Ecological Farm Author: Farmer on the Fly

Chapter 50: The Capital

After resting for a while, Liu Donglin and Liu Meiting joined hands to learn, the two are at a similar level, but Liu Donglin is more powerful, experienced, and has just competed with Tian Chuan, and is more adaptable to Tai Chi techniques, and still wins Liu Meiting.

As for Dong Xiangfa, he was constantly disrupted by Liu Meiting, and he was restrained to death, and he was not a first-level opponent at all.

After the discussion, it was already past twelve o'clock in the afternoon. Tian Chuan had told his mother not to cook in advance, and only called his second sister-in-law to send a table of dishes.

Liu Donglin and Dong Xiangfa drank a lot of wine, and they had a lot of food, and they were very bold at the wine table at noon, and they pulled Tian Chuan and a few people to toast constantly. Qi Gang was not in the same circle with them, lacked a common language, and only drank a little. Zhang Wentao and Yuanfeng didn't have much to drink, and only Tian Chuan and the two were left to drink.

Later, Liu Meiting joined in, accompanied a few people to have a few drinks, and the lunch was completed. The set of imperial demeanor that Tian Chuan took out was almost drunk by several people.

After the meal, Tian Chuan wanted to take everyone to experience the rural market, which is usually only available in the morning, but now that the Spring Festival is approaching, the market is extended to the evening. In the afternoon, there will be fewer people, which is just the right time for everyone to go shopping. But at noon, they drank a lot of wine, and most of them lost interest.

So Tian Chuan took a few people to the old house that had been renovated. The Rural Traditional Culture Museum of the old house has collected a lot of old objects, and there is a rubber * car and an iron axle wooden * car in the yard. Tian Chuan took everyone on a tour and explained the various old objects and old photos in the collection.

After more than an hour of visiting, Tagawa succeeded in establishing in the hearts of people who grew up in several cities the simple image of the old countryside as closed, hard-working, self-sufficient, comfortable and stable.

Everyone was full of curiosity about steaming drawers made of sorghum straw, old spinning wheels, cattle and horse harnesses, and manual farming without machinery at all. In fact, Tian Chuan only caught up with one tail of the old countryside, and did not have a deep understanding of the production and lifestyle of many old villages. However, Liu Donglin has always lived in the countryside, and he is familiar with these and has made a lot of additions to Tian Chuan.

When I returned home after the visit, Tian's mother and sister pulled the second aunt who was doing the sanitation to help and was cooking dinner. Dinner was leek stuffed pancakes and leek zygotes, and some beef patties were also prepared. This is also a local specialty. In the evening, no hot dishes were prepared, only mixed vegetable cores, vegetarian assortment, fried salted fish, mixed tofu shreds and other cold dishes were used to accompany the wine. As a result, everyone said that they drank too much at noon and did not drink at night anyway. Tian's mother boiled a big pot of white rice porridge, and everyone drank porridge and ate boiled cakes, and praised it repeatedly.

After dinner, Tian Chuan, Liu Meiting and Liu Dong's brothers went to the study on the second floor to discuss the development of martial arts. Yuanfeng and Zhang Wentao went to the multimedia hall on the third floor. Tagawa made a lot of foreign blockbusters, and with the help of projectors and surround sound effects in the hall, the two experienced the feeling of a special theater.

Tian Chuan and several people came to the study on the second floor to talk about martial arts, and he was not conservative, and introduced the twelve-character development concept of Taijiquan to Liu Donglin and them. In his own words, the prospects for the development of Taijiquan or Baguazhang alone are limited, and the best case scenario is for the entire traditional martial arts community to develop together and jointly promote the prosperity of traditional Chinese culture.

Later, he played a copy of the recording of Guangping's speech to the two of them, and Liu Donglin and Dong Xiangfa both recognized this development concept. Liu Donglin said: "Our gossip has been circulating in our hometown in Shandong, and there are not many disciples now. The master has always hoped to carry forward the sect, but what he lacks is the right opportunity. I learned a lot from this visit, including my own level. To be honest, I was quite confident in my boxing skills before I came, but today I was convinced. I believe that if we continue to develop according to the method you said in your speech, greatly increase the number of practitioners, and increase the number of practitioners who have a good chance of communicating, we will also emerge a group of masters with amazing talents like you. ”

In the end, Liu Donglin said that after going back, he would persuade the elders of the sect to further deepen the exchanges and cooperation with the Taiji sect.

