In this auction organized by Swire Christie's in Hong Kong in order to expand its business and build its reputation in the East, ten Chinese paintings alone were sold for more than 15 million Hong Kong dollars. One of them, "White Night" by Ding Shaoguang, sold for 220 The transaction amounted to HK$100,000, setting a record for the highest auction price of a Chinese painting by a living Chinese painter.
Zhang Daqian's huge "Wuxia Cloud Mountains" was finally sold for HK$3 million, setting a record and was acquired by Zhou Zhi.
Although these auction results cannot be compared with world-famous paintings, they are a gratifying step for Chinese paintings to enter the world market.
Ms. Yuan Shuhua, the head of Swire Christie's, is herself a collector who is well versed in Oriental art. This auction was well-received from design to thoughtful participation, allowing Swire Christie's to gain a firm foothold on Hong Kong Island. Yuan Shuhua also expressed his gratitude afterwards.
This move also prompted Lin Wanqiu to call and ridicule Zhou Zhi as a traitor. In the end, Zhou Zhi had to surrender and promised to give her a jade sculpture as an apology.
In fact, these are all jokes. It is impossible for a truly powerful collector to only choose one auction house as a partner in his life. The reason is very simple, because it is impossible for all the good things in the world to be auctioned only from Hanhai. Zhou Zhi is still the chief appraiser of Hanhai, but he just bought something he liked from Swire Christie's.
There are several reasons why Zhou Zhi wants to support him.
First of all, Zhou Zhi has been collecting related works by Shuzhong painters and related works on the theme of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, and Zhang Daqian's "Wuxia Cloud Mountains" fits his two collection directions at the same time, and it really makes People are tempted.
The second thing is that Zhou Zhi may not value Swire Christie's, but he must value the shipper who chose Swire Christie's as his agent this time, Ellsworth.
After all, no one knows better than him what will be in the next few auctions.
However, these things were all arranged two months ago, and the benefits were basically estimated a month ago. Now they are just harvests, so the happiness they can bring to Zhou Zhi is not strong.
On the contrary, he is now eager to find something to do, but his heart is empty and his attention is often distracted. This state of affairs is noticed by Mr. Gu, who can't help but remind him not to take it lightly. Although there are not many courses left this semester, there are still two or three that are quite important.
The other is the paper. It would be best if you could come up with a new paper of relatively high quality. Now Zhou Zhi has many projects that combine arts and science. This direction is the easiest to get results. Of course, what the school means is to encourage as many papers as possible.
Zhou Zhi actually knows that he is not in the right state, but he has no choice. Many things can only be left to time to fade away. In front of others, he is just the same. In fact, only he can touch the real ups and downs.
And the sequelae of the breakup have begun to show up. There is no airtight wall in the world, and there are many people who care about his and Jiang Shuyi's situation. They write letters and make phone calls almost every day. .
Ye Xin called Zhou Zhi and scolded Zhou Zhi, and Liang Hong came to Shu University before the weekend. These two girls were quite nervous. Although they often had troubles with their boyfriends, they never thought about breaking up. This kind of thing.
In their eyes, Zhou Zhi and Jiang Shuyi's way of getting along was even something they envied. They never blushed, never quarreled, and they should never get to the point of breaking up.
Zhou Zhi couldn't say why, he just said he was sorry for Jiang Shuyi.
However, Liang Hong felt even more strange: "Why did Shu Yi say I'm sorry to you? What's going on between you two?"
"Did Shu Yi talk to you on the phone? ” Zhouzhi captured this message with sensitivity.
"I called her home. I didn't answer the call before, but I picked up yesterday." Liang Hong said anxiously: "She said she was going to go abroad first to take a look and relax."
"She said I'm sorry, is that why?" Liang Hong said. At this point, I continued to chase Zhou Zhi for the answer: "Because she insisted on going abroad, so you broke up?"
There are actually quite a lot of things like this between college couples today, but Zhou Zhi shook his head. : "It's not you Thinking about it this way, I'm afraid you won't even understand what happened." But he felt a little relieved: "Now it seems that our decision is right, at least Shu Yi's situation is much better."
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"Actually, you all still care about each other, right? If that's the case, why bother..." Liang Hong couldn't help but sigh: "Alas! But you're right, I feel that Shu Yi's spirit... at least is much better on the phone. ”
"Did she say where she was going?" Zhou Zhi asked.
"I didn't say anything, but she said that she seems to have a classmate in Europe who studies art. They are in contact."
This is Xu Hui, Zhao Zhonggang's first love, Zhou Zhi nodded: "That was when we went to No. 7 Middle School for a study tour, and the class "I can tell Shu Yi is worried about you." Liang Hong asked suspiciously, "Looking at you like this, is it okay?" >
After sending Liang Hong away, Zhou Zhi received another page from Zhang Xinyi.
On the phone, Zhang Xinyi's attitude towards this matter was far more tolerant than Liang Hong and Ye Xin.
Zhang Xinyi is a person who has experienced emotional setbacks. On the phone, he just felt sorry: "I never thought that you could break up."
"Maybe it was because of our previous relationship. I think of feelings too simply, or maybe I make feelings too complicated now. It's complicated." Zhou Zhi said: "In the end, we became each other's burden."
"I couldn't let Shu Yi get into trouble because of me, so I had to let go."
"Zhou Zhi, you said. , will we love again?" Zhang Xinyi didn't know what he thought of, and sighed again.
"Let's work hard." Zhou Zhi could only cheer each other up now.
"Sometimes I wonder." Zhang Xinyi's voice was a little confused: "That time I used you as a shield to go out. If you had insisted on following me, I would have given up. The next thing should be gone.”
“Xin Yi, that time. In fact, I followed you quietly." Zhou Zhi said, "I followed you all the way to the ferry terminal, and I didn't leave until I saw you meeting that boy."
"Huh? You never told me." There was a sound of inhalation on the other end of the phone, which sounded like surprise and sobbing.
"I have never told anyone. Today is the first time." Zhou Zhi said: "We grew up together. You suddenly called me and asked me to come to your house to make an appointment with you. After the date, you asked me to go out by myself. Leave. Do you think I will be relieved?”
"Sometimes I think you are naughty, and even a little bad." There was silence on the other end of the phone for a while: "But thank you for not telling my mother that time."
"Xin Yi, aren't those things in the past? Now that it’s over, don’t think about it so much anymore.”
“Maybe you guys will be like this,” Zhang Xinyi said, “We girls...may be more painful if you think about it. A little.”(End of this chapter)