Chapter 132 Should I be Thankful or Proud
The negotiation entered a difficult stage. In the end, Zhou Zhi took advantage of the large purchase volume and got a price of three yuan and a half.
Uncle Yu downstairs moved to Manzhou. He threw the house key to Zhou Zhi and asked him to help take care of some orchids that had not been moved. In addition, the dark house must always be occupied by people, otherwise it will be easily damaged.
A set of small amplifiers was left at home.
Actually, Uncle Yu’s configuration was correct, but Miss Sixth didn’t know it and installed a large set of speakers for Uncle Yu, which turned the entire building into speakers.
Now that the big speaker has moved to Manzhou with Uncle Yu, the small set of "desktop" speakers has remained. Now it just lacks a sound source.
The next two years are destined to be boring, hard and depressing. Maybe listening to music is the only way to relieve it.
The other important thing is the charger and rechargeable battery, otherwise the battery of the Walkman will become a big expense.
There are a lot of rechargeable batteries, which are disassembled from Japanese electrical equipment. The prices are not expensive. Because I buy a lot of tapes, Zhou Zhi directly asked the boss to sell half of them and half to give away.
It was already afternoon after shopping, and Zhou Zhi invited Jiang Shuyi and Xu Hui to have a meal of the famous Sichuan snack - rice rolls and pot helmets - at the entrance to the Chenghuang Temple.
"I can't tell, you are quite rich, my elbow! You have so much free income!" Xu Hui has a stereo at home, but what she envies is Zhou Zhi's "spare money": "Three hundred yuan for Aihua, say buy it Just buy it!"
Jiang Shuyi was worried as she picked up the rice rolls: "Zhou Zhi, are you going to be criticized for spending money like this?"
"Actually? have It costs a thousand yuan, so eat it quickly. We have to do some shopping after eating.”
“You still want to buy it?”
“Well, game consoles and cartridges.” The previous two game consoles couldn’t withstand the play of naughty children. Now there are new machines with much cheaper prices and rich content on the cartridges. It is estimated that the stall will be closed down in half a year.”
Jiang Shuyicai explained to Xu Hui: "Zhou Zhi's cousin runs a video game stall at our place. Zhou Zhi has shares, and he has to share part of the daily income."
After explaining, he carefully reminded Zhou Zhi: "But this money shouldn't be spent like this..."
Zhou Zhi said: "Uncle Yu downstairs put him in the dormitory I've given you the key. I'm going to turn it into a study room. If you get tired from studying, you can go there to listen to music and relax."
"By the way, thank you for giving it to me. Tape."
Jiang Shuyi lowered her head: "I think your voice is suitable for singing that kind of song."
"What kind of song?"
"When we passed that store, "Where Are You" was playing in the store."
"Oh..."
That Zhou Zhi really likes the song and has sung it countless times in his previous life, but it's a bit sad because it was a song he fell in love with after breaking up with Jiang Shuyi. It is a song for longing and healing.
Now Jiang Shuyi said that this song suited her, which gave Zhou Zhi a magical feeling.
When watching this familiar song yesterday, Zhou Zhi discovered for the first time that the composer was actually Lu Guanting.
That is, the one who wrote "The Love of My Life" for "Westward Journey".
After dinner, I bought a new game console called "Small King" and a pirated all-in-one game cassette. These two things are exactly the same as Zhu Dazhang's Famicom and cassette in terms of content, but they are different in price. It's only one fifth.
Those two red and white computers are probably not going back. The naughty kids will break them in half a year. This can be used to show compensation.
Of course Zhou Zhi guessed that Miss Sixth Sister would not accept it at all.
This shopping trip was actually to take Jiang Shuyi out to relax. Zhou Zhi gave her the radio player in the evening and asked her to listen to it first.
The next day, Saturday, Zhou Zhi took Zhang Lu and set off early in the morning to Chunxi Road.
There is an arts and crafts mall on Chunxi Road with a professional counter selling antiques.
They are all antiques with clearly marked prices, and most of them are official kiln artifacts.
The price of antique porcelain has begun to rise a bit since 1987, but it is still at a low level. Gongmei Mall is a state-owned unit, and things are still clearly marked with prices.
In the stores in Shudu, the prices are still at the level of the capital in 1987.
But there are also a lot of good things here, and literature and history are equally important. When Zhou Zhi and Zhang Lu arrived, Gu Kailai and Chi Xueli were already sitting in the manager's office drinking tea.
Zhou Zhi brought almost all the cash this time. In addition to what Miss Sixth Sister gave at that time, there was also money earned from the computer stall, a total of six thousand yuan.
Seeing Zhou Zhi and Zhang Lu coming over, Gu Kailai said to the manager: "This is this little friend, Zhou Zhi, whom my father and grandfather value very much."
The manager stood up and said: "Xiaoyou Zhou."
Zhou Zhi hurriedly waved his hand: "Don't dare, don't dare, I'm only a first- and second-year high school student. Manager, just call me by my name."
Chi Xueli is quite appreciative of the love that three generations of the Gu family have for Zhou Zhi. : "There are sophomores like you!"
The manager smiled and said: "My name is Zhou Classmate, I heard that classmate Zhou is interested in porcelain, calligraphy and painting? No, we have a lot of items from famous modern calligraphers and calligraphers in the art mall. Now in Hong Kong, the auction of modern Chinese calligraphy and painting in Taiwan has begun to rise. But the wind has not yet blown into the mainland, let alone the interior.
“It’s good to appreciate it.” Zhou Zhi is very humble.
The most famous collection of Shuchuan Gongmei Shopping Mall is naturally Zhang Daqian.
But this thing is already very expensive now, costing tens of thousands per foot. Mainly due to the fact that several auctions in Hong Kong have hyped it up.
But apart from him, the remaining calligraphers such as Qi Baishi, Fan Zeng, Huang Binhong and Liu Bingsen are only one hundred and one feet tall. Qi Baishi's things will only be only 210 square feet in ten years.
And the current ruler is different from that of later generations.
Today's ruler is the name for the standard size of rice paper, referring to the specifications of the paper.
For example, a four-foot square meter is sixty-eight centimeters times sixty-eight centimeters, four square feet.
An eight-foot piece of paper is twenty-seven square feet. Now the price is only based on eight feet.
You can win a masterpiece by a famous artist for only 800 yuan.
This is still several years too late. In 1983, Xu Huachi spent 200,000 yuan to buy 9,000 calligraphy and paintings by famous modern artists from the History Museum, which was a big mistake.
Painters' works usually only become valuable after death.
Finally, Zhou Zhi bought two very colorful Chinese paintings after careful selection.
One is "Ten Thousand Rivers and Thousands of Mountains" by Li Keran, and the other is "The Lion Grove" by Wu Guanzhong.
Among them, "Ten Thousand Rivers and Thousands of Mountains" uses a PS-like technique, adding a high-light background to the generals' route up the mountain and the scene of the victorious meeting on the top of the mountain. The outline of the distant mountains uses the edge deepening technique, which can be regarded as an experimental breakthrough for the artist. .
"The Lion Grove" is a bunch of random lines and dots of color. Even if it is said to be a traditional Chinese painting, it can only be called "color ink".
Both paintings are still considered deviant at present, so the price is not high, but as the painter's reputation grows, these two paintings will become the first works after their innovative techniques mature.
It is of great significance.
The thoughtful choice made both the manager and Gu Kailai frown. Young people really like such unconventional things.
The conscience of heaven and earth, "The Lion Grove" is really new, Master Wu's work in 1988.
But "Ten Thousand Rivers and Thousands of Mountains" means "Ten Thousands of Rivers and Thousands of Mountains Just Waiting", which is Master Li's masterpiece in 1964.
In fact, Zhou Zhi doesn't know much about calligraphy and painting. I bought these two paintings purely to give the manager face and make a good start for future transactions.
The Qianlong Pastel Appreciation Vase, the Ming and Erxian General Jars, and a long-necked vase dating from Sichuan Gongmei as a folk kiln of the Ming Dynasty.
The shape of this bottle is indeed not in line with the aesthetics of the Song Dynasty. The belly of the bottle is relatively short and collapsed. The neck of the bottle has a string pattern, and the lines of the long neck are not graceful at all. There is a small opening on the top. The color It's not very colorful, it's gray, and apart from the beautiful opening and the regular shape of the vessel, which has the characteristics of an official kiln, there is almost nothing worthy of praise.
Therefore, there is nothing wrong with the fact that Shuchuan Gongmei classified it as a folk kiln fired in the Ming Dynasty.
But it was precisely because of these "defects" in this bottle that Zhou Zhi recognized it at a glance. He had seen it in the Hangzhou Museum in his previous life.
Southern Song Dynasty official kiln string pattern long-neck bottle.
Although it has been classified as something from the Ming Dynasty, it can be divided into early Ming and late Ming. The price of this thing is also the most expensive among the three pieces of porcelain, two thousand.
The remaining two pieces are in excellent condition and are high-quality products here, which also generates a certain premium. The Qianlong pastel vase costs 1,200 yuan, and the Ming and He Erxian General jar costs 1,800 yuan.
Four items cost 6,600, which is why Zhou Zhi didn’t dare to bring Jiang Shuyi here. If she knew Zhou Zhi dared to spend money like this, she would definitely be scared.
Zhang Lu was not stressed because he had no idea about money, and he was also very interested in the things Zhou Zhi took him to see.
At this point, Zhou Zhi's savings some time ago, the foundation of a household worth ten thousand yuan, has basically been completely wiped out.
No wonder there are so many good things everywhere these days, it’s really hard to give up.
Putting things carefully into the brocade box prepared by the manager, Zhou Zhi and Zhang Lu said goodbye to Gu Kailai and Chi Xueli, which was considered a long farewell.
Chi Xueli told Zhou Zhi to study hard, and Gu Kailai was even more frightened by Zhou Zhi's large purchase. Of course, he did not refer to this time, but to the "History of the Song Dynasty" and "Zizhi Tongjian Changbian" The two tomes earnestly warned him that his studies should be his top priority and that he should first cross the threshold of university before everything would be fine.
“Let’s take a walk.” Zhang Lu suggested.
"Take a walk?" Zhou Zhi was a little confused: "There are so many people passing by in Chunxi, and we are bringing porcelain..."
"Then sit down." Zhang Lu pointed to a bench on the side of the road.
"Oh, that's good." Zhou Zhi was a little confused, and he had been sitting there for a long time: "Maybe this way, there is Ling Tangyuan and Long Chao Shou nearby, which are both famous snacks. I Please, thank you for coming with me to buy something.”
“Yes, not bad.”
Long Chaoshou’s business was so good that Zhang Lu chose Ling Tangyuan.
Ling Tangyuan not only sells glutinous rice balls, but also sells leaf cake, miscellaneous sauce noodles, and sweet noodles.
Zhang Lu ate a glutinous rice dumpling, and suddenly said to Zhou Zhi, who was scooping up a glutinous rice dumpling and about to eat it, "I also wrote a letter to Shu Yi."
Tang Yuan in Zhou Zhi's spoon , and fell into the bowl in one fell swoop.
"Not only me, but also Zhang Weiran."
Zhou Zhi was so shocked that he couldn't help but start to use nonsense to cover up his feelings: "It makes sense for the few of us to be able to talk. , at least...that...the taste...is the same?"
"We also know that Shu Yi actually likes you." Zhang Lu buried his head in eating glutinous rice balls again: "But whoever she likes is her right, and whoever we like is also our right, right?"
< br>Zhou Zhi still hasn't recovered from the shock and feels his head is buzzing: "So, what...should I be grateful or proud?"
(End of Chapter)