The next day, the two Baguamen brothers were going to take the train back to their hometown, and Liu Meiting and Zhang Wentao were also going back to Beijing. Tian Chuan heard that Liu Donglin and Dong Xiangfa had not yet bought tickets to go home, and now they are at the peak of the Spring Festival, and it is difficult to find a ticket.

Qi Gang made a phone call and helped the two get two sleeper tickets. Tian Chuan was about to go to the capital to arrange the itinerary of the second wave of picking groups, so he drove Liu Dong and Zhang Yuan, and Liu Qi and the two drove themselves back to the capital together.

After arriving in the capital, Qi Gang and Liu Meiting went back directly, Tian Chuan went to the train station first, took the ticket, said goodbye to Liu Dong and the others, and sent Zhang Yuan and the others home.

It's the Spring Festival soon, and this time Tian Chuan brought some gift boxes and packed them with hometown specialties, including vegetables, shredded tofu, etc., and gave them to school teachers and leaders, as well as some friends in Beijing.

After giving the gift, he finally found Zheng Hongcheng, who stayed in Beijing for the New Year, and asked him to help him deal with the matter of the picking group, and agreed on a commission price of 4 yuan per person. Anyway, it will be organized at least once a week in the future, and Tagawa himself doesn't have that much energy to do this.

When he came to the capital this time, he still had an important thing to do, which was to transfer the calligraphy and painting treasures stored in the danger cabinet in the room to a safer place.

The first plan he came up with was to rent a bank safe, but the bank safe was limited in size, and the most important thing was that it could not protect the temperature and humidity of the environment, and long-term storage would damage the calligraphy and paintings.

Later, he thought of another option, which was to entrust a museum to preserve it. He didn't know anyone in this area, so he made a phone call to Qi Gang. He had heard Luan Jianjun say that Qi Gang seemed to be in this business. Qi Gang listened to Tian Chuan's words and couldn't help but ask, "Whose works do you have in your hands?"

Tian Chuan said: "There are Chinese paintings, calligraphy, sketches, and oil paintings, and the more famous ones are Xu Beihong, Li Keran, Shen Yimolin, Zexu, etc., there are about 30 paintings in total, with a total value of about 200 million." ”

Qi Gang became excited on the spot, and shouted on the phone: "There are so many treasures, you are too bold to put them at home." Are you home? I'll bring someone right there. Our company is engaged in this kind of business, such as safekeeping, exhibition, auction, appraisal, mortgage, etc. By the way, you call Liu Yinan, we have to sign a contract. ”

After Tian Chuan hung up Qi Gang's phone, he called Liu Yinan again and asked him to get a sample contract. Unexpectedly, Liu Yinan said that Qi Gang and their company have a standard contract, so you can take a look at it then.

At half past four in the evening, Qi Gang arrived with three people, and Liu Yinan had already arrived.

Tagawa let a few people into the living room, took out the calligraphy and paintings from the safe in the study, and took them to the living room. The three people Qi Gang brought with him were all appraisers, and one of them was in charge of valuation and contract signing. Several people looked at it one by one, and gave evaluations and valuations one by one.

After a period of discussion and calculation, Qi Gang said: "Xiaochuan, you are powerful enough, all of them are genuine, with a total valuation of 212.85 million yuan." There is no idea of selling, the price can be higher. Of course, Tian Chuan is reluctant to sell, Xu Beihong's paintings will rise in the next few years.

Qi Gang said again: "These calligraphy and painting works, if you put them here, you have to pay a storage fee every year, so it is better to authorize us to exhibit them." There are enough boutiques here, you can open a special exhibition, and you can also have some income. Tagawa has no problem with this, and the exhibition of paintings can increase popularity and help appreciation.

The duo agreed that the exhibition would take place during the Lantern Festival, when Qi Gang would invite a number of contemporary painters and collectors to select some of the paintings and calligraphy that could be sold. Tian Chuan had an idea and offered to exhibit and sell some of his calligraphy and painting works, and Qi Gang readily agreed.

Since the last special auction of the Yongyang No. 1 Middle School Teachers' Health Fund, Tian Chuan has saved more than a dozen paintings and calligraphy works, which can be sold except for "Lazy Tie Clothes" and "Twelve Character Development Principles", and he also suggested that Qi Gang find Liu Meiting and bring her "Tai Chi Tea" and sketch portraits to display.

So far, the lawyers of both parties have signed a custody contract and a rental exhibition contract.

After signing the contract, Tian Chuan invited Qi Gang and Liu Yinan to dinner, and both of them had something to do and left separately.

The next day, Tian Chuan asked Liu Meiting to visit several famous Taijiquan in Beijing, and gave them the new impressions he wrote to Liu Meiting and the copy of the painting "Lazy Clothes", and the original of the painting was given to Sun Lao. Tian Chuan suggested that Sun Lao take this painting to participate in the Lantern Festival art exhibition, so that more people could understand the way of Tai Chi, and Sun Lao readily agreed.

Several masters got together because of Tian Chuan's perception, and heard that Tian Chuan could win Liu Meiting, so they immediately pushed Wu Lao and Tian Chuan to join hands and try his level.

Before the pusher competition, Tian Chuan and Wu Lao teamed up, and the winning rate was about 15%, but this time, they won four games in a row. Master Liu Mingtang, the head of the Yang family, said: "Lao Wu is the strongest promoter in our generation, Xiao Tian can beat him, and he can already be said to be the first person in the Taijiquan world." ”

Later, Tian Chuan and Liu Meiting talked about communicating with Liu Donglin, who was a gossip veteran, and the elders agreed very much, and asked Tian Chuan to call them the next time he met with the people from the gossip gate.

Saying goodbye to several old people, Tagawa returned home. Although the matter of calligraphy and painting anti-theft has been solved, my house is well decorated, and there is often no one, so I must pay attention to anti-theft. Recalling the various family anti-theft methods in the previous life, I went to the tool room to find a few big screws, screwed them on the wrong part of the plastic steel windows that slid open, and added tempered glass on the windows, so that the windows were difficult to open outside.

The entrance door was originally selected as an all-steel high-grade three-proof door, with A-level locks. He was still not at ease, so he put all the slightly valuable things in the safe, which was connected to the security system of the police station, so it should be safer. Tian Chuan took out another piece of paper and wrote on it: "Mr. Thief, there is no money at home, this hundred yuan is offered, please don't destroy it, thank you." "Put paper and money on the ground at the door so that the thief can see it as soon as he enters.

The next day was the 24th day of the lunar month, and he went to Beijing University to visit Professor Shi who had made an appointment in advance, and he wanted to learn from Professor Shi the knowledge of how to govern and use seals.

Professor Shi is a contemporary seal master, and after Tian Chuan asked for study, he readily agreed. Tian Chuan thought that Professor Shi would help him explain, but he didn't expect Professor Shi to turn around and take out two books from the shelf. Professor Shi opened the cover of the new book and wrote on the title page: "Gift to Tian Chuan Xiaoyou, hoping to inherit the traditional culture and expand the essence of the nation." Shi Lizhong ordered. ”

When he took another old book and opened it, he found that there was already Professor Shi's book stamp on the title page. Professor Shi wrote on the title page: "Tagawa Xiaoyou, this book is self-taught, and I hope you will gain something from reading it." Presented by Shi Lizhong. ”

After the inscription, Professor Shi used the seal separately, blotted the ink with rice paper, and handed the book to Tian Chuan: "Send you two books, take them back and read them first." ”

Tian Chuan respectfully took the book with both hands, and took a closer look, the new book was written by Professor Shi, "Chinese Seal Culture", and the other was "Overview of Seals" published by Zhonghua Book Company.

After solemnly thanking Professor Shi again, Tian Chuan said goodbye and drove to Wangfujing and Xidan to buy some New Year's things and gifts. Later, I went to the glass factory again and bought special items such as red paper for writing Spring Festival couplets and red envelopes for the New Year. By the way, I bought a lot of paper, pen, ink, etc., and a stone inkstone. He has an inkstone in the capital, but his hometown does not, and he does not seek exquisiteness, but only chooses an ordinary bluestone inkstone, which can be used.

A guy in the shop pushed a small cart and helped Tagawa deliver things to the car. After loading the things, Tian Chuan entered the Zhonghua Book Company again, and many ancient books printed by the Zhonghua Book Company are full of antiquity, and the printing quality is very good, which is worthy of lifelong collection. He swept through the store and selected nearly 100 sets of books in one go, and all of them were double-served, which made the waiters in the store widen their eyes, thinking that it was from which library or unit library came to load the books.

After settling the bill, Tagawa asked the store again to help him divide the books into two piles and transport them back to the car.

When he got home, he brought a new book and calligraphy supplies upstairs, and it was already dark, so he casually got himself something to eat, filled his stomach, and opened the newly bought book, stamped it, and put it on the shelf.