Buy back "Beauty Out of the Bath" Zhang Baotong 2016.11.30

In the early 90s, an international exhibition of famous paintings was held in Hong Kong, and the paintings on display were all works of world-famous painters. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoDing Shaoguang, as a famous Chinese painter, was also invited to participate in this exhibition. He came to Hong Kong with three of his proudest works.

That morning, he came to the exhibition center to see the exhibition. The scale and number of exhibitions are indeed amazing, and most of them are new works by famous artists and everyone. Therefore, the exhibition is particularly eye-catching, with a large number of visitors, crowding the exhibition hall of the exhibition center. As a world-famous Chinese painter, Ding Shaoguang's works have always attracted much attention, so the three paintings he brought were placed in a very eye-catching position in the middle of the hall.

However, in a very inconspicuous corner, he saw the picture of a beautiful woman bathing, which surprised him very much. Because this is his engagement gift for his daughter Yumei. He wondered if it would be a good thing. So, he looked at the whole painting in great detail and found that it was not a masterpiece, but his real work.

Seeing this, his heart couldn't help but feel heavy, and he immediately remembered what his daughter had asked him, "I heard that the painting you painted is worth a lot of money?" He thought that this painting must have been sold by Yumei to someone else. But she should have known that the painting could not be sold. Could something had happened to her?

Thinking of this, he no longer had the heart to continue looking at the paintings, but returned to the hotel, packed his things, and then took the car to the airport.

At that time, there were already direct flights from Hong Kong to Xishuangbanna. Ding Shaoguang flew directly from Hong Kong to Jinghong, and then blocked a taxi and went straight to Menghan Town. In Menghan Town, as soon as he inquired, he heard that his daughter Yumei was opening a shop in the town. So, he went to the shop owned by his daughter.

It's a small family-like shop, the shop is only about 20 square meters, but the shop is clean and tidy, and all kinds of items are well organized. As soon as Ding Shaoguang entered the house, he saw a 30-year-old Dai woman who was about to send an eight- or nine-year-old boy to school. At this time, the young woman turned around and saw him, first stunned, and then said with a happy face, "Dad, is that you?"

Ding Shaoguang smiled at the young woman and said, "It's me, Yumei." ”

Yumei hurriedly asked the boy to call grandpa at him. The boy looked at him with strange eyes and shouted in a low voice, "Grandpa." ”

Ding Shaoguang looked a little embarrassed and said to Yumei, "I was in too much of a hurry and forgot to buy a gift for the child." ”

Yumei said, "Dad, you're welcome. ”

The child went to school. Ding Shaoguang told Yumei that he wanted to wait until the exhibition was over before coming here, but he saw the "Beauty Bathing Picture" in the exhibition hall and was worried that something would happen to them, so he hurried over.

Yumei said to her father, "Dad, I'm really sorry, I shouldn't have sold my grandmother's painting to others." However, at that time, we had no other way. ”

Then, Yumei told Ding Shaoguang the reason for selling paintings. Three years ago, the township folded the original street and built a large row of two-story commercial streets. The first floor is a façade room where you can open a shop, and the upper floor is a living room, and there is a small courtyard and kitchen behind the house. At that time, there were many people who wanted to buy a house, but the price of the house was 50,000 yuan, which was very expensive, and not many people could afford to buy a house. At that time, Yanbin was working in Kunming, and could only go home twice a year, and the child was about to start school, and Yumei worked hard in the field all day, so when she saw that the town was selling houses, she wanted to open a shop in the town to do business, so that she didn't have to work in the field all day, and Yanbin didn't have to go out to work, and the child could go to school in the central primary school in the town, and the teaching quality was much better than the village school. However, they had no money, and the money that Yanbin had earned over the years was only 3,000 yuan. There was no way, so Yumei found the acquaintance who had asked her many times to buy "Beauty Out of the Bath", and sold the painting to that person for 100,000 yuan. In this way, they used the 100,000 yuan to buy a house and open a store.

Speaking of this, Yumei felt ashamed of her parents, and cried and said to her father, "Dad, I'm really sorry, I shouldn't have sold my grandma's paintings to others." But I really can't help it. ”

Ding Shaoguang said to his daughter, "Yumei, don't blame yourself. Grandma would be glad to see you like this today. "Because he thinks that it is more important than anything else to give his daughter a good life.

Listening to her father's words, Yumei wiped her tears, took her father to the back of the house to look at their small courtyard and kitchen, and then went upstairs to the living room. There is a couch in the living room, as well as a color TV and a refrigerator. These were only available to people with better family conditions at that time. Entering their bedroom, there was a large Simmons bed next to a row of light green cabinets. Seeing all this, Ding Shaoguang said to Yumei with emotion, "A few years ago, you still lived in that dilapidated bamboo building, but I didn't expect that in just a few years, you have become like this, I really can't imagine it!

They looked at the big bedroom where Yumei and his wife lived, then the small bedroom where the child lived, and then came to the bedroom at the very edge. This bedroom has a medium-sized Simmons bed with new linens and a new quilt. There is a wardrobe and a writing desk next to the bed.

Ding Shaoguang asked, "Who lives in this room?"

Yumei said, "It's for you." We thought if you don't want to live in the United States, you can come back and live here and paint at your leisure, wouldn't it be nice?"

At this time, Yumei's husband Yanbin came back from Jinghong County, and began to buy vegetables and cook on the street.

At night, Ding Shaoguang lay in that room, tossing and turning, almost sleeplessly. He thinks that people are living really well now, and it would be great if he and Yujuan could live in this environment!

Early the next morning, Ding Shaoguang left Xishuangbanna and flew back to Hong Kong.

After the exhibition, the auction begins. Three of Ding Shaoguang's paintings sold for HK$3 million, HK$2.1 million and HK$1.85 million respectively. And Ding Shaoguang's early work "Beauty Out of the Bath" was also auctioned at auction. The starting price is HK$400,000. That day, he came to the auction very early, found a seat at the front, and waited until the auction began. When it came to bidding for "Beauty Out of the Bath", he followed the auction from the starting price of 400,000 yuan, and if someone proposed 450,000 or 480,000 yuan, he proposed 500,000 yuan, until 1 million yuan, 1.5 million yuan, and finally, he bought the painting for 1.6 million yuan.

When Ding Shaoguang picked up "Beauty Out of the Bath" again, he seemed to feel that his beloved Yujuan had returned to his side. He burst into tears, and his mood could not be calmed for a long time. He immediately left the hotel and rushed to the airport to return to Xishuangbanna, because he wanted to send his beloved Yujuan home.

When the daughter learned that her father had bought the "Beauty Out of the Bath" she had sold at a high price and gave it to her again, she was so grateful, she threw herself into her father's arms, cried bitterly, and said to her father, "I will never let my grandma leave me again." ”

In order to commemorate and cherish the memory of his beloved lover and lover, Ding Shaoguang often returned to Xishuangbanna, and used the money from the sale of paintings to build a number of Yujuan primary schools and Yujuan middle schools in Xishuangbanna and Kunming. He wanted to come this way, but he had the same desire in his heart.

2016.12.5 Xi'an

(To be continued.) )