership of this female comrade, Li Yi and Jiang Xue came to the innermost hall of the Foreign Guest Service Department.

I saw that this hall is completely a calligraphy and painting exhibition hall. The hundreds of square meters of the hall are full of various calligraphy and painting works. Even the ancient painting exhibition halls in the museums outside are not as many as here.

Of course, the values ​​of the two are not the same.

Compared with those ancient paintings that have been passed down for hundreds or thousands of years, most of the works in this hall are paintings by modern people, and the authors of most of the works are still alive.

There is an unfavorable tradition in the art world. When an artist is alive, most of his works are worthless.

Well, maybe it’s because of this reason that the prices of these works are generally not high!

"Are there any works by Qi Baishi?"

"Yes, over here!"

Following the lesbian to the middle of the exhibition hall, the other party pointed to a row of more than a dozen paintings and said, "These are all the works of Mr. Qi!"

Li Yi and Jiang Xue then looked at it carefully, and soon they were attracted by a birthday painting.

I saw three longevity peaches in this painting, each with magenta, definitely playing the "protagonist", and the whole painting has brush marks, bones and flesh, and changes in weight and shade. Even Li Yi, a person who doesn't know much about painting, fell in love with this painting at first sight.

More importantly, Chinese people regard various natural scenery such as pine, cypress, crane, stone, peach, Ganoderma lucidum, etc. as symbols of longevity.They enter the picture and become an enduring theme in birthday paintings.

This painting was sent to celebrate the old man’s birthday. It is definitely not out of the ordinary.

Thinking of this, Li Yi asked the lesbian who had been accompanying him: "How much does this painting cost?"

"Lao Qi's paintings are a little more expensive. There is no bargaining price for 100 yuan, but if you buy more, I can apply for a suitable price for you!"

Li Yi glanced around the hall, and then said in a shocking voice: "Then if I buy all the paintings here, how much will it cost?"

As soon as these words came out, both the female staff member and Jiang Xue were stunned!
(End of this chapter